What was the last film you watched?

[Jakob]

"Everything Everywhere All At Once"

10/10.  Very different.  Very nice visuals.

[T42]

A Man of Action  Basque anarchist bricklayer flees to Paris during

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the Franco period, becomes a master forger and takes down the First National City Bank of New York.

All the more entertaining because it really happened.

[ian]

"Everything Everywhere All At Once"

10/10.  Very different.  Very nice visuals.

A friend recommended this to me. He wasn’t wrong. Mental but very fun.

[Legs]

Dead Poets Society on Amazon.  Haven't seen it for 25 years or so - still every bit as good.

[Jaded]

The Man in the White Suit

A undemanding satire that I think had bits cut out (I remember Sid walking down a road and getting splashed, and it not sticking on the suit. Did I imagine that?)

[Jakob]

"Everything Everywhere All At Once"

10/10.  Very different.  Very nice visuals.

A friend recommended this to me. He wasn’t wrong. Mental but very fun.

Following up on this, I was looking at the IMDB credit list and went "Why is the VFX list so short? That can't be right" and did some googling
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-visual-effects-1234716610/

5 people did the majority of the VFX. Best thing was that this came up whilst I was chatting with a friend about Barry Lyndon and how absolutely unbelievable the small crew on that movie was and they pretty much do the same thing on EEAAO.
 They deserve the VFX Oscar just based on that.

[Kim]

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021)

From the does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin school of low-budget films.  The whole thing is shot as close-ups of Petri Poikolainen's face, with very shallow depth-of-field, so you have to rely on the audio for everything beyond his reactions (nod to Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid's Tale).  Some wry humour and tense moments, I thought it was rather good.


(I'm going to make barakta watch it, but I think she'll suffer from the audio being in  a) mono  and  b) FOREIGN,  combined with a great many film references and a lack of proper SDH captions.)

[rogerzilla]

Flashdance, possibly the most 80s film ever.  How does Alex's bike never get stolen?

I'm not going to google it, but Rule 34 says there is definitely a grumble parody called Fleshdance.

[spesh]

Flashdance, possibly the most 80s film ever.  How does Alex's bike never get stolen?

I'm not going to google it, but Rule 34 says there is definitely a grumble parody called Fleshdance.

Here you go: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217494/fullcredits

[rogerzilla]

zOMG.  I read the reviews.

[T42]

In the Police Gazette?

[sg37409]

The Glass Onion - very enjoyable.   My wife thought it was better than knives out, but for me knives out was better.   I didn’t think the characters were quite so good but the plot is very good again

[Jakob]

Also Glass Onion. I didn't like it much. Nowhere near as good as the first one and if anything Daniel Craigs accent got worse?
Edward Norton phoned it in and was borderline terrible.

[citoyen]

North By Northwest

It was on telly yesterday afternoon and I was in the mood. Perfect way to pass a couple of hours. Great film.

[Jaded]

Maverick: Franchise

A song about Mexican food played in my head as I watched this. “So Nacho”.

Great fun, but would have been only five minutes long if they had just thrown four long range guided missiles down there.

[Jakob]

https://youtu.be/v-tU2KIAMrs?t=109

[rogerzilla]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, thoroughly cut by Ch5.

[Kim]

Emancipation (2022)

Grim yet somehow underwhelming, in spite of the unorthodox black-and-green colour grading.  File with Saving Private Ryan.

[Tim Hall]

Tunes of Glory the other day as I took a break from Christmas preparations.

Seen it many times, still rate it.

[Legs]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles, thoroughly cut by Ch5.

This is on Amazon Prime atm as well.  Jo watched it one evening a few weeks back when I was working.  I think I must have been about 10 when I last saw it.

Saw Elf for the first time this afternoon.  Very amusing.

[Jaded]

https://youtu.be/v-tU2KIAMrs?t=109

 

[rafletcher]

The Straight Story. Nothing but up to date us. I’d been aware of it ever since it was released, but I didn’t appreciate it was based on a true story, nor that it was a David Lynch film. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was a bit surprised it made a loss, and it occurred to me that had it been a Coen brothers movie, or had it had Clint Eastwood as the lead (after all Gran Torino made shedloads and was deeply underwhelming) it would have been more commercially successful.

[citoyen]

The French Dispatch

If you didn’t know beforehand, you’d know this was un film de Wes Anderson within a minute or two of it starting.

Good, but I was too tired for Wes Anderson last night. I’ll have to watch it again another day when I’m in the right frame of mind.

[Jakob]

The French Dispatch

If you didn’t know beforehand, you’d know this was un film de Wes Anderson within a minute or two of it starting.

Good, but I was too tired for Wes Anderson last night. I’ll have to watch it again another day when I’m in the right frame of mind.

It's very...nice. Probably also good....but mostly, just nice.

[rafletcher]

Lacking the energy for anything else, we watched 2 last evening.

First up was Shiva Baby, a comedy of manners set, unsurprisingly, at a Shiva. Ultra low budget, well shot, and a sparky central character. OK.

Second was Knives Out. Very enjoyable.