Films

I watched the 2008 Italian film Gomorrah this morning.

You may have heard of the book (the author is still under armed guard and continues to expose the workings of the Napoli mafia). He must be a brave man.

It's brilliant, vivid and violent and massively ambitious. I can't think of any other mafia film that's managed a contempory setting, shot literally at the scene of the crime.

It makes The Drop look like a fairytale.

Try the TV series...

I did. I liked it. It's very different: more about gangster battles and power in the family (based on the Casalesi clan?) than the business/scams the Camorra run.

Scoot and I saw Exodus recently. It's pretty good. Not visually impressive as Prometheus but still very good.

is it as shit as noah/prometheus?

prometheus was aces. in fact i might watch it again today.

Noah was terrible, wanted to leave after a hour.

Prometheus wasn't bad I didn't think, just wasn't like the aliens films previous.

I saw The Imiation Game last night, really enjoyed it quite a sad story tho.

Prometheus was whack. Fucking incoherent rubbish.

Going to grab Gomorrah now. Although it wasn't the gangster stuff that made The Drop compelling for me. It's not really a gangster film at all.

Ridley Scott needs to make an epic TV drama and stop making films.

Who?

For the first time since Miami Vice never have I wanted to leave the cinema as much whilst watching Noah.

Biggest pile of wank I've seen in recent years.

Anyone seen Birdman yet?

^ should be going tomorrow

I didn't hate Prometheus. It is just a blob of nonsense but so is everything Christopher Nolan has made and he's the critic's darling.

Scott should make more funny, less po faced films, like Thelma & Louise. More of this...

http://youtu.be/RV4gwaLN8_g

Although it wasn't the gangster stuff that made The Drop compelling for me. It's not really a gangster film at all.

A Crime flick. A Christmas Crime flick.

Birdman is fucking great. Keaton and Norton in particular, the latter is hilarious.

Birdman was excellent. The subtle weirdness was great, soundtrack was amazing (very well mixed and particularly good use of surround sound FX - which was unexpected). Borderline dialogue heavy but that just added to the energy. Worth seeing in a good cinema.

Looking forward to a few of these this year:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/23041/1/films-to-watch-out-for-in-2015

Fury was weird, the whole thing was laughably predictable, the first half was only mildly entertaining, but then I really enjoyed the second half.

Watched the newest Hobbit at the cinema yesterday. The story makes no sense to me and the acting is poor at best, but it's visually ridiculous. It looks like real life.

Agreed Birdman superb. Tracking shots all the way through, awesome. Emma Stone too, thought she was brilliant. Made me think of Kerouac prose brought to the big screen

I just watched Nightcrawler, pretty late to the party but I loved it. Parts of it were really unsettling, and though none of the locations or characters seemed to be the same, for some reason it reminded me of Training Day. Maybe it was just the uneasiness I felt watching it.

I can't help wondering if Gyllenhaal's character's look and mannerisms were based on this clown:

They were strikingly similar at first.

Also, I watched the first half of Frenzy on BBC2 last night, now I really want to watch the rest of it.

Pride. Great film, strange how Russell Tovey was only brought on 20 mins from the end, on-screen for about 15 seconds, to deal the AIDS card...

On the subject of Prometheus still, what about this eh? http://m.imgur.com/gallery/sarJn

Why couldn't we have that?

Ziggy!

That boy ain't right.

I just finished watching the Hitchcock film Frenzy, which I started watching the other night on BBC2.

One of his last from 1972, it's dated, but in a really nice way. It's all set around Covent Garden, apparently because Hitchcock knew its days as a fruit & veg market were numbered. It has some great moments of black humour, and some classic Hitchcock scenes as well. Definitely worth watching.

Off to see Birdman this evening as well.