What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

ando here · 02-13-2021, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by John Connor

Unstoppable (2010 film)

Seems like a scenario I've seen a number of times before. What was that one with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock? Speed.

Well, why not?

OccultHawk · 02-13-2021, 04:18 PM

Last House on the Left (2009 reboot)

Both were gratuitous but the original had a couple scenes that make it even more raw than the reboot imo.

Trollheart · 02-14-2021, 09:56 AM

Finally got to see Smokey and the Bandit, like what, thirty years later? Stupid but great fun, a real feel-good movie that takes you back to the days of freewheeling truckers defying the slow, plodding, comically inept not-quite-so-long arm of the law.

Reminded me how sexy Sally Field was too! Yum!

Star turn by Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice!

OccultHawk · 02-14-2021, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Finally got to see Smokey and the Bandit, like what, thirty years later? Stupid but great fun, a real feel-good movie that takes you back to the days of freewheeling truckers defying the slow, plodding, comically inept not-quite-so-long arm of the law.

Reminded me how sexy Sally Field was too! Yum!

Star turn by Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice!

Unassailable

YorkeDaddy · 02-14-2021, 10:00 AM

Finally got to see Saint Maud last night. One of those I definitely would have seen in a theater in 2020 if things were normal but here we are. This film wasn't quite what I expected in some ways but I still thought it was quite effective and an uncomfortable experience. The ending is one of the most unsettling I've seen in a long time. I'd generally recommend it to those that enjoy a quality slowburn horror experience that's about setting a creepy mood rather than outright scaring you.

**Frownland** · 02-16-2021, 09:27 PM

The Platform was tight.

It's:
A Snowpiercer meets Cube meets Human Centipede type beat with some of its own flavours. Even knowing the synopsis, the setting is fascinating enough to act as its own character. The screenwriter's wink that hey, maybe we're saying something about society here, breaks through the fourth wall like paper and almost becomes a character in itself too lol.

Like a lot of Netflix originals, it builds suspense really well by creating an absolutely unwinnable situation with no light that's almost cathartic when the way they get the protagonist out of the hole comes. Another Netflix original trend the movie fulfills is having a fine but underwhelming third act.

Spoiler for .:

YorkeDaddy · 02-17-2021, 05:55 AM

I also dug The Platform. Definitely a film that stuck with me, which is a rarity these days since I pretty much exclusively watch horror movies and many of them begin to bleed together when it's all that you watch

I'd watch a spiritual successor/sequel type thing for sure, I think there's more room to explore that universe

Plankton · 02-17-2021, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Finally got to see Smokey and the Bandit, like what, thirty years later? Stupid but great fun, a real feel-good movie that takes you back to the days of freewheeling truckers defying the slow, plodding, comically inept not-quite-so-long arm of the law.

Reminded me how sexy Sally Field was too! Yum!

Star turn by Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice!

White Lightning was the precursor to Smokey. You can see where they reused a few scenes and refined them a bit.

Also, Jerry Reed was quite the picker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE

**Frownland** · 02-28-2021, 07:35 AM

Nocturnal Animals

I had high expectations because A Single Man is the greatest **** ever and they were met, mostly. Great on a visual level and very intense with excellent use of parallel storytelling. The editing was weirdly inconsistent—scene transitions were generally amazing, but there was also a lot of sloppy Marvel-esque overcutting. Comparison is a cop out but it really did feel like a mesh of A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Blue Ruin, Midsommar, and Phantom Thread (in a good way).

Excited for what Tom Ford does next. He seems to prefer adapting novels, I could see him being able to pull of Rings of Saturn or House of Leaves. With the Blue Ruin similarities, it makes me think that Ford collaborating with Jeremy Saulnier would be amazing.

adidasss · 02-28-2021, 08:23 AM

I didn't connect with any of his work. Visually beautiful to look at but left me totally emotionally unengaged. He's an aesthete more than a dramatist methinks, which is natural being a fashion designer and all.

02-13-2021, 04:18 PM	#23652 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Last House on the Left (2009 reboot) Both were gratuitous but the original had a couple scenes that make it even more raw than the reboot imo. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-14-2021, 09:56 AM	#23653 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Finally got to see Smokey and the Bandit, like what, thirty years later? Stupid but great fun, a real feel-good movie that takes you back to the days of freewheeling truckers defying the slow, plodding, comically inept not-quite-so-long arm of the law. Reminded me how sexy Sally Field was too! Yum! Star turn by Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-16-2021, 09:27 PM	#23656 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	The Platform was tight. It's: A Snowpiercer meets Cube meets Human Centipede type beat with some of its own flavours. Even knowing the synopsis, the setting is fascinating enough to act as its own character. The screenwriter's wink that hey, maybe we're saying something about society here, breaks through the fourth wall like paper and almost becomes a character in itself too lol. Like a lot of Netflix originals, it builds suspense really well by creating an absolutely unwinnable situation with no light that's almost cathartic when the way they get the protagonist out of the hole comes. Another Netflix original trend the movie fulfills is having a fine but underwhelming third act. Spoiler for .: I thought that it was impressively bleak when Goreng's cellmate tells him there are only 200 levels and he wakes up on level 203 to find that she hung herself. That limit of 200 floors was a light at the end of the tunnel that that scene really snuffed. The ending made sense being open since that's linked to the protagonist's perspective, but I was still left wanting. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-28-2021, 07:35 AM	#23659 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Nocturnal Animals I had high expectations because A Single Man is the greatest **** ever and they were met, mostly. Great on a visual level and very intense with excellent use of parallel storytelling. The editing was weirdly inconsistent—scene transitions were generally amazing, but there was also a lot of sloppy Marvel-esque overcutting. Comparison is a cop out but it really did feel like a mesh of A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Blue Ruin, Midsommar, and Phantom Thread (in a good way). Excited for what Tom Ford does next. He seems to prefer adapting novels, I could see him being able to pull of Rings of Saturn or House of Leaves. With the Blue Ruin similarities, it makes me think that Ford collaborating with Jeremy Saulnier would be amazing. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-28-2021, 08:23 AM	#23660 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,993	I didn't connect with any of his work. Visually beautiful to look at but left me totally emotionally unengaged. He's an aesthete more than a dramatist methinks, which is natural being a fashion designer and all. __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm