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Post by flatandy on Dec 13, 2023 12:43:31 GMT
So... yesterday I was on the 11 hour flight from London. So I watched the following films, mostly so you don't have to.
Maggie Moore(s) - this is actually quite entertaining as a lightweight cop thriller with Jon Hamm. Worth watching.
Hypnotic - Ben Affleck "thriller" about trained agents with hypnotic abilities. Absolutely, utterly, gobsmackingly sh*t. Maybe one of the worst films I've ever seen. Shocking.
The List - very lightweight rom com about how everyone has a celeb f**k list. Also not very good, even by the standards of the genre. But less terrible than Hypnotic.
Scrapper - quite good, actually, but very bleak and British. About a 10? 12? year old girl who's having a bit of a laugh trying to evade social services after her mum died.
Asteroid City - the most Wes Andersony of Wes Anderson films. It looked great, didn't go anywhere, had a ridiculous structure. Perfectly watchable but I can imagine anyone who doesn't like Anderson despising it.
Theatre Camp - very sub-average mockumentary that, even worse, seems to think theatre's important and that US summer camps are not hideous.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 13, 2023 12:44:59 GMT
Also, in Oxford evading jetlag we watched The Commuter also so you don't have to. A Liam Neeson film, so as always derived from Taken, but with none of the intelligence or competent plotting. Absolutely pitiful, with pitiful effects on top.
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Post by Repat Van on Dec 13, 2023 12:54:23 GMT
So... yesterday I was on the 11 hour flight from London. So I watched the following films, mostly so you don't have to. Maggie Moore(s) - this is actually quite entertaining as a lightweight cop thriller with Jon Hamm. Worth watching. Hypnotic - Ben Affleck "thriller" about trained agents with hypnotic abilities. Absolutely, utterly, gobsmackingly sh*t. Maybe one of the worst films I've ever seen. Shocking. The List - very lightweight rom com about how everyone has a celeb f**k list. Also not very good, even by the standards of the genre. But less terrible than Hypnotic. Scrapper - quite good, actually, but very bleak and British. About a 10? 12? year old girl who's having a bit of a laugh trying to evade social services after her mum died. Asteroid City - the most Wes Andersony of Wes Anderson films. It looked great, didn't go anywhere, had a ridiculous structure. Perfectly watchable but I can imagine anyone who doesn't like Anderson despising it. Theatre Camp - very sub-average mockumentary that, even worse, seems to think theatre's important and that US summer camps are not hideous. I have not even heard or any of those films. |
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Post by marechal on Dec 13, 2023 20:26:50 GMT
Yes it does. That’s her family she is discussing. I don't understand how what she is in real life has any bearing on the script. |
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Post by Repat Van on Dec 13, 2023 22:47:58 GMT
Yes it does. That’s her family she is discussing. I don't understand how what she is in real life has any bearing on the script. Because Voice comment about it being an understandable position given he history of black people in the USA blah blah. I just found it interesting because the actress isn’t actually black. |
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Post by voice on Dec 13, 2023 22:56:47 GMT
tbf, in the US she would most certainly be viewed as black, especially by whitey.
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Post by mids on Dec 13, 2023 23:01:41 GMT
Mad Men. Quite good.
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Post by marechal on Dec 13, 2023 23:19:11 GMT
I don't understand how what she is in real life has any bearing on the script. Because Voice comment about it being an understandable position given he history of black people in the USA blah blah. I just found it interesting because the actress isn’t actually black. I still don't see how that should affect the script. Do you mean this person might have said, "My mom is white in real life so I don't think I would say something like that."(?) |
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Post by Repat Van on Dec 14, 2023 0:05:49 GMT
Because Voice comment about it being an understandable position given he history of black people in the USA blah blah. I just found it interesting because the actress isn’t actually black. I still don't see how that should affect the script. Do you mean this person might have said, "My mom is white in real life so I don't think I would say something like that."(?) I didn’t say it should affect the script? I just said I found it interesting. That’s all. |
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Post by mids on Dec 21, 2023 17:32:35 GMT
The Winter King. Fifth century Britain. Very obviously the dark ages.
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Post by marechal on Dec 21, 2023 19:35:32 GMT
Maestro, biopic about Leonard Bernstein.
Bradley Cooper was excellent as Bernstein, despite it apparently being racist that they used makeup to create a resemblance.
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Post by voice on Dec 21, 2023 20:02:10 GMT
Started the new series of Reacher, run of the mill really
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Post by voice on Dec 27, 2023 1:17:30 GMT
Hardly watched any TV over the holidays, aChistmas Carol of course, best Christmas story by far, rich bloke guilted and traumatised to pay his employees a fair wage, what's not to like?
Only other thing was watched Rebel Moon on Netflix, possibly the most derivative film of all time, it's just a mash up of Star Wars, a touch of Dune and Avatar, with a huge helping of the magnificent seven.
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Post by Repat Van on Dec 27, 2023 1:26:21 GMT
Fall of the House of Usher to get though the Boxing Day hangover. Pretty decent.
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Post by mids on Dec 27, 2023 7:39:07 GMT
How to Become a Mob Boss. OK ish. Not enough to sustain a whole series.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 27, 2023 8:27:13 GMT
Watched The Beast. Spanish
/French yarn about a feud between incomers and the locals in Galicia. Good story, poor ending IMHO.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 27, 2023 13:55:54 GMT
Watched The Holdovers on Christmas Evening. It's an Alexander Payne movie starring Paul Giamatti as an irascible teacher in the early 70s in Massachusetts. Right up my street. Charming and funny. And a Christmas movie, of a sort. Excellent. Not many people will see it.
And then watched Genie last night. A Richard Curtis version of genie story with Melissa McCarthy as the genie, set in New York. Absolute garbage but harmless enough.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 27, 2023 14:00:33 GMT
Oh, and on my flights last week I watched Man Up - 2015 rom com with Simon Pegg. Which was exactly what you'd expect of a Brit indie rom-com. Drunk woman protagonist. A lot of swearing. Notting Hill style chase across London. Familiar landmarks. You'll know pretty much what's going to happen after the first set-up. Enjoyable, but not a revelation
And Godfather 1&2 which I'd never seen before. Both decent films, but very long and quite glacially paced. It's hard to watch them now because of all the famous lines and all the stuff that has since been derived from them, so they don't look nearly as groundbreaking as the probably were at the time.
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Post by mids on Dec 27, 2023 17:12:18 GMT
How is it possible to not have seen The Godfathers?
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Post by flatandy on Dec 27, 2023 17:17:00 GMT
Because they were never on TV when I was young. And they're very long so you need to be ready to commit a long period of time to them.
All the deaths and fights looked very fake and overdone and badly acted. We've definitely improved dying in films over the years.
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