Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

Wookienopants

I’m so on board for Detective Pikachu!!
That trailer was brilliant. And I was wrong about Ryan Reynolds playing the part, just brilliant

monkey

I’ll be honest, Pikachu in a buddy cop film being voiced by Deadpool is not a move I saw coming.

Wookienopants

I can’t wait.

Tempy

I have solidified my position on Detective Pikachu

Wookienopants

Which is?

Yossarian

Solidified.

Tempy

I was hoping the gif was a clue

mistercrayon

The one thing about Detective Pikachu is that it seems to get close to being ted (capital knockers, whoop whoop, shake it baby etc) but obviously won’t do that which creates a coginitive jarring.

Moot_Geeza

Someone should make a nodding Jack plushie for cars.

MattyJ

Man I did not expect Detective Pikachu to look so damn good

b0r1s

jdanielp wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

For me They Shall Not Grow Old is probably the most powerful piece of cinema I’ve ever seen. I’m just speechless

Speechless is the word, I think. It’s the closest I’ve yet come to even slightly comprehending the horror of that war. It was a harrowing, riveting piece of work.

I'll have to catch up with this on iPlayer. In retrospect I shouldn't have watched The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which was underwhelming, and headed home after Overlord to watch this instead.

It was excellent and amazingly well made in all its horror, humanity and humour. Two things struck me:

The very varied responses from those who fought. Not everyone thought it was a jolly war and not everyone was horrified, a real range of human emotions that I did not expect.

The response when the troops who survived got home. It just confirms my feeling that a lot of people glorify the old days, those rose tinted Empire glasses definitely drop down the nose a bit when you hear how the heroes were really treated.

regmcfly

I've just watched it as well. It was impeccably made, but one bit did get a laugh from me (intentional)

Spoiler:

Actually a really powerful moment in that most of these guys were young kids and that's the kind of thing they'd do. Very impressive.

afgavinstan

I am all in on Detective Pikachu. That looked fantastic.

Kazuo

Slightly freaked at how uncanny valley fluffy they've made them all but sign me the fuck up.

WorKid

What. The. Fuck.

WorKid

Nope, hate it. Awful.

Jaco

Hahaha, that looks brilliant! And I hate Pokémon!

davyK

Actually that Pikachu film has a chance. Watched the trailer in spite of myself. It's a nice take on it.

Afraid that the trailer will be the best part of it.

Paul the sparky

That Pikachu thing is fucking nightmare fuel, don't know what some of you are thinking about.

davyK

It's a Ted variant with some Dr Dolittle on the side.

I can't see me watching it all the way through but I can see it doing well.

WorKid

Fuck Ted, and fuck Defective Pikachu

Roujin

The Fog was good, suitably eerie. Just Escape From New York to go and that's the end of this jolly old run down carpenter memory lane.

pantyfire

b0r1s wrote:

jdanielp wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

For me They Shall Not Grow Old is probably the most powerful piece of cinema I’ve ever seen. I’m just speechless

Speechless is the word, I think. It’s the closest I’ve yet come to even slightly comprehending the horror of that war. It was a harrowing, riveting piece of work.

I'll have to catch up with this on iPlayer. In retrospect I shouldn't have watched The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which was underwhelming, and headed home after Overlord to watch this instead.

It was excellent and amazingly well made in all its horror, humanity and humour. Two things struck me: The very varied responses from those who fought. Not everyone thought it was a jolly war and not everyone was horrified, a real range of human emotions that I did not expect. The response when the troops who survived got home. It just confirms my feeling that a lot of people glorify the old days, those rose tinted Empire glasses definitely drop down the nose a bit when you hear how the heroes were really treated.

The bit when they got home was the most shocking to me.
Especially after the guilt to sign up that was mentioned at the beginning.

Wookienopants

It was just how the soldiers said they didn’t see the point in any of it, the senselessness of it all. The scenes with the captured German soldiers and the talk about how they were actually “pretty decent chaps” just made me cry.
It’s absolutely heartbreaking how we appear to have learned nothing from any of it

Olimite

Watched Eighth Grade tonight. A bit short and possibly missing something but it captures that awkwardness of being that age well and doesn't try to sugar-coat it.

JRPC

Jesus that looks utterly dreadful.

More than a whiff of the Garfield Movie except it doesn't even have the good sense of having Bill Murray in it.

What a waste. Why not just do a straight up Pokemon film?

Skerret

regmcfly wrote:

Tired - Toy Story 4 Wired - Detective Pikachu

truth

Gremill

Watched The Ritual - wasn't what I was expecting at all. Quite enjoyed it though.

JonB

Watched that last night as well. And, yeah, same.

Also The Invitation a couple of nights ago. Thought that was decent too.

GooberTheHat

pantyfire wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

jdanielp wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

For me They Shall Not Grow Old is probably the most powerful piece of cinema I’ve ever seen. I’m just speechless

Speechless is the word, I think. It’s the closest I’ve yet come to even slightly comprehending the horror of that war. It was a harrowing, riveting piece of work.

I'll have to catch up with this on iPlayer. In retrospect I shouldn't have watched The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which was underwhelming, and headed home after Overlord to watch this instead.

It was excellent and amazingly well made in all its horror, humanity and humour. Two things struck me: The very varied responses from those who fought. Not everyone thought it was a jolly war and not everyone was horrified, a real range of human emotions that I did not expect. The response when the troops who survived got home. It just confirms my feeling that a lot of people glorify the old days, those rose tinted Empire glasses definitely drop down the nose a bit when you hear how the heroes were really treated.

The bit when they got home was the most shocking to me.
Especially after the guilt to sign up that was mentioned at the beginning.

My wife's grandfather was an infantry capt and fought in the second world war. He was shot in the leg on D Day in the hills over looking the beach by a German sniper. When he returned from the war he was refused entry to university because he now had a disability.

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