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EADD Film Recommendations v5 - TBC

I have all his books (including VALIS) now also in audiobook format. Not sure about the short stories so will definately check that I do get them as I am a massive reader, but have also lots of books and am easily attracted to others... Some exiting books like Hotel K or Snowing in Paradise, I read in one go, others need returning to after a while, but I know his stuff is great, so I'm happy to try them as audiobook and especially after your encouragement eager to have a go at VALIS and The Man in the High Castle...
 
A little old (2003) but it was great to watch it again "Good Bye, Lenin!" (2003). Quite creative, catchy & funny.
Great director Wolfgang Becker imo.
 
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Vurtual said:
Septonn: probably seen it mentioned here multiple times, and not sure if it's magical realism exactly, but Upstream Color is a nice film (it's very much a marmite film though - makes perfect sense to me on mxe ;)).
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I love that film, but I haven't found anyone else I know who can stick it. If you're not into letting things wash over you, it's hard going. There is a coherence to it, but I didn't piece everything together till the second viewing.

Inherent Vice, on the other hand, is intentionally bewildering for the sake of it (I guess getting stoned before it might make it more tolerable, if even more hard to follow) and, for me, it doesn't merit a rewatch. Admittedly, I was put off a bit by people in the audience in hysterics at the slightest drugs reference, funny or not - made me, perhaps unfairly, feel it was a 'zany':| film.
 
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Is it fucked up that i love films but never seen The good, the bad and the ugly.
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I reckon half the time, 'classic' means 'important', or 'outstanding for its time', it doesn't always mean that there aren't better things to watch if you don't really care about seeing how things have evolved.

I've never seen any westerns , zero interest in them, so I can't comment, but I did see Citizen Kane for the first time the other day - it was impressive in that it was sophisticated for its time and technically brilliant, but I think I'd rather watch something that has more to say to a person living in 2015.

(First philistine impulse of the day and its not even 4 =D)
 
The In Touchables (2011), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Double (2014)
 
^ Just finished watching that now, Dan. Decent watch - I had no idea Tony Hawk was such a snide.

You should check out a documentary called McConkey - similar sort of story but with skiing/basejumping instead of skateboarding. Defintiely worth a watch.
 
I 'taped' The Wolf of Wall Street, with Di Caprio..
 
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Had to go digging to find the thread :D

Has anyone seen Ant Man ? I went the other day and enjoyed it - good mix of humor and action. Was pretty weird as we went to a new cinema complex which is a bit out of the way and we were the only two people watching it.
 
Chemical Samile said:
^ Just finished watching that now, Dan. Decent watch - I had no idea Tony Hawk was such a snide.

You should check out a documentary called McConkey - similar sort of story but with skiing/basejumping instead of skateboarding. Defintiely worth a watch.
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Yeah tony hawk appears to be a bit of a dick. Saw mconkey the other day, brilliant doc
 
ColtDan said:
Yeah tony hawk appears to be a bit of a dick. Saw mconkey the other day, brilliant doc
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I really enjoyed that 'all this mayhem' - took me back (that's my (first) era of skating (late 80s)) - although in the interest of fairness i googled tony hawk's response after, which tells a different story - you judge - pinch of salt, but i still like the pappas brothers more (i remember seeing that video with tas in and then find out he was (apparently) on acid doing it) - i don't begrudge him cashing in on a maybe dubious story (tony hawk's got enough to take it)
 
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I thought it was a decent film - really well shot and acted, dealing with a well worn subject in an artful, if not wholly original manner. I didn't find the ending predictable. In fact, as it seemed the most obvious ending, i was sure it would go a different way.

The only gripe I had was with the seemingly incongruous violence at the end, which appeared to be tacked on to keep any knuckle-draggers satisfied.
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I loved Ex Machina and disagree about the violence towards the end being incomgrous. Made perfect sense to me given the premise was at what point a machine could be considered to have a level of consciousness that could successfully blur the line between human and technology. Said machines react in distinctly human fashion - self-preservation via the medium of getting a bit stabby when required. Seemed to me that end section was basically saying that she had made a complete break with the subservience that had been programmed into previous versions of her. She reacted like many women would if they'd been treated in similar (or at least roughly equivalent) fashion. In context it made perfect sense to me and certainly wouldn't make sense in the way you are suggesting it was being used. Was harldy going to make said "knuckle-draggers" forget about the previous hour and a half or so of slow-burn drama and claustrophobic tension - seemed the only way to satisfactorily resolve everything that had been set up throughtout the rest of the film to me.

Erikmen said:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
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Seconded. Thought it was gonna be hard-going given the subject matter but was amazed. Outstanding film.

ColtDan said:
Seen the shit reviews also & a friend of mine said its pretty shite.. its a shame. shame the series got messed up in general. the future war scenes from T1 and T2 always spring to mind as how i reckon T3 and T4 should have been instead of the bollocks that got made
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Watched the new Terminator film t'other night and is indeed utterly dire. Was expecting shit but really was worse than I expected even so. Should've guessed when I saw one of the comments saying that it was "... not bad but not as good as Salvation" :|
 
Just finished watching Southpaw. Had high hopes given all the praise Jake Gyllenhaal's performance has garnered. He does give a good performance but was ruined for me due to a truly shocking script. I'd suggest they got the bloke who writes cornflake box blurbs to write it but that would be an insult to cornflake box blurb writers. Shame cos Gyllenhaal really is good but I found the script so wince-inducing that I couldn't take the film seriously whilst the film takes itself deathly seriously. The absence of wit combined with lack of self-awareness just made the whole thing kinda dull to be honest. Big disappointment.

In related, yet much brighter news, recently watched Gyllenhaal's other highly-praised performance this year, Nightcrawler. For me, his performance here was outstanding rather than just good and was backed up by an excellent script, highly atmospheric production and a decent dollop of originality. Reminded me (in a very good way) of some of the classic 70s thrillers but also with plenty of relevance to today with its commentary on the vapid, illusory and ghoulish news media. Brilliant film.
 
Just finished watching Southpaw. Had high hopes given all the praise Jake Gyllenhaal's performance has garnered. He does give a good performance but was ruined for me due to a truly shocking script. I'd suggest they got the bloke who writes cornflake box blurbs to write it but that would be an insult to cornflake box blurb writers. Shame cos Gyllenhaal really is good but I found the script so wince-inducing that I couldn't take the film seriously whilst the film takes itself deathly seriously. The absence of wit combined with lack of self-awareness just made the whole thing kinda dull to be honest. Big disappointment.

In related, yet much brighter news, recently watched Gyllenhaal's other highly-praised performance this year, Nightcrawler. For me, his performance here was outstanding rather than just good and was backed up by an excellent script, highly atmospheric production and a decent dollop of originality. Reminded me (in a very good way) of some of the classic 70s thrillers but also with plenty of relevance to today with its commentary on the vapid, illusory and ghoulish news media. Brilliant film.
 
Shambles said:
Just finished watching Southpaw. Had high hopes given all the praise Jake Gyllenhaal's performance has garnered. He does give a good performance but was ruined for me due to a truly shocking script. I'd suggest they got the bloke who writes cornflake box blurbs to write it but that would be an insult to cornflake box blurb writers. Shame cos Gyllenhaal really is good but I found the script so wince-inducing that I couldn't take the film seriously whilst the film takes itself deathly seriously. The absence of wit combined with lack of self-awareness just made the whole thing kinda dull to be honest. Big disappointment.

In related, yet much brighter news, recently watched Gyllenhaal's other highly-praised performance this year, Nightcrawler. For me, his performance here was outstanding rather than just good and was backed up by an excellent script, highly atmospheric production and a decent dollop of originality. Reminded me (in a very good way) of some of the classic 70s thrillers but also with plenty of relevance to today with its commentary on the vapid, illusory and ghoulish news media. Brilliant film.
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I loved nightcrawler, brilliant film indeed.
 
Me too. Mentioned before i'm sure, but i rewatched the newest judge dredd film again the other day and remembered how much i liked it - it just really captures judge dredd and the atmosphere of 2000ad for me - the chin is especially accurate (and he never takes his helmet off like that helmet sly stallone did).
 
i just watched:

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note - it's not about frank sidebottom. it is fictional and is inspired by frank sidebottom.

i really enjoyed it.

alasdair
 
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Tonight's viewing was Turbo Kid. Parody/tribute to 80s straight-to-video films and not a bad one. Not the best of its type but got some great moments, bucketloads of comedy gore and some funny lines. Don't think it's as good as it wants to be but worth a watch if you like that kinda thing. Bonus points for Michael Ironside too.

Other film I watched recently was The Tree of Life. Still undecided on whether I liked it or not - and if I did how much. It's an odd film - and that in itself is always good to see from Hollywood - and there are definitely things I really liked about it... and there are other things I loathed about it. The main section of it - the childhood/coming of age bits - I thought worked really well. The - somewhat heavily "inspired by" the 'qaatsi trilogy - "suggestive imagery with loud music" sections were quite nicely done albeit a wee bit art school graduation filmy. What really - really - irked me was the uberwanky Calvin Klein ad stuff and the Christian angsty breathy whisperings.
 
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