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Watched that social media documentary again today, stop started it, rewound, listened, looked people up.
Fascinating.
I think I'll go and watch dystopian films with Russian hardbass backgrounds and see if I can mellow out a bit.
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Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
On Amazon Prime and torrent sites now.
No review because I've just started watching it. |
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I'm halfway through watching Soylent Green with Charlton Heston ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm - DNF (score)
I very much enojed the first Borat movie when it was released. The new one? Well, perhaps I'm getting too old for this kind of humor, or I just had higher expectations. To be fair, there were a few funny bits, but all and all, I basically skipped through the film. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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I always love going to the cinema. And nowadays I understand the people who want to sit RIGHT UP THE FRONT
The one thing I regret not seeing - yet - on a big screen is Cliffhanger, with Stallone. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans 66) 9/10
Carroll Shelby stuck in the middle between Henry Ford II and Ken Miles.
Well worth a look.
Its not about the cars, its about the personalities.
Great little film.
Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale as Ken Miles.
Also, we then followed that up with Martian, because we decided to keep doing Matt Damon.
That was also good, if slightly unbelievable.
But hey, its Space, who knows what could happen Out There.
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hellkat wrote: | Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans 66) 9/10
Carroll Shelby stuck in the middle between Henry Ford II and Ken Miles.
Well worth a look.
Its not about the cars, its about the personalities.
Great little film.
Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale as Ken Miles.
Also, we then followed that up with Martian, because we decided to keep doing Matt Damon.
That was also good, if slightly unbelievable.
But hey, its Space, who knows what could happen Out There.
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Le Mans 66 is ace. First time I've found Matt Damon actually likeable. The main unbelievable part about the Martian is that the US government would spend billions of dollars to rescue one man. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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I'm only just starting to recognise Matt Damon in things.
Apparently he was in all the Bourne things (?) but I never watched those as I couldn't cope with the double-double agent-agent thing.
He reminds me of the guy who plays Dexter.
Mind you, I am only just starting to know who a whole bunch of actors are, all those of a certain age (like, younger than Leonardo di Caprio), I often have no idea who they are.
And the women even less so.
I have to watch Graham Norton so that I know who all these people are
Ryan who? oh, himmmmmm ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Muscle. 8/10.
Shot entirely in monochrome, stars Craig big geezer Fairbrass as Terry a gym junkie who is into lots of naughty things; just stereotypically like all his character portrayals are.
Then there is Simon, a hen pecked call centre worker who has a shit job and failing marriage. Simon joins the gym, meets Terry who trains him and manipulates him. Simons wife walks out, Terry moves in as a lodger (help pay the mortgage) etc.
Things turn sinister, just as you would expect it to. A good film, plenty of twists and turns. Set in Mackem land. A good flick, worth a rewatch.
Trailer. https://youtu.be/yJLKaqlRmic?t=1 |
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Hillbilly Elergy - 8/10.
I only found this film because it was mentioned as an opposite example within the review comments of The Aeronauts (which is something my wife wants to watch). The Aeronauts has a cracking Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics but the audience score is abysmal - why? Because they rewrote history to take the heroic man out of the equation and plonked a fictional women in there instead, because diversity. Anyway...
Hillbilly Elergy got absolutely panned by the critics - a score of ~25% on Rotten Tomatoes. But the audience score is in the 80's, so what do?
Well I investigated and found this sort of response to it:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/03/hillbilly-elegy-netflix-uses-personal-experience-promote-stale-bootstrap-nonsense
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/hillbilly-elegy-review-jd-vance-memoir-adaptation-netflix-director-cast-oscars-b1721500.html
Yes, it's fair to say that the lefties didn't warm to it.
Well, I watched it and thought it was excellent. It's a Ron Howard film with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack - that's always a good start. It is gritty to watch and has an authentic feeling - Howard doesn't overdo the messaging by any stretch, it's not a political film, but it promotes the general ethos that you have to take personal responsibility for your position in life and with hard work and good choices you can escape the destitution. I can see why those that feel the Govt needs to step in to save people from themselves wouldn't like it.
For me, it resonated. Especially towards the end where the lead character essentially 'cleaves' from his mother to do what's right by him in the long term so that he can do more for the family over the long run. Having done similar with my parents, although not to the same gritty degree, I could relate to it massively.
Some great casting and stellar performances throughout. A tough but involving watch. |
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Le Mans with Steve McQueen
Rush, about James Hunt and Niki Lauda
Brilliant. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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arry wrote: |
I only found this film because it was mentioned as an opposite example within the review comments of The Aeronauts (which is something my wife wants to watch). The Aeronauts has a cracking Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics but the audience score is abysmal - why? Because they rewrote history to take the heroic man out of the equation and plonked a fictional women in there instead, because diversity. Anyway... |
So we got around to watching this....
The Aeronauts - 4/10
The true story can be found here:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets
I wanted to watch this in the spirit of trying to ignore the fact they wrote out the important guy - Henry Coxwell, who saved both their lives in reality - with a woman for the sake of the movie's interest levels. It was, of course, tough to do but I did my best to appreciate it for what it is. Given the hype the critics piled into their reports - such as this little gem:
Quote: | Flamboyantly cinematic, epic on a scale as vast as the sky itself, director Tom Harper's airborne yarn about a history-making 1862 balloon flight offers more authentic thrills than a dozen Marvel movies. |
So what did I make of it? Well, this one was more accurate:
Quote: | The Aeronauts is more than content in being that breed of film that you can rely upon on a rainy Sunday afternoon, one which will quite happily trade on period drama cliches |
It's London in the 1860's and a dude obsessed with the science of weather prediction meets a girl who's obsessed with flying a balloon cos reasons - we never really get to find out the reasons other than she had a husband that also did it but he's dead now (no spoilers here). We get a bit more of why James Glashier likes his science as there's a heartwarming scene with him and his dad, his dad being aged and going into dementia, where James is seen by his father as the 10 year old he once was in his observatory. But ultimately, the two main characters - nay, the only characters really, given the airborne nature of the adventure - are just bashed together out of necessity rather than chemistry.
There are a couple of other characters - Robert Glenister doing a decent job of being the old hard lined b'stard that's paid for the trip and that means they're jolly well going up there regardless of what the weather does; and Hamish Patel (who just turns up in everything period drama at the moment, for reasons of I can only imagine diversity where none would have existed) as the plucky supportive best friend of James who ultimately becomes the convincer when Emily - the balloon pilot - decides she doesn't want to take to the sky after all because suspense and drama. Otherwise it's pretty much the James and Emily show.
And that's a problem because ultimately, both are unlikeable. James is stuffy and boring to start with, then turns into a dick mid flight, then goes into some sort of philosopher mode, and then has his shot as saving the day to become the hero. To be fair to James, the script doesn't portray it brilliantly but the reason he becomes a bit of a dick is from altitude sickness / lack of oxygen but it doesn't come across very sincerely at all. Meanwhile, Emily goes from being a drunk down and out, to a loud brash circus performer, to bossy megabitch, to unbelievably strong and robust heroine character, to being emotional wreck, and then of course in the last action being the heroine saviour again as they couldn't let James have the last moment like that, after building the film up all the way through to bang the 'women can do anything' drum.
Ultimately, it wasn't the fact they've rewritten history that bothered me, it was the unbelievable number of times they had to squeeze in something cringeworthily 'man bad woman good' - it's incredible how they've managed it. In fact, it's a bit like the Life of Brian:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PObBA2wH5l0/hqdefault.jpg
Quote: | Francis: I think Judith's point of view is valid here, Reg, provided the
Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every
man--
Stan: Or woman.
Francis: Or woman...to rid himself--
Stan: Or herself.
Reg: Or herself. Agreed. Thank you, brother.
Stan: Or sister.
Francis: Thank you, brother. Or sister. Where was I?
Reg: I thought you'd finished.
Francis: Oh, did I? Right.
Reg: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man ...
Stan: Or woman.
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Seriously. From the vaguely credible 'we're higher than any man OR WOMAN has ever been to the outright preposterous 'find some other madman to get in a balloon with you...... Or a woman' This was on top of the scenes where Emily just goes strolling through Greenwich and of course you get the nasty man-bad 'you shouldn't be here because you're a woman!' to which she responds 'whatever, whatever, I do what I want cos I'm a strong independent woman'. You get the picture.
It just felt so utterly fake. The characters are weak, the script not very credible, the 'adventures' manufactured and all of the ways in which the director has tried to increase the threat level to bring on the action / suspense are just so transparent. Right down to the will they won't they become romantically involved.
With that said, it's an easy Sunday afternoon watch if you're so inclined to just watch a film for the sake of watching it. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 131 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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