Nobody seemed particularly bothered by the brother dying though. Maybe that's more realistic and I've been "over sensitized" (opposite to de-sensitized??) by the usual dramatic offerings.
What film did you watch last night?
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swee'pea99
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Indeed. Top fillum.
Easily one of the best films from last year!
swee'pea99
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Funny Games. German, very intense, very unpleasant. And deliberately so, by all accounts: the director avowedly wanted to make a film that showed the ugly reality of violence, shorn of Hollywood's fairy tale veneer. Interestingly, it suddenly occurs to me that there's virtually no graphic violence at all - all the nasty stuff happens off-screen. This is a psychological torture, not inyerface blood & guts. Not funny at all. But very good, in its own sinister way. EU bedamned, the Krauts are a rum bunch and no mistake. 8/10.
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AndyRM
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Stigmata - 8/10
Not watched this for a few years, but it's as excellent as I remember. The theology is pretty sketchy, but as a horror film it's very effective and I've never really understood why it was slated.
Not watched this for a few years, but it's as excellent as I remember. The theology is pretty sketchy, but as a horror film it's very effective and I've never really understood why it was slated.
John the Monkey
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Hanneke is a farking genius.
If you want something a bit less chilly, Amour is really good; Caché (sometimes listed as "Hidden") is a belter too, although more aloof than Amour.
John the Monkey
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The Book of Life
Really enjoyable animation based around Mexican folklore. Nice story, and some lovely visuals too.
Really enjoyable animation based around Mexican folklore. Nice story, and some lovely visuals too.
swee'pea99
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Comrades. Based round the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Bill Douglas in desperate need of an editor, or at least somebody to say 'er, Bill?' occasionally. Some fine performances and some ravishing cinematography, but all in all a way too slow way too long way too shapeless shambling mess of a film, polemical with all the subtlety and nuance of a Socialist Worker editorial. I quite enjoyed it, mind...but it's a bit of a train wreck.
swee'pea99
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Thelma and Louise. Remember enjoying this when it came out but that was a long time ago. It's aged well. A touching relationship, a credible plot, and cracking one liners all the way though. "I can't tell whether they're being real smart or just lucky." "Makes no difference really. Brains only take you so far, and luck always runs out in the end." Genuinely and - for its time - quite bravely feminist too. At least it seemed so to me, insofar as I can tell, as a bleurk. All this and one of the greatest final shots in the history of cinema. A cracker.
Electric_Andy
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Life (2017). Fairly gripping sci-fi film, set on a space station. A cross between "gravity" and "Alien", possibly not as good as either but worth a watch if you like sci-fi.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Jackie.
Very moving and not at all what I expected.
Very moving and not at all what I expected.
MontyVeda
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Ender's Game.
A half decent kid's sci-fi that doesn't really gel. I was sure the book would fill in all the gaps whilst watching, although i wasn't sure it was a film of a book until the closing credits. I'll give it a lowly 4/10 but reckon the book would score a lot more.
A half decent kid's sci-fi that doesn't really gel. I was sure the book would fill in all the gaps whilst watching, although i wasn't sure it was a film of a book until the closing credits. I'll give it a lowly 4/10 but reckon the book would score a lot more.
AndyRM
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Cracking film. Worth multiple viewings. Natalie Portman was phenomenal, as you'd expect.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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she was terrible i those star wars prequels... but then again, who wasn't?*
*Yoda, obvs!
AndyRM
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Nah, they made a bollocks of Yoda with CGI rather than a puppet.
John the Monkey
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Magic Magic
An odd one this - it has all the trappings of a horror movie, but charts the descent of a disturbed young woman into a breakdown with no supernatural or slasher elements at all. The protagonist is taken on holiday by her sister, who is mysteriously called away and left with the sister's group of friends, including the very unpleasant Brink (played by Michael Cera). Jetlagged, and on the outside of the group, she struggles to fit in, and descends into madness, with tragic consequences. It's a film that divides audiences, and I think most chatters would be on the side of those not liking it - I'm with Peter Bradshaw, whose description of it as "...a disquieting and unnervingly plausible depiction of mental breakdown. " is accurate.
An odd one this - it has all the trappings of a horror movie, but charts the descent of a disturbed young woman into a breakdown with no supernatural or slasher elements at all. The protagonist is taken on holiday by her sister, who is mysteriously called away and left with the sister's group of friends, including the very unpleasant Brink (played by Michael Cera). Jetlagged, and on the outside of the group, she struggles to fit in, and descends into madness, with tragic consequences. It's a film that divides audiences, and I think most chatters would be on the side of those not liking it - I'm with Peter Bradshaw, whose description of it as "...a disquieting and unnervingly plausible depiction of mental breakdown. " is accurate.
