Topic: The Movie Thread

@JohnnyShoulder have you ever checked on Amazon Italy? It's too soon for me to share how the experience goes, but the prices are certainly better than competitive, but unfortunately not for those few you have mentioned 😅

Regular 4k's can be snagged at £10~ a pop, which is well below my value for money threshold. Pre-order for Rocky Horror 4k Steelbook is £25, for example. In the UK i'd imagine it will be £30/35? 4k Hobbit trilogy is like £24 too. A 5 disc David Lynch 4K box set is £44 🤷‍♂️ just browsing it seems to have something for everyone.

I'll share the stuff I picked out when I actually get it, so as to not jinx it haha. And from what I have read they can sometimes still offer steels that have gone OOS everywhere else in the universe, so always a handy backup for people if they miss out on something.

I should have gone for the Dune steel, the more I see it the better it looks. But I wanted to at least watch the modern Dune's again to make up my mind if I even like the IP or not. I was distracted during watching the Villenueve Dune the first time, and didn't bother with the second because I had no memeory of the first

@FuriousMachine if you were going to try The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, btw, you could do worse than buying the 4k Steelbook for £8, and then if you don't like the movie you could probably sell it for double anyway 🤷‍♂️ Il Talento Di Mr. C 😁 Italy is mad on pricing. They still have Godzilla x Kong The New Empire steelbook, that's cheap too.

@Ravix Haven't seen it and I never buy movies unseen, no matter how cheap. I really can't be bothered reselling stuff, so anything I buy is for keeps.
That Godzilla x Kong might be something I'll pick up at one point, though.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN

You may like to know that Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Hidden Fortress’ is getting a 4K release, here in the UK at least, in about two weeks time.

I would be curious to see that one myself. I am also a fan of Kurosawa’s samurai movies, but Hidden Fortress was apparently a major influence on Star Wars. So that adds an extra layer onto that movie in particular.

@Matthewnh Thanks for the tip off. I'll definitely be picking that one up.

I was originally going to see Weapons on Sunday, but as I didn't have any plans for my birthday yesterday, I moved it and combined it with a trip to a nice restaurant.

The movie was excellent! Much like Zach Creggers previous movie, Barbarian, the movie managed to keep you guessing at what was really going on for quite a while. It uses the storytelling device of showing events in segments of different people's perspective, where each section adds another puzzle piece to the mystery. It didn't take long before I was fully engaged with this movie.

It has a few properly creepy scenes and a couple of effective scares, but it doesn't really play like a horror movie, in my opinion. It is also genuinely funny at times and there were plenty of laughs from the audience, sometimes of the nervous kind

I highly recommend this if you're a fan of the genre, it is a very clever movie with a great cast delivering the goods.

@FuriousMachine Horror fans are well treated of late, there are a whole load of horror movies coming out!

@JohnnyShoulder Absolutely! I've seen many already this year, though this one has to be the best so far. Together was also a lot of gory fun!
Of upcoming horror movies, it doesn't look like all that many of them will make their way to Norwegian cinemas, but The Long Walk and the final "Conjuring" movie will demand a visit (I'm quite sceptical of the latter, though. Loved the first, liked the second, hated the third...)

It seems that Robert Eggers’ most recent movie “Nosferatu” is getting the special-edition treatment.

“Ultimate Collectors Edition and Steelbook”, releasing on 13 October. Instantly preordered it.

Because I have special editions of all of Eggers’ previous work, I had put off buying the standard 4K release of Nosferatu. So for that reason, I still have not even seen the movie. Missed it in the cinema, as I was working a lot at the time.

(Actually, I had hoped to attach a photo of my Eggers boxed sets, but cannot see how to do it.)

@Matthewnh I think you need to upload the image to an image sharing site and then link to it. I don't know which ones are the best, but maybe @Ravix can shed some light?

@FuriousMachine Thankyou, Furious.

I had hoped for something as simple as “cut and paste”, but I think that seems like too much trouble.
Why can’t things be easy? But, on the other hand, where’s the fun in that?

@Matthewnh hehehe, yeah, that would indeed be the easiest solution, but that would require PushSquare to have the storage capacity for uploaded images and that can be quite expensive, so I can see why they decided to not offer that kind of functionality.

I do wish there were some options for setting the display dimensions of the images being linked, though... there are some massive images being linked that gets very "in your face" sometimes.

I now want to see this Eggers collection @Matthewnh @FuriousMachine

Easiest way I find is https://imgur.com you don't even need an account for quick use, just upload a photo (little green plus sign top corner) and then copy/paste the BBcode it gives you to your comment, the bbcode is the one that starts with: "[img]"

As for resizing, Furious, no idea, I think my phone regulates the format of pushsquare so it keeps everything within the width of the screen when browsing 😅

And oooh, I got an email today that says my Italian order is on its way, but it might be a while. I will dare to break my 'don't jinx it' policy now, and say one of the items is the il destino di un cavaliere Steelbook. (I'll let you work that one out for yourselves) Which people are trying to sell for £50/60 on Ebay, but you can just get it from Italy for a normal price 🤷‍♂️ scalpers suck and we must do everything to scupper them, even if it means the brutal task of clicking 'Inglese' on the menu 😱😱😱

Has that worked?

@Matthewnh It sure did And nicely sized, too

@Ravix Italian order did you say? That either sounds like something dodgy 👀 or a pizza.

@Matthewnh Very nice! I've not got any of Eggers films yet, but am a fan of all his films so far. Not yet seen Nosferatu yet either.

I do fancy an italian now, @JohnnyShoulder but as Italian is really just code for 'peasant food' I can cook that easily enough myself if I want some 😛 I shan't be eating the steelbooks, however, but I could leave a scratched and bent steelbook on your pillow to send you a message, if that is dodgy enough for ya 😱

@Matthewnh looks good. Which is your favourite out of of all of them? I still need to get The Northman, for certain. Though I will probably save it for Winter. I might have finished the entire Saxon Chronicles book series by then and be cracving some more brutal, bloody, Viking era vengeance.

@Ravix You could use the steelbooks as a fancy cheese board and use them to serve Italian cheeses. Maybe nowhere near my pillows, as you know what they say about eating cheese near bed time.

@Ravix

It is difficult to choose between them. I like all three, for different reasons. It depends on the mood I am in.

Although “The Lighthouse” is probably the most unusual. But I feel that the weirdness of the movie is supposed to be symbolic of the character Winslow’s mental breakdown.

I feel as though “The Northman” is probably the most accessible (normal?) of the three. I took my dad with me, to see it on the big screen, and it was just an incredible spectacle.

I simply cannot choose between them. And I shall let you my opinion of “Nosferatu” once I get around to seeing it.

Finished The Tale of Zatoichi Continues this morning, it was a good watch, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one, diverse sources dispute which of the 26 movies best deserves the title of the "ultimate" Zatoichi movie, but the first one and Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival are contenders for that title ,according to the internet. Looking forward to getting to that one, I think it is the 13th or 14th entry in the series.

I noticed there was significantly more swordplay in the second film than there was in the first, and maybe that's an indicator that the amount of action increases with each subsequent film. (within reason) But perhaps it's a simply a case of different films featuring more or less action than others, with that, perhaps, being dependant on the story.

Just back from seeing 'Weapons' both myself and my wife loved it. The girl next to us just about jumped into the row behind her with fright at one point in the movie 😂. Plenty laughs as well.