The Eternals I struggled with, cast all look beautiful but it was fucking nonsense.
I zoned out and by the end I'd stopped caring. I liked the little fat Indian dude but I like that little sod in anything he is in
I have a friend who is very tightly involved in the world of Marvel and Disney and told me Disneys eggs going forward are very much in the Star Wars serial basket and anything else is to fund those serials. Which I'm absolutely fine with but that is a bit of a cheap trick to do given how much it costs to go to the cinema nowadays and the domination Marvel films have in the box office.
It just seemed like a huge tick box exercise. What Jolie bought to the party I have no idea. I still can’t believe Styles rocked up at the end……still that’s the cross dresser box ticked 🙄
The central character, Rahim, is in prison for an unpaid debt. After his girlfriend finds some gold coins, he attempts to strike a deal with his creditor during two days leave in order to secure his release. Things do not, however, go according to plan. A morality tale, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, whose previous films include The Past and the Foreign Language Oscar winners, A Separation and The Salesman.
I thought this latest film was extremely good, with a particularly strong screenplay and cast.
Honestly don't get the hatred, we're definitely not the target audience, it feels made for kids, their biggest mistake IMO was not spreading it across a couple of films.
I thought it was easy to follow, predictable and a bit disappointing, but very typical Marvel
Honestly don't get the hatred, we're definitely not the target audience, it feels made for kids, their biggest mistake IMO was not spreading it across a couple of films.
I thought it was easy to follow, predictable and a bit disappointing, but very typical Marvel
I don't hate it as such, I just thought it was lazy/ painting by numbers. The biggest problem was probably the amount of characters in it. It was nuts how many people we had to be introduced to - especially as they've got ten-hour TV shows to do that with.
I've watched all Marvel movies a few times each, but I gave up trying to re-watch Shang Chi and The Eternals.
Hoping to finish working tonight early enough to watch Power of The Dog, heard nothing but good things about it.
Set in the 1920s its a film about a black woman passing as white - shot in black and white it's very atmospheric and slow moving. An interesting insight to the time and really good acting from the two main characters - Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson. 7.5/10
Honestly don't get the hatred, we're definitely not the target audience, it feels made for kids, their biggest mistake IMO was not spreading it across a couple of films.
I thought it was easy to follow, predictable and a bit disappointing, but very typical Marvel
I don't hate it as such, I just thought it was lazy/ painting by numbers. The biggest problem was probably the amount of characters in it. It was nuts how many people we had to be introduced to - especially as they've got ten-hour TV shows to do that with.
I've watched all Marvel movies a few times each, but I gave up trying to re-watch Shang Chi and The Eternals.
Hoping to finish working tonight early enough to watch Power of The Dog, heard nothing but good things about it.
Shang Chi was a huge disappointment for me, I'd been looking forward to it. I am kind of at the watch, shrug and move on stage with it all now.
Looking forward to Nightmare Alley at the cinema next week, love del Toro's earlier films, chief amongst them The Devil's Backbone (better than Pan's Labyrinth imo)
Power of the Dog was odd but came together by the time it was over. It’s not the movie I expected it to be. Really liked it. 6/8
Tragedy of Macbeth is shot as though it was made in the 40s. Looks amazing. Denzel was brilliant. I have to read explanations of what’s going while watching Shakespeare stuff but I managed to enjoy this nonetheless. 5/5
Nobody is brilliant at times. It’s like a comedic John Wick. It gets progressively sillier but it doesn’t take itself too seriously so can’t really complain about that. It’s bloody well written even if it is derivative. 8/10
Just watched Belfast . It’s a genuine masterpiece . What a film . If it doesn’t clear up at the Oscars then I’ll be amazed .
Saw this yesterday and it is a truly remarkable film. It’s portrayal of living at the heart of the Northern Ireland troubles through the eyes of a normal family and had a surprising amount of humour against a backdrop of ever present threat to life. The acting by a nine year old playing the son was incredible.
I saw Belfast tonight - a film about childhood memories and family, set against the backcloth of a sharp escalation in The Troubles in August 69. I thought it was a shade implausible in one or two places and the film has a veneer of sentimentality, although that is absolutely fine in the context of the story.
Really strong performances throughout - it goes without saying that Ciarán Hinds and Judi Dench are actors out of the very top drawer, but Jamie Dornan (‘The Tourist’) was very good as the dad and I was particularly impressed with Caitriona Balfe, an actress I had never seen before. I thought that she carried a lot of the emotional weight of the film. Overall, an extremely good and entertaining film, replete with a fine sound track from Van Morrison and others.
Power of the Dog was odd but came together by the time it was over. It’s not the movie I expected it to be. Really liked it. 6/8
Tragedy of Macbeth is shot as though it was made in the 40s. Looks amazing. Denzel was brilliant. I have to read explanations of what’s going while watching Shakespeare stuff but I managed to enjoy this nonetheless. 5/5
Nobody is brilliant at times. It’s like a comedic John Wick. It gets progressively sillier but it doesn’t take itself too seriously so can’t really complain about that. It’s bloody well written even if it is derivative. 8/10
Nobody was my second favourite film of last year. Absolutely loved it
The NI troubles was a bit before my time, will I still find Belfast interesting?
If we ruled out films that were set before our time there wouldn’t be much out there to watch ! To be fair this isn’t a film about The Troubles. It’s about a nine year old boy and how he sees life , love and his family and it’s the best film I’ve seen in a couple of years . You’ll love it
The NI troubles was a bit before my time, will I still find Belfast interesting?
If we ruled out films that were set before our time there wouldn’t be much out there to watch ! To be fair this isn’t a film about The Troubles. It’s about a nine year old boy and how he sees life , love and his family and it’s the best film I’ve seen in a couple of years . You’ll love it
I should have phrased my question better! I only asked as I have no idea about the troubles. Obviously stuff like Titanic and WW2 is famous history and taught in schools.
The NI troubles was a bit before my time, will I still find Belfast interesting?
If we ruled out films that were set before our time there wouldn’t be much out there to watch ! To be fair this isn’t a film about The Troubles. It’s about a nine year old boy and how he sees life , love and his family and it’s the best film I’ve seen in a couple of years . You’ll love it
I should have phrased my question better! I only asked as I have no idea about the troubles. Obviously stuff like Titanic and WW2 is famous history and taught in schools.
You don’t have to know anything about what happened to enjoy the film . It’s only going on in the background really.
The Kid Detective looks awful. Looks like a kids’ film at best. But it’s not like that at all. It’s genuinely very, very good. It riffs on film noir detectives tropes in a bloody funny way, while also having the balls to be really dark. So glad I gave it a chance.
The Power of the Dog i went into this on the back of the rave reviews by people who review films for a living, and only caught the Charlton fans version on here afterwards. So yeah, it is a good film. The cinematography, the sweeping landscapes and general camera work are majestic, the acting is great and the claustrophobia building is well done. It's not, however, much fun to watch. I caught a wretched film called Invisible Thread a few years ago, which ha d rave reviews and virtually no plot worthy of the name. About half way through POTD, I was fearing the same. But this is a better film, and does rise to a conclusion. I read several times that to truely appreciate this film, you need to see it again. Thanks for that but maybe another time. Once was enough.
The Eternals Here, I didn't understand how many people seemed to dislike this film. I found it fairly steady Marvel fare. I caught the last two Avengers films prior to the Eternals, and Eternals is nowhere near them, but those two were the summit of a well worked storyline, and Endgame was for me in my top five best films ever. Marvel lost a bunch of characters in Endgame and seems to be building a new set up, with the intention of another rollercoaster 'Avengers style' finale. Whether they do that is an open question, but while Eternals was a little on the patchy side, it was an enjoyable enough film. And why did that character who arrived during the end titles annoy people? Never heard of him, but will his presence damage the plotlines?
Old Henry Saw this last night and it's very much the best of the three. This one was a typical western in the new, rather dirty/rain soaked genre which provided Unforgiven, as opposed to the old gunslinger Hollywood films of old. I found it vastly entertaining, not too long or too short, with a great story and nicely paced. I reccomend this one to anyone, except people who don't like westerns. And a much more enjoyable film than Power of the Dog. 9/10
Two single mothers, one middle-aged, the other a teenager, meet in a maternity ward and their lives subsequently become intertwined. The story is told against the background of a campaign to exhume bodies from a mass village grave, following civilian executions by Franco’s men at the time of the civil war (According to Amnesty International, Spain is second only to Cambodia, with over 100,000 murdered as part of Franco’s ‘social cleansing’ campaign). A beautifully crafted film from Pedro Almodovar, with a magnificent performance from Penelope Cruz. Highly recommended.
House of Gucci... at best, saved only by the acting of a few key roles.
What an awful movie in terms of pacing, story building and character building.
To start Stefani Germanotta (Lady GaGa) plays her role of Patrizia Reggiani well enough, but we never really get to see why her character suddenly becomes controlling and bossy to Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). I do not rate Driver highly as an actor, but I felt he was just awkward enough to begin with, he improved enough as the film went on.
Jared Leto's camp designer character Paolo was awful. He was built well enough compared to many of the cast, but Leto got carried away with the camp and it was insincere and his Italian accent was poor.
Then you have the best built character Rodolfo Gucci, Irons delivers an easily understood, dislikeable and yet somehow likeable character that sadly is bumped off early doors to enable the pacing of the movie.
Finally we have Big Al Pacino. His Character is Aldo Gucci, we get nothing other than he's the kind uncle and wants Rodolfo and Maurizio to be close again... No other background on him. He was quite well acted, but his character had random flaws that were not explained and seemed to be poorly written.
Special mentions to every other cast member being absolutely forgettable (Salma Hayek aside - purely for the Milf factor, her acting was wooden)
The NI troubles was a bit before my time, will I still find Belfast interesting?
If we ruled out films that were set before our time there wouldn’t be much out there to watch ! To be fair this isn’t a film about The Troubles. It’s about a nine year old boy and how he sees life , love and his family and it’s the best film I’ve seen in a couple of years . You’ll love it
I should have phrased my question better! I only asked as I have no idea about the troubles. Obviously stuff like Titanic and WW2 is famous history and taught in schools.
You don’t need knowledge of the troubles to enjoy and I thought it was a great film, came out slightly tearful if honest, but I do think the film will be particularly well received by those of us who were children in that era as there were lots of moments of recognition of our own childhoods. Definitely worth seeing though Gary.
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Camp and stylish film telling the story of the feuding Gucci family and how they self-destructed. Lady Gaga is excellent - she can certainly act.
An enjoyable watch. 7/10
I zoned out and by the end I'd stopped caring. I liked the little fat Indian dude but I like that little sod in anything he is in
I have a friend who is very tightly involved in the world of Marvel and Disney and told me Disneys eggs going forward are very much in the Star Wars serial basket and anything else is to fund those serials. Which I'm absolutely fine with but that is a bit of a cheap trick to do given how much it costs to go to the cinema nowadays and the domination Marvel films have in the box office.
What Jolie bought to the party I have no idea.
I still can’t believe Styles rocked up at the end……still that’s the cross dresser box ticked 🙄
The central character, Rahim, is in prison for an unpaid debt. After his girlfriend finds some gold coins, he attempts to strike a deal with his creditor during two days leave in order to secure his release. Things do not, however, go according to plan. A morality tale, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, whose previous films include The Past and the Foreign Language Oscar winners, A Separation and The Salesman.
I thought this latest film was extremely good, with a particularly strong screenplay and cast.
Honestly don't get the hatred, we're definitely not the target audience, it feels made for kids, their biggest mistake IMO was not spreading it across a couple of films.
I thought it was easy to follow, predictable and a bit disappointing, but very typical Marvel
I've watched all Marvel movies a few times each, but I gave up trying to re-watch Shang Chi and The Eternals.
Hoping to finish working tonight early enough to watch Power of The Dog, heard nothing but good things about it.
Set in the 1920s its a film about a black woman passing as white - shot in black and white it's very atmospheric and slow moving. An interesting insight to the time and really good acting from the two main characters - Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson. 7.5/10
Took my mum to see it today. Thought it was very good.
Tragedy of Macbeth is shot as though it was made in the 40s. Looks amazing. Denzel was brilliant. I have to read explanations of what’s going while watching Shakespeare stuff but I managed to enjoy this nonetheless. 5/5
Nobody is brilliant at times. It’s like a comedic John Wick. It gets progressively sillier but it doesn’t take itself too seriously so can’t really complain about that. It’s bloody well written even if it is derivative. 8/10
I saw Belfast tonight - a film about childhood memories and family, set against the backcloth of a sharp escalation in The Troubles in August 69. I thought it was a shade implausible in one or two places and the film has a veneer of sentimentality, although that is absolutely fine in the context of the story.
Really strong performances throughout - it goes without saying that Ciarán Hinds and Judi Dench are actors out of the very top drawer, but Jamie Dornan (‘The Tourist’) was very good as the dad and I was particularly impressed with Caitriona Balfe, an actress I had never seen before. I thought that she carried a lot of the emotional weight of the film. Overall, an extremely good and entertaining film, replete with a fine sound track from Van Morrison and others.
How did you find Schindler's list,Titanic and the Ten commandments?
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The Power of the Dog
i went into this on the back of the rave reviews by people who review films for a living, and only caught the Charlton fans version on here afterwards. So yeah, it is a good film. The cinematography, the sweeping landscapes and general camera work are majestic, the acting is great and the claustrophobia building is well done. It's not, however, much fun to watch. I caught a wretched film called Invisible Thread a few years ago, which ha d rave reviews and virtually no plot worthy of the name. About half way through POTD, I was fearing the same. But this is a better film, and does rise to a conclusion. I read several times that to truely appreciate this film, you need to see it again. Thanks for that but maybe another time. Once was enough.
The Eternals
Here, I didn't understand how many people seemed to dislike this film. I found it fairly steady Marvel fare. I caught the last two Avengers films prior to the Eternals, and Eternals is nowhere near them, but those two were the summit of a well worked storyline, and Endgame was for me in my top five best films ever. Marvel lost a bunch of characters in Endgame and seems to be building a new set up, with the intention of another rollercoaster 'Avengers style' finale. Whether they do that is an open question, but while Eternals was a little on the patchy side, it was an enjoyable enough film. And why did that character who arrived during the end titles annoy people? Never heard of him, but will his presence damage the plotlines?
Old Henry
Saw this last night and it's very much the best of the three. This one was a typical western in the new, rather dirty/rain soaked genre which provided Unforgiven, as opposed to the old gunslinger Hollywood films of old. I found it vastly entertaining, not too long or too short, with a great story and nicely paced. I reccomend this one to anyone, except people who don't like westerns. And a much more enjoyable film than Power of the Dog.
9/10
Two single mothers, one middle-aged, the other a teenager, meet in a maternity ward and their lives subsequently become intertwined. The story is told against the background of a campaign to exhume bodies from a mass village grave, following civilian executions by Franco’s men at the time of the civil war (According to Amnesty International, Spain is second only to Cambodia, with over 100,000 murdered as part of Franco’s ‘social cleansing’ campaign).
A beautifully crafted film from Pedro Almodovar, with a magnificent performance from Penelope Cruz. Highly recommended.
What an awful movie in terms of pacing, story building and character building.
To start Stefani Germanotta (Lady GaGa) plays her role of Patrizia Reggiani well enough, but we never really get to see why her character suddenly becomes controlling and bossy to Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). I do not rate Driver highly as an actor, but I felt he was just awkward enough to begin with, he improved enough as the film went on.
Jared Leto's camp designer character Paolo was awful. He was built well enough compared to many of the cast, but Leto got carried away with the camp and it was insincere and his Italian accent was poor.
Then you have the best built character Rodolfo Gucci, Irons delivers an easily understood, dislikeable and yet somehow likeable character that sadly is bumped off early doors to enable the pacing of the movie.
Finally we have Big Al Pacino. His Character is Aldo Gucci, we get nothing other than he's the kind uncle and wants Rodolfo and Maurizio to be close again... No other background on him. He was quite well acted, but his character had random flaws that were not explained and seemed to be poorly written.
Special mentions to every other cast member being absolutely forgettable (Salma Hayek aside - purely for the Milf factor, her acting was wooden)
A real shame as had heard good things.
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