Movie recommendations

gallsman · April 02, 2020, 10:03:16 PM

Rogue One is the best of all the Start Wars films in my book.

Not a movie, but have just watched One Man, Two Guvnors, the play that James Corden (who I hate) won the Tony Award for Best Actor for. Very, very, very funny. The National Theatre are showing recordings of famous plays ever Thursday for the next few weeks. Once they air, they'll stay available for streaming for 6 days.

Eamonnca1 · April 02, 2020, 10:05:55 PM

Quote from: gallsman on April 02, 2020, 10:03:16 PM
Rogue One is the best of all the Start Wars films in my book.

Not a movie, but have just watched One Man, Two Guvnors, the play that James Corden (who I hate) won the Tony Award for Best Actor for. Very, very, very funny. The National Theatre are showing recordings of famous plays ever Thursday for the next few weeks. Once they air, they'll stay available for streaming for 6 days.

I agree. Captured the spirit of the original Star Wars, was a great bit of storytelling, and the visual effects were not overdone but used just right. I like how you get to see a Star Destroyer broken up piece by piece, whereas in the original trilogy they'd have just put in a big explosion.

Norf Tyrone · April 02, 2020, 10:36:32 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 02, 2020, 10:05:55 PM
Quote from: gallsman on April 02, 2020, 10:03:16 PM
Rogue One is the best of all the Start Wars films in my book.

Not a movie, but have just watched One Man, Two Guvnors, the play that James Corden (who I hate) won the Tony Award for Best Actor for. Very, very, very funny. The National Theatre are showing recordings of famous plays ever Thursday for the next few weeks. Once they air, they'll stay available for streaming for 6 days.

I agree. Captured the spirit of the original Star Wars, was a great bit of storytelling, and the visual effects were not overdone but used just right. I like how you get to see a Star Destroyer broken up piece by piece, whereas in the original trilogy they'd have just put in a big explosion.

Rouge One was fantastic. A good stand alone movie but how it merged into the original New Hope was superb. Agree that it's as good as Eps 4, 5 and 6.

mrdeeds · April 12, 2020, 09:14:00 PM

Watched Contagion. Excellent movie. Great cast and obviously very topical.

gallsman · April 12, 2020, 10:36:35 PM

A Fish Called Wanda starting on BBC 1. Classic.

Milltown Row2 · April 12, 2020, 10:46:18 PM

Quote from: mrdeeds on April 12, 2020, 09:14:00 PM
Watched Contagion. Excellent movie. Great cast and obviously very topical.

Yep! Though I did leave it with knots in my stomach, wife refused to watch it

Capt Pat · April 12, 2020, 11:44:27 PM

The theory of everything was on tonight. I thought the French doctor in it looked like Frank Le boeuf the former Chelsea defender. I checked on imdb afterwards and it was. I saw the movie when it first came out 6 years ago and didn't spot Frank Le Boeuf.

Milltown Row2 · April 12, 2020, 11:59:40 PM

Quote from: Capt Pat on April 12, 2020, 11:44:27 PM
The theory of everything was on tonight. I thought the French doctor in it looked like Frank Le boeuf the former Chelsea defender. I checked on imdb afterwards and it was. I saw the movie when it first came out 6 years ago and didn't spot Frank Le Boeuf.

I seen it when it first came out and I couldn't make out the player, another name kept coming up in my head! Only months after I read an article on the movie that I realised it was him!

GetOverTheBar · April 14, 2020, 12:03:17 PM

Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 12, 2020, 11:59:40 PM
Quote from: Capt Pat on April 12, 2020, 11:44:27 PM
The theory of everything was on tonight. I thought the French doctor in it looked like Frank Le boeuf the former Chelsea defender. I checked on imdb afterwards and it was. I saw the movie when it first came out 6 years ago and didn't spot Frank Le Boeuf.

I seen it when it first came out and I couldn't make out the player, another name kept coming up in my head! Only months after I read an article on the movie that I realised it was him!

Think he was also in the WW2 film Allies

nrico2006 · April 25, 2020, 08:09:04 PM

Parasite was brilliant, watched a few other of Bong Joon-ho films too. Okja and Snowpiercer were ok and Memories of Murder was poor. Saw The Host years ago and thought it was brilliant.

Wasn't interested in watching The Platform a few weeks back, but watched it today - pretty crap to be honest.

screenexile · April 25, 2020, 08:39:49 PM

Quote from: nrico2006 on April 25, 2020, 08:09:04 PM
Parasite was brilliant, watched a few other of Bong Joon-ho films too. Okja and Snowpiercer were ok and Memories of Murder was poor. Saw The Host years ago and thought it was brilliant.

Wasn't interested in watching The Platform a few weeks back, but watched it today - pretty crap to be honest.

Yeah a bit of a human centipede vibe off it!

Main Street · April 26, 2020, 12:40:57 AM

Memories of Murder is a stand out excellent film, imo.

Main Street · April 27, 2020, 01:10:11 PM

I came across this guy's channel on you tube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD8J_xbbBuGobmw_N5ga3MA

and I got hooked into watching these upscaled and enhanced versions of classic B&W movies from before and after the turn of the last century
As was commented, it's as close as you can get to actual time travelling.

johnnycool · April 28, 2020, 04:35:23 PM

Scorsese's The Departed was on TV the other night.

I hadn't seen it in years and it starts off really well but the actual end is a bit fucked up to say the least.

GetOverTheBar · April 28, 2020, 04:42:06 PM

Quote from: johnnycool on April 28, 2020, 04:35:23 PM
Scorsese's The Departed was on TV the other night.

I hadn't seen it in years and it starts off really well but the actual end is a bit fucked up to say the least.

Good film alright - agree about the ending, kinda like they didn't really know how to end it. Think Dignam character played by Wahlberg was a good guy, but it could be interpreted as him being one of Costello's by the Rat then on balcony.

Strange.