Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

yourfavouriteuncle

Kow wrote:

First Cow. An interesting indie film that could be read in a few ways. Liked it a lot.

Is there a non yarr way to watch this yet?

Kow

Not that I know of.

davyK

Fancy that David Copperfield one. On my to watch list.

davyK

Solo wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Enjoyable enough.

GooberTheHat

Yeah, it's fine.

Funkstain

And that’s how you comment the 66,666 time on a film thread!

davyK

Edge of Darkness

A shadow of the BBC series from the 80s. The ending is so ludicrously Hollywood it hurts. Weird seeing something that in many ways is very close to that series but is just off in a bizarre parallel dimension. It passed a hour or two though - and those payoffs at the end were almost comedic.

Spoiler:

Good grief - film and series - same director. Show me the money, eh?

hylian_elf

I kinda knew they would do it, but Criterion will be releasing Parasite yessssss add to my collection.

Kow

The Old Guard - it's kind of lucky there's a pandemic and a lot of people are at home and this is on Netflix, because I can't imagine many people paying to see this shit. Cool Americans in sunglasses shoot a lot of people, but wait they're immortal so we can have lots of extra shooting. Fuck off. Admittedly I only lasted three quarters of an hour and maybe it suddenly gets brilliant, but I doubt it.

The Daddy

I watched it last night. It was objectively bad, but I still enjoyed it. There was a lot of wasted potential in there, I liked the premise, but I think they could’ve done a lot more with it.

regmcfly

I thought it was a shit movie of shit that can sit next to that Chris Hemsworth shit movie that tried to do one take.

Raiziel

I think I was able to enjoy it because I thought it was going utter garbage. It wasn’t brilliant or anything, but it wasn’t utter garbage. Also I like looking at Charlize Theron.

b0r1s

Raiziel wrote:

I think I was able to enjoy it because I thought it was going utter garbage. It wasn’t brilliant or anything, but it wasn’t utter garbage. Also I like looking at Charlize Theron.

djchump

I liked it. Decent enough action and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of character development in it. Let down by science dweeb bad guy. Seems to be the current running theme - dweeb science Lex Luthory type with private army of Blackwater military types. At least Guy Pierce gave Science Dweeb a sliver of menace in Bloodshot.

Kow

Bad guy looked like a panelist off that cats do countdown thing.

davyK

Remake of Taking of Pelham 123. Ludicrous nonsense. Police crashes with ransom money etc. Load of old tosh.

Followed by Crimson Tide for some guffawish gung ho. Waste of talent on offer on both of these.

b0r1s

Whoa there Davy. Crimson Tide is top Scott action. It’s like action comfy blanket for me. Denzel and Hackman going at is not as good as Cruise and Jack, but it’s a close second. Stone cold Scott (the consistently good Scott, not the one who got lucky with two films and milked it) movie.

davyK

It's enjoyable stuff but the ludicrous behaviour puts me off. When I saw who was in it I was expecting more I have to say. Waving guns around in a submarine. Come on.

Probably expecting too much. Hackman is one of my titans and the more I see of Washington the more I like him.

bad_hair_day

b0r1s wrote:

...Stone cold Scott (the consistently good Scott, not the one who got lucky with two films and milked it) movie.

Inconsistent definitely, but pleased old Ridders
gave me these.

The Martian
Legend
American Gangster
Matchstick Men
Black Hawk Down
The Duellists
Thelma And Louise
Gladiator
Blade Runner
Alien

LivDiv

Kow wrote:

Bad guy looked like a panelist off that cats do countdown thing.

There are a handful of possibilities for who you were on about here but all of them are increasingly funny as I think of it.

I love the idea of Sean Lock being some kind of Bond villain that just doesn't give a shit for the tropes.

davyK

Sean Lock's finest moment....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NGNnu-Ut-g

LivDiv

Sean Lock is just brilliant.
I love the niche he has carved.

15 Storeys High is easily the most underrated British comedy.

Kow

For some reason, a load of his stand up has gone up on YouTube recently.

Kow

"A woman's work is never done. Maybe that's why they get paid less".

LivDiv

Might be him or his agency trying to get some revenue flowing.

LivDiv

Kow wrote:

"A woman's work is never done. Maybe that's why they get paid less".

Perfectly crafted

Raiziel

b0r1s wrote:

(the consistently good Scott, not the one who got lucky with two films and milked it)

Ban request.

Wookienopants

Bloody love Sean Lock.

b0r1s

bad_hair_day wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

...Stone cold Scott (the consistently good Scott, not the one who got lucky with two films and milked it) movie.

Inconsistent definitely, but pleased old Ridders
gave me these.

The Martian - Yes
Legend - No
American Gangster - Yes
Matchstick Men - No
Black Hawk Down - No
The Duellists - Haven’t seen
Thelma And Louise - No
Gladiator - Thumb hovering
Blade Runner - The 2
Alien - The 2

Ok better output than I recall. But sensible posting like this doesn’t support my point so go away ;-)

regmcfly

Matchstick Men us great you heathens.

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