šŸ“½ Films I have seen

Yeah, reading Paps thing comparing 4 films, if youā€™re stuck in an office job, paticulalrly IT related then you must watch Office Space, we all know a Milton

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Office Space is my fucking life.

Loads of bosses? Check!
Onerous paperwork? Check!
ā€œCan you just go ahead andā€¦ā€ (aaaargh!) Check!

Iā€™m also about as credible on rap and hip hop as Michael Bolton.

Birdman. At turns minimal, pretentious, emotive and artsy. So right up my street, basically. A solid 8/10.

Unfortunately it loses 8 marks for featuring a scene in which Edward Norton (visibly aging - at bloody last) gets off with Emma Stone. No justice in this world.

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Woah. Watched this last night. Bucksā€™ review is pretty much spot on. Excellent film - loved it.

That scene wil stay with me for a while.

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Top man. Having read the brilliant reviews after watching it, I was fascinated to learn how the director fought to get funding for years. He resisted giving the big studios artistic control (they wanted to cut 30 minutes and make lots of other changes).

It could well become a cult film and I am planning to watch it again soon (though not that scene :astonished:).

Me and the Mrs started to watch Year One last night, the ā€œcomedyā€ with jack black and Michael cera from 2009. It was awful. Genuinely one of the worst things I have ever seen. We turned it off after half an hour and stared and the carpet instead, which was infinitely more amusing and entertaining.

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Has anyone seen that new Coen Bros movie? The trailer makes it look like Fun Movie, like Big Lebowski or i.e. O Bro Where Art Thou, but Iā€™m worry if I go see it, itā€™ll turn out to be one of their Other Sort Of Movies, which ainā€™t sposed to be Entertaining, cos theyā€™re mostly just trying to Learn you a Lesson.

Itā€™s like I was watching Inside Llewyn Davis last night cos it was on tv, and I think I understood it, i.e. there was that one scene where heā€™s driving through the snow and he sees a sign to where his son lives, and he knows heā€™s at crossroads, and needs to make a decision, but he doesnā€™t, he just keeps driving blindly into the snow, and even when it results in near car accident, he doesnā€™t realise heā€™s made a mistake. And I get that. Itā€™s sposed to be Metaphor for his Life, but if movie is gonna require using ur Brain to Figure Things Out, I would rather not do that in Cinema. I will do that at some point in future, when I happen to catch it on TV.

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fk you cunts, I shall watch it myself and Find Out. But if I go to the cinema and Learn Something, I will be v.angar, and I will be coming for you cunts srs.

Fucking cinema? You bender.

And watch Bone Tomahawk, Bearsy. Itā€™ll be right up your street.

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Finally got around to watching Argo. A tense, serious treatment of a very tumultuous time. Way to go, Mr Affleck. The scenes at the airport are something else.

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Totally this. Was excellent when I enjoyed it a couple of years back.

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Saw ā€œHail Caesarā€ last night Bearsy, Itā€™s ok. Iā€™m a Coen Bros fanboy, but it didnā€™t really work. Great cast and some sublime set pieces, and references to 50ā€™s Hollywood. It just lacked a focus and drifted. Poor Coen Bros is still better than most dross :slight_smile:

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Play this and annoy Boris Johnson :slight_smile:

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Okaaaaayyy.

Never saw that coming.

So Maze Runner is a Zombie Movie Franchise kick off? Ho hum. (Note to self - read more Teen Targetted Angst driven Literature)

Watched Runner on a plane while eating lunch (that or repeats of Top Gear - shouldda watched Top Gear repeats) - started to watch Scorch Trials - fell asleep.

Went to see Spotlight yesterday. Not the greatest film ever but you could have heard a pin drop at the end and it does what it sets out to do perfectly. Some really good performances in it too. Given the subject matter I can see why Morgan Freeman face showed that element of surprise when he read out the name of the best film oscar winner.

Anomalisa ā€¦ Itā€™s an animated movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is the most inventive and original writer in Hollywood. His last film tanked at the box office, so he had to make an animated film. Itā€™s genius though and simultaneously thought provoking and just stays with you after watching.

I finally caught the final episode of the Hobbit trilogy. What a pile of arse. I always had my doubts about Jackson turning a small childrenā€™s book into a three film epic. The first two films felt overlong, sure. This one, despite only being 2 and a half hours long, seemed the worst to me. It seems to suffer from having loads going on in some areas, and very little in others. For two thirds of the film, Thorin is just bonkers for the gold and doesnā€™t want to know about fighting, etc. For a series called the Hobbit, Bilbo is not in it much, mostly relegated to telling Thorin heā€™s being a nob or telling Thorin that orcs are on the way. He does have a big dilemma for much of the film, but even so, really doesnā€™t feel like his adventure at this point, which makes the end all the more baffling.

People moaned about the multiple endings of LotR. Personally, I felt it was the only way to do justice to all of the characters the film spends time on. By necessity, The Hobbit has to spend time on all of these other characters, but only really provides any closure to Bilboā€™s story, and that is fairly shit. Jackson goes out of his way to link the films, so the last thing you see is Ian Holmā€™s depiction of the same character answering the door to Gandalf.

Even the small book managed to tell us that Bard becomes the King of Dale, or that Dain becomes the new King Under The Mountain. These people are already in the film, FFS. Disappointed. Rant over.