Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

hylian_elf

I thought The Irishman was due to close it?

hylian_elf

FFS

hylian_elf

nick_md wrote:

Greed tonight to close out my LFF for the year, looking forward to this one.

hylian_elf

Oh, your LFF. Aight.

nick_md

Yeah sorry, Irishman does indeed close it, nay tickets for that tho, or Lighthouse. I think I'm going to get membership for next year 'cause you get earlier ticket sales, and this is the second year I've gone to stuff and it's really good.

Diluted Dante

Yossarian wrote:

Your what?

London Film Festival I guess?

mistercrayon

Assassination Nation: a film that is not bad per se but feels worse because it constantly tries to show you how much better it thinks it is compared to how good it actually is.

The film starts with some meta title cards and a narrator but decides to maintain that track through ALLUSIONS and MORALS and SERMONS.

b0r1s

Just back from Joker. Quite a full cinema, but fairly quiet apart from the woman next to me who obviously thought this was going to be some Aquaman level shit. She was trying to get her partner to leave early as she was obviously bored.

Phoenix was spot on as usual and, for the most part, I liked the film. The nods to the broader DC universe were too heavy handed and not, I felt, necessary.

I don’t get the Incel love, not being one I guess I wouldn’t. But I thought the message had more to say about the complete lack of compassion and desire for greed in the world atm. It was very clear the plot points to reductions in public spending directly contributing to the effects of mental health spilling out onto the streets. If the press, which I haven’t read, have only focused on the lone gunman idea, then that’s because it’s an easier target than tackling the shit show that is society and billionaire greed.

It was also clear that they painted

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As a dick. I liked the ambiguity towards the end with the...

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Overall, not a classic, unless we are measuring it against other DC output of recent years, in which case it’s literally Shakespeare.

davyK

Never got around to watching The Big Lebowski until tonight. (on Prime)

Extremely good. Lived up to the hype for me. What a cast.

LivDiv

Oh yes Lebowski really is one of the greats.
Brilliant soundtrack as well.

bad_hair_day

It really tied the choons together.

Gremill

Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Diluted Dante

I am the walrus.

JonB

El Camino, the what happened to Jesse after Breaking Bad movie is on Netflix now. Suppose I'll give that a watch later.

Wookienopants

Is it? Well that’s today sorted then

RamSteelwood

Finally got around to watching Avengers End Game yesterday. Clearly that tells you I'm not the biggest fan of it all, and overall i found it a bit meh. Still, it's quite an impressive feat i guess just to have something watchable with all those characters and threads and whatnot.

i do have one question about the ending though:

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Wookienopants

See the latest spidey film, it addresses that

monkey

RamSteelwood wrote:

Finally got around to watching Avengers End Game yesterday. Clearly that tells you I'm not the biggest fan of it all, and overall i found it a bit meh. Still, it's quite an impressive feat i guess just to have something watchable with all those characters and threads and whatnot.

i do have one question about the ending though:

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if the disappeared were all brought back but it's still 5 years later...how come Peter Parker just goes back to school and his buddy's there like time hasn't passed? or did spidey and all his buddies all disappear and reappear so they're the same age just 5 years in the future? (i've not seen latest spidey film if that explains it)

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Yossarian

I’ve not seen the latest Spidey, but the directors said it was what you guessed it was.

RamSteelwood

MEH!
thanks though.

JonB

El Camino then. There's really no need for it to exist and it adds very little to the BB story. But it's just good to watch all the same.

LivDiv

Yeah those were exactly my thoughts as well.

b0r1s

Con Air. Stone cold classic. It’s like they were writing the script and thought take all the action and double, no fuck that, triple it. Would’ve loved to see this at the cinema.

Wookienopants

JonB wrote:

El Camino then. There's really no need for it to exist and it adds very little to the BB story. But it's just good to watch all the same.

Same.
I can’t really see the point of it.

davyK

Hannibal Rising. Killed a hour or two. Formulaic and forgettable. The guy playing Hannibal was good though.

hylian_elf

16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes... what made you watch it?

LivDiv

Suprised it is that low, it is a much better film than 16%. Not the greatest film of all time but that score is way too low.

I also thought the guy playing Lecter was decent. I dont think I have seen him in anything else other than a Hugo Boss ad where he says "I'm not going to be who they want me to be anymore" in a blue room full of press, then the walls fall over and he walks off.

The book is good. The stuff when he is a kid is much more fleshed out, if you will excuse the pun.

Tempy

Well 16% isn’t the score, it just means that’s 16% of critics gave it less than 50%, which could be anything from 2 stars to 49/100.

LivDiv

Ah ok.

Dark Soldier

Watching Armageddon because I fucking love it so much

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