Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

b0r1s

First three solid. Fourth drops off a cliff. Definitely worth watching over a weekend in one go, just don’t bother with the fourth.

n0face

Cocktail, Risky Business and The Color of Money are the best Cruise films

poprock

b0r1s wrote:

First three solid. Fourth drops off a cliff. Definitely worth watching over a weekend in one go, just don’t bother with the fourth.

Stay away from Treadstone on Amazon Prime, too.

poprock

n0face wrote:

Cocktail, Risky Business and The Color of Money are the best Cruise films

Cocktail, Top Gun and The Colour of Money = best classic Cruise.

Live, Die, Repeat, Minority Report and American Made = best older Cruise.

yourfavouriteuncle

poprock wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

First three solid. Fourth drops off a cliff. Definitely worth watching over a weekend in one go, just don’t bother with the fourth.

Stay away from Treadstone on Amazon Prime, too.

God, that’s rotten.

Armitage_Shankburn

It's like people are deliberately trying to piss me off by forgetting Vanilla Sky

LivDiv

afgavinstan wrote:

Itv 2 has ruined the "good" bournes for me. All three shown so many times, catching them either from the beginning or part way through, the ad breaks, the weird TV edits. It's all a fucking blur to me. Couldn't tell you what happens in any of them, can't be arsed starting again. Hmph.

This is exactly my experience

LivDiv

Remember Vanilla Sky?
That was shit.

poprock

Aye, really bad.

Raiziel

Vanilla Sky is a great film.

Diluted Dante

Good Cruise ended with the 90's.

Armitage_Shankburn

LivDiv wrote:

Remember Vanilla Sky?
That was shit.

Friendship ended with Liveinadive

now friends with crack girl next door.

Armitage_Shankburn

I searched Google and IMDb and am tearing my lockdown afro out. I saw a movie about Oxbridge interviews on the BBC, I think around 1997/1998. It was way before I actually applied as it seemed remote to me. It might have been a BBC feature length drama. I recall it was very good. I think it was set in Oxford. Son applies for a university place and goes for interview. Overbearing father really puts pressure on him. Son falls in love with a girl he meets at interview and I think gets a place but declines it to be with the girl at some other uni - something like that. Turns out the father was lying about going to Oxford and wanted to fulfil some kind of Oxbridge fetish through his son...

Does that ring a bell for anyone? All I get is fucking history boys and shite like that.

LivDiv

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

Remember Vanilla Sky?
That was shit.

Friendship ended with Liveinadive

now friends with crack girl next door.

She would suit your tragic grower kink. How are you with cat shit?

GooberTheHat

There would be no cat after a week.

LivDiv

I'm sure there would still be plenty of cat shit.

Armitage_Shankburn

I have bad cat karma from the Algiers days. Got one square in the spine (with a biggish stone the size of a child's palm) as it was tearing through our garbage bags. The noise was unspeakable. Last interaction with a cat was it pissing all over me as I crashed on a school friend's floor after a night out in Kingston. I knew why it did it. I stay away from cats, could be my eyeballs next

g.man

So tonight I did watch yer Terminator: Dark Fate.
This is a very silly film. The plot is absolute nonsense, and none of it makes a lick of sense.
It has real pacing issues, and boy does it come as close as it's humanly possible to jumping the shark completely in the second act, before it catches it's reflection in a mirror, looks embarrassed for a second, and mercifully manages to reel in the stupid.
Some of the action is just ludicrous, and at times it ramps things up to levels that would make Vin Deisel blush, and the characters, considering their predicament, lack any semblance of emotional depth.

...and yet, that being said, I quite enjoyed it. It's absolute fucking trash, but it does have heart, and at times it actually pulls it off. It starts well, and it ends well, and pacing aside, it largely rattles along from set piece to set piece.
Mackenzie Davis was good. The Mexican lead girl was alright. Hamilton does little to embarrass herself, and even old Arnie has a decent stab at things. Chap that played the Mexican Terminator, who I presume was the titular Dirk Fate, did what was required of the roll, and I guess between them all, they just about managed to carry it.

So, not the complete disaster I expected, and while I certainly wouldn't highly recommend it, you could do much worse with the tv and a bowl of popcorn on a dull Sunday night.

*note to Hollywood.
Don't make any more of these please. No really. We've had enough thanks.

LivDiv

I would forgive a lot more of that movie if it didn't take a massive shit on T2 in the opening 10 minutes.

In general I am in the camp that bad sequels don't ruin good movies but they really pushed that philosophy.

LivDiv

I'm sure many here follow this channel anyway but I will keep pushing these video series because if you care about what is involved in making a movie these are just excellent.

jdanielp

Just did a bit of a catch up.

I really need to rewatch Se7en. I don't think I've seen it since the cinema. They grow up so fast.

I also have the R1 Fight Club DVD but my first DVD was Pleasantville (one of my all time favourites).

Not convinced by that Bond choice if true. I reckon that Nick Hoult could do a pretty decent job.

First three Bournes are great, especially two and three which are basically just one extended film.

Abres Los Ojos is so much better than Vanilla Sky.

That's all for now.

Moot_Geeza

I think Vanilla Sky is the only film I haven't seen that I own the soundtrack to.

Edit: Actually that's not true, I bought a Days of Thunder cd this year.