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Post by cubby on May 7, 2024 12:44:10 GMT
Can we all come together and agree that it's better than Batman & Robin?
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 7, 2024 12:46:45 GMT
Can we all come together and agree that it's better than Batman & Robin? Steady on now!
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 7, 2024 13:11:44 GMT
How does it compare to Salt?
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Post by brokenkey on May 7, 2024 21:14:43 GMT
Sunshine (2007) at the cinema. 7/10.
It was really good and then it goes all Space Odyssey in the last 2 minutes when it should have stuck with Dr Strangelove. Great cast, great cinematography.
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Post by rawshark on May 7, 2024 21:44:33 GMT
What brought that back into the cinema?
That’s one thing I miss about Vancouver - it had a few small repertory cinemas that would have cheap as chips double-bills of old or interesting films, usually sharing a theme. March of the Penguins x Parrots of Telegraph Hill was a good one.
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Post by retro74 on May 7, 2024 22:06:08 GMT
The Phantom Menace (Odeon)
I think that was the 5th time I’ve seen it on the big screen. Enjoyed it a lot - even with the (at times) woeful writing and acting. How Jake Lloyd got that role I’ll never know, he’s terrible but Liam Neeson is almost as bad to be honest. Darth Maul is brilliant and should have been fleshed out a bit more, the fight on Tatooine should have been longer. The pod race is excellent too, despite the wacky commentary
Some of the score stinks too, the weird jolly music when they are trying to save Queen Amidala is so out of place
Still much better than any Star Wars that Disney have released so far though
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Post by Whizzo on May 7, 2024 22:19:43 GMT
What brought that back into the cinema? That’s one thing I miss about Vancouver - it had a few small repertory cinemas that would have cheap as chips double-bills of old or interesting films, usually sharing a theme. March of the Penguins x Parrots of Telegraph Hill was a good one. Cineworld are doing a Danny Boyle season, next week is Shallow Grave so they're not doing them chronologically, I saw Commando as part of their 80s action season last week.
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Post by elstoof on May 7, 2024 23:43:13 GMT
Where in Vancouver were these cinemas?
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 8, 2024 2:05:53 GMT
What brought that back into the cinema? That’s one thing I miss about Vancouver - it had a few small repertory cinemas that would have cheap as chips double-bills of old or interesting films, usually sharing a theme. March of the Penguins x Parrots of Telegraph Hill was a good one. Cineworld are doing a Danny Boyle season, next week is Shallow Grave so they're not doing them chronologically, I saw Commando as part of their 80s action season last week. I'm really liking the recent (for me anyway) trend of bringing back old movies. Though it does have the unfortunate side effect that I think most of the movies I've watched and enjoyed at the movie theater over the past year have been old ones that I've already seen. Now I'm wondering if Thelma & Louise and/or Mad Max 2 are worth seeing on the big screen. I like both movies, but they aren't quite as clearcut as something like Lord of the Rings or Top Gun in terms of benefiting from the big screen.
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Post by rawshark on May 8, 2024 6:52:59 GMT
Where in Vancouver were these cinemas? the one I frequented the most was The Rio on East Broadway. It was 20 years ago now (ffs) so wasn’t sure it would still be running, but did a check and happy to say it’s still there. riotheatre.ca/
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Post by sport✅ on May 8, 2024 8:28:14 GMT
I have fond memories of going to Danny Boyle film festivals down in Fort Lauderdale while I was there for spring break.
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Post by rawshark on May 8, 2024 8:53:48 GMT
I have fond memories of going to Danny Boyle film festivals down in Fort Lauderdale while I was there for spring break. I hear the girls there will reenact 28 Days Later in exchange for beads.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 8, 2024 9:05:36 GMT
Now I have 'Oh Danny Boyle..' stuck in my head.
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Post by elstoof on May 8, 2024 13:19:04 GMT
Where in Vancouver were these cinemas? the one I frequented the most was The Rio on East Broadway. It was 20 years ago now (ffs) so wasn’t sure it would still be running, but did a check and happy to say it’s still there. riotheatre.ca/Nice, I’ll have to try and check it out
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 9, 2024 12:11:22 GMT
Barbie (on Binge)
...yeeeeaaaah, this was a rough watch.
There's things to like about it (the visuals, the soundtrack, a couple of the performances), but there's just something slightly off about the writing. There were jokes in it that I'm sure were intended to be funny, but they just did not land at all for me.
I'm happy that it got made, of course, and that it's been as successful as it was. But the LEGO movie was a lot better imo.
6/10
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 9, 2024 13:24:06 GMT
Interesting. A lot of people here didn't seem to gel with Barbie. I fucking loved it.
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Post by Vandelay on May 9, 2024 13:28:48 GMT
I loved it too. Compared to the LEGO Movie though... tough shout. Everything is Awesome just edges out I'm Just Ken I would say.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 9, 2024 13:31:42 GMT
They're both great and they clearly had proper thought and love put them into them.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 9, 2024 13:43:17 GMT
I don't doubt that love was put into the Barbie movie. It looks great! There was just something about the writing that didn't do it for me, like maybe it needed an extra couple of drafts or something.
But it's fine, I don't want to harp on about it. I definitely don't want to be lumped in with the culture war shitheads who were moaning about it last year.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 9, 2024 13:57:41 GMT
Everyone, EVERYONE. Mola is a culture war shithead! Shun him! SHUN HIM!
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Post by rawshark on May 9, 2024 14:11:31 GMT
A lot of blood has been spilt on this thread over The Barbie Movie.
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Post by zisssou on May 9, 2024 14:32:57 GMT
Because FG hates WOMEN.
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Post by clemfandango on May 9, 2024 15:57:10 GMT
Godzilla Minus 1 - 9/10
Yeah this is brilliant, Godzilla is brutal, the acting feels like a throw back to the old films, the special effects are great in the way they honour the original, and the score is perfect too. It also got very dusty in my living room at the end.... Watch it.
Abigail - 8.5/10 (or 10/10 if you have a man crush on Dan Stevens like me)
By the same guys who did Ready or Not. Great take on the Vampire movie and almost Bruce Campbell Evil Dead in tone. Over the top acting, every stereotype and cliché is used in a good way, its funny and has bucket loads of gore. Oh and Dan Stevens is brilliant in it. Best horror movie I've watched in ages.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 9, 2024 16:10:32 GMT
huh. Abigail isn't what I thought it was. I assumed it was one of those Insidious/Conjuring spinoffs and ignored it. Sounds fun.
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Post by rawshark on May 9, 2024 17:16:01 GMT
huh. Abigail isn't what I thought it was. I assumed it was one of those Insidious/Conjuring spinoffs and ignored it. Sounds fun. I thought the same, but it turns out what we’re thinking of Annabelle. Memorable character, forgettable name.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 10, 2024 1:42:24 GMT
huh. Abigail isn't what I thought it was. I assumed it was one of those Insidious/Conjuring spinoffs and ignored it. Sounds fun. I thought the same, but it turns out what we’re thinking of Annabelle. Memorable character, forgettable name. I kinda half knew it wasn't Annabelle, since that came out a few years ago, but the similarity in name, plus the poster at first glance being another girl in a white dress, made me think it was either related or similar, or I just conflated the two... so I didn't investigate further.
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Post by Tomo on May 10, 2024 17:49:46 GMT
La Chimera - 10/10
Josh O'Connor is so hot right now.
That is by the by though, this is a brilliant film. The first act is very strange, it's not very clear what is going: who are these oddballs that live in a derelict barn polishing a tractor whilst cross dressing? Why is there a strange tone deaf housekeeper? Where are these dreamy flashbacks leading? Then the plot unfolds - a sort of silent movie version of the Detectorists by way of The League of Gentlemen. It's often funny. The melancholy gradually woven throughout comes to the fore in the final act. The ending is very moving.
Loved it. Need to watch the other Alice Rohrwacher films.
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Post by Whizzo on May 10, 2024 18:19:27 GMT
Knew absolutely nothing about the film until I just went on a walk and listened to Josh O'Connor on today's Empire podcast talking about it. Well worth a listen to find out how he tried to contact the director to set up a meeting.
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Post by Whizzo on May 10, 2024 19:41:58 GMT
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - in a cinema
The latest movie of this trilogy that's no longer a trilogy, sort of starts with the ending of the last one Caesar is still dead and gets cremated then skips ahead "many generations"*. A trio of chimps are out climbing high up to nick eggs from eagles' nests in a sequence that looked so much like a video game I'm surprised there wasn't yellow paint on the bits where they hold on. They then discover an echo (that clan's name for humans) had stolen something from their horses.
This leads to a lot of things including death, fighting, fire, more death, hunting humans with Freya Allan as Nova temporarily getting into all sorts of scraps aided and not so aided at times by the main chimp character Noa played by Owen Teague. To say much more would be spoilers but there's one member of the cast I knew nothing about going in and I'm glad it was a surprise.
It's pretty much more of the same sort of stuff but sets up things for an inevitable sequel, assuming it doesn't tank at the box office, that could be rather interesting. I enjoyed it and it's pretty much a restart of the film series so anyone who hasn't seen the original three would get enough info about how things were from this one itself.
If anyone is wondering the clan the hero chimps come from aren't stealing the eggs for a bad reason, although I'm not sure their mothers would be all that happy.
* the time skip is incredibly nebulous, it certainly can't be too long or the technology and people that could operate it that gets shown right at the end would be long gone unless they've got some really fantastic training programme.
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Post by Tomo on May 10, 2024 20:23:30 GMT
Knew absolutely nothing about the film until I just went on a walk and listened to Josh O'Connor on today's Empire podcast talking about it. Well worth a listen to find out how he tried to contact the director to set up a meeting. Aye, I saw an ambiguous trailer for it at a screening last week, and then saw it got some good reviews so thought I'd have a watch. Knew next to nothing about it. It's absolutely the best way to watch and discover films for me. You have to sit through the occasional dud, but you watch with even more intrigue and focus because you don't have a preconception about what type of film it is or where the first act is inevitably going to go.
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