You'll hate Blinded by the light too. RecommendedMcSwede wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 5:59 pm2nd'dSwervin_Mervin wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 5:45 pmIf you wanted to torture me I reckon that lineup of movies would be a good place to startdinny_g wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:47 pm We caught up on a few of the recent Music Biopic's
Rocketman - probably the best of these three IMO. Great music, the "numbers" sequences were well woven into the story. Great portrayal of Elton by Taron Egerton.
Bohemian Rhapsody - you can see Remi Malik won the Oscar - Brilliantly played. The Live Aid section (while brilliant) is only slightly let down by the weird colours they used in the Crowd Animations - It looked like most of the people in the crowd were wearing white or Light blue only. I remember the day as a lot more colourful. However, the presence of Peter Beale throughout made it feel like a Lifetime move to me.
Yesterday - enjoyed it ever more than I thought (Mainly because Tamwar was playing Tamwar). Great idea, Ed Sheeran doesn't stick out and Kate McKinnon gets some of the funniest lines in years.
Edit - and Robert Carlisle does a brilliant John Lennon - apparently Danny Boyle didn't allow the main actor to see Carlisle in character until they filmed the sceen where they meet to capture a real reaction.
Yesterday in particular looks bloody awful
I find that the LotR stuff gets on my nerves more than the bits of them I enjoy. Sam and Frodo make my teeth itch. I could happily thrash them with a big stick for days on end. Orlundo Bland is achingly dull. RotK was pretty good apart from all the bollocks at the end on My Doom plus the end sequence. Andy Serkis was ace but Gollum proper got on my nerves. They should have chopped is head off and sacked off the whole adventure. The spider bit was enjoyableRobYob wrote: Thu May 07, 2020 8:21 am The Two Towers extended edition again, watched in two sittings. Of course it was fucking epic, has always been my favourite chapter. The Ents storming Isengard has me feeling like a ten year old.
Kids are captivated by the story so we'll probably dive straight into Return of the King (and the neverendingendings). I'd expected they'd have gotten a bit fidgity in the slower sequences, particularly as the speeches in Elvish aren't subtitled. Gollum is still a marvel of performance by Andy Serkis and the tech team behind it. Treebeard is a little... wooden, but that might be entirely intentional.
Quite a contrast to how little interest or patience they have with any of the Star Wars saga I've done my damndest to inflict upon them.
LOTR really is an endurance event, especially that first one - all the walking, talking & scenery is guaranteed to put me to sleep every single time. Which means getting through that first one can take a few gos. Quite a few of the characters are also annoying to-the-max, but you just have to go with the flow.ZedLeg wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:12 pm We have an endurance watch every now and again where we watch all three extended cuts in one go.
Had the hobbit movies on while I was working last week. Weren’t as bad as I remembered but still not up to the standard of lotr.
How dare you sir! I won't hear a bad word about those movies! Well, apart from bits of Iron Man 2 and the second Ant-Man movie.
which one of the MCU films had a plot?
Aye, I like the whole thing but it’s at it’s best from Helms Deep to the Battle of Pelennor Fields.Ascender wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 10:24 amLOTR really is an endurance event, especially that first one - all the walking, talking & scenery is guaranteed to put me to sleep every single time. Which means getting through that first one can take a few gos. Quite a few of the characters are also annoying to-the-max, but you just have to go with the flow.ZedLeg wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:12 pm We have an endurance watch every now and again where we watch all three extended cuts in one go.
Had the hobbit movies on while I was working last week. Weren’t as bad as I remembered but still not up to the standard of lotr.
I don't think I've seen the second two Hobbit films, I picked them up cheap on iTunes a while back but never got round to them.
IIRC Guillermo Del Toro was meant to direct, and had a plan for perhaps two films, studio took ages to confirm it finance wise, Del Toro had other commitments, he fucked it off. Jackson had to come to the fore and sort it out. And then the studio wanted three films, because they couldn't just have some money from ticket sales, they had to have all of the money.Peterlplp wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 1:15 pm I suspect that the Hobbit films were a bit shit because no one would have said "no" to Peter Jackson at that point.
Remember that the first 3 were made by some guy who had directed a few oddball movies and an awesome team he had assembled, the next 3 were directed by Jesus.
