The Film Thread

[Pablowolf]

Extreme horror does nothing for me. The likes of Hostel, Human Centipede and anything by Rob Zombie does nothing for me. Even the likes of "that" scene in Irréversible turns my stomach.

 

[Templeton Peck]

I watched Hostel last night. A couple of questions:

1. Who actually thinks up this shit
2. Who actually enjoys watching it?

Absolute garbage. I'm all for a bit of clever filmmaking, subtle camera angles, lighting, atmospheric music etc but this was base level garbage with zero redeeming qualities. Just gratuitous violence with some tits thrown in for good measure.

Utterly bizarre - and they made 2 sequels?! :icon_lol:

Totally agree. Complete crap. How Eli Roth has any kind of career is beyond me.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Official Secrets is very good. Tony Blair man, fucking hell.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He's at the despatch box today, Labour win the next election.

Just sayin'

 

[Templeton Peck]

He's at the despatch box today, Labour win the next election.

Just sayin'

Well he wouldn't get my vote.

 

[Boozad]

Extreme horror does nothing for me. The likes of Hostel, Human Centipede and anything by Rob Zombie does nothing for me. Even the likes of "that" scene in Irréversible turns my stomach.

Hostel and Human Centipede are really plumbing the depths and I don't see what people get out of watching shit like that, but Rob Zombie's re-imagining of Halloween was brilliant. I suppose it helps that I love the original and while Zombie's version takes away the non-human element of Michael Myers it's still a quality film. The second one not so much.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Rob Zombie has many talents. Some of his music is awesome - La Sexorcisto is one damn fine album. His direction is powerful and his subject matter is usually great.

BUT

You don't fuck with Halloween. Never EVER try and take on the Carpenter original which is not only one of the greatest horror films of all time, but could be made a case for as one of the great films of the seventies full stop. It's bloody perfect. And I have always wanted to be in a band that uses the intro music to 1978 Halloween as stage intro music. It would be ridiculously good fun (at least until the poor crowd then had to hear the rubbish that I write)

 

[Boozad]

I'd tend to agree, I absolutely love the original as does Cass, it's one of my favourite films. But it was really good to see a fresh take on it to be honest, and one thing I thought it did do right was to bring a psychotic level of violence to the table that was missing in the original. I don't compare them as they're completely different animals and as you say, no remake would ever get near the original.

 

[Paul]

Watching Alien The Directors Cut (again)

It's pure class and never gets old !

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

BEST FILM OF 1979. A great favourite.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Just watching The Medusa Touch myself.

A TRUE CLASSIC

 

[Johnny75]

I think it’s based on The Killing Joke which I think is the only real Joker origin ever published. I’m more than familiar with the story so I tend to focus on the Joker as a character more than the story itself. I was gutted when I heard Heath Ledger was playing the Joker all those years ago but his performance was the best I’ve seen by far so hopefully this one measures up.

I think it was more the face paint that disappointed me, it out of canon and that’s one thing that always puts me off. Mind you, anything has to be better than Jared Leto’s Joker in Suicide Squad, that was absolutely appalling.

I watched the Joker today and it's outstanding. Phoenix is excellent from start to finish and to watch the unravelling of a human being acted so superbly is both shocking and compelling.

The violence unusually isn't unnecessary but it is very visceral and bordering in shocking. The film does a a good job of painting deep characters and you do question why you root for the Joker in parts when your brain should be telling you it's very wrong.

It hits all the anti-capitalist, anarchist and mental health buttons without going all right on and it does have some caustic lines about how we talk to each other now and the degeneration of government into violent childlike communication that eventually will lead to anarchy.

 

[Boozad]

I watched the Joker today and it's outstanding. Phoenix is excellent from start to finish and to watch the unravelling of a human being acted so superbly is both shocking and compelling.

The violence unusually isn't unnecessary but it is very visceral and bordering in shocking. The film does a a good job of painting deep characters and you do question why you root for the Joker in parts when your brain should be telling you it's very wrong.

It hits all the anti-capitalist, anarchist and mental health buttons without going all right on and it does have some caustic lines about how we talk to each other now and the degeneration of government into violent childlike communication that eventually will lead to anarchy.

Sounds like they’ve nailed it to be honest from that, looking forward to it now.

 

[Pablowolf]

Question -

This one has been doing my nut...I can sort of remember a scene from a film but can't remember the film, and it's really vague.

A character has a photo of a stately home as somewhere he aspires to live, another character looks at the photo and laughs because it's a photo of Buckingham Palace. The first character crumples up the photo.

That's all I've got. Any ideas?

 

[leedswolf]

When Harry met Sally?

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Question -

This one has been doing my nut...I can sort of remember a scene from a film but can't remember the film, and it's really vague.

A character has a photo of a stately home as somewhere he aspires to live, another character looks at the photo and laughs because it's a photo of Buckingham Palace. The first character crumples up the photo.

That's all I've got. Any ideas?

Sounds familiar but I can't place it either, feel like it's something I've watched fairly recently.

 

[Pablowolf]

Got it!!!!!


Cool Runnings.

 

[Paul]

Sanka, you dead Mon ?

 

[Pablowolf]

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Watched Toy Story 4 on Prime last night, bloody hell for a franchise that has meant so much to our young family it was a brilliant end.

I also admit that I got a little choked up...