The Official Movie Thread

[Cronopio]

It's summer, so only Hollywood superhero blockbusters at the moment. Not interested in the least.

 

[Bloopy]

 

[CiG]

Watcching:


"Rest in pieces! Motherfucker!"

 

[rms]

Got back from Oppenheimer. Very happy, recommended to all

 

[CiG]

Holy shit rms liked something new.

 

[rms]

Great to be in a good theater environment . Curious to hear others when they get around to it

 

[no country for old wainds]

didn't realise oppenheimer was korean, now i'm intrigued

 

[rms]

Same cover. Nolan's a hack

 

[Cronopio]

Oppenheimer. The commodification of great human suffering. Now turning into the latest Hollywood buzz, alongside the frankly pointless Barbie.

 

[CiG]

@Slammed dunno if you use ABC's iview streaming site but they just added Limbo to it.
It's free, just gotta watch an advert before the movie starts.

Watched it last night and loved it. It's directed by Ivan Sen (Mystery Road, Goldstone etc) starring Simon Baker, and it's shot in black & white. It's about a city detective reviewing a 20 year old cold case of a missing indigenous girl in an ex-opal mining town. In typical Sen fashion everything is pretty understated and authentic, the cinematography is beautiful, and doing it in black & white makes everything feel very ghostly.

 

[Slammed]

It was on FTA a week or two back and I planned to watch it but the reviews were fucking terrible. Everything from boring, to poor story, to poor writing, to it being a snoozefest. I knew I should have watched it.
I'm going to hunt up iview. thanks

 

[CiG]

You might agree with all of that, but it's worth seeing at least once.

 

[Slammed]

I don't agree with all your reviews but in general when it comes to Aussie stuff we seem to agree more often than not.

 

[CiG]

I wish the love reaction emoji wasn't so gay lmao.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I wish the love reaction emoji wasn't so gay lmao.

 

[mutantllama]

Got back from Barbie, really enjoyed it. Made me cry at a few parts.

 

[Slammed]

I cry when I see Margot Robbie too. I cry because I wish I was 25 years younger and half a fucking shot with her!

 

[Slammed]

@Slammed dunno if you use ABC's iview streaming site but they just added Limbo to it.
It's free, just gotta watch an advert before the movie starts.

Watched it last night and loved it. It's directed by Ivan Sen (Mystery Road, Goldstone etc) starring Simon Baker, and it's shot in black & white. It's about a city detective reviewing a 20 year old cold case of a missing indigenous girl in an ex-opal mining town. In typical Sen fashion everything is pretty understated and authentic, the cinematography is beautiful, and doing it in black & white makes everything feel very ghostly.

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Just finished watching it. Totally agree. That was a great movie. Baker looks like a ganster with a buzzcut and three day growth. The use of slow dialogue and silent breaks between the dialogue was brilliant. The characters were played well. I like Rob Collins, watched him in Ten Pound Poms a few weeks back and thought he played a good role there too.

Those underground hotels are fucking weird the first time. When you can remove all light from a room and have no natural light sneaking in its a completely different feeling to being in a room with the lights switched off.

 

[CiG]

Glad you liked it so much! I think it's Ivan Sen's best movie so far, probably the best Aussie movie of the last few years, or more.

I actually had no idea Rob was in Ten Pound Poms. Is the show worth watching in general? I wishlisted it but never took the dive.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah I agree. I read it won a GoldenBear, whatever the fuck that is. But it should win something in the Australian Film awards, it's better than a lot of films that do win awards here. I loved the drone shots showing all the mines, it makes Australia look like swiss cheese!

I was kind of mixed about Ten Pound Poms. Overall I liked it but there was some moments in it where it got a little dull, but even those dull parts had a reason. I think Stephen Curry played a good role as the property overseer, he came off as the right amount of cunt you would expect from the time but you could tell he didn't always want to be like that. Warren Brown who played what was pretty much the lead role did pretty good keeping things interesting. While David Field played a complete bastard which I think he's prefected in nearly ever role he's played. They left it open for a second series which I think risks being too much same same, but I think the first series was worth watching. If nothing else it does show we Australians treated everybody like shit not just the Aborigines