Wot films are you watching?

[Sarfrin]

Watched The Raid andThe Raid 2 with my son over the last couple of days. Pretty good Indonesian cop martial arts movies with some very good fights. The final fight in the second one was phenomenal. Literally had me on the edge of my seat, jaw clenched with tension towards the end.

[Rath]

I’m just astonished anyone other than me likes Dalton though, I’ve sure never met them!

I’d love to see a version which matched up every Bond against every other.

I quite like both Timothy Dalton Bond movies, and I’m not just saying that on account of him being such an improvement over George Lazenby.

Also, perfect excuse to revisit this:

Although I think my favourite Bond reference in other media was in The Thick Of It, when Jamie berated Ollie about leaking intelligence to the opposition. “You are the shittest James Bond ever! You’re David fucking Niven!”

[TheDreamlord]

Watched The Raid andThe Raid 2

Yeah, really great martial art movies, them two! I enjoyed them very much.

[Internet]

As prospective parents in the foreseeable future, we watched Mirai recently. It was a terrifying horror film about a couple and their daughter trapped with a needy time-skipping monster. In the end, the monster was not slain and they just had to deal with its disruptive presence in their lives. 0/5 muzzles.

[BillButNotBen]

Congrats on the news.

You’ll probably find that all those movies about parents trying to protect/save their kids suddenly become much more affecting.

[Internet]

Nah, it’s not like that, Covid has given us the financial resources to get my wife’s student loans under control, so we can adopt sooner than we thought. In seriousness we both liked Mirai, but that kid is monster, and the family members are a little shitty towards each other.

[BillButNotBen]

In that case congrats on the financial freedom.

I knew Covid was just a scheme by the shady Internet to generate profits!

[DominusNox]

I know that I’m late to the party but boy oh boy I watched Mandy.
One of most amazing and surreal movie experiences I’ve had.
I had probably too much fun of it coz I’m a huge fan of 1981 Heavy Metal and I got some strong vibes from that.

[somini]

I watched Mandy.

One of most amazing and surreal movie experiences I’ve had.

I also watched it recently, it’s like Beyond the Black Rainbow and John Wick rolled into one. Doesn’t beat Enter the Void tough, that takes the cake for the surrealism. Another more recent one is that Riot Grrrl thing with Elizabeth Moss, that first half is totally disorienting and time stands still.

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TENET is just The Night Manager with nicer effects and less fucking. Discuss. It has Elizabeth Debicki playing the same character, but lacks the gusto of Hugh Laurie, Branagh plays a bog-standard russkie badguy. Either that or a Harry Potter reunion.

[LexW]

TENET is just The Night Manager with nicer effects and less fucking. Discuss.

Haven’t seen it but this seems plausible and also like movement in the wrong direction. More sex, less FX. Hmmm. That kind of works as a chant.

[DominusNox]

Seen The Lighthouse. I know, i know, I’m way behind with movies.
With movies, books and games. I’m that one guy that’s always late for the party.
But the movie was something else.
I would probably stop watching it if not for Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
Perfect casting choices and amazing actors.

[somini]

More sex, less FX

I’d tap that.

/20char

[BillButNotBen]

TLDR: Girltrash! All Night Long plays it a bit too safe and lacks edge, but it’s fun if you’re drinking.

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It’s like Lesbian La La Land (this comparison is entirely accurate as I have seen the first 20 minutes of La La Land) meets some kind of road trip / zany-night comedy like Wayne’s World or Harold & Kumar.

But it’s not really as zany or outrageous or funny as those comedies, and it’s all a bit too predictable and familiar and lacking in depth or conflict. Everything gets resolved a bit too easily and pretty much as you’d expect.

That’s not to say it’s not a medium amount of fun, and might even be one of those guilty pleasure films that you end up watching more than you’d expect… kind of like a Mortal Kombat or something like that.
In both cases, drinking improves the experience.

Really though, I think a lot of the enjoyment comes from recognizing various actors from other works who pop up (The L Word, South of Nowhere, etc…). It’s kind of a fan movie for fans of those, and the original web series, and if you don’t know those actors or aren’t invested in those characters then it might hold less appeal.
FWIW, the original web series, despite being clearly lower budget, felt a bit more raw and less polished, and I think I almost preferred that (it’s very short and free so I’d definitely watch it first).
It wasn’t a musical though.

On the plus side, my kids have been obsessed with The Greatest Showman and so I’ve had ‘This is the greatest show!’ stuck in my head all week. But now I have ‘Don’t shit on my dreams!’ stuck in my head, which is possibly an improvement

[BillButNotBen]

Cautiously optimistic, although some bits feel over-familiar. That may be unavoidable with a remake though. (To be honest, I forget which bits are from the book and from the Lynch movie).

(PS/ Trailers with weird versions of classic rock songs seem to be the thing right now).

[DominusNox]

I for one LOVE Lynch’s movie and Kyle MacLachlan as Paul/Muad’dib
Also this is the part I love the most in the movie

[BillButNotBen]

I don’t know if I would love it or not now, but it certainly made an impression on me back when I saw it as a teenager. I still remember a lot of the visuals and specific lines and scenes.

Of course, I also read the book back when I was a teenager, and my memories of the two have become somewhat mixed up.

The new Dune trailer looks good, but a lot of the images, scenes, costumes etc… feel like they’re straight out of the Lynch movie. Maybe that’s because they’re out of the book. Not sure.
Somehow I expected it to look more different. It looks more like a 2020 remaster

I dunno if anyone watched the 2000-ish SyFy Dune miniseries. It wasn’t great, and had a limited budget, but it certainly looked different to the Lynch movie. Probably not better, but at least different.

[LexW]

The new Dune trailer looks good, but a lot of the images, scenes, costumes etc… feel like they’re straight out of the Lynch movie. Maybe that’s because they’re out of the book. Not sure.

I read the book long before seeing the first Dune movie or much about it, and formed some clear images in my head (confirmed by re-reading it a few years back), and I’d say the Lynch movie was the major inspiration for a lot of this.

The book has some imagery that is inevitable if you stick closely to it - the spice refinery being swallowed by the worm, seen from an ornithopter, how Caladan looks, or the general appearance of a stillsuit, for example. But it also has a lot of stuff that is barely described, and in pretty much all cases here it looks like they’ve either gone for basically the Lynch design, or something evocative of it.

So yeah, I too was surprised by how much this looks like a sort of muted-palette but modern remake of the Lynch movie.

Personally I want to see if they have the balls to use the term jihad (used constantly in the books) in a positive sense by the main character, or if they’ll chicken out and use the misleading “crusade” (which the trailer does, but maybe that’s just one instance) instead.

[Skalpadda]

Good choice of song for that Dune trailer at least. I rewatched the Lynch movie not that long ago and a lot of the sets and costumes are really fun, probably the highlight of the movie for me. If there’s one aspect I’m fine with them drawing on heavily it’s the general look of things (but the optical effects in the Lynch film were terrible, even for 1984).

Anyone here read the book(s) as an adult? I think I was 14 or 15 when I read the two that got Swedish translations (Dune and Dune Messiah, which in hindsight I’ve realised were very goofy translations) and I can’t really separate what I remember of the books from the Lynch movie.

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Anyone here read the book(s) as an adult? I think I was 14 or 15 when I read the two that got Swedish translations (Dune and Dune Messiah, which in hindsight I’ve realised were very goofy translations) and I can’t really separate what I remember of the books from the Lynch movie.

I don’t think I’ve read them in the past ten years or so, but I have read them … 15-20 times since I was a teenager. I don’t think I really connect the images from the movie much with the books, which is kind of odd, because that practically always happens even when I read the book a movie is based on long before I saw the movie (but then, I was kind of disappointed by the movie too).
Perhaps a few characters have been transplanted from the movie to what I see in my head when I read the books. Linda Hunt, Jürgen Prochnow and Sean Young, maybe.

I should probably read them again and see what happens.

[Skalpadda]

I don’t tend to get movie actors creeping into my imagination, but I usually don’t imagine characters in great detail when I read. Locations definitely do creep in.

Might actually give the books a look. The first three seem to be in a fancy 900 page collection for about €10. Gosh books are cheap now.