Films

What the hell was all the hype around Godzilla minus one about? It's utter trash, slapstick acting and laughable story.
I am surprised they didn't go with a laugh track or a superimposed video in the corner with people
giggling and pointing.

Great review, made me laugh. But I loved it, there’s no accounting for (my) taste I guess.

...or Dante's Peak and Volcano the year before.

... or Deep Impact and Armageddon.

Civil War went all Van Damme/Arnie at the end eh? Any point it had to make was buried deep in pew pew for me.

I'm not religious either.

Well, it ís about a civil war in the land of pew pew. I just came out of the cinema and was well impressed.

Yeah. Just went a bit blockbuster explosion porn for me. Also felt like having no context was a bit of a cop out.

As in no context for the cause of the war? I thought that was quite powerful personally. It really drove home the senselessness of most conflicts and helped humanise the effects of it by not making it "good guy Vs bad guy". I imagine the context of most war doesn't make a huge difference to the people caught up in it.
Agreed that the final scenes were a bit over the top and undermined the banality and realism of the violence in the rest of the film though. It all went a bit Call of Duty.

I do take your point actually. But yes that was my biggest complaint, it felt pretty incongrous and tacked on, as up until that point the fighting/clashes seemed more realistic and akin to civil war? Street skirmishes etc

And yeah, the WF guys managed to get their livery on the choppers and flags printed up? OK 😂

Not sure if mentioned yet but we watched Triangle of Sadness last night. Brilliant. Twisting narrative upending

I loved Triangle Of Sadness when I watched it a few weeks ago.

It’s ace. Recommend from me too

Volcano had a fireman wading thru lava.

Strictly Ballroom - high-camp hilarious silliness

Extremely late notice but does anyone fancy 2 X tickets to see Love Lies Bleeding at the Everyman in Crystal Palace at 4.30 today? We can't make it anymore!

Perfect Days, Wim Wenders is, (as mentioned upthread) outstanding. Everything and nothing happens.

I think @ Will Melling will enjoy.
Lots of up-treeing photography (potential theme for Photography Challenge thread)

For me Love Lies Bleeding has it for me. Think it's gonna be a cult classic.

I want to watch it again, enjoyed it so much.

Had a great night drive last night listening to the Trainspotting soundtrack. What are folks favourite non-original film soundtracks?

Others I return to a lot are pretty obvious: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Casino, Full Metal Jacket - although a fair amount of original, excellent score on that one.

Dead Man’s Shoe’s is another great one. Going to play that now…

Midnight Cowboy is a fave. Carlito's Way is also good.

A few decades late...pre the strictly stuff. Personally loved the film and great soundtrack.

Dead man shoes had a sound track...

Amazing movie.

Tarantino has great soundtracks, Jackie brown, etc

I re-watched Lock, Stock and 2 smoking barrels last week.
Been a while, forgot about the sepia filter, but the soundtrack was pretty good.

I didn't like the film as much as everyone else seemed to at the time, but natural born killers has an absolute banger of a soundtrack - some real 90s classics. I was also re-listening to the Judgement Night soundtrack - loads of original collabs between rock bands and hiphop emcees. Most of them don't work, but the ones that do are pure magic - Faith no More and Boo Ya Tribe, Onyx and Biohazard, Helmet and House Of Pain - absolute fire one and all.