shinymcshine Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 IT Part 2 I was hardly blown away with Pt 1, it was alright but nothing special, and unless you've got a clown phobia, then wasn't particularly scary either. So if you're still thinking of watching Pt 2 then you might as well just rewatch Pt 1 but imagine the kids are now all grown up (27 yrs later...), as that's all you really get that's new. So two and half hours later it limps to and inevitable CGI action climax without, oddly, using its running time to really generate too much characterisation and empathy for those that you've spent 4 hrs+ watching (aside from horrible clichés), and fades to one of the most forgettable horror films despite all its hype. I do wonder if Stephen King novels really are 'unfilmable' - does the structure of the book get lost in translation ? The books have a good reputation, but I'd struggle to name but a handful of decent movie versions of the many that have been made. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Stephen_King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Knives Out It was entertaining enough, albeit no more than one of the older episodes of Jonathan Creek. I was expecting more of a twisty turning mystery comedy, somewhere between Murder on the Orient Express and Clue, and whilst enjoyable it didn't quite meet my expectations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I really enjoyed Knives Out, it looks beautiful. Good to see Johnson back on familiar territory after Last Jedi. The Jonathan Creek analogy is both harsh and very true and I wish you hadn't pointed it out @shinymcshine We watched The Invisible Man last night which was excellent. Well acted, looked good, was tense in the right places, not particularly scary but was a satisfying watch. We also watched the Birds of Prey which I thought was pretty sound up until the final act, then it went a bit to shit. Some funny moments, Margot Robbie is good as Quinn, although it does get a bit much at times, the other characters where good, but could have done with some more screen time. Ewen McGregor's baddy was a bit shit, but he seemed to be having fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I watched Room 237 on Prime last night. It's a bunch of The Shining fanatics over-interpreting the film to try and divine what secret coded messages Kubrick must have left in the film. It's entertaining to listen to some of them, and the straw-clutching is a times very funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Just watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the first time in years. It's still pretty good, obviously there's loads of stuff I couldn't possibly have understood as a kid. The most impressive thing is that they managed to get Disney and Warner Bros characters not only in the same film but in the same scenes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 One of my all time favourites when I was little! Best kids movie ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, DANGERMAN said: Just watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the first time in years. It's still pretty good, obviously there's loads of stuff I couldn't possibly have understood as a kid. The most impressive thing is that they managed to get Disney and Warner Bros characters not only in the same film but in the same scenes I've been meaning to watch that again for ages, might try this week. Is it streaming in any of the obvious places? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 On 05/04/2020 at 05:56, shinymcshine said: I do wonder if Stephen King novels really are 'unfilmable' - does the structure of the book get lost in translation ? The books have a good reputation, but I'd struggle to name but a handful of decent movie versions of the many that have been made. I've the opposite view, his books are unreadable but make great films (The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, the green mile, misery) Some of those are short stories but they count imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 34 minutes ago, Jimbo Xiii said: I've been meaning to watch that again for ages, might try this week. Is it streaming in any of the obvious places? Nowtv have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 It’s on Disney+ @Jimbo Xiii I think I was too young to appreciate it as a kid so I wanna rewatch it too at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Bob Hoskins was such an underrated actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 1 hour ago, OCH said: Bob Hoskins was such an underrated actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 ? Whenever I see that poster, it always reminds me of those two quotes, from Hoskins and Hopper: Quote “The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a f***in’ nightmare,” said Hoskins in a 2007 interview. “The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! F***in’ nightmare. F***in’ idiots.” Quote "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?'" Hopper replied. "And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Gaming Historian did a really good documentary on the Mario Bros movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikzilla Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 My friend wrote a really good book on it too. Well, a chapter at least. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0764353179/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_HI3MEbC300YYG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regemond Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 18/04/2020 at 19:08, DANGERMAN said: The most impressive thing is that they managed to get Disney and Warner Bros characters not only in the same film but in the same scenes The arguments from both sides were insane too. Mickey and Bugs Bunny had to have exactly the same amount of screen-time and lines. In the scene where Donald and Daffy are both playing piano, neither side could have the advantage over the other - there couldn't be a clear winner by the end. Tons and tons of legalese going backwards and forwards. One of my favourite childhood films, and one that's only interested me more as I've got older. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/who-framed-roger-rabbit-did-crossovers-better-anyone-1122395 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikzilla Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Sounds like Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, and The Rock in the last Fast and Furious movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Watched Molly's Game yesterday, the true story of a professional skier who, after a career-ending accident, turns to organizing high stakes underground poker games. Very good movie that went over my head a bit at some times when it got too much into the legal aspects of organized poker games* but apart from that it was an interesting story with lots of highs and lows and an excellent cast who had no difficulties carrying their characters through those ups and downs. It's a very long movie at around 180 minutes but never felt like it and even if you aren't particularly interested in Poker this can still be recommended (similar to say, Casino Royale, even if both movies are very different pieces of cinema). Also special mention to the costume designer who must have had a massive ladyboner for Chastain because (*) she spends the first half of the movie in dresses that might explain why I didn't quite catch all those legal details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I've been meaning to watch that for a while. One of the celebrities is based on Toby Maguire who is part of the high stakes poker scene and is meant to be an awful person. Slightly click bait-y link to an Observer article about the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 So Player X is Maguire? Wow, never would have thought, I always pictured him as a rather nice person. To clarify, the points mentioned in your link don't necessarily portray him as awful but rather as someone annoying but there's a moment in the movie that, if true, certainly makes it seem like he's kind of a bitchy diva. The movie's on Netflix by the way in case you didn't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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