Topic: The Movie Thread

@RogerRoger It certainly does...

And yeah you might need to sign in in order to see it. That video is recommended to me cos I watched a few vids on a similar subject with my mum. As I'm personally not interested in it, I will tell YouTube this. Might have to do it s couple of times for it to start working, but it definitely works.

@JohnnyShoulder @RogerRoger

YouTube have gone all Cloud Strife on us!

YouTube recommended me one of my favourite scenes from RoboCop 2 today. (Content warning, it's frightening and violent). I just love the way it depicts the insanity of those who go through the cyborgification. I do seem to remember there being more examples in this montage but its been such a long a time since I've seen this movie that I can't remember exactly.

Also, on the topic of Joker (soz I've been avoiding this and the TV thread because I'm really not up to date and don't want to get spoilers for the latest films and shows). I actually think Joker is the best new film I've seen in a couple of years, so much so that I don't really even consider it a comic book film.

There's been loads of good films in the last 15 years and there's been a fair few great films but I was trying to think today about what I consider to be the cream of the crop, the greatest of the great. My favourite films from the last 15 years, what I would consider "modern". I've skipped all comic films because I think people know I love marvel/DC toooo much and the list would be too long if I considered them all. So basically these are non franchise movies.

Inglorious Basterds
Interstellar
The Martian
Joker

I've been trying to think if there are any more but I'm drawing a bit of a blank at the mo. I've considered putting Gran Torino in there but I haven't watched it in many years (edit: oooo actually, I'd probably stick Blade Runner 2049 in there too)

Todd Phillips is a weird one, he's made some of my favourite comedies. The remake of Starsky and Hutch is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I think he fell off a bit with The Hangover series, I know they were popular but I really didn't like them. Joker is out of left field considering Philips' previous output but I loved every minute of it.

@ralphdibny Interesting to see your list. I did like Interstellar and Blade Runner 2049, but I don’t think I’ve seen The Martian and I know I haven’t seen Inglorious Basterds. I guess I need to check those out whenever I have the time!

@Th3solution I think IB is my favourite "modern" Tarantino film but I know other people will have their own favourites. For Tarantino, I class "modern" as anything that basically came out after Kill Bill 2 as the Kill Bill films probably came out at the time I personally became aware of Tarantino as a teenager. So Kill Bill 2 and earlier is "classic" for me and I guess Death Proof and later is "modern"

I think the film's I mentioned are just kind of ones that have really stuck with me and stood out among the crowd, even years later. I've always got a hankering to watch them but I try and put myself off so I don't oversaturate myself with them.

Admittedly I haven't seen every film that's come out in the last 15 years and there are a bunch that I have skipped because I've been too preoccupied with the superhero zeitgeist

I sort of want to stick the RoboCop remake in there too because that was way better than it had any right to be. It was different enough from the originals, it took on lots of influence from more modern sources like Metal Gear 4/Rising (I'm sure it's more a general influence from certain mangas but I'm more aware of Metal Gear). Also it was a perfect kids horror film in the vein of something like Jurassic Park or The Mummy remake with Brendan Fraser. It was scary enough and had lots of implied violence/gore/horror without going OTT. Definitely the sort of film that would have stuck with me if it had come out and I had seen it when I was a child. That's coming from a big fan of both RoboCop 1 and 2 as well.

I suppose another of my favourite modern films was Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It's easily the best of the modern trilogy by far, (I thought Dawn was lame and War was OK). It's also a remake of my favourite original PotA film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Again, it's massively different from the original but I do love it still.

Oh Christ, I actually forgot Legend which is the Tom Hardy film about the Kray twins. I actually adore that movie and it's on the agenda for a rewatch soon!!

I should add there are a bunch of comedy films that are some of my favourites that have come out in a similar time span but I sort of class them separately from normal films. Stuff like Bad Neighbors, the Jump streets, Four Lions etc

The Matrix Resurrection looks to be the movie that gets me back in the cinema. Fingers crossed it's a good one, the trailer was interesting!

@MightyDemon82 I’m kinda hoping the trailer’s intentionally misleading us. It kinda looks like a retelling of the first movie but with a different Morpheus and Smith.

@nessisonett I thought the same. Hopefully it goes crazy places and they came up with something new to wow us with, like the original film did all those years ago. Time to go and rewatch the trilogy!

@MightyDemon82 Unfortunately the first Matrix is forever tied to horrible memories of a banana milkshake making me very very ill 😂😂

@nessisonett oh not good, Happy belated birthday if I missed it and hope the hangover is easing. Cold leftover pizza and irn bru used to be my remedy of choice.

@MightyDemon82 Funnily enough, Irn-Bru and cake seems to be doing the trick. I’ll be well enough for the Playstation showcase in an hour, definitely can’t miss that!

@nessisonett Enjoy and we can talk about it later on PS5 forum later if it's worth doing so.

@ralphdibny Oh boy, trying to reduce my favorite films of the last fifteen years down to a manageable list would be a bit difficult. I suppose my top ten nominations would go to:

The Artist
Casino Royale
The Dark Knight (didn't want to include superhero stuff, but I couldn't leave this out)
Her
Hereditary
Inland Empire
Mad Max: Fury Road
Nightcrawler
Pan's Labyrinth
Your Name

@Ralizah ooo that's a decent list! Out of those, I've seen casino royale, batman, mad Max and pans Labyrinth. All brilliant films! I still haven't seen Her but it's been on my radar since it came out. I really need to get around to it.

Nightcrawler's a Jake gyllenhaal film isn't it? That reminds me that I really enjoyed the film Zodiac by David Fincher, I need to give that another watch to see if it can enter into my top films. The Social Network was one of my favourite films for ages too and I loved Gone Girl because it was so effective in making me hate it. That doesn't make sense but what I mean is that I had such a bad time watching it that I think it is a brilliant film because it had such a profound effect on me!

@ralphdibny Her is probably one of my favorite science-fiction films of all time. Really unique in terms of how to discusses issues of loneliness, isolation, reliance on technology, relationships, etc. So much cinematic sci-fi reduces to stuff of the action-y, pew pew variety, and this felt much more like a proper piece of sci-fi literature.

Yeah, Nightcrawler is, IMO, Gyllenhaal's best dramatic vehicle to date, and one of the eeriest and most realistic portraits of sociopathy put to film. It's also solid satire of late stage capitalism and the media in the tradition of something like Network (although no film will ever age as well as that one did, lol; definitely top ten of all time material, I think). Zodiac was actually pretty good; definitely a film I'd classify as underrated, since it doesn't get as much attention as I think it probably deserves.

Social Network was a solid biopic, although I didn't get on with Gone Girl at all. It sounds like your admiration of it is... conflicted... as well. Maybe I should give it another chance.

I had to leave a number of interesting films off my list from that same time period. The Lighthouse, Midsommar, Gran Torino, Lars and the Real Girl, Interstellar, Sicario, Antichrist, Bridge of Spies, Les Misérables, Dunkirk, Apollo 11 (the 2019 documentary filled with previously unreleased footage of that mission, not the 90s movie, to be clear, lol), They Shall Not Grow Old, etc.

I've not seen Parasite, but I get the feeling I'd probably love that as well.

@ralphdibny @Ralizah Trying to reduce your favourite movies of the last few years is proper difficult! I’ve probably missed out loads of films I love as well. I’d probably go for something like:

The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
Inglourious Basterds
Wall-E
Moonlight
Parasite
The Handmaiden
The Hurt Locker

@nessisonett The Tatami Galaxy and Night is Short, Walk On Girl have both been on my list for a while. Really need to just sit down and watch them sometime.

@Ralizah They’re seriously fantastic, I made sure to get The Tatami Galaxy on Blu-Ray and it comes with a little art book and everything. Everyone talks really fast though so you have to pay attention to the subtitles a lot.

@nessisonett @Ralizah @ralphdibny Phew, this is tough! I've tried to put a good mix and not repeat what others have previously mentioned. Edit: OK I failed on that last part! 😂

Zootopia
Logan
Sicario
The Departed
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Favourite
Get Out
Ex Machina
Drive
What We Do In The Shadows
Annihilation
No Country For Old Men
Let The Right One In
50/50
Skyfall
Django Unchained

@nessisonett out of your list, I've seen Wall E and inglorious Basterds. Wall E is a very good shout but most Pixar films are really good. Admittedly I haven't watched many of the recent ones except Toy Story 4 which I absolutely loved.

I think I've seen grand Budapest hotel, not sure If I've just seen an advert for it. It's the sort of thing I would have watched back when I had an unlimited card. I've definitely seen fantastic Mr fox though but I struggle to remember either film in any great detail!