Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 2 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: Don't bother with The Witch or The Babadook eiither. They're both excellent films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Stevo985 said: They're both excellent films. I think that's what @AVFCDAN is saying tbh. Basically, if you don't like the more intelligent, slow burner horrors like Hereditary then don't watch The Witch or Babadook. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 47 minutes ago, Designer1 said: I think that's what @AVFCDAN is saying tbh. Basically, if you don't like the more intelligent, slow burner horrors like Hereditary then don't watch The Witch or Babadook. Oooohhhh, my bad. I haven't seen Hereditary so didn't get that. I thought he was saying they were both crap too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted August 13, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 13, 2019 I thought The Mule was abysmal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 15 hours ago, Designer1 said: I think that's what @AVFCDAN is saying tbh. Basically, if you don't like the more intelligent, slow burner horrors like Hereditary then don't watch The Witch or Babadook. To be fair, I asked my mrs about what she thought about Hereditary as I really didn't like it, she found it really quite good, deeply disturbing and unsettling. So split in our house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 14, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: To be fair, I asked my mrs about what she thought about Hereditary as I really didn't like it, she found it really quite good, deeply disturbing and unsettling. So split in our house. Yeah she's the one with taste! (I joke of course, movies are ridiculously subjective) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 14, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2019 17 hours ago, fightoffyour said: I thought The Mule was abysmal. I wouldn't go as far as to say Abysmal but I'd agree it wasn't a very good effort unfortunately 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitized43 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 (edited) A lot of hate for The Red Sea Diving Resort (Netflix) around. It wasn't fantastic, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm convinced that Chris Evans is going to fade into relative obscurity now he's done with Captain America, he's just not a good actor. At the other end of the scale, they really needed to do more with Michael Kenneth Williams. Fantastic actor and really underrated. Makes me want to go and rewatch The Wire. Edited August 14, 2019 by desensitized43 wow that was wrong lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Netflix seem to have a habit of making very mediocre films, really not impressed with what they have offered up in the last 12 months to be honest. With the coming price rise and the TV shows going downhill a bit as well they are only just about keeping me as a customer to be honest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 38 minutes ago, AVFCDAN said: Netflix seem to have a habit of making very mediocre films, really not impressed with what they have offered up in the last 12 months to be honest. With the coming price rise and the TV shows going downhill a bit as well they are only just about keeping me as a customer to be honest. Yeah, the films are very much more miss than hit imo. There are some gems, but they seem to be making a lot of very average movies. What worries me, is how much they use user data/preferences to develop content. As we see with pretty much everything, from politics to naming boats - if you start asking the general public, you’re in real trouble. Disagree on the TV shows though, I still think that apart from HBO, Netflix make the best TV content overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 1 hour ago, wazzap24 said: Yeah, the films are very much more miss than hit imo. There are some gems, but they seem to be making a lot of very average movies. What worries me, is how much they use user data/preferences to develop content. As we see with pretty much everything, from politics to naming boats - if you start asking the general public, you’re in real trouble. Disagree on the TV shows though, I still think that apart from HBO, Netflix make the best TV content overall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 22 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooligan Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Tombstone (1993) i really enjoyed watching this film last night, i thought it was pretty good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 13 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: Netflix seem to have a habit of making very mediocre films, really not impressed with what they have offered up in the last 12 months to be honest. With the coming price rise and the TV shows going downhill a bit as well they are only just about keeping me as a customer to be honest. think this has been talked about before... they don't make them, they only distribute them, my basic understanding is Netflix have a team doing the circuits on the various film festivals hoovering up as much as they can, probably cheap, I guess anything really good will have a distributer attached to it before its filmed or during filming (I think bright was the first film they were part of the production, might be wrong) I haven't watched enough of them, beasts of no nation, their crouching tiger film and be my maybe were good, birdbox ok, still haven't watched mowgli, triple frontier, highway men, roma there are a lot of good documentaries, the square, Virunga, winter on fire, 13th, rolling thunder revue, the remastered series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 17 hours ago, desensitized43 said: A lot of hate for The Red Sea Diving Resort (Netflix) around. It wasn't fantastic, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm convinced that Chris Evans is going to fade into relative obscurity now he's done with Captain America, he's just not a good actor. At the other end of the scale, they really needed to do more with Michael Kenneth Williams. Fantastic actor and really underrated. Makes me want to go and rewatch The Wire. the hate I have seen is the pro Israeli bias for the film, its not the first film in last few years with similar bias. Entebbe was another one and similar enough storyline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I cant shake the idea that it will be a poor mans hotel Rwanda (brilliant film) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 2 hours ago, villa4europe said: I cant shake the idea that it will be a poor mans hotel Rwanda (brilliant film) That’s exactly what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Watched Creed II last night, thought it was pretty average. Basically the same as Creed I. They are trying to live off bringing past characters back which will only get them so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I've been trawling through some Finnish language tv and movies over the past couple of weeks to try and hone my language skills. Caught a good one last night. Can highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of war epics/history/foreign drama. Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Just finished Parasite by Korean super director Joon-ho Bong (The Host, Okja, Snowpiercer, Mother...). While perhaps not the 10/10 flawless masterpiece it's been made out to be it's still really, really good. Well worth the watch if you like this particular South Korean quirky type of dark satire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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