Topic: The Movie Thread

@GirlVersusGame ohhh, I couldn't hack Harry Brown. I remember when I saw that it was either too real or too depressing or something.

But I too would watch the chav/drug/football dramas in a semi-ironic way, I suppose. I'd get plenty of enjoyment out of them as they were set in the underbelly of a country I knew well, and as someone who played and watched football passionately for a good portion of my life, it was shining a light on the type of people I knew well, too. The kind of people who have these things as their main driving force in their life and a narrow scope outside of that. A lot due to situation, but also due to not wanting to broaden their horizons because of peer pressure, I suppose. But no, don't put me around these types outside of maybe playing a bit of fifa with them 😂 and even then I lean more towards the more normal human that happens to like football for some reason, rather than the extreme chav type. I'd hazard a guess that maybe 5% of my PSN friends are or have been drug dealers at some point though 😂 (i'm probably due a clear out)

I guess i'm glad I could watch that type of thing as a kid, but never aspire to it, too. I'm a big advocate for making provocative media, but it can't be denied that a lot of the fanbases for all kinds of things are those who simply like to see those certain things being glorified.

And no, I did not see Danny Dyer leading a legion of toxic masculinity to kick in doors and wreck cars and such 😂 but i'm not surprised it existed. I've always seen Dyer as a bit of a parody of himself, though.

Edit: haha, oh dear. Please refrain from trying anything you see over the next hour, of non Danny Dyer hosted entertianment then 😬 "let's firebomb a flowershop because... MAN!" "Spit at a baby!!! MENNNNN" "Beat the wife!!!! MEEEENNNNNNN" and yes, contextually this comment doesn't make sense to you, but I still wanted to riff on toxic masculinity.

@Ravix It was probably mix of both, it never felt unrealistic and definitely felt depressing but it had a great song at the end (End Credits by Chase & Status feat Plan B) it was up there with a lot of the more recent revenge flicks like Brave One and the excellent Death Sentence (directed by James Wan) with Kevin Bacon. I felt like watching something cozy after both and probably did.

Yeah I watched that episode and now I'm watching the finals. Some of the challenges included having your whole head cased in a tank of ice cold water (SAW style) smashing up motor (car) so that it fit under a bar, being stretched (rack style) by yet another motor but one of the contestants did it because they wanted to gift the £10K to a girl with cancer so I can't help but give some respect where it was earned.
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@Pizzamorg @GirlVersusGame @Ravix I don't think many Norwegians are aware of "Severance", but I have always been a movie buff and do pay a bit closer attention to what's out there than the normal Norwegian (if such a creature exists - I'm unsure).

I have absolutely no familiarity with Danny Dyer; the cast of Severance is mostly unknown to me, apart from the legendary Tim McInnerny, of course. I think this was the first thing I saw with him outside of Blackadder - or at least the first time I recognised him - and having been a Blackadder fan since I was, honestly, too young to be a Blackadder fan, I've always found it a bit weird that I encountered so many of the cast in other things, but both McInnerny and Tony Robinson was rarely found in other things I came across.

@FuriousMachine Have you seen Withnail and I? One of the best British movies ever made.

@GirlVersusGame Interestingly, no. I've been aware of it for decades, but it's just one of those things I never got around to and keep forgetting about. I do want to see it, so one day I'll probably get there

@GirlVersusGame @FuriousMachine

What I want is Arrow to release 'How to get Ahead in Advertising' they used to stick that on discs with Withnail and I, I believe. But I was looking at the Withnail 4k the other day to check if that had it as an extra, and it did not 😭

Richard E Grant is severely underrated. As is british drinking culture away from hooliganism. But surrealism, that we're known for!

@Ravix I agree with you on Grant, love him! I think I first took note him in either "L.A. Story" or "Hudson Hawk", both of which are movies I really liked back in the day. Damn, two more for the re-watch pile, then.

@FuriousMachine ah, Hudson Hawk. Good call. I'd join you in having a whistle along to Bruce Willis in that. I bet it has aged awfully, as, looking it up, it was recieved awfully at the time anyway 😂 I remember it as good, harmless fun, the kind of movie you watch if it is on without overanalysing how silly the script or the characters are.

@Ravix Yeah, pretty much universally panned at the time, yet seems like it's gained a little bit of a cult following over the years. I love it, from the hammiest of hams that ever were hammed by Grant and Sandra Bernhard, to the effortless charm of Willis and Aiello (damn, I miss that guy). Great silly fun

@Ravix @FuriousMachine yeah I too never got the hate for Hudson Hawk… I remember loving it as a boy! I might have to join you pair in a rewatch as it’s been around 30 years.

Maybe I was a bit if an easy mark for Bruce or something… as I loved Last Boy Scout too. I can sense an old-school Bruce-a-thon coming on 😁

@graymamba "Last Boy Scout" is one of my favourite Shane Black movies (along with "Long Kiss Goodnight"). Of course, I love Tony Scott (the better Scott brother IMO) and he did a great job with that one.

And Bruce was killer back in the day when he actually starred in movies and didn't just sell his name on the poster and phoned in a glorified cameo in all kinds of dreck. Sure, in the later years, after he got sick, it was a way to keep working when life was difficult, but he's had a long career of lazy roles. With all that, it is easy to forget that when he brought his A game, he made some excellent contributions to cinema.

Which movies would you consider for your Bruce-a-thon, in addition to the two mentioned?

@FuriousMachine I think it’d have to start with Die Hard, then probably the two we’ve already discussed, then maybe Pulp Fiction and then finish it off with Unbreakable. Can’t even put into words quite how much I love the last two!

edit. and yeah The Long Kiss Goodnight is so good… and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

• Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
• A picture of me?
• No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fu**ing are!

There are so many excellent dialogue moments in Shane Black's films, but that one from "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is probably my favourite.

That's a great Bruce line-up, for sure. I've revisited them all except "Unbreakable" in the last five years and have "Unbreakable" in mind for a "Unbreakable"/"Split"/"Glass" marathon. Haven't seen "Glass" yet, but I hear that it is a bit of a disappointment.

I'm struggling to keep my own Bruce-a-thon line-up at a manageable size, even when eliminating the ones I've recently (-ish) seen and the ones above. On the one hand, I'm thinking old faves like "12 Monkeys", "Armageddon", "Hostage", "Sin City", "Red" (1 & 2) and "Looper" to go with "Hudson Hawk" and "Last Boy Scout", but then I think I want to revisit the films I didn't love when I first saw them to see if they will grow on me. Like "Fifth Element", "Bonfire of the Vanities", "Death Becomes Her" and "Striking Distance".

Or the ones I remember very little about, like "Billy Bathgate", "Last Man Standing", "Mortal Thoughts" (where he met Demi), "The Jackal".

This is way too difficult, I may have to sleep on this one

@FuriousMachine @graymamba
As the spooky season is upon us, it has to be The Sixth Sense but yeah Die Hard is such a great series and Last Boy Scout was such an underrated/under-appreciated movie imo.
A few others which I thought were great were 12 Monkeys and Fifth element but he did so many good to great movies before the recent questionable ones (polite way of putting it).

In other news I’ve just started Flesh and Blood on Amazon/Freevee. I haven’t seen it before but it stars Rutger Hauer and directed by Mister Starship troopers.

😱 I can’t believe I forgot 12 Monkeys! (the tv show is actually really good too… once you get through the poor first season) and Looper is a good shout too. I was disappointed with it at its release… but I caught it a few years later, late night while channel hopping and I had a totally different experience.

Glass was a disappointment tbh… but it was worth it to get a bit more David Dunn (not the ex-Blackburn Rovers midfielder). I wasn’t overly bowled over by Split neither tbh… but I could probably do a rewatch 🤔

@CaptD another good shout with Sixth Sense… he sure did make some bangers fair play!

@graymamba @FuriousMachine

Oooh, yeah that's the stuff, haha... i'd go for Pulp Fiction, Die Hard, Unbreakable, 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Looper. Any of those mentioned are worth a go, tbh. I quite liked the Red movies for a bit of lighter, cast driven popcorn action (don't make me veer off on a John Malkovich marathon now, too!) The concept is fairly decent for Red, as well, tbh. Sin City another good shout. He really did a lot of comic book and Pulpy stuff, to be fair! Even the action and Sci-Fi he'd do is quite pulpy, really.

I'm sure there's some I've missed, but i'd be happy watching any of those, and own a few of my favourites in 12 Monkeys and Pulp Fiction (steelbook coming soon, too!) And i'm going to nab 4ks of Looper and The Fifth Element fairly soon. I might have to have a look to see if any of the others need adding to my ever growing wishlist and piles of physical movie media.

Not strictly in the correct thread, but seeing he was mentioned here, for those that is interested, Danny Dyer is on the Louis Theroux podcast. Not sure how recent it is, but it popped up on my TV.

Another classic getting the Arrow 4K treatment.

@JohnnyShoulder This is one I've missed, mainly because I've had it confused with the "Connery in diapers" movie, the title of which eludes me at the moment... "Zardosz", maybe?

So, now I have the dilemma of whether I should seek this out on streaming, risk loving it and thus nutpunching my bank account further with this release or stick my head in the sand and pretend this doesn't exist