Topic: The Movie Thread

@LN78 hmmm that sounds like one for Chit Chat if you ask me, after a couple of posts it’ll start leaning more toward one or the other and a responsible user can take it to the relevant location 👍🏻

@kyleforrester87 it's not too bad

@LN78 Second viewing - loved it. Have hardly stopped thinking about it since, actually. I really didn’t remember the last part from my first viewing, until it was happening.

This ones a bit different since I was pretty drunk the first time I saw it, but I do struggle to follow certain types of movie during the first viewing - whether that’s because they are complex, obtuse, I’m looking for something that isn’t there or if I’m just enjoying the imagery/sound or I’m a bit dumb, I don’t know.

So yes, second viewing was really worthwhile to me.

Also I loved all the static camera work. Kind of seemed amateurish, but I enjoyed it.

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@FullbringIchigo yeah I’m just kidding, its not my bag is all

@JohnnyShoulder Color our of Space is on prime to rent for £4.49!

@kyleforrester87 I see it on there now, sweet! Cheers for the heads up! I will probs wait until it is available with Prime though, or at least on offer.

@JohnnyShoulder fair to be honest, I do bloody love the amazon app though. Few quid here, few quid there.

Watched Goldfinger the other day. This is the third James Bond film, which was released in 1964 and stars Sean Connery as James Bond.

This film has a different feel to the previous two films, as it is less about spying and counter-spying, and more about secret agents and fancy gadgets. This film excels at the whole secret agents and fancy gadgets aspects that the series is known for. There's various things introduced that later become staples of the James Bond series, such as the Aston Martin containing containing various gadgets like the ejector seat and the oil slick.

There's plenty of iconic moments in this film, which makes it one of the more memorable movies of the series. It contains that scene where Bond is tied to a table and is about to be spliced by a giant laser, and it also features the enemy henchman known as Oddjob. Despite being depicted as a small person in some video games (such as Goldeneye on N64), Oddjob is actually a big, bulky fellow in the film. His hat can be a deadly weapon when thrown at opponents, and he is powerful in a fist fight.

Goldfinger is also quite an interesting villain. In some ways he is the stereotypical supervillain, being ruthless and having a complex plan to fulfil his evil goals. But he stands out from other supervillains by not giving off that supervillain vibe. He doesn't look like a mad scientist, and he spends a lot of the film relaxing at his farm whenever he's not doing supervillain stuffs. But despite all that, he is still a sinister person and not someone to underestimate.

The plot is decent enough minus some minor issues, and the pacing is rather good.

I'm always a fan of the cool gadgets and over-the-top supervillain lairs and their complex evil plans, so overall I really enjoyed this movie.

@crimsontadpoles Looove Goldfinger, it’s a great movie!
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
Classic!

Images of the new Batmobile:

Hope that exposed engine is bulletproof.

The car does look cool, though.

Also, No Time To Die has been delayed amid coronavirus fears. November's the new release date. I can see this happening with other big films as well.

I was planning to go watch Birds of Prey last month but changed my mind because I had some concerns regarding the coronavirus.

@WanderingBullet I'd be surprised if Mulan wasn't delayed. The Chinese market is a huge part of why that movie was made in the first place. Losing them entirely, while probably not catastrophic, would be a huge dent in the movie's box office. You could release it in the west and China separately, but I think Disney would rather not opt for that. It's the one movie I feel like is guaranteed to be affected and moved, depending on how against the idea of a delay Disney is this far into the process.

@WanderingBullet Oh... That's certainly a bold decision. It looks like a Ken Block via Mad Max cobble-together.

Can't say I'm enamored with the design work of this film so far.

@Tjuz I think Mulan will bomb, coronavirus or not.

@Tjuz Totally forgotten that Mulan's releasing this month. The Jungle Book was the last live-action Disney movie that I've gone to the cinemas to watch but I'm actually quite interested in Mulan since it's not a musical and also a shot for shot adaptation.

@KALofKRYPTON Affleck's Batman has set the bar for me fighting wise. He's also a pretty good Bruce Wayne and I'm not even a fan of him as an actor. As for the new movie, I'll be very disappointed if it's similar to the choreography and fight scenes we saw in the Dark Knight Trilogy.

@WanderingBullet i hope it's not too much like The Dark Knight Trilogy, this might be a unpopular opinion but i wasn't a fan

@WanderingBullet Batfleck is the bomb! Best on-screen Batman in so many ways - especially the brute force fighting.

Bale's arms up pirouette thing was always a bit meh.

@FullbringIchigo Hahaha, I went through my disdain for the Nolan trilogy last week, you’re not alone!

So I went to see the new adaptation of The Invisible Man and... it was pretty good! It's practically a one-woman show as we watch Elizabeth Moss gradually descend into madness and paranoia over the course of the film. Unlike a lot of Hollywood media, it does a good job of embedding its themes within the context of the narrative. A bit like Verhoeven's 2000 film Hollow Man, this explicitly descends into the realm of horror as the titular character abuses his ability to harass women; unlike that film, though, this is rooted in a female perspective of abuse, so the focus isn't voyeuristic so much as it is paranoid. The main character is abused throughout the film by an invisible force that seems to focused on isolating her by making everyone else around her think she's nuts.

It's difficult to say the film is enjoyable, but it is a really solid horror film, even if you ignore the themes completely. The film does an amazing job of building an insane level of tension by focusing on negative space and effectively controlling the sound design to build a sense of almost relentless paranoia. The unpredictability of never knowing when Moss' invisible assailant will strike again is terrifying. In a big way, this feels much more like a spiritual successor to a sadly underrated 1982 horror film titled The Entity, which also features this dynamic of a woman being abused and terrified by an invisible force that she is helpless to defend against.

If I had to offer criticism of the film, I'd say it's unfortunately too reliant on genre tropes at times, and, while very effective, I didn't appreciate the abundance of jump scares. The climax and denouement are also kind of disappointing insofar as they don't fit well with the rest of the film. Still, a really effective piece of horror cinema overall.

@Ralizah If I weren't already enthused by your review (I was), your mention of The Entity should elevate anyone's interest!

Shame about the conclusion of the film then, but I'll stick it on the list.

@KALofKRYPTON i'll be honest i still prefer Keaton over all the others, Affleck was good though although i feel he needed batter material, Val Kilmer wasn't that bad really but the movie sucked and Bale never felt right to me, the whole thing felt forced and as for Clooney well he can go do one as far as i'm concerned,he was terrible in the role, terrible Bruce Wayne and a Terrible Batman

i'm not counting Adam West in this because his Batman was supposed to be silly and campy and he played it well

@LN78 Go watch it.

I saw it when I was a kid. Scared the crap out of me then and is still a genuinely creepy thing to watch in my adulthood.