Topic: The Movie Thread

@MightyDemon82 Only last year's "28 Years Later" is required viewing before "The Bone Temple", as this is a direct continuation of that film. The other two are highly optional as there are no references between them (with one tiny exception, which I will not reveal here, but rest assured, you will not have missed anything should you see these two without having refreshed your memory of "..days.." and "...weeks..:" - fun aside, when you wrote "28 Months Later", I did a double take: How did I completely forget about that one? Turns out, I didn't, "... months..." was never made )

Having said all that, I would absolutely recommend watching them all beforehand, should you feel like it.

I used to not enjoy massages either; my main issue was that I got too self conscious about it, but I got over that a few years ago. So, when I decided to try a spa type massage a little over a year ago to loosen up some intensely knotted shoulders, I got hooked. The place I go to has an incredible relaxed atmosphere and ambience, so not only do I loosen up, but for the hour I'm in there everything Trump, tense geopolitics, work stress and health worries simply evaporate and I come out truly refreshed. It is insanely addictive, though, and I'd probably stay in there forever if I could

Hope you'll enjoy "The Housemaid"; high literature it ain't, but not everything has to be 🙂

I'll permit myself to remain off topic a little bit more: Do you remember what your favourite game for the console was? Or one that stands out in your memory for some reason?

@FuriousMachine Ah it was weeks, not months haha. That's how long it's been, for some reason I thought it was called months and not weeks.

My wife goes for massages quite often and tries to convince me to get one. Maybe like yourself one day i'll give it a go.

I have fond memories of the baseball game just because of the celebration animations and beeps and boops...

I'd spend hours playing this with family and friends and I'm not much of a sports fan.

@MightyDemon82 There are references to the first film in 28 Years Later. The ending of 28 Weeks Later is ignored in 28 Years Later. I'm not sure if 28 Weeks Later is considered canon as it was not a Danny Boyle/Alex Garland film.

I watched the first two before the third film and enjoyed them both. 28 Days Later is one of my all time faves, so will take something really exceptional to beat that. 28 Weeks Later I did not think was awful, but nowhere near as good as the first film.

@JohnnyShoulder Ok thanks, "28 Days Later" Is on BBC iPlayer, i'll maybe watch it this weekend.

@MightyDemon82 You haven't seen the first one yet? You are in for a treat, it's one of Cillian Murphy's best movies. And probably one of Danny Boyle's best pieces of work, I think Shallow Grave was his first movie I saw then Trainspotting then 28 Days Later. I saw Dog Soldiers for the first time that day too, I was making my way through a lot of British movies in bulk. 28 Days Later is absolutely brilliant.

I watched a really bad movie from 1995 called 'The Demolitionist'. It's another one of those Robocop knock-offs this time with a female officer who's brought back to life to fight bad guys. It's special in that it was directed by Robert Kurtzman of KNB Effects. His effects house has done everything from Men in Black, Spawn, From Dusk till Dawn and John Carpenter's Vampyres. One of his first movies was Evil Dead 2 so people definitely know his work. It's full of cameos too, even one by Tom Savini (Effects Artist for The Thing, Robocop, Dawn of The Dead and a bunch of others) Bruce Campbell manages to sneak in there too. I'm going to watch the Cyborg movies next (Van Damme) then maybe a really good independent British sci-fi movie called Hardware.

@Metonymy You'd really like Hardware. It was mentioned in filmschool too, that's how I found it. It's also featured in the The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, both the London and New York Editions.

@GirlVersusGame I have but only the once when it came out 24 years ago. I've also seen "28 Weeks Later", but can't remember it quite so much. Might have only been half watching it at the time.

I might have to watch those "Hardware" especially looks great.

@MightyDemon82 It's really good but so few people know about it. You might call it Cyberpunk almost, definitely apocalyptic too. It was originally going to be a simple Terminator knock-off but the team turned it into something really special. Both Lemmy and Iggy Pop have cameos. If you know the UK Band Public Image? 'this is what you want, this is what you get', Johnny Rotten's band. That movie was the first time I heard them.

I just checked my copy and it came with art cards and a booklet that features notes from the production and some comic panels. I should really listen to that commentary and watch his Super 8 shorts, the documentary too.