Films

So Tom Hardy became one of my favourite actors last year with Locke and The Drop (best film of the year, imo). I've got a terrible suspicion Legend is going to ruin him for me.

Locke aside, doesn't Tom Hardy play the same character in every movie? Mumbly, emotionally removed hard man. I don't think Legend is going to be any different.

^ Tinker Taylor Solider Spy, Inception, Bronson...

Batman (which was terrible).

Well, I guess he did mumble and was probably emotionally removed. But he was also a super villain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anGt4u2Aq0

Better than any of his films. I saw the very odd one where The Stath plays an alcoholic in love with a nun.

Buttercup Bill. Pile of Shit. Avoid.

You're welcome.

Hummingbird? Wasn't too bad. Transporter 1 and Crank are his finest hours. Fantastic set pieces/choreography in Transporter, especially when he fights using bicycle clips.

https://vimeo.com/137264379

Granted they've only got five second parts but Cube's and Eazy's girlfriends come across as the smartest cookies in the jar

I think that was a deliberate ploy to distract people from the complete lack of any other women who weren't semi-naked in Dr Dre's pool.

And as someone I was with said, if they showed any of his early relationships for a long period of time, they'd either have to show him beating his girlfriend or make even more of a show of pretending it never happened.

I liked the film, but I also like James Richardson's review:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=whLjRdz5u0o&CMP=EMCFTBEML853

The most interesting thing about the pool parties was the p-funk soundtrack. Fair comment on Dre I guess. JR should stick to Gazetta.

this looks surprisingly good, even if some of the cgi looks half baked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcgJRQWxKnw

quite looking forward to singing animals in cgi. They are doing the songs right?

1:37

Oh hell yeah

watched THE MIST again last night. solid 10/10 (the entirely un-american fuck yeah! ending is the clincher), and i don't even stephen king. and now i hear they're making a television miniature series, which is nice... if you like that sort of thing.

You have admitted to liking something. Are you feeling alright or has someone hacked your account?

it'll pass.

Movies are visual food server on a rectangular platter.

What films to go watch at the film festival this year?

@Smallfurry, @Dammit, @Crumbs - how about a little Bølgen action?

I'm watching 12 Angry Men (1957) on Netflix. It's incredible.

Recommended.

I like the scene where they all shout and then hug after.

Watched Requiem for a Dream yesterday.

Le Manfriend's "most depressing movies" nr1.
When you feel that ball in your stomach knowing something awful is going to happen...Deffo worth a watch.

As it's getting darker, some of my cry/gloom/grim list: Rabid Dogs, Infernal Affairs, Melancholia Nymphomaniac 1 , Poetry, Gomorrah, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, The Silence, The Act of Killing (d0c about Indonesian massacres), The Bothersome Man (existentialism, sort of...right in the feelz) and City of Life and Death.

And man bites dog if you like your grim with a dose of surreal.

Happy autumn! ;)