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Ghostbusters. Script is about on par with the original, has similar strengths, and it's pissing off misogynists. Also, it's a fun 2 hours and the MRA crybabies that were having a tanty about it sight unseen can basically all go suck a fuck.

cashead wrote:Ghostbusters. Script is about on par with the original, has similar strengths, and it's pissing off misogynists. Also, it's a fun 2 hours and the MRA crybabies that were having a tanty about it sight unseen can basically all go suck a fuck.

Is it worth a look?

morepork wrote:

cashead wrote:Ghostbusters. Script is about on par with the original, has similar strengths, and it's pissing off misogynists. Also, it's a fun 2 hours and the MRA crybabies that were having a tanty about it sight unseen can basically all go suck a fuck.

Is it worth a look?

Definitely worth a look.


Also Star Trek: Beyond
Really fun film, loaded with humour. You can tell that it's a Simon Pegg script with how he loads the references to various Trek series, and even throws in a nod to Futurama.

morepork wrote:

cashead wrote:Ghostbusters. Script is about on par with the original, has similar strengths, and it's pissing off misogynists. Also, it's a fun 2 hours and the MRA crybabies that were having a tanty about it sight unseen can basically all go suck a fuck.

Is it worth a look?

It's rubbish.

Vengeful Glutton wrote:

morepork wrote:

cashead wrote:Ghostbusters. Script is about on par with the original, has similar strengths, and it's pissing off misogynists. Also, it's a fun 2 hours and the MRA crybabies that were having a tanty about it sight unseen can basically all go suck a fuck.

Is it worth a look?

It's rubbish.

Nah, it's alright.

Penda's Fen

At the Earth's Core

Neon Demon. My fucking god, DO NOT see this! Regardless of whether you enjoyed Drive. Just don't.

I'm not saying this because it was disgusting and offensive, it was just an assault on all senses, even as a massive Cliff Martinez fan.

USAF napalm strikes, Welsh longbow men, Romans legionaries and their Kiwi general versus the white Zulus of the black forest.

Slow mo "padding" in this scene is cringeworthy. Entertaining hokum nonetheless.

Lizard wrote:I took the boy to see Zootopia.

He was probably a bit young for it, but it wasn't too painful to sit through.

I haven't seen an animated feature in years - it's amazing what they can do now.

Agreed Zootopia is not bad at all, my girls love it, same goes for Inside Out, which while keeping kids happy is also very smart in the ways it breaks down the manner in which emotions and the mind more generally work. Two other really good kids animated films are the How to Tame Your Dragon pair, good stories, sharp animation. Brave is another one with Billy Connelly thrown in for good measure, shame to have Emma Thompson though. However my top one in this class is The Croods, good story, fantastic, literally, imagination and animation.

On a more sober note two recent semi documentaries I found really gripping were Selma with British actor David Oyelowo as MLK and All the way with Brian Cranston as LBJ. The two films cover pretty much the same time periods, leading up to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but from different perspectives. They both have the leads giving truly brilliant performances, not to be missed.

Watch Perfect Blue with your kids. Trust me.

cashead wrote:Watch Perfect Blue with your kids. Trust me.

Sounds impressive from the IMDB reviews but the level of nudity perhaps a bit much for 7-8 year olds, I'll keep an eye out for it in the DVD shops.

Curry Puff wrote:

cashead wrote:Watch Perfect Blue with your kids. Trust me.

Sounds impressive from the IMDB reviews but the level of nudity perhaps a bit much for 7-8 year olds, I'll keep an eye out for it in the DVD shops.

Damnit, I should've guessed you'd check on IMDB.

Walkabout (Nic Roeg).

I remember that film as a kid. Hard to believe nowadays that that fleeting nude scene caused so much excitement. But as I recall there wasn't much else in it really worth talking about...

rowan wrote:I remember that film as a kid. Hard to believe nowadays that that fleeting nude scene caused so much excitement. But as I recall there wasn't much else in it really worth talking about...

Yeah, I watched it again on the strength of an adolescent memory and was rather disappointed.

Suicide Squad. Worth it for Margot alone. Was a decent enough film but Leto's Joker was shite.

A War. Danish film in Afghanistan about a company commander who ends up killing a couple of civis. Really worth a watch. I'd have put more in about their time in Afghan to try and emphasise the periods of combat which interspersed the mundane times of nothing and the stress of not stepping on an IED.

I think I've seen that. Reality TV style documentary-film? If so, I thought it was rubbish, personally.

No.

rowan wrote:I remember that film as a kid. Hard to believe nowadays that that fleeting nude scene caused so much excitement. But as I recall there wasn't much else in it really worth talking about...

Sorry about that. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Excellent review by Roger Ebert:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great ... about-1971

Elite Squad 2. I have had more compelling shits.

Oh, wait, just remembered - the one I saw was about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan and entitled 'Armadillo.'

Anyway, I'm not a war film fan even at the best of times, but if I'm going to watch something I'd prefer an anti-war theme, like the Jeremy Scahill doco 'Dirty Wars.' I think somebody had told me Armadillo was along those lines, but if so I wasn't really getting it.

Personally I'd say the most interesting films I've see over the past couple of years wereJohn Pilger's 'Utopia,' and a totally bizarre and macabre doco-movie entitled 'The Act of Killing' - which basically followed a bunch of actual war criminals from the first Indonesian genocide around as they produced their own movie version of what they themselves did to people

Best war film is No Man's Land.

rowan wrote:Oh, wait, just remembered - the one I saw was about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan and entitled 'Armadillo.'

Anyway, I'm not a war film fan even at the best of times, but if I'm going to watch something I'd prefer an anti-war theme, like the Jeremy Scahill doco 'Dirty Wars.' I think somebody had told me Armadillo was along those lines, but if so I wasn't really getting it.

Personally I'd say the most interesting films I've see over the past couple of years wereJohn Pilger's 'Utopia,' and a totally bizarre and macabre doco-movie entitled 'The Act of Killing' - which basically followed a bunch of actual war criminals from the first Indonesian genocide around as they produced their own movie version of what they themselves did to people

I've seen The Act of Killing - it truly is bizarre, the discussing of torture rituals seemed to stick in my mind.

Went to see Bourne a couple of weeks back
A jolly jaunt if you like that sort of thing, which I do
Plenty of action, fight scenes, car chases, tension etc
Not sure if they are lining up for another but the format is starting to get a bit weary ie. he's pissed off with someone in the CIA and therefore he comes out of hiding to fight it off again.
I'd give it a solid 7/10 just because I like that sort of film and will happily watch the movie another 15 times when it starts to show on TV

Numbers wrote:

rowan wrote:Oh, wait, just remembered - the one I saw was about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan and entitled 'Armadillo.'

Anyway, I'm not a war film fan even at the best of times, but if I'm going to watch something I'd prefer an anti-war theme, like the Jeremy Scahill doco 'Dirty Wars.' I think somebody had told me Armadillo was along those lines, but if so I wasn't really getting it.

Personally I'd say the most interesting films I've see over the past couple of years wereJohn Pilger's 'Utopia,' and a totally bizarre and macabre doco-movie entitled 'The Act of Killing' - which basically followed a bunch of actual war criminals from the first Indonesian genocide around as they produced their own movie version of what they themselves did to people

I've seen The Act of Killing - it truly is bizarre, the discussing of torture rituals seemed to stick in my mind.

& all supported by America, of course. Many of their victims were on a hit-list provided by the CIA, though pretty much just looking Chinese could've been enough to have you executed for 'supporting communism' by these guys. Meanwhile, English subtitles available on this version at Putlocker: http://putlocker.is/watch-the-act-of-ki ... ocker.html

Btw, Australia also made a rather eerie film about the deaths of some of their journalists during the Timorese genocide - The Balibo Five. Worth a look if you can find it