šŸ“½ Films I have seen

Itā€™s not a traditional Hollywood movie. Especially, the narrative isnt a traditional revenge story. Itā€™s more of a cinematic experience, you have to watch it on the big screen.

Itā€™s stunning from a camera point of view that only natural light was used

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How so?

Man kills other manā€™s son. Man follows killer relentlessly. Man kills killer.

It reminded me a bit of ā€˜A Man Called Horseā€™ right down to the ripping off of the recovery in the steamy tent scene. Maybe that was what the ā€˜being born from a dead horseā€™ scene was all about.

I thought it was very good.

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I thought it was very good.

Donā€™t get me wrong, I enjoyed it and itā€™s got a lot going for it.

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Donā€™t know how many on here use a vpn to get e most out of Netflix, but I just watched '71 on the Canadian Netflix. Itā€™s an excellent film starring the always outstanding Jack oā€™Connell as a squaddie in Northern Ireland getting trapped and injured in a hostile part of Belfast during the height of the violence.

It does a good job keeping a pretty neutral stance on the politics, portraying both parts as having a cause, but being riddled with internal problems and separations. Very tense and well worth watching.

If youā€™ve got kids, for some reason Netherlands Netflix is miles ahead of all the others. Theyā€™ve already got Inside Out, a superb animation that was still on at the cinema last month.

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Great practical advice - and there are plenty of VPN solutions out there you can get for very cheap money. Think I pay $40 a year.

Shite that you have to do it, though.

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Get Hard

I was not expecting muchā€¦ and I was fucking right not to.

Now this is a blast from the past - tidying up old stuff came across old VHSsrecorded from the TV. Found a copy of ā€˜Salvadorā€™. James Woods at his best in what is a tough film to watch but compelling nonetheless. Will try and dig out the old video player and a scart converter and see if it will still play.

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Originally posted by @TedMaul

Itā€™s not a traditional Hollywood movie. Especially, the narrative isnt a traditional revenge story. Itā€™s more of a cinematic experience, you have to watch it on the big screen.

How so?

Man kills other manā€™s son. Man follows killer relentlessly. Man kills killer.

It reminded me a bit of ā€˜A Man Called Horseā€™ right down to the ripping off of the recovery in the steamy tent scene. Maybe that was what the ā€˜being born from a dead horseā€™ scene was all about.

I do know what you mean and itā€™s a trend with modern directors to ignore story and character based stuff and focus on this visual experience. Gravity was lauded, rightly. But at the same time itā€™s almost like a theme park ride.

Not a film, but Iā€™ve recently watched Oliver Stoneā€™s Untold History of the United States. Superb documentary series, which not only shows the big turning points of the USā€™ post-war history, but also shows how interested Stone has been in the subject throughout. His entire career has been about documenting that period in movie form; Salvador is one of the many films from his own career that he is able to use.

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Watched x+y last night and really enjoyed it.

Itā€™s a UK production (BBC funded I think) that follows an autistic boyā€™s dream to compete in the Mathsā€™ Olympiad.

Some wonderful young actors playing the parts of kids on the autistic spectrum, and Rafe Spall is superb as the depressed, MS-suffering teacher who tries to inspire the young lad.

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You have to watch ā€œRoomā€ SaintBletch ā€¦ Jacob Tremblay is just his character. Just an amazing performance. I really canā€™t recommend too much.

Bree Larson should win best actress oscar. I never know if its Bree or Brie? Or my love of soft french cheese gets in the way.

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I watched Ex Machina and enjoyed it.

Wow, how much fun is Kingsman? (On our movie channel last night)

It even takes the piss out of itself forbeing a parody of early James Bond films, and Samuel L Jackson with a lispā€¦ classic

In fact it probably is as close to what JB might have become IF Jason Bourne hadnā€™t turned up (and yes, loved that little call the dog JB joke as well) or possibly how an Austin Powers movie could have been if Mike Myers didnā€™t overactā€¦

Very well worth watching over a TV dinner, and the Land of Hope & Glory scene has to be up there amongst movie tasteless bad joke cartoon comedy grossness classics.

ā€œIf you save the world you can *&^& my assholeā€ may not have been EXACTLY what the Swedish Princess said, but it has to go down as one of the best misheard lines in a movie.

Great old fashioned tosh that entertained for almost two hours.

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I watched Joy yesterday. Not my sort of movie but very well acted and put together.

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