Topic: The Movie Thread

@FuriousMachine honestly! I got some shelf/cabinet based furniture set up to house some of my movies, but it has doors... so I got it all filled up and closed the doors and thought... 'ahhh... done. Oh wait... oh no, that won't do, at all. For now I cannot gaze at the spines! What have I done?!'

@Ravix I know that feeling! Shelf space is very limited in my flat right now and what shelves there are are two movies deep... and I feel bad for the ones relegated to the back row, hidden from sight. Poor, poor movies 😢

@FuriousMachine @StitchJones 😅 ah, yes, a pretty standard mail delivery for 2025. In fact, as it managed to at least graze to post box, it is still perhaps the preferable method.

O, delivery gods, be kind to all those I know this holiday period 🙏

Do people here often crack out the Chevy Chase over the Holidays? I feel like it is almost the law, and I was basically raised to do so, carrying on a tradition.

@Ravix

@Ravix I don't actively seek it out lately, but I typically spend Christmas staying with family and they either have linear TV on with a cloying amount of Christmas programming and over the course of a couple of days watching it becomes almost an inevitability. I do still enjoy it quite a bit when I do watch it, but it doesn't bother me if I miss it one year

Damn you! God! Damn you all to hell! @JohnnyShoulder @FuriousMachine

this appeared in my letter box yesterday, I wasn't even totally sure I had clicked 'buy' 😅

@Ravix Horribly poor release of a terrible movie. Bigger waste of money does not exist anywhere in the known multiverse. I wonder who might have tricked you into buying it. Must be some really bad people

@Ravix Hurrah! You can finally enjoy those inky OLED blacks! Hope you enjoy it, I can't remember if you have seen it it was so long ago we mentioned it.

EDIT: I don't think I've ever seen the artwork either, noice!

@FuriousMachine the literal scum of the earth. Even orange-faced fiddlers have more human qualities than the dastards in question.

@JohnnyShoulder I thought you had this one? 🙈 Arrow uses reversible artwork too, so it will have different art when the slip is flipped.

I think it is my 100th since restarting on the physical path (so says Brother Blu-ray.com) I believe there were warnings about this type of behaviour... but I have have watched and shared more movies this year than I would have with streaming services. The streaming fatigue was a very real hindrance to wanting to actually watch anything.

@Ravix It was I! I was the scum of the Earth who owned the Arrow release and spread propaganda about it on these very forums! Muahahaha!

@Ravix I all seriousness, though, I really hope you like it. Even if I think the movie is fantastic doesn't mean that you will, but fingers crossed. One thing is for sure and that is that Arrow has done a brilliant job putting that package together, so there's that at least Happy 100th!

(I also learned about myself that I hate that fat f***ing toddler so much that even comparisons made in jest made me slightly hot under the collar - only for a moment, but still... so now you know how to get to me, if you should need to in the future )

@Ravix Nah but i did rent the 4K disc before my rental service got cancelled.

I got the Trainspotting steelbook the other week and It Follows to go with it. Not seen the latter since it first came out, I do remember loving the soundtrack.

@FuriousMachine oof! I'd never mean that in any way that even remotely merged on the serious. And wow, i'm not sure i've ever seen you 'hot under the collar' before 😱 the film seems like it has everything I love in cinema, so even if it doesn't click it was always one worth trying.

@JohnnyShoulder Ah, I knew you were mostly responsible! But forgot about the rental thing

@Ravix No worries I was a bit surprised by my reaction myself, to be honest, even if it was just for a fleeting second before my conscious mind caught up with the reptile brain reaction. Just goes to show how that man has managed to get under my skin, I guess. We humans are weird creatures.
Even if you should find the movie lacking, I think you nonetheless will appreciate the cinematography, set design and a couple of truly imaginative shots. It has great atmosphere and the titular city feels both familiar and alien at the same time. And I've said it before, but bears repeating: It's a masterpiece in lighting dark scenes. Again, hope you'll enjoy

The Christmas horror movies are starting to drop for the season. Santa-N: The Red Awakening seems to be doing the rounds with a whopping three out of ten. I'm not sure I'm going to do it to myself, it looks dreadful. It's definitely no Krampus or the Dutch one for some years back called 'Saint'. Which was actually really well made, it's odd genre to even have but it's probably one of the best Christmas horror movies and I'm not sure that people even know it's a thing. There was also a pretty good Santa movie not too long ago, the same writer as Dead Snow called Violent Night, it was like Die-Hard but with Santa Claus. David Harbour was Santa, he voices games, and played Hellboy.

@FuriousMachine I imagine you know Dod Sno one and two? They are from your part of the world.

@GirlVersusGame Indeed I do
"Violent Night" shares the director of the "Død Snø" ("Dead Snow") movies, but has different writers.
Coincidentally, the director, Tommy Wirkola, is actually a friend of a friend. Wirkola's first proper movie was "Kill Buljo", a parody of Kill Bill and it started as a bunch of friends making a fake trailer for the (then non-existent) movie and my friend had a small part in that. When it came time to make a proper movie out of the concept, my friend's role was recast.

LONG LIVE THE TIN! <solemn bow>

@FuriousMachine I never even heard of that Kill Buljo parody but I love hearing people get a start like that. I really liked Dod Sno, it was right up there with Let the Right One In (Swedish Vampyre movie) It made it all the way to the UK not just Eastern Europe. I hadn't see that with many other Norwegian movies except maybe Troll. I don't think Lords of Chaos was actually filmed in Norway but obviously it followed MayheM so it was 'set' there. I know 'true' Black Metal fans complained about it but every 'true' Metal fan I've ever talked to has a problem with something. I think it could have been a lot worse, the director had only ever worked on music videos. It's a very hard switch to go from videos straight to actors.

@GirlVersusGame Norwegian movies rarely get any attention outside of Norway, the exception being Joachim Trier's efforts ("The Worst Person in the World" and "Sentimental Value" most recently) which are getting enough attention that he and his go-to star Renate Reinsve have both appeared on the US late night circuit (I think on maybe both Meyers and Colbert, maybe Fallon but unsure).
And, to be honest, there aren't really that many being made with a broad, mainstream international appeal (though there are many good ones, but the more mainstream ones are typically "very Norwegian" and the ones with international appeal are smaller, almost niche, movies).

"Troll" was an insult to movies in my eyes, but has garnered attention in Norway mostly because of the budget, high production value and effects (for a Norwegian movie), which for some Norwegians equals a good movie (in my opinion it is less of a movie and more of a collage of disaster and monster movie cliches and not even the good cliches). I believe the setting and subject matter was enough of a novelty for international audiences for it to get some attention there. A much, much, much better Norwegian troll movie is "Troll Hunter" from 2010. Highly recommended if you can track it down.

"Let the Right One In" is a spectacularly good vampire movie IMO and while the American remake is good also, it doesn't manage to quite reach the same highs as the Swedish one. The Swedes know their stuff