Topic: The Movie Thread

Watched Goldfinger tonight, continuing my Bond binge. Really the quintessential Bond movie with so many classic elements. Could do without him raping Pussy Galore and ‘turning her straight’ but hey, you know what you’re getting with a Bond movie. He surely must be riddled with STDs and have a million kids out there though.

@zupertramp @SoulChimera Sign me up for that cringe and violence too. Unfortunately I'll have to look a little harder for a way to watch it.

@ralphdibny Funny you should mention Requiem for a Dream, as I watched for the first time last night. Think it was re-released in 4k last year for its 20th Anniversary. I found it an interesting watch rather than enjoyable one. How Ellen Burstyn lost out to Juliet Roberts for an Oscar that year, I do not know. I think it was around that time I started to lose interest in the while award show scene.

Some dates have just popped up for few films available to rent here in the UK.

Snyder Cut is available a lot sooner than I thought.

@RogerRoger Did you have a 4K Blu-Ray player before your PS5? I’m having great fun revisiting older movies with 4K versions!

@RogerRoger No worries! Wonder Woman 84 took a lot longer for some reason.

@RogerRoger It was honestly older movies like The Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life which blew me away. Just how clean they looked made a big difference. Still though, even just the Blu-Rays of the original Bond movies look way better than I expected!

@nessisonett @RogerRoger I've got a nice little collection since I got a 4K blu ray player last year.

Everything from Black Hawk Down is a 4K disk. I've been really impressed since upgrading, more so with some of the older films like Alien, Stand By Me, Gladiator etc. Some of the films I've not seen since having the DVD, so the difference in 4K has been a treat! And depending on the blu ray transfer, there are some films worth getting even if you've seen them on blu ray. For instance Batman Begins was horrible on blu ray, and has been fixed when they remastered it in 4K. They are not all good with some missed opportunities, Terminator 2 is apparently disappointing. The recentish John Carpenter movies which got the 4K treatment are all supposed to be good.

@JohnnyShoulder Not a bad collection at all! Snatch is actually getting a 4K remaster in July which I really quite fancy, it’s one of my favourite movies.

Prisoners is so underrated. Paul Dano was fantastic in that film

He's gonna kill it as Riddler

@nessisonett I only just bought Snatch just before I got my 4k player and just watched it recently. It is one of those weird films I can watch with mum, as she usually complains about either the swearing or violence.

The other side is filled up with Blu-rays too @RogerRoger, which I started getting when I got a ps4. I did stop buying them so much with the advent of all the streaming services, but I'm yet to be convinced with the quality from them for 4K. I just think there are too many variables in play to get it to hit consistently.

@TheFrenchiestFry Hugh Hackman gave one his best performances too in that film. If you like Paul Dano, Swiss Army Man is worth a watch. It is a bit bonkers mind.

@TheFrenchiestFry @JohnnyShoulder Paul Dano’s incredible in the BBC War & Peace adaptation. I’ve actually read the book (took me months) and I think that adaptation is probably as close as you can get while making it interesting for TV.

Honestly first few things i'm gonna do with my PS5 when I finally get to actually using it after finals is start collecting some physical movies for keepsake

I've always wanted to go after those Blu Rays of the MCU movies up to Endgame with the nice minimalist collectible sleeves

@JohnnyShoulder it's such a good but horrifying film, especially when I first watched it as a hedonistic twentysomething. Thankfully (I guess?) life is a lot less crazy now but if I watched it then I would fear the inevitable comparison of myself I'd make to Ellen Burstyn's character. I do love TV but thankfully I don't take diet pills and even then, I don't think they prescribe speed as a diet pill in the UK 😂

It's just so awful though, you see shades of people you know in every character and if circumstances were less favourable then you could imagine them succumbing to similar fates. Even without the drugs, it does make you wonder what the point of life is at all when all the non-drug related activities they take part in is basically what most people do anyway (maybe not the "a2a" scene 😅) But yeah, it's depressing and horrifying in equal measure!

I'd definitely say it's a horror film though but I don't think it really gets included when people talk about the genre. Most horror films just aren't scary, the genre is fun to watch but it's not horrifying in the same way as something like Requiem for a Dream, Shock Corridor or Gone Girl, stuff that's just 5 steps away from being somebody's actual life. People can come back from some horrible stuff, but these films show a one way trip into becoming an irreversible husk of your former self.

Nice 4K collection btw! I've got so many DVDs and blu rays (2 bookcases worth), I try to resist the urge to upgrade any. I normally do if the disc starts skipping or something. I kind of want to get some the films I haven't got yet as 4Kers but they are just too expensive for me at the moment. I haven't got the DC films from Joker onwards and New Mutants yet. Lockdown hit before I was able to get out to HMV and now I pretty much just can't afford the outlay

I have actually got one 4K release which is Alita Battle Angel. I waited for a steep sale and got it at 11.99 but I think it's worth it because it also includes a 3D version.

Anybody else excited for the new Mortal Kombat movie? LOL
The trailers don't even look too bad

Shang-Chi trailer just dropped

I know literally nothing about Shang-Chi outside the fact he was in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics and he's basically Bruce Lee with Multiple Man powers and his dad is Fu Manchu

I know literally nothing about Shang-Chi (not even the things you mentioned) but I like the trailer

@TheFrenchiestFry I actually quite like Shang-Chi in the comics but yeah, just the fact Tony Leung is in this and Destin Daniel Cretton is directing means I’m absolutely excited for it. Although I’d have liked to get a look at Leung in the trailer.

@nessisonett I think we see Leung for like a second but he's clearly not in Mandarin garb or anything like that

He just looks like a business man type

I've seen Short Term 12 and Just Mercy so that gives me hope this will be pretty good. Some of the shots actually looked really solid in the trailer

@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah, I think there’s a slight glimpse of him in the trailer but I assume they’ll make us wait for full Mandarin. Tony Leung’s incredible in Wong Kar-wai’s movies like Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love.

Yeah, Short Term 12 and Just Mercy were both really good and also firmly put to bed the stupid ‘Brie Larson can’t act because I’ve seen her in one Marvel movie’ argument. It’s pretty cool how he basically launched Lakeith Stanfield too, who’s one of my favourite actors.