#341

Last House on the Left
Wow, this was bad.

#342

Such a weird film that one

#343

Marriage Story

Well now we know what a fourth instalment in the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight series would have been like. Fantastic film, really funny/brutal at the same time

#344

Can’t wait to see this on Friday. Wonder if it’ll put them off the idea of a fourth Before further - I’d always assumed divorce and the fallout from it would be the most natural place for them to go with it, sounds like Baumbach’s beaten them to the punch

#345

I loved the final third of the film and how far they went with it.

#346

Oh yeah it’s great, but it’s still startling when the funny bickering that punctuates things suddenly dries up and all that’s left is a slow lonely march to the grave

#347

peanut butter falcon - this is really great, proper heart-warming stuff without being patronising or ableist

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#348

I liked the change-up a lot, but having that tone of film come at the end of 3 hours did make it a tough watch just from the endurance side of things. So it’s not fair to say it was 30 mins too long or didn’t need that ending, but yeah was just a bit of a struggle to fully focus.

Pretty grand though, can’t see many scenes that weren’t needed, the de-aging was very good apart from the youngest version of De Niro - really should have got someone else for that role at least. Seeing him drive the truck in that time period just made me flash back to him as a bus driver in A Bronx Tale, and with that image in mind he looked so off in The Irishman that it just took me right out of it.

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The Irishman + Scorsese Chat (Spoilers from Friday 8th)
#349

I saw someone saying the two things the de-ageing technology can’t change is De Niro/Pesci’s old man ears, and the way they walk - but yeah that aspect of things was largely well done

On a semi-related note I watched Snatch again the day before seeing The Irishman so I saw Stephen Graham age about twenty years in the space of one day

#350

Yeah probably the single most jarring moment was De Niro beating up the guy from the grocery store who pushed his daughter. His movements in that scene seemed all wrong and unnatural, so that really must be the “old man acting like a young man” issue at play.

Also for whatever reason I was even less concerned with Pacino’s de-aging that DN’s - maybe I’ve just seen Al in fewer recent films so I have less of a reference for how he’s “meant” to look? Or maybe his huge personality matched the age he was playing, whereas since Bobby was pretty taciturn all the way through.

The Irishman + Scorsese Chat (Spoilers from Friday 8th)
#351

I like how Jimmy Hoffa has been played by Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson, two actors who hardly look similar!

#352

off to the gft to see this tonight, really looking forward to it. really need some heart warming stuff in my life.

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#353

Godzilla v Kong is supposed to be out in four months and there hasn’t been a single trailer or anything yet. I wonder if they’re frantically re-working it after Godzilla: King of the Monsters underperformed (and was slated)

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#354
#355

That number 1 , oh dear

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#356

wow, someone liked tree of life!

#357

Great film but absolutely tryhard indie bellendery of the highest order that it’s the only big splashy movie included

#358

My pet plot for the fourth Before film is Before Curfew. The kids are older and out at prom night or whatever it is American teenagers do, and Jesse and Celine are alone in the house. They do a lot of talking, and probably some walking about.

The films come out every nine years (so far). Let’s see what happens in 2022.

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#359

Inception? Inside Out? Into the Spiderverse?

In fairness, Fury Road wouldn’t be my no. 1 but as action films this decade go it’s a class apart

#360

Spider-verse is borderline, but none of those are big effects-driven action blockbusters like Fury Road.