Paul the sparky wrote:

hylian_elf wrote:

Is it where the Russell Crowe looking through the window meme is from?  Is that just a B&B meme?

No, that's from Les Miserables

I was wondering why that bit wasn't in the film.

Raiziel wrote:

I went to see Mission Impossible 2 at the cinema. It was a bad time.

Stop mumbling

Finished Spiderman: No Way Home. An absolute riot, felt like fanfic gone mad. It didn't all work for me but managed a high average for enjoyment so it goes in the A Tier for Marvels. Even the ending was good.

Ah, thanks.

Deffo got me teary eyed.

I also saw MI:2 at the cinema. It's was so bad I didn't watch another one until about 2015.

Only watched Mean Streets once before many years ago. Watched it again last night.

Watching it now it feels like a preliminary sketch for Goodfellas. There are even snatches of dialogue that are echoed in the later film. Love that old 70s look of the New York streets.

88. Dash Cam
I really enjoyed this. Normally I hate obnoxious characters but she played it great and I found her to be over-the-top enough to be funny. Some great set-pieces and effects and I loved where it ended up. Good fun.
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Saw you watched Wrong Turn, Webbins. Liked it enough? Some great falling stunts in that movie.

I hated it

Possum
Possum's writer/director is Matthew Holness, best known for creating Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.  As such you'd be forgiven for expecting this to be a tongue in cheek horror pastiche.  You'd be very wrong. Instead it's a dark tale of a broken man, a puppet and Something Terrible. Whilst there are nods to Freudian notions of the uncanny, and tropes you'll have witnessed in horrors before, it's very much its own thing.  Creepy, strange and likely to linger in the memory for quite some time after its finished, this deserves to be considered a classic (though to date it seems to have been largely ignored by all but some of you distinguished people...)

Sean Harris' performance as our damaged protagonist is worth the price of admission alone - he makes the simple act of carrying a bag seem simultaneously weird, foreboding and tragic.  He's matched by Alun Armstrong's turn as Uncle Maurice - a man who somehow seems to ooze through the screen into your living room, his very presence makes you feel unclean.

Absolutely worth watching, though this is horror that festers in the mind, rather than offering the popcorn throwing thrills of jump scares and gore. (My wife, who isn't a massive fan of the latter, thought this was a masterpiece...)

Wings of Desire

I'm slightly surprised I never got round to watching this before. I've had a copy on the shelf for years, but only got round to viewing it after the restored version appeared on Channel 4.  (Not an ideal way to see it - the restoration is great, but if ever there is a film that is undermined by ad breaks this is it.). I think I'd been put off by having seen the American remake.  (City of Angels - with Nick Cage and Meg Ryan - a much more conventional movie that retains the premise, but ditches the rest...

For the uninitiated the film focuses primarily on two angels, one of whom falls in love with a trapeze artist. It's a remarkably poetic film, the plot largely playing second fiddle to words and images, and the challenge of conveying beings who see everything, whilst never being able to experience or truly understand any of it. (Or perhaps the contrast between those who simply record existence - be they angels or filmmakers - and those who live it, or enact change.)

It's a film that's unafraid to play with its form - from repeating Powell and Presburger's trick of angels living in a world of black and white, to having Peter Falk turn up playing a version of himself.  Audio is interesting here too - most of the words heard during the film are the overlaid inner voices of the humans our angels pass, an effect that is initially a little disorientating, but quickly feels natural - with Wenders offering a range from the banal to the profound.

It is a million miles away from the American tearjerker it inspired, slow, poet, elliptical, and oddly moving - even whilst I never really believed its central romance.

Oh, and it's bloody essential for Nick Cave fans.

It’s on Shudder.

Possum is good. Calling it a masterpiece is a bit strong in my opinion, though. A very dark, uncompromising film, for sure.

Webbins wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Saw you watched Wrong Turn, Webbins. Liked it enough? Some great falling stunts in that movie.

Aye I did, a strong 7... possibly 7.5, Shabs. I did enjoy the log death and the outro was well done.

It's been so long since I watched the og, back in the days of renting DVDs from Global video...

Yeah that log moment is a good'un.


I'd also call Possum a masterpiece. It's such a singular and unique film. Unpleasant but you can tell it's exactly what he wanted it to be

Gremill wrote:

I also saw MI:2 at the cinema. It's was so bad I didn't watch another one until about 2015.

Tbf MI 3 is great