Film; or The Silver Screen

[kennfusion]

The Beekeeper

The image says it all, this is a Jason Statham movie. Nothing more, nothing less.

The movie makes no sense. Almost nothing is realistic, not even a little bit. There are a lot of bad bee/hive lines that you will groan at.

Like literally, I don’t think anything in this movie is even remotely plausible.

The wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Blackfyre]

Just, by accident, watched a trailer for Horizon, An American Saga. I am a bit ashamed to admit that I feel drawn to this kind of Cinema… Just triggers the right buttons in a subconscious memory.

[Mirefox]

Westerns are great. I haven’t watched the trailer but I’m not ashamed to say I like that kind of movie. The last Western I remember Costner is was Open Range and that one is great.

[rinelk]

@Mirefox

The last Western I remember Costner is was Open Range and that one is great.

Utterly brilliant movie in its use of the familiar visual language of the independent masculinity of a bygone era to subtly but strongly support net neutrality.

Or so I thought before I watched the director’s commentary, and I realized that was entirely projection.

[OhBollox]

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. A good bit of fun, if terribly derivative of Inglourious Basterds, with a truly awful Churchill courtesy of Rory Kinnear, an especially poor show in a film where everyone else is either having fun with cheese or just doing frightfully well; Eiza Gonzalez turns in a surprisingly good performance (and accent), Cary Elwes wasted in a tiny role with one good scene, and Til Schweiger wasted as the evil Nazi commander you’ve seen a dozen times before. The Gonzalez/Olusanmokun scenes don’t quite have the tension they need to, but the action scenes really tick along very neatly indeed. Worth it just for the extreme nonchalance on display.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. This was certainly a film. A too-large cast of new people, recurring characters, and returning faces from the old films. Paul Rudd is almost charmless here, but he’s a delight next to Carrie Coon’s miserable mother, a miserly role that brings the entire film down. But the film cannot recover from Kumail Nanjiani (bad role), Finn Wolfhard (lacking in every respect), and Mckenna Grace (bad role). God bless Ernie Hudson for deigning to star in this unrepentant turkey.

[Snotty128]

Watched Challengers expecting a sports film. Got a love triangle instead. If most of your film is flash backs, are you actually making a flash forward film instead?

Probably the most gay friendly film (without being a gay film) that ive seen in a while

Not sure that driving house music was the correct leit motif for this film

While I like Zendeya, Im still struggling to see the character she is portraying and not the actress.

[Snotty128]

Fall guy. Cute action/romance story. Seems made for date night. Deserved better than what it got at the box office.

[js619]

New Life - Apple TV

New Life, starring no one you recognize except Molly Cobb recast as some sort of agent and that older bald guy with the goatee who you’ll know but not know where you’ve seen him before. Watched on Apple TV.

Protagonist is on the run and you don’t know why, although you’ll guess at it right before the movie reveals it. Shot and acted well and a perfect length at under 1.5h. Ending is chef’s kiss imho. Only question I had is why “the border”, assumed to be Canada, is the holy grail given what’s going on, but minor quibble.

[OhBollox]

Easily the worst MCU film I’ve ever seen. In other slightly less hilarious terms, it’s a road movie through a civil war in the USA, where a tyrant president has fucked up seriously enough to cause widely-different factions to band together to eject him from his third term. Kirsten Dunst is the photojourno who has seen it all before, and I’ve never seen her flintier. Wagner Moura is her war junkie colleague. Cailee Spaeny is their wannabe tagalong. Stephen McKinley Henderson is the old hand. All are good, but Dunst is arguably the best thing about the whole film. I’ve never seen a performance communicate that jaded numbness so well before; and seeing it reflected in Spaeny’s performance is excellent. Stylistically the film is immaculate; the biggest problem with it is that any film featuring war will inevitably slide towards glorifying it, and Civil War isn’t immune to that. By far the best scenes are those you see documented by the journalists, broken up and frozen by their photography. If that had been more consistently applied, it could have made the film much better.

[whovian223]

MCU movie?

[OhBollox]

Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[Snotty128]

Really enjoyed Dunst in Civil war. I appreciate an actress who is confident enough to appear on screen wearing about as much make up as your Mrs. on a Saturday morning.

I did think the film had a honest crack at “the horrors of war”. The third act did get a bit hoo-rah, fuck yeah, but that’s Hollywood i guess.

[OhBollox]

The Fall Guy. This is almost funny enough to be good. In the hands of someone like Shane Black, this could have been a gem, but there’s a lot of entertaining stunts and some good lines. Emily Blunt brings such a lot of quality to a role that is a distant second in importance, and Gosling does better than I thought he could with a funnier role. Fun, very lightweight, almost romcomish at times.

[Mirefox]

I’ve got to watch it sometime. I’ve got a soft spot for romcom action/adventures, even if they are only mediocre. Maybe it’s because my wife will assuredly watch and I can at least have some chuckles and see some stunts.

[kennfusion]

Same, these are great date night movies for my wife and myself and since I always go into these with low expectations, I am almost never disappointment, and sometimes pleasantly surprised. Hence my review of The Beekeeper above.

[whovian223]

That’s not my question.

How is this an MCU movie?

[OhBollox]

It’s not. That’s the joke.

[whovian223]

Ah, ok. Sorry for the denseness…

[OhBollox]

I’m sorry for my shit joke.

[js619]

Unfrosted, on Netflix.

Unwatchable. Made it 23m into this movie that barely qualifies as a SNL skit.