Topic: The Movie Thread

@FuriousMachine No, I haven't seen Weapons yet so I'll stick that one on the list.

To be fair I did try Resident Evil Village in VR briefly and even though I had completed the game several times at that point, I found myself panicking at the first encounter. It was like I had never played the game before!

@McSavage I consider "Weapons" my favourite movie of the year. It doesn't really feel like a horror movie, though (except in maybe a few parts) and it is surprisingly funny at times. Cregger is truly a filmmaker to watch!

I tried the RE Village demo on PSVR2 and after the tutorial I couldn't even get myself to leave the safety of the opening crash site! 😅

@FuriousMachine Mine would be either be Weapons or Sinners. Though I did recently watch Black Phone (better late than never) and really liked it. I knew I'd like Weapons, I didn't know I'd love it. My worst would probably be Borderlands, with Jeepers Creepers 4 coming as a very close second. Next up is The Running Man, another red carpet event. Probably the last one of the year, ticket sales have been very good so far. Fairly chunky guest-list too. I wish it had been Badlands, the last one was Downtown Abbey. I've never seen the show and had just gotten off the road from festival season, I think I actually fell asleep at one point.

@GirlVersusGame "Sinners", "28 Years Later" and GdT's "Frankenstein" all came very close to claiming the top spot, but "Weapons" still holds it for me (seen it three times already ). My cinema year is far from over, though, so others may claim the spot, but the most likely candidate was "Frankenstein". Osgood Perkins' "Keeper" is a dark horse, though. Seeing that at the end of the month.
Outside of that, I have tickets to see "Orwell 2+2=5" (tomorrow), "Good Boy" (Friday), "Predator: Badlands" (Sunday) and then "The Running Man" and "Zootopia 2" further on.
And those are just the ones I've booked tickets for!

@FuriousMachine How much are tickets over there for a new release like Frankenstein? I'm guessing they have member prices etc? I forgot you hadn't seen Good Boy yet. I think I removed it from my memory because it did such a job on my nerves. And that was only a week ago. The dog was one of the best actors I've seen all year. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple should be coming on the 12th of December. The first half was pretty good, getting out of the city gave it such a different feel. But if I remember correctly there was an awful lot of zombie dongs and such in that movie, which is an odd complaint but I kept laughing so much that I couldn't take it seriously when they did attack and you could see it all. I guess all their clothes deteriorated over those years. Did you ever see Shallow Grave? it's also from Danny Boyle. It netted him the funding he needed for Trainspotting. I think it was Ewan McGregor's first movie, I'm not sure how well it did outside of the UK but I know most of my American friends had never heard of it.

@GirlVersusGame Tickets are around £15 with current exchange rates, but I have a movie pass for £23 a month (unlimited viewing), which is just a fantastic deal for cinema lovers like me

"Bone Temple" doesn't open here until January; will hopefully catch it then. Zombie dongs aside, the true strength of the first "28 Years Later" rests with stellar performances from Comer and Fiennes, in my opinion (Aaron Taylor Johnson was good too, but those two were next level).

I did indeed see "Shallow Grave" before Boyle was a household name. Was my first encounter with both McGregor and Christopher Eccleston. It wasn't well known here, but being a movie fan I rented pretty much every VHS at my local video store in my youth. Went through quite a few movies, good and bad, in the early to mid nineties. "Shallow Grave" was one of the memorable ones

being lazy today. binge watching Dog Soldiers and Bad Moon on Season 7 of Joe Bob Briggs' Last Drive in on Shudder.

Review headline for Predator: Badlands over at JoBlo.com:

It’s Super Fun, but it’s also VERY PG-13 and Tame

Expectations have been adjusted accordingly. Still looking forward to it

@FuriousMachine PG-13 ..Tame, oh no. I want my Predator 2 levels of gore and goodness. I think 2 really captured the novels and graphic novels better than any of the other movies. It propelled my love of Art Deco and Mayan Revival architecture (the same style was used for Blade Runner) I've probably watched it more than any other Predator 2 movie. Even talking about it now makes me want to watch it again, I might. Or fire up some Predator audiobooks while I play Satisfactory.

@seinfeldfanatic Dog Soldiers is so bloody good. I showed it to someone for the first time a few weeks ago and they loved it. The scene with the blade between his teeth was burned into my mind and now lives there rent free.

Next up for me is The Running Man then Friday it will be Black Phone 2. I might also check out The Long Walk and House of Dynamite. I also need to watch The Strangers 2, I really liked the first one.

@GirlVersusGame Yeah, I would prefer the Predator movies to be deserving of an R-rating, but I'll give it a fair shake. I'm not as big a fan of "Predator 2" as you are, but it was fine (and sure beats hunting down the last remaining Mercer spheres ).
I quite enjoyed "The Long Walk" and "House of Dynamite" was fine, too, though the latter didn't quite live up to my expectations. A lot has been made of the ending, but I didn't mind it at all.
After "The Strangers 2" got eviscerated by reviewers I've kind of let it fall by the wayside. I liked the previous one, but didn't feel it was anything special (I liked the original better), so I'm not that invested. Still, would love to hear your thoughts on it, may push me to actually check it out

Bugonia... talk to me

This seems to have been the fastest selling steelbook of the year, so far. Lightening fast. So I thought it was worth asking if it was on anyone's radar?

@Ravix I loved that movie. It's funny because after seeing you all talk about 4K and steelbooks 'Talk to Me' was one that almost went into my basket. Have you watched it? For a while it was on Netflix, it still might be.

@GirlVersusGame alas, I meant 'talk to me' as just the casual phrase, not thinking there'd clearly be the movie to confuse matters in the movie thread. So I was just talking about the Yorgos Lanthimos joint: 'Bugonia' and challenging the room 'gimme the deets' as it were 😅

But if you love special features, cast interviews and such, Talk to Me has a Second Sight release in the UK that probably has the most extensive set of features, so maybe that could tempt you over to the format.

@Ravix Poor Things was my first and will be my last Yorgos Lanthimos movie. Very rarely do I hate a movie, but that one... sheesh... if only the movie hadn't betrayed its main character (and the audience) so spectacularly in the last half, I would probably have loved it (setting aside a score that made me want to insert knitting needles into my ears and rummage around until I could be certain that awful soundtrack could never be heard of again).
So, "Bugonia", definitely on my radar as "one to avoid"

@Ravix LOL okay. For a moment I thought you were coming over to the dark side and embracing a lot more horror.

@FuriousMachine Poor Things is , Idk if you already knew, based on an Alasdair Gray novel of the same name, which I've read and didn't really care for, so you can only really blame the source material unless the movie took some liberties with the plot which may have spoiled it for those who enjoyed the book, Idk, haven't seen it or read about it, but Lanark and 1982 Janine by the same author are fantastic, very different from each other but both very good books, I believe I may have already recommended Lanark to you in the Books thread, but if I didn't, I will do so, because it has a great sci-fi/dystopian plot parallel to the main story that I think you may care for.

@FuriousMachine oh, no. You know I love movies that annoy people 🙈 so now I'm going to have to add Poor Things to a list to check out. Looks like Comedy Frankenstein? 😅

This is Bugonia, anyway. Jesse Plemmons is one of my 'good in everything so happy to watch him work' actors. So i'll definitely give it a go at some point.

I did pre-order the steel on Amazon, just in case, but I feel like it is one they will cancel on me anyway, as both HMV and Zavvi went OOS before midday. This is what brought the film to my attention though, a ravenous response to a release is usually a good sign.

@GirlVersusGame Nah, no change there. Horror, for me, i'm weird about. I like when horror is mashed up into other genres, lovingly satirised, or if it is mostly psychological or heavily stylised. But I'm not into the genre as a whole. I'll be checking out Frankenstein on Netflix, for example, and I like various vampiric tales, and then stuff more akin to Misery and The Shining. Which is why Bugonia appeals, it is supposed to be a bit Kubrickesque, and also shares dna with Misery. I still haven't got around to Sinners either, which I need to put right.

@Ravix If you like Plemmons and you’re looking for a good example to sample Lanthimos, ‘Kinds of Kindness’ is out in the wild and a fascinating watch in its own right. Apparently ‘Bugonia’ is a remake of ‘Save the Green Planet!’ so it might be worthwhile giving that a watch. I quite like Ari Aster, who’s been a big part of adapting this, so I’m one who’s looking forward it.

@FuriousMachine I too hated Poor Things, but really enjoyed one of Lanthimos previous films The Favourite. It is probably one of the most laugh out loud films I've seen in recent times. The other two of his films I've seen The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, I also enjoyed to differrent degerees, the latter more so than the former.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer has this strange, uneasy feel to it all the way through, and it not like anything I've seen before. I couldn't even compare it to anything without giving too much away, and is best going in as blind as possible. It is a bit of a marmite movie though. Or whatever the Norwegian equivalent is.

We can be glad it isn't surströmming, @JohnnyShoulder but i'm sure they have a similar alternative, am I right? @FuriousMachine 😬 what do you both make of the Bugonia trailer? I imagine it may be hard to win back Furious at this stage, but i'd hazard a guess it is right up your alley, Herr. Schulter?

Also, @FuriousMachine it is V for Vendetta day, don't forget. There's probably a rhyme to help remember that one, but thought i'd mention it in case you planned a watch.

@Metonymy that was one on my Netflix list (I think it was Netflix) before I decided to bin streamers, and thus before I realised I still need to supplement owned movies with various shows, movies on streaming and have resubbed to some. So I will look out for that again, cheers.