Films

Fallen Down ish middle class guy turns vigilante, but it's a tired xenophobic teenage revenge fantasy bloodbath.

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I thought it was so mediocre and couldn't quite get the fan fair from it.

I felt it relied too much on nostalgia and it just was a bit meh.

You're a meh.

Currently watching jojorabbit 👍🏼

Renfield was daft gory fun. Guardians of the galaxy was the worst of the series but enjoyable enough if you like spaceships and lasers, which I do, probably just the hangover but I got almost emotional at a couple of the bits designed to get you all emotional.

This weekend's viewing:
Dune (2021) - first time seeing it since I saw it in the cinema. Still a big fat 3/5 from me. It probably doesn't help that I really enjoyed the book but something just didn't click either time. I'll still see the second one when it comes out though.

The Long Good Friday - quite enjoyable, mostly for the glimpses of scummy, late 70s London and some of the hardest/ most disgusting looking blokes you'll ever see.

The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic. Gene Hackman in one of the best, most understated performances of all time. Wish I'd watched it years ago!

Been meaning to re-watch The Long Good Friday, one of my favourite films. Few actors could do menacing and vulnerable like Bob Hoskins could.

His scottish accent was fuckin awful too.

Accurate then?

Sorry. We can like different things I suppose.

The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.

Agreed, now watch Enemy of the State. Hackman must have known what he was doing.

The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.

Agreed, now watch The Lives of Others (and Enemy of the State)

Murder Mystery 2
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston sequel a movie I apparently have seen but have zero recollection of.
This was equally as forgettable, but with the added disappointment of knowing I watched it yesterday.
Load of shit, unfunny, no redeeming value.
Avoid.

We started it and my other half pulled the plug after 25 minutes so just before the action started - I know because I finished watching it last night.

Utter shite, the irony of the “get a room you two, the sexual tension in this room” repeated line when there was no dynamic between the lead characters was pitiful. So many tired tropes - exploding vehicles whose wheels carry on rolling etc etc.

This looks fully mental!

https://youtu.be/OGbr-aAnKTo

The Long Good Friday

Love this. One of few films I have on DVD and rewatch. Helen Mirren is great in it, there's that bloke from Casualty, and the fountain of blood moment always gets some audible reaction from people who haven't seen it before. Final scene with the music and Bob Hoskin's expressions is brilliant.

It's one of a "London trilogy" (selected by me) but the best film of them. The others being London (my favourite - gets a rewatch at least once a year), and Dirty Pretty Things (which I haven't seen for a while, the acting's a bit hammy and it doesn't bear rewatching as much as the others).

Francis Monkman's theme tune is awesome for this film!

Renfield was daft gory fun.

It's good, isn't it - it has a classical horror comedy feel to it.

And Nicholas Cage just acts the same as he ever does.

D&D was enjoyable.
Sisu was great. Outrageous Finnish Machete, 80s action throwback with Western and Tarantino vibes and shitty Nazis.

Sisu

Want to watch!

And me..
@snottyotter is it as good as Machete?

It's less overtly b-movie, maybe not quite as silly but still a lot of fun with some nicer looking camera work .

Just watched Sisu.. Banger. A joyous romp of film refs. Thanks for the rec.

I want to recommend Ciné Real for the East/North London folks (although it’s worth the trip from further afield).

https://www.cine-real.com/pages/about

I won’t give it all away as you get the spiel from Liam and Ümit when you go, and it’s lovely.

Checked out 12 Angry Men (classic) and The Trial (incoherent, indecipherable, but intentionally and charmingly so) just lately. Wonderful experience. Love to hear the projector clicking away. During The Trial, one reel hadn’t been rewound - cue much hilarity as Ümit effed and blinded and promptly snapped the reel rewinding it 😆

The Castle is such a brilliant venue generally and feel so lucky it’s so close by. I’m just disappointed that Science Fiction Theatre - https://sciencefictiontheatre.co.uk/ - seems to have vanished into a blackhole 😔 Happy will be the day if that ever returns.

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PS, Ümit does private screenings at the shop in Clapton. I’ve been pondering getting a group together to experience it. If anyone is keen, let me know and I will arrange. Trying to get to ten people (I think I’ll get about 5-6 of those), which works out at about ~£25, which I think will be absolutely well worth it.