Films

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The Legend of Barney Thomson
We quite enjoyed this. It helps if you understand the Glasgow humour but a good dark comedy nonetheless.

Will have a look out for this. I'm reading William McIlvanney's Laidlaw - The Papers of Tony Veitch at the moment - Glasgow gangland stuff of the early 1980s, gruesome, violent and rather Glaswegian funny in parts...so this film sounds right up my street.

 

[Robster59]

Will have a look out for this. I'm reading William McIlvanney's Laidlaw - The Papers of Tony Veitch at the moment - Glasgow gangland stuff of the early 1980s, gruesome, violent and rather Glaswegian funny in parts...so this film sounds right up my street.

I got it on BBC iPlayer. It's not gangland but darkly comic rather than dark. Unfortunately it looks like they've taken it off now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c8fb

 

[Wolf]

1917.. Just watched it through a stream link. I won't post any spoilers as know a few on here are keen to see it. But i have to say I was massively underwhelmed by it..

 

[SocketRocket]

Just watched Lowrey, good story and well acted by Timothy Spall.
Also recently 'The boy who harnessed the wind' good drama.

 

[williamalex1]

Will have a look out for this. I'm reading William McIlvanney's Laidlaw - The Papers of Tony Veitch at the moment - Glasgow gangland stuff of the early 1980s, gruesome, violent and rather Glaswegian funny in parts...so this film sounds right up my street.

THE WEE MAN is worth a watch, a factually based story about Glasgow's gangland wars, Paul Ferris, the Thompson family it was available on BBC iPlayer .

 

[Lord Tyrion]

1917.. Just watched it through a stream link. I won't post any spoilers as know a few on here are keen to see it. But i have to say I was massively underwhelmed by it..

The trailer I saw tonight made it look excellent. Is it one of those films where the trailer is actually better than the actual film?

 

[Blue in Munich]

The trailer I saw tonight made it look excellent. Is it one of those films where the trailer is actually better than the actual film?

I'll tell you Sunday night...

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I'm going to have to disagree with BiM on this. Jojo Rabbit, I loved it. Funny, very funny at times, different and occasionally moving. Well worth a watch.

Big hats off in particular to the young lead. He has to carry the film and he does superbly.

 

[Wolf]

The trailer I saw tonight made it look excellent. Is it one of those films where the trailer is actually better than the actual film?

I was really looking forward to it what with the trailers, the cast and reviews. Don't get me wrong it's decent and cinematography is good being as its shot as a 1 continuous scene style footage. But the actual story, depth of characters and coincidence of how things happen just left me flat and feeling a little underwhelmed by the whole thing. I won't say anything about the story line as people need to see it first but I've seen much better tbh.

 

[MegaSteve]

The trailer I saw tonight made it look excellent. Is it one of those films where the trailer is actually better than the actual film?

Needs to be seen on a big screen... The bigger the better...

 

[MegaSteve]

I like re-watching films from my younger days... Fifty+ years on from my first viewing The Graduate remains a great watch...

 

[USER1999]

Rewatched Sexy Beast. Had forgotten quite how much swearing it has, and how weird and muddled it gets in the middle. Still good though.

 

[rksquire]

Agree that JoJo Rabbit is excellent, although maybe to everyone's sense of humour. The 2 young characters are excellent, and there is a depth / poignancy between the humour that comes across.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Enjoy watching old B&W stuff shown on Talking Pictures TV and classics on TCM. Last TP TV watch was an Agatha Christie - Murder She Said (1961). Bit far fetched story - but fun with Margaret Rutherford - and Ron Goodwin's music is iconic - everyone of a certain age will recognise it. Fun Boy Three did a version - and spot her golf clubs and bag in the video - that's the sort of bag and set I started playing with

TCM movie queued to watch - Michael Caine in The Ipcress File

 

[Wolf]

Bridge of Spies, couple of years old but a totally enthralling film

 

[Blue in Munich]

I was really looking forward to it what with the trailers, the cast and reviews. Don't get me wrong it's decent and cinematography is good being as its shot as a 1 continuous scene style footage. But the actual story, depth of characters and coincidence of how things happen just left me flat and feeling a little underwhelmed by the whole thing. I won't say anything about the story line as people need to see it first but I've seen much better tbh.

Out of interest, what would you consider much better? As I'm watching it Sunday it would be interesting to have a benchmark for comparison.

 

[Wolf]

Out of interest, what would you consider much better? As I'm watching it Sunday it would be interesting to have a benchmark for comparison.

If we talk purely war films Saving Private Ryan from the cinematic perspective was imo much better. Black Hawk down was better from a gritty war perspective, Hurt Locker of what it's like to be inside the minds of people. I just found 1917 to be to coincidental with its story telling and even parts seem to be taken from other films but slightly rehashed with the big blockbuster theatrics to give it some extra weight (couple of scenes reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan and a another could be ripped straight from Gallipoli just a different background)

Its hard to give a direct comparison as blockbuster movies go there isnt really anything directly comparible as there aren't really any WW1 movies, so it is indirect comparisons as above. I think you'll enjoy the cinematography of it, the scores are well placed but overall as a story and the story telling for me is a little flat and as i said before coincidental in how it plays out and how characters move on in the story, i can't give a full opinion on that without giving away 2 or 3 huge spoilers so will have to revisit that when a few have seen it so can discuss more openly.

 

[Blue in Munich]

If we talk purely war films Saving Private Ryan from the cinematic perspective was imo much better. Black Hawk down was better from a gritty war perspective, Hurt Locker of what it's like to be inside the minds of people. I just found 1917 to be to coincidental with its story telling and even parts seem to be taken from other films but slightly rehashed with the big blockbuster theatrics to give it some extra weight (couple of scenes reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan and a another could be ripped straight from Gallipoli just a different background)

Its hard to give a direct comparison as blockbuster movies go there isnt really anything directly comparible as there aren't really any WW1 movies, so it is indirect comparisons as above. I think you'll enjoy the cinematography of it, the scores are well placed but overall as a story and the story telling for me is a little flat and as i said before coincidental in how it plays out and how characters move on in the story, i can't give a full opinion on that without giving away 2 or 3 huge spoilers so will have to revisit that when a few have seen it so can discuss more openly.

Okay, thanks, wouldn't disagree with those assessments so it will be interesting where I stand with 1917. Out of interest, did you see Hacksaw Ridge, and if so what did you think?

 

[Wolf]

Okay, thanks, wouldn't disagree with those assessments so it will be interesting where I stand with 1917. Out of interest, did you see Hacksaw Ridge, and if so what did you think?

I've actually been slack there and haven't got round to watching it may do that over the weekend as im off and no golf.

 

[Orikoru]

I ended up watching the first IT film the other day for some reason. Not my cup of tea at all. I don't like horrors anyway, but I'm not even sure this qualifies as one since none of it was scary. The clown only had about 8 lines of dialogue in between floating towards people and trying to grab them. In the end he's defeated by a few children holding sticks. Lot of nonsense.