this is the one directed by paul feig? with anna kendrick? I neet to watch this oneQuote:
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this is the one directed by paul feig? with anna kendrick? I neet to watch this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by hardiron4u
Rambo.
The original from 1982.
Great great movie!
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott,2017)
Ridley Scott is without doubt one of the best directors the UK has produced, but I doubt this garbage will be used to endorse that claim.
The very first Alien (1979) was well-written, well-acted and well-made, even if it is often remembered for inspiring more oral sex fantasies than film-goers had previously been aware of, courtesy of Sigourney Weaver in her spotlessly clean strip-me-and-lick-me underwear.
As with all the others in this whacked-out 'series', an insect has invaded human space because humans are incubators for its own generation. In reality, to take one example, mosquitoes drill into human flesh and in the process of sucking up our nutritious blood for their meal release thousands of spirochetes that head straight to the liver to thrive, and you don't even need to be a whisky man to send them clues. But they don't breed and burst out of a chest or a back, they just inflict malaria on the poor infected person, most commonly a child.
But, while Prometheus and Covenant pursue the 'origins of life' theory, I wonder if it so much more crude, and that the 'aliens' are stand-ins for immigrants, and that this whole enterprise has played on the 'fear of the other' where the 'other' is not a space alien, but a real person moving into a condo near you very soon. Whatever, the film is garbage, and as I assume Michael Fassbender did it for the money, I assume the nobodies in the rest of the cast were just relieved to get a job, even if they do only have two or three lines. Hell, for that kind of money I would do it.
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211 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 3/5
212 A Star Is Born 1937 Directed by William A. Wellman 3/5
213 A Star Is Born 1954 Directed by George Cukor 5/5
214 Nappily Ever After 2018 Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour 4/5
215 A Star Is Born 1976 Directed by Frank Pierson 5/5
jack reacher - never go back. solid thriller
(i think the tom cruise size reacher is more believable than the book version. reacher of the novels is a slightly less bronzed and more grizzled version of doc savage. he is the sort of bloke you see and think 'shit he is a bit of a big bloke and i bet he is handy - let's leave him alone. except in the books they don't. at least with tom cruise version you can see why people might want to mess with reacher).
captain america: winter soldier. thoroughly enjoyable. after the first wave of marvel films i stopped watching for a long period and now i am going back to them in no particular order (almost like collecting back issues). knowing what comes next it is interesting to see how they seed some ideas for a movie a few years down the line.
just wish the chaps in control of dc film properties would steal from marvel films and the bods doing dc tv series - because they are all doing it better than the dc films
both movies linked by cobie smulders.
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earthquake bird is based on a book i still have not read and is scheduled for release next year. got to see it last week thought and was kinda blown away- well- its like a sataoshi kon film done pure (i.e. not anime). really loved the paranoia and the earthquakey stuff-
girl doing translations in .jp hated the japanese dude (supposed to) loved the main girl (i'd fuck her) what else? music was good too. i think they'll change stuff around though.
anyone in san sebastian know of some good 2nd hand book stores? give me a shout!
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)
I am not a fan of del Toro's films, and this may be his worst, it doesn't matter. I paid £12 for it on blue ray and it is straight off to the charity shop next time I am in town, someone might like this pathetic fairy tale.
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216 The Tree of Life 2011 (Extended Cut) Directed by Terrence Malick 5/5
217 Eighth Grade 2018 Directed by Bo Burnham 4/5
218 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
219 His Trysting Place 1914 Directed by Charlie Chaplin 4/5
220 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 Directed by Travis Knight 4/5
220 Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town 2017 Directed by Christian Papierniak 4/5
221 West Side Story 1961 Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 3/5
222 Wings 1927 Directed by William A. Wellman 5/5
OCTOBER
223 Ant-Man and the Wasp 2018 Directed by Peyton Reed 4/5
224 Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways 2004 Directed by Victory Tischler-Blue 4/5
225 Prince of Foxes 1949 Directed by Henry King 2/5
226 Damsel 2018 Directed by David Zellner, Nathan Zellner 5/5
227 Sorry to Bother You 2018 Directed by Boots Riley 4/5
228 Crosby Stills Nash & Young - VH1 Legends Documentary 5/5
229 Union Pacific 1939 Directed by Cecil B. DeMille 4/5
230 Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 ‘Tagebuch einer Verlorenen’ Directed by G.W. Pabst 5/5
231 The Spy Who Dumped Me 2018 Directed by Susanna Fogel 4/5
232 Skyscraper 2018 Directed by Rawson Thurber 4/5
233 The Night Comes For Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5
234 The Night Comes for Us 2018 Directed by Timo Tjahjanto 5/5
zombies.
not very good, but does have an ending much like 'the mist' which gets them some kudos.
A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2019)
This is a tepid remake of a remake of a remake...I had heard of Lady Gaga before this but had never heard her sing, which as far as it goes is standard pop, the songs being pretty monotonous if also monotonously pretty, and her acting is sound as is that of Cooper. There are some unusually long takes for a film of this kind, so credit to Cooper for being brave with that, and also not loading the soundtrack with background music.
The problem is that the relationship between Jack and Ally does not follow the trajectory that was in the original, in which the capable manager who discovers raw talent becomes ever more possessive and jealous as his protege grows in popularity, attempting to transfer his self-destructive behaviour in a vindictive manner to her -forcing her to break free of his malign influence on her career.
In this film, Jakson is just another drink and drugs rock singer though he does't have an entourage that helps fuel his binges, just as he doesn't have any groupies in tow which is what we assume that kind of lifestyle to include. It means the central dynamic of the relationship lacks tension, confrontation, rage and violence, indeed Ally continues to love her man through to the end, with his own destruction to my mind lacking credibility. The film is also at least 20 minutes if not half an hour too long, but it is an ok experience otherwise, I would rate it 6/10. At least having heard Lady Gaga sing, I can ignore that part of her career for the rest of my life.
I have seen the 1954 version of A Star is Born. The relationship between Norman and Vicki followed a similar trajectory to the one you're talking about. But while Norman may have been a little jealous of Vicki, he never became possessive of her and he never transferred his self destructive behavior to her. Vicki also continues to love Norman until the end. There is this great scene where she is having a breakdown and she talks about love not being enough. But when its time to start filming again, she becomes the consummate professional and goes back to work as if nothing has happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
This video talks about the differences between the four films. From what I can tell, the relationship is about the same in 3 out of the 4 movies. The Streisand-Kristofferson being the lone exception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akaPSGMi03k
A fair post and I stand corrected, I was going on my memory of the version with Judy Garland which is clearly at fault. It doesn't change my view of this version, perhaps the harshest moment is when Ally is in the bathtub and Jack tells her she is ugly. I am just not convinced by Jack's character.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackchubby38
First Man..the moon landing by itself was worth it. It gave me chills.
back on my bsQuote:
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235 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016 Directed by Zack Snyder 4/5
236 Mile 22 2018 Directed by Peter Berg 2/5
237 BlacKkKlansman 2018 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
238 Malcolm X 1992 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
239 25th Hour 2002 Directed by Spike Lee 5/5
240 Juliet, Naked 2018 Directed by Jesse Peretz 5/5
241 The Meg 2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub 4/5
242 Madeline's Madeline (2018) directed by Josephine Decker 4/5
243 The Other Side of the Wind 2018 Directed by Orson Welles 5/5
244 They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead 2018 Directed by Morgan Neville 5/5
245 Easy Rider 1969 Directed by Dennis Hopper 3/5
246 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Directed by John Ford 4/5
247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5
249 Sheba, Baby 1975 Directed by William Girdler 3/5
250 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
251 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 2015 Directed by Stanley Nelson
252 Outlaw King 2018 Directed by David Mackenzie 2/5
253 Munich 2005 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
254 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Directed by Christopher McQuarrie 5/5
255 Mission: Impossible III 2006 Directed by J.J. Abrams 4/5
256 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011 Directed by Brad Bird 5/5
257 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 3/5
258 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 Directed by Jon M. Chu 2/5
259 The Happytime Murders 2018 Directed by Brian Henson 3/5
260 Peppermint 2018 Directed by Pierre Morel 4/5
261 The Deadly Affair (1966) directed by Sidney Lumet 4/5
262 Venom 2018 Directed by Ruben Fleischer 4/5
247 Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni 4/5
248 The French Connection 1971 Directed by William Friedkin 2/5
-Seriously? 4/5 for pretentious rubbish from Antonioni, 2/5 for a film with one of the best car chase sequenes on film! French Connection 1 is one of the best films ever made.
sorry bra. Ive seen like 30 movies with better car chase sequences than that crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Bohemian Rhapsody. Terrific performance by Rami Malek but I thought it had more of a Disney tragic feel good bio pic. They definitely skirted around his down low lifestyle to attract a wider audience
Name at least 5 of them so I can see if I disagree with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by josehip
Free Solo, the documentary about Alex Honnold, the man who climbed El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope. It is literally terrifying, the most exciting, scariest movie i have ever seen. You will want to hold your breath for the entire length of the movie. See it!
since most of the movie was made up and brian may is an asshole that thinks he matters and that anyone really gives a fuck him, I couldn't stand this movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torris
i weep to think what we missed out on with SBC in the role and an actual movie.
In his last days, Freddie is reported to have said to his manager, Jim Beach, “Do anything you want with my music dear, but never make me boring!” and unfortunately, that is exactly what this supposed biopic does.
30? Go on then, list them, but please don't bother with the Fast and Furious crap. Three to consider: Bullit, The French Connection 1, and Driver, because in all three the chase sequences are not just chases for the sake of some spectacular driving, but fit with the story, with the added factor of the stunt driver in The French Connection being the driver of the 'other car' in Bullit. Driver has the merit of being superbly edited and photographed with a stunning sequence in the warehouse at the end where the cars do what humans do in films set in similar locations. There are some fine sequences in the Bourne trilogy too -but 30 better? Hmmm.Quote:
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I just watched Love, Simon last night and it was so good.
Fast and Furious? Ew. Are you crazy?Quote:
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only five?Quote:
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The Driver (1978)
Mad Max
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Vanishing Point
The Getaway
The Driver (1978)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Mad Max
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Vanishing Point
The Getaway
Death Proof
Bullit
To Live and to day in LA
What's Up, Doc?
The Seven Ups
The original Gone in 60 Seconds
Ronin
Mad Max Fury Road
Jack Reacher
Mission Impossible Fallout
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Duel
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Smokey and Bandit.
These are some of the top of my head. I'm sure if I keep thinking I will remember more than 30.
Mad Max (and all in the 'franchise'), Smokey and the Bandit, Death Proof - three films that can be dismissed as the rubbish that they are. To elevate such dross to the status of film would be to assassinate culture iteself.
Again, I come back to my point: why is there a car chase sequence, does it add to the narrative of the film or is it just as excuse to show off someone's driving skills? When you think of that you will understand why Bullit and Driver are in the top quartile and why some of the films on your list don't make the cut at all.
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263 Halloween 2018 Directed by David Gordon Green 2/5
264 The Predator 2018 Directed by Shane Black 4/5
265 Skate Kitchen 2018 Directed by Crystal Moselle 3/5
266 The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2018 Directed by Desiree Akhavan 4/5
267 Disobedience 2017 Directed by Sebastián Lelio 4/5
268 But I’m a Cheerleader 1999 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
269 The Intervention 2016 Directed by Clea DuVall 5/5
270 Green Room 2015 Directed by Jeremy Saulnier 5/5
271 Addicted to Fresno 2015 Directed by Jamie Babbit 4/5
271 Duck Butter 2018 Directed by Miguel Arteta 4/5
272 Everybody Knows 2018 Directed by Asghar Farhadi 4/5
273 Assassination Nation 2018 Directed by Sam Levinson 5/5
274 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Directed by John Carpenter 3/5
275 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Directed by Joseph Sargent 2/5
276 Friday Foster 1975 Directed by Arthur Marks 4/5
277 Gimme Danger 2016 Directed by Jim Jarmusch 4/5
278 Training Day 2001 Directed by Antoine Fuqua 3/5
279 A Simple Favor 2018 Directed by Paul Feig 5/5
280 Night School 2018 Directed by Malcolm D. Lee 2/5
281 Lizzie 2018 Directed by Craig Macneill 5/5
281 First Man 2018 Directed by Damien Chazelle 1/5
283 The House That Jack Built 2018 Directed by Lars von Trier 5/5
284 Private Life 2018 Directed by Tamara Jenkins 4/5
284 Bad Moms 2016 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 4/5
285 A Bad Moms Christmas 2017 Directed by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 3/5
286 Bird Box 2018 Directed by Susanne Bier 4/5
287 Captain Fantastic 2016 Directed by Matt Ross 3/5
288 Under the Silver Lake 2018 Directed by David Robert Mitchell 4/5
289 The Sisters Brothers 2018 Directed by Jacques Audiard 4/5
290 Bayonetta: Bloody Fate 2013 Directed by Fuminori Kizaki 3/5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. New from the Coen brothers ,Premiering on Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2PyxzSH1HM
BlackkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Spike Lee has turned a real life story into a feeble attempt to link events from the 1970s to contemporary America. He would have been better advised either to film the story, or make a documentary, in fact I think he could make an incendiary documentary that would get people talking in a positive way.
The script is poor, the acting laughable, both from the wooden Adam Driver to the cartoon Klansmen who are mostly either retarded or unhinged. Spike Lee is such an irritating director, loads of talent, but often lacking in focus, or too obsessed with his subject.
Spike Lee is a fucking moron and an anti-white racist.
A view that tells us more about you than it does about Spike Lee.Quote:
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I like some of his films, not others, but he is clearly a gifted director so to call him a 'moron' is juvenile. The issue of race cannot be ignored, neither in the UK nor the US, and if Spike Lee makes provocative films, that is his choice, but perhaps he needs to if these issues are to be discussed, as indeed happened with his film Do the Right Thing (1989) which remains one his best. By offering a black view on race, he is not making films to make you or anyone else comfortable, though he has also made light-hearted films too. And if he is an 'anti-white racist' why has he made so many films with established white actors?
I watched Three Identical Strangers the other day. Very powerful and well made documentary, but quite disturbing.
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291 Bad Times at the El Royale 2018 Directed by Drew Goddard 4/5
292 Mid90s 2018 Directed by Jonah Hill 3/5
293 Paddington 2 2017 Directed by Paul King 4/5
294 Claire’s Camera 2017 ‘La caméra de Claire’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
295 The Cabin in the Woods 2012 Directed by Drew Goddard 4/5
296 Black Christmas 1974 Directed by Bob Clark 5/5
297 Yourself and Yours 2016 ‘당신자신과 당신의 것’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo 5/5
298 First Man 2018 Directed by Damien Chazelle 4/5
299 Toni Erdmann 2016 Directed by Maren Ade 5/5
300 Transformer 2018 Directed by Michael Del Monte 4/5
301 Oki’s Movie 2010 Directed by Hong Sang-soo 4/5
302 Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc 2017 ‘Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 5/5
303 The Trial of Joan of Arc 1962 ‘Procès de Jeanne d'Arc’ Directed by Robert Bresson 5/5
305 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 1999 ‘Joan of Arc’ Directed by Luc Besson 5/5
306 Saint Joan 1957 Directed by Otto Preminger 2/5
306 Breathless 1960 ‘À bout de souffle’ Directed by Jean-Luc Godard 5/5
307 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 ‘Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
308 The Old Man & the Gun 2018 Directed by David Lowery 4/5
309 Let the Sunshine In 2017 ‘Un beau soleil intérieur’ Directed by Claire Denis 4/5
310 The Apartment 1960 Directed by Billy Wilder 3/5
(FINISHED LAST YEAR WITH 310 MOVIES)
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Janeiro, 2019
1 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 ‘Le fantôme de la liberté’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 4/5
2 Un Chien Andalou 1929 Directed by Luis Buñuel 5/5
3 Paris Belongs to Us 1961 ‘Paris nous appartient’ Directed by Jacques Rivette 5/5
4 L’Age d’Or 1930 ‘L'âge d'or’ Directed by Luis Buñuel 4/5
5 Out 1, noli me tangere 1971 Directed by Jacques Rivette 5/5
6 Runaway 2018 Directed by Maja Vrvilo 4/5
7 Calypso 2018 Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi 5/5
8 The Brightest Star 2018 Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski 3/5
9 The Escape Artist 2018 Directed by Rainn Wilson 5/5
10 Antoine and Colette 1962 ‘Antoine et Colette’ Directed by François Truffaut 3/5
11 Wildlife 2018 Directed by Paul Dano 4/5
12 Leave No Trace 2018 Directed by Debra Granik
13 Reign of the Supermen 2019 Directed by Sam Liu 4/5
14 The Death of Superman 2018 Directed by Jake Castorena, Sam Liu 2/5
15 Minding the Gap 2018 Directed by Bing Liu 4/5
16 The Girl in the Spider’s Web 2018 Directed by Fede Alvarez 3/5
17 Suspiria 2018 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 5/5
18 Tig Notaro: Happy To Be Here 2018 Directed by Tig Notaro 4/5
19 Widows 2018 Directed by Steve McQueen 3/5
20 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 Directed by Bryan Singer 4/5
21 Aquaman 2018 Directed by James Wan 4/5
22 A Star Is Born 2018 Directed by Bradley Cooper 2/5
23 Cold War 2018 ‘Zimna wojna’ Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski 5/5
24 Climax 2018 Directed by Gaspar Noé 5/5
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Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
This nice, gentle film is about a 17-18 year old girl in Sacramento who negotiates the route out of her High School and Family to university in New York, even though she shows little aptitude for academic work of any kind. It is a nice film with flawless acting from Laurie Metcalf (one of the original members of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago) and Saoirse Ronan, and really nice is all one can say, though not nice enough for Australia which censored the film because of bad language (in Australia!).
NETFLIX's "IO"..
I WISH! Did you? I watched 2-2-1-3. I love the whole thing.Quote:
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Velvet Buzzsaw. Disappointing movie. Jake Gyllenhaal's great performance couldn't even save it.
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
This film was broadcast on Film 4 last night, and I didn't think I would last more than five minutes with its ghastly screaming queens, but ended up, in a manner of speaking, hooked to the end. I don't know if this is an accurate depiction of the chaotic, feral life many young transgenders live, the taxi driver with an obsession is probably closer to true life than many men would admit, and it does no favours to that part of West Hollywood I assume it was shot in -some of it on an Apple iPhone. One could attempt to insert morals, but the film does not, preferring to state matters of fact rather than hint at any judgement of the characters involved, all of whom are believabe. I understand a tangerine is a gift Americans give to each other on Christmas Eve -? never heard of this before- and while there is no tangerine in the film (unless it is on the dinner tabe in the taxi driver's aparment), in a touching moment at the end of the film when the two main characters are done arguing with each other, one offers the other the loan of her wig. The absurd made rational, the cold reality of life on the streets given, perhaps temporary, warmth.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3824458...ef_=tt_dt_spec