The Official Movie Thread

[no country for old wainds]

HARRY BROWN sucks. its target audience is daily mail readers AKA the worst people on earth.

STRAW DOGS owns though.

going to see the new MI tomorrow.

 

[SentinelSlain]

I wouldn't say there's much going on in Harry Brown other than a kind of anti-chav exploitation, but I think it's decent enough. I think there kind of had to be a film like that anyway really, there are already a lot of films that show the "other side".

 

[AllShallFall]

Just saw The Gift. Incredible movie. Such a tense and foreboding atmosphere throughout.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I watched John Wick. Solid revenge flick, if not a smidge overrated.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i like it. nothing special, and totally silly, just hits the spot. i found the script (and line readings) rly amusing, and that club scene kind of gorgeous, and i just love when these kindsa things have all this background mythology. plus its way of filming headshots is p cool.

 

[CiG]

HARRY BROWN sucks. its target audience is daily mail readers AKA the worst people on earth.

For that reason alone? What was Dirty Harry's target audience?

Harry Brown was cool, not amazing, it was a second rate Gran Torino in my opinion, but entertaining to see Cain get brutal Kersey style.

 

[MoSeN]

Mad Max is the shit.

 

[SentinelSlain]

Harry Brown is considerably older than Gran Torino

 

[CiG]

Harry Brown is considerably older than Gran Torino

I'm just talking films here.

 

[SentinelSlain]

Actually, turns out I was wrong, I just remembered Harry Brown being older somehow.

 

[CiG]

Oh I thought you were just referencing some source material I wasn't aware of.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

i like it. nothing special, and totally silly, just hits the spot. i found the script (and line readings) rly amusing, and that club scene kind of gorgeous, and i just love when these kindsa things have all this background mythology. plus its way of filming headshots is p cool.

I just wish the main villain dude had more of a personality. Pretty cool that Theon Greyjoy is in it though!

I watched The Burning again last night. Great campy slasher with Jason Alexander possessing a full head of hair.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

English review for Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos!

If anyone fancies a bit of kinky spam, I recently disappeared down an S&M rabbit hole with Takashi Ishii's masterpiece (well, one of several) Flower and Snake (2004).

 

[no country for old wainds]

who doesn't love a bit of kinky spam?

For that reason alone?

idk, it might be the overarching reason. whole thing feels like a wish fulfillment fantasy for the cuntiest people in this country, its perspective is both obvious and kind of unpleasant. its vision of britain is embarrassing in its absurd faux-grittiness, and alongside that there's a layer of sentimentality that wouldn't be out of place in a shitty TV soap. the tone and writing just really rubbed me the wrong way *shrug* growing up in a tory area of britain prob contributes to this tho. got nothing against caine anyways, or DIRTY HARRY, or GRAN TORINO; it's not the vigilante stuff itself that bothers me.

 

[no country for old wainds]

new MISSION IMPOSSIBLE was fun, some quality set pieces. better than the recent bonds imo.

 

[CiG]

If you weren't a pome do you think you'd like it? I know what you mean, being too close to the content makes it hard to buy, I've had that with Australian films.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

Prom Night (1980) - generic shit. horrible pacing. feels like it's 3 hours long instead of 90 minutes.

 

[SentinelSlain]

If you weren't a pome do you think you'd like it? I know what you mean, being too close to the content makes it hard to buy, I've had that with Australian films.

I had the opposite experience of him, within the same country, living in a labour stronghold with a pretty hard core socialist father. I've also experienced kids from very rough backgrounds indicate disgust at the idea of america style "castle doctrine politics", usually specifically because it would force them to show respect to people physically weaker than them. So basically, I like the films premise because I know how shit the degenerate chav tribal subculture is and how no amount of romanticization, fetishism or excuses really help. It's good if grunting retards are forced to respect people who are less violent than them, because they are the kind of people that create everything that the retards use, every day of their lives.

 

[AllShallFall]

new MISSION IMPOSSIBLE was fun, some quality set pieces. better than the recent bonds imo.

I liked it, but I heavily doubt it will be better than Spectre.

 

[CiG]

I like the way you think SS.