What was the last film you watched?

[T42]

Saw the trailer for that. Sheesh, again? Skidely Rott getting senile?

[caerau]

It does seem somewhat pointless.

[ian]

If the trailer is anything to go by, Ridley has responded to the fact that everyone thinks Prometheus is a pile of shit by remaking Alien.

[caerau]

Indeed- although they could at least admit it.


It's not like quite a few more recent films than Alien have had remakes.

[andrewc]

I would like to see a faithfully-made film of Perdido Street Station.

ha!

Hahaha

Hahahahahahaha-hahahaha.

Ha!

Sorry. Good luck with that ...

The BBC announced in August 2015 that it had commissioned an adaptation of The City & The City. The fact that it hasn't yet made it to our screens speaks volumes.

I'm looking forward to it though. Eventually.

Perdido Street would probably be easier to adapt, I'd have thought.  Can't see the beeb having the budget for the required effects.  One of the American channels perhaps, as long as they don't change the ending.  But I suspect China's politics would put them off.

He's got a new book out as well.http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/china-mievilles-counterfactual-novel-is-a-chilling-surreal-caprice/

[T42]

He's got a new book out as well.http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/china-mievilles-counterfactual-novel-is-a-chilling-surreal-caprice/

Aha. Well maybe.  Some of his later stuff has been somewhat iffy: Kraken was bullshit but Embassytown was OK.  I get the impression, though, that he's getting a bit cynical wrt his readers: churn out anything and the punters will buy it.

[Riggers]

Kingsman, last night. On Netflix, so I could skip bits. My wife was out enjoying Danza Contemporánea de Cuba (I think it was that) and which she enjoyed very much with a friend. "Would I have liked it?" she asked me about Kingsman. "No" I said, "It wasn't."

[caerau]

Aww come on, we thoroughly enjoyed Kingsman, jolly good light hearted nonsense that didn't take itself at all seriously.
What's wrong with that?

[Riggers]

Aww come on, we thoroughly enjoyed Kingsman, jolly good light hearted nonsense that didn't take itself at all seriously.
What's wrong with that?

Nothing at all wrong with that. I love a bit of tosh, tongue-in-cheekery. But my wife would have started picking up book, most likely, after watching for a while. I thoroughly enjoy escapist films – ones where your incredulity has been well and truly suspended! I enjoyed it.

Glad Michael Caine was able to lapse into Cockerney for his final speech.

[citoyen]

Aww come on, we thoroughly enjoyed Kingsman, jolly good light hearted nonsense that didn't take itself at all seriously.
What's wrong with that?

I enjoyed Kingsman very much. Considerably more than I was expecting to, in fact.

But as Mark Kermode put it, it ended on a bum note.

[Riggers]

Aww come on, we thoroughly enjoyed Kingsman, jolly good light hearted nonsense that didn't take itself at all seriously.
What's wrong with that?

I enjoyed Kingsman very much. Considerably more than I was expecting to, in fact.

But as Mark Kermode put it, it ended on a bum note.

Yes, not sure why they inserted the bummery bit.

[caerau]

Don't remember it that well that I remember that slant on the ending I have to say.


Still I see what you were saying now 

[citoyen]

I get that it was supposed to be a parody of the end of James Bond films where he ends up in bed with the girl as a reward for saving the world, and I'm not so prudish that I'm offended by anal sex jokes, but the way it was executed jarred with the tone of the rest of the film. I felt it was boorish verging on misogynistic.

[mattc]

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We have actually been over this before. Just FYI, and might save some typing

Kingsman- was very good. Much fun but not for those of a sensitive disposition, the violence is quite comically graphic (if that even makes sense).

There was a throw away joke about anal sex in the Kingsman that left a very bad taste in the mouth. Bond or the Bond girls would never do such a thing

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/13/kingsman-director-matthew-vaughn-reveals-secrets-behind-church-scene-sex-joke-and

I'm not why that was especially bad?  Can you explain or am I beyond the pale for simply asking? 

IIRC the last Bond film I watched showed someone having their eyes gouged out, involuntarily.  Someone agreeing to anal sex is worse than that?

It jarred with me I must admit.  I don't know why but it seemed to cross a line. 
I'm old though. 
Maybe it went from unbelievable cartoon violence into the world of all-too-sleazy porn, and in an all-too-casual way.

[citoyen]

Funnily enough, even while I was typing my earlier comment, I was getting a sense of déjà-vu.

For me, it came across as an act of submission rather than genuine consent. But mainly it was just a bit odd in a film that had no other sexual content (that I recall).

[Torslanda]

S.O.B.

Blake Edwards' cynical look at Hollywood with Julie Andrews acting very much against type. 

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Funnily enough, even while I was typing my earlier comment, I was getting a sense of déjà-vu.

For me, it came across as an act of submission rather than genuine consent. But mainly it was just a bit odd in a film that had no other sexual content (that I recall).

It was an end-to-end writhing mass of subliminal Freudian innuendo up to that point.

[citoyen]

Funnily enough, even while I was typing my earlier comment, I was getting a sense of déjà-vu.

For me, it came across as an act of submission rather than genuine consent. But mainly it was just a bit odd in a film that had no other sexual content (that I recall).

It was an end-to-end writhing mass of subliminal Freudian innuendo up to that point.

Maybe I didn't notice that because I was distracted by the excessive graphic violence...

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Viceroy's House.

Very good treatment of a literally and disastrously divisive event.

Gandhi:

“Division doesn’t create peace, it creates havoc.”

[Jaded]

The Accountant

I really enjoyed this. An intriguing mix of bodies and numbers, right up there on the scale.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Funnily enough, even while I was typing my earlier comment, I was getting a sense of déjà-vu.

For me, it came across as an act of submission rather than genuine consent. But mainly it was just a bit odd in a film that had no other sexual content (that I recall).

It was an end-to-end writhing mass of subliminal Freudian innuendo up to that point.

Maybe I didn't notice that because I was distracted by the excessive graphic violence...

No, it was subliminal.  You don't know it but has affected your entire mind set, as evidenced by this:

Wonderful find.

Must admit that at sight of thread title I though it was about Trump and a swimming-pool.

[ian]

Kong: Skull Island.

Samuel Jackson starred as Samuel L. Jackson. John Goodman as John Goodman. You get the idea. There was a big monkey. Stupid people try to kill the big monkey because that's what stupid people do when they see a big monkey. There's a monster fight because, let's face it, if you're going to have a tower-block-sized simian, you may as well have all the monsters. Liberal riffing on Apocalypse Now for the 1970s Vietnam-era stylings.

Enjoyably pointless, I suppose.

[caerau]

Monkey?  Now you just know that it's a Lemur now come on keep up.


I don't suppose they took the opportunity for it to throw flaming barrels at people now?


Or would that be a spoiler?

[ian]

No flaming barrels alas, but he's got a good swing with a Huey.

They should have run with the Apocalypse Now theme.

[Kim]

Michael Collins (1996)

Somehow I'd manage to miss this one.  Historical inaccuracies overshadowed by Alan Rickman doing the most conspicuously half-arsed attempt at an accent since Sean Connery's masterpiece in Hunt For Red October.  Otherwise a respectably decent film.