What movie did you watch last night? (6 Viewers)

[Kermit McDermott]

Most of the great escape, most of goldfinger & all of raiders of the lost ark with my Dad.
Most of Downton abbey with my Ma.
Most of in the heat of the night with myself.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Knives Out: Glass Onion. Shite

Huh
I did not care for the first one all that much
Thought this one was a hoot.
The horrible people in it are way funnier.

Janelle Monae just has to be in more stuff. She's a star from top to bottom.

 

[shidheat]

i watched mr turner the other night. a mike leigh film from a few years ago about the painter. really enjoyed it

 

[Cormcolash]

The Racer - this one must have slipped by a couple of years ago, it was only released in 2020. I guess Covid meant no chance in the cinema. It's a fictional story based upon the opening of the 1998 Le Tour in Ireland. Despite having many disadvantages (Irish made, etc.) it's actually good.
It's all about a retiring domestique who gets one last shot at riding the Tour, in the middle of the massive doping scandals starting to come out.
It's actually surprisingly well done. Naturally all the characters are fictional, but the portrayal of how a cycling team operates etc rings pretty true after the cheat Armstrong revelations. There's even a bit at the start of a stage where an official starts a petty argument with the team over the wearing of an armband. Probably the least realistic thing is the idea that there was actually anything to compete over on those first three stages in Ireland, except for the sprinters. Like, they try and make out that the highest parts of the Wicklow Mountains would actually cause those racers some kind of difficulty.
Being Irish made, for some fucking bizarre reason it was billed as a 'comedy-drama'. There's nothing remotely funny in it, it's just a good drama. Of course you know that some bright spark thought attaching 'comedy' to it would get a wider audience or more acceptance or something, total nonsense.
Anyway surprisingly good film, Iain Glen is great in it too.

Edit: Oh amusing thing, this was on RTE, at one point they took an ad break (as they do) but when they came back after the ad, it restarted from about 5 minutes before the ad break, somebody fucked up, haha.

 

[xsteox]

Don't open till Christmas. A spree killer is killing anyone in a santa suit in London. Early 80's slasher, with nods to older hammer films. Nothing you haven't seen before, but, a novel premise idea

 

[pete]

Glass Onion. They should have left out all pandemic references - they already feel horribly out of date.

Good enough movie though.

 

[nuke terrorist]

The Racer - this one must have slipped by a couple of years ago, it was only released in 2020. I guess Covid meant no chance in the cinema. It's a fictional story based upon the opening of the 1998 Le Tour in Ireland. Despite having many disadvantages (Irish made, etc.) it's actually good.
It's all about a retiring domestique who gets one last shot at riding the Tour, in the middle of the massive doping scandals starting to come out.
It's actually surprisingly well done. Naturally all the characters are fictional, but the portrayal of how a cycling team operates etc rings pretty true after the cheat Armstrong revelations. There's even a bit at the start of a stage where an official starts a petty argument with the team over the wearing of an armband. Probably the least realistic thing is the idea that there was actually anything to compete over on those first three stages in Ireland, except for the sprinters. Like, they try and make out that the highest parts of the Wicklow Mountains would actually cause those racers some kind of difficulty.
Being Irish made, for some fucking bizarre reason it was billed as a 'comedy-drama'. There's nothing remotely funny in it, it's just a good drama. Of course you know that some bright spark thought attaching 'comedy' to it would get a wider audience or more acceptance or something, total nonsense.
Anyway surprisingly good film, Iain Glen is great in it too.

Edit: Oh amusing thing, this was on RTE, at one point they took an ad break (as they do) but when they came back after the ad, it restarted from about 5 minutes before the ad break, somebody fucked up, haha.

luckily noticed this was on among all the Xmas muck. recorded it but haven't watched it yet.
Cote de Wicklow Gap was a 4th Cat climb that Mario Cipollini would still have no problems with - if he could get out of jail.

 

[pete]

Amsterdam. Yeah this was good.

 

[Cormcolash]

luckily noticed this was on among all the Xmas muck. recorded it but haven't watched it yet.
Cote de Wicklow Gap was a 4th Cat climb that Mario Cipollini would still have no problems with - if he could get out of jail.

Haha I didn't know Cippo was in jail, amazing! What a wanker!!

I know obviously that Wicklow Gap ride is a tough climb and might be hard on the sprinters legs, but it was never ever gonna be "Oh the race favourites might attack here to take control of the whole race" climb like the film makes out. That's one flaw in the film, it never draws a distinction between green jersey competitors and yellow jersey competitors - the team it follows are definitely one of the sprint teams, but it makes out like they have a chance at the overall yellow jersey at the end of the race, as if there's no specialisation between climbers and sprinters.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Don’t Worry Darling. Lol, Jesus Christ. I feel like in the hands of a more experienced writer/director team this general concept could’ve been ok, but the script is suuuuch a ridiculous, incoherent mess. Then, you’ve got all these professional actors doing the best they can with the material, and Harry Styles just like so out of his depth that I’d be embarrassed for the guy if he wasn’t such a talentless charisma free drip. A couple of unintentionally, I presume, decent visual moments aside, this has absolutely got to be one of the biggest turkeys ever. Honestly the script is 4th year film student bad. 1/5

 

[GO]

Everything everywhere all at once ,on screen 1 in the Lighthouse.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Kung Fu comedy. Very good.

 

[ilovehoovering]

Blow Out - amazing. The ending was a bit too frantic for my liking but there was so much to enjoy in this.

Glass Onion - terrible.

Freaky Friday (2003) - good fun although if you're going to have multiple references to The Vines and The Hives in your film then you'd better give me a blast of them on the soundtrack so a let down on that front.

 

[shidheat]

"sexy beast" for the umteenth time. always brilliant. also "you kill me" - another film with ben kingsley in it that was pretty decent

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Freaky Friday (2003) - good fun although if you're going to have multiple references to The Vines and The Hives in your film then you'd better give me a blast of them on the soundtrack so a let down on that front.

In terms of movies that mention bands without playing them, this is my main offender.

 

[Cormcolash]

Don’t Worry Darling. Lol, Jesus Christ. I feel like in the hands of a more experienced writer/director team this general concept could’ve been ok, but the script is suuuuch a ridiculous, incoherent mess. Then, you’ve got all these professional actors doing the best they can with the material, and Harry Styles just like so out of his depth that I’d be embarrassed for the guy if he wasn’t such a talentless charisma free drip. A couple of unintentionally, I presume, decent visual moments aside, this has absolutely got to be one of the biggest turkeys ever. Honestly the script is 4th year film student bad. 1/5

The amount of advertising and hype for that film, real glad I avoided the fuck out of actually seeing it

 

[Deadmanposting]

Edit: Oh amusing thing, this was on RTE, at one point they took an ad break (as they do) but when they came back after the ad, it restarted from about 5 minutes before the ad break, somebody fucked up, haha.

Heck
I was just thinking yesterday about a time that happened watching a film on RTE years ago with a group of friends and we were all stoned and drunk and questioning our reality
Hadn't thought about it in forever

Flick sounds good

 

[Deadmanposting]

Don’t Worry Darling. Lol, Jesus Christ. I feel like in the hands of a more experienced writer/director team this general concept could’ve been ok, but the script is suuuuch a ridiculous, incoherent mess. Then, you’ve got all these professional actors doing the best they can with the material, and Harry Styles just like so out of his depth that I’d be embarrassed for the guy if he wasn’t such a talentless charisma free drip. A couple of unintentionally, I presume, decent visual moments aside, this has absolutely got to be one of the biggest turkeys ever. Honestly the script is 4th year film student bad. 1/5

The fucking reveal in this

You're morto for almost everyone involved
I had to stop the conversation at dinner after we saw it
"Ok, let's just try and find things we liked"
It's so easy to be mad at this film
There were some nuggets in there

I wonder if whatsherface, the short girl there, started all that drama just to avoid having to promote it

 

[Cormcolash]

Heck
I was just thinking yesterday about a time that happened watching a film on RTE years ago with a group of friends and we were all stoned and drunk and questioning our reality
Hadn't thought about it in forever

I noticed it happen once during the year as well during some other film, months ago, and I thought I must have somehow imagined it.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I noticed it happen once during the year as well during some other film, months ago, and I thought I must have somehow imagined it.

One of us called RTE to ask
But it was like 1am and no one answered

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The Fabelmans. I thought this was lovely and moving. One of Spielberg’s best.