Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

davyK

Yet to see Lighthouse. Had cinema tickets for it and arsehole buddy let me down...was going to go myself and then something else came up. grrrr.

hylian_elf

Gremill wrote:

Got some days off, so planning to catch up on some films I haven't seen and boy, there's lots of them. Here's a list of just some of them - tell me what I should watch: The Lighthouse Another Round Pig Unstoppable The Wrestler Parasite Saint Maude Sound of Metal Encounter

Out of films I've seen on that list, in this order:

Parasite 1000%
Saint Maud
The Wrestler
The Lighthouse

hylian_elf

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I watched Bait and Lighthouse on the same glorious day a couple of years ago.

I did a Lighthouse and Parasite double bill in Picturehouse Central in Feb 2020. What a night.

Gremill

Another Round.
A beautiful hymn to the highs and lows of alcohol, shot through with a heartfelt and often hilarious study of middle aged men and the things that make us the way we are. This may be the best film I watch this year - I can't think what might be better. It's rare that a film can make me cry with joy, but goddamn that final scene is perfect. 10

stonechalice

Yep. It's an amazing film for sure.

Kow

Mads Mikkelson is one of those proper all-round talents.

regmcfly

My wife would leave me for Mads. I would probably leave her for him too,tbh.

We watched Inside by Bo Burnham last night which kind of isn't a movie but is 90 mins long. I remember Burnham from his early YouTube days, and then fell off. To see his progress as an insight and a performer is incredible. He really nails the whole weirdness of the pandemic in the "movie" and showing his messy ass room is so very human, as well as his hair /beard at the tail end in a Matrix 4 way, is just incredible. If you want to parse the past 2 years, watch this.

mistercrayon

I read that knowing about him helps one appreciate the film Promising Young Woman a bit.

MattyJ

Inside was really quite an incredible piece of art.

jdanielp

And Eighth Grade is a brilliantly directed film.

regmcfly

MattyJ wrote:

Inside was really quite an incredible piece of art.

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jdanielp wrote:

And Eighth Grade is a brilliantly directed film.

Eyyyyyyyy

stonechalice

Inside was great but let's not kid ourselves his life was anything remotely similar to what he portrayed in the film during lockdown.

regmcfly

Mate let's do higher media where we discuss that the representation of a person is not who they are.

This is a very well edited movie and I'm sure incredibly curated but it's the only sense I've seen in the industry of dealing with that 2 years so why not celebrate it?

EvilRedEye

Watched Encanto. Perfectly fine Disney-em-up. Starting to feel like we're overdue a full-on five star film from them though – Moana was five years ago.

Escape

I caught the end of Aliens a bit after Christmas and remembered how bad I think it is, so I went online to see how rare that opinion is, and found a couple of people comparing Prometheus to Alien (a very good film), so I figured I'd give that a go...

Spoiler:

ShabbyMcCrabby

I thought Inside was one of best things I watched last year. So good.
Can't believe I didn't twig that it was the same guy that did Eighth Grade. That movie was excellent

mistercrayon

5cream is a really interesting film in that it’s clearly written smartly and with a huge amount of self awareness but inside all of that context it is some how more disappointing than the thing itself because its seems smart enough to be aware of all the pratfalls the fact it doesn’t do anything actually interesting makes the endeavour feel worse than the sum of its parts.

Spoiler:

In some ways Ghostbusters Afterlife is a much braver film (I haven’t seen it) and I think that’s a little bit damning.

It was weird to realise that

Spoiler:

3/6 stars (objective quality)
2/6 stars (actual rating because they constantly ram home in your face the problems with the thing they are trying to do and the disappointment that they don’t make cleverer or more interesting choices)

Kow

Netflix had just po(o)pped up Riverdance: The Animated Film. It might be the most embarrassingly shit thing I've ever seen 15 minutes of.

Minnesänger

Kow wrote:

Netflix had just po(o)pped up Riverdance: The Animated Film. It might be the most embarrassingly shit thing I've ever seen 15 minutes of.

Yeah…it’s Riverdance: The Animated Film that’s the most embarrassing thing here.

LivDiv

Flatley my dear I dont Riverdance.

Unlikely

djchump

The Wu Assassins TV series was kinda shite - huge waste of Iko Uwais. The 2nd series getting turned into a 90min film looks a lot better, but the hokey magic powers stuff might be a bit weird. Looks like here's some good scraps and makes better use of Uwais' and Lewis Tan's skills:

hylian_elf

That show was so bad. Watched it at a time when I was just watching anything. I've forgotten what happened in it, mostly.

djchump

Yeah, I’m being too kind saying it was “kinda shite”. It was garbage.

Rev

Watched Birdman again. Still love the jazz percussion and the continual one shots throughout the film. Keaton was brilliant in this.

hylian_elf

I loved Birdman! I was only thinking of it recently and thinking of rewatching.

davyK

I presume it's better than Condorman?

mistercrayon

Anya Taylor Joy must be one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood right now - perhaps next to Chloe grace Moretz.

Rev

davyK wrote:

I presume it's better than Condorman?

Funnily, it's not exactly 1000 miles away from it?

Rev

mistercrayon wrote:

Anya Taylor Joy must be one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood right now - perhaps next to Chloe grace Moretz.

I think she's just trying to grab as much work as she can before they find their new favourite

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