Topic: Movie thread.

@Snatcher not saying I hate R-rated movies I just like the challenge of finding things. I have seen 2 R-rated things (according to Canada's rating system), The Batman and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

@Rambler the history of age rating is a bizarre one for sure.

@Owl1 Why those two?

The Batman is basically diet Seven so why not just watch Seven. I found it well executed yet a mess due to the director and writer wanting to make different movies. The director wanted to make a story about how Batman battles his anger to embrace being a hero after being focussed on vengeance whilst the writer wanted to make a fallible human story akin to classic Batman stories like Venom or The Cult which ended up with a weird movie about Batman listening to Nirvana and literally calling himself a hero after watching two hours of him repeatedly failing to do anything he set out to do.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles is alright but over something from the long list of the R rated much talked cinema list like The Godfarther, Parasite, Alien, The Shawshank Redemption, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Trainspotting, Die Hard, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Matrix, Goodfellas, The Silence Of The Lambs, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, Mad Max Fury Road, Oldboy, A Fistful Of Dollars, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Get Out, Whiplash, A Quiet Place, Schindler's List, Beverly Hills Cop, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Moonlight, Kung Fu Hustle, Battle Royale, Blade Runner, Enter the Dragon etc etc etc* which are naturally higher on the list to see first for most people seems odd.

*I was tempted to write more to create the biggest block of writing ever but got bored.

@Owl1 I have never seen that movie lol! It’s good you say?

I really don’t mind if someone doesn’t find R rated movies to be there taste, I really don’t, it’s just when people act like there better the every one else and acts like your the problem for enjoying it. Honestly what your doing sounds like it’s working, so keep it up.

@Rambler I can never remember which one is which, was White the one about the guy left by his wife?

I think you've mentioned before you're from The North (but anything outside of London is The North to me) but a good place to see would be The Prince Charles Cinema in LUN-duhn Town as they have shown all of those Three Colour movies before just because they felt like it.

It's a very odd cinema as it jumps all over the place in who their audience is by mixing up arthouse, cult and pop culture films. Like I've seen Q&A from indie darling film makers, they showed The Mummy there not too long ago where Brandon Frasier came out to meet the fans, shown so many obscure arty foreign that even film students complain they are too arty, they hold a Rex Manning Day from Empire Records every year, I went to an all night marathon of the Batman cartoon movies once and have sing along musical showing but now also solve alongs too like Murder She Wrote. They are doing a showing and a Q&A with the director of Evil Dead Rises soon but instead of just buying the tickets I asked some mates if they fancied seeing only to see the tixs sell out by the time I heard back which is a shame as the trailer looks so SO good.

@jump Great to hear the Prince Charles is still going strong, last time I was there was for their regular Rocky Horror nights more than 20 years ago. It was probably the most interesting cinema in central London (along with NFT).

@Rossoverde Yeah Prince Charles is still going, luckily covid didn't put it under as it's far too unique of a cinema to be lost. They changed the writing on the marquee to say "no, we are not chaning our name to King Charles" recently.

National Film Theatre is called the BFI Southbank now, to be honest I've only been there a couple of times and both times it was as part of a film festival a mate worked at. I can't remember what I actually saw but I remember Patrick Stewart was there though.

@jump I went to the Prince Charles to see The French Dispatch last year. Lovely little cinema, wish we had something like that on my little island.

@Bunkerneath Where about are you from?

Fudge not living in a major city, I wouldn't be able to handle it. I need my vast options of places to go, public transport and good internet.

@jump Guernsey, yes yes, people call us tax dodgers, but I was born here. So whatever

Lots of good stuff this weekend.

Ford V Ferrari (Hulu)

Wanting to get into racing in order to entice youth buyers (and to one up Ferrari after a little tit for tat between the two companies), Ford Motor Company teams up with the only American to win Le Mans, automotive designer Carroll Shelby, in order to design a race car capable of besting the Italian car maker in the prestigious event.

A lot of masculine bravado as everyone seems stubbornly intent on clashing with everyone else (Henry Ford II vs Ferrari, Carroll Shelby and his hand picked driver, Ken Miles, vs the suits at Ford, and sometimes each other) and with a lot of fantastic action on the track, it's a very fun movie. Of course probably a bit exaggerated for movie making sake, but an interesting look back at automotive & racing history.

Striptease (Blu-Ray)

This is much better than it has absolutely any right to be.

I mean, I rewatched it because boobs, and... yay boobs I guess (though I'll admit the blonde with the super massive fake ones had even me wincing, & this is coming from someone who enjoys low rent fan service anime), BUT it has some genuinely funny comedy bits, especially from the senator & owner of the strip club. Yeah, they're sleazy, but they're almost always the butt of the joke & Moore's character is almost always the smartest one in the room so I can't say it's mean spirited.

Tetris (Apple TV+)

The core story behind this is actually pretty interesting (the whole unprecedented bit about a businessman trying to strike a deal directly with the Soviet government in regards to licensing a product for sale in the west, especially since he was skipping certain legalities), and as someone who grew up on Nintendo it was cool in general to see the story behind one of the most famous games in history.

That said it got a little silly in the second half when they turned it into a bit of a political thriller (culminating in a high speed car chase across Moscow), but Hollywood is going to Hollywood I guess (over Tetris though, lol). Also no reason this needed to be R rated (I'm not a prude by any means, but this seemed to have over a dozen F-bombs for no other reason then to have them), I mean, it's a story about frickin' Tetris.

Still really liked it though, and it was interesting to watch a movie that largely took place in the backdrop of Soviet Moscow.

InuYasha the Movie 2: Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (Blu-Ray)

Rewatching the series (collecting it on Blu-Ray) and made it to the point where you can fit in the second movie.

Probably overrating it a bit because it's my favorite of the movies in a franchise that's nostalgic for me, but I can't deny I had a lot of fun with it. There's not a whole lot I could say about it that would convince someone who isn't already a fan to see it (though I want to give a shout-out to the fight with the big 3/4 headed sea serpent thing, which was exciting as all get out), but I will say it looks absolutely gorgeous on Blu-Ray. I had purchased the digital version a few years ago on Amazon, but it seems like the quality of it really dips at specific times (it wasn't a buffering issue, and is an issue across all the InuYasha movies digitally), yet the BD is absolutely crystal clear and almost looks like a contemporary release in terms of quality (the first movie looks better on BD as well, but it seems like this one's conversation is above & beyond). Hope the last two films are updated to this standard.

@Bunkerneath Ah, I was hoping you were from Isle Of Wight. I went to the festival there a few years ago and I remember seeing a road sign about a zoo with just monkeys and owls so I was hoping to go there in the summer to see it (plus the beach) and was looking for some local tips.

@Rambler it's been years since I saw them so they aren't fresh enough in my mind to weigh in which was one was best but I would love to see people argue over them the same way the bitter fans do about Star Wars!

@jump It's not like I'm not gonna watch R-rated movies, right now I'm just going through a phase.

@Owl1 I meant more why did you pick those two to see rather than why are you not aren't seeing other films.

@jump To explain the first one, it's Batman and I wanted to see Batman. For the second, I'm a big fan of both Steve Martin and John Candy and had never seen that movie since it was R but after learning it was PG in the 80s and changed to an R in rereleases just because of one scene I watched it finally.

I wanna watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Matrix, and Schindler's List sometime in the near future though.

@jump I have seen a few TV-MA shows, but that's TV and not movies.

@Rambler such a great film, I love all the details like the Joker's mustache that was painted over. It also has great logic, Batman runs into the tavern with the bomb and takes minutes to clear the place out without knowing how long the bomb had and could have killed dozens of people.

10/10 would shark spray again.

@Rambler I’m now curious if I was that drunk I had confused the garlic festival for the music festival so I didn’t see Prodigy and Fleetwood Mac and had just watch some Morris dancers and a bandstand instead.

This looks awesome

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN 10 YEARS YET!!!