Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

Diluted Dante

mistercrayon wrote:

One thing I don’t like is 4k movies taking up 2/3 of my 4k tv. How can it be called 4k if 33 percent is black?! Even worse and more unforgivable was that annihilation has a principle release on TV via netflix!

It only released on Netflix due to a dispute between the director and one of the production companies.

Garland is on record that he made the film for cinema and not TV.

Raiziel

Also, I think it got a cinema release in the States.

mistercrayon

For sure, but given that netflix was putting up $$$ you’d think they’d have a version that fit their product. I mean even if Garland wanted a cinema release as primary he couldn’t have been looking at the Squidged down version with much delight.

poprock

Yep, the Netflix deal was for ‘International’ distribution, which means everywhere apart from the US. The film was already long finished by then. It was screened at film festivals in order to attract distributors.

Raiziel

Tonight I watched Erik the Viking in perhaps the first time in thirty years. It’s actually still great, just like I remember it. It might just be my first contact with Norse mythology, something I’ve loved ever since.

Bob

Antebellum

Sort of old school big twist movie but I expected more... it’s quite short but they don’t do much with the big twist .. the sound track gets tension the film doesn’t really deserve and it’s all
A bit weird

Bob

SpaceGazelle wrote:

For a sci fi film made in 1968, 2001 still looks fantastic. The peak of non-CGI imo.

Shame the first half hour is so fucking dull
I can’t bring myself to waste any more
Time
On it

Bob

RamSteelwood wrote:

So long as they use the Queen music. still.shit ..

pantyfire

Land of Mine (shit title) on iplayer.
Immediate post war movie about young German soldiers being made to find and make safe the mines the Germans had planted along the cost of Denmark.
Pretty good.

RamSteelwood

Raiziel wrote:

Tonight I watched Erik the Viking in perhaps the first time in thirty years. It’s actually still great, just like I remember it. It might just be my first contact with Norse mythology, something I’ve loved ever since.

Yeah I love it. So silly.

Diluted Dante

Watching Mike Basset, such a wonderful film. Ricky Tomlinson is absolutely magnificent.

I'd forgotten that fake Gazza scored the winner against Argentina with a hand of God as well.

davyK

Diluted Dante wrote:

Watching Mike Basset, such a wonderful film. Ricky Tomlinson is absolutely magnificent. I'd forgotten that fake Gazza scored the winner against Argentina with a hand of God as well.

Always thought that was under-rated. Loved it.

Blocks100

pantyfire wrote:

Land of Mine (shit title) on iplayer.
Immediate post war movie about young German soldiers being made to find and make safe the mines the Germans had planted along the cost of Denmark.
Pretty good.

Yeah watch that recently thought it was really good but very brutal obviously considering it was all true. Bit of a stain on Danish history that to say the least.

RamSteelwood

Diluted Dante wrote:

Watching Mike Basset, such a wonderful film. Ricky Tomlinson is absolutely magnificent. I'd forgotten that fake Gazza scored the winner against Argentina with a hand of God as well.

Spoilers!

I do love that film though.

b0r1s

Forget that Justice League stuff. This is a better use of his time...

LivDiv

I'll give that a go.
I do wish they would make trailers shorter though.

b0r1s

I spotted two actors from Fear The Walking Dead I think and I’m wondering if it’s some kind of cross over or just they like doing zombie stuff.

Minkymu

Fuck me that trailer looks epic.

Good work Zack

davyK

Heh. Zombie tiger.

afgavinstan

Promising Young Woman was pretty damn great. Mulligan is superb and is shot and wardrobed so, so damn well. Recommended.

Kow

I thought it was dull. Or maybe it wasn't dull, I forget. I remember not thinking it was particularly great anyway.

mistercrayon

I have also watched promising young woman and I though it was okay.

Spoiler:

Kow

Nobody, with Bob Odenkirk. I thought this would be played more obviously as a comedy, but instead it's just over the top action shit. Poor.

g.man

Well that’s disappointing. That had black comedy written all over it.

pantyfire

It’s John Wick+ The Equalizer (the Denzel film) there is humour in there and it’s quite enjoyable but its a bit of a middle aged man fantasy film.

Kow

It's definitely satire but it plays it way too straight. I thought it was going to be an ordinary man getting drawn into ridiculous violence, which would have been funnier and more interesting.

davyK

Flick Vault on YT has The Hustler, Capricorn One and Scum - all at HD quality for free.

There's plenty other stuff there but they are the choice picks for me.

nick_md

The Hustler's a great film, haven't seen it in 20 year or so, may check it out, cheers Davy.

I'm also yet to see Capricorn One so that's a good shout and all.

Also Scum, great film.

In other words, top stuff Davy.

b0r1s

Ooo Capricorn One. I remember as a kid (think I was 12) that was my first experience of government corruption.

mistercrayon

Girl on the Train is really boring. It has a fairly basic mystery which they jumble up with time jumps and lies and somehow everything makes sense about 2/3 of the way through leaving something really dull to watch.

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