kk67 wrote:The Ballard of Lefty Brown.
It's a cracking Western. Bill Pullman is quality.
Maybe i was in the wrong mood, but found it to be cliched rubbish. Still watched it until the end though, why I'm not sure. Maybe it was the promise that it might get good, it didn't.
Watched the first half hour or so of ‘free fire’. Jesus Christ that was fucking awful. One of the hackiest things I’ve seen in a long time. Why would anybody possibly give a fuck about anything or anyone in this film?
TAG, watched early Sunday morning hungover and unable to sleep, genuinely made me laugh despite being "one of those" comedies with "that guy" that is in "all those" films...
A few years ago on a rural back road in Co Kildare, the owner of a stone cottage draped black and white hand-painted signs over his gates. They signalled a war footing, a siege mentality.
Thomas Reid, whose family had farmed the surrounding land for more than a century, now found himself in the sights of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), attempting to acquire his land by compulsory purchase order (CPO) for some non-specific use.
From the outset, Reid’s position was clear – at least to him: it was not for sale. The writing on his handmade signs sought to inform anyone who would listen of the battle he faced. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.3391112
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
Black Klansman - wasted opportunity, in what could have been an interesting and thought-provoking story at this time. It wasn't either of those things.
It's one of those where I'm only frustrated by it because it could have been great and had some brilliant people involved, but it didn't make the most of it by a long shot.
This was a good watch, but I remain far from convinced 9/11 was an inside job. The main reason for my skepticism is that I just don't believe the US would need to do anything so dramatic and bizarre on its own territory as a pretext to invade a bunch of Middle Eastern nations. A warship or two sunk by the evil enemy is the standard false flag tactic - entirely fictitious on at least one occasion. Surely that would have sufficed. But there is plenty of food for thought here, and some of the observations do stack up, notably the final segment on Flight 93. That certainly doesn't prove the whole shebang was an inside job, however.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
Saw Steve Carell give an interview about it and it sounded interesting. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and it apparently includes lots of references to his earlier films, but I've just seen that it has been a bit of a box office flop and panned by the critics.
Filmworker - yer man who plays lord bullingdon in barry lyndon gave up his own career to work for the rest of his life with Kubrick - 3/5
You weren't even there - Jaoquin Phoenix plays hired enforcer, good film but the everything happens because someone was abused as a kid theme turning up in every film/series is wearing a little thin 4/5
Went to see bohemian rhapsody, avoiding the commentary. It's pretty good with the music and lead actor driving it. Reading after that huge parts of the chronology are untrue and a lot of the relationship stuff didn't happen is a bit of a pi**er - why not make a great true film....money
cashead wrote:Went to an advance screening of Glass the other night, the final part of M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 trilogy, in which David Dunn/The Overseer from Unbreakable goes up against Kevin/The Beast from Split, while Mr Glass, also from Unbreakable, is pulling the strings and manipulating both of them, while they're all being held against their will at a psychiatric facility where Dr Staple, played by the always reliably great Sarah Paulson, is trying to convince them that they don't have any powers.
It's a shame it's getting a mauling from critics, I guess for not being what they wanted, but honestly, I actually quite enjoyed it. It's great to see a talented film maker like Shyamalan recover his form after a series of stinkers, and much like his recent work, it's probably going to polarise people - especially the twist at the end.
You get some great performances out of the ones you expect, like Sarah Paulson, but it's also great to see Bruce Willis actually giving a shit about what he's doing for a change (Shyamalan does seem to get good performances out of him where others have failed), and if you were on board with McAvoy's performance as Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde in Split, then you'll enjoy him here as well.
Thought the trailer looked good when I saw it a couple of weeks ago.
Numbers wrote:Green Book - This is an excellent film, thoroughly recommended.
Initially very interested in this, but heard a lot about the very, err, problematic underlying message of "of course it makes sense to be a racist idiot up until the point you make a cool black friend", but that might be miles off. Hopefully it is. Definitely seems to be dividing opinion though.
Numbers wrote:Green Book - This is an excellent film, thoroughly recommended.
Initially very interested in this, but heard a lot about the very, err, problematic underlying message of "of course it makes sense to be a racist idiot up until the point you make a cool black friend", but that might be miles off. Hopefully it is. Definitely seems to be dividing opinion though.
That's quite a simplified take on it, that viewpoint is imo not accurate, for a start the black guy is not cool, the Italian guy is not as racist as your average Joe in the 60s.
Numbers wrote:Green Book - This is an excellent film, thoroughly recommended.
Initially very interested in this, but heard a lot about the very, err, problematic underlying message of "of course it makes sense to be a racist idiot up until the point you make a cool black friend", but that might be miles off. Hopefully it is. Definitely seems to be dividing opinion though.
That's quite a simplified take on it, that viewpoint is imo not accurate, for a start the black guy is not cool, the Italian guy is not as racist as your average Joe in the 60s.
Give it a go.
That made me laugh.
I wasn't trying to shit on it, I haven't seen it, but have heard very differing takes. The two leads are generally great though. You'd hope they wouldn't attach themselves to the project as I described above, but I don't know if Hollywood really works that way or not.
