mjmooney Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2021 Crimson Peak. According to Kermode, Del Toro's best since Pan's Labyrinth. Nah. As a gore-fest send up of the whole gothic genre, it was OK, but no more than that. Cumberbatch was probably wise to bail out on it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Cracking old film on BBC2 right now so should be on iPlayer later. Witness for the prosecution 1957 Charles Laughton was having a ball with this character, brilliant fun, although its a crime drama. Highly recommended. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2021 Watched don’t look up, really enjoyed it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) Found Bonded by Blood, another take on the Rettendon murders but with Tamar Hassan as Pat Tate, will be interesting to compare his performance in the role as opposed to Craig Fairbass. Seems another Football Factory ROTFS amalgamation. Not expecting much but you never know Edited December 28, 2021 by Follyfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Phil Silvers said: Cracking old film on BBC2 right now so should be on iPlayer later. Witness for the prosecution 1957 Charles Laughton was having a ball with this character, brilliant fun, although its a crime drama. Highly recommended. Wife and I went to watch the stageplay in the County Hall "courtroom" in London a few years back (film is one of her favourites, in fact she'd introduced me to it) and I'd heartily recommend it to anyone. You can buy tickets to sit in the jury box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Just now, GarethRDR said: Wife and I went to watch the stageplay in the County Hall "courtroom" in London a few years back (film is one of her favourites, in fact she'd introduced me to it) and I'd heartily recommend it to anyone. You can buy tickets to sit in the jury box. I like the sound of that, its a great story, theatre atmosphere is amazing, did the cast do it justice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Yeah, they were very good. As I'd only watched the film the once beforehand, I'd totally forgotten whodunnit as well, which definitely helped! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 10 hours ago, mjmooney said: Crimson Peak. According to Kermode, Del Toro's best since Pan's Labyrinth. Nah. As a gore-fest send up of the whole gothic genre, it was OK, but no more than that. Cumberbatch was probably wise to bail out on it. I haven't watched Crimson Peak, but Pan's Labyrinth was nowhere near as good as Kermode made it out to be, so I decided to not put any stock in what Kermode has to say about Del Toro movies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 28, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2021 22 hours ago, Bizzzle said: Watched Don’t look up whilst I was **** out of my face on Xmas day and I think I liked it I watched about the first 45 minutes, nodded off (not because of the film) and woke up and saw the last 15 minutes Totally spoilered it for myself It looked very good for a Netflix film but I'll never watch it now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: I haven't watched Crimson Peak, but Pan's Labyrinth was nowhere near as good as Kermode made it out to be, so I decided to not put any stock in what Kermode has to say about Del Toro movies. I thought Pan’s Labyrinth was beautiful. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, El Zen said: I thought Pan’s Labyrinth was beautiful. One of the best movies of all time imo. Flawless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 The Suicide Squad was a massive improvement on the originally, aided greatly by being able to go in a more adult direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 30 minutes ago, El Zen said: I thought Pan’s Labyrinth was beautiful. And me, really enjoyed it and thought it lived up to the hype (relative hype, I watch it early doors ish from memory) I like the civil war stuff as much as the fantasy But I'm not a del toro fan, he's overrated and his CV is nothing special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyvillan Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Pan’s Lab …big yes from me. Loved it first time and every time I’ve seen it since…… magical, with the war story a balancing kick in the head! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted December 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2021 The Farewell (Chinese American family go home because grandma is terminally ill). I thought it was rather good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 5 hours ago, El Zen said: I thought Pan’s Labyrinth was beautiful. 5 hours ago, Designer1 said: One of the best movies of all time imo. Flawless. boring movie, overrated, had little to say about anything IMHO. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 3 hours ago, mjmooney said: The Farewell (Chinese American family go home because grandma is terminally ill). I thought it was rather good. Yes, this was really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2021 10 hours ago, greyvillan said: Pan’s Lab …big yes from me. Loved it first time and every time I’ve seen it since…… magical, with the war story a balancing kick in the head! Loved Pan's Labyrinth and watched it several times when it came out. Haven't seen it in about 15 years though so not sure how well it'd hold up. Will have to give it another go some time soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Another here looking forward to re watching Pans Labyrinth, looking forward to seeing how good it looks on OLED, would have probably seen it on a 40" LED last time I watched it, it looked amazing then and was a good film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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