The Film Thread

[leedswolf]

Nobody. Most enjoyable.

 

[Pablowolf]

Without Remorse - Just in case you want to watch every war/revenge film cliche, one after another.

 

[The Bear]

Re-watched Big Trouble In Little China last night. Still one of my favourite films, and even if it is a little daft at times, it holds up well even now especially the martial arts and special effects.

Prince Of Darkness doesn't quite hold up as well as I remembered but is still decent. I tried Escape From New York having never seen it when I was younger and I thought that was quite a crap film tbh.

 

[Boozad]

Loved Big Trouble in Little China when I was a kid, watched it to death. Might have to watch it again, haven't seen it for years.

Never seen Prince of Darkness, can't say I feel I'd be blown away by it. Escape From New York was good in its time but I can imagine it doesn't hold up well. Carpenter was quality in his time (Christine, The Thing and Halloween are still classics) bit that was a film that lived in an era.

 

[The Bear]

The Thing is great but I haven't seen that in ages.

Have you seen the modern prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead? Thought it was gonna be crap but it wasn't too bad actually.

 

[Boozad]

The Thing is great but I haven't seen that in ages.

Have you seen the modern prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead? Thought it was gonna be crap but it wasn't too bad actually.

Yeah, it’s been a while so I can’t really remember it but I know I enjoyed it. I’ll have to watch it again, it’ll give me a reason to watch the original again as well.

 

[Paul]

The Thing is great but I haven't seen that in ages.

Have you seen the modern prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead? Thought it was gonna be crap but it wasn't too bad actually.

The prequel was excellent, against all expectations

 

[WolfmanOz]

Watched them both again the other day - prequel first.

The prequel is quite good, but the original is still one of the best science fiction horror thrillers ever made (on a par with the first 2 Alien movies). John Carpenter's best film.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Watched them both again the other day - prequel first.

The prequel is quite good, but the original is still one of the best science fiction horror thrillers ever made (on a par with the first 2 Alien movies). John Carpenter's best film.

Totally. What makes it so good is not the horror and special effects that are the headline grabbers but the psychological tension that is constant throughout.

 

[WolfmanOz]

Totally. What makes it so good is not the horror and special effects that are the headline grabbers but the psychological tension that is constant throughout.

Absolutely !

Even after nearly 40 year the non CGI special effects are still outstanding but it's the tension throughout the film wondering who or whom may be infected that still makes it a great thrill-ride.

All topped off by the ambiguous ending which offers no neatly wrapped up denouement.

I actually didn't see it when it was released theatrically way back in 1982. Like many others, I saw it first on home video i.e. VHS ! ! !

Interestingly it's muted box-office on release is often blamed on E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial which was released at the same time in which that film was an optimistic science fiction movie compared to The Thing, which, when it's all said and done, is rather nihilistic.

As a serious film-buff for many years, it's in my top 50 films of all-time.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Just watched The Secrets We Keep. Decent watch, if a little predictable at times.

 

[The Bear]

Mortal Kombat.

Better than expected, but still not worth bothering with.

 

[Tredman]

Dark Waters on Prime was good - felt like it was something I should already have know more about.

 

[Johnny75]

Dark Waters on Prime was good - felt like it was something I should already have know more about.

Ruffalo does these films well and I had to give my frying pan a cold hard stare before using it again.

 

[Johnny75]

Honest Thief (Prime) - predictable Liam Neeson dreck with some shockingly poor dialogue and unbelievable nonsense of a plot. The action is decent if that’s your thing.

A Promising Young Woman (Sky) - Colourful using the Killing Eve palette but I felt sad for the main character. It’s a good watch and nowhere near as feminist as painted in the trailers.

Tenet (Sky) - Brilliant Nolan stuff. I liked Momento and once I’d stop trying to work everything out and just let the story be told it was a very enjoyable experience. Top class action and a very clever film. If you like to be the cleverest person in the room this film isn’t for you.

 

[Tredman]

Ruffalo does these films well and I had to give my frying pan a cold hard stare before using it again.

Yes, it was really well done. There's a lot of chatter in my industry about PFAS which has mostly passed me by but I did have the impression it was a new concern.. clearly not.

 

[WolfmanOz]

Well there’s been nothing new of interest to my wife and I . . . However, we have just finished watching series 6 of Line Of Duty . . . we’re now rewatching the first 5 series; which we’re both loving again.

In both our opinions, it’s the best TV police procedural drama ever made ! Great writing, acting and tension.

 

[lemonjelly]

Tenet (Sky) - Brilliant Nolan stuff. I liked Momento and once I’d stop trying to work everything out and just let the story be told it was a very enjoyable experience. Top class action and a very clever film. If you like to be the cleverest person in the room this film isn’t for you.

So not suitable for anyone offuv the forum then?

 

[WolfmanOz]

Tenet (Sky) - Brilliant Nolan stuff. I liked Momento and once I’d stop trying to work everything out and just let the story be told it was a very enjoyable experience. Top class action and a very clever film. If you like to be the cleverest person in the room this film isn’t for you.

Saw it late last year at the cinema (first and last time we have gone since the pandemic started). Unfortunately I found it very disappointing.

I’m a big Christopher Nolan admire. I think he’s one of the very film-makers today that can make interesting through-provoking films with a sense of real cinema and his fascination with time and how it plays out in his films is often breathtaking but I found this film an incoherent mess.

Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk are terrific movies - IMO Tenet despite the technical wizardry is not.

 

[BillyDee]

The Dead Don't Die. "Quirky". I'm not sure I can add much to that.