Films

I watched WarGames because it's the 40th anniversary, crazy how much influence it had on me
as a kid but none of it makes any sense.

Cocaine Bear
I enjoyed it's nonsense and hilarity
Doesn't take itself seriously, but avoids being a Sharknado or Scary Movie type.

What's the point of these pseudohistorical or bollocks biographical movies like now Oppenheimer?
Why do I need to watch a film and then read up about the real events and how much of
the film was made up?

It's not exactly a new phenomenon. It's not even the first film about Oppenheimer, while films about Napoleon are nearly as old as film. There are always going to be historical inaccuracies. Sometimes that matters, sometimes it doesn't. Recounting history is often not the point.

There have been films in this category that annoyed me (The Imitation Game slandered Turing in such a toxic way that I have no idea what the creators of that film were thinking), but if proscribing them means no George C. Scott playing Patton, I'm out.

Yeah, I am using Oppenheimer as a current example but Dunkirk was bollocks too, I am probably
mostly talking about more recent events of which there are records. First film like that pissed
me off was Oliver Stones Doors movie. Maybe my problem is that those films have a serious tone which makes you think they are retelling history accurately.
Didn't mind Napoleon in Time Bandits or the Tetris film.

Oliver Stone is a notorious bender of truth (See JFK).

The trailer is f-ing awful, Independence Day levels of over the top...

Certainly more excited to see Barbie anyway

This and Meg 2

I saw the new Mission Impossible at the cinema yesterday. Ridiculous in the best way. What James Bond wishes it could be.

Don't drink too much before you go in - it's nearly three hours and there's no downtime to nip out for a piss.

8/10 only because every is dumb these days apparently and you have to explain everything in the plot 10 times.

Rewatched Tetsuo: Iron Man at the weekend. Still, without a doubt, the oddest film I ever saw. Still not an easy watch.

Great soundtrack too

much easier watch than Teenage Hooker becomes Killing Machine aka
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Oh fuck yeah! Forgot all about that. Watched that around about the same time as A Zed & Two Noughts

Rewatched Blade for the first time in about 15 years last night. A dose of highly concentrated 1990s. Still kicks ass.

Napoleon also great in Bill & Ted

If you read the book first, the film makes a lot more sense. In the send that it takes the piss out of the book.

Do you want to know more?

Blade

Instant aural flashback to new order remix club scene.

I've not read the book to be fair! Maybe I'll give that a go out of curiousity.

Starship Troopers is a masterpiece. Remember Buenos Aires!

Sexy Beast: Looks like a fun guy Ritchie geezer movie but as my teenager said: This was surprisingly traumatizing ;)

Very well acted,the plot of a gangster in retirement being forced back into one last job is elevated by the acting and small details.

Also looks great visually, colourwork and camera work is great.

Off to see "smoking causes coughing" tomorrow, looks like one big power rangers shitpost but should be fun.

I’ll never forget the formative experience of stumbling into the basement at the Foundry many a moon ago, with Tetsuo showing on a projector, then proceeding to K-hole on the rotating metal floor for what seemed like weeks whilst bystanders pushed me round and round.

Maybe I'll give that a go out of curiousity.

Well, the book is an all-out glorification of macho militarism. You might want to follow it up with Haldeman's "Forever War" as an antidote. Heinlein wrote some interesting stuff, but a fair number of his books are just nasty, not quite tipping into fascism but really dodgy and unpleasant.

He wrote much worse things than Starship Troopers, though. I hesitate to name them in case some poor soul reads one and discovers that there just isn't enough mind bleach in the world.

I’ll always remember this time in cinema as being just pre-Internet, and so it was so much easier to keep a secret about a movie.

I went into both Blade and The Matrix knowing next to nothing. That scene in the club was fantastic as an intro.

Hmmm, maybe I'll give him a miss after all, ha ha.

Sexy Beast is so good. Under The Skin by Jonathan Glazer, the same director, is amazing as well. Very very different to Sexy Beast.