What film did you watch last night?

rp2000 said:
Do you have some issue with watching things in th correct order? :p

King of monsters is slightly better imo.


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Strange, as Rotten Tomatoes gives King of Monsters the lowest score of the Godzilla movies by quite a margin. But you and my nephew say it's great so I'm looking forward to it.

No, I watched Godzilla v Kong first just because I wanted to see something with Kong in it.:D
 
keef247 said:
Haha, I'm rather pationate about my films mate ;) I just think it was that good. I like how DOT isn't trying to be anything but it feels so much like HEAT and gives you the same feelings towards it, that's like the best compliament for any film to naturally give you that kind of a feel for it naturally? Know what I mean?

Yeah I think he's insanely good in SOC, and I think in DOT when you rewatch it and spot all the things he's been doing all along and how slyly that all flowed, makes his character very clever/believable imho.
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Your previous post going on about DoT and Heat similarities and how it makes you feel, yeah I am on board with that. Den, was one of those films I just started watching one night. Got hooked as soon as I saw 'Porn 'tash'. I didn't recognise him at first but wow, he bulked up. Man crush or what!!! Such a good actor, whom I never really took notice of apart from Orange is the new Black.

For me, Den had a solid cast. Plodded along nicely. The comparisons are just, but both Heat and Den did them in their own way. The open street shoot out in Heat, no music, just gun fire, echoing voices, screams etc will never be beaten. The Den version, was great in its own right.

Den of Thieves is a solid 8/10 from me. Heat is a 10/10. I could re-watch Den multiple times a week, its that good, and faster paced than Heat. BUT, Heat, I would do once bi-monthly as its a bit more slower paced, more plot details to think about.

Arrgh so many scenes in Heat that are sublime. When Neil meets Eady for the first time in that Cafe...*chefs kiss* such a good good scene. followed by the sitting outside, with LA glimmering lights in the background and that music. Super stuff.
 
The Sense of an Ending (BBC2) - 2/10

Really (really) hard to understand anything that was going on. Extremely unlikeable characters (all of them) who are all a) incapable of communicating with one another except to be passive aggressive all the damn time, b) completely up themselves and filled with a sense of their own importance.

Barely anything made sense, and the film amounted to a stream of scenes that were occasionally slightly interesting, utterly baffling, and intentionally disjointed.

You hoped for something to tie up the threads in the end, but apparently the book the film was based on left everything to the reader's imagination to resolve.

Frankly, I'm not a fan. Tell a story or don't. Don't tell half a story and then say it's up to the reader/viewer to supply the ending. It's not clever, it's flat-out annoying as hell.
 
Droolinggimp said:
Your previous post going on about DoT and Heat similarities and how it makes you feel, yeah I am on board with that. Den, was one of those films I just started watching one night. Got hooked as soon as I saw 'Porn 'tash'. I didn't recognise him at first but wow, he bulked up. Man crush or what!!! Such a good actor, whom I never really took notice of apart from Orange is the new Black.

For me, Den had a solid cast. Plodded along nicely. The comparisons are just, but both Heat and Den did them in their own way. The open street shoot out in Heat, no music, just gun fire, echoing voices, screams etc will never be beaten. The Den version, was great in its own right.

Den of Thieves is a solid 8/10 from me. Heat is a 10/10. I could re-watch Den multiple times a week, its that good, and faster paced than Heat. BUT, Heat, I would do once bi-monthly as its a bit more slower paced, more plot details to think about.

Arrgh so many scenes in Heat that are sublime. When Neil meets Eady for the first time in that Cafe...*chefs kiss* such a good good scene. followed by the sitting outside, with LA glimmering lights in the background and that music. Super stuff.
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Thank you for getting my passion/points mate, This is EXACTLY what I mean, you nailed it! I do not think this is a film to be slept on, nor to just be palmed off as a wannabe.

Den is amazing but it's, it's own thing, yet it feels like HEAT without trying to rip it off. They have their own distinctivity individuality, yet Den's like a modern take on it in a different time/universe. I mean you couldn't ask for a better compliament for a hiest film.

Gerald is hench in it haha! The casting is just as spot on as HEAT, and as you say the faster pacing despite not being short, moves along fast, I have rewatched Den so many times, it's just that easy to watch/draws you in/works. I dunno. And that bit right at the end, is a nice bonus touch. It could have easily ended on the bit before, but didn't.

Yeah HEAT is harder to rewatch as you say slower and the fact you know what's coming at the end, I haha often will turn it off when he gets to the hospital, as you're routing for him so much at that point haha!

The bit when they're in the diner and matey tries to be nosey and Tom Sizemore just stares him out, is god like! I really like how well that bit with the window phonecall and the Vette and gone! You feel his pain but he cant be caught! The bit at the beginning when Neil hears them make a noise in the stakeout van as well!

We also cannot forget:
Van Zant:
What are you doing?
Neil McCauley:
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
Van Zant:
I don't understand.
Neil McCauley:
'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this ****in' line!
 
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Droolinggimp said:
So many great scenes in Heat. Went to the cinema to see it on release. Blown away, didn't know much about the film before I went, just that it had 2 of my favourite actors in it. Which reminds me, I must watch The Godfathers 1-3 again. Pt2 being the second best movie ever made.
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That must have been mindblowing to see that in the cinema, especially the sound!
 
The Marvels. Decent actually, some very funny moments but it didn't lean into it like Thor L&T did. Breezed along at a good speed so you couldn't get bored easily. Ms Marvel carried the film though for me. Even Brie was OK and she looked fabulous in her ballgown.
 
1/10 The Great Gatsby (2013)

What a WASTE of a great story. I normally would go on a rant here and be accused of being smashed by @SixTwoSix :cry::D So here you go bbz ;) haha!
What a waste of Leo and other good actors/plot etc...

I cannot believe considering the casting/how big the budget/resources would have been, how greenscreen fake/cgi fest it is, even at the smallest set piece areas, clearly was putting that money aside to chuck up his nose!

I love hip hop, and like Jay-Z a lot, but that soundtrack, c'mon man, IF you're going to mix era's, do it cleverly like they did in the Westworld series where the piano plays new songs in an old rendition/bpm.

Toby Macguire was shocking in this, I've never hated him in anything, it is what it is, but SO bad in this, and dull. I don't believe this was just due to being in something that would have been above his weight class, the same goes for Carey Mulligan, we know she's a beast and is you believe she IS who she plays in things like Drive/Promising Young Woman etc etc, but again DULL, and considering she's meant to be such a self obsessed entitled nacissist and you're meant to hate her throughout (according to the book) she doesn't come across this way fully at all, just poor me, dull, loved up, bullied, dull, then 1 bit at the end you think oh that's a bit mean/self obsessed you should care, but that's IT... Mental.

I stayed for Leo and in the hope there would be more to it, the first clearly deliberate 30-45min messy sequence isn't clever at all, yet you can tell Baz thought he was 'redefining film making' doing this. What a waste of over 2 hours!

I know so far the 3 attempts at making a film of this have failed, and despite Robert Redford being enjoyable again he didn't give Gatsby the mysterious/devious/eery vibe he's meant to have, Leo mildly did but just came across as a shy loner who's in love living a mild lie.

I've seen adult movies with better story telling/acting/greenscreens than this! Utter garbage.

There's way more I could pick at but the TLDR is definitely, Baz Luhrmann shouldn't make films, like ever. If this had been done by Scorsese, it would have been awesome, he'd just had to throw that Shutter Island spice onto it and boom it'd have the nasty/eery unsettling atmosphere/tension it's meant to.

I absolutely hate it when someone wastes a good story/cast/budget. blatantly went up his nose!
 
The Creator - 5/10

A lot of style, not a lot of substance. Story was insanely predictable and quite a few plot holes. The last third in particular I think they just gave up all attempts at coherence.
 
Napoleon (2023) - 8/10

A loose interpretation of the details of the historical events but still interesting and entertaining and with a sly sense of humour.

The battle scenes were great, filled with spectacle and superb special effects and there was ample drama off the field through political machinations and a very unhealthy relationship with his wife.

As a biopic, it was lacking in a focused narrative and the final battle was skimmed over but the acting was great, especially Napoleon with his egotistical traits.
 
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