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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 29, 2021 16:13:36 GMT
So my sick day on Tuesday, in addition to watching Mortal Kombat (2021), I also watched High Rise (2015) and The Assistant (2019), two movies that had been on my proverbial list for a while. SPOILERS BELOW!! High Rise: I....just didn't get this movie. Granted, I've never read the source material and admittedly I wasn't firing on all cylinders when I did watch it, but I just have no idea what happened, particularly during the insanely disjointed last hour. Trust me, I love me some weird, avant-garde stuff, but this one just didn't work for me at all. Brilliant cast headlined by Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Moss, Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons, the film is a dystopian fantasy about financial rifts set within the confines of a London apartment building. I watched High Rise when it came out. I remember thinking that it was very bizarre, and not necessarily in a good way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 7:34:13 GMT
New chazzer DVD find to watch tonight. According to the blurb, a doctor says he can clone a grieving couples dead child... but their cloned kid doesn't come back right, or alone, or something like that, and bad things happen. That kind of thing. Pretty sure I've seen a film with a very similar premise, but not this particular one. And the moral is... If Bob offers to illegally clone your deceased child, but you have to move hundreds of miles away to a fantastic house that he gives you, and gets you a good job there as well. And you have to sever all ties with your present life... politely decline. Not a great film. Not terrible either. I constantly wanted it to give a bit more of something. I've seen something very similar before, but can't remember what film it was 🤔
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 30, 2021 11:30:43 GMT
New chazzer DVD find to watch tonight. According to the blurb, a doctor says he can clone a grieving couples dead child... but their cloned kid doesn't come back right, or alone, or something like that, and bad things happen. That kind of thing. Pretty sure I've seen a film with a very similar premise, but not this particular one. And the moral is... If Bob offers to illegally clone your deceased child, but you have to move hundreds of miles away to a fantastic house that he gives you, and gets you a good job there as well. And you have to sever all ties with your present life... politely decline. Not a great film. Not terrible either. I constantly wanted it to give a bit more of something. I've seen something very similar before, but can't remember what film it was 🤔 “Replicas”, with Keanu Reeves? That one also revolved around cloning deceased family members.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 11:33:23 GMT
And the moral is... If Bob offers to illegally clone your deceased child, but you have to move hundreds of miles away to a fantastic house that he gives you, and gets you a good job there as well. And you have to sever all ties with your present life... politely decline. Not a great film. Not terrible either. I constantly wanted it to give a bit more of something. I've seen something very similar before, but can't remember what film it was 🤔 “Replicas”, with Keanu Reeves? That one also revolved around cloning deceased family members. No. Just looked that up, it wasn't that. It was a horror film.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 30, 2021 12:15:23 GMT
So my sick day on Tuesday, in addition to watching Mortal Kombat (2021), I also watched High Rise (2015) and The Assistant (2019), two movies that had been on my proverbial list for a while. SPOILERS BELOW!! High Rise: I....just didn't get this movie. Granted, I've never read the source material and admittedly I wasn't firing on all cylinders when I did watch it, but I just have no idea what happened, particularly during the insanely disjointed last hour. Trust me, I love me some weird, avant-garde stuff, but this one just didn't work for me at all. Brilliant cast headlined by Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Moss, Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons, the film is a dystopian fantasy about financial rifts set within the confines of a London apartment building. The Assistant: This movie, on the other hand, really works. Now, not much happens, there is virtually no "action," there isn't even that much in the way of dialogue, but the film poignantly shines an unflinching light on gender politics within an office for the male-dominated entertainment industry. The film covers a day in the life of an office assistant, beautifully played with a subtle and subdued tenacity by Julia Garner, who serves basically as a secretary, travel agent, schedule coordinator, maid, babysitter, wife-calmer-downer, mistress escort, pharmacist and general dumping ground, as she gets shit on left and right, both in overt ways and in ways that are actually well-intended but are still part of the problem. There is an obvious faction of modern society that will view this movie as "wokeism run amok" or whatever horseshit they are fed, but this movie brings hard truth about life in a post-Harvey Weinstein world. You never actually see or really hear the main antagonist, but his presence is literally everywhere, starting with the opening shots of the movie. I've found myself often thinking about this movie over the past 2 days, the mark of a thought-provoker. Give this one a chance. I've had both of these on the list for a while. I haven't seen much of Ben Wheatley's stuff, but I know he's kind of a polarizing filmmaker. The Assistant looked interesting to me, but it never hit the way that I thought it might. There's have been a lot of movies and shows that have tried to be the definitive piece of the me too/post-Weinstein era, and there is indeed the issue of some of them being 'wokeism run amok,' which is really just to say that there are some badly made, heavy handed, unsubtle movies made on the topic (much like some of the attempts at social commentary horror movies trying to capitalize on the success of Get Out)... but this one really looked like it might have gotten it right from the trailers. The sort of elusive and quiet tone looked like the right approach to me, but then I mostly forgot about it when it came and went and nobody seemed to be talking about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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Post by redhorizon on Apr 30, 2021 12:43:24 GMT
Sometimes I watch the ongoing IPL.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 30, 2021 12:51:40 GMT
“Replicas”, with Keanu Reeves? That one also revolved around cloning deceased family members. No. Just looked that up, it wasn't that. It was a horror film. Anything else to go on? Do you recall when or where it was from?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 12:53:59 GMT
So my sick day on Tuesday, in addition to watching Mortal Kombat (2021), I also watched High Rise (2015) and The Assistant (2019), two movies that had been on my proverbial list for a while. SPOILERS BELOW!! High Rise: I....just didn't get this movie. Granted, I've never read the source material and admittedly I wasn't firing on all cylinders when I did watch it, but I just have no idea what happened, particularly during the insanely disjointed last hour. Trust me, I love me some weird, avant-garde stuff, but this one just didn't work for me at all. Brilliant cast headlined by Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Moss, Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons, the film is a dystopian fantasy about financial rifts set within the confines of a London apartment building. The Assistant: This movie, on the other hand, really works. Now, not much happens, there is virtually no "action," there isn't even that much in the way of dialogue, but the film poignantly shines an unflinching light on gender politics within an office for the male-dominated entertainment industry. The film covers a day in the life of an office assistant, beautifully played with a subtle and subdued tenacity by Julia Garner, who serves basically as a secretary, travel agent, schedule coordinator, maid, babysitter, wife-calmer-downer, mistress escort, pharmacist and general dumping ground, as she gets shit on left and right, both in overt ways and in ways that are actually well-intended but are still part of the problem. There is an obvious faction of modern society that will view this movie as "wokeism run amok" or whatever horseshit they are fed, but this movie brings hard truth about life in a post-Harvey Weinstein world. You never actually see or really hear the main antagonist, but his presence is literally everywhere, starting with the opening shots of the movie. I've found myself often thinking about this movie over the past 2 days, the mark of a thought-provoker. Give this one a chance. I haven't seen much of Ben Wheatley's stuff, but I know he's kind of a polarizing filmmaker. I've seen Sightseers, and A Field in England. Both pretty forgettable. In no hurry to see any more by him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2021 12:56:30 GMT
No. Just looked that up, it wasn't that. It was a horror film. Anything else to go on? Do you recall when or where it was from? No idea. Perhaps I imagined I had already seen a horror film about a cloned child gone bad... Or maybe it was a telly programme. Or a creepypasta 🤷♀️
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 30, 2021 14:25:03 GMT
I've had both of these on the list for a while. I haven't seen much of Ben Wheatley's stuff, but I know he's kind of a polarizing filmmaker. The Assistant looked interesting to me, but it never hit the way that I thought it might. There's have been a lot of movies and shows that have tried to be the definitive piece of the me too/post-Weinstein era, and there is indeed the issue of some of them being 'wokeism run amok,' which is really just to say that there are some badly made, heavy handed, unsubtle movies made on the topic (much like some of the attempts at social commentary horror movies trying to capitalize on the success of Get Out)... but this one really looked like it might have gotten it right from the trailers. The sort of elusive and quiet tone looked like the right approach to me, but then I mostly forgot about it when it came and went and nobody seemed to be talking about it. Thanks for the reminder. That's true, there is definitely some thematic heavy-handedness with movies and TV shows that try to address this topic, but this movie is the opposite of that. It's on Hulu and it's pretty short.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 1, 2021 19:33:50 GMT
The Blair Witch Project was on BBC Tv last night so I recorded it and watched it today.
What a load of shite! Only plus was it lasted just 75 minutes!
Surely no one found that scary?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2021 20:21:46 GMT
The Dark (2005)
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 2, 2021 12:26:38 GMT
I watched two movies yesterday. First, “Cargo”, an Australian zombie drama with Martin Freeman. I say “drama” because even though it takes place during the zombie apocalypse, it is not really a horror movie or a thriller. More like a subdued episode of “The Walking Dead”. A somewhat different entry in the zombie catalogue. It’s on Netflix. I enjoyed it.
The second movie of the day was “Stowaway”, a new science fiction movie with Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette, about a two-year mission to Mars in the not-too-distant future. A three-person crew becomes a four-person crew when the stowaway from the title is found on board shortly after take-off. I liked it well enough, but I am fully aware that I am giving a wide berth to some questionable plot points that I wouldn’t be so quick to forgive in other movies. For some reason. It’s on Netflix in the USA but on Amazon Prime here in Canada. Not sure about other countries.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 2, 2021 12:47:10 GMT
I haven't seen much of Ben Wheatley's stuff, but I know he's kind of a polarizing filmmaker. I've seen Sightseers, and A Field in England.Both pretty forgettable. In no hurry to see any more by him. This thread is about movies and television, not your morning jog!
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2021 20:26:49 GMT
Tonight pulled blindly at random from the DVD pile is...
Ghost Ship.
Oh dear... But I can't overrule the random selection, or there's no point else.
Ghost Ship it is.
It could be worse, Ghosts of Mars is in there somewhere 🙈
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 2, 2021 20:46:45 GMT
Tonight pulled blindly at random from the DVD pile is... Ghost Ship. Oh dear... But I can't overrule the random selection, or there's no point else. Ghost Ship it is. It could be worse, Ghosts of Mars is in there somewhere 🙈 It's not very good... but it does have its moments, and the basic setting and premise has potential. Kind of a waste of potential overall but not as bad as some of those other ones you've had to deal with recently.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2021 20:49:09 GMT
Tonight pulled blindly at random from the DVD pile is... Ghost Ship. Oh dear... But I can't overrule the random selection, or there's no point else. Ghost Ship it is. It could be worse, Ghosts of Mars is in there somewhere 🙈 It's not very good... but it does have its moments, and the basic setting and premise has potential. Kind of a waste of potential overall but not as bad as some of those other ones you've had to deal with recently. Yeah, it's kind of on a level with Deep Blue Sea.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 6, 2021 18:39:31 GMT
Let’s try and keep this thread alive a little while longer…
I watched The Dig last night. Charming little movie with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan based on the true story of one of the most important archeological finds in England – a treasure trove from a burial site from the Anglo-Saxon period. Ralph Fiennes plays an excavator with plenty of experience but no formal training, hired by a wealthy widow (Carey Mulligan) to investigate some possible areas of interest in her property. When he finds something much more important than anyone could have hoped for, the bigwigs in the local and national museums take notice. This is all happening in 1939 as the country is preparing for the coming war with Germany…
Anyway, obviously this is not a high-octane thriller, but I can recommend it to anyone looking for a nice period drama to watch. It's a Netflix production.
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Post by tristramshandy on May 7, 2021 1:04:47 GMT
I finished Jud Apatow's 4-plus hour documentary about Garry Shandling last night. It goes without saying that 4-plus hours is a bit much, but since I watched it in about eight non-consecutive chunks, I liked it.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 7:55:14 GMT
Blindly pulled randomly from the DVD pile to watch later on for Friday night viewing is...
'Apartment 143' AKA 'Emergo'
It'll do... A fair to middling found footage type Spanish horror.
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