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1 Sep
8:54pm, 1 Sep 2024
43,751 posts
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Nellers
😂😂
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1 Sep
9:42pm, 1 Sep 2024
47,607 posts
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Bintmcskint
🤣🦈
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2 Sep
4:44pm, 2 Sep 2024
33,012 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Alien: You've seen one, you've xenomorph
One of the better Alien movies, with a lot of tension and some decent action sequences. Lots of echoes and callbacks to previous movies, some of which I found a bit silly.
Proper Pete Tong in the last 15 minutes - pass the sick bag, Alice!
Lead actresses were all very good but I thought some of the male actors weren't so good.
1 ticket and an Americano £14.70.
Some intriguing looking trailers, Nosferatu and some other film with McAvoy doing his unhinged bit - he's very good at it.
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2 Sep
6:00pm, 2 Sep 2024
153,198 posts
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GregP
Is that the one with the holiday cottage in Devon or whatever?
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2 Sep
6:35pm, 2 Sep 2024
33,013 posts
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Johnny Blaze
It is. It looks interesting. I am picturing backwater rural beastliness and casual Zennorphobia but I will wait for the reviews.
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2 Sep
7:01pm, 2 Sep 2024
9,184 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
I’ve been to see a couple of Chinese films recently. The first, Only the River Flows, is an engrossing Sino-noir.
It reminded me of Bo-Jong Ho’s (Parasite’s) Memories of a Murder in that it is set in provincial 1990’s China ( compared to provincial late ‘80’s Korea) and in both films the main character is a detective under pressure from his superiors to close a murder case when he has doubts about the suspect that his superiors want to hold to be responsible.
Captain Ma is a detective trying to solve a brutal murder. He has a number of problems. Firstly the lack of any real evidence as to who did it, the pressure from his superiors to pin it on a local ‘madman’ who was in the area at the time and blaming him would conveniently close the case, and the fact that his wife is pregnant with their child, who may be disabled, and their doctor has callously suggested that the pregnancy is ended through abortion.
The investigation ruins the lives of at least three people, a couple whose clandestine affair is exposed, and a man who was in the vicinity at the time, who is revealed as transvestite, and commits suicide in shame.
What I liked about the film is that we saw Ma as a man, he went to work and he went home and he lived a whole life, not just being a detective, and he was wracked by doubt, knowing the implications of the decisions that he made for other people.
The way the film is structured is that not a lot actually happens, and when it does its very subtle. Unlike some films I have seen recently ( Twisters) where when something happens there’s a major reaction so that you can’t miss that SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED.
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2 Sep
7:56pm, 2 Sep 2024
24,292 posts
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Red Squirrel
Thanks SOAPY. I like the sound of that.
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2 Sep
8:09pm, 2 Sep 2024
11,559 posts
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Fields
One of the things I did like about OTRF was the useless junior detective who he bullied / picked on a bit, that felt quite well observed. The whole 90s China, small village life stuff was good.
Off to see “Lee” on Wednesday, hopefully a cut above a generic biopic
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2 Sep
9:35pm, 2 Sep 2024
2,808 posts
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HappyTimes
TCOMC 3 hours passed not feeling like 3hrs. Definitely better than Amy outdoor pursuits today.
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2 Sep
10:08pm, 2 Sep 2024
153,199 posts
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GregP
I didn't know Lee was out yet. I saw a trailer only yesterday.
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Star Trek - to boldly go..
Nov 2024