Films

Beam me up Spok

dead or alive, you are getting to the chopper.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

That the two leads are women doesn't really matter, you're not thinking about that, it's about falling in love and being monstrously hurt and it's brilliantly done, so much of it is completely natural and unstaged and honest ( a lot was extemporised) and heart-breaking. It's graphic, I can't think of a film where soixante-neuf has been shown so explicitly, but other domestic scenes are just as graphic and revealing- like eating a meal. One scene set around a meal is very revealing and painful. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a revelation, you totally forget she's acting and three hours passes very quickly. It's her film really, it's her story, the timescale was confusing until I read the director said it's set over thirty years but he didn't want the characters to look aged. It's a film Hollywood would never make, that's for sure. It grants the audience too much credit to be an American film. It's never judgemental, the film doesn't take sides, there's no villain or hero, it just tells a story incredibly well. The early bar scene is wonderful, you fall in love at the same time as Adele, stolen glances and lingering gazes- for instance when they're in the park early on the director shows a glimpse of Emma's armpit as Adele stares at it with a carnal fixation, I don't think there are any shots from Emma's POV. This film blew me away, it was an emotional voyage, one of the films of the year.

I just couldn't get anything from it that you felt, I also thought it was far to long and left too many un answered questions in my book.

i see your art house wank and raise you THIS!

Love that bit where he goes to the fire station, says "I'm coming back in here" then drives a car through the reception, iconic

you've seen it?

You should all go see Zodiac, it's ace.

Just watched and you are right, it is. Pretty much 2.5hrs of action free storytelling. And the first film of this thread.

Pretty much 2.5hrs of action free storytelling.

OH GOD. I still remember of going to see Zodiac at the cinema on shitloads of speed. David Fincher, I thought. Zodiac killer, I thought. This will be a pacy thriller, I thought. BIG MISTAKE.

I should probably watch it again whilst sober, but even the word zodiac makes me flinch in remembered agony so I'm probably not going to.

Just watched and you are right, it is. Pretty much 2.5hrs of action free storytelling. And the first film of this thread.

Wow, wasn't expecting another response to that post! TBH I've haven't seen it since the cinema, maybe it's time for a rewatch....

I thought BITWC was a pretty conventional film at heart: an overlong and fairly predictable love story, notwithstanding the whack of lesbian porn in the middle. Plus some slightly clunky symbolism and a kind of reactionary subtext about how class will out. Amazing acting though, especially from yer girl Adele.

Went and saw the Hobbit last night and really bloody enjoyed it.

So there!

^^Adele is from West Norwood. trufax.

Watched Permanent Vacation by Jim Jarmusch last night. There's a couple of decent scene's with some cool abstract musical pieces, and it's general homage to Godard elevate it beyond mediocrity of it's whole, but it's short in any case. First I've seen of his films and a friend has lent me the box set with Stranger Than Paradise / Down By Law so looking forward to exploring more over christmas.

Saw Anchorman 2 yesterday. It was ok. A lot of the most popular bits from the first film have been rehashed ('for the fans' no doubt) in a way that makes them not funny anymore but then there are new bits that are pretty damn hilarious which make up for it.

6.5/10
Enjoyed it but wouldn't make the effort to see it again.

I thought BITWC was a pretty conventional film at heart: an overlong and fairly predictable love story, notwithstanding the whack of lesbian porn in the middle. Plus some slightly clunky symbolism and a kind of reactionary subtext about how class will out. Amazing acting though, especially from yer girl Adele.

The aleatorical elements were overplayed, don't you think?

Watched Permanent Vacation by Jim Jarmusch last night. There's a couple of decent scene's with some cool abstract musical pieces, and it's general homage to Godard elevate it beyond mediocrity of it's whole, but it's short in any case. First I've seen of his films and a friend has lent me the box set with Stranger Than Paradise / Down By Law so looking forward to exploring more over christmas.

Only fil I like by him is Ghost Dog, cracking soundtrack by RZA.

APPETIZERS

• Oysters

• Ham

• Tuna Bourek

• Gyros

MAIN COURSE

• Spaghetti Bolognese

• More Spaghetti Bolognese

• Still More Spaghetti Bolognese

• Bread with Butter

DESSERT

• Candy Bars (and a cry)
  

Hobbit 2. Better than the first one, but still not brilliant. However, worth seeing on the big screen, and worth seeing once (doubt I'll ever rewatch), just to spend a few more hours in middle earth.

Just don't watch in 3D!

does the 3D version have fewer homicidal robots from the future? that hardly seems fair - what is hollywood thinking with this madness!?

What was wrong with 3D? Seemed fine to me.

The aleatorical elements were overplayed, don't you think?

Unfortunately, no :)

I thought it made the film look budget. I can't explain it, there's a certain look, I associate it with sub standard BBC dramas.

Know it was mentioned here before but I watched Good Vibrations again last night with the lady, everyone that I've seen it with so far loves it but they all needed subtitles to fully get what was going on!

http://youtu.be/DruhJkZU4EI

Great soundtrack too

Also cant wait til they get bored of this 3D bollox and stop releasing movies exclusively in it

To Catch A Thief

Grace Kelly, The Riviera, eye candy of the highest order.

The Hitchcock twisted occurred 27years later.