Film Thread (What have you been watching?)

[ckn]

We watched the new Dune film tonight. I thought 2hrs 40-odd would be an OK amount of time to fit the book into, maybe with some bits cut. 2hrs in, we weren’t even 1/3 of the way through the book content, it finally sunk in that it wasn’t the whole thing.

Annoyed now as it was like going to a fancy restaurant, getting a starter that was OK, showed some promise for the main course then being told “come back in a year or two for the main course”

[Oxford]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDg_1iB95ps&list=PLwygboCFkeeCIesLopukLci_MY2Vshibc&index=1&ab_channel=CarlTaylor

 

This is a list as long as your arm; it starts with a 1958 Maigret!

All in French, quite a few classics.

Edited April 17, 2022 by Oxford

[Oxford]

Yet another Youtube gem Ingmar Bergman movie list which includes "The Seventh Seal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXBevWxjbA&list=PLWuY-E1ZRlWGqACixJcVG4gy_SR1YrTuu&index=2&ab_channel=HairyMatD

[Number 16]

On 17/04/2022 at 00:57, ckn said:

We watched the new Dune film tonight. I thought 2hrs 40-odd would be an OK amount of time to fit the book into, maybe with some bits cut. 2hrs in, we weren’t even 1/3 of the way through the book content, it finally sunk in that it wasn’t the whole thing.

Annoyed now as it was like going to a fancy restaurant, getting a starter that was OK, showed some promise for the main course then being told “come back in a year or two for the main course”

I'm halfway through Dune, but won't be finishing it.

What a pile of poo.

[metallithrax]

This weekend:

Back To The Future

Boys in Blue - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186896/

On The Buses

Mutiny On the Buses

Holiday On The Buses

Space Jam

Looney Tunes: Back In Action

It Came From Beneath The Sea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Beneath_the_Sea

 

[Exiled Townie]

Watched the movie "Mary, Queen of Scots " (2018) on Netflix, one reviewer summed it up better than I could -  "a kind of nothing of a film. It's neither a rigorous history lesson nor a particularly interesting work of drama and character".

 

 

[Gerrumonside ref]

I rewatched ‘Memphis Belle’ on Sunday night.

Its a classic and much loved film for me that I remember seeing in the cinema when younger.

I only hope that when Tom Hanks reworks similar source material for his WW2 Mighty Eighth Air Force miniseries that he is able to treat it with similar care.

[Oxford]

1 hour ago, Exiled Townie said:

Watched the movie "Mary, Queen of Scots " (2018) on Netflix, one reviewer summed it up better than I could -  "a kind of nothing of a film. It's neither a rigorous history lesson nor a particularly interesting work of drama and character".

 

 

There'a far too many films stealing creative space like this and when viewed alongside the scraping the artistic barrel ones, usually called remakes or prequels, it does seem the film industry has lost its way ... big time.

[DavidM]

Airplane and Naked Gun . Film nights certainly don’t get any funnier than that 

[Exiled Townie]

5 hours ago, Oxford said:

There's far too many films stealing creative space like this and when viewed alongside the scraping the artistic barrel ones, usually called remakes or prequels, it does seem the film industry has lost its way ... big time.

Yep, been some stinkers out there lately that promised so much more. Was looking forward to The King (2019). supposedly the tale of Henry V and the battle of Agincourt - what a let down, total rubbish.

(The only bit I enjoyed was the accent of Robert Pattinson as the Dauphin who sounded like Officer Crabtree from 'Allo, Allo'.)

[Spidey]

On 17/04/2022 at 00:57, ckn said:

We watched the new Dune film tonight. I thought 2hrs 40-odd would be an OK amount of time to fit the book into, maybe with some bits cut. 2hrs in, we weren’t even 1/3 of the way through the book content, it finally sunk in that it wasn’t the whole thing.

Annoyed now as it was like going to a fancy restaurant, getting a starter that was OK, showed some promise for the main course then being told “come back in a year or two for the main course”

It was basically a prequel to good bits in the desert. I did like it but having watched David Lynch’s version and the Sci Fi channel’s mini series, I’m not sure if this is any better? Maybe that’ll be answered with part 2

[ckn]

2 hours ago, Spidey said:

It was basically a prequel to good bits in the desert. I did like it but having watched David Lynch’s version and the Sci Fi channel’s mini series, I’m not sure if this is any better? Maybe that’ll be answered with part 2

I do have a bit of a liking for Rebecca Ferguson. She was a definite plus in the movie...

There... I said a thing I like about it.

It was OK, part 2 has to really step it up though.

[gingerjon]

8 hours ago, ckn said:

I do have a bit of a liking for Rebecca Ferguson. She was a definite plus in the movie...

There... I said a thing I like about it.

It was OK, part 2 has to really step it up though.

Have they actually confirmed Part 2?

They hadn't when Part 1 was released.

EDIT

My error, missed it, scheduled for a release at the end of October next year.

Edited April 20, 2022 by gingerjon

[Oxford]

18 hours ago, Exiled Townie said:

Yep, been some stinkers out there lately

I remember some of the films about film makers in the past where they'd portray themselves as makers of quality merchandise, hardly likely now and questionable even then. It reminds me of films about Journalists with integrity ..... a nice idea as dead as the Dodo!

In my mind all these old film plots are in black and white, which probably indicates their vintage and lack of resonance with modern life.

What's funny is that I'm banned from politics on here but I think I just made the most politically contentious posting I've ever made.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Watched one of my all time favourites tonight. Casablanca. Pure brilliance. 

[Josef K]

I apologise if this has been mentioned in the previous pages. Has anyone seen Operation Mincemeat, is it worth going to the pictures to watch it ?. 

[Oxford]

 

 

Summer With Monika (Sommaren Med Monika) - 1953

[DavidM]

One of my all time fave films The Thing From Another World was on last night , straight after King Kong … so having both of those recorded will do me alright when there’s nothing on 

[Futtocks]

Someone just took the trailer for this year's Batman flick and used the magic of editing to show how much better it would have been with Adam West, Burgess Meredith etc.

 

[Shadow]

12 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Someone just took the trailer for this year's Batman flick and used the magic of editing to show how much better it would have been with Adam West, Burgess Meredith etc.

Adam West's Batmobile is still awesome.

Atomic Batteries to Power, Turbines to Speed.

[Oxford]

" The age of Adeline"

This is harmless but narration replaces decent script and storyline explanation which is always the give away of cinematic cluelessness!

[Futtocks]

The right people are involved, but I have misgivings about a sequel to This is Spinal Tap.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel-rob-reiner-1235145907/

[The Hallucinating Goose]

8 hours ago, Futtocks said:

The right people are involved, but I have misgivings about a sequel to This is Spinal Tap.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel-rob-reiner-1235145907/

For God's sake! Making sequels of old, classic films had already got to the point of utter ridiculousness with the upcoming release of Top Gun 2 but a sequel to Spinal Tap?! That on top of the announcement of a TV sequel to Full Monty is millimetres from tipping me over the edge to the point of borrowing a tank off some Ukrainian farmers and invading Hollywood!

JUST MAKE SOMETHING ###### ORIGINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Oxford]

Remaking Midwitch is a story of making the same film based on one which wasn't exactly great in the first place and yet more evidence of artistic bankruptcy in the film industry.

Surely that lack of ideas would make a far better script than an update kids go scary.

[Oxford]

Here Today with Billy Crystal good writing so all is not lost.