Saw āHail Caesarā last night Bearsy, Itās ok. Iām a Coen Bros fanboy, but it didnāt really work. Great cast and some sublime set pieces, and references to 50ās Hollywood. It just lacked a focus and drifted. Poor Coen Bros is still better than most dross 
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Play this and annoy Boris Johnson 
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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¦ Itās 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. Itās 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 childrenās 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 doesnāt want to know about fighting, etc. For a series called the Hobbit, Bilbo is not in it much, mostly relegated to telling Thorin heās 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 doesnāt 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 Bilboās story, and that is fairly shit. Jackson goes out of his way to link the films, so the last thing you see is Ian Holmās 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.
In much better news, I finally caught Dr Strangelove. Yes, I know itās crap to be 40 and not have seen it, but better late than never. Itās such a searing critique of the arms race, the influence of fearful speculation in military policy (mineshaft gap = fucking genius) and the then contemporary view that nuclear war was a war worth planning for, fighting and winning.
Sellars is magnificent in all his guises, all very different characters. My favourite has to be the eponymous Strangelove himself, clearly a gross exaggeration of characters like Werner Von Braun, the former Nazi scientist that ran the Apollo program.
The ending is sublime; ridiculous, poignant with perhaps one of the best song choices Iāve ever seen in a film.
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Just watched Left Behind āstarringā Nicholas Cage.
LOL.
Without doubt one of the biggest piles of shit I have ever seen.
Worth a watch if you want a laugh.
On not watching films until far too late in life, I finally got around to seeing Memento the other night. A really superb film that, like Nolanās other films, will stick with me.
Nolanās films are all superb in my opinion, but this really sets up his seeming obsession with identity and trust, which he followed through with The Prestige, Inception and, to an extent, Interstellar.
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I generally love Nolan films, but thought Interstellar was shite.
Speaking of shite films, just got back from watching The Revenant. My god is that a dull, ridiculous and bad film.
I like Leo, and he deserves an Oscar, but itās pathetic he got it for that. He basically got an Oscar for spitting an limping. Shame if that is the only film he wins an Oscar for, heās better than that.
Also, Tom Hardy cannot act. Almost every film he is in he is totally incomprehensible. I get heās all moody, and edgy and smouldering. But ffs man enumerate, cinema aināt cheap these days.
Bullshit film. If I had my coat with me Iād have walked home after 40 mins.
So to avoid the budget (Iāll get angry about it later) I went to the world premier of The Pass at Leicester Square Odeon. Part of the BFI Flare film festival. Russel Tovey plays one of the main characters - a footballer. It was a play at the Royal Court previously. Play and screen play written by an old mate of mine from Southampton.
They hope to release it in the UK in October. I recommend watching it. Quite a powerful film.
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Think Iāll pass.
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Is that the bro from Him & Her tho? I like him i might watch it now.
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I just looked it up tho & it sounds pretty gay. Iām deffo watching it now. What team does he play for?
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The other side.
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I like that Russel Tovey bro srs. Itās refreshing to see a gay bro on tv who isnāt ridiculously camp RIP
Originally posted by @KRG
Speaking of shite films, just got back from watching The Revenant. My god is that a dull, ridiculous and bad film.
Get a grip, KRG. Itās just not that bad. Itās not great - I probably wonāt watch it again for a while - but itās not bad either.
I guess big, manly films just aint your thing.
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**Room ** (2015) starts 7 years after a traditional RomCom ends. We arenāt subjected to the familiar Will They/Wonāt They genre-driven tropes, because itās already happened: theyāve fallen in love, moved in together, and are now settled into their traditional, gender assigned roles. She is the Stay-At-Home-Mom, and he is the Breadwinner. Both are beginning to begrudge their roles.
She, played impeccably by Brie Larsson, has become super-dependent on her Man, almost to the degree that it makes him seem controlling. This is not a modern, working, parent, this is a slobbish, lazy woman, either not willing or not capable of making any effort to support herself. Anything she wants, she expects her Man to supply, and he better bring it quick, and it better meet her specifications!
He (Sean Bridgers) is clearly tired of this, and is struggling to keep up with her demands. We get the sense that money is stretched thin, and that a breaking point is coming.
The third character in this play, and possibly a metaphor for their relationship, is their son, Jack (played by the super-annoying Jacob Trimblay). He has been completely smothered by his Mom, and is now having gender confusion issues. This is exacerbated when his Mom starts to use him as a weapon in her relationship. She poisons him against his father, telling his all sorts of frightful stories, and completely demonising the only positive male role model in his life. She clearly wanted a daughter, and if she canāt get one by birth, sheās determined to get one by proxy.
Finally, the husbandās financial difficulties result in a temporary loss of utilities, and his wife immediately abandons him and goes to live with her parents. Taking their son with her, natch. Fkn gold-digger.
The movie then makes a neat switch; it becomes all about the boyās gender issues: Will he stay as a girl, as his mother demands, or will he get a haircut, and become a Man, like his father?
I wonāt spoil how it ends, but given then overall mysogynist tone of this movie, you can probably guess!
BEARSYāS RATING:
I would give this movie 2 bones out of 5! It had some neat ideas, but I think they couldāve made the female character more sympathetic, and being the super-romantic that I am, I still think it wouldāve been more satisfying if our two lovers had got back together at the end RIP
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Fast Five on Film Four Freeview.
Iāve 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 wasnāt much better. I would like to bang Rose Byrne.
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