The Film Thread

[BillyDee]

Rewatched Deadpool last night, it wasn’t what I remembered.

Same. I didn't remember Clint Eastwood being in it, thought it was that Wrexham dude...

 

[Lupo]

The Dead Pool (Dirty Harry almost in retirement) and Liam Neeson with one of the worst English accents I've ever heard

 

[Boozad]

Worse? Better?

Worse. Should have just left it at one watch.

 

[Boozad]

The Dead Pool (Dirty Harry almost in retirement) and Liam Neeson with one of the worst English accents I've ever heard

And a cameo from Guns N Roses for some reason I don’t remember.

 

[Alan]

Worse. Should have just left it at one watch.

I think part of the reason it's aged poorly is because it sent genuine shockwaves through mainstream humor. Everybody was aping that shit for years.

Like a song that gets "overplayed" on the radio innit.

 

[Johnny75]

I think part of the reason it's aged poorly is because it sent genuine shockwaves through mainstream humor. Everybody was aping that shit for years.

Like a song that gets "overplayed" on the radio innit.

It really didn't send shockwaves through mainstream humour at all.

Mel Brooks had been far better at it, Woody Allen, even the Farrelly brothers had done the humour better. The latter doing gross out humour far better a decade earlier.

 

[Alan]

It really didn't send shockwaves through mainstream humour at all.

Mel Brooks had been far better at it, Woody Allen, even the Farrelly brothers had done the humour better. The latter doing gross out humour far better a decade earlier.

¿Qué?

That shit was everywhere.

Also think you're overestimating the extent to which my generation even know who Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and/or the Farrelly Bros. even are.

 

[Johnny75]

¿Qué?

That shit was everywhere.

Also think you're overestimating the extent to which my generation even know who Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and/or the Farrelly Bros. even are.

Your generation didn't invent humour y'know.

 

[Alan]

That's not at all what that meant.

 

[Johnny75]

That's not at all what that meant.

Then I'm not sure what you meant

 

[Carrotdude]

If it helps Alan I fully understand what you meant

 

[Boozad]

Deadpool was just the shock factor in a mainstream comic book movie, it hadn’t been done before, his last iteration being the shitfest in Wolverine. But to see the actual comics transition to film was ace, once you know what’s coming though it kills it.

Preacher and The Boys has beaten it hands down since although Garth Ennis has always been good at pushing boundaries and wasn’t hampered by writing for Marvel of course.

 

[The Bear]

Preacher wasn't all that. It was alright but nowhere near as good as The Boys.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

The exploding penis in The Boys was the end for boundaries...

 

[Boozad]

Preacher wasn't all that. It was alright but nowhere near as good as The Boys.

I bought the comics when they were first released in the 90s, it was a defining moment and for that alone Preacher wins hands down, it was genius. Still re-read them to this day. You'll have to pipe down with all the "wasn't all that" spiel, it was class.

 

[Alan]

I hear that the graphic novel that The Boys is based on is really hard to go back to.

 

[BillyDee]

You think that's bad, read the original manga of Battle Royale...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Just watching 2001 again. Christ. Kubrick nailed a masterpiece

 

[machin05]

Triangle of Sadness. Superb teardown of the class system and the absurdity of the wealthy/attractive/powerful elite; funny, smart and very entertaining (although act 3 is a little sluggish). Worth watching even if just for one of the greatest vomitting scenes ever committee to film - and I include Team America is that statement.

Available on Prime.

 

[Tredman]

Yes https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/dune-part-two-exclusive-first-look