What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[Hertz]

American History X (1998)

Imdb
Trailer

[anothercustom]

Baby Driver

Not as cool as the makers probably think it is. Watchable with a good soundtrack but would have liked a lot more of the driving scenes however gravity defying and unbelievable they may have been.

[Melchior]

Evelyn Prentice (1934) - 7\10

The 3rd of the 14 movies that William Powell and Myrna Loy did toghter. A good movie not great but as always William Powell and Myrna Loy are great on screen togheter.

[Brecht]

Querelle (1982)



Trailer

The story is about Georges Querelle (Brad Davis), a shady sailor who arrives with his ship in Brest, France. Querelle frequents a bar called La Feria, run by Madame Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), who has an ongoing affair with his brother Robert (Hanno Pöschl) while still married to Nono (Günther Kaufmann) who takes care of the bar's not so legal affairs. After Querelle gets in an opium business with Nono, he expresses his desire to sleep with Lysiane. But he has to throw dice with Nono first: if he wins, he can screw Lysiane, if he loses, he'll get sodomized by Nono. Well, Querelle loses deliberately and goes on to take advantage of his status as an object of love, contempt and desire.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film is an adaptation of Jean Genet's novel Querelle of Brest, published in 1947. While not among Fassbinder's greatest works, Querelle is a visually interesting film that makes good use of expressionist color and lighting. The entire film looks like a stage play and shines with some decent perfomances but I still kept checking how much time was left until the end. Maybe it's just me but the plot didn't seem to go anywhere and kept running in circles instead. If anything, it's the final proof of Fassbinder's directing talents. Fassbinder never saw the release of Querelle as he died from a drug overdose.

[Roubignol]

On last week, I just watched "J. Edgar" from Eastwood and the "Snowden" from Stone.

The Eastwood's film is interesting but not a masterpiece.
The make-up of old actors are terribly bad, then he didn't know what to do with the possibility that Hoover was bisexual.

The Stone's film is more interesting and better made, even if some explanations are not that clear.

But at the end of these both films, it clearly seems that we live in paranoiac societies, in which crazy people are spending billions and innocent lifes to fight other crazy people.

[tamsmith]

Enjoyed watching The Foreigner with Jackie Chan last night.

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by tamsmith

Enjoyed watching The Foreigner with Jackie Chan last night.

Yes he often comes round to my place to watch a DVD too

Not this ponderous shit though

Hex (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7335324/

I cannot be arsed not to post the imdb summary

During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch.

Sort of gets your imagination going doesn't it???? And FFS you need it as it is so slow moving dull and monotonous. There are 4 named actors and one plays a corpse

I cannot imagine the Director ever shouted out the word "Action" at any stage

Just to get you in the right frame of mind for the film here's a picture of a tree, you'll see lots of them in this film



A perfect Secret Santa gift for someone you hate

[Sir Honkers]

Someone here mentioned Europa Report and I'm glad I found their description interesting. Told in the 'found footage' style, it's must for anyone who enjoys thoughtful, intelligent scifi.

[rosestone]

Zoolander 2



This got terrible write-ups, but I laughed throughout. It's self-indulgent, but aren't all these types of movies? You know what you're getting with Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell et al.

I suppose the movie should be judged on it's celebrity cameos, as that's basically all it is - for me, some were good, some not so good.

There's a creepily excellent cameo by Benedict Cumberbund as 'All', an androgynous non-gendered model who just creeps everyone out by talking creepy and being creepy and touching people in a vaguely creepy way, which caused my wife to laugh uproariously and then rather incongruously say to me that 'hadn't she always said that Benedict Cumberbatch seems androgynous to her' (no, no she has never said that). There's Keifer Sutherland as Hansel's kinda spirit guide, a great piece of casting if you ask me, as Sutherland is exactly serious enough that even when you can tell he's trying not to laugh, it's great . There's a surprisingly good (if over-long) cameo by Sting. And there's Justin Beiber being murdered. Although perhaps best and most surprising of all was Susan Boyle, who appears for all of about 3 seconds, but had me laughing longer than all the others combined.

Then there are the ones that I thought didn't work - Neil DeGrasse Tyson (ordinarily I love him, but he's an astrophysicist - why is he there?). Katy Perry (pointless), and others that I'm too unhip to even recognise. There are also a load of fashionistas that I don't know and don't care about (except Naomi Campbell, who - let's be honest - is worth looking at regardless of what she's doing), who I'm assuming agreed to cameos because they wanted to appear to be in on the joke, rather than the butt of it.

The movie is also sadly lacking in the hilarious Jerry Stiller, but I guess he's retired now and can't be arsed. The movie has no plot, but doesn't really need one. Some of the gags are too self-indulgent, but, ya know, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, it's exactly what you expect. I liked it.

[Wendigo]

I've watched it twice in Japanese with English subtitles now I have the DVD at last and am watching it in dubbed English

Shin Godzilla (2017)
www.imdb.com/title/tt4262980/


The new Godzilla creature's genesis is awesome from the almost Anguirus like creature when it rolls inland up a river to a large crawling beast and then using the side of a tall building to pull itself up as it finds its feet before a final change as it evolves into something like the radioactive legend we all know and love as he wades through the buildings toward the centre of town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgyq6YKeIms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvFEspENxIU