Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

Wookienopants

jdanielp wrote:

three1ne wrote:

Quiet Place was good. Lots to like but it has a poor plot that is easy to pull apart. Didnt scare me once either.

Despite so much about A Quiet Place being good, the poor plot was so easy to pull apart (and so much of this could have been addressed at script level I would assume) that I was unable to conclude that it is a good film overall.

Also off to see Ghost Stories tonight so will see how that compares.

First to post a review wins!

Moot_Geeza

The Ritual. There's a bit more to it but it's basically lads lads lads - a lad + scary woods. A good effort.

jdanielp

Yeah. I preferred The Ritual to A Quiet Place.

jdanielp

Wookienopants wrote:

First to post a review wins!

Cool.

Yossarian

It’s not the most in-depth review I’ve ever read, but still, congrats on the win.

jdanielp

That's not my review yet, sorry.

Blocks100

jdanielp wrote:

Yeah. I preferred The Ritual to A Quiet Place.

Christ, The Ritual was pants so that doesn't bode well for A Quiet Place (which I still haven't watched yet)

jdanielp

Ghost Stories was certainly intriguing... A bit jump scary in places, one of which I had totally failed to anticipate. I preferred it to A Quiet Place but I can't really imagine ever wanting to watch it again now.

Wookienopants

So Ghost Stories then.

I enjoyed it, was suitably creepy and had me jumping at the right moments but I must admit I was left feeling a little disappointed. (I’m going to SPOILER tag this bit as it really is best if you know nothing going on so consider yourself warned!)

Spoiler:

With the spoiler tag bit said I will say I enjoyed the rest immensely and think it’s certainly a fun and effective spooky experience.

Wookienopants

Fuck sake!! You beat me to it by minutes!! I was typing that in the car park

Stopharage

Went and saw A Quiet Place. Quite enjoyed it, downside being it was all very obvious and there were some silly moments. But, cast did well, gave a shit about the characters and there weren’t any real glaring ‘what the hell are you doing?’ moments. Glad to see it’s done really well so far and was a decent debut by Office blokey.

jdanielp

Wookienopants wrote:

Fuck sake!! You beat me to it by minutes!! I was typing that in the car park

I typed mine during the credits

It is actually playing on my mind a bit so I may yet watch it again at some point or at least read up about it...

jdanielp

Stopharage wrote:

there weren’t any real glaring ‘what the hell are you doing?’ moments.

There were far too many of those by my reckoning.

Wookienopants

jdanielp wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

Fuck sake!! You beat me to it by minutes!! I was typing that in the car park

I typed mine during the credits It is actually playing on my mind a bit so I may yet watch it again at some point or at least read up about it...

Having done a little reading when I got home it all makes more sense to me now

Spoiler:

djchump

Statham Vs. Dino-Mega-Jaws:

Wookienopants

Oh yea I saw that trailer over breakfast, this is the type of film I love. Big dumb fun

regmcfly

From the director of national treasure so thumb well up

Wookienopants

Tell me The Stath tries to punch some marine life in the face

Blocks100

regmcfly wrote:

From the director of national treasure so thumb well up

...the arse?

AJ

On a related note, apparently the Rampage "adaptation" had been getting positive things said about it.

regmcfly

Blocks100 wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

From the director of national treasure so thumb well up

...the arse?

Mate I like the movies but not sure that much

Blocks100

AJ wrote:

On a related note, apparently the Rampage "adaptation" had been getting positive things said about it.

You mean there's an actual book called Rampage or something. Someone wrote a story about giant genetically re-engineered monsters, and it got published then made into a film? What's the world coming to?!

AJ

No, it's based on the game. The quotes were because the game doesn't so much have a plot as a premise.

superflyninja

The Meg looks brilliant!

Paul the sparky

A meg is a piss take where I'm from. Are you megging me?

AJ

Just watched the trailer. Looks so-so, but the fact it's got Ruby Rose has changed it from "I might watch if it comes on Netflix" to "I'll definitely watch if it comes on Netflix". Everything about that woman's appearance is amazing.

Wookienopants

superflyninja wrote:

The Meg looks brilliant!

I know! Giant Megladon, giant squids, THE STATH!

Moot_Geeza

Halfway through Detroit. The current scene isn't making much sense to me, so I think I'll come back to it after a nap.

Spoiler:

JonB

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Halfway through Detroit. The current scene isn't making much sense to me, so I think I'll come back to it after a nap.

Spoiler:

Surely this is a standard gripe - the way it's been set up, pretty much the entirety of the group they're beating confessions out of know that a) the gun was a starter pistol, and b) the guy who was firing it is already dead. The closest I can get to any sort of half reasonable explanation for nobody mentioning it is 'everyone's panicking', but naah. IDGI. Based on real events, so perhaps it happened that way, but why hasn't anyone offered this information to avoid what is quite clearly a potentially life threatening situation? I can't even just go with it, it's too baffling.

I remember thinking the same at the time, but in the end the tension of the situation won out and made it very effective. The issue I had was more how much the first part of the film dragged on before we got to that. Made the whole thing overlong.

Blocks100

Paul the sparky wrote:

A meg is a piss take where I'm from. Are you megging me?

As in, "I'm going to chip down the shops"

"Are you megging me?"

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