The Film Thread

[The Bear]

I like Amy Adams. She's gorgeous.

I noticed a different Will Ferrell film appear on Netflix the other week. Another of his straight non-comedy roles. Can't remember the name though. Looks decent and I like seeing comedians do straight roles. He was great in Stranger Than Fiction.

 

[So Long Architect]

I like Amy Adams. She's gorgeous.

I noticed a different Will Ferrell film appear on Netflix the other week. Another of his straight non-comedy roles. Can't remember the name though. Looks decent and I like seeing comedians do straight roles. He was great in Stranger Than Fiction.

Yeah, she's lovely. Can't stand Will Ferrell though.

 

[The Bear]

Maybe that's just his comic persona, which I agree can get grating very quickly.

Put him in a straight role however and you see the real actor emerge. Steve Carrell is the same too.

 

[So Long Architect]

Steve Carrell I really like in either format.

Don't know if I've seen WF in a straight role so I'll reserve judgement, but I probably wouldn't watch a film with him in it anyway just because he was in it.

 

[The Bear]

The one I mentioned before Stranger Than Fiction is really good. It also has Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman.

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0420223/

It's about a bloke who starts hearing Emma Thompson narrating every moment of his life in his head and thinks he's going mad.

Check out the reviews on metacritic from the Imdb link.

 

[Bit on the shaggies]

Saw Batman V Superman this morning. As with Man of Steel - first 2/3 good but let down by last third. Also didn't sympathise with Batman as he's a nasty piece of work. He's cool but I wasn't rooting for him at all and once the final act kicks in he's useless. He's also useless going forward to the Justice League as events are going to be far above his pay grade. I get that there is a fucked up Batman that nerds want to see and I can't wait to see what Affleck does in his standalone movie but this incarnation of Batman can't exist in this Marvel-esque world they are rushing to re-create.

He can exist, well should be able to in any case, as the brains behind the Justice League. That's his standard role in JL stories. This itself is often a bit grating because JL plot lines usually have Superman appearing to be bit of a dimwit.

 

[lemonjelly]

Trainspotting 2 filming starts next month according to Robert Carlyle.

 

[machin05]

What's the Will Ferrel film where he has to sell all of his stuff on the front yard of his house? Straight role. He was good in that. I like his comedy though tbf.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Trainspotting 2 filming starts next month according to Robert Carlyle.

Or Porno to give it the books title. I thought that a Canadian film company already shot this one, I'm not holding out too much hope for the film.

I was a massive fan of the first one, but I can't see it having the same effect for me, the book was average in my opinion and without the original characters the interest would have been lost.

I was massively disappointed with Filth as a film, I thought that was the 2nd best book I've read by Welsh - saying that I haven't read Skagboys and Blade artist looks interesting

 

[lemonjelly]

Skagboys is a really really good book. I had several genuine moments of hilarity reading the book. Possibly the best out of the lot to be honest.

I didn't mind porno. Thought it was a decent book. Quite liked the story. Idiotically it took me ages to realise Diane was Diane! :facepalm:

I thought filth was ok. Didn't bother with the film though.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Was Filth the one with James McAvoy in it?

Thought it was alright.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Looks like I'm going to be ordering Skag boys as I'm after a new book!

Porno was ok, and I liked the Sickboy narrative, but I found myself waiting for the other characters to be brought back into more than I was enjoying the story progression, it was leading up to it and managed to overshadow what was probably a good stand alone story

Yeah Filth was a really good book in my opinion just couldn't translate onto film as well as it read, like American Physco there was a lot of inner dialogue that really made the book - which is where film as a format falls down.

Mark, it was ok as a film, but just missing so much of what I really liked about the book that it seemed as a disappointment.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

American Psycho is a pretty dated book now. It's like reading a digested version of every Vogue issue between 1985 and 1988. The film is still magnificent though.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Don't think I even knew it was based on a book, certainly hadn't read it anyway, so I was never going to pick up anything missing in that respect. I remember some of it being a bit odd but he spent half the time smashed off his tits from what I remember so sort of justifies some of it I suppose, not one that I'd be raving about to mates or rushing to see again but watchable enough.

 

[lemonjelly]

Skagboys is the longest book of the 3. To be honest, probably my favourite.
Be interested to know your opinion newbridge. I rated it at the time a lot, I recall encouraging a few mates to read it.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

American Psycho is a pretty dated book now. It's like reading a digested version of every Vogue issue between 1985 and 1988. The film is still magnificent though.

I would strongly disagree on that, the book went really into his underlying personality issues - yes the 'topical' references were dated before it was even released but the underlying apathy that exists in the characters is essential in understanding how he could possibly exist in a morally vacuous society.

I'm currently reading one of his newer books Lunar Park, the first passage of the book was very interesting reading

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Skagboys is the longest book of the 3. To be honest, probably my favourite.
Be interested to know your opinion newbridge. I rated it at the time a lot, I recall encouraging a few mates to read it.

Will do, just got to finish Lunar Park but I'll get it on order.

 

[The Bear]

What's the Will Ferrel film where he has to sell all of his stuff on the front yard of his house? Straight role. He was good in that. I like his comedy though tbf.

That's the one that's just come on Netflix that I mentioned.

 

[The Bear]

Trainspotting 2 filming starts next month according to Robert Carlyle.

It already started according to what I read last month:

http://screenrant.com/trainspotting-2-filming-start-edinburgh/

 

[Boozad]

American Psycho is a pretty dated book now. It's like reading a digested version of every Vogue issue between 1985 and 1988. The film is still magnificent though.

I'd take the book over the film any day to be honest. It's one a few books that stays in my 'keeper' pile and I could read over and over again, watching the film once was more than enough though.