Thor 2 is not a good film which is a shame because Thor is clearly the best marvel man

Just watched Sausage Party. What the hell have I just watched?! I enjoyed it, especially as it got more and more bizarre.

I have been to see Mission Impossible today.

It is more Mission Impossible, with tons of crazy twists and crazy action. Doubt it'll be very memorable but it's pretty great for the duration. Always great to see an action film with proper stunts rather than tons of CGI too.

Shit yeah. Runs like the wind.

JonB wrote:

I have been to see Mission Impossible today. It is more Mission Impossible, with tons of crazy twists and crazy action. Doubt it'll be very memorable

Well yeah.  

JonB wrote:

It is more Mission Impossible

I can’t wait for Mission Impossible. Say through Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation in the last few nights and am well up for some more Tom Cruise running and dangling off very high things

You were following the film crew around?

Have had a week off so been getting some Blueray time, including starting my pre-Infinity War 2 Marvel abridged run through.

Captain America: First Avenger

It's pretty good. The first half is fairly great, second not so much. Evans is great. Weaving is wasted. Jones phones it in. The Maguffin is a bit more interesting now we know what it does and there's some fun foreshadowing now. 

7

Captain America: Winter Soldier

Still top tier. They totally nail the tone with a perfect balance of a sort of Bourne-lite grounded thriller and superduper comicbook stuff. The story feels consequential. Great action sequences (love the knife fight, the rooftop chase, the lift fight). Evans gets even better. Silly CG finale somehow more tolerable.

8

Isle of Dogs (second watch).

Went from loving it to adoring it. I laughed, I cried, a repeatedly wondered at how beautifully made it is. 

The extras are great too - there's some great animations of the animators animating. 

Could be Anderson's best.

10

GooberTheHat wrote:

I watched Isle of Dogs for the first time while on a flight this week. I thought it was great. I need to watch it on a proper screen now. Watching films on planes never does them justice.

Especially this one!

The detail really is phenomenal. 

They've made incredible progress since Mr Fox.

Life made me want to watch Interstellar.  Amazing film.  One of my favourites of all time, in fact.  Reminds me of the sci-fi books I used to read as a child.  This type of sci-fi just doesn’t seem to make it into film all that often.

Raiziel wrote:

I’m watching Life.  Yes it’s not a great film, but I really do think it’s a solid good film.  Really good performances from the three leads and some nice direction.  Especially  like the teeth of the ISS biting into the Earth’s sunrise at the very beginning.  Some of the decisions feel like the were made by producers in boardrooms, but I really do like this film nonetheless.

I quite enjoyed Life too, sorry from the uninspired creature design it was good fun.

Interstellar is the business though - well overdue a rewatch. Has one of the greatest 45 minutes of cinema ever in there.

Gremill wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

I’m watching Life.  Yes it’s not a great film, but I really do think it’s a solid good film.  Really good performances from the three leads and some nice direction.  Especially  like the teeth of the ISS biting into the Earth’s sunrise at the very beginning.  Some of the decisions feel like the were made by producers in boardrooms, but I really do like this film nonetheless.

I quite enjoyed Life too, sorry from the uninspired creature design it was good fun. Interstellar is the business though - well overdue a rewatch. Has one of the greatest 45 minutes of cinema ever in there.

The last 45?  The moment they go through the wormhole still blows me away, and I still love the “those aren’t mountains, they’re waves” sequence.

“You told them I liked farming.”

Tears.

Raiziel wrote:

Gremill wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

I’m watching Life.  Yes it’s not a great film, but I really do think it’s a solid good film.  Really good performances from the three leads and some nice direction.  Especially  like the teeth of the ISS biting into the Earth’s sunrise at the very beginning.  Some of the decisions feel like the were made by producers in boardrooms, but I really do like this film nonetheless.

I quite enjoyed Life too, sorry from the uninspired creature design it was good fun. Interstellar is the business though - well overdue a rewatch. Has one of the greatest 45 minutes of cinema ever in there.

The last 45?  The moment they go through the wormhole still blows me away, and I still love the “those aren’t mountains, they’re waves” sequence.

The 45 minutes or so from the wormhole to the return from the wave planet and receiving messages from Earth - just amazing.

Went to see Tom Running 6. It's a very good Tom running movie, and one set piece gave me some serious Dark Knight vibes - the , specifically. Everything from the score to the way the camera sits at key moments, and how smooth it is filmed, not jerky and janky like most modern action films, really reminded me of the equivalent sequence from Dark Knight.

Just some real stand out action, and it rattles along from bit to bit. One of the most fun films of the year so far.