Films

day off, weather pish

Lucy or Sin City 2 - both getting slightly meh reviews.......?

John dies at the end (Lovefilm has it) pretty good comedy about two college dropouts that have to save the world from aliens once somebody invents a drug that lets them in when people take it.

From cock jokes to philosophy jokes, snarky dialogue and some LOL moments, deffo worth it. (I haven't read the book, the writer writes for cracked.com as David Wong)

Chef...

Mrs was watching it last night, I was sitting outside on porch and the tunes got me interested, some great old fania and NOLA stuff on there, the OST actually misses off some of the best tracks (joe cuba, willie colon etc).

Anyways, put it on tonight, really great stuff, had a kind of Karate Kid with food feel to it

Just watched this. Is a touching story. I thought the interview in the middle was a bit meh - I couldn't imagine him giving the answers the interviewer seemed to want, but otherwise not bad at all.
Good points raised by tommmmmmm though

I watched Searching for Sugar Man last night. I really enjoyed it, everyone in it (bar Clarence Avant) came across really well, especially Rodriguez himself, and it was a great story, with a pretty good soundtrack.
I found out afterwards that while he knew nothing about his success in South Africa until the moment the film described, he was relatively popular in Australia, and had in the mean time toured there, and also released LPs there which referenced the rumours of his on-stage suicide. The film sort of makes out that it was the South Africans who 'rediscovered' him, and plucked him from relative obscurity.
It was also noticeable, although perhaps not so surprising given the circumstances in both countries, that there were no black people whatsoever in the film, bar Clarence Avant, who is portrayed as a thief. Rodriguez' music was described as having helped soundtrack the anti-Apartheid movement, but this doesn't seem to have extended to actual interaction with the black community there. The worst excesses of Apartheid which are described by the film are the censorship and cultural isolation.
I would definitely recommend it though.

I watched Life Of Crime last night... Funny, liked it... And it's got 'that bird off Friends' on it... Still enjoyed..

yeah i'm also gonna have to take issue with that assertion that Rodriguez and his work was somehow 'anti-apartheid'. The song I recall being on constant rotation was the one about where he muses about how many times a woman has had sex. This wretched album was played constantly during my NS and beyond and by some particularly unpleasant sorts who would have burned their record and buried it in the Great Hole of Kimberly had they even got a whiff of it being remotely anti-apartheid.

Remember, SA was forced into insularity during the apartheid era. As such, they experienced what can only be described as aberrations of marketing and fandom. The majority, despite the availability of more esoteric fare on import, fixated on a very limited catalogue. Enter Rodrigues.

Suggesting his work was in some way anti-establishment seems to be, within the context of this film, a convenient hook to hang some backstory on. I'm afraid It's just bullshit.

In fact, i'd argue the most important anti-apartheid songs wheren't even released outside of SA.

what on earth will happen in 2019 when Deckards incept date arrives??

what the sam hell are you talking about?

Watching Kings of Summer. Good so far. Going to watch Chef later, looking forward to it.

I think he means the new Star Wars fillum, where Chewbacca has to deal with Han Duo buttfucking his (Chewie's) sister.

well that escalated quickly...

Dude, do you even Blode Rinner?

Is Rutger in Blonde Rimmer?

Chef was one I wasn't bothered about seeing but once I actually sat down and watched it I was hooked. Its the definition of a feel good film!

what on earth will happen in 2019 when Deckards incept date arrives??

Yes, Ive been wondering about this recently...
Not to much longer to find out...

Keeper of lost things - Nordic police flick, nothing surprising but entertaining enough.

Recommend "the silence" in that genre, more grim, better story, much more muddled morality and more issues. As a colleague of mine called it"damaged people solving crimes" :)

End of watch great movie

It gets a little dumb here and there, but The Guest is really fun. Sex Tape, on the other hand.

you paid to see these movies? with like, money?

Cineworld Unlimited at £16.40 a month, no big loss if I get a duff film once in awhile. Been around 30 times this year.

I saw Tracks yesterday, about a woman who decided to walk from Alice Springs west to the Pacific with a few camels and her dog, and an annoying John Lennon-lookalike photographer who meet up with her every now and again.

Good film, brilliant scenery, nice laid back Sunday morning viewing. The National Geographic article the story first appeared in was shown at the end (unless that was a mock-up, but I don't think so) and it shows they did an amazing job of casting, apart from the job.

The cineworld card is cracking deal, allows you to watch shite without feeling guilty about paying a tenner for a ticket.

I watched The Captive last night... Still trying to figure out exactly what it was I watched... Really odd movie, totally flawed, going backwards and forwards in time in the most confusing way possible...

Shame, could've been a great story if the director had handled the story with some sensitivity and had actually known what he was doing... It finishes up as a very ambiguous and deeply creepy film...

Jodorowsky's Dune - An hour and a half of Jodorowsky playing up to and embellishing his madcap genius reputation, which of course is no bad thing.

^ Watched that today, loved it... No subtitles tho' so I was totally lost when Giger was speaking...

I've just had my mind blown by Enter the Void... What an incredible film! I think I need to watch it again tomorrow...