Films

Caved and subscribed to Now TV movies for another month because i'm a bit done with Netflix.

So far:

Just Mercy - safe nuts and bolts drama about a really awful subject/situation (death row). Was impressed by Rob Morgan from Daredevil's performance and once again think Jamie Foxx is one of the best American actors of his time.

Zombieland double tap - not as funny or balanced as the original (apparently guns are the answer to everything) and was fairly bored throughout. Bill Murray bolt on at the end was lame.

Final Destination 2, absolutely incredible. Had me full on cackling the whole way though. Can't wait to watch the 3rd tomorrow.

Just back from seeing Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables in a cinema with six other people. Brilliant and harrowing film, with superb Pink Noise soundtrack and extraordinary semi-riot finale. How do you set about filming something like that?

The Marine training camp life, bullying and lead up to a recruit's sucide in the film Full Metal Jacket(1987) is a direct reference to the second episode(1959) of Masaki Kobayashi's epic film series 'The Human Condition'.

I was saving this to watch in a time when I'd not have decent internet and my brain had exploded from too much reading(ie now).

Over nine hours of post-war Japanese cinema if you are into that sort of thing.

I love discovering stuff like this.

Indirect, perhaps, as it's from a novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Short-Timers. Out of print, a PDF can be found easily.

I like how the first response to :

my brain had exploded from too much reading

is recommending

a novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shor­t-Timers. Out of print, a PDF can be found easily

(no snark intended, just amused me)

Battle Without Honour or Humanity is a post-war Yakuza movie, maybe you will enjoy it as well?

Enough of all this low brow rubbish, I'm going the cinema this afternoon to watch Bill & Ted 3! Excite.

I didn't say I'd read it ;-)

One of the better ones that, though the Yakuza genre is extensive.

Watching 'Early Man' the aardman animated caveman movie.
Howling in places, I forgot how good the writing is on their productions.

my body is ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0

from the comments:

"Mom, can we rent Predator?"
"We have Predator at home."
The Predator at home:

In.
Watched the trailer with MrsDeth, her first comment was "new Predator then"
followed by "Tony Jaa? nice"
and "shame Scott Adkins isn't in it, it looks shit, he'd fit right in" (that is a sort of backhanded complement, we are Adkins fans in this house)

I gave Avengement a big thumbs up on here but felt it fell on deaf ears, i thought Adkins was great.

Speaking of good shit films i watched Terminator Dark Fate last night and thought it was decent. I haven't bothered with any of the others since T2 and if nothing else it was a good homage to the first two.

That said, like Zombieland DT it's pure USA USA, militia, guns porn which is getting awkward given the current climate.

Is that the metal teeth prison one? great fun!
I kept telling a colleague to watch it, but he resisted for weeks, eventually caved and called me that night to tell me how much fun it was, and why didn't i recommend it sooner.

Is that the metal teeth prison one? great fun!

Yep, think i described it as Snatch meets the Raid, loved it!

Have you watched Hiroshima mon amour? https://vimeo.com/283082150

I just rewatched Suspiria (the Argento one). So good. The soundtrack absolutely "slaps" as well. I've heard massively mixed reviews of the 2018 remake but will give it a watch to satisfy my curiosity if nothing else.

https://youtu.be/pins1y0XAa0

BTW "the face of another" is a Japanese movie that is both very Japanese and French new wave inspired.

Worth a watch and gain a lot of "liberal metropolitan elite" points with it :p

Seen Akira yesterday, a whole 12 people in the room. I feel for the cinema staff.

It still holds up, ok there are a few small fuzzy areas, not all characters are well developed (the manga story is much longer) but still awesomes. I am not sure about the live action remake, on the surface a lot of it suits (sassy teenagers, lots of explosions/action) but I fear they will mess up the soundtrack and the final cathartic finale.

Lots of subtext stuff going on...

On that note, the new Dune trailer, boffffffffffffffffffffff. I fear it's gonna be an action movie only. But since everything is shut here for a month bar cinema and gym...

No "pick and mix" sweets but sure that is a health risk at the best of times... the staff said people touch it and put it back. Never got sick from it, but makes sense they aren't selling it.

I should really make more effort to go watch Akira but just not the right time for me atm.

Continuing my Now TV dredge;

Last black man in SF - didn't love it as much as i hoped but strong lead performances and visually great to look at. For a commentary on US gentrification Blindspotting is a tough act to follow.

Driveways - Lovely movie with a well crafted cast. Who knew Sheriff Teasle from First Blood could be such a nice guy. Would recommend.

I enjoyed Last Black Man in SF more than Blindspotting! I mostly just thought the musical elements were a bit cheesy and not my thing. Enjoyed it other than that though.

Yeah tbf on reflection it probably handles the subject matter as well as if not better then Blindspotting it's just that i enjoyed the latter a lot more. I'm by no means a musical fan but somehow i thought those elements worked really well. I watched LBMISF full of expectation unlike Blindspotting which i'd heard nothing about before so maybe that changed things. We're thinking about getting a projector to make up for lost cinema time so i'll be keen to watch LBMISF (as no one calls it) on the big screen as it looked amazing.

Supposedly Little Men is another highly rated movie covering gentrification but i only managed 20 minutes before giving up. Maybe i should give it another go.

OG Suspiria is brilliant and seen the "remake" at release too.

Actually quite liked it as the storyline is quite different and wouldn't really call it a remake.