Movie recommendations

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Yeah, though he was a British businessman in USSR.  Benedict Cumberbatch the bloke whose name I couldn't remember last night.

[Main Street]

Not Havana  but Moscow,  it's an excellent film.
There's an equivalent genre film, french (with subtitles of course), called  Farewell. It's a bit later ( mid 80's)  a true 'defector' story  in the Reagan years, that somehow managed to save us from Soviet annihilation  despite western intelligence doing their best to mangle the intelligence.

[Hound]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

[screenexile]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I thought Power of the Dog was a heap of dung!

Very arty and just not that good at all. It's well acted but that's about as much as I can say about it.

[screenexile]

Watched a few films recently:

Whiplash - really enjoyed this film worth a watch 8.5/10

Licorice Pizza - It was ok well acted but loved itself a bit and wasn't particularly entertaining 6.5/10

The Adam Project - Not going to win any awards but I found it enjoyable and entertaining 7/10

Don't Look Up - Preachy and loves itself it was just grand 6/10

Venom 2 - Rarely does it happen but turned off after half an hour. Shit. 3/10

House of Gucci - Over the top and a bit mad not everyone's cup of tea but I quite liked it 7/10

[nrico2006]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I thought Power of the Dog was a heap of dung!

Very arty and just not that good at all. It's well acted but that's about as much as I can say about it.

Power of the Dog was poor.

Small Engine Repair was very good.

Windfall also very good.

Licorice Pizza was ok and I also really liked the Adam Project.

[Hound]

I think I'll be watching Adam Project rather than Power of Dog on Netflix tonight!

Reminds me that I watched two Rock movies a few weeks ago:
- Jungle Cruise was meh
- Red Notice was great fun

[Main Street]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I thought Power of the Dog was a heap of dung!

Very arty and just not that good at all. It's well acted but that's about as much as I can say about it.

I stuck with it for 30mins, the film has got something about it but there's also a meanness and ugliness which was not comfortable to take in at the time, I might get back to it. That actor Jesse Plemons - the nice brother,  it's a mystery on how does he go from (not quite) Robbie Coltrane physique to a perfect pristine Tour de France athlete Floyd Landis in that film about Lance Armstrong?

[screenexile]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I thought Power of the Dog was a heap of dung!

Very arty and just not that good at all. It's well acted but that's about as much as I can say about it.

I stuck with it for 30mins, the film has got something about it but there's also a meanness and ugliness which was not comfortable to take in at the time, I might get back to it. That actor Jesse Plemons - the nice brother,  it's a mystery on how does he go from (not quite) Robbie Coltrane physique to a perfect pristine Tour de France athlete Floyd Landis in that film about Lance Armstrong?

I think he was in great shape for that and then had to put on weight for Black Mass and hasn't lost it since . . . good to see it happens to big time actors as well as the rest of us!!

[tbrick18]

Don't look up is one of the worst movies I've seen in years.

[J70]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I just found Power of the Dog boring, and a bit unpleasant as someone else mentioned.

Don't Look Up was a fun, overstuffed mess in my opinion.

[nrico2006]

Anyone recommend the Power of Dog?

I thought Don't Look Up was dreadful. The first half particularly bad. A few laughs in the second half.

I thought Power of the Dog was a heap of dung!

Very arty and just not that good at all. It's well acted but that's about as much as I can say about it.

I stuck with it for 30mins, the film has got something about it but there's also a meanness and ugliness which was not comfortable to take in at the time, I might get back to it. That actor Jesse Plemons - the nice brother,  it's a mystery on how does he go from (not quite) Robbie Coltrane physique to a perfect pristine Tour de France athlete Floyd Landis in that film about Lance Armstrong?

I think he was in great shape for that and then had to put on weight for Black Mass and hasn't lost it since . . . good to see it happens to big time actors as well as the rest of us!!

Sure it was stupid how big he was in El Camino in the flashbacks that corresponded to when he was thin in Breaking Bad.

[Jell 0 Biafra]

I actually really liked Power of the Dog.  Acting, scripting, and cinematography are top notch. It is unquestionably slow, though, so if that's a deal breaker, it isn't for you.   We ended up watching it over two nights, so that probably helped.  I also had no expectations going in (missus picked it), so that might have helped too.

Agree with J70 on Don't Look Up.  A good laugh for the most part.  Probably plays better for those who have lived Stateside for a good bit.

[screenexile]

Watched Batman the other night... as a cinema experience it was great with brilliant action scenes and all the loud noises rattling through your head as you'd expect.

The overall film though was just sad... it was trying to be dark like the Joker but whereas it was more edgy and shocking I just found the Batman to be a sad depressing tale and I really wasn't interested in the film as a whole. Would be interested to hear what anyone else thought?

[Tony Baloney]

Watched Batman the other night... as a cinema experience it was great with brilliant action scenes and all the loud noises rattling through your head as you'd expect.

The overall film though was just sad... it was trying to be dark like the Joker but whereas it was more edgy and shocking I just found the Batman to be a sad depressing tale and I really wasn't interested in the film as a whole. Would be interested to hear what anyone else thought?

There is always an element of darkness in Gotham but the reviews really did hammer home that element of it, and combined with the almost 3 hr running time, I was really put off it. However the missus and I went to see it about 3 weeks ago and we both really enjoyed it and it certainly didn't feel like 3 hrs (although I did have my now customary power nap in the middle of it!). Certainly not an upbeat movie but what Batman movie is as most that focus 9n Batman himself (rather than The Joker) centre on someone struggling to get past the fact that his parents were murdered in front of him as a child (spoiler alert).