Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

Bob

Commando

Five star classic

b0r1s

“Let off some steam!”

regmcfly

Shout out to please don't wake my friend, he's dead tired

Bob

Come on Bennet let’s party

Wookienopants

Best Arnie quote is surely
"AAAAAHHHHHHAAARGGGHAARGHAAAAAA"

b0r1s

Posting this classic then I realise the crickets are trying to out act Arnie.

Moot_Geeza

Too depressed about football to make an Indigo reference.

acemuzzy

Still?

Moot_Geeza

Yeah. Inviting teams to score like a cocky boxer sticking his chin out wore thin months ago.

Olimite

Try supporting Palace.

Blocks100

"I eat Green Berets for breakfast".

EvilRedEye

Legendary have optioned a film from Villeneuve called Nuclear War: A Scenario that sounds like a modern big budget remake of Threads.

Moot_Geeza

In.

davyK

Will be less than a shit stain on the pants of Threads.

b0r1s

Not a Villeneuve fan then? Man has talent and I'm guessing its going to be horrific to watch, he doesn't pull his punches.

jdanielp

Still set in Sheffield?

EvilRedEye

That Zendaya tennis movie is also being released on IMAX screens, oddly.

Kow

I want to see a film about nuclear war about as much as I want to see a film about heart attacks.

davyK

b0r1s wrote:

Not a Villeneuve fan then? Man has talent and I'm guessing its going to be horrific to watch, he doesn't pull his punches.

I am a fan, I just doubt it will be quite the horror show Threads is while not being gratuitous. I doubt anyone would make Threads now as it's very much of its time and the sensibilities that existed then. Threads' horror comes from the ordinariness of the build up - completely glamour free. It has an edge to it that slicker films don't have. It could be done of course - that remains to be seen - but I doubt it.

I will watch it - no doubt about that. It's probably time for another film of this type because this generation hasn't had a gut punch on the reality of the subject, esp. with that wanker Putin slobbering about using nukes in his own front garden.

The long term impact of modern hydrogen fusion bombs isn't actually all that clear. Fission bombs create a great deal more radioactive material as far as I know - but there haven't been enough fusion bomb tests to really form an opinion. Safe to say it would still be game over for humanity as we know it though.

b0r1s

Fair enough and yes, there will probably be some "beautiful" cinematography in there, which is going to be interesting to see how that impacts on what will also be the death and destruction. Having said that, that bus scene in Icendies properly gut punched me, but it was also incredibly well framed, real head fuck.

davyK

I can imagine the actual strike being much better in its implementation in a modern version - certainly in parts. Wonder if we will see a melting ET doll!??!!

This is powerful stuff. The use of silence isn't something we "see" enough of. We aren't worth hitting any more anyhow - we make fuck all now. Transfer all of our financial data files to an unknown data centre and we are dead in the water.

EvilRedEye

I finally got around to…

Road House (2024): At first it seemed like this might be a trashy but fun punch-‘em-up but it ended up being quite bad really. The nearest comparable for me would be a bad JCVD film, specifically Double Team co-starring basketball star Dennis Rodman. I did enjoy some of the early fight scenes, which have an interesting kinetic feel, before they took things too far.

The script is bad. Unfortunately, they don’t have any self-awareness that the script is bad so the film is a whole two hours long, much of which is uninteresting talking. At least Double Team was a tight 90 minutes!

I didn’t think Conor McGregor was that bad (he’s better at acting than Dennis Rodman, anyway) but the script and film are constantly like “Oh my gawd everyone, it’s Conor McGregor!!” and I don’t think he can pull off that kind of treatment. If he does another film, he needs to figure out facial expressions that aren’t just grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

I generally didn’t think any of the cast were particularly good. I never really felt I ever had a handle of what Jake Gyllenhaal’s character was supposed to be and he felt a bit phoned in at times.

For me the film badly went wrong with the boat fight with the really bad CGI. After that a really strong sense of unreality grips the film and never lets go. The final battle with Conor McGregor looks really bad when in any sense - even just viewing the film as punchy fun action - it should be the climax of the film.

This feels very direct-to-video so I’m not surprised that Amazon mandated it go… direct-to-video. I wanted this to be fun nonsense, like the MonsterVerse but with people punching each other instead of monsters, but I didn’t even enjoy the action after the early scenes. ★★☆☆☆

Moot_Geeza

Conor McGregor in RH2024 could be an origin story for Father Stack in Father Ted.

nick_md

Well now I'm interested

regmcfly

Yes as am I

regmcfly

I see you're jumping on the old picture there.

RamSteelwood

EvilRedEye wrote:

I finally got around to…

Road House (2024): At first it seemed like this might be a trashy but fun punch-‘em-up but it ended up being quite bad really. The nearest comparable for me would be a bad JCVD film, specifically Double Team co-starring basketball star Dennis Rodman. I did enjoy some of the early fight scenes, which have an interesting kinetic feel, before they took things too far.

The script is bad. Unfortunately, they don’t have any self-awareness that the script is bad so the film is a whole two hours long, much of which is uninteresting talking. At least Double Team was a tight 90 minutes!

I didn’t think Conor McGregor was that bad (he’s better at acting than Dennis Rodman, anyway) but the script and film are constantly like “Oh my gawd everyone, it’s Conor McGregor!!” and I don’t think he can pull off that kind of treatment. If he does another film, he needs to figure out facial expressions that aren’t just grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

I generally didn’t think any of the cast were particularly good. I never really felt I ever had a handle of what Jake Gyllenhaal’s character was supposed to be and he felt a bit phoned in at times.

For me the film badly went wrong with the boat fight with the really bad CGI. After that a really strong sense of unreality grips the film and never lets go. The final battle with Conor McGregor looks really bad when in any sense - even just viewing the film as punchy fun action - it should be the climax of the film.

This feels very direct-to-video so I’m not surprised that Amazon mandated it go… direct-to-video. I wanted this to be fun nonsense, like the MonsterVerse but with people punching each other instead of monsters, but I didn’t even enjoy the action after the early scenes. ★★☆☆☆

Agree with pretty much all this. First fight scene outside the bar was fun but it just got sillier (and not in a good way) from that point on

b0r1s

I don’t get why all of these reviews are surprises. The original was dogshit. This is clearly just paying homage to that.

RamSteelwood

The original is great fun and a masterpiece in comparison to this one.

b0r1s

Christ! It must be the worst film ever made.

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