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Started by SmallBlueThing, 04 February, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

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Dandontdare

Quote from: Radbacker on 25 March, 2017, 10:37:08 AM
umm, i watched Power Rangers today (so sue me, it was that or Beauty and The Beast)..... I think Yellow is meant to be a lesbian)

Which is why it's been given an 18 certificate in Russia - in fact both of those films have been denounced as gay propaganda by the same judge:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/24/power-rangers-russia-age-restriction-lgbt-character

Professor Bear

Wasn't there also social media chatter about the Pink Ranger distributing child pornography to get back at someone?

Shin Godzilla - which is kind of the Casino Royale of Japanese Godzilla films: a more grounded reboot of a monolithic franchise with a history of wild swings between grittily angsty and laughably silly, sometimes within the space of the same film.  This outing travels the familiar path of Toho's Big G reboots by returning to the tropes of a nation responding to catastrophe that's often hit home with a Japanese audience well-used to God's attempts to wipe them from the face of the Earth, but this time out, the treatment focuses more on bureaucratic cowardice and the intrusive militarism of the Americans (who are played by Japanese actors) in the face of some disaster effects that might look familiar to anyone who watched footage of the 2011 tsunami.  The script is not exactly coy about what it's taking a swing at, and that anger is something I don't think we've really seen in a Godzilla film in quite a while.
Godzilla himself gets a remake as a morphing, mutating horror working his way through several forms to a final evolution into The Most Dangerous Monster Of All - so fair warning [spoiler]to Twilight Zone/Scary Door viewers that the final shot might feel a bit cheap[/spoiler] - and is pretty horrible to behold right up until the reveal that the plan to stop him is to get him too drunk to fuck.  There's a bit where they knock him down and then use a crane with a hose on it to spray antifreeze into his mouth to get him airlocked and the look on his face - I don't think I've ever seen any version of Godzilla look that happy, and then he gets up and starts swinging wildly (now we know that Godzilla is a mean drunk) it just made me think of Bill Murray's line from Ghostbusters about the giant Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man and how they just needed to get him drunk and laid.  This bit looks really silly in practice, especially all the trains and cranes moving really quickly to get the drinking straw for a cocktail into Godzilla's mouth, but I do appreciate that the makers wanted to differentiate from the overused ticking bomb dynamic of this kinds of finale, and also the fact that Godzilla movies have been here many, many times before, and just having him explode, turn into a giant skelington, or even melted by his own awesomeness has already been done.
A little long for kids, and probably not silly enough, but worth a look if you liked the recent US remake.

Smith

But unlike the US version,this one actually has Godzilla in it. :)

Michael Knight

'Voyage to the bottom of the sea - the movie'.

Bought this on DVD a few years ago and finally watched it other night. Good movie if not a patch on the TV series it served as a pilot for. Barbara Eden (aka I dream of genie) is as beautiful as ever in this. 

CrazyFoxMachine

The Machinist (2004)

I haven't seen this since studying it as a student over a decade ago and it's actually far more likable than I remember it what with the lilting classical score and offbeat tone. It's stylistically impressive - succeeding in putting across a deep sense of unease with near-total desaturatuation, the mesmerizing spiral into  paranoia and the harrowing appearance of Bale. It still firmly sits in the category of "early 00s sombrecore" but it certainly functions well on its own terms.


Jim_Campbell

Kong: Skull Island. Not much to add other than in general agreement that the characters are largely paper-thin and the plot is fairly perfunctory, but that none of this matters because the cast has more than enough screen presence to carry off this nonsense with admirably straight faces and the whole thing is tremendous fun and Kong himself is fantastic.

(As an aside, I very nearly shouted "Shut up and take my money!" at the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer...)
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Rara Avis

Oh dear I must be the only one that didn't like Kong.

Terrible plot and even worse acting.

Kong was the best actor in it although he's unlikely to win any awards.


Magnetica

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 26 March, 2017, 12:23:44 PM
(As an aside, I very nearly shouted "Shut up and take my money!" at the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer...)

I watched all 3 trailers on a friend's brand new 50 inch 4K telly on Saturday.

Excitedly looking forward to it doesn't cover it...looking forward to this even more than SW ep 8.

Mattofthespurs

Get Out

Very good despite one or two plot holes (the opening scene being one).
Enjoyed it a lot 8/10

Dark Jimbo

Green Room. Oof! Not what I expected (in a good way). That was truly brutal. I think knowing little about this going in really helped. Patrick Stewart worth the metaphorical admission price alone, as always!
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Keef Monkey

Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 28 March, 2017, 05:54:43 PM
Get Out

Very good despite one or two plot holes (the opening scene being one).
Enjoyed it a lot 8/10

Out of curiosity (and with spoiler tags!) what was the opening scene plot hole? I didn't pick up on anything there but I don't often spot such things.

Great movie I thought (although there was a very loud clanging noise in the screen we were in which persisted for the whole film and which I assumed would warrant some sort of refund but all we got was an apology. Took the tension out of it all a bit).

Mattofthespurs

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 29 March, 2017, 09:19:25 AM

Out of curiosity (and with spoiler tags!) what was the opening scene plot hole? I didn't pick up on anything there but I don't often spot such things.



[spoiler]It did not match up with the rest of the film at all. It seemed like the black guy was killed. Why kill him. It set the film up to be about racists when it's actually quite the opposite. It's been made clear that the victims of the 'body swaps' are brought to the house by Rose and then auctioned off but the abducting a random black guy off the street? I appreciate that he could have made his own way and was following directions but to me it seemed like a bit of mis direction so that you don't try and guess the rest of the movie straight out of the gate. I thought, on reflection, that there were quite a few plot holes but no enough to stop me enjoying it.[/spoiler]

Keef Monkey

Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 29 March, 2017, 12:47:07 PM
Quote from: Keef Monkey on 29 March, 2017, 09:19:25 AM

Out of curiosity (and with spoiler tags!) what was the opening scene plot hole? I didn't pick up on anything there but I don't often spot such things.



[spoiler]It did not match up with the rest of the film at all. It seemed like the black guy was killed. Why kill him. It set the film up to be about racists when it's actually quite the opposite. It's been made clear that the victims of the 'body swaps' are brought to the house by Rose and then auctioned off but the abducting a random black guy off the street? I appreciate that he could have made his own way and was following directions but to me it seemed like a bit of mis direction so that you don't try and guess the rest of the movie straight out of the gate. I thought, on reflection, that there were quite a few plot holes but no enough to stop me enjoying it.[/spoiler]

Ah, gotcha. I didn't take it that [spoiler]he'd been killed, thought he'd just been chloroformed and bundled in the trunk. They mention later on when they're explaining their nefarious plans that the main character is lucky it was Rose who brought him in because the son of the family had different, less pleasant 'wrangling' methods, so I took that to mean it was him doing the kidnapping at the start. The directions thing seemed to just be him getting lost (he mentions he's at such-and-such Street when he should be at such-and-such Avenue or something) and wandering into their hunting area.

So that stuff didn't bother me, the one element that I wasn't too sold on was the way the transplanted characters behaved, because the performances definitely gave the impression of brainwashed zombie-like people rather than just white folk put into different bodies. If they were just being transplanted over and then living their lives as normal in new bodies then they were behaving really oddly. There's obviously a remnant of the original person in there supressed, so I wondered if they're behaving that way because it's a constant struggle to maintain that and keep them squashed down, in which case it sounds like a real nightmare so not sure why they'd bother with the whole process! Something with that wasn't gelling perfectly for me, but other than that I loved the film. Usually I can brush aside the odd plot hole for the sake of enjoying the whole, that or I'm just not perceptive enough to really pick up on them (more likely).[/spoiler]

Mattofthespurs

Finally got around to watching Inland Empire from David Lynch (only 11 years late).
Wow! Utterly brilliant.
I thought Muholland Drive was good (and it is) but Inland Empire turns it all the way up to 11.
I loved it, although mentally, and curiously physically, draining.
10/10

CrazyFoxMachine

Black Dynamite (2009)

Good solid fun. A parody that takes itself far too seriously is an absolute joy to watch and here the cast and crew are clearly in love with the source material to such a degree that they can't quite decide how straight to play it which is utterly utterly marvellous and gives the whole endeavor some real solid weight - so when it does jump the jiveshark about halfway through and goes completely crazy it feels fully justified and is extremely satisfying. Fucking amazing score too.