Films you've watched recently.

[RHB]

Two that we've just watched again, both very good films:

The Outfit - BBC iPlayer. Mark Rylance plays an English cutter who runs a tailor shop in Chicago, whose primary customers are a family of vicious gangsters.

The War Below - Netflix. A group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate.

 

[Napster]

Alice Sweet Alice - decent horror
the Martian - excellent sci fi

 

[The Original Tribal Chief]

I can't believe I'd never seen it, but watched 'Dr Strangelove' at the weekend. Highly critically acclaimed, and rightly so - excellent.

 

[cerbera45]

Last Seen Alive (2022) - I watched this last night and quite enjoyed it. However, upon checking Rotten Tomatoes it's got a very low rating. Mind you on the plus side the film stars the very lovely Jamie Alexander.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Kneecap yesterday at the Mooby Balmes cinema in Barna.This is a quirky Irish film set in West Belfast about a punky ,rap group singing in Irish (Gallic).I enjoyed it -especially rhe humour.Sample. what do you get when you cross an IRA man with a Hippy.A Sandalista:Boom ,boom.Notice it only got a UK release in August-So hats off to those responsible for the Spanish subtitltes!

 

[BALDY]

Back in 2012 I saw this docu at the cinema---Yesterday I watched online.
If you are a fan of docus this is a must for you.

It is free to watch on Youtube

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Francis Ford's Coppola's Megalopolis at the Balmes this pm.Now FFC has made a lot of wonderful films.Unfortunately this isn't one of them.Hope it's not his last.

 

[overseas shrimper]

Saw Francis Ford's Coppola's Megalopolis at the Balmes this pm.Now FFC has made a lot of wonderful films.Unfortunately this isn't one of them.Hope it's not his last.

He's made wonderful films, but he's no stranger to average and awful films in his patchy career.

At 85 years old, and judging by the amount of his own money he sank into this vanity project (reportedly$120m), I'd say it may very well be his swan song. If he does make another film, it'll be to earn back a bit more of his lost money.

Talk about not learning from past mistakes. He financed Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart: Reprise and both were disastrous for his personal life. The latter bankrupted him and he spent years making films to repay his debts.

For Megalopolis he at least had a massive winery to sell.

 

[BALDY]

For many years "Plan 9" was regarded as the worst film ever made....This GB made film may well knock it off the top spot.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Went to see Interstellar at the IMAX in Basildon, after having only seeing it once before on a computer monitor! Epic film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

He's made wonderful films, but he's no stranger to average and awful films in his patchy career.

At 85 years old, and judging by the amount of his own money he sank into this vanity project (reportedly$120m), I'd say it may very well be his swan song. If he does make another film, it'll be to earn back a bit more of his lost money.

Talk about not learning from past mistakes. He financed Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart: Reprise and both were disastrous for his personal life. The latter bankrupted him and he spent years making films to repay his debts.

For Megalopolis he at least had a massive winery to sell.

Personally I very much liked Apocalypse Now (which I think is a masterpiece).Also One from the Heart.In fact I think I've liked all his films from Rain People and Rumble Fish with the exception of the present one.

 

[overseas shrimper]

Personally I very much liked Apocalypse Now (which I think is a masterpiece).Also One from the Heart.In fact I think I've liked all his films from Rain People and Rumble Fish with the exception of the present one.

Oh, I wasn't putting Apocalypse Now down if you thought I was. One from the Heart was OK, but not FFC at his best (IMO). I still think his output spans the full gamut, from sublime to terrible.

The Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish, for example, at one end of the spectrum and the Twixt movies, Henri Langlois and (by the sounds of it), Megalopolis at the other end.

Certainly a filmmaker worth discussion. I'd rather somebody try the audacious and fail rather than one that creates generic, safe movies that do nothing.

 

[Benfleet A1]

For many years "Plan 9" was regarded as the worst film ever made....This GB made film may well knock it off the top spot.
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Those old 'B Movies' might have been generally gash but the film posters were great.

 

[BALDY]

Tangled "Personally I very much liked Apocalypse Now (which I think is a masterpiece)"
But which release of of it did you see?

 

[BALDY]

Those old 'B Movies' might have been generally gash but the film posters were great.

To think that was many years before computers were used----I have some U S B movie T shirts and they look great.

 

[BALDY]

This afternoon Ms Baldy and I went out and saw this excellent new release.

 

[Napster]

This afternoon Ms Baldy and I went out and saw this excellent new release.
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I used to love playing Outrun at the arcades

 

[Napster]

Latest films

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Tangled "Personally I very much liked Apocalypse Now (which I think is a masterpiece)"
But which release of of it did you see?

The original & the redux version(which I have on DVD).

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Oh, I wasn't putting Apocalypse Now down if you thought I was. One from the Heart was OK, but not FFC at his best (IMO). I still think his output spans the full gamut, from sublime to terrible.

The Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish, for example, at one end of the spectrum and the Twixt movies, Henri Langlois and (by the sounds of it), Megalopolis at the other end.

Certainly a filmmaker worth discussion. I'd rather somebody try the audacious and fail rather than one that creates generic, safe movies that do nothing.

While I thought One from the Heart was a much better film than the critics thought at the time ,it was certainly no masterpiece.I haven't seen the FFC movies I've highlighted but thinking about his long career ,which was why I mentioned films like Rain People his first film IIRC and Rumble Fish, the only film of his that I've disliked until Megalopolis( was Dracula. (though I recognise its merits)