What film did you watch last night?

Watched "Hold the Dark" on Netflix last night and what a proper strange film, still don't really get how or why. Not sure if me being brain dead or the lack of explanation in the film.
 
Glacius said:
Watched "Hold the Dark" on Netflix last night and what a proper strange film, still don't really get how or why. Not sure if me being brain dead or the lack of explanation in the film.
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Simply put, it's drawing parallels between the wolves and a couple who have been isolated for so long they've almost turned feral. The main character stated that wolves sometimes kill their young to keep the pack alive, which is exactly what she did with her son. She was also having an incestuous relationship with her brother (her husband), which if I'm not mistaken is something that wolves partake in too. Yeah it's a weird film.

Damn she was hot though, and the craziness added to it. :o
 
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@G-MAN2004 really..not even a spoiler tag mate? I love his other two movies and was keeping this watch for the weekend :( There goes any mystery.

I know you haven't broken any forum rules, i'm just gutted that I read that.
 
Glacius said:
Watched "Hold the Dark" on Netflix last night and what a proper strange film, still don't really get how or why. Not sure if me being brain dead or the lack of explanation in the film.
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I think a lot of people will get more out of it on a rewatch, once some things are made clear.

While i loved it, and generally hate movies that over explain themselves, i can see where some of the confusion comes from. It's important to note that Saulnier wrote his earlier movies but only Directed this one. HTD is adapted from a book that goes more into certain details that were only hinted at in the movie. The incestuous nature of the relationship, for example.

The thing i see most people getting hung up on is why he chased her but didn't kill her. The answer is simple. It was never his intention to. He was only interested in protecting her and killing anyone who was a threat.

There is of course some good old fashioned Native folklore and mysticism thrown in, but i liked that. Some people did not!
 
Lone survivor.

Oddly enough it was the latest Tomb Raider last week, a film which bleats the sentence 'where do you want me to start'

Lone survivor had me believing nearly ever bit of it. Perhaps the rolling down the hill you had to stretch a little, but all those bullets really don't miss!!
 
lokiss said:
Lone survivor.

Oddly enough it was the latest Tomb Raider last week, a film which bleats the sentence 'where do you want me to start'

Lone survivor had me believing nearly ever bit of it. Perhaps the rolling down the hill you had to stretch a little, but all those bullets really don't miss!!
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The book of Lone Survivor is really gripping. The piece around his training is jaw dropping but then the mission itself is just amazing. If you take it as written then it really is a staggering situation. The fact that the repeatedly threw themselves down the mountainside just blew me away. As did his insistence that every time he tumbled for hundreds of feet his rifle always landed within arms reach.
However, some of it is very suspect. The mission commanders 'vote' and the stated numbers of attackers just don't tally with reality. The book's ending is also far better. The Hollywood ending just disrespects the men and the locals.
 
checjb said:
The mission commanders 'vote' and the stated numbers of attackers just don't tally with reality
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I don't know about the vote on the hill, in general it's not a consensus order of rank is everything. No doubt they would have been in similar situation before and followed it through to a more successful conclusion. I think they just got it wrong with the call on timescale of their movement and reliance on the unknown factor in the coms. That said the film shows you the speed he travel down the hill, but surely the ground would have been equally difficult to move across for the Taliban moving up after them, but of course we don't see that or the lapses in time.

But I totally agree about the numbers, at the time I was thinking 'where do these guys keep coming from'. Though it might not have represented the true numbers, we see a shot of them lined up on the ridge of the hill.

Gripping as you say, without the book the training montage at the beginning conveyed enough to have you believe the adversity.
 
lokiss said:
Lone survivor had me believing nearly ever bit of it. Perhaps the rolling down the hill you had to stretch a little, but all those bullets really don't miss!!
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similar - if you have not seen kajaki it has edge of seat tension, rawer, less holiwood glitz.
 
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