Topic: The Movie Thread

@JohnnyShoulder My favourite crazy Hopper performance is Blue Velvet. I watched that movie for the first time when I was like 13 and it has haunted me ever since.

Watching Logan, had to watch it sooner or later. Missed the beginning unfortunately but it has still pulled me in.

@LieutenantFatman Wow, you missed the beginning?! That is one of my fave parts of the film, and set out the vibe for the rest of the film. I remember queuing to get my ticket and a mother was trying to buy a ticket for her and child, who was under 10. The bloke flatly refused seeing as the film is rated 15. She even argued with him, but she finally backed down when he explained it was very violent. When me an 0d my mate heard this, our eyes lit up. When we saw the beginning, it reaffirmed our belief that it was gonna be the Wolverine film that should had been made from the start.

@nessisonett I can only think of crazy Hopper performances now! 😂 Speed he was a bit mental in.

@JohnnyShoulder I love Speed so much. Definitely grabbing the 4K Blu Ray when it releases next month 😂

@nessisonett shutter Island is amazing! But then I do love films about mental health. Gone girl is another good one @maryeddington and I actually think it's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen along with Requiem for a Dream. One of my greatest fears is to have the rug pulled out from under my life and find out what I believed to be true is actually not. Maybe that's why I try not believe in anything 😂

@zupertramp I highly recommend Four Lions with Riz Ahmed. It's probably an acquired taste but I think it's genuinely one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. My mates and I were quoting it for years after it came out.

I love Waterworld and The Postman @Arugula but I rarely have 3 hours set aside to watch either. Also they are so trash that you have to be in the right mood to watch them. But yeah, I remember loving waterworld as a kid when it came out, just a bonkers movie

@ralphdibny There aren’t many movies that I genuinely hate. Shutter Island and Gone Girl are two of those 😂

@nessisonett haha perhaps you don't like the slow burn

@nessisonett technically I hate gone girl too actually. Just because of how utterly terrible it made me feel when I came out of the cinema. But that effect it had on me makes it a good movie if that makes sense? Like it was very effective

@ralphdibny I’m not really that into the whole ‘I feel rubbish’ movie type deal. Unless it’s dealing with some sort of historical event. I find a lot of these thrillers needlessly melodramatic as if they’re emotionally manipulating you to make you feel miserable.

@nessisonett yeah that's fair enough. I don't watch them too often because I like to be happy where possible. That is kind of the point of films (and all kinds of TV, both real life and scripted) though, they manipulate you to feel different things through the visual and auditory language they use. But yeah, I don't watch too many downer films if I can avoid it too!

@JohnnyShoulder
Ah nice one, just checked the first 5 minutes on YouTube, very cool. Will have to watch it again at some point.

@nessisonett 'Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?'

I think I have the Steelbook on blu ray, so trying to resist buying films I already have lol. I've got my eye on Dornie Darko and Indiana Jones collection on 4K. I wanna get a collectors edition of something, but it needs to be a film i hold dear.

@ralphdibny I second Four Lions, I genuinely thought that was hilarious. Riz was also in Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal. Which if anyone has not seen that film, you need to see it. One of my top 10 movies no doubt. I remember seeing that in the cinema, and none of my friends wanted to see it. I bugged them until they went, and we were all not disappointed. I was pretty chuffed with myself having picked that one out.

@JohnnyShoulder ahh I know what film you are talking about!

I haven't seen that Nightcrawler actually but I remember when it came out. I'll have to give it a look in at some point!

@Arugula Bang on. A career best for Jake Gyllenhaal, imo.

@ralphdibny ha ha, there is a Simpson gif for every situation. I always get random clips stuck in my head. The latest was this one:

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@JohnnyShoulder 😂 classic!

@JohnnyShoulder Nightcrawler’s a brilliant movie! Definitely one I’m glad I took a punt on.

@ralphdibny Makes me chuckle everytime!

@nessisonett On the extras, they based Jake Gyllenhaal's character on a real life individual, Riz and Jake rode along with actual nightcrawlers in LA.

Just went to the IMAX to see Mortal Kombat. It’s actually much better than I was expecting. Still has its moments of cringe. But the overall violence makes it watchable.

I've been hanging on to Nightcrawler for what must be a couple years now and still haven't seen it. Guess I'll get on that. Everyone raves about it but the premise just sounds so unappealing.

@SoulChimera Cringe and violence. Sounds like Mortal Kombat to me. Can't wait.