Films

There Will Be Blood is such a belter. My old housemate and I used to have a joke going where we'd drink each other's beers if the other one left it unattended then launch into a half remembered version of the milkshake monologue when challenged on it. Fond memories.

Genuine lol, love it.

AND I DRINK IT UP!

Particular emphasis on the finger as a straw.

A classic at that never gets old.

"I told you i was never going back" Think its one of my favourite lines out a film ever.

Honestly thought about that scene with Moby playing for about 2 weeks.

So fucking amazing.

Its the best scene in the whole film but it mirrors back to when he tells him earlier and i dont think he believes him.

Perfect use of god moving over the face of water too, which is in my top 5 fav songs ever.

the last week and a bit

1. Tenet – Wank in a big way
   
2. Spartacus – Enjoyed the 'I'm Spartacus' scene
   
3. The Bounty – Love a sea shanty
   
4. Calm With Horses – Really good A+
   
5. Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin gospel concert recording so it's great.
   
6. Inside Out – good!
   
7. Honeyland – Amazing, Amazing, almost unbelievable but Amazing
   
8. Death to 2020 – Complete shit. Not even worth watching as a reminder of events. Scum.
   
9. The Death of Stalin – Much more enjoyable on a half-watching second viewing, Whitehouse and Buscemi are good.
   
10. Phantom Thread – Outstanding Fashion, very comfy cinema, becoming a go-to rewatch thing for me.
    
11. Casablanca – We'll always have christmas
    
12. Into the Spider-Verse – Very fun, the noir spiderman was very funny.
    

Well, I'm replying, since your comment made me have a proper think, and I've realised that nothing concrete has stuck with me of recent times. Maybe the recent proliferation of movies hasn't given time for movies to stick.

I've had a deeper think, and this comes to top of head. It'd be interesting if people added to it if they like.

Source Code
Snowpiercer
Dredd
Logan
Colossal
Sicario
Under the skin
Arrival
Blade Runner 2049 - It's so pretty
Uncut Gems - Anything by A24 it seems.

This is recent-ish. I'm more Documentary/Sci fi most of the time.

I watched that fairly recently... might watch Collateral again though - also directed by Michael Mann. One of Tom Cruise's more interesting roles.

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Enjoyed many of the films that Chak listed, Sicario being one of my favourite films of recent years, These are also some of my faves;

dead mans shoes
gone baby gone
no country for old men
the town
out of the furnace
hell or high water
wind river

Christmas viewing

Tenet- Wank
Soul- Great!
WW84- Wank

The Meyerowitz Stories.

Fuck me, absolutely loved it. A funny relationship with the art world and families definitely made it all the more familiar, but jeez - really hit home. A bit like a more real life Tenebaums.

Sicario being one of my favourite films of recent years,

An absolute belter. Might rewatch this week now you’ve mentioned it!

Just finished watching Archive, really affecting, proper old fashioned sci-fi movie...

Spectre was shite but I like Skyfall. The first half isn't great but there was a conscious decision to go low tech once he got in the DB5 which i thought worked well. Especially paired with the cinematography. Someone else said it was essentially Bond meets Home Alone which isn't a bad way of looking at it.

On the other hand I didn't particularly like There Will be Blood, perhaps I should give it another go.

Color Out of Space

Didn't have time to watch all of it, and there's 20 minutes left.

That was a week ago.

any recommendations for recent action/drama

Some good stuff listed already, sounds like you're after more Genre crossovers rather than all out action. A few more suggestions

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The Night Comes for Us
Bone Tomahawk (or other Craig Zahler's movies)
Detroit
Good Time

Not that recent but for all out action Edge of Tomorrow is near perfect IMO.

there's 20 minutes left.

I really liked it a lot

Still can't fathom how anyone enjoys anything with Nicholas Cage in, even ironically.

He is the guy at school who pissed around the entire duration of the group project, acting like a knob-end and winding everyone up, making it 100x harder to get things finished, then takes all the credit at the end when it's turned in.

It's impossible to just pass off anything he's in as a guilty pleasure of a trash movie because I'm too busy feeling sympathy for the other actors trying to make an actual movie having to put up with his ego lurching all over the place while he "acts" in his trademark style.

every scene is like watching David Brent dance at the christmas party except he's not the pitiable jester lacking self awareness, he's just a massive cunt.

seeing all the praise for some of his recent work on here genuinely makes me feel like I'm in invasion of the body snatchers, you're all pod people.

He is the guy at school who pissed around the entire duration of the group project, acting like a knob-end and winding everyone up, making it 100x harder to get things finished, then takes all the credit at the end when it's turned in.

Maybe that's why I like him. Relatable.

Also, I think he's very good in certain things that don't require too much nuance. He's great in Mandy for example. I also think some of his earlier films like Raising Arizona and Wild at Heart are great (probably more down to the directors getting a good performance out of him than anything). There's absolutely no denying that the vast majority of his ouvre is absolutely dog shit though.

Yeah, Color Out of Space is almost as bad as Mandy. A tedious and drawn out wait for not-so-new and interesting ways for a wide-eyed Nick Cage to shoot something.

Cage is a bona fide good actor, as evidenced by his performances in relatively straight films (Adaptation is the film that first springs to mind).

He is also obviously fairly cynical and will take projects on the basis of being able to make some cash / have some fun. In that mode, he is capable of elevating fairly humdrum scripts by dint of his manic style. The same films without Cage would be far, far less entertaining.

He can be a bit like meeting a friends "legend" teammate from their Football team. I liked Mandy and Colour out of Space but Nic Cage wasn't as high on the list of things I liked about those films as other people. I do like him more in other stuff though.

Not liking him doesn't mean he's not good. Although I liked his early work I find watching Daniel Day Lewis tedious. Phenomenal actor, seems like a knob head.

Edge of Tomorrow

Great film!