Last Film You Watched

[McBain]

I haven't seen War, but Dawn was CGI-obvious to me. Too uncanny valley somehow. Took me out of the film.

While the classic films are fairly obviously costumes & make-up (see also 2001), because they're really there they become tangible to the senses. You can suspend your disbelief more effectively because you can imagine touching, even smelling them. They're more real in that sense.

Whether this tangibility-factor is subjective or objective might make for an interesting film-school debate. @McBain

I guess it will become so realistic you'd never notice, but realism particularly with human faces has a way to go before you can't tell the difference. For me it's to do with the weight of the CGI and it's physical presence in a realistic environment. The eyes are getting better but they still haven't figured out peoples mouths yet.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Saw The Shining again last week. Jack Nicholson really was absolutely brilliant in that movie.... Equally though, Shelley Duvall's portrayal of his overly submissive wife was, in a word, annoying.

Still, it's a great movie, and almost 40 years on, still jangles the nerves.

 

[COYBL25]

Saw The Shining again last week. Jack Nicholson really was absolutely brilliant in that movie.... Equally though, Shelley Duvall's portrayal of his overly submissive wife was, in a word, annoying.

Still, it's a great movie, and almost 40 years on, still jangles the nerves.

Nicholson was born to play that part,

One of those films that is equally as good as the book.

Same goes for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

 

[Sharpattack]

Watched Mission Impossible: Fallout at the IMAX. Brilliant.

 

[jaycee]

Nicholson was born to play that part,

One of those films that is equally as good as the book.

Same goes for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Cuckoos nest is one of my all time favourites,try to catch it at least one a year,so many brilliant roles in it, and not shown nearly enough on tv

 

[dholliday]

Saw The Shining again last week. Jack Nicholson really was absolutely brilliant in that movie.... Equally though, Shelley Duvall's portrayal of his overly submissive wife was, in a word, annoying.

Still, it's a great movie, and almost 40 years on, still jangles the nerves.

I actually thought Duvall was very good, from submissive to hysterical panic and finally

Spoiler

to heroic redemption

.

Kubrick famously pushed her until she was genuinely hysterical.

He was a bit of a b'stard, no doubt, but arguably the greatest filmmaker ever.

 

[Philw]

Nicholson was born to play that part,

One of those films that is equally as good as the book.

Same goes for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Isn't The Shining the one that the author hates the adaptation even though it's largely held as one of the best examples of a film being as good as the book?

 

[Little Ralphy]

Watched a few films recently on tv

Ingrid Goes West - 8 - A very good take on social media, really under-rated film.

Blade Runner 2049 - 5 - marked up for Ana de Armas, I just didn't like it. I liked the first one, but I just couldn't get in to this.

28 Days - 2 - awful film, can't decide if it wants to be funny or not.

War for the Planet of the Apes - 9 - what film and what a character they created in Caesar.

 

[COYBL25]

Isn't The Shining the one that the author hates the adaptation even though it's largely held as one of the best examples of a film being as good as the book?

Spot on.

King felt that Kubric had left out many essential elements of the book - the boiler, the hedge animals etc.

 

[dholliday]

Isn't The Shining the one that the author hates the adaptation even though it's largely held as one of the best examples of a film being as good as the book?

Aye, Stephen King didn't like it. He prefers the book-faithful TV-adaptation (which isn't critically-acclaimed).

Kubrick's vision isn't to be faithful to the book, it's to use the book as inspiration-template for his own ideas.

Ideas which are often very open to interpretation (like Lynch). Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001 the novel as he felt most people wouldn't understand the film Kubrick made from Clarke's original story template. In the end both works are masterpieces and complement each other beautifully...you understand what the monolith is.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Watched a few films recently on tv

Ingrid Goes West - 8 - A very good take on social media, really under-rated film.

Blade Runner 2049 - 5 - marked up for Ana de Armas, I just didn't like it. I liked the first one, but I just couldn't get in to this.

28 Days - 2 - awful film, can't decide if it wants to be funny or not.

War for the Planet of the Apes - 9 - what film and what a character they created in Caesar.

I reckon BR2049 is a brilliant film and carries the weight from the first fantastically well. I'd also disagree on 28 Days though it's a few years since I've watched it and I'm not 100% on how well the final act holds up.

No argument about the character of Caesar though. Not sure War is a 9 as I thought it sagged a little in the middle with the whole Great Escape thing but it's definitely a very satisfying conclusion to a brilliant trilogy.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Watched Mission Impossible: Fallout at the IMAX. Brilliant.

Would not having seen any of the previous MI films detract from it? I'll probably catch it anyway.

 

[navidson]

Incident in a Ghost Land

Disappointingly generic jump-scare horror - Not a patch on the director's previously brilliant twisted horror 'Martyrs'

 

[Sharpattack]

Would not having seen any of the previous MI films detract from it? I'll probably catch it anyway.

Not really. The beauty of this is as it's a Mission Impossible film they get all the exposition out of the way in the first five minutes using the set-up which was used for years in the TV show "this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds"

 

[Prevenger17]

Equally though, Shelley Duvall's portrayal of his overly submissive wife was, in a word, annoying.

I thought it was a pretty incredible performance tbh