Topic: The Movie Thread

@JohnnyShoulder Interstellar will forever be associated with the feeling of needing to pee so badly. God that film didn’t know when to end. Plus it was sh*te.

@LN78 It was more the fact that the central twist and all that jazz just wasn’t very interesting? Like the whole ‘that was him near the start’ stuff and the aging and all that towards the end didn’t really serve to make the movie any more exciting. It’s a bit like Dunkirk, a fairly straightforward movie overcomplicated by Nolan’s ego.

@LN78 Once I learned ‘Hans Zimmer’ was just a sweatshop designed to exploit young composers struggling to break through, it completely made sense why his soundtracks have been a collection of branded loud booming sounds put together in a factory rather than actually being designed to suit the movies. Besides, if you want an indicator of the man’s actual quality as a solo composer before the studio money and free labour, listen to the war crime that is the Doctor Who charity single ‘Doctor in Distress’.

@nessisonett @LN78 Glad I'm not the only one who didn't think Interstellar was all that!

My first film of Spooky Season is Alien. The 4K transfer really is top class and is one of favourite films. Just wish they would hurry up and do Aliens on 4K blu ray!

Just finished watching The Terminator. I've looked for so long for a streaming service that has this movie and I'm so glad that I finally got to watch it now. It was a pretty good movie overall! Really cool to see Arnold Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable machine (quite literally!). Although I didn't know that he was the bad guy, which surprised me. I knew nothing about this movie beforehand besides from some quotes. I still can't believe that it isn't Arnold who says "Come with me if you want to live". I thought it was him who said that all this time!

Anyway, good movie and I'm looking forward to watching the second one soon.

Went to the cinema and saw The Creator earlier. Really enjoyed it! Although an original IP, it feels a bit of a mix of films I'm really familiar with, so some may take umbragewith that. Some of the plot points felt coincidental and predictable also.

It looks amazing, looking better than films with a way bigger budget. None of it felt like it was CGI, but suitably epic and believable at the same time.

I thought the cast was really good, with a special mention to the young girl.

Not a masterpiece, but for an original story not based on existing material or a sequel, it gets the JS not boring sci-fi thumbs up!

@LN78 I agree with your Dracula assessment. I rewatched it last week and still found it underwhelming. Can't complain about Lugosi though. I do like Frankenstein, but it's first two sequels are a definite improvement. The Invisible Man and The Wolfman, I can get behind those two, especially The Invisible Man.

Guess I'll talk about what I saw too. Watched Saw and The Haunting. Saw was great and I'll be watching it next October. As for The Haunting, good but the pacing really dragged at times.

@LtSarge If you enjoyed the first, you'll love the second one. Most people consider it an improvement.

@LN78 Nosferatu is still the scariest version of Dracula I’ve seen. Unsettles me to no end.

@LN78 Gary Oldman is a guy I really like in certain roles but oh man, he’s so ridiculous in that movie. And he does my head in as Commissioner Gordon. And he shouldn’t have won the Oscar for a Churchill impression that you’d see in Goodnight Sweetheart starring Rodney.

Dracula the Gatiss/Moffat abomination was dreadful, apart from the second episode which I really liked. The other two were the very worst of that awful stinky vibes of self-congratulating industry luvvies. Claes Bang was good though especially considering that script, one hell of an actor. I could write a whole essay on why the woman that was Van Helsing epitomised every single issue that those two have with writing women. Instead just attempt to watch that Moffat program with David Tennant and that woman, Inside Man. I bet you couldn’t even last to the end of the second episode. It would make you shout at the TV. Moffat’s entire writing style makes my skin crawl, it’s like anything Whedon post Angel.

Part of me was tempted to do some sort of film club on here seeing as the Sony Pictures Core thing gives you free movies through PS Plus. Those movies though…. deary me. Nobody needs to see Gattaca. There’s several Kevin James movies. Look Who’s Talking AND Baby Geniuses??? Open Season 2 and 3 but not the first one with the inexplicable Paul Westerberg soundtrack?

Here are basically the only movies worth watching on it and by that I mean something that, good or bad, is worth a watch.

Django Unchained
District 9
Donnie Brasco
True Romance
Punch-Drunk Love
The Social Network
The Cable Guy
Easy A
Night of the Living Dead
Almost Famous
Sex Lies and Videotape
The Squid and the Whale
Tootsie
Five Easy Pieces
Girl, Interrupted
Midnight Express
Erin Brockovich
The Age of Innocence
Closer
My Girl
Stuart f**king Little

Bear in mind this is sifting through movies with either Kevin James, Adam Sandler or UFC fighters and it’s pretty grim. These are mostly movies that I’ve seen on every other streaming service and even then, half those movies I don’t even really like.

i got a bunch of horror movies to watch this month

My Best Friend is a Vampire
Phenomena and its US version Creepers
Dead Space 1991
Serpent and the Rainbow
Pumpkinhead
Oculus
Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2
Hellraiser 1 and 2 the Uncut Unrated anchor bay DVD special editions
ABCs of Death 1 and 2
My Demon Lover
Nightmare on Elm Street 1-5 again for the gazillionth time lol

@LN78 Haven't seen this, and now maybe I won't, but I agree; Jean Smart always delivers.
Loved her in both "Watchmen" and "Mare of Easttown". Which reminds me, for some reason, I haven't gotten around to seeing "Hacks" yet. Must get on that ASAP.

Finally woke up an realized it's Spooktober, so got my act together and watched a couple of horror/thrillers yesterday.

Antebellum (HD streaming) had been on my watchlist for a while, so I finally got around to renting it on a streamer. I liked it, but I didn't love it. Great actors, a good concept and, good grief, a seriously uncomfortable watch. However, I can't help feel that it didn't manage to quite match its ambitions and is somewhat of a missed opportunity.

Capped of the evening by almost falling asleep to Cujo (also HD streaming), which I hadn't seen since probably the mid-90s. The movie isn't necessarily boring, but I was really tired and, man, it takes a while before it gets anywhere interesting. When the pooch goes mental, though, things get pretty gnarly and Dee Wallace and the kid who plays her son really elevate this movie, ultimately making it a decent watch. Pretty weird final shot, but that was just the way they did things back then, I guess?

On the non-horror front, I went to the cinema on Friday and saw the French drama Return to Seoul (Retour a Seoul), but I'm still processing my thoughts on that one. Might share later.

If playing Factorio doesn't eat up my entire Sunday, I will probably further celebrate Spooktober by checking out my fresh 4-disc Collector's Edition of The Mist

@LN78 Agreed with Babylon. I wonder if the studio messed with it in anyway? Mind you, it was quite a long film anyway, so anything left on the editing room floor would only extend that. Felt like it could have done with more being chopped off.

Just finished watching the Uncharted movie on Prime Video. I enjoyed this movie more than all of the games combined. I don't know, this series has always felt better as movies rather than games and now I know that for certain. It just feels much better to experience the entire story of an entry in 2 hours rather than spread out across 10 hours with tedious gameplay sections.

Anyway, the movie was great! Sure it borrowed a lot of similar moments from the games like the cargo plane but it brought a lot of original ideas as well, such as the last scene with the helicopters. Easily the coolest moment of the entire franchise!

I also have to say that Tom Holland as Nathan Drake is a bit of a mixed bag for me. He's really cool as Nate and moves around like a parkour pro. But the dude can't express anger at all. Moreover, he's the type of actor who's known for being an awkward joker and that doesn't work for the character. Nate's jokes typically land, but when Tom does it it feels a bit cringey. Like that scene where he tries to sail the ship. That felt so forced it hurts. The other actors were decent.

Other things I liked about the movie are when the Uncharted theme played at the end and the Nolan North cameo. I really enjoyed those!

All in all, great movie and I really hope they make another one like this.

watching some horror movies today and tonight

Serpent and the Rainbow for blu ray. watching it with the commentary track on.

then on Tubi Im watching ABCs of Death 2 and Dead Space 1991

Not sure if anyone here has already posted this, but I have just noticed Prey will be releasing on 4K Blu Ray in the UK on the 27th November to buy and rent. Hopefully it will live up to the praise it has received. And it can't be any worse than than the truly awful preceding Predator movie.

Just got back from seeing The Creator.

It doesn't break any narrative ground for this type of film, but if you like future tech sci-fi it's a very good film. It looks fantastic, both in terms of the quality of the effects (may be the best looking CGI I've seen in a film this year) as well as in design (the tech reminded me a lot of 80's anime sci-fi like Akira, Venus Wars, Bubblegum Crisis & the like), which really immerses you into the world. The action is exciting when it occurs, and everyone seems to put in a good performance.

Might be a bit of recency bias, but I'd say it's one of my favorite films of the year (behind Oppenheimer & Mario, though it's definitely a "better" film than the latter), so it's a bit disappointing to see it hasn't been doing too well at the box office. On the plus side, I was the only person in the entire theatre, which was pretty cool.

@LN78 I gave up resisting the inevitable, so I'm upgrading left and right (and handing off my old Blus to my brother-in-law) Be aware that the 4-disc The Mist set is a US import and the BluRay discs are region A only. I never did get around to check it our yesterday (damn you, Factorio!), so I'm not sure if all the juicy extras are replicated on the region free 4Ks or if they're solely on the Blus. Can check tonight if that matters to you (I'm under the impression that you like to check out extras as well and I don't know if you have a region-free or region A compatible player).