Broke: F&F Film

Woke: FNF Film

And I've got a degree in film so suck it geeks.

Nobody else is doing car stuff as good as the Furious movies do it. The old school explosive action isnt really done as much elsewhere either.

The franchise is almost an entirely different thing to where it started though. 4 started the shift, 5 got the budget and The Rock.

If you have watched any of the first 3 and didnt like them, I would suggest putting 5 on and see if you feel different. Still dont like them whatevs.

Never watched Hobbs and Shaw, I'll give it a crack now

Funkstain wrote:

Apparently the new Nic Cage is a blast

Pig?

I’ve never watched an F&F film. If a streaming service were to get their hands on the whole lot, I’d probably watch them all over the course of a couple of weeks. Similar to the Mission: Impossible films.

Pig looks like it could either be incredible or terrible. Whatever it is, it won’t be boring.

I’ll bat for Mandy. I think that was great.

Was convinced I'd like Mandy, ended up disappointed.  Will give Pig a go, I tend to watch most things with Cage in eventually.  His performances are oddly rewarding regardless how poor the movie is, the only NC film I've genuinely regretted watching is Left Behind, which wasn't even vaguely enjoyable in any way.  Take Next for example - it's a terrible film - but Cage makes it enjoyable for a multitude of reasons, one of them being his little mustard jacket.  I watched Ghost Rider for the first time last month...it is crap, obviously, but I didn't hate it.

I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
Some films are easy to recommend, with obvious widespread appeal, whilst others are very much less so, but you find yourself offering them out to the world in the belief that there will be a small group of people who love them, even whilst everyone else rolls their eyes.

This is one of those latter films. It's a ghost story - but in the traditional sense. If you're wanting an edge of your seat thrill ride you'll be wildly disappointed. It's a slow burner, interested much more in atmosphere than scares.  It's a film full of long takes of empty corridors, or unoccupied chairs. It owes more to "Whistle and I'll Come To You" than it does Paranormal Activity.

It's a film that feels like it should be a book, or perhaps a stage play, but equally could only ever really work in the medium it's in. 

The admittedly slight story is of Lily, a palliative care nurse who has come to live with her patient - Iris Blum - a famous author of horror stories that Lily is far too frightened to read. The film tells us right from the off that Lily "turned 28 three days ago.  I will never turn 29".  And so we wait for her death.  Just as Lily waits for Iris's inevitable end. 

There's more, obviously, chiefly the reveal of one of Iris's own stories (which is also, tellingly, missing an ending). But mostly this is a tale of isolation, death, and the march of time.

Ruth Wilson is brilliant, selling this strange character who speaks in softly uttered anachronisms, a mouse who is terrified of the world even before she's offered a reason to be. 

So, yes, I loved it.  A film that slowly unfurls in your mind after the event, offering up new things to mull over, despite so little happening.  I can very much imagine others absolutely hating it, and I would entirely understand why. It's slow, very little happens, and the finale is likely to frustrate a lot of viewers. (I thought it was great.)

In short, a cautious recommendation. Not a movie for popcorn and a few beers, but late at night in a creaky old house it might just hit the spot.

I like the sound of that.

I enjoyed that too, fished it out of a hidden gems horror list at some point iirc.

I can second Tin’s recommendation, although I am wondering if we both found the same list of horror to watch what with this and Cam turning up

I feel like going on a Neill Blomkamp binge.

He has a new techo horror movie out soon so its a perfect time to watch his back catalogue. I cant find a streaming service that has chappie on it though.

Also if anyone hasn’t seem any of the Oats studio output on youtube, watch the rivergod episode and tell me thats not fantastic. Was started down the line to develop into a movie but got canned.

Come at me:

Blompkamp hasn't made a single good film.