What's the last film you watched? (2)

archibald · **#19561** by **archibald** » May 09, 2017 12:49 pm

Spinozasgalt wrote:Ohhh, so that's what Future Islands look like. I actually have the music video to that track. Pretty sure the track itself got best track on Pitchfork that year.

Fallible wrote:I will say this for them, never have I seen such spacktacular dad dancing.

With apologies for temporarily derailing, this was them on Later With Jools Holland last week (one of the few shows worth having a TV for, imo, last week's show also had two numbers by both London Grammar AND Orchestra Baobab). The worst you could say is that it's of a kind with the first one. But I'm buying it. Great lyrics, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYdeWjbaa9s

zulumoose · **#19562** by **zulumoose** » May 09, 2017 1:18 pm

Animavore wrote:
Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

But how did the alien grow up so fast without taking on bulk in the form of food? This is never answered.

How do you know it never took on food?
If its body fluids can dissolve through the decking of the ship, the question should not be what food it had access to, but how it is reasonable to assume that nothing it encountered in the periods when out of view could have been used as food.

archibald · **#19563** by **archibald** » May 09, 2017 1:28 pm

surreptitious57 wrote:One other type of genre I do not like are contemporary bio pics. Playing real life characters is flawed for one very obvious reason. Play historical characters who did not live beyond the nineteenth century. Nigel Hawthorne was excellent in The Madness Of King George for this very reason because no photographs or films exist of him so liberties can be taken and
no one other than maybe historians would notice. There is though two notable exception to this rule and one is Colin
Firth as George VI in The Kings Speech a true quality piece of cinema from beginning to end. And Geoffrey Rush was
absolutely sublime. The other one is of course Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall. A better portrayal you will simply
never see. But as a general rule of thumb avoid the twentieth century altogether with this genre unless you have
either doppelgangers or the acting is so sublime that you do not notice

I generally agree.

It's worse if the actor is very famous. I could not help but see 'Ghandi' as featuring 'Ben Kingsley dressed up', for example.

surreptitious57 · **#19564** by **surreptitious57** » May 09, 2017 2:49 pm

I might be wrong about this but I think Ben Kingsley was relatively unknown before Ghandi so only become
famous after. In the same way that Sigourney Weaver did with Alien. But what a spellbinding performance
that he gave in it. Robert Powell in Jesus Of Nazareth and Robert De Niro as the Devil in Angel Heart also

archibald · **#19565** by **archibald** » May 09, 2017 3:00 pm

surreptitious57 wrote:I might be wrong about this but I think Ben Kingsley was relatively unknown before Ghandi so only become
famous after. In the same way that Sigourney Weaver did with Alien. But what a spellbinding performance
that he gave in it. Robert Powell in Jesus Of Nazareth and Robert De Niro as the Devil in Angel Heart also

Yes, maybe I am remembering my reaction wrong. Maybe I was thinking 'white man made up to look Indian' was what was odd. Or maybe I watched the film again years later and that's when I thought both of those things.

And then there's the times when you don't recognise that the actor is famous when they are, such as (for me) Cameron Diaz in 'Being John Malkovich'.

SafeAsMilk · **#19566** by **SafeAsMilk** » May 09, 2017 4:28 pm

Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. Thoroughly enjoyable popcorn movie, though it did seem to be trying a bit too hard to outdo the first one. Sometimes the humor was too obvious and it generally turned everything up to 11, which is unfortunate because I think they struck the right balance with part 1. Still a lot of fun, and I didn't get my head blown off like Ani did :tongue:

Thomas Eshuis · **#19567** by **Thomas Eshuis** » May 10, 2017 8:12 am

Once again I feel vindicated for nothing have seen this:

Mike_L · **#19568** by **Mike_L** » May 10, 2017 12:27 pm

Macdoc · **#19569** by **Macdoc** » May 11, 2017 12:22 am

love true stories...really like Rachel Weisz ...so far so good. Enjoyable and well cast. :thumbup:

Macdoc · **#19570** by **Macdoc** » May 11, 2017 3:54 am

back to back treats

you know I'm seriously engaged when I completely forgot they are the speaking another language.
Gotta love dark Scandanavian crime thrillers

Oh goodie a second one in ther series popped up Dept.Q: The Absent One
Interesting to see a Muslim co-lead in the land of the Vikings..

and now a third in the series ...each a full movie about 2 hours,

Dept. Q: A Conspiracy of Faith.

Thomas Eshuis · **#19571** by **Thomas Eshuis** » May 12, 2017 8:45 am

Spinozasgalt · **#19572** by **Spinozasgalt** » May 12, 2017 10:35 am

I saw Alien: Covenant today. I'm kinda really sorta unimpressed.

Matthew Shute · **#19573** by **Matthew Shute** » May 12, 2017 11:19 am

archibald wrote:
Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

Totally. The aliens were wusses, comparatively-speaking, in the latter, which in some ways ruined everything.

I don't think they were wusses in Aliens. Remember, in the first film the xenomorph is up against a totally unprepared crew of non-soldiers, non of whom have the faintest clue what they're dealing with. In the second film, it's a crew of trained and well-armed space marines who know to prepare for some serious fighting (at first they think it's going to be a "bug hunt" until Ripley puts them straight, and they actually encounter these creatures). So it was always going to be more of a fight. Even so, Ripley is ultimately the only human to survive the encounter. Aliens is different but great, almost as good as Alien if you ask me. Well, my opinion wavers on it. There are times when I think it's better.

Animavore · **#19574** by **Animavore** » May 12, 2017 11:36 am

zulumoose wrote:
Animavore wrote:
Spinozasgalt wrote:Also, Alien is better than Aliens.

But how did the alien grow up so fast without taking on bulk in the form of food? This is never answered.

How do you know it never took on food?
If its body fluids can dissolve through the decking of the ship, the question should not be what food it had access to, but how it is reasonable to assume that nothing it encountered in the periods when out of view could have been used as food.

It was out of view for like a couple of (movie) hours.

Fallible · **#19575** by **Fallible** » May 12, 2017 12:06 pm

Spinozasgalt wrote:I saw Alien: Covenant today. I'm kinda really sorta unimpressed.

Oh.

Spinozasgalt · **#19576** by **Spinozasgalt** » May 12, 2017 12:27 pm

Prometheus may have been better.

Animavore · **#19577** by **Animavore** » May 12, 2017 12:28 pm

Spinozasgalt wrote:Prometheus may have been better.

Jesus! It must be super-terrible! :shock:

Animavore · **#19578** by **Animavore** » May 12, 2017 12:29 pm

Whoa! How come no one has ever told me about this movie?

Friday night's viewing sorted! :awesome:

Spinozasgalt · **#19579** by **Spinozasgalt** » May 12, 2017 12:37 pm

Animavore wrote:
Spinozasgalt wrote:Prometheus may have been better.

Jesus! It must be super-terrible!

I'm actually interested to see what everyone else makes of it. Maybe I'm just a purist.

Mike_L · **#19580** by **Mike_L** » May 12, 2017 12:41 pm

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

It would've been shorter if they'd simply made it 'Everything Right With King Arthur'.
#1 - Keira Knightley's bare midriff.
That's it!

:grin:

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