The Movie Thread

[NGRhodes]

Surprised nobody has mentioned it on here, I watched Race for Glory Audi vs Lancia as it's on Netflix.

Hard to give it a rating really, the acting is atrocious and no doubt they really butchered the true events, but I just enjoyed it because of the period cars and scenery. No doubt they were mostly reps, but you can't beat watching 037s ragging it around... compared to most films I thought the continuity of the driving scenes in terms not shifting up a million times etc wasn't bad either.

Forgotten I had watched it. Far better to spend the same amount of time watching real footage and documentaries on youtube.

[Rich B]

Surprised nobody has mentioned it on here, I watched Race for Glory Audi vs Lancia as it's on Netflix.

Hard to give it a rating really, the acting is atrocious and no doubt they really butchered the true events, but I just enjoyed it because of the period cars and scenery. No doubt they were mostly reps, but you can't beat watching 037s ragging it around... compared to most films I thought the continuity of the driving scenes in terms not shifting up a million times etc wasn't bad either.

I watched half on the train this morning. It's an interesting subject but the film seems entirely flat. None of the charm of Rush or Ford/Ferrari.

[duncs500]

I absolutely couldn't watch a disparate selection of YouTube videos for an equivalent amount of time, no matter how historically accurate it was. Each to their own though, I'll hand my nerd badges in on the way out.

[speedingfine]

Any of you seen Furiosa? I loved it, even madder machines than Fury Road

[Zonda_]

Any of you seen Furiosa? I loved it, even madder machines than Fury Road

My 82 year old mum has taken herself to the cinema to see it twice but she does run the Tom Burke fan club…

[speedingfine]

Ah, the dystopian Simon Le Bon

[RobYob]

Any of you seen Furiosa? I loved it, even madder machines than Fury Road

Had some good bits, had a lot of excess and some very very odd jumps in framerate which I think we're a stylistic choice rather than a fault with the screening.

Also a bit weird replaying bits of Fury road at the end.

Some odd choices.

[DeskJockey]

Watched Apollo 13 with the boys last week. Middle one was engrossed, eldest not so bothered.

Still gets me right in the feels. Their main concern was whether anyone would die (asked during opening scene) and then the swearing.

9/10 square pegs in round holes.

[dinny_g]

I watched The Holdovers last week.

Very very good and deserving of all the Oscar's hype. Not 100% sure De'Vine Joy Randolph deserved the Oscar but is it a very good performance.

Giamatti is brilliant as always

[ZedLeg]

Watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time since I was a teenager.

It’s still pretty nasty. The live animal slaughter was worse than anything else imo.

There is a message about exploitation in there somewhere but I wouldn’t say it’s worth watching unless you’re a fan of the whole video nasty thing.

[Ascender]

@ZedLeg I missed Cannibal Holocaust first time round but made the point of watching it a while back and wished I hadn't because of the animal stuff. Those scenes were pointless and the rest of the movie was very much in the "meh" category.

We watched Hit Man on Netflix a couple of nights ago and it was thoroughly entertaining. Great performance by Glen Powell who seems to be in everything just now and Adria Arjona is utterly charming.

[GG.]

I've been on a bit of a movie watching spree recently (well, three, but I don't watch many)...

Ferrari - I had put off watching this for a long time on account of the fear it would just be hollywood-ised to a ridiculous degree. How could young, muscular Adam Driver possibly pull off porcine middle aged Enzo. Would he be as badly cast in this as he was Star Wars? Although it was typically slanted towards his personal relationships (a la Oppenheimer) as much as it was about cars, it was a very enjoyable film, other than the completely ridiculous crash sequences. Thankfully there were only two. I'd give it a pretty solid 7.5 mistresses out of 10.

Napoleon - weirdly I had less of an issue with a Frenchman played by an American than an Italian played by an American. Some criticised his performance as being just the same as Johnny Cash - I haven't seen that film so in isolation I though Pheonix was extremely good. Nearly Gladiator level? Others criticised the film for omitting the huge changes he made to the governance of France but I think that, whilst necessary for a documentary, would have made for a worse film. 9 sideways hats out of 10.

Civil War - I'm a big fan of Alex Garland and although very different to many of his other films I thought this was great. Helped by the fact that I read a review before I watched that noted it was really a critique about war reporting more than it was about American politics and watched through that lens it is more coherent certainly. The sections at the end where photographers rough and tumble side by side with insurgents stretched credulity however. 8 murderous rednecks out of 10.

Oh Sorry - Dune 2 as well. Just as awesome as the first instalment - maybe better. 9.5 sandworms out of 10 (rating skewed on account of being a sci-fi nerd).

[dinny_g]

The live animal slaughter was worse than anything else imo.

I don't know why this is but you're right - even thought I've seen butchery in many guises both in person and on TV, when it's in a movie, it's really shocking.

The one that sticks out to me is the slaughter of the cow at the end of Apocalypse Now. Coppola has said it wasn't 'real' but I don't believe him. It really stuck with me when I first watched it as a kid.

[ZedLeg]

It’s because it’s absolutely unnecessary cruelty in a film.

Even though I don’t really interact with it, I can accept that there are areas of the meat industry that run to reasonably high ethical standards.

There’s no good reason to kill a live animal for a film.

[Beany]

Furiosa is hitting streaming fast.

[V8Granite]

Watched Apollo 13 with the boys last week. Middle one was engrossed, eldest not so bothered.

Still gets me right in the feels. Their main concern was whether anyone would die (asked during opening scene) and then the swearing.

9/10 square pegs in round holes.

This seemed to get everything right, the car stalling always seemed like a beautiful touch.

Dave!

[Ascender]

Furiosa is hitting streaming fast.

We watched this last night and thought it was bloody marvellous. We just couldn't get to see it in the cinema with everything going on which was a shame as I bet it would look incredible on the biggest screen possible. Very different sort of movie to Fury Road in many ways, but the perfect companion.

Its underperformed massively at the box office which is a shame as it means we won't get the third move in the series that George Miller had planned.

[Beany]

Yeah I enjoyed it a lot. It's not the same film as Fury Road by any stretch, and the production values aren't quite as high as Fury Road, but given that Fury Road was one of the most polished films of the last two decades, that's a high bar to cross, and it gets close.

Makes most Marvel stuff look like the cheap production line slop it is.

[Rich B]

I watched Fury Road in the imax and just came out feeling beaten up and confused to be honest. It took a watch in a small screen to actually understand what was going on.

[dinny_g]

A Sacrifice

Very disappointing to be honest. Eric Bana and Sadie Sink let down by a poor script. It was missing a middle act and the first was too ponderous,

There’s probably a good story on there with the premise and the characters etc but it didn’t happen

3 very odd meditation regimes out of 10