#2256

Watch Vertigo

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#2257

Badlands out of that list for me, Clive.

#2258

theyre all great tbf except American Beauty (rubbish) and Boogie Nights (over rated).

I’d go for Blue Velvet or Read Window

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#2259

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#2262

The Shape Of Water trainer has come out:

Looks very Hellboy/Bioshock-y

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#2263

Never been sure about Del Toro’s English-language stuff. In terms of the more recent film I didn’t bother with Pacific Rim but I quite liked Crimson Peak in a ‘this is enjoyably hammy’ kind of way.

#2264

It’s not so much how violent they are than it is the way it gets shot. Spacey and Hamm’s injuries are of the blink and you’ll miss it kind, whereas time practically stands still to watch Eisa Gonzalez get repeatedly shot in the chest. Although I didn’t take against quite as hard as yer man roasthemonaspit, I am genuinely stunned by the glowing reviews it’s got.

#2265

I haven’t seen the Graduate and didn’t like Badlands, but you can’t really go wrong with the rest. Haven’t seen much Hitchcock but I’d wholly recommend Rear Window.

Watched The Levelling last night, it’s dead good.

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#2266

films are great

#2267

Yeah it passed the time fine and I love his voice so could pretty much listen to him say anything but certainly one for the hardcore only.

(always get jealous when people have loads of footage of themselves as children / younger too. May parents did fuckall!)

#2268

Recently watched

China Moon - quite an interesting story pretty well done
Before I Fall - bit of a dodgy message in this
The Iceman - pretty dull really but Ross from Friends was in it
Point Blank - decent french thriller, standard fare but good
Miracle Mile - never heard of this but really enjoyed it. Surprised its not talked about more. Very Lynchian in parts and that ending, oof

#2269

War of the Planet of the Apes
(possibly light spoilers)

Fantastic. Really strong end (?) to the trilogy. I got a few hints of things like Star Wars, Aliens and other dark 80’s sci-fi, even bits of eulogeic westerns in the first half.

Surprisingly dark and there’s no way it would have been a 12 if it wasn’t about apes.

I re-watched the first two at the weekend and I think it’ll come to be considered a classic sci-fi trilogy.

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#2270

Saw It Comes At Night yesterday. Had avoided promotional material so went in with no preconceptions and really enjoyed it. Thought the acting was superb, especially yer man from Girls and Joel Edgerton. Between this and Midnight Special I think Joel Edgerton is one of the best actors going.

Don’t think the dream sequences added anything, the tale didn’t need any ambiguity as it was ultimately a lot less about the terror of the disease and more about humans reacting to extreme situations in believable ways.

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#2271

I love Joel Edgerton. Have you seen The Gift? He’s great in that and also wrote and directed it.

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#2272

I watched the original 1968 film last night having seen War on Monday. In the original the ape characters are really just humans in apes bodies, personality wise. What works so well about these films is that the apes have really well developed emotions and morals, they have their own humanity, or apemanity, specific to apes, which is still really easy to emphasise with.

#2273

Loving is also worth seeing. Very low key performance, but all the better because of it.

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#2274

I haven’t yet but I’m meaning to get round to it. Loving is on the watch list as well.

I think the only things I’d seen him in before Midnight Special were The Great Gatsby and Exodus Gods and Kings, both films so utterly terrible that it would be unfair to hold them against him.

#2275

I couldn’t get into Manhattan at all for that very reason. Are we really supposed to be rooting for a main character who’s so obviously a creepy bastard?

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#2276

I don’t even think he’s that bad in Manhattan.

Well, OK, he is a total dick. I still love the film anyway damn it.

#2277

Pacific Rim was fucking terrible (I dunno how they managed to fuck up big fighting robots so badly) but this looks pretty great

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