Film 2018

I predict that Jurassic World is going to be the movie I hate the most this year.

Has anyone seen all the money in the world

Finally seeing Molly's Game tonight.

The plotline in Lady Bird where(it's not even really a spoiler) the main character pretends to be rich and cool so the cool kids accept her and her sidekick is hurt by this is so dreadul. I'm not sure why thought including this super cliche trope was necessary.

Overall, I didn't really enjoy it. I'd give it a 4 or 5/10.

I saw John Wick 2 and The Last Jedi in 2017. Those are my top 2 2017 movies.

In 2018, I guess I want to watch Ocean's 8, whenever it is available digitally.

By RATHasReturned Go To PostFinally seeing Molly's Game tonight.

I give this move the highest rating possible.

By Randolph Freelander Go To PostI saw John Wick 2 and The Last Jedi in 2017. Those are my top 2 2017 movies.

you should watch more movies then

Dunkirk has to be one of the most impressive 4K releases out there, absolutely incredible.

By Elchele Go To Postyou should watch more movies then

I saw a number of movies for the first time last year, ranging from Casablanca to Moana, just not much from 2017. I don't go to the theater basically ever (exception made for TLJ).

I saw I, Tonya today. Solid to Good performances from everyone but the sum of its parts was just ok.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

wat

By n8 dogg Go To PostThe Killing of a Sacred Deer

wat

I know right
it's incredible

Just saw a teaser for this:


Domhnall pls. What are you doing?

I dunno if it's the Margot Robbie factor or not, but it's crazy to me that Hollywood is doing everything in their power to redeem Tonya Harding. Am I really to believe she was so stuuuupid to not realize what her husband and her 'bodyguard" were up to? come on now.

By n8 dogg Go To PostThe Killing of a Sacred Deer

wat

No movie last year shocked me like Sacred Deer, very crazy ride.

Golden Globe winners:

Best supporting actor in a motion picture (drama)
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
WINNER: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

Best Original Score
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
WINNER: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
John Williams, The Post
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

Best original song
Home, Ferdinand
Mighty River, Mudboumd
Remember Me, Coco
The Star, The Star
WINNER: This Is Me, The Greatest Showman

Best actor (comedy/musical)
Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
WINNER: James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Best animated film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
WINNER: Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best supporting actress in a motion picture (drama)
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Hong Chau, Downsizing
WINNER: Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best screenplay
The Shape of Water
Lady Bird
WINNER: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Post
Molly’s Game

Best foreign film
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
WINNER: In the Fade
Loveless
The Square

Best film director
WINNER: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Ridley Scott, All the Money in the World
Steven Spielberg, The Post

Best actress in a film (comedy/musical)
Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
WINNER: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker

Best film (comedy/musical)
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
WINNER: Lady Bird

Best actor (drama)
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Tom Hanks, The Post
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
WINNER: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Best actress (drama)
Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
WINNER: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Meryl Streep, The Post
Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World

Best film (drama)
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
Call Me by Your Name
WINNER: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Haven't seen Three Billboards yet but I am a big fan of Martin McDonagh so I am glad for him. I thought it would be considered a comedy though (and Get Out a drama).
Didn't seem like a great year

Lady Bird was a comedy? Lol

Saw Molly's Game last night and thought it was really, really good.

dope avi

Tommy Wiseau indirectly won a Golden Globe, incredible.

I really liked Creep 2, it was an improvement on the first one.
Hope they get a chance of finishing the trilogy.

Copped IT today on Ultra Blu-ray.

Really want to get the Nolan 4k collection too. Supposedly they are excellent transfers, and Interstellar in 4k+HDR is probably dope af.

By Smokey Go To PostCopped IT today on Ultra Blu-ray.

Really want to get the Nolan 4k collection too. Supposedly they are excellent transfers, and Interstellar in 4k+HDR is probably dope af.

Is inception included on that?

Yeah

Is The Snowman any good? So bad it's good also counts.

By Smokey Go To PostCopped IT today on Ultra Blu-ray.

Really want to get the Nolan 4k collection too. Supposedly they are excellent transfers, and Interstellar in 4k+HDR is probably dope af.

Dunkirk is absolutely stunning.

By s y Go To PostThe plotline in Lady Bird where(it's not even really a spoiler) the main character pretends to be rich and cool so the cool kids accept her and her sidekick is hurt by this is so dreadul. I'm not sure why thought including this super cliche trope was necessary.

Overall, I didn't really enjoy it. I'd give it a 4 or 5/10.

Yeah, I hated it too. I wrote a bit about in the last thread

Just watch Lady Bird. Really did not like this movie. While I understand the story comes from an emotional real background of Greta Gerwig, it just felt yet another coming-of-age film where the main character have an obnoxious bratty and spoilt brat with building a world around her where we are forced to feel sympathetic towards without giving a reason to. Its sad that all these adults all look at youths with such a contempt because it feels that they just see them as what they portray them in films. The fact that it got 90+ rating on RT is a damn shame, critics are just enabling these directors to make more of these stupid films.

For every great Coming-of-Age films like Edge of Seventeen and 20th Century Women, we get these

Glad I wasn't the only who felt this way. Seeing this movie being celebrated at the Golden Globe was disheartening.

All the Money in the World is a bang average modern-Ridley Scott affair.
Mudbound is truly truly outstanding.

Going to see Molly's Game and Hostiles hopefully this week and expecting tidy things.

Are there any recommendations for good 4K players? Was just gonna get an Xbox One X but the price is steeeep.

By Zabojnik Go To PostIs The Snowman any good? So bad it's good also counts.

It's a complete failure of a movie. But, I had fun with it, mostly from marveling at how poorly executed everything was. Probably helped that its faux Norwegian setting was absolutely hilarious to me, since I actually live in Oslo, and they landed on some strange mixture of attempted verisimilitude and just outright absurdity. I'd say it's worth watching if you find fiascos in filmmaking intriguing.

By WJD Go To PostAll the Money in the World is a bang average modern-Ridley Scott affair.
Mudbound is truly truly outstanding.

Going to see Molly's Game and Hostiles hopefully this week and expecting tidy things.

Are there any recommendations for good 4K players? Was just gonna get an Xbox One X but the price is steeeep.

If you don't want Dolby Vision support, the Sony UBP-X800 and the Panasonic DMP-UB700 seem to be highly recommend by most.

Gutted about the Snowman. Hope Alfredson gets back on it and it proves an aberration.

Seeing Molly’s Game tomorrow, will try and watch Mudbound Sunday night.

When the shit are I, Tonya, Hostiles and Phantom Thread opening wide? What the fuck is the point of releasing films in limited markets? All it does it make me wait and just buy the BD on sale in a few months or forget about the films entirely.

By GQman2121 Go To PostWhen the shit are I, Tonya, Hostiles and Phantom Thread opening wide? What the fuck is the point of releasing films in limited markets? All it does it make me wait and just buy the BD on sale in a few months or forget about the films entirely.

They have to be released in theaters before the end of December to be admissible for the Oscars, it's better to release them on limited markets where they can gather some buzz before releasing them wide closer to the awards.
Releasing them wide in December against Star Wars and Jumanji would be suicide.

Saw Bright. It's not great but I loved the Universe they created and thought Joel Edgerton was good as the orc.
Will definitely watch the sequel.

Lady Bird was great.

The Disaster Artist was fucking great. Now I need to watch The Room again.

That Nolan collection looks tasty btw. As far as 4K players go, the UBP-X800 recommened above here is a good one. If you really wanna step up your game you should check out the CXUHD from Cambridge though. By far the best 4K player I've seen so far. Gutted we stop selling Cambridge at the store.

Just watched How I Live Now. How did no one address the fact that cousins probably shouldn't be sleeping with each other?

By WJD Go To PostAll the Money in the World is a bang average modern-Ridley Scott affair.
Mudbound is truly truly outstanding.

Going to see Molly's Game and Hostiles hopefully this week and expecting tidy things.

Are there any recommendations for good 4K players? Was just gonna get an Xbox One X but the price is steeeep.

I have the LG UP970. There were a bunch that were just announced at CES with HDR10 and Dolby Vision both included.

I'm going to try and see Molly's Game, The Post and Tonya tomorrow. The start times all line up one after the other, I'll so I'll knock three out for the price of one early matinee.

Gore Verbinski has left Gambit, that's the third time they lose the director.
This thing is never getting made.

By LFMartins86 Go To PostGore Verbinski has left Gambit, that's the third time they lose the director.
This thing is never getting made.

Probably shouldn't tbh.

By reilo Go To PostProbably shouldn't tbh.

Reminds me of the Freddy Mercury bio pic.

By FortuneFaded Go To PostReminds me of the Freddy Mercury bio pic.

That's at least an interesting character to make a movie about.

Molly’s Game

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut is in no way an example of a writer completely overextending their grasp; he gets uniformly good performances out of his cast, the film moves at a pace that never feels laborious nor does it overstay its welcome, and it is a story well-told considering it’s one what one can imagine being relatively difficult to adapt in terms of the amount of information required to make this a comprehensive biopic. Unfortunately, that’s where Sorkin’s inexperience comes to the fore; whereas Fincher and Boyle had parsed and pruned ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Steve Jobs’ into compelling character studies, ‘Molly’s Game’ is very much a biopic first. Some lip service to psychoanalysing Bloom comes late in the game, but all of this seems like a way to wrap a pretty little bow on the film and deliver something more than it has been, rather than completely essential to the film.

This one felt a little too writerly in ways; not the stylised Tarantino or McDonagh-esque way, but overly contrived. That was largely due to the narration; Sorkin didn’t seem to be able to find a way into an admittedly convoluted and terminology-heavy story without it, and it ends up playing like ‘The Big Short’ or ‘American Gangster’, one of those Scorsese-like films that trade in the flashy veneer and don’t capture the steaming, bubbling energy and scathing contempt for the actual acts (well, ‘The Big Short’ is made up entirely of people showing contempt, but in entirely artificial ways that McKay could not make sound more like a YouTube lecture if he tried). That word - artificiality - is key here; as mentioned before,?Sorkin’s dialogue and writing is not cartoonish or stylised enough for ‘Molly’s Game’ to become a guilty enough pleasure, but it’s far too detached from reality for the film to ever make emotional headway. Very rarely does ‘Molly’s Game’ create any real emotion; not from anyone on screen (barring some good work from Costner, painting brush strokes in pretty large gaps) and not in Sorkin’s writing, which - to its credit - does not sentimentalise Bloom’s story. Instead, it trades sentiment in for sensationalism.

It’s that which leaves ‘Molly’s Game’ in an odd place: at once a promising directorial debut and yet a disappointment from a writer very capable of better; a film that wants to be every bit as cool as its inspirations but leans a little too much into that detachment. It sails very close to the cinematic version of the National Enquirer articles Molly Bloom hates so very much; all splash and pizzazz, little substance or anything of worth to say.

Despite that, as stated in the introductory paragraph, it’s perfectly enjoyable for its duration and impressively acted from the entire cast, who trade speedball-speeches like they’re poker chips. Chastain grows into the role, overly robotic and unfeeling at first (which serves a purpose) before settling and levying the film with dry humour, and Elba is every inch the noble, pontificating hero, and very good at it too. Both actors could do what Sorkin’s provided them with in their sleep; it’s all surface without much in the way of anything below that.

In the end, a fun way to spend 2 hours at the cinema; its reputation will precede it, when it will be better remembered as pulpy, trashy entertainment that could do with being pulpier and trashier.

New Mutants has just been delayed from April to February of next year. Some rumours say that the movie didn't test well in screenings while others say that it tested OK but Fox wants to do reshoots to turn it even more into an horror movie.

Good Time

What an apt title. This taut, lean thriller is a lot of fun mostly because of a few high-energy performances, chief amongst those being an incendiary piece of work from Robert Pattinson, channeling 'Dog Day Afternoon' Pacino, full of electricity and intense stares. It stretches the notion of one shit day to breaking point once or twice, but it's stylish, kinetic filmmaking with a keen sense of tone and purpose.

By LFMartins86 Go To PostNew Mutants has just been delayed from April to February of next year. Some rumours say that the movie didn't test well in screenings while others say that it tested OK but Fox wants to do reshoots to turn it even more into an horror movie.

I will be pleased, if this turns out to be the case.

Thanks for the Blu Ray recs, lads. At those prices I don't know whether to just wait and spend the extra hundred-odd quid for a One X now the contrast issues are fixed.

By n8 dogg Go To PostGood Time

What an apt title. This taut, lean thriller is a lot of fun mostly because of a few high-energy performances, chief amongst those being an incendiary piece of work from Robert Pattinson, channeling 'Dog Day Afternoon' Pacino, full of electricity and intense stares. It stretches the notion of one shit day to breaking point once or twice, but it's stylish, kinetic filmmaking with a keen sense of tone and purpose.

Watched this last night too.

That ending scene with the credits is really, really beautiful.

Watched The Lost City of Z a few days ago. Enjoyed it a lot, kind of a shame the movie had to condense 8 explorations into 3. Charlie Hunnam was surprisingly good in this movie, although it made me laugh how no matter what happens or how old he got in the movie, he managed to keep his hairstyle the same.

Seeing Proud Mary before The Post. Just sat down. Theater is packed for the first showing. Taraji is a massive draw in Baltimore apparently.

By GQman2121 Go To PostSeeing Proud Mary before The Post. Just sat down. Theater is packed for the first showing. Taraji is a massive draw in Baltimore apparently.

Really? That's interesting. The marketing for the movie has been awful but it might be a surprise hit at the box office.