Paid Members chokeout Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 I watched The Nice Guys (finally) the other night. Loved it! Shane Black can do no wrong in my eyes, he's still the king of buddy action film dialogue and I am now in love with Ryan Gosling. The thought of Black getting a go at the next Predator movie has me sliding off my chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 It's kind of annoying how dazzling Gosling is. The Nice Guys being an example, yes. Â I watched Life On The Road and Born To Be Blue, yesterday. Â Life On The Road is a mixed bag, with it having some funny lines, good observations, but some of the characters are woefully fleshed out, which is quite the contrast to The Office. Plus, Gervais decided to really ham it up as Brent with silly faces and a ubiquitous laugh. The ending was nice, but felt like they decided to chop out an important 10 minutes or so before it. Borderline disappointing, but I buggered The Office back in the day. Â Born To Be Blue was fantastic. It's all on Ethan Hawke being incredible as Chet Baker. I also found it admirable how frank they were about drugs and their relation to how Baker was better while on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 I watched The Nice Guys (finally) the other night. Loved it! Shane Black can do no wrong in my eyes, he's still the king of buddy action film dialogue and I am now in love with Ryan Gosling. The thought of Black getting a go at the next Predator movie has me sliding off my chair.  Gosling after falling down the hill, drunk at the tree trying to call and motion to Crowe about the dead body was fucking priceless  Really is a spiritual sequel to the utterly glorious Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Shane Black just gets it. Always did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 No one should be that attractive, AND be able to act AND be good at physical comedy. It's really not fair. He's got 80's Tom Hanks levels of likability and delivery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 Shane Black just gets it. Always did. Why is Iron Man 3 the second worst superhero film of the last decade then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 Not to me, it's not. It's the best of the trilogy because of this line alone:"I stole a poncho off a wooden Indian..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Red Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Â Shane Black just gets it. Always did.Why is Iron Man 3 the second worst superhero film of the last decade then? It's the second worst Iron Man film, but no way any sane person could put it behind the likes of 2 turgid fantastic four films, and half of DC's output. Wolverine origins as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) Ugh, Wolverine Origins was on the other night. Fucking atrocious. I only wanted to watch it too see the difference between that version of Deadpool compared to the fantastic version from his own film Edited August 23, 2016 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted August 23, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 23, 2016 Â Â Life On The Road is a mixed bag, with it having some funny lines, good observations, but some of the characters are woefully fleshed out, which is quite the contrast to The Office. Plus, Gervais decided to really ham it up as Brent with silly faces and a ubiquitous laugh. The ending was nice, but felt like they decided to chop out an important 10 minutes or so before it. Borderline disappointing, but I buggered The Office back in the day. Â Â i enjoyed the fuck out of it, mainly because i love Brent as a character. I do agree that there appeared to be a chunk of the movie missing before the final act though. The football conversation in the pub probably got the biggest laugh from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Wait there is a new Blair Witch? Well bugger me I had no idea. Â I'm in the minority that thinks the second shit all over the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted August 24, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 24, 2016 (edited) Blair Witch. Now, as a fan of the first two flicks, I was a bit apprehensive about this but mother of fuck, it absolutely blitzed its predecessors in terms of my pots being gone and my bumcheeks issuing a vice-like grip on my Bovril hole. It’s really, really, REALLY fucking good and I hope it gets the plaudits and box office it deserves when it goes on release next month. The final third...I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. It just went fucking nuts...in the best possible way. Right, if there any among you who want spoilers or have questions and blah blah, the usual, fire away...  Should have just left it with the perfect "Blair Witch Project". Everything was perfect, acting, marketing, etc, then they go and ruin it with that "Book of Shadows" shite. I assume it's better than that? I remember being at the first screening of that in 1999 (the first one) in Glasgow and you can tell by people's faces, they were properly shitting themselves.  I wish somebody would make a film these days where you can't judge if it's real or not. Edited August 24, 2016 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 24, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 24, 2016 It’s much better than Book of Shadows, Barold. I do have a soft spot for that flick though, mainly because it’s really not as bad as people thing, and also because of Carter Burwells score, Kim Directors cleavage and Erica Leerhsen in the nip, but it had an awful hard act to follow after The Blair Witch Project, and with only a few months prep. I will say that the new one utterly twists a corkscrew up your hoop with regards to what you thought you knew about the first one. It’s a direct sequel – right from the first scene you’re back with Heather, Josh and Mike - in that Heathers’ little brother is going into the woods to find his sister and I swear, my pots were absolutely rinsed throughout. It’s really fucking good, it’s very fucking clever, it’s incredibly fucking tense and scary, it’s played on my mind for the last two days and fans of the first movie will be only delighted with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted August 25, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 25, 2016 Did anybody else get really freaked out at "Wes Craven's New Nightmare"? I still think the film is a wee bit terrifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 New Nightmare was definitely the scariest other than the original. They really seemed to know what they were going for, and the concept worked well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 25, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 25, 2016 New Nightmare was easily my favourite of the whole series. I saw it in the flicks and my head exploded because in 1994, stuff really wasn’t that ‘meta’. Plus, that movie paved the way for Scream and Scream 2, which I adored back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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