BOF Posted September 1, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2016 13 hours ago, Davkaus said: Mine is mostly gaming, or books. I never listen to music, and rarely watch TV or film. Amelie is on my list for Friday night! Prepare to be in love with Audrey Tautou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I still think Ratatouille is an underrated gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 1, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2016 6 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said: I still think Ratatouille is an underrated gem. Have you read the Pixar Theory (or watched this (08:15))? It puts a theoretical timeline to all the Pixar films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 No I haven't seen that before, might give it a watch later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted September 1, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted September 1, 2016 I like the look of this. Good team behind it, a solid cast and what looks like an interesting story. One for the list I think. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted September 1, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted September 1, 2016 Saw the trailer for that at the weekend, went straight on the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 On 31/08/2016 at 23:57, villa4europe said: @snowychap is right about zootopia, that kind of slipped under the radar but that's good, at least that's a bit different and the world they created works, the missus also recommends life of pets Not sure about it slipping "under the radar". It's made over a billion dollars and will probably end up in the top 20 highest grossing films of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2016 Moonrise Kingdom. Another off the previous list of top 100 and it was on Film 4 yesterday. A stellar cast (Bill Murray, Norton, Willis, Keitel, Swinton, McDormond) ably supporting the 2 young leads. Typically Wes Anderson, although the quirk is turned down to 7 on this (where The Life Aquatic would be a 10). Funny, endearing and worth a watch if you like your Wes films. 7.5/10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Have got Spotlight and Triple 9 to watch this weekend. Have heard very good things about Spotlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 6 hours ago, ml1dch said: Not sure about it slipping "under the radar". It's made over a billion dollars and will probably end up in the top 20 highest grossing films of all time. from what i can remember it didnt have anywhere near the promotion that comes with the usual disney / pixar films, if you look at the marketing of zootopia compared to finding dory its nowhere near the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2016 It probably didn't help its exposure this side of the pond that it's called Zootropolis, seemingly because of a pre-existing European patent owning the name Zootopia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 3 hours ago, theboyangel said: Have got Spotlight and Triple 9 to watch this weekend. Have heard very good things about Spotlight. spotlight is very good triple 9 was disappointingly something thats been done hundreds of times before 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2016 Spotlight doesn't interest me in the slightest tbh, no matter how good it's supposed to be. In fact that's an interesting question. Like me, will the source material turn any of you off watching a film, even if that film is supposed to be good? I know I'd be bored to tears. Similarly, The Big Short. Wild horses couldn't drag me to see that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 1 minute ago, BOF said: Spotlight doesn't interest me in the slightest tbh, no matter how good it's supposed to be. In fact that's an interesting question. Like me, will the source material turn any of you off watching a film, even if that film is supposed to be good? I know I'd be bored to tears. Similarly, The Big Short. Wild horses couldn't drag me to see that. The big short certainly wouldn't bore you Brian. It's very well and pretty amusing throughout. Dont be put off by it being about the mortgage crash. However, anything with the name Bridget Jones in the title would stop me watching it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 the big short manages to quickly skim over the bits that i didnt understand, it doesnt pin its hopes on the viewer being able to understand everything and still manages to work, id say there were some seemingly very basic stuff about the yank housing market and mortgages that i didnt understand which would have helped but nothing that spoils it and id say same with spotlight the performances and script make the film rather than the content as for source material stopping me watching a film, dunno if you mean this but anything that is a cynical attempt to upset the viewer, marley and me and that teenage cancer film, im not watching that, anything that draws its "good" rating from its ability to clutch at your heart strings, nope, id also add anything that i think is going to be america, **** yeah, ive seen and enjoyed zero dark thirty but i think american sniper was the nail in the coffin, im not watching the likes of act of valor and the likes of restrepo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 (edited) Restrepo is brilliant to be fair. (And it's quite the opposite to America f&*^yeah ) Edited September 2, 2016 by Brumerican Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted September 2, 2016 Yeah that's another very good example @villa4europe. I'd be the same. Where Hollywood tries to re-write history under the pathetic guise of 'telling the real story' (my arse). I did watch Argo, but I'm told it vastly played down, for example, Canada's contribution to that whole story almost entirely in favour of America's one. I have no interest in stuff like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper and I can smell propogandist shit, or "America, **** yeah!" as you put it, a mile off. I don't mind the 'upset the viewer' stuff so much. I don't seek it out, but I've watched a few of them and they're fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Watched the latest Captain America film a few days back, was pretty much as expected, really starting to feel the action hero fatigue so I'm probably not the target audience. Thought it was rather boring, probably on par with the last Avengers movie 6/10, at least it was better than the Batman vs Superman one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 I'd rather have been shot by the American sniper than have to watch that movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted September 2, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted September 2, 2016 The Big Short is genuinely fantastic. I've no real interest in watching a movie about a financial crash, but the way the movie approaches it sidesteps that. It doesn't bog down in detail. Where it has to explain a concept, which happens 3 times or so, it does so cleverly by lampshading it. And it's brilliantly funny. I've also seen Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper. I have as much disdain for 'America, **** yeah!' as anyone else, I didn't get that from either movie. Zero Dark Thirty is actively dull and it's most heinous moment is implying torture is OK. Otherwise it seems on the surface fairly benign. American Sniper is just the story of a man really. It avoids some of the grimmer stuff about him, but the only real US propaganda-ish stuff I recall is the documentary footage at the end. Then again I can barely recall much of it. As for stuff that I try to avoid... I try to avoid anything that is openly mawkish, the kind of stuff where you know the point of the movie is someone dies and pulls your heartstrings, and I also try to avoid the more openly cynical stuff Hollywood puts out - you can spot a mile away when they've found a trend and start to push it. Recently it was the YA dystopian fable franchise after the Hunger Games took off and they started churning any book series aimed at teenage girls in an allegory for various elements of growing up, and they're universally shite. If I can see your allegories in the very structure of the film plainly the moment I see the trailer, you've **** up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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