#401

Gonna try and get along on Sunday to see this

#402

Yeah I do, have at the stat

1 Like
#403

love that your ‘most highly rated stars’ section is basically just Twin Peaks

1 Like
#404

Haha, James Marshall, one of the greatest actors ever!

4 Likes
#405

Watching Trainspotting for the first time in aaaages. Still brilliant. Aged far better than I ever thought it would.

I’m sure I’m not the only one but it does remind me of seeing that daft Choose Life poster in many a student accommodation though.

2 Likes
#406

Just saw 1917 at IMAX. Looks great and stuff, probably a 7 or 8/10 film. Overall I’m not sure it achieves anything that Dunkirk didn’t already do and that was a tighter running time.

The one-camera shot thing is both clever and (for me at least) a bit distracting as at times it made me feel like I was watching someone play Call of Duty: WW1 (if such a thing exists).

Worth seeing in IMAX just because the sets are so good.

#407

I thought it was everything that Dunkirk should have been. Wish I’d see it in IMAX.

#408

Ooh really? Care to elaborate? I mean for me:

I felt like the setup for Blake’s death was a bit much - the airman killing him just felt quite unlikely for WW1 pilots but also quite ‘nasty Germans’.

Then it dragged for me after he gets shot and blacks out. That whole bit in the French town I am not about to misspell felt rudderless and the visit with the French woman a bit weird what with them both understanding each other.

Finally the pure luck of ending up at the British group he needed after the dive into the river felt like it was trashing the realism of the earlier part of the film. Once he got on his final way to deliver the message it was spectacular again.

#409

Thought the bit with the french lady did a lot to pad out the character. And directly after that you have the incredible sequence of the town being lit up by flares, it’s like nothing I’ve seen before. There are plenty of character beats, conveniences and hokey bits of dialogue that I could pull up, but I really don’t care, the film just grabbed me from the off and never let go, Dunkirk never came close. If it doesn’t storm the technical awards at the Oscars something is seriously wrong - Deakins should get his 2nd Oscar (should be 10+ at this point tbf). Him finding the battalion after the waterfall was the one point where I thought ‘ah come on now’ but it diesn’t spoil it for me. One of the best war and/or action films I’ve seen in years.

Think this is the best awards season in a long time. Parasite, Knives Out, 1917 and Portrait of a Lady on Fire are all strong contenders for my film of the year. Yet to see Little Women

2 Likes
#410

Not that impressed with 1917 from anything other than a technical perspective. Didn’t have the visceral feel and originality of Dunkirk and the one shot element is a gimmick compared to something like Victoria. All the cuts are really obvious and the time frame feels completely off too. Deakins does smash it though some shots are absolutely gorgeous.

The film it reminded me most of was The Revenant rather than any other war film. Just a man being continuously subjected to worsening conditions.

The a-list cameos for officers is really distracting too. Especially when you have Firth, Cumberbatch and then this lad turns up:

5ddd1118210000ab9834e15d

Trailer gives away far too much too, I was patiently waiting for the other guy to die because there wasnt a sniff of him in the trailer

5 Likes
#411

Watched it last year maybe for the first time in years, it’s amazing, proper classic film now :+1:

1 Like
#412

Yeah agree with the video game thing. the bit where he stumbles across the platoon listening to the guy sing especially

1 Like
#413

toooogeeeettthhheerrr foooreeeevvvverrrr
in old_man_burner’s most highly rated stars sectioooonnn

#414

1917

Gee, it’s almost as if Christopher Nolan is a much better filmmaker than Sam Mendes. This is good and as mentioned there’s some great images but it never totally grabbed me. Mind you, I was half expecting the colonel guy to carry on with the attack even after reading the letter because any character played by Benedict Cumberbatch has to be a total shithead

4 Likes
#415

My god Little Women :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

Made the mistake of seeing 1917 immediately afterwards.

6 Likes
#416

I think that’s a given, right? The film is full of Chekhov’s items and Mark Strong’s advice is one of them.

#417

So many things felt like a set up for later rather than being a rewarding character moment at that point

#418

Mark Strong playing a good guy nearly always feels wrong

4 Likes
#419

Really enjoyed 1917, didn’t find the one (well, two) shot thing as gimmicky as expected

Spent most of the film irked by a couple on one side of me who would not stop wittering and a woman on the other side who kept narrating the film (“oh its a cow”)

4 Likes
#420

Sweet. Looking forward to this. Love me some Kurzel brothers (aside from Assassins Creed)