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.
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.
Think Iāll pass.
Is that the bro from Him & Her tho? I like him i might watch it now.
I just looked it up tho & it sounds pretty gay. Iām deffo watching it now. What team does he play for?
The other side.
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.
**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
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.
Originally posted by @Bearsy
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.
Iāve 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 theyāre okay. I find weed helps. Wouldnāt go out of my way to watch one, but donāt 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
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
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, āhe 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, heās a bank robber. In the second movie, heās credited as āPimpā. In the third, heās 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 wasnāt much in it at all. Of anything. But it was ok enjoyable.
Without trawling all the way back through to see if itās 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 āchic 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.