Films Recently Watched

[Nebraska]

 

interesting documentary from the book by the investigator that took over from the russell poole investigation; this is presented very well, but there are a lot of talking points and a lot of characters with street names so things can get confusing. unless you're actually interested in this "history" this will probably seem really boring because it's also kinda long.

 

 

this was really good, but holy shit was it also cheesy. basically, every murder suspected to have been done by jack the ripper is recreated (always behind a green screen that was purchased from poundland) in an attempt to better illustrate the crimes and understand how the police were investigating the murders at the time.

 

the amount of research and detail is amazing, if you can just look past the ultra low-budget (?) for production design

[Squee]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Echolalia]

 

 

this was really good, but holy shit was it also cheesy. basically, every murder suspected to have been done by jack the ripper is recreated (always behind a green screen that was purchased from poundland) in an attempt to better illustrate the crimes and understand how the police were investigating the murders at the time.

 

the amount of research and detail is amazing, if you can just look past the ultra low-budget (?) for production design

 

This is like true outsider trash TV. Good work on getting over the inertia to watch a show like this. I can never be bothered.

[caze]

 

^^^ Gods of Egypt

Edited November 17, 2015 by caze

[awepittance]

if i accidentally killed Bruce Lee's son on the set of a 90s goth movie I'd be making Gods of Egypt too

[Audioblysk]

Man, that Gods of Egypt movie looks terrible. It looks like the CGI was done 5 years ago under very tight budget

 

On the other hand

 

The Martian - 8.5/10 - I liked it, Matt Damon is alright in my book. The cast was pretty well chosen IMO except for the fact that the satellite control girl was WAY too hot to be working at NASA.

[Silent Member]

Good night mommy/ ich seh ich seh. So, I figured out the big twist within ten minutes and thought there had to be more to it. Nope, it's snoozefest. If you think you've got it figured might as well turn it off, because it kills any tension that could've been. Incredibly overrated 3/10

Edited November 18, 2015 by Gocab

[tec]

I still enjoyed it. Any other good horrors out at the mo? Tried Spring but the brofest in the first ten minutes meant I couldn't go any further.

[Nebraska]

 

watched this last night at a screening in burbank. so apollo had an illegitimate kid with mary anne creed (who now lives in a youth detention center in los angeles) and is prone to getting into fights. he's picked up by his mom and years later, he's now trying to get into boxing by booking fights in tijuana. he eventually moves to philly so he can be trained by rocky balboa but doesn't tell him he's apollo creed's son (because he doesn't want no favors).

 

after that it's basically about getting ready for the fight against pretty ricky in liverpool. there's lots of training montages with a few replays to the rocky films because this is kind of a whole new film- except you might also recognize some of the muzik.

 

imo this film came off as a remake of the original rocky except with the creed character and without the originality, because the original already exists

[awepittance]

they missed an opportunity to turn the story into a new cold war spy drama, where the son goes to Russia to assassinate vladimir putin with a knockout punch in revenge for his dad in Rocky IV

Edited November 19, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

[Nebraska]

 

this was brilliant. the school of hope has a strange disciplinary committee: a gang of girls that will torture you to death in order to keep the status quo in place. unfortunately for them, the first girl they kill is second lieutenant in noriko's gang (miki sugimoto). she joins the school (together with 2 other delinquents after trying to steal a dorks car) in an attempt to get revenge- but things are complicated when maki (reiko ike) arrives and challenges her to a fight to the death.

 

extreme violence ensues

[Blir]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

Fuck me, what an abomination. This film just screams 'flop'. Jupiter Ascending levels of flop.

[Rubin Farr]

Upside Down - 9/10 saw this on tv again and remembered why I loved it, I'm a sci fi romance sucker, and this played beautifully with metaphors for class struggle, first world vs third world nations, fascist govt vs democracy. All in a pretty low budget but well acted story, similar to Snow Piercer. The Sigur Ros soundtrack works well.

[juiceciuj]

Finally watched clockwork orange

 

liftslegandmakesfartnoise/10

[Candiru]

For those that saw Inherent Vice, what did you think?

 

After a viewing it's my least favorite PTA film but I'm thinking about giving it another chance to see if I get anything out of it. I remember it trying my patience though.

[Rubin Farr]

Brett Ratner (red flag right there) is trying to put together a movie about the life of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov:

 

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/rush_hour_director_lining_up_hollywood_drama_based_on_tetris_creator_alexey_pajitnov

[eugene]

everest - a bunch of not-so-smart people decide to go climb a dangerous mountain and many of them end up like that:

 

pretty dece unintentional comedy.

[juiceciuj]

men, women and children

 

pretty good/depressing. nice ost by bibio. didn't seem as heavy handed as the other movie that came out with the exact same plot with jason bateman

[Squee]

For those that saw Inherent Vice, what did you think?

 

After a viewing it's my least favorite PTA film but I'm thinking about giving it another chance to see if I get anything out of it. I remember it trying my patience though.

 

It seemed more like an experiment to turn a Thomas Pynchon book into a film. I didn't like it and I fucking love all his other movies.

[Herr Jan]

Citizenfour

 

Worth a watch.

[kokoon]

Well, who'd have thought, jupiter ascending actually wasn't that bad.

[usagi]

are you sure you watched the right movie?

[cwmbrancity]

never rated Mr Anderson's work until Inherent Vice, which is a quality adaptation of an almost unfilmable novel & it seems he does a lot better when the source material is so rich

 

There Will Be Blood was a rambling meandering mess, The Master 1 of the most boring, hammy, over-rated bags of useless dripping spunk i've seen for quite some time and that in itself nearly stopped me from dipping my toes with IV, which woulda been a shame.....but each to their own

 

watched The Red Shoes earlier, classic late 40's British filem about a ballerina facing some v awkward choices, def worth a viewing if you have the time. Black Swan ripped off all its nuances and themes, but just diluted them severely

[dr lopez]

Boogie nights is the only one with any sort of self awareness - weird how it completely vanished in magnolia etc

[jellyrajah]

For those that saw Inherent Vice, what did you think?

 

After a viewing it's my least favorite PTA film but I'm thinking about giving it another chance to see if I get anything out of it. I remember it trying my patience though.

 

I'd probably agree that it's his weakest film, but I still enjoyed it. I imagine I'd have liked it a lot less if I hadn't read the book beforehand

Edited November 23, 2015 by jellyrajah