Topic: The Movie Thread

@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!

@JohnnyShoulder nothing wrong with repeating films, it's your personal list after all!!

The Departed is a great shout, I need to give that another watch soon. Likewise with Wolf of Wall Street. Spiderverse was bloody excellent too

It's not related to No Country for Old Men but it came out a similar time and had similar marketing but I'd probably add There Will be Blood to my list too. I love that film and definitely need to give that another watch soon.

I'd probably chuck Baby Driver on my list as well

@ralphdibny It was more of personal challenge really! But there were a a few on Ral's list which I immediately thought of like Nightcrawler which he brilliantly explained why I liked it so much.

@nessisonett Yeah, I've watched clips online and... there might be some pausing, lol.

@JohnnyShoulder Still need to watch No Country For Old Men. It looks badass. It just keeps... slipping through the cracks.

Annihilation and Ex Machina... they fall into the "I really wish I had loved them" category for me, where I respect the productions but just felt like they didn't personally resonate with me.

I quite enjoyed several of the other films you mentioned. Particularly Skyfall, which is probably a top ten Bond film for me.

@Ralizah No Country For Old Men is a bit of a slow burn but is beautifully shot in places. Think it was Javier Bardem's breakthrough in Hollywood too.

There are a few films on these lists which I've not seen, so will try and get round to watch them at some point.

I watched Saw on 4K blu ray last night. Although they have cleaned it up really well, there is still some grain left which adds to the grimy atmosphere. Still hold ups, although remembering the twists did lessen the the shock of them. Remembering seeing that in the cinema when it was first released and was stunned after what I just seen. Shame they just keep churning out the sequels.

Also totally forgot Miles and Ben from Lost, and Robin Hood from Men in Tights appeared in it! 🤣

If you have an HBO Max subscription, go watch Malignant. I saw it in a theater, but I'm sure it'll probably be perfectly fine on a TV as well.

The advertising makes it look like The Conjuring or Insidious or something. It's not. [Insert joke about "subverting expectations."] James Wan apparently got a blank check to make... whatever he fancied, and, uh... he cashed it. It'll be a while before you see another Hollywood studio throw tens of millions of dollars at a film this self-consciously outlandish again.

Slowly watching through the Rebuild of Evangelion movies since they're free on Amazon Prime, and... ugh. The way they redid the dub is just awful. Evangelion 2.22's Funimation dub had a ton of energy and emotion to it. It was grounded. Great performances all-around. Meanwhile, in this redub, everyone sounds like they're hurrying through their lines, and the new English script is literally translated to the point where it just sounds unnatural in English.

Really disappointing.

I went to see Dune on Monday. Great film, it's right up my alley. I'm going to see it another time next week, because it was a long one, and I think I'll appreciate it even more a second time.

@Octane nice, can't wait to see it. I checked earlier this week and it doesn't release in the UK for a couple of weeks 🥺

I see The Green Knight has been added on Amazon Prime. Really fancied this when it was in the cinema but didn't get around to it... think the missus and I will watch it from the comfort of our sofa tonight now though.

@colonelkilgore I’m curious to hear your thoughts. I thought it was great but a friend of mine couldn’t even get through it 😂 all I can say is the audio is fantastic so play it loud 🤙

I saw the mention of Green Knight being on Amazon and went to search it because I’m interested in watching it at some point, and I unexpectedly saw in the affiliated list of suggested shows under the movie there was The Division: Agents Origins. I’m not a Division fan per se, having only played a little of the first game, but I was surprised that I was completely unaware that there was a offshoot supplemental TV show based on the game. I follow games media fairly closely (on PushSqure mainly), but that is one area that I think flies under the radar — game related TV and movies. We do get a little nugget about some shows like The Witcher and the endless info about The Last of Us show, as well big budget projects like the Mortal Kombat movie and Uncharted, but I rarely see anything in games media about the Castlevania series, the Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness series, and who knows what else might be out there like this The Division show that I didn’t even know existed. Weird that this could have stealth dropped without any fanfair. Anyways @colonelkilgore since you recently played the game, maybe you’d be interested. It’s free on Prime.