Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

davyK

bad_hair_day wrote:

First saw the Costner in ‘No Way Out’ - a cracking little 80’s thriller with men in tight white Navy uniforms.

Yep - that was a good 'un too.

bad_hair_day

Hair wrote:

First saw the Costner in ‘No Way Out’ - a cracking little 80’s thriller with men in tight white Navy uniforms.

Jaco wrote:

That was with Gene Hackman, right? If so, aye, it's a cracker.

davyK wrote:

Yep - that was a good 'un too.

Will Patton steals it. Just watched a few clips - looks like it still holds up.

davyK

It's a remake of an oldie called The Big Clock. Think it starred Ray Milland.

Gremill

The new Gareth Evans film, Apostle, sounds like it'll be great. Out tomorrow on Netflix.

ShabbyMcCrabby

I saw You Were Never Really Here. One of the best films I've seen this year I reckon. Every time I see Joaquin Phoenix I can't help but think he's possibly the best actor working today. He has such a strong physical screen presence. It's the only reason I have an interest in the new joker film. There's a lot of potential for a great performance from him in that.

g.man

I bought that recently. Thought it was needlessly arty. Didn't care for the director at all. Each to their own tho.

Moot_Geeza

I've been waiting ages for that to hit a streaming service. Nearly took myself to the cinema to see it, which isn't something I really do these days. Hence the fact that I didn't end up going I suppose. /Waffle. Looks good.

Gremill

Watched mother! today.

Fucking hell, another stone cold original from Aronofsky. I'm not sure I've ever watched a more claustrophobic, tense, stressful and delerious film. An absolutely towering performance from Jennifer Lawrence and a series of other superb actors all of whom bring their A-game. The escalating madness really reminded me of Black Swan and the way the film keeps you continually off balance and confused as JL isn't something I've seen in a major studio film in years.

Utterly brilliant insanity

regmcfly

Yeah, was on my top five of last year.

g.man

Mother and Black Swan are both in one of my top fives...

regmcfly

One of them? Aranofsky films?

The Daddy

Didn’t enjoy mother. At least not in the traditional sense.

regmcfly

Me neither. I came out of it upset, but it's a very good film

poprock

Exactly how I felt about Requiem for a Dream, back in the day. Left the cinema a bit shaky, but convinced it was one of the greatest pieces of art.

Dark Soldier

Bleak cinema is best cinema. I can rewatch it endlessly. Requiem, mother!, Black Swan, Dancer in the Dark, Miss Violence,Amour etc have all been watched multiple times.

regmcfly

Miss Violence is exceptional

tin_robot

Dark Soldier wrote:

Bleak cinema is best cinema. I can rewatch it endlessly. Requiem, mother!, Black Swan, Dancer in the Dark, Miss Violence,Amour etc have all been watched multiple times.

I used to be like that, but increasingly find I don’t have the headspace for it. I no longer find it cathartic, just draining. I blame the day job.

It’s a huge shame, because I think a lot of the best film-making is in the really bloody bleak stuff.

Dark Soldier

Its one of the few things which helps me deal with depression, oddly. Happy cinema just makes me more depressed.

regmcfly

I have really no time for careless joyful consequence free cathartic escapism anymore because like many cinema goers, I want to see experiences that consolidate my own. Eperiences, that particularly in my job, are not unique, and are replicated on screen. I've never been an Ant Man .

Dark Soldier

As an example this is tomorrow night's viewing:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6763252/

So hype

Yossarian

tin_robot wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

Bleak cinema is best cinema. I can rewatch it endlessly. Requiem, mother!, Black Swan, Dancer in the Dark, Miss Violence,Amour etc have all been watched multiple times.

I used to be like that, but increasingly find I don’t have the headspace for it. I no longer find it cathartic, just draining. I blame the day job.

It’s a huge shame, because I think a lot of the best film-making is in the really bloody bleak stuff.

I’ve been like that for a while now. I’m just never in the mood to put on a film that anyone has described to me as harrowing.

mistercrayon

When I see something like Mother! I realise what the point of me sitting my ass down to watch a film is. A lot of films will tell you it’s about wasting the evening because it’s the thing to do but to me the real thing that film (or video games, board games, books, music) do is create spaces in which you can feel like a dickhead or awful or happy or sad or delighted and actually there is actually zero consequence so you can explore those things safely. You can be an arsehole in a board game and but you are given permission to do so. You can be coaxed into feeling tense and angry in mother! but really no one has to get legit hurt in the process.

davyK

I like a big daft film. But more often I like stuff that makes me think about it the next day. Decalogue really hit me hard that way.

Tempy

You should watch Koza DS, you’d like it

Dark Soldier

Tempy wrote:

You should watch Koza DS, you’d like it

About the boxer?

Tempy

Yes

Tempy

edit: whoops

Dark Soldier

Can't find it in the usual places, if its showing round my way I'll head to it.

Still disappointed I missed this due to illness:

Matt_82

Watched Apostle last night on Netflix. Had mistakenly thought it was a series.

It's quite good. Nothing special at all, though. Some creepyish bits. A few minging bits.

nick_md

Mandy was

Spoiler:

It's definitely a metal-head's film, also. I think if this film wore a faded band t-shirt, it'd be Slayer or something.

Oh and wtf, Ken Barlow's son? Jeesh.

That probably all sounds negative, so I'll clarify by saying I enjoyed it, recommend to anyone interested in the genre.

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