Last movie watched...

[MacabreMagpie]

Watched 'Climax' last night, after putting it off for a long time because I thought it might be a bit crap or one of those movies that's soft porn disguised as horror. Boy was I wrong! I was exhausted by the end but it was absolutely mesmerising at parts. Then it was also pretty disturbing and traumatic. It reminded me a lot of how I felt watching 'mother!' which I left feeling like I'd been beaten up but still enjoyed the shit out of.

Probably not for everyone, but highly recommended if you like psychological fuckery. Also one of those movies that makes you wonder about how it was made so I enjoyed reading up about the making of.

[paddykafka]

Watched 'Climax' last night, after putting it off for a long time because I thought it might be a bit crap or one of those movies that's soft porn disguised as horror. Boy was I wrong! I was exhausted by the end but it was absolutely mesmerising at parts. Then it was also pretty disturbing and traumatic.

Sounds like my average day. 

[Hawkmumbler]

No party like a Gasper Noe party.

[Tjm86]

Watched 'Climax' last night, after putting it off for a long time because I thought it might be a bit crap or one of those movies that's soft porn disguised as horror. Boy was I wrong! I was exhausted by the end but it was absolutely mesmerising at parts. Then it was also pretty disturbing and traumatic.

Sounds like my average day. 

What?  Soft porn disguised as horror?   

[Keef Monkey]

We rented The Hunt, we'd planned to see it in the cinema before all this kicked off and it's one of the films that has had an early (albeit priced at cinema ticket rates) rental release.

Really, really enjoyed it and we laughed out loud a ton, which is what was needed I think. Beyy Gilpin is an absolute treasure, over the course of Glow S2 I'd come to really appreciate how great a comic performer she is and here she's hilarious. Great timing and delivery, and a master of the comical facial expression. The satire is very very far from subtle, but it's politics also aren't as simple as the 'aren't Trumpers awful?' message that some portrayed it as to get it shelved. It's very pointed about showing both sides as being reactionary and a bit ridiculous and is more about how we can all be quite easily manipulated be into conflict on social media etc.  The knee-jerk reaction when the film was first announced is probably a good case in point, with people rushing to condemn it without knowing what it was about. I definitely fall pretty far on one side being lampooned but I don't mind laughing at myself so didn't take offence to any of the 'lefties can be dumb too' gags.

It is very broad and very on the nose (the characters are very much caricatures and stereotypes) and that might put a lot of people off but even putting all the satire stuff to one side we just found it really, really fun and that's the most important thing with a comedy.

Also watched King Arthur: The Legend of The Sword (the Guy Ritchie thing that bombed) and it was fine, I didn't find it significantly worse than your average blockbuster and some of the designs and action scenes had a lot of flair to them. At one point we both commented that it feels a lot like what the Assassin's Creed movie probably should have been. It's nothing special and I didn't love it, but definitely curious what would have they would have done with it as a franchise had it been successful.

[Tiplodocus]

"THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME"

More like "THE SH... "

Oh I can't even be added. Just shit.

[Keef Monkey]

Splinter, on Amazon. It's pretty decent low budget monster movie with some nicely old school practical effects and splatter, I quite enjoyed it.

Also rewatched The Phantom Menace, and I know loads of it is ropey but the good stuff (mainly the pod race and the saber triple threat match) is great so I still really enjoy it.

[Hawkmumbler]

The best thing that can be said about The Phantom Menace is that it isn't Attack Of The Clones.

[shaolin_monkey]

The best thing that can be said about The Phantom Menace is that it isn't Attack Of The Clones.

Or the Holiday Special.

[Greg M.]

The best thing that can be said about Attack of the Clones is that it isn't any of the sequels. (Bollocks to that, anyway - Clones is the best of the prequels.)

[Jim_Campbell]

(Bollocks to that, anyway - Clones is the best of the prequels.)

I agree. For me, the least awful by some margin, although that's an admittedly low bar. The plot is overly convoluted, but broadly makes sense. The Anakin/Padme 'romance' is toe-curlingly awful but it doesn't take up that much screen time and I enjoyed pretty much all of the rest.*

*Disclaimer: I haven't watched it for years. My memory may be being kinder to it than it deserves...!

[Mardroid]

I really liked AotC. I mainly liked the Obi-wan Kenobi detective plot thread, rather than the romance stuff though. It's one of the few times (outside the Clone Wars cartoon...*) you get to see Jedi undertake the kind of thing they'd do during the Republic era. Okay, you also saw them undertaking their diplomacy roles in TPM, and they've done the warrior stuff in nearly every film, but seeing an old style investigative plot was very welcome. I like a good detective story. 

*Which I love. I got the free trial of Disney+ recently, mainly because I want to watch The Mandalorian, but got a nice surprise to see the new series of Clone Wars is there! I did read about that elsewhere before hand, but had forgotten. Even in this series they're mainly generals and commanders, which isn't their true calling, but you do see them doing other stuff too.

[Hawkmumbler]

I'm gonna kick the hornets nest but, there are really only two actually good Star Wars movies.

Empire and Last Jedi.

The rest is just either mind numbing mid 2000's saturated CGI bollocks or horribly misguided pulp pap.

Star Wars is at it's best on the small screen, lets be honest.

[TordelBack]

Nah, while Hawkie has correctly identified the two best films, IMHO it's all good, cartoons and Mando too.  There are bits of individual movies that aren't for me, RotS and AotC being particular offenders, but on the whole they're all  perfectly watchable, even if there has to be occasional shouting to drown out the nonsense on screen.  I say this as someone who just yesterday sold another bit of his soul to the Mouse and now has shiny streaming access to Absolutely Everything* (as opposed to the ripped, compressed versions that have been accreting on his MP3 player for almost 2 decades now) playing away as he works.



*Except Resistance, apparently?

[Hawkmumbler]

It's funny because though I would never describe myself as a Star Wars fan, I do LOVE Empire and Last Jedi, and most of the tv shows too boot.

I just don't much care for the rest. "New Hope" and TFA are alright I guess in retrospect.