Topic: The Movie Thread

@RogerRoger I think it got by as it was a hot spring/summer that featured lots of me playing games with schools mates; Independence Day, Porsche Challenge, Micro Machines V3 - Oasis were back and full of coke chucking out singles with 6 layers of rhythm guitar... Heady days!

@RogerRoger Love them up to the 4th album, after that it went pretty downhill.

The 90s were the final peak of British culture, it was a great ride!

@LN78 Thanks! That looks like a decent read!

Definitely Maybe is the clear winner over WTSMG *drops mic

@nessisonett I've never been able to decide between the two, both timeless in my eyes. Or should that be ears?

I want to get The Big Lebowski on dvd, anyone else seen that?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Not my favourite Coen Brothers movie but it’s pretty good yeah. Definitely worth a watch.

@themcnoisy @RogerRoger Watched it a few weeks ago. It's really funny. Definitely one of the best stand-up comedies on Netflix for me. The Phone Wallet Keys song was brilliant.lol

@WanderingBullet it's the passport, phone, wallet, laptop, keys song. Lol.

I really like the peeing in the shower song. Insane.

@themcnoisy I knew the guy could sing but I've never heard him rap before. The guy's pretty talented. Gonna watch Uncut Gems this weekend.

Aladdin. Not a patch on the animated version. The only thing better was Princess Jasmine who was a bit more fleshed out this this version. Naomi Scott was fantastic in the role and has by far the best voice in the film. Will Smith is just doing Will Smith which is not all bad, but unfortunately he was never gonna be as good as Robin Williams. What made the performance special was Williams ability to ad lib a lot of the stuff. I never got that from Smith in this version. Aladdin, Jafar and the rest of the cast were just a bit bland, and some of the dancing in the musical numbers looked strange. Just go watch the original.

This weekend I watched:

Apollo 11: pretty good, but I went through a period of reading/watching anything I could to do with the mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions. I was much more impressed with the documentary In The Shadow of the Moon - the interviews are great, I’m a massive fan of Michael Collins.

Dragged Across Concrete: certainly worth a watch, I thought Mel Gibson was pretty cool in this. Not as gnarly as Brawl in Cell Block 99.

Midsommar: watched with a friend who hadn’t seen it, not so good second time round but I love this film. Whatever the girls name is who plays Dani is great.

@Arugula I haven’t seen Dark Fate yet, but honestly I kinda enjoyed even Genisys on some levels for what it was. I doubt it’ll hold a candle to T1 and T2 but I’m sure it’ll have its moments.

@LN78 no but that sounds interesting, I don’t have Apple TV and don’t plan on getting it but hopefully, if it’s an exclusive, it’ll become available elsewhere over time..?!

@kyleforrester87 Apple TV+ is terrible but I somehow got it free for a year because I have an iPhone. If you have one then you might get it free too.

@nessisonett yeah I saw an advert for that the other day, assumed it was only for iPhones purchased recently - mines Jan 19, maybe I can still get it though. I’ll take a look.

Watched Withnail and I. I had been recommended it many times by the sort of friend that wears a beret at a jaunty angle and you really aren’t sure how and why you’re still friends. Basically Jason Schwartzman from Rushmore. Anyway, the movie was pretty good and I can see why the ‘alternative’ (read: pretentious) crowd would be into it. I’d give it a mild to decent recommendation.

I saw the trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie while watching the Super Bowl.
I’m a little surprised to say... it doesn’t look as awful as I was expecting. (Faint praise, I know) but given its rocky production, I thought it would be worse. I might actually watch it, like on Netflix in a year or two. 😄

@RogerRoger I thought of you when I saw the advertisement, and wondered if you were planning to see it. Silly me, what I should have wondered was if you were going to be there opening day or not. Looks like not only opening day, but opening hour! I hope it delivers for you and I look forward to hearing your impressions. 😄

Might go watch Birds of Prey later this week. Initial reviews are good it seems.

Also, thought Uncut Gems was great. Found it hard to watch at first because it was quite frenetic and chaotic with multiple characters talking all at the same time but eventually got use it. Both Sandler, the movie and maybe even the actress who played Julia should've been nominated for Oscars, imo.