šŸ“½ Films I have seen

Fast Five on Film Four Freeview.

Iā€™ve never seen a Fast & Furious film before, but I was short of options cos of Hotel Freeview RIP. Do people really enjoy this bilge? I only made it about 10 mins. The opening scene, when they want to free Vin Diesel from prison and come up with the clever plan of following him out into the desert, and then ramming the prison bus with their sports cars, upset me v.badly.

So I turned over and watched a film called The Internship on Other Channel. It wasnā€™t much better. I would like to bang Rose Byrne.

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Originally posted by @Bearsy

Fast Five on Film Four Freeview.

Iā€™ve never seen a Fast & Furious film before, but I was short of options cos of Hotel Freeview RIP. Do people really enjoy this bilge? I only made it about 10 mins. The opening scene, when they want to free Vin Diesel from prison and come up with the clever plan of following him out into the desert, and then ramming the prison bus with their sports cars, upset me v.badly.

So I turned over and watched a film called The Internship on Other Channel. It wasnā€™t much better. I would like to bang Rose Byrne.

Iā€™ve seen a few of them, not necessarily in sequence. They are Big Dumb Films with cars in them, basically. If you like cars, and like seeing cars doing insane stuff, then theyā€™re okay. I find weed helps. Wouldnā€™t go out of my way to watch one, but donā€™t actually mind them that much when I do.

One thing I never liked about Paul Walker (RIP) was his aural similarity to Keanu Reeves.

Jupiter Rising.

So close but so - oh dear.

It reminded me of a classic Sci Fi Soap Opera, the type that fills 1000+ pages in a Novel and breeds 5 or more sequels creating a Universe (reminded me of Peter F Hamilton).

So on that score it was a great film and concept.

Except it needed about 4 or 5 Series on TV to tell the story properly, so what could have been a classic Sci Fi movie was cropped into a Disneyland ride crock of shit, made worse by Channing big Ears Tatum showing why he should go back to being a Male Stripper.

What a missed opportunity that was.

Still, it is worth watching with a TV Dinner for some of the action and Mila Kunis is watcheable in anything

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I went & saw 10 Cloverfield Lane in the Cinemas. It was Quite Good. It had good Dramas, and only the last 10 mins was capeshit. I was tote facepalming the pre-film trailers tho, it was capeshit, capeshit, capeshit RIP

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I have been watching the Dirty Harry films. I quite like Dirty Harry. He is rude to his bosses, ruthless with perps and as Homer Simpson might shout, ā€œhe gets results, you stupid chiefā€.

Watching the movies, I kept noticing a specific actor. He has been in all three so far, and in all cases, pretty much plays the most prominent black guy in each movie. In the first movie, heā€™s a bank robber. In the second movie, heā€™s credited as ā€œPimpā€. In the third, heā€™s the leader of a black activist cell. His name is Albert Popwell. He died in 1999. RIP.

Now do I give the film makers the benefit of the doubt, and assume that this is some unwritten character arc buried deep in the tapestry of another legend, or do I conclude that they only knew one black bro and thought that the audience would never notice the similarity?

Watched Bridge of Spies last night. It was quite good. There was no sex in it and hardly any swearing. In fact, there wasnā€™t much in it at all. Of anything. But it was ok enjoyable.

Without trawling all the way back through to see if itā€™s already been suggested, I absolutely love this film. Watched it again last night:

ok?

I watched Brooklyn the other week. Maybe would be classed as ā€œchic flickā€ but about a young Irish woman moving to New York in the 1950s. I quite enjoyed it.

also watched Lilting which is about a Cambodian woman in a older persons home and her son has recently died. She was not aware that he was gay and his partner tries to build a relationship. Some subtitles. Great film.

Originally posted by @Intiniki

Lilting which is about a Cambodian woman in a older persons home and her son has recently died. She was not aware that he was gay and his partner tries to build a relationship. Some subtitles.

That sounds like a movie designed to repel bears. The only thing missing is an original soundtrack by Peter Andre.

Itā€™s weird that they didnā€™t subtitle the whole film. Is it easy to follow in the bits without subtitles?

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Timbuktu. About the affect of Islamists on daily life (and beyond) in Mali. Iā€™m not going to review as I donā€™t do that well. It was interesting though and worth watching.

Not for Bears as you need to be able to read for this one.

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Green Room. Fucking superb. Suspenseful, well acted and wickedly funny. Go see it!

I like it when all them butterflies come out of the big black bloke.

i watched Star Wars yesterday. It was pretty good.

Originally posted by @SuperMikey

Green Room. Fucking superb. Suspenseful, well acted and wickedly funny. Go see it!

Will do. Itā€™s had great reviews.

Angry Birds - it was an OK way to spend an hour. Few jokes for the adults a couple of which were actually really funny. My 3 year old loved it and always nice to see him laugh.

The Man from UNCLE is a better film than my sources led me to expect. I rather enjoyed it. I recommend it to Bros.

Zootropolis with mini Abandon - sassy, witty and a good message - recommend for those with kids 8-50

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yeah i thought that one was gd too, gay.

In other news, Iā€™ve watched the film Spy (2015) three times now. Itā€™s not art or whatever, but itā€™s a v.likeable film. Itā€™s similar in tone to that True Lies film, except without the spank scene where Jamie Lee Curtis Strips Off.

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Cut Bank

Should be on Satellite now.

Liam Hemsworth acting and John Malkovich being himself as usual.

A classic old fashioned thriller, following a trail of unintended consequences set in a Mid West no hope town where nothing ever happens

Even a moment that pays some kind of homage to Psycho.

ā€œI want my Parcel.ā€

Really good entertainment, yes you think you can get the storyline/twist after about 10 minutes. Anything else I say would be spoilers.

Low Budget well written, Iā€™d say half as good as a True Detective episode Bear