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Post by Bill in the rain on May 5, 2024 14:20:55 GMT
I think the first is probably my least favourite Mad Max film but then I’d been introduced to what Mad Max was via 2 and Thunderdome and 1 isn’t really that kind of film so my tweenage expectations weren’t managed particularly well. Same. Though now I'm older I appreciate Mad Max 1 a lot more than I did as a teen.
I think 2 is still my favorite, but Fury Road is mediocre exceptional.
I have hopes for Furiosa.
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Post by simple on May 5, 2024 14:36:40 GMT
If he goes back in time and collects the artefact, it's no longer where it would have been to be found for it to end up in a museum. Not only is it a standard time paradox, but the initial discovery would never have happened which is the only reason the item is famous. Plus it wouldn't have aged appropriately and would to all purposes have looked like a modern replica rather than the original thing. Totally unrealistic. Can't believe you watch this trash. Its such a bad example to the kids too. In Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures he’s the assistant in the museum’s dinosaur gallery who keeps screwing up but using time travel to cover his mistakes. In the sequel, Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures, he’s now in charge of the dinosaur gallery and the woman who was his original supervisor is no longer working there. He later moves to a zoo and performs a similar trick using the ultra hi-tech gizmos developed by the girl who was hired as his assistant during his second season at the museum. Its pretty obvious that the Andy arc is one of an incompetent man failing upwards and trampling dedicated intelligent women in the process. And he just recycles the same theme tune with new lyrics every time he moves location or time period.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 5, 2024 14:52:37 GMT
He has a cool wrist gizmo though, so it's all good.
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Watership Down (1978)
This is still most excellent. In some ways the animation looks a little old, but in other ways it still really hold up with the way they've captured the behavior and movements of the rabbits. Excellent cast and voice acting too.
The eldest refuses to watch anything that looks 'old', so there were a few disparaging remarks in the first couple of minutes, but after that they basically sat and watched the whole thing, which is a good sign. No snarky comments either, other than a 'who knew rabbits were this violent?' near the end.
I must have seen this so many times as a kid that it's basically seared into my memory and I remember most of the lines. It's interesting that, like a lot of older movies, some scenes or plot-lines that I remember being deep and detailed are basically sketched out in a handful of scenes or a couple of moments. I wonder if it was the repeated viewing as a kid that built them into bigger more complex moments in my head.
Room got a bit dusty around the time of the Bright Eyes scene, as it always seems to.
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Post by clemfandango on May 5, 2024 15:00:24 GMT
He has a cool wrist gizmo though, so it's all good. ---- Watership Down (1978)This is still most excellent. In some ways the animation looks a little old, but in other ways it still really hold up with the way they've captured the behavior and movements of the rabbits. Excellent cast and voice acting too. The eldest refuses to watch anything that looks 'old', so there were a few disparaging remarks in the first couple of minutes, but after that they basically sat and watched the whole thing, which is a good sign. No snarky comments either, other than a 'who knew rabbits were this violent?' near the end. I must have seen this so many times as a kid that it's basically seared into my memory and I remember most of the lines. It's interesting that, like a lot of older movies, some scenes or plot-lines that I remember being deep and detailed are basically sketched out in a handful of scenes or a couple of moments. I wonder if it was the repeated viewing as a kid that built them into bigger more complex moments in my head. Room got a bit dusty around the time of the Bright Eyes scene, as it always seems to. Treat them to Plague dogs next 👍
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Post by simple on May 5, 2024 15:08:56 GMT
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Post by FlexibleFeline on May 5, 2024 15:29:35 GMT
Just to go back to the Mad Max discussion - the first left a lasting impression on me, probably as I was just way, way too young when I watched it. Various deaths haunted me for years.
Fury Road - or There and Back Again as I like to call it - is excellent but maybe slighty overrated: incredible action, but a very slender story when all is said and done. It feels a bit churlish to complain though when a movie looks and sounds as good as it does.
George Miller is a really compelling interviewee too. Check out, for instance, his Oxford Union talk from a few years ago. He comes across as articulate, knowledgeable and curious about what others think, engaging sincerely with the audience in a way that most guests at this sort of event wouldn't.
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Post by mcgeeza on May 5, 2024 16:21:37 GMT
I think the first is probably my least favourite Mad Max film but then I’d been introduced to what Mad Max was via 2 and Thunderdome and 1 isn’t really that kind of film so my tweenage expectations weren’t managed particularly well. I can see why it wouldn’t appeal in those circumstances. Especially if it was the terrible US dub that loses all the unhinged Aussie accents.
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Post by mcgeeza on May 5, 2024 16:30:23 GMT
Just to go back to the Mad Max discussion - the first left a lasting impression on me, probably as I was just way, way too young when I watched it. Various deaths haunted me for years. Yeah exactly this. Some really dark shit in there. The eye popping before the head-on crashes creeped me out as a kid. Burning people alive. Hand ripped off. Near rape. Wife and toddler being run over for lols. Hacksaw scene. The rest of the series are comedy action films in comparison.
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Post by Binky on May 5, 2024 16:35:57 GMT
Fall Guy
A really fun love letter to cinema’s stunt actors. Enjoyed all of this, but especially the chemistry between Gosling and Blunt.
Solid 8/10 for me.
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Post by Whizzo on May 5, 2024 16:44:55 GMT
Just to go back to the Mad Max discussion - the first left a lasting impression on me, probably as I was just way, way too young when I watched it. Various deaths haunted me for years. Yeah exactly this. Some really dark shit in there. The eye popping before the head-on crashes creeped me out as a kid. Burning people alive. Hand ripped off. Near rape. Wife and toddler being run over for lols. Hacksaw scene. The rest of the series are comedy action films in comparison. Pretty funny to think Mad Max came out in Australia and then a few months later Mel Gibson was Tim in the movie of the same name, they couldn't be any more different from each other.
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Post by britesparc on May 5, 2024 17:38:30 GMT
I probably like Fury Road the best out of all of them, but they're all various kinds of masterpiece to me. Thunderdome is definitely the weakest of them, but it's great until (ironically) they get beyond Thunderdome. I agree with this. I rewatched all four back to back, they're all great, but Fury Road is so far ahead of the others it's insane. And I'm aware of how that sounds, but I honestly think it's twice the film MM2 is, and I think MM2 is a masterpiece. Fury Road is probably in the ten best films I've ever seen in the cinema.
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Post by Reviewer on May 5, 2024 18:14:31 GMT
Fury Road is a director who is as unusual and unique as he was at the start but with added experience, skill and budget from decades in the business. Most directors get that uniqueness beaten out of them by the industry.
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Post by Vortex on May 5, 2024 18:52:26 GMT
Just to go back to the Mad Max discussion - the first left a lasting impression on me, probably as I was just way, way too young when I watched it. Various deaths haunted me for years. Yeah exactly this. Some really dark shit in there. The eye popping before the head-on crashes creeped me out as a kid. Burning people alive. Hand ripped off. Near rape. Wife and toddler being run over for lols. Hacksaw scene. The rest of the series are comedy action films in comparison. I liked the bleakness, but the first time that burnt arm falls from under the covering blanket was burnt into my young teenage brain for a good while.
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Post by paulyboy81 on May 5, 2024 19:39:00 GMT
The Cell (2000)
Haven't seen this for 20 years or so, but it's such a cool idea for a film (it's basically Inception in the mind of a serial killer) that I once again find myself willing it to succeed at every turn.
Striking visuals and Vincent D'onofrio aside, it's just not very good sadly, real shame.
4/10
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Post by RumMonkey on May 5, 2024 21:41:03 GMT
Late Night with the Devil Great central performance and premise just not sure whether the ending was perfect or too much 6/10
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Post by britesparc on May 6, 2024 7:30:05 GMT
Yeah exactly this. Some really dark shit in there. The eye popping before the head-on crashes creeped me out as a kid. Burning people alive. Hand ripped off. Near rape. Wife and toddler being run over for lols. Hacksaw scene. The rest of the series are comedy action films in comparison. I liked the bleakness, but the first time that burnt arm falls from under the covering blanket was burnt into my young teenage brain for a good while. I think the bleakness of the first film is exacerbated by the fact it's set in a recognisable future rather than the fantastical dystopia of the others. Max has a job, has a house; they visit relatives who live somewhere with greenery and a garden. At the same time you understand that society is completely breaking down. There's an undercurrent of tension and tragedy.
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Post by drakesmoke on May 6, 2024 7:32:33 GMT
Genuinely don’t think I’ve seen Mad Max 2. Loved Thunderdome as a kid but haven’t seen it since. And enjoyed 1 as an adult but was bored and confused by it as a kid I think.
Anyway…Arrival
Amy Adams and Hawkeye learn to talk to aliens with added musings on the linearity of time. Forest Whittaker has a tertiary part and is pretty decent.
Very much enjoyed it - almost felt like a Nolan film but much punchier and Adams was in very good form indeed. Struck a great balance between intrigue, a little cosmic horror at the start and then became more of a thriller as the humans started to human.
Think this one will stick with me, 9/10.
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Post by Gruf on May 6, 2024 8:05:25 GMT
Jawan (extended cut) 6/10 Just your typical Indian 3 hour action thriller comedy musical. Mad as a box of cats, but enough beautifully shot set pieces to keep you engaged. They blew most of the budget on slow mo shots, enough to make Zack Snyder jealous.
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Post by otto on May 6, 2024 12:32:49 GMT
Treat them to Plague dogs next 👍 Some of Adams' other books were odd to say the least. I read a few of them in my youth. Maia was really quite pervy.
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Post by clemfandango on May 6, 2024 13:01:36 GMT
Late Night with the Devil Great central performance and premise just not sure whether the ending was perfect or too much 6/10 Yeah me too, it’s too much and not in a good way. They should have just ended it when the girl goes into electro mode and it would have been perfect.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 6, 2024 13:07:39 GMT
That bit really took me out of the whole thing. Especially as the CGI was very poor.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 6, 2024 13:08:00 GMT
My main problem with that ending was that it really messed with the "found footage" conceit of the movie. I would have preferred them to stick with that, it was the best thing about it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 6, 2024 13:12:33 GMT
That reminds me. The Batman (which I still haven't finished) has a bit of really bad The Flash-level CGi in the middle. Except it stands out even more because the rest of the film (so far) is so grounded and lacking in the usual superhero cgi.
(The bit where he tries to land on the bus and ends up rolling down the street)
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Post by apollo on May 6, 2024 13:33:55 GMT
The Fall Guy
Have to say it was lot of fun, very much agree with the other post, the chemistry between Gosling and Blunt was really good and Gosling makes the flim work. Nice to see Hannah waddingham in a big budget film although character was a bit cartoonish (Shame, shame)
9/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 6, 2024 13:51:44 GMT
eXistenZ (Tubi)
It's a Cronenberg about a kind of virtual reality videogame people play in the far off future of 2030. You log in by putting an umbilical cord into the small of your back, control the game by pushing the nipples on a controller/organism, and shoot guns made out of fish bones.
So... it's a Cronenberg movie, basically. Things about videogames can feel pretty dated, but the weird body horror shit helps keep it evergreen.
The acting is noticeably poor, but there is kind of a reason for that. And there's a few too many "we're in a game, OR ARE WE" twists for my liking. But it's still worth a watch as a mid-tier Cronenberg.
7.5/10
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Post by Whizzo on May 6, 2024 17:21:24 GMT
I'm very glad I went to the pub after watching eXistenZ, I needed a drink.
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Post by Dougs on May 6, 2024 18:32:29 GMT
I watched it drunk. I don't remember much of it other than being weirded out.
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Post by elstoof on May 6, 2024 18:53:23 GMT
…Arrival Amy Adams and Hawkeye learn to talk to aliens with added musings on the linearity of time. Forest Whittaker has a tertiary part and is pretty decent. Very much enjoyed it - almost felt like a Nolan film but much punchier and Adams was in very good form indeed. Struck a great balance between intrigue, a little cosmic horror at the start and then became more of a thriller as the humans started to human. Think this one will stick with me, 9/10. I adored this on first watch, so much so that I wanted to revisit it and I rarely do. My advice would be not to, something about Villeneuve films makes them seem a bit shit on second viewing. Same story with Blade Runner. Switching them off halfway spoiled the memory for me
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Post by Dougs on May 6, 2024 20:26:00 GMT
I bought it after watching it but still haven't gotten around to it again. Think the eldest will like it though.
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Post by rawshark on May 6, 2024 21:10:59 GMT
For me, the noise of the guns on both Blade Runners is worth having a decent home cinema outfit alone. Robocop too. The guns just got something different.
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