The Film Thread

[Langers]

I saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom on Sunday.

It's absolutely batshit MENTAL. If you've ever seen the episode of Only Fools and Horses when Del shares his idea for a film called 'There's a Rhino Loose in the City', it's about as ridiculous as that.

The dinosaurs are cleverer than the trained, qualified geneticists who have changed the world, the characters are completely 2 dimensional, and when you think it can't get any more insane, the 'WTF'-o-meter gets turned up a notch.

I fucking LOVED it.

 

[Tony Towner]

I took my lad to see that on Saturday. We both loved it even if it's bloody stupid.

 

[Johnny75]

The Shape of Water - a really good film that explores lots of issues as well as a damn good story, brilliantly shot and not afraid to be visceral when it needed to be.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Anyone seen Heriditary yet? Think we might use our free cinema tickets courtesy of Lloyds Bank on either that or Oceans 8, which Mark Kermode surprisingly quite liked.

 

[leedswolf]

The Shape of Water - a really good film that explores lots of issues as well as a damn good story, brilliantly shot and not afraid to be visceral when it needed to be.

Guillermo del Toro never disappoints. A remarkable film maker.

 

[Langers]

The Shape of Water is fantastic. Saw it at the Electric Cinema in Brum which was the perfect setting.

Gorgeous soundtrack too.

 

[Johnny75]

Guillermo del Toro never disappoints. A remarkable film maker.

Indeed, Pan's Labryinth is a superb film.

 

[Alan]

I saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom on Sunday.

It's absolutely bat$#@! MENTAL. If you've ever seen the episode of Only Fools and Horses when Del shares his idea for a film called 'There's a Rhino Loose in the City', it's about as ridiculous as that.

The dinosaurs are cleverer than the trained, qualified geneticists who have changed the world, the characters are completely 2 dimensional, and when you think it can't get any more insane, the 'WTF'-o-meter gets turned up a notch.

I $#@!ing LOVED it.

Does the lion die??

 

[Johnny75]

Dunkirk - brilliant from Nolan, shorter than I thought it would be and genuinely tense.

 

[SLA]

Calibre on Netflix. A brutal, taught thriller set in the Scottish Highlands. A couple of posh Scottish lads go on a hunting trip and needless to say, things don't go to plan. Think Deliverance with bagpipes instead of banjos (metaphorically speaking - there are no bagpipes). It's a fairly well-worn formula of outsiders in a rural community and one bad decision leading to more, but it's very watchable.

 

[Wombat del combate]

Calibre on Netflix.

Is the censored version called Kaliber?

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Calibre on Netflix. A brutal, taught thriller set in the Scottish Highlands. A couple of posh Scottish lads go on a hunting trip and needless to say, things don't go to plan. Think Deliverance with bagpipes instead of banjos (metaphorically speaking - there are no bagpipes). It's a fairly well-worn formula of outsiders in a rural community and one bad decision leading to more, but it's very watchable.

Nice, we nearly watched that last weekend. Went for War Machine instead. Very meh. Will watch Calibre later upon your recommendation.

 

[The Bear]

I watched Dunkirk earlier in the week and was left disappointed.

It was bitty, disjointed, lacking in any real narrative, and I didn't really care about any of the characters. Very poor for a Nolan film. I gave it 4/10.

 

[Langers]

I loved Dunkirk. Superb film - helped by watching it on the big screen. Best sound I think I've ever heard in a film.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I wasn't sure what to think of Dunkirk, it was watchable but similar to Bear it felt a bit disjointed, by the end you can sort of fit the pieces together where the different stories overlap but it ended up feeling like a bit of a slideshow almost rather than one continuous piece.

 

[Alan]

Dunkirk as a directorial exercise is a brilliant watch. But it's not really a FILM, IMO. There is nothing to the characters, no arc, none of the traits of a good story. Which maybe it doesn't ultimately need, but for me it really takes away from the film's ability to be memorable. It's just a succession of set pieces.

 

[Langers]

Of course it's a film! It deliberately chooses not to include a backstory, serious character progression etc in order to focus on the event itself.

By doing so, I thought it captured the tension and atmosphere perfectly.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

That tension gets dissipated when they flit around between the different events and characters though, because it doesn't ever really mesh together until you've got to the end it all feels a bit broken up. It's a bit like watching a TV series off catch up and watching the episodes in a random order, only once you'd seen them all would you be able to juggle bits round in your mind and see the overall picture.

I think they'd probably been better off dropping at least one of the characters, maybe even dropping down to just one main group to focus on rather than skit around between the three in haphazard fashion.

 

[Pablowolf]

Watched 'Gotti' this week. Bad, really, really bad.

 

[Johnny75]

That tension gets dissipated when they flit around between the different events and characters though, because it doesn't ever really mesh together until you've got to the end it all feels a bit broken up. It's a bit like watching a TV series off catch up and watching the episodes in a random order, only once you'd seen them all would you be able to juggle bits round in your mind and see the overall picture.

I think they'd probably been better off dropping at least one of the characters, maybe even dropping down to just one main group to focus on rather than skit around between the three in haphazard fashion.

Each story tied up perfectly for me and gave a sense of each characters/ vignettes perspective on time during the day. The film is all about the short timescale and events that happen not the characters who fill roles in a greater story.

The fact the film isn't character driven is its greatest feat for me.