driver Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 21 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Just finished The Gentlemen. Overly convoluted, goofy in spots, not as good as Lock Stock or Snatch by far, but still alright. Nice (double) throwback to the end of The Long Good Friday. Charlie Hunnam should never try to affect a British accent again. Hilarious thing is he's a Brit. 2
Curt McGirt Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 No way. His accent is improbably bad. He seriously sounds like an American failing. Colin Farrell's Irish is on point though
driver Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 Here he is on Graham Norton with his native accent on full display.
AxB Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 Trying to watch The Revenant, but it's not grasping me at all. I think I heard too much about it before I saw it. False expectations maybe. Tom Hardy needs subtitles. Mumbling git. Even when he shouts he mumbles.
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 23, 2020 Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) I found it to be a bore, and I got no satisfaction from watching it. It was a very dull version of Mad Max: Fury Road. I remember some people arguing(not here) that this was better than Hateful Eight, which came out the same year. Edited October 23, 2020 by LoneWolf&Subs
Craig H Posted October 23, 2020 Posted October 23, 2020 I think it's just Charlie Hunnam's cadence or delivery or something because he sounded bad many times on Sons of Anarchy, but when I've heard his natural accent it also doesn't sound right. I think the only time he's sounded normal or natural was when he was on Undeclared years ago.
Curt McGirt Posted October 23, 2020 Posted October 23, 2020 6 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: It was a very dull version of Mad Max: Fury Road. The Revenant. You're gonna have to explain this one to me.
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 23, 2020 Posted October 23, 2020 It’s a non-stop action film with very little break in between. But unlike Mad Max, The Revenant feels less... Clever I guess would be the word, and two dimensional with its world, characters, and action. At the end of the day it felt like I watched another paint-by-numbers summer flick, but this one had “ACTING”. Or really Leo had to eat raw meat to get a fucking trophy when he should’ve won it five films ago. 1
Brian Fowler Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 The Revenant is stunningly beautiful. That goes a long way for me. I don't have much else nice to say about it though.
Shartnado Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 I was finally able to watch The Colour out of Space last weekend. By the end of it I was drunk off my ass, but it still creeped the crap out of me. Pretty much everything that happens in the story ended up happening in the movie, but in such a fucked up way that it felt completely different. My memory is hazy on both accounts, as it's been a good while since I've read the story. I loved the aesthetics of the movie and will probably buy it on DVD ( yeah, I don't even have Blueray) once I can get it super cheap. 1
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: The Revenant is stunningly beautiful. That goes a long way for me. I don't have much else nice to say about it though. To me I’ve seen better snow westerns before, so I wasn’t all that impressed with it visually. I wasn’t impressed either with the faked one-take gimmick that the director likes to utilize, which has nothing to do with the stories being told in Birdman, or The Revenant. Edited October 24, 2020 by LoneWolf&Subs
Trebor Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 Flipping thru the channels last night and saw that Death Wish 3 was just starting. When people talk about movies they are compelled to watch anytime they come across it randomly, this is the movie that does it for me. So insanely fucking enjoyable for all the wrong/right reasons. 2
Curt McGirt Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 4 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: I’ve seen better snow westerns before That reminds me that I still need to see The Great Silence. 1
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 6 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: That reminds me that I still need to see The Great Silence. You really should, and then watch it a 2nd time over because you might’ve expected something different. It’s no joke, my favorite Spaghetti Western. 2
Control Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 CONQUEST is on Prime. Is it as excellent as this still suggests?
Curt McGirt Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) 30 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: You really should, and then watch it a 2nd time over because you might’ve expected something different. It’s no joke, my favorite Spaghetti Western. I've had an inkling it might end up being mine as well. It's got to be on Prime or Netflix. I still need to see Conquest too! EDIT: It's a $2.99 rental on Prime. If I can't find it by my surreptitious means then I'll do that. Edited October 24, 2020 by Curt McGirt
elizium Posted October 24, 2020 Posted October 24, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: You really should, and then watch it a 2nd time over because you might’ve expected something different. It’s no joke, my favorite Spaghetti Western. The arthouse theatre brought the remastered version in 2018. I knew nothing about it beyond Klaus Kinski and that Tarantino copped some shots for the Hateful 8. Blown away, absolutely blown away. That ending is something Some modern western really needs to bring back that weird box gun that Silence uses. Edited October 24, 2020 by elizium
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 Probably a few of those Italian Revolution/Spaghetti Westerns use them. But I’m not much of a fan of those outside of Duck You Sucker, and The Big Gundown. I find that era of Spaghetti Westetns to be too silly.
caley Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 6 hours ago, Trebor said: Flipping thru the channels last night and saw that Death Wish 3 was just starting. When people talk about movies they are compelled to watch anytime they come across it randomly, this is the movie that does it for me. So insanely fucking enjoyable for all the wrong/right reasons. So good! I miss 80s movies where vigilantes take on particularly aimlessly violent street gangs. I'm still amazed/perplexed by the Spoiler rape scene where the street toughs rape and beat up Counselor Troi and the hospital phones them and says she's broken her arm. So Kersey and her husband go down to the hospital and the doctor says "I'm sorry she's expired" and Kersey says "But they told me she just had a broken arm" and the doctor does the equivalence of a shrug and that's it. Death Wish 4 is pretty good, too. Death Wish V is PAINFUL. Also related, this kills me I' 1
Control Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 started watching the 90s Gamera trilogy (each currently 99 cents to rent or 2.99 to own on ITunes). so far so good. 3
LoneWolf&Subs Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) I remember seeing the 3rd one first, and being hyper impressed by this much more serious, and darkly stylish take on live-action kaiju movies. Felt like watching a Madhouse horror anime, and not just a cheesy rubber suit movie. So after being impressed by the last one, I decided to catch the other two, and I have to admit I was disappointed. I had no idea the 3rd film was a real departure from the previous films in the trilogy. Not that they are bad, but they aren’t that different from the Godzilla films from that period. Edited October 25, 2020 by LoneWolf&Subs
Brian Fowler Posted October 26, 2020 Posted October 26, 2020 The third one is my favorite (and probably my second favorite Daikaiju Eiga, period) but I love all three. Though, yeah, seeing them in order is probably for the best. 1
Curt McGirt Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/02/johnny-depp-loses-libel-case-against-sun-over-claims-he-beat-ex-wife-amber-heard Might as well leave this here I guess. Johnny Depp has had a libel suit against the Sun in Britian being debated for months and he lost it. Apparently he was beating the shit out of his ex-wife Amber Heard which they brought to light. So, there's another one for the fire...
Tabe Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 15 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/02/johnny-depp-loses-libel-case-against-sun-over-claims-he-beat-ex-wife-amber-heard Might as well leave this here I guess. Johnny Depp has had a libel suit against the Sun in Britian being debated for months and he lost it. Apparently he was beating the shit out of his ex-wife Amber Heard which they brought to light. So, there's another one for the fire... That case isn't nearly as cut-and-dry as that article makes it seem. There's a big pile of evidence that Heard was physically violent toward Depp as well.
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