Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

LivDiv

EvilRedEye wrote:

Please contain your excitement but the 4K Steelbook of Madame Web is available for pre-order now for a mere £34.99!! Bargain.

regmcfly

Gman - reset the clock

Dark Soldier

In my veins

b0r1s

Looks solid and hopefully Ridley is nowhere near the script.

Gremill

That looks great.

LivDiv

Hmmmm
Gonna keep my expectations low in the hope of being presently surprised I think.

Olimite

I can’t remember the last Alien film I saw.

Moot_Geeza

Autopsy?

b0r1s

My tactic is to try to forget all the recent Alien films I’ve seen.

Olimite

I didn’t watch Prometheus because it got naff reviews. What came before that?

regmcfly

Alien Resurrection

regmcfly

(or AvsP)

Dark Soldier

There hasn't been a bad Alien movie and I include the alien v predator movies in there. Just watch em as movies instead of chin-stroking hhmmm but what does it mean IN THE UNIVERSE lads its monsters fucking people up let's have it

Moot_Geeza

Kinda agree, not that I've seem the AvP films. The Terminator franchise nosedive is the one worth weeping over.

poprock

Does this one have hiding-in-locker scenes?

Dark Soldier

AvP1 is a certified banger get on it lad

Moot_Geeza

I might have watched that during lockdown actually. Memory is a bit hazy. I definitely watched Freddie Vs Jason.

Dark Soldier

And now I have to rewatch Freddy v Jason nice one bruv

Olimite

DS. Watching trash so we don’t have to.

(he says, watching Madame Web).

g.man

That Alien trailer is definitely grand, but I remain skeptical.

Dark Soldier

Olimite wrote:

DS. Watching trash so we don’t have to.

(he says, watching Madame Web).

Am just waiting for someone to make RobloxCop it'll be great

poprock

DIY or die. Get that written up as a pitch. One page plus an AI generated ‘mood vision’. Netflix will bite your hand off to make it.

EvilRedEye

Napoleon (2023) - An extremely expensive highlights reel of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Joaquin Phoenix. I didn’t hate this. It has impressive production values and is often fairly entertaining. Vanessa Kirby is pretty decent as Joséphine Bonaparte, which is handy as the film interprets the central narrative of Napoleon’s life as a love story between the two of them.

Joaquin Phoenix is only so-so as Napoleon, which is a major blow for the film. While you would perhaps expect moments of humour and absurdity in a real-life story like this, there is such an over-abundance of them in this film that they severely unbalance the overall tone. The script isn’t great and is often weak on a moment-to-moment level while also not pulling the overall film together into a great narrative.

I spent most of the film planning to give this three stars but I just ended by being fed up with it by the end. It does deserve the production nominations it picked up, but it’s telling it didn’t get much else and the central performance - the one so key to the whole thing - didn’t pick up a single one. ★★☆☆☆

ShabbyMcCrabby

g.man wrote:

That Alien trailer is definitely grand, but I remain skeptical.

You watched Don't Breathe g?

Fede is an absolute don with tension. The trailer looked a bit CG at times but I am 110% down for it and I think Fede is the perfect director to make a scary and tense Alien film

Gremill

Dark Soldier wrote:

And now I have to rewatch Freddy v Jason nice one bruv

It's alright, but it's no Jason X

poprock

Thought I’d share this because I always find the differences between reality and ‘inspired by real events’ movies quite interesting.

I have this guy Scott as a connection on LinkedIn, from way way back when I did my internship and worked on some ad campaigns with the team at Nike. Back then he was the official Nike Historian - he literally ran a team at HQ whose job was to basically run an internal museum and archive. This is him having a rant about inaccuracy in the move Air.

It was just about one year ago that I was invited to an advance screening of the movie "Air." Any hope I had for historical accuracy dribbled off the court in the first five minutes when "Howard White" and "Sonny Vaccaro" talked in 1984 about Nike's new ad slogan "Just Do It," which debuted in 1988.

That was just the tip of the "we're making shit up" iceberg as it turned out. Scene after scene was either created out of thin - ahem - air or was distorted from actual facts. Sonny went to visit the Jordans in North Carolina! [He didn't.] Sonny predicted exactly what the execs at adidas and Converse would say in their pitches to Jordan! [He didn't.] And it just kept getting worse, more egregious.

As the movie neared its climax, Sonny jumped in when the pitch meeting was falling apart and SAVED THE DAY! [He did not.] And then the scene where my head metaphorically exploded. Michaels' mother, Deloris, was the tough-as-nails, hardcore contract negotiator who demanded that Nike must give her son a percentage of sales of every Air Jordan. It's "unprecedented" she's told. It's "not possible." But ultimately Nike capitulates and history is made.

What was made was my blood pressure rise. Jordan's contract was negotiated by David Falk, his agent. Because that's what top agents do. Michael was given royalties on the sales of his shoe because that's what Nike had been doing for nearly a decade with other basketball players.

But "that's just literary license" I was told. "Hey, it's not a documentary," I was reminded over and over again. But the fact that the movie was marketed as "Inspired by true events" was a blaring red siren that apparently only I and my longtime Nike colleagues could see.

I'm reopening this scab tonight mainly because I was reading an article on Linkedin about Michael Jordan. In the comments section were dozens of posts about what a "master negotiator Deloris Jordan was" and "she negotiated the deal, she deserves credit for this" and "shout out to Momma Jordan."

So I'll make a deal here...I will remind myself that "hey, it's not a documentary" if people will remind themselves, "hey don't believe everything you see in a movie."

Gotta admit, I enjoyed the film. And having met Phil Knight a couple of times, I think Affleck played him pretty well, despite still basically showing up as himself. But basing the whole ending of the story around a thing that just didn’t ever happen is a bit off.

g.man

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

g.man wrote:

That Alien trailer is definitely grand, but I remain skeptical.

You watched Don't Breathe g? Fede is an absolute don with tension. The trailer looked a bit CG at times but I am 110% down for it and I think Fede is the perfect director to make a scary and tense Alien film

I don't think Iv'e seen any of his films tbh. I haven't really done horror movies as a genre for a very long time. That being said, I watched this interview with him last night, and he certainly sounds like the right man for the job. Acquitted himself very well imo.
*this is a good interview, and it's mercifully easy to ignore the two RLM Geek Squad buffoons that are hosting him, so worth a watch imo...

ShabbyMcCrabby

If you like podcasts I recommend listening to this interview with him. He has an interesting story of how he went from a short film on YouTube to being given the Evil Dead remake. He's a good storyteller too so you can see how he was able to charm his way to being in Hollywood whereas others might not have.

He hasn't made much but what he has made is really solid and shows he has a good eye and a great kind for thrillers and horror.

https://audioboom.com/posts/7448147-episode-12-don-t-breathe-evil-dead-director-fede-alvarez

g.man

Cheers Shabs. I'll defo have a listen to that.

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