John 2,032 Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 12 minutes ago, Jay said: Just the Williams ones. The Powell too for the most part. Giacchino's stunk. That seems to be the general consensus here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 The Williams ones are legendary. The Powell one was pretty great. And the Giacchino one is hard to love but likeable (Yeah, that's right! Sue me!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Ghost House Not a movie about a trip to Thailand without all the sleazy locales, which this has a lot. A few effective scares but overall really boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 I'm surprisingly positive about Gia's score from Rogue One just by my single watch of the film. I feel bad for him actually. I'm sure he was dying to score one of the new Star Wars scores, but the situation must have been a mess. The Illustrious Jerry and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Tbh, I thought it was a perfectly serviceable effort, even if it tried a bit too hard to emulate the Star Wars feelz (which it pretty much achieved in doing), but damn the guy only had a few weeks to bang it out. It's a bit dickheadish to slate him too heavily for it IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Yes! Poor Gia....he tried. Such a nice bloke. The Powell is more polished. Powell is a far better and more versatile composer than Giacchino. But he feels sterile. The score hasn't really hooked me. Despite the new Williams theme. Pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Faux Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Star Wars flavoured Disney movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Luckily I don't care anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Does your boy care at all? Or is it just Marvel? And your Izzie? Dressed as Rey at Halloween? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Bruce absolutely loves Star Wars. But he didn't ask to see the Solo movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Its a perfectly fine Sunday night Netflix romp. I enjoyed it. No need to see it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 I'll definitely check it out when it inevitably comes to Netflix soon. I still haven't a clue what the Williams penned theme sounds like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Its an accomplished but fairly standard Williams consert piece. Its very possible he will play it in London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 The Grey Tense survival flick with nice scenery, but the ending's a bit of a copout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 I sort of quite liked the ending. I think I was the only one in the room who did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Did you see the brief after-credits scene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Tense and fairly grim WW2 thriller, located on a german battleship with Marlon Brando as british/german agent who must stop the vessel before it's reaching France and Yul Brynner as disillusioned german captain. It's a technically brilliant film (Conrad Hall did the spectacular b/w photography) that knows how to deepen its characters and actions in some important scenes that make it go beyond mere war adventure. German director Bernhard Wicki's only Hollywood movie. It tanked, of course. Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Mission: Impossible Entertaining but shit this movie's hard to follow. Doublecross here, backstab there. Plot lost me after the initial mission to get this list thing or something. Whatevs, it's got stunts and shit. Chen G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,520 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 West Side Story Spielberg must be kooky in the head. Waste his time on this? This is already brilliant! America is of course the highlight - great catchy tune, clever lyrics and choreography that gets your blood boiling. I did not expect to know anyone from a 1961 musical, so it was a great surprise to see Ben Horne and Dr. Jacoby broing it up. The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 West Side Story is the best. Spielberg is holding his brush up to an already finished and fine canvas. Don't bother Steven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, The Illustrious Jerry said: West Side Story is the best. Spielberg is holding his brush up to an already finished and fine canvas. Don't bother Steven. I hope Williams will adapt the score. Putting this awefull 60's music up to date is a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Not a fan of Bernstein? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Just now, Stefancos said: Not a fan of Bernstein? I find his writting "dated". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Cool it action! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 7 hours ago, Cherry Pie That'll Kill Ya said: Mission: Impossible Entertaining but shit this movie's hard to follow. Doublecross here, backstab there. Plot lost me after the initial mission to get this list thing or something. Whatevs, it's got stunts and shit. Not surprised, considering Serenity and all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Ah yeah, another cult favourite everyone else pretends to love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Maggie Smith, for many years now wasted on stock british upper-class caricatures, in her first Oscar-winning performance. She's a progressive if snotty young teacher of a scottish boarding school of the 1930s - the Edinburgh surroundings with Smith wandering through them have an eerie ring of Potter - and the film, based on a play by Muriel Sparks, deals with the conflict between progressive and traditional methods of parenting. It's a tricky movie because it sets you up for a good rub of sentimental dross of the 'Goodbye Mr. Chips'/'Dead Poet's Society' variety but here, the influence of Smith's dynamic, eccentric teacher on her children is dangerous and unwholesome. She forces her own skewed and overly romanticized worldview on the girls, who are devoted to her, crushing their individual gifts instead making them puppets in her own grandiloquent theater. Her sexual repressions are transformed into a fake liberal world view on the surface but find their true color in her adulation for fascist leaders like Mussolini or Franco. Naturally she wreaks havoc among the most vulnerable, who are eager to act out the Brodie's inane fantasies, i. e. becoming a spy in Franco's Spain or having affairs with other teachers. Chillingly, the film's passage of time suggests that when a new class arrives, she picks students with the same physical characteristics and begins to indoctrinate them the same way. In the end, she gets her comeuppance by one girl who sees the truth and when she betrays her teacher, it's a big emotional moment: she leaves the school to a voiceover of Smith's character from the beginning, 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life', realizing how much she was shaped by her and that cannot be undone. While the film is well-done, it thrives on the performances, especially Smith and Pamela Franklin (Smith's then-husband Robert Stephens also has a meaty role as lusty art teacher). It might be of another time, but is immensely watchable, especially for its ambivalence. Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,356 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Taken 2 - even with the lowered expectations that come with trashy-ish action flicks, this was still pretty bad. Directed as if it was expected that everyone who watched it would have ADD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I heard it was disappointing after the first movie. How about the third one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I remember being disappointed with the first one quite a bit: I love a good beat down movie, and Liam Neeson can deliver with aplomb, but the camera, as Sweep pointed out, couldn't even let me enjoy that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Mission: Impossible II God, if you could look up "star vehicle" in the dictionary, there'd be a picture of this movie's poster. And wasn't this the height of Tom's mega-stardom? I remember how hyped this was when it came out, especially in Australia where the media circus was huge in promoting it as some tenuous tie-in with the Olympic games. And that's what bothers me a lot about movies made in Sydney as I know the geography here so well, I can't help laughing at moments in movies like this where they've taken every opportunity to get a shot in some picturesque locale, like Darling Harbour, but there's no practical reason why the characters even need to be in that spot. It's as if it was produced by Tourism Australia. Ah well, cool stunts. And some of the visual excesses of the first movie like the overuse of di-opters and Dutch angles are conspicuously absent here. Oh and Hans, this is Mission Imfuckinpossible, not fuckin Gladiator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 It makes the first one seem like a masterpiece, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Just now, Alexcremers said: It makes the first one seem like a masterpiece, doesn't it? The first one redefined Neeson's career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I found it easier to follow than the first one at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Euro-scum kidnaps innocent American girl and forces her into prostitution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 That wasn't in M:I2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Stefancos said: The first one redefined Neeson's career. We're talking about MI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Damn fine 90's action thriller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 But I understand the confusion, the second Taken made the first one seem like a masterpiece as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 It's probably the main reason why they make sequels ... to make it appear that the originals are brilliant! SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I love the bit in the first one where sending an email was a dramatic and tech-wiz-amazing-magical moment! SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Taken or MI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 MI! The computer interface looks funny now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,002 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 2001: A Space Odyssey on 70mm in London. 'twas alright. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Mission: Impossible III Yeah, not toooo bad, but felt a bit on the mediocre side. It's just that M:I2 was so laughably bad, I thought this one was a bit too generic. Anyone else notice the evolution of how movies looked as this series progresses? Like the first two had that stylised but naturalistic aesthetic of 90s action thrillers (although the first one was loaded with all those gee-wiz Panavision anamorphic gimmicks that stick out like dog's balls when you've trained your eye to identify them), but then M:I3 has that high contrast, orange and teal look? I swear this looks like a precursor to the Transformers films, which were only a year away, and from the same studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 The print struck of the original camera negative after Nolan pissed on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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