#867

I love the first one. As it was no nonsense action revenge film, didn’t go on for too long and just did the job. My GF who usually hates shooty fight films enjoyed it too. Looking forward to the second.

#868

marckee said the opposite hah

#869

You go to the closing Gala? The staff were banned from it this year :smiley:

#870

oh so he did, tbf I’m basing my info on the thinly veiled

#871

I did go, just for a couple right enough.
Ah i wondered, i was invited tothe staff shindig on the monday night, couldn’t work out why they were having yet another do but that’s why.

#872

Yeah it’s pretty shady official reason was “capacity” but mm

#873

Edge of Tomorrow, yet another enjoyable Tom Cruise film/10

#875

God where these people you were with? Or cinema punters. I would abandon these guys if they are your friends tbh.

Agreed on the film. Powerful stuff.

#876

He’s a stage actor I believe

#877

I think I just worked out they were randomers from your spoiler bit. Maybe change cinema? was nothing like that in my one…

#879

think you’re being a bit odd here, it’s not a completely humourless film otherwise it wouldn’t be as good as it is

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#880

Has it been mentioned Naomie Harris filmed her scenes during 3 daya of downtime from promoting Spectre , which is a ridiculous feat

I watches The Element of Crime tonight, Lars von Trier’s first one. Stars a bloke out of Eastenders. Hes never been a conventional one has old Lars

#882

sorry, I just meant I think you’re being overly-protective or something. Please re-regard that as “this is an odd thing to say” rather than trying to point you out personally.

Without interviewing everyone in the cinema you have no idea what they intentions are and even so, who are you (or anyone) to say how they react to something (unless they literally shout out their reasons for reacting a certain way in the cinema).

Obviously, I wasn’t at the screening and yeah maybe some things felt weird and at odds with your experience with the film, it’s just your comments come off a little judgemental.

Kevin’s overreaching with his story with the girl in the locker is pretty funny, as is a couple of Janelle Monae’s lines and as are some of the adult Kevin and Black lines in the restaurant, I thought anyway.

#884

fair enough, I guess it could really come off as quite close to the bullying in the film

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#885

Medicine for Melancholy is screening at the central Picturehouse for reasonable prices this motnh

https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Picturehouse_Central/film/misc-films-presents-medicine-for-melancholy-enc

No idea if you’re in That London, obviously.

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#887

looks shite

basically just alien fanfic at this stage isn’t it

#888

I think you’re maybe being a bit harsh here. There are moments of humour in Moonlight and I don’t think laughing at them means you’re unsympathetic. I never laughed out loud, though I did chuckle a few times because there are moments of humour. One of those being when middle Kevin gets out the big joint and has a good line about smoking it (this was already well after I’d cried at the cinema for the first time in years) or when third-act-Chiron drops some of his food on the table because it seemed like such a lovely little detail, very human.

My partner who is bisexual and suffered with a lot of bullying during school, did laugh/tried to laugh silently when Chiron decks the guy with the chair but that isn’t to say she didn’t think it was a moment without pain, and knew the consequences of it would be horrendous. It was for her, something sure she wishes she could do to those bullys now even after ten years and seeing it on screen brought around an involuntary reaction. It doesn’t mean that she didn’t have an inability to feel for Chiron, she cried from about 20 minutes in till the credits rolled.

Sounds like your screening was particularly bad especially if you got the sense there was laughter because of how they spoke, but I just wanted to add my experience of it.

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#889

It’s a fool who expects the first good Alien film in over 30 years anyway

#890

true but they could at least try a different formula ffs