Films

Tonight's comic book adaptation is a long overdue rewatch of The Crow.

Nobody: Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd and RZA, looks like it'll be fun.

Watched Icarus on Netflix last night. Heard some hype around it when it was released but didn't get around to watching it at the time.

Woah! What a crazy story. So many wtf moments

Also, is the Coen brothers version of True Grit the best western in the last 50 years or what?

Blazing Saddles, 1974, so not quite.

Good point. I need to watch that again

I used to be quite fond of Unforgiven, but haven't seen it in an age.

Knives Out

First class ensemble whodunnit. Toni Collette is so good, and the family lawyer is Kermit!

Also, is the Coen brothers version of True Grit the best western in the last 50 years or what?

Bone Tomahawk 🪓

Also, is the Coen brothers version of True Grit the best western in the last 50 years or what?

Dead Man
The Proposition
Assassination of Jesse James...

Assassination of Jesse James...

An absolute all time favourite. Soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is fantastic too.

Bone Tomahawk is also banging.

The Proposition

^this

Watched "the wages of fear"

A group of men stuck in a non descript Mexican inspired town to poor to leave by for a dangerous but well paid job transporting explosives for an oil company so that they get money to leave.

Unrealistic premise, mostly unsympathetic main characters, slow...but it's a great movie nonetheless. The black and white looks fantastic. It's based on a French book.

And I suspect many movies like Speed stole from it :)

Now you can watch Sorcerer for a direct comparison.

Watch Les Diaboliques (1955) also by Clouzot ,It's superb.

Got into Villeneuve recently-

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True Grit is good, but there’s been a constant churn of decent westerns recently. The sisters brothers (although the book is far better), Slow West, The Revenant, Hell and High water and News of the world come to mind.

One cut of the dead, had to persevere through the first third but it was was worth the effort. Smart, funny, Saturday night movie.

No Bladerunner 2049, ya blew it.

I watched thatbabout this time last year and really didn't enjoy it at all. It's entirely possible I just didn't get it but I was totally baffled and bored throughout.

News of the world was good, not true grit good but good. I do love a modern Western though, I think it's mostly the landscapes with a hint of white guilt genocide and what could've been.

Did Arrival and Sicario just a few nights ago. Enjoyed lots. Admittedly needed youtube for a bit of explanation for Arrival

Yeah true grit was superior...I forgot about the Ballard of Buster Scruggs if you wanna talk Coen bro’s Westerns.

Discussing modernish Westerns and no mention of Dances With Wolves? wtf?
Also 3:10 to Yuma and Apaloosa should be in the discussion and for a more modern twist Hell or High Water

Just watched The Accountant, pretty mindless action, not good, not terrible, worse ways to spend a Saturday night

Dances with wolves isn't modern, it's like a not quite retro MTB, great for the time but not old enough to be a classic and not new enough to not be a bit dated as a modern version.