Last film watched

[paddy no 11]

Downfall (again)

Amazing film

[Mikey Brown]

Downfall (again)

Amazing film

Which one?

[paddy no 11]

Hitler one, didn't realise there was other films of the same name

[Donny osmond]

Star wars episode 3. JFC. Don't.

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[Which Tyler]

Star wars episode 3. JFC. Don't.

3 of the sequels, or 3 of the prequels?
If the one from a few months ago, I also tried it last night - completely lost me, and I barely paid any attention after the first 10 minutes; and left about an hour before the end.

[Mikey Brown]

Star wars episode 3. JFC. Don't.

3 of the sequels, or 3 of the prequels?
If the one from a few months ago, I also tried it last night - completely lost me, and I barely paid any attention after the first 10 minutes; and left about an hour before the end.

I at least found the most recent one sort of entertaining in how shit it was, which is a step up on the previous effort.

I had a feeling the old prequel episodes might be quite funny to go back and watch at this point but maybe should heed Donny’s advice.

[morepork]

And so it begins...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12098392/

[Donny osmond]

Star wars episode 3. JFC. Don't.

3 of the sequels, or 3 of the prequels?
If the one from a few months ago, I also tried it last night - completely lost me, and I barely paid any attention after the first 10 minutes; and left about an hour before the end.

3 of the prequels. Had been thinking of getting thru the most recent 3 having really enjoyed Rogue One and Solo but now I'm questioning if I'll bother

[Donny osmond]

Star wars episode 3. JFC. Don't.

3 of the sequels, or 3 of the prequels?
If the one from a few months ago, I also tried it last night - completely lost me, and I barely paid any attention after the first 10 minutes; and left about an hour before the end.

I at least found the most recent one sort of entertaining in how shit it was, which is a step up on the previous effort.

I had a feeling the old prequel episodes might be quite funny to go back and watch at this point but maybe should heed Donny’s advice.

It is almost unbelievably shit. Like fully, genuinely shit. Not shit as in Star wars fans wouldn't like it; shit shit. Dialogue, direction, acting (even from otherwise decent actors): shit. I would go so far as to say probably the worst film I've ever seen.

[paddy no 11]

Watched the bounty and the mutiny on the bounty recently

2 completely different films

The bounty portrays Christian as naive and egotistical and poor captain blyth as hard done by

The second portrays captain blyth as a violent tyrant and fletcher a decent human being who is exonerated by the enquiry

No idea which is more accurate but mutiny on the bounty is a better film

[Mikey Brown]

The Farewell is absolutely fantastic.

[Donny osmond]

Eurovision. Will Ferrell movie on Netflix.

It is exactly what you would expect from that sentence.

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[J Dory]

If you have netflix, hopefully the stuff on this list is available in your region. I've watched 1-5 and enjoyed them all. Also watched spirited away, flipped and chef with the kids, 3 winners.

https://agoodmovietowatch.com/best-movi ... ix-canada/

[Numbers]

If you have netflix, hopefully the stuff on this list is available in your region. I've watched 1-5 and enjoyed them all. Also watched spirited away, flipped and chef with the kids, 3 winners.

https://agoodmovietowatch.com/best-movi ... ix-canada/

If you liked Spirited Away then try My Neighbour Totoro.

[J Dory]

Yep, seen that one too. We watched princess mononoke the other night, another family night winner.

[paddy no 11]

District 9

Brilliant

[Numbers]

The Peanut Butter Falcon on Netflix, this is a feeelgood film and I found it quite charming.

[Mikey Brown]

The Peanut Butter Falcon on Netflix, this is a feeelgood film and I found it quite charming.

Just watched this last night actually. I really enjoyed everything with the two main characters but there was some absurdly hacky story/writing crow-barred in around them. Very strange third act but I did enjoy it overall.

[Which Tyler]

Trial of the Chicago 7
Very good, and I'm sure deliberately reflective of more recent demonstrations

[Puja]

The Man Who Crossed Hitler - Part 1, Part 2

BBC film about a real life incident in 1931 (two years before the beginning of the Third Reich), where a lawyer, Hans Litten, subpoenaed Hitler and called him as a witness in the trial for murder and street violence of SA men. At the time, Hitler was trying to present himself as a responsible mature politician to get as many rich industrialists and centrists to back him as the "strong leader that Germany needed" who would end the ineffectual Reichstag bickering and curb the street violence, while at the same time keeping the support of the thugs and racists (and deplorables) who were his base and whose violence was keeping his "law and order" schtick relevant. Litten was aiming to cross-examine Hitler and publically question him in an arena where he didn't control the microphone, where he couldn't speechify and tirade, where he was bound by a previous promise under oath that the Nazi party had disavowed violence (and thus the risk of perjury and imprisonment/deportation to Austria) while still keeping blowing the whistle for his base.

It's a fascinating and brilliantly done piece, made better by the fact practically none of it is fiction. A lot of the courtroom dialogue is taken from actual records and to see the systematic dismantling of the ideologue, forced to explain his contradictions and lies in a forum where he has no control, is a thing of beauty. Of course, in real life, we know the end of the story - even when faced with the ugly truth of who he was, enough people were willing to ignore the racism, the violence, the divisiveness, the facism, because they wanted a strong leader, someone who upset the libs and got things done and made Germany grea... fixed their country. Litten cross-examined Hitler three hours, humiliated him, and thereafter nobody was allowed to mention his name in Hitler's presence. But he refused to leave the country when he had the chance ("The millions of workers can't leave here, so I must stay too") and was one of the first to be arrested upon Hitler's ascension, eventually committing suicide in 1938 in Dachau concentration camp.

If it wasn't made in 2011, I'd've taken it as a powerful sermon against current events, both here and America. The fact that it is so applicable (the line about Germany needing a strong man to cut through all the arguing in Parliament and get things done made me wince) is a castigation of where the world has gone. Depressing, but a very good watch.

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

The Hunt, which was really incredible. Tough to watch at times but gripping and sad and thought-provoking all at once. Not seen Mads Mikkelson in much before and he was pretty fantastic.

[morepork]

The Hunt, which was really incredible. Tough to watch at times but gripping and sad and thought-provoking all at once. Not seen Mads Mikkelson in much before and he was pretty fantastic.

He is a great actor.

[paddy no 11]

The Hunt, which was really incredible. Tough to watch at times but gripping and sad and thought-provoking all at once. Not seen Mads Mikkelson in much before and he was pretty fantastic.

Pretty grim viewing

TBH if the lead wasn't so good i'm not sure i would have stuck with it

[fivepointer]

Open Range.
Handsome looking western, very well made film.
Kevin Costner very good, no really. But Robert Duvall stole all the scenes he was in. Great actor.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Parasite

Bizarre that this was so successful at the Oscars, but it's very good.

(Spoilers) I thought the freeloading Kims were going to destroy the Parks and take over their lives but the film went off in some unpredictable directions, humanising the Kims in the process, and raising the level of the film beyond a horror story for the upper middle classes. For me the biggest fault is that the Parks were reasonably nice people, if a little snobbish. Better if they had more clearly been shown to be parasites in their own way.