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Post by bichii2 on Feb 6, 2024 12:00:22 GMT
It was nothing special but it was fun.
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Post by simple on Feb 6, 2024 12:01:50 GMT
I know they’re different types of film but the spy parody set up of Argyle makes me want to rewatch an OSS 117 film
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Post by Dougs on Feb 6, 2024 12:02:26 GMT
For British drama, there really aren't many in recent times that spring to mind, but shifting to streaming means I am less likely to watch the standard BBC Sunday night fare. I would say The Night Manager is up there with US output, and before that State of Play (but having just checked, that was 20 years ago!) As Kal says, most of the good stuff is kitchen sink/hard hitting drama. We don't tend to do longer running character pieces without slipping into soap territory. Still some great stuff out there though - in recent times, stuff like It's a Sin (and Years and Years, although I didn't watch) have been excellent.
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 6, 2024 12:20:21 GMT
Argylle Light hearted fun. 6.5/10 That's probably the most positive review I've seen of the film. Clearly didn't read my Argylle comments then! I enjoyed it.
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Post by bichii2 on Feb 6, 2024 12:35:19 GMT
That's probably the most positive review I've seen of the film. Clearly didn't read my Argylle comments then! I enjoyed it. Mainly the 5 minutes of dua lipa right?? I thought Sam Rockwell was decent as well..
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 6, 2024 12:41:04 GMT
Not really, I'm more into redheads, which is handy.
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Post by geefe on Feb 6, 2024 12:45:33 GMT
Utopia was great. So fucking sinister. Deserved a proper ending. The torturer dude was great.
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Post by askew on Feb 6, 2024 12:47:19 GMT
There’s something about the production values of UK TV drama which very rarely meets my expectations of ‘prestige’ TV: choices around cinematography, lighting, music etc. I don’t think it’s wholly budgetary, but more of an artistic perspective. Maybe I just prefer the ‘language’ of US/European TV.
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Post by dfunked on Feb 6, 2024 12:48:04 GMT
I can't remember anything about that, other than Maskell being great as usual. Might have to queue that up for a rewatch.
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Post by geefe on Feb 6, 2024 12:49:17 GMT
Maskell's character was great. Tragic and weird.
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Post by rhaegyr on Feb 6, 2024 12:54:48 GMT
There’s something about the production values of UK TV drama which very rarely meets my expectations of ‘prestige’ TV: choices around cinematography, lighting, music etc. I don’t think it’s wholly budgetary, but more of an artistic perspective. Maybe I just prefer the ‘language’ of US/European TV. Bang on. Hard to feel top tier when it looks like it was filmed on the set of Eastenders.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 6, 2024 12:55:35 GMT
There’s something about the production values of UK TV drama which very rarely meets my expectations of ‘prestige’ TV: choices around cinematography, lighting, music etc. I don’t think it’s wholly budgetary, but more of an artistic perspective. Maybe I just prefer the ‘language’ of US/European TV. Yeah, you've really articulated my issues with British TV. They speak of big budgets but it always comes across as cheap, maybe that's a bias in my head.
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Post by Lukus on Feb 6, 2024 13:03:08 GMT
It's one of the reasons Doctor Who is unwatchable for me.
That's right, nerds.
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Post by askew on Feb 6, 2024 13:19:32 GMT
Notable exceptions would be things like Industry, I May Destroy You, Giri/Haji, Tokyo Vice etc. There’s a theme though: all co-productions. I think The English was too, but I didn’t really get on with its colour-grading/choice of grad filters.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Feb 6, 2024 13:37:55 GMT
The English looked great for most of it, but there were occasional scenes where I'm pretty sure the wild west was actually dartmoor or some other UK moor. I suspect the thing with UK dramas is mainly the budget. Lots of Netflix dramas seem to be heavily UK connected, either in terms of cast, crew, production, location or whatever, but they tend to look more US. Or lots of US dramas have UK actors, directors, etc.. US dramas tend to be more slick and cinematic (at least in recent years), whereas UK ones tend to be more grimy. (Which is one reason why US remakes of UK shows like Cracker or Red Dwarf have been mostly awful). But there's also the thing where we only tend to notice the best of the US stuff. There are thousands of cheap naff US dramas as well.
Killing Eve (mostly) and End of the F***n World looked pretty nice, as did His Dark Materials.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 6, 2024 16:41:18 GMT
Poor Things (cinema)
Absolutely brilliant, loved the setting, themes, story and characters. I was totally sucked into the world and tale and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emma Stone was exceptional, with a constantly evolving character (for reasons) discovering their place in the world. Fun to watch Ruffalo be a creep too.
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Post by apollo on Feb 6, 2024 17:48:56 GMT
Argyle
It starts off good and it feels like they want a plot twist every 10 minutes or so, the last quarter turns into really dumb but the director thinking its "high art" or something
2/5
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Post by geefe on Feb 6, 2024 17:54:47 GMT
It's one of the reasons Doctor Who is unwatchable for me. That's right, nerds. No no you don't understand, it's not a quarry
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Post by bichii2 on Feb 6, 2024 18:17:50 GMT
Poor Things (cinema) Absolutely brilliant, loved the setting, themes, story and characters. I was totally sucked into the world and tale and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emma Stone was exceptional, with a constantly evolving character (for reasons) discovering their place in the world. Fun to watch Ruffalo be a creep too. Definitely one of my favourite films of the last couple of years.
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Post by geefe on Feb 6, 2024 18:25:05 GMT
Where does it fall between The Favourite and The Lobster?
Loved Lobster for 75% of it (ending kinda went nowhere). Sacred Deer was more consistent but less good. The Favourite was a let down.
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Post by bichii2 on Feb 6, 2024 18:48:07 GMT
I've not seen the favourite and I loved lobster but poor things was even better.
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Post by clemfandango on Feb 6, 2024 22:18:20 GMT
Two more from the action movieathon
No escape - 8.5/10 Ray liotta, lance Henrickson and Ernie Hudson ham it up in a ludicrously big budget near future sci fi jungle Island prison escape b movie with a good tribe and evil tribe. It borrows from loads of more famous films like mad max, but is also weirdly very original. The cast is great, the direction is great and the action is great, yeah It’s great.
Stone cold - 6/10 (probably a 10/10 on a rewatch) I don’t know who recommend me this but thank you, I’ve never seen it before and i had a big smile on my face from start to finish. Brian bosworth (whoever that is) is a terrible actor with the greatest mullet I’ve ever seen. What he lacks in any kind of acting skills he makes up with mullet and charisma. Lance henrickson and William Forsythe are excellent as the villains and Mac’s dad out of its always sunny is in it too. The action is big budget with make no sense explosions and comedy deaths. It’s basically a cheesy 80s action version of sons of anarchy. Watch it!
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Post by Tomo on Feb 6, 2024 22:20:09 GMT
Hold Me Tight (mubi) - 6/10
Wife suddenly walks out of her house leaving husband and kids behind. Or does she... Basically a stilted story about loss and grief. A bit too fragmented. Didn't quite work.
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Post by retro74 on Feb 6, 2024 22:22:10 GMT
Two more from the action movieathon No escape - 8.5/10 Ray liotta, lance Henrickson and Ernie Hudson ham it up in a ludicrously big budget near future sci fi jungle Island prison escape b movie with a good tribe and evil tribe. It borrows from loads of more famous films like mad max, but is also weirdly very original. The cast is great, the direction is great and the action is great, yeah It’s great. Stone cold - 6/10 (probably a 10/10 on a rewatch) I don’t know who recommend me this but thank you, I’ve never seen it before and i had a big smile on my face from start to finish. Brian bosworth (whoever that is) is a terrible actor with the greatest mullet I’ve ever seen. What he lacks in any kind of acting skills he makes up with mullet and charisma. Lance henrickson and William Forsythe are excellent as the villains and Mac’s dad out of its always sunny is in it too. The action is big budget with make no sense explosions and comedy deaths. It’s basically a cheesy 80s action version of sons of anarchy. Watch it! The Boz was a linebacker with the Seattle Seahawks
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 6, 2024 22:24:42 GMT
Role Play Prime Video
Kaley Cuoco plays an assassin that also has a family who don't know she's not doing some mundane job that requires her to go around the US to do stuff, while she's really offing people. There's an overarching plot of her prior employer wanting her back and it all goes tits up when she's recognised when "Role Playing" (hence one reason for the title) for some sexy times with David Oyelowo (her clueless husband) in an expensive hotel.
It's very much a bad film, I don't think there's anything that redeems it at all really, it's very poor and even the biggest Cuoco fan will probably wish they'd spent their time doing something else.
Don't bother.
I thought I'd use it as a test of Prime's advertising that's now live, I didn't get a single one, not at the start or during and other brief tests have been the same. However I'm doing this on my TV that's connected to my PC that's got uBlock Origin on my browsers and I watched it through Firefox so that may work or they just don't seem to have spread the ads around much.
Some adverts would probably have been better than this fucking film though.
Edit: thought I'd try the first episode of Mr & Mrs Smith and there's a bloody Guinness ad at the start, fuck this shite.
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Post by simple on Feb 6, 2024 23:15:59 GMT
Leave The World Behind (netflix)
I really liked this. Very surprised that something this good is a Netflix production, especially the kind that has an all star cast.
Creepy, kept its mystery well hidden, tension is up, performances mostly spot on. Liked the way it was shot a lot too. Its like if M Night Shyamalan had the discipline to make a film without letting his nonsense instincts kick in.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 7, 2024 7:21:10 GMT
Where does it fall between The Favourite and The Lobster? Loved Lobster for 75% of it (ending kinda went nowhere). Sacred Deer was more consistent but less good. The Favourite was a let down. I loved both The Lobster and The Favourite, but for me it surpasses them both.
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Post by mikeck on Feb 7, 2024 7:23:19 GMT
Poor Things (cinema) Absolutely brilliant, loved the setting, themes, story and characters. I was totally sucked into the world and tale and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emma Stone was exceptional, with a constantly evolving character (for reasons) discovering their place in the world. Fun to watch Ruffalo be a creep too. Definitely one of my favourite films of the last couple of years. Yeah, I would agree with that. Excellent film.
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Post by darkling on Feb 7, 2024 9:55:41 GMT
Killers of the Flower Moon. 9/10 — worth its length. Top tier in every department. Lily Gladstone, wow. You seem to have come away from the film with the exact opposite opinion as me. Would you mind expanding? I didn't think it justified its length in any way. Lily Gladstone's performance was fine, given her stoic character, and she put in a convincing performance, but she was overshadowed by De Niro and DiCaprio's characters, who both drove the film.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 7, 2024 10:03:23 GMT
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Kaley Cuoco plays an assassin that also has a family who don't know she's not doing some mundane job
I swear to god this is now the most common setup in the whole of films
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