Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

nick_md

Bond should be either ridicous and camp, or cold war spy.

mistercrayon

Belko experiment.

Spoiler:

2/6 stars.

Dark Soldier

Get Out
Yet another film hyped beyond its means. The horror aspect is middling, bar a couple of earlier stand out moments. The lead and Keener are good. Its an average popcorn flick, all told.

Spoiler:

Its also chock full of plot holes, it feels more thriller than horror and despite the solid opening 45 and the cliche as fuck best mate, it shites the bed completely in the latter half.

If Shyamalan had made this, it'd be lolled out the park.

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jdanielp

I marshalled several thousand bike riders past one of the massive light rigging cranes for Infinity War on Edinburgh's Royal Mile earlier on this afternoon.

JonB

Logan was not bad. It's a nice take on the genre and makes for a good tonal shift. It's too long though, and takes very predictable turns towards the end. Plus it needs better villains.

Tempy

Skull Island has tons of really fun monsters and colourful set pieces in but I am desperately trying to find some kind of sequences of events or hook to keep me invested but it just seems to be random and colourfel scenes thrown together. Like they came up with lots of shots and sequences first, and then tried to string a narrative around them. That's how they wrote Rogue One as well.

Paul the sparky

Brie Larson's tits. There's your hook.

Tempy

Heh

Paul the sparky

I can't find a gif of the fishing hook scene from There's Something About Mary, but let's just pretend I did and then posted it here. Cheers.

Tempy

Excellent.

Anyway, nice and colourful and lots of monsters but I don't think they had any idea where they wanted to take that story. I couldn't tell you the name of a single character. Although I am very tired so that might have something to do with that too.

Paul the sparky

Nah, they were pretty irrelevant to the whole show. I agree that it was just an excuse for some mad scenes, but it worked a whole lot better here than Rogue One did. Probably my expectations going in to both were different.

I was expecting a boring shitfest in the mold of the most recent Godzilla going into Kong and was pleasantly surprised by how fun it was.

ShabbyMcCrabby

three1ne wrote:

10 mins into I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

Netflix Original. Delicious so far.

Anyone seen?

Been meaning to. Sounded interesting

Gremill

I liked both the recent Godzilla and Rogue One (which I watched again last week and enjoyed again) - so there you go. I also watched Fantastic Beasts again and also enjoyed it. So that there's the news.

poprock

I watched Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children over the weekend. Fucking dark for a kid’s film, isn’t it?

Quite an impressive cast too. Eva Green was her amazing self, Judi Dench likewise. Samuel L Jackson went full cartoon. Not a bad way to spend a couple of hours. Pleasant.

(Fantastic Beasts was the better film though, so wins the title of ‘top kids movie 2016’.)

Verecocha

regmcfly wrote:

Holy shit the first trailer for Lily Aminpour's new movie is out and it's full on wtf. Summary for ~~When Verecochas Ruled The Earth~~ The Bad Batch below -

Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, and Keanu Reeves star in this post-apocalyptic future set tale about a young woman who falls in with a group of savage and gym body-obsessed cannibals in the Texas wastelands. The film opens on June 23rd.

Trailer -

https://youtu.be/4aJeVSMaf20

VERECOCHAS ASSEMBLE!!!!

Kow

That looks like Zack Snyder levels of utter shit.

[Deleted User]

Yup.

Dinostar77

Question about the recent space movie LIFE.
There is a suggestion that the movie is a

Spoiler:

mannaboy

Nah, that was a 'wouldn't it be cool if it was' interview response from the makers of the movie, but no real intent to do that.

FranticPea

Moana. Just wonderful. The chicken stole the show.

Olimite

Tempy wrote:

Excellent.

Anyway, nice and colourful and lots of monsters but I don't think they had any idea where they wanted to take that story. I couldn't tell you the name of a single character. Although I am very tired so that might have something to do with that too.

I felt the same. Was rooting for the monsters.

regmcfly

I watched Now You See Me 2 with my wife last night as she was feeling poorly. It is as dumb as a bag of hammers. I was amiable to the goofiness but it's not a good film. Felt the same about the first.

In other news, GOTG2 reviews are dropping. Only read 3-4 of the big ones but it seems that everyone is saying exactly the same thing -

Spoiler:

Reviews - http://www.metacritic.com/movie/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2

Tempy

I liked some of the monsters but not the Skull Crawlers (although that line delivery was a highlight)

Moana was also good, I agree.

I watched Logan as well last night. My only minor issue is that there's a bit of a lull in the pacing before the final act but that's a pretty minor sin.

It is nice having time to watch shit again. I think between the film festival and handing in my dissertation I watched one film.

regmcfly

FranticPea wrote:

Moana. Just wonderful. The chicken stole the show.

I think the songs in that movie are amazing

FranticPea

Indeed. Going to watch again this weekend with Mrs Pea. My lad absolutely adored it.

bad_hair_day

Looked amazeballs in 3D, particularly the water.

poprock

Tempy wrote:

It is nice having time to watch shit again. I think between the film festival and handing in my dissertation I watched one film.

I meant to say over on Twitter – the Film Festival are banging on about wanting applicants now for the student reviewer/ambassador roles in 2017. I reckon you probably still qualify, by having been a student part of the year (and still being one until you get your certificate etc).

Best thing about it would be industry contacts, I think. You get assigned a mentor.

Tempy

Aye I saw that, I am going to apply for the Edinburgh Film Festival one for sure, find it weird that you have to put your age on it though.

regmcfly

Here's some glorious idiocy - Mark Hamill doing the voice of Han Solo on a Bad Lip Reading. Makes the movie so much better.

https://youtu.be/Sv_hGITmNuo

RamSteelwood

regmcfly wrote:

Here's some glorious idiocy - Mark Hamill doing the voice of Han Solo on a Bad Lip Reading. Makes the movie so much better. https://youtu.be/Sv_hGITmNuo

Amazing.

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