Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

g.man

Wild at Heart for me.

Dinostar77

nick_md wrote:

Who's deciding that all these alien things are canon?

The people who own the rights I.e the studio.

WorKid

g.man wrote:

Wild at Heart for me.

Yes.

nick_md

Velvet, Drive, Highway. Head and Heart bubbling just under.

I need to watch Man and Empire.

nick_md

Dinostar77 wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Who's deciding that all these alien things are canon?

The people who own the rights I.e the studio.

Well they're the last people to trust!

Tempy

nick_md wrote:

Velvet, Drive, Highway. Head and Heart bubbling just under.

I need to watch Man and Empire.

Straight Story is excellent too

Scout

Dinostar77 wrote:

Aliens: River of Pain: Not a film or tv show but an audiodrama, with a full cast. I've finally finished it. Takes place just before the start of Aliens and goes into the first act of Aliens (when Ripley and the Colonial Marines go to LV-426). It covers the story of the colonists who discover the crashed ship that Ripley found in Alien (1). I've never listened to an audiodrama before, this was superb. As its canon for the Alien universe timeline it fleshes out the colonists and colonial marines stationed at lv-426. It would make a very good movie. Makes me want to go back and watch Aliens again now. Now onto the next canon audiodrama: Alien: Out of Shadows. Covers the events of what happen to Ripley after the end of Alien when she went to sleep in the hyper sleep chamber and before shes found 57 years later and taken to gateway station.

How long are these Dino? Might be a nice way to kill some of my 8 hour train journey next week.

nick_md

Tempy wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Velvet, Drive, Highway. Head and Heart bubbling just under.

I need to watch Man and Empire.

Straight Story is excellent too

Ah yeah seen, just the once. I may rewatch in a lynch-binge running up to tp season end.

Dinostar77

Scout wrote:

Dinostar77 wrote:

Aliens: River of Pain: Not a film or tv show but an audiodrama, with a full cast. I've finally finished it. Takes place just before the start of Aliens and goes into the first act of Aliens (when Ripley and the Colonial Marines go to LV-426). It covers the story of the colonists who discover the crashed ship that Ripley found in Alien (1). I've never listened to an audiodrama before, this was superb. As its canon for the Alien universe timeline it fleshes out the colonists and colonial marines stationed at lv-426. It would make a very good movie. Makes me want to go back and watch Aliens again now. Now onto the next canon audiodrama: Alien: Out of Shadows. Covers the events of what happen to Ripley after the end of Alien when she went to sleep in the hyper sleep chamber and before shes found 57 years later and taken to gateway station.

How long are these Dino? Might be a nice way to kill some of my 8 hour train journey next week.

5 hours for the first book. I think second is about the same length.

Tempy

nick_md wrote:

Tempy wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Velvet, Drive, Highway. Head and Heart bubbling just under.

I need to watch Man and Empire.

Straight Story is excellent too

Ah yeah seen, just the once. I may rewatch in a lynch-binge running up to tp season end.

I think the only ones I am hazy on are Lost Highway and Inland Empire, both of which I started and fell asleep watching (a rarity for me) and then woke up to some weirdness or other and was too freaked out to continue

Scout

@Dino

Nice. Think I'll grab one.

regmcfly

Tempy wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Tempy wrote:

nick_md wrote:

Velvet, Drive, Highway. Head and Heart bubbling just under.

I need to watch Man and Empire.

Straight Story is excellent too

Ah yeah seen, just the once. I may rewatch in a lynch-binge running up to tp season end.

I think the only ones I am hazy on are Lost Highway and Inland Empire, both of which I started and fell asleep watching (a rarity for me) and then woke up to some weirdness or other and was too freaked out to continue

Lost highway is my personal preference due to reznor and general 1997 vibe but I am also well aware of its shortcomings

Raiziel

Someone watch Inland Empire again for me so I don't have to. I remember that being hard work to get through, though a part of me still thinks it would be a good idea to rewatch it sometime.

Mulholland Drive is his best. The Elephant Man makes me cry. Fire Walk With Me is bobbins.

regmcfly

Watched the shallows for some bobbins fun. It certainly was that. Yet man Collet Serra does a good line in B Movies what with the House of Wax, that Neeson plane one and Orphan. Anyway, daftness for a bit and then a denouement that had me actually guffaw out loud. Worse ways to spend 86 minutes for sure

JonB

Last night watched Kidnap, a chase/thriller thing with Halle Berry which was basically crap but still quite gripping once it got going.

Then tonight was Colossal, which was good fun for a while and then took a surprising direction that I think was still quite decent.

trippy

Trainspotting 2 - they apparently waited years for the actors to age and the stars to align but they had nothing interesting for them to do or say. Instead they shamelessly played the nostalgia card. The bits of the first film that they didn't ape or reference were literally just shown again, until every last scene had been regurgitated, shat on and kicked to death.

The 'choose life' speech was incredibly obvious shit and so awkwardly introduced it was painful. The bit where Renton was on the car roof was unbelievably crap, especially the laughing over the bonnet at the end. The women barely get to speak but at least the attractive young one with the inexplicable lust for former junkies got her tits out, eh lads?

The ending was shite. Fucking pish out of ten.

trippy

Edinburgh is fair bonny, though and at least they filmed some of it there this time.

regmcfly

Thank god someone else feels the same way .

regmcfly

Fucking pish out of ten

[Deleted User]

You didn't read my write-up, then.

superflyninja

Im in between watching Fargo(never seen it),Mean Dreams,Brimstone and Silence.
Or fuck it maybe Rime.

WorKid

Watch Fargo.

Yossarian

WorKid wrote:

Watch Fargo.

three1ne

Yeah Trainspotting 2 was totally pointless.

Don't really rate Boyle despite some great films.

Gremill

Jaws tonight, with the boy watching for the first time. He's laughing mostly but it's keeping his attention.

It's still a class act though - such a fucking don of a film in every way, plus a reminder of how much I love Dreyfuss.

g.man

regmcfly wrote:

Thank god someone else feels the same way .

I thought it was unspeakably bad. Nothing wrong with a meditation on nostalgia and middle age angst, but that's not the film we got. What we got was a pointless shit-tier re-tread of the first film, but with none of the style, wit or charm.

garbage

g.man

MattyJ

Gremill wrote:

Jaws tonight, with the boy watching for the first time. He's laughing mostly but it's keeping his attention.

It's still a class act though - such a fucking don of a film in every way, plus a reminder of how much I love Dreyfuss.

Am watching too, great film. Not helped by all the bloody ad breaks though, or the news break! Spoils the flow totally

MattyJ

MattyJ wrote:

Gremill wrote:

Jaws tonight, with the boy watching for the first time. He's laughing mostly but it's keeping his attention.

It's still a class act though - such a fucking don of a film in every way, plus a reminder of how much I love Dreyfuss.

Am watching too, great film. Not helped by all the bloody ad breaks though, or the news break! Spoils the flow totally

Full of iconic shots though

[Deleted User]

I have never watched Jaws.
It is one of those films that by the time I sat down to watch it I had already seen all the key scenes and the parodies.

I watched the first 30 minutes and found it dull.

Gremill

Jesus, the last 45 minutes of Jaws is just top tier film making. So much fun.

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