I really enjoyed Snowpiercer. I had a feeling the food part was an excellent homage / tip of the cap to Soylent Green. Throw some class struggle and dystopia in to the mixing pot and I'm an instant fan.
Watched Bait last night. Really, really good. Indie film shot on film in square format. Set in a small fishing village in Cornwall exploring the fractious relationship between the locals and incomers. Best thing I’ve seen in ages.
I'm going to say its the worst film I've ever seen!Suicide squad was bad but this is worse. As I mentioned it just felt so strange, almost like it was yet to begin for the first 90 mins, it felt like you could walk out at any time and I'm a sucker for watching a film to the end. Even if I'm not enjoying it I can't leave or turn it off until the end. However this.......I can't emphasise enough just what a pile of it is!Stay away people!
From trailers BoP seemed like nothing but a self-indulgent, female power fantasy; .
Quote from: TobyD on December 26, 2019, 10:13:16 pmEl CaminoGenerally underrated, I thought it was really good. Jesse's haunted character is nicely developed and it possesses the pleasantly black comedy that characterised much of breaking bad. However, I am 100% the target audience and those less enthusiastic about breaking bad probably won't be quite as entertained. Agreed. You definitely need to have invested in watching the whole of bb, and liked it, to like this. But if you have, it's good. Apart from that fact that the actor who plays Jesse has piled on the pounds a bit, and he's supposed to have just come out of captivity where he was starved!
El CaminoGenerally underrated, I thought it was really good. Jesse's haunted character is nicely developed and it possesses the pleasantly black comedy that characterised much of breaking bad. However, I am 100% the target audience and those less enthusiastic about breaking bad probably won't be quite as entertained.
Quote from: Ged on December 31, 2019, 11:15:27 amQuote from: TobyD on December 26, 2019, 10:13:16 pmEl CaminoGenerally underrated, I thought it was really good. Jesse's haunted character is nicely developed and it possesses the pleasantly black comedy that characterised much of breaking bad. However, I am 100% the target audience and those less enthusiastic about breaking bad probably won't be quite as entertained. Agreed. You definitely need to have invested in watching the whole of bb, and liked it, to like this. But if you have, it's good. Apart from that fact that the actor who plays Jesse has piled on the pounds a bit, and he's supposed to have just come out of captivity where he was starved!I finally got around to watching this and despite having invested the time to watch the whole of BB found it fairly disappointing. It's not really a movie, it's just a 2h continuation of BB (and in that sense it was much of the same)?
It's not that I didn't enjoy it, I was just expecting a film rather than a 2H special.I tried 'Better Call Saul' a few years ago and didn't take to it but watched a handful more episodes after watching El Camino and it's really growing on me.
Following on from watching 'Heat' a while back I finally got around to watching another Michael Mann classic 'Manhunter'. Retrospectively it's easy to see how inspirational it has been in terms of directly spawning an entire genre of forensics heavy / psychological 'cop getting in bad guys head' type films and especially TV shows. Superb.
Dark Waters: I thought this was a great movie, Mark Ruffalo gives a convincing performance of a man obsessed, yet remains sympathetic. It's quietly dramatic, serious yet entertaining. If you don't know already it's the story of a lawyer essentially suing Dupont for millions of dollars.