SafeAsMilk wrote:

Animavore wrote:

SafeAsMilk wrote:How the fuck have you never seen it? Some might say Blade Runner is the greatest noir sci fi film of all time, but I think Terminator wins hands down. It's so much more gritty and bleak, and way less pretentious. There's not a wasted second. It feels like a fever dream.

Never said I never saw it. Just hadn't seen it in years.

Oh! For some reason I understand "just watching it now" as "only just watching it now", whereas I'd understand "watching it just now" as "I'm watching it right now"

Maybe it's just Hiberno-English. Both those sentences are synonymous to me. I'd have to suffix "- for the first time" to get that meaning.

Nothing Hibernian about is as far as I can see. I’d say ‘I’m just watching it now” to signify that I am currently watching something, without specifying whether it’s the first time or not.

The word is "hibernation".

Oh, btw, mum and dad. I watched that other movie. The one with the Army Mallet guy. It wasn't bad. The story didn't quite get me in before it started doing its thing and I wasn't sure at what point it was supposed to flip and lose its reality, so I didn't find the ending satisfying (as you said). Good images though. I would watch the end as a separate short film and probably be impressed, it just didn't quite fit with the rest of the film.

Agreed, my child, agreed. We are watching the recent Halloween. Err...yeah...right, ok so...this is happening and so on.

Spinozasgalt wrote:Oh, btw, mum and dad. I watched that other movie. The one with the Army Mallet guy. It wasn't bad. The story didn't quite get me in before it started doing its thing and I wasn't sure at what point it was supposed to flip and lose its reality, so I didn't find the ending satisfying (as you said). Good images though. I would watch the end as a separate short film and probably be impressed, it just didn't quite fit with the rest of the film.

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Oh, apparently it's Armie Hammer. I didn't check.

Fallible wrote:Agreed, my child, agreed. We are watching the recent Halloween. Err...yeah...right, ok so...this is happening and so on.

The 2018 one? Did yous already watch that? Or am I thinking of someone else?

My memory’s fucked, but now you mention it, it did seem kind of familiar. I wonder if I thought it was bad the first time.

I didn't mind it. But I think it's a heavy Laurie Strode bias on my part - she's my hero.

Fallible wrote:My memory’s fucked, but now you mention it, it did seem kind of familiar. I wonder if I thought it was bad the first time.

I doubt it - we wouldn't have rented it and it's only just gone to sky movies

Hmm. The mystery deepens.

Bladerunner is no longer set in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_in_Fright 1971

Reminded me of Lord of the Flies, so much so I checked William Golding didn't have a hand in it. He didn't. Toxic masculinity? Something like that....dunno....absurdly naive English man in absurdly atavistic "rural" Australia...need to watch it again...a different time, but full of truth I'm sure....probably genius really

Fallible wrote:Hmm. The mystery deepens.

I went back through the thread and only found us talking about its release. So, maybe you hadn't seen it. The important thing is that you loved it.

Spinozasgalt wrote:The word is "hibernation".

More like torpor.

Mum and dad, have you watched The Wailing? South Korean mystery horror film. Can't go into it too much without the worry of giving away some of what's hiding in there. But it's a long one. Good character depth, more of an eerie mystery for most of its run but with some horror spliced in and an ending that actually fits. I recommend.

it's been on my 'want to watch' list for a long time...in fact I bought the dvd on release...I think mumsie is less keen (also needs to be in the right frame of mind for Korean films)...I shall use your recommendation as a further bargaining tool

The more I've thought about it afterwards, the more pleased I've been with it. It doesn't have cutting edge cinematography or anything, it just seems to know exactly what it wants to do and achieves it. While I was watching I kept thinking it was a messy film, but now I think all the little messes were deliberate.