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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2024 14:09:10 GMT
Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one
God what an awful film. Why I enjoyed these as a kid is beyond me. I think it gets away with how awful it is because of how much it panders to idiots and children who don't know better. Johnny Depp is awful, Orlando Bloom is awful, Keira Knightley is awful (all three as a general rule but especially so here). This film offended me on just about every level. Awful, awful, awful.
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Post by iank on Apr 21, 2024 21:06:19 GMT
I thought it blew at the time and never bothered with any of the sequels.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 21, 2024 21:35:33 GMT
An American Werewolf in London (1981) Great film. Anyone else just want to hang out in the Slaughtered Lamb? I mean, Playing a bit of chess with Rik Mayall and listening to Brian Glover's jokes doesn't sound all that bad to be honest. They can't be any more anti social than the people on here  |
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Post by iank on Apr 21, 2024 21:40:59 GMT
Oh American Werewolf is an absolute classic. Loved it since I was a kid (my Mum covered my eyes during the sex scene lols).
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Post by Ludders II on Apr 21, 2024 22:33:16 GMT
An American Werewolf in London (1981) Great film. Anyone else just want to hang out in the Slaughtered Lamb? I mean, Playing a bit of chess with Rik Mayall and listening to Brian Glover's jokes doesn't sound all that bad to be honest. They can't be any more anti social than the people on here It's in my Top 10 '80s films. Still the best werewolf transformation I've seen. |
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Post by Spark Doll King on Apr 22, 2024 0:53:41 GMT
Watched Flight of the Navigator tonight.
I remember being really weirded out by the film as a kid but this time I found it very wholesome. A fun adventure with some darker themes that never go to far.
My faviort part is the collection of creatures aboard the ship. Even though the strings are visible in some shots, they all look 100 times better then your crap cgi.
Wonder how long it will be till this get the old Disney reboot?
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 22, 2024 10:35:39 GMT
Watched Flight of the Navigator tonight. Wonder how long it will be till this get the old Disney reboot? Oh, don't give them any ideas! I find Sarah Jessica Parker very attractive in this. The notion that she's some sort of notoriously ugly woman is absolutely insane. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 22, 2024 15:52:02 GMT
An American Werewolf in London (1981) Great film. Anyone else just want to hang out in the Slaughtered Lamb? I mean, Playing a bit of chess with Rik Mayall and listening to Brian Glover's jokes doesn't sound all that bad to be honest. They can't be any more anti social than the people on here It's in my Top 10 '80s films. Still the best werewolf transformation I've seen. I'm using the first "Slaughtered Lamb" scene as a basis for my next short story assignment for uni. |
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Post by iank on Apr 23, 2024 7:41:47 GMT
Abigail. A group of criminals kidnap a 12 year old girl for ransom, only to find the tables turned when she turns out to be a bloodthirsty vampire. Saw this at the cinema today - I am a glutton for punishment - and it was... okay. Nowhere near as bad as The First Omen, but has still been rather overrated by everyone going. It had me engaged at some points, but takes too long to get going (esp when they've made no effort to keep Abigail's true nature a surprise) and then goes on way too long with a rather odd switcheroo in the last act. Watchable but nothing to write home about and certainly not the second coming of vampires some have been touting it as.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2024 9:17:44 GMT
Just remembering all those contemporary kitchen-sinkers we'd get shown in film school about dumpy women who couldn't afford their groceries, and we'd have to sit there and pretend it was profound. Why is it that the only apparently respectable mode of British filmmaking nowadays is the fetishisation of the working class by guilt-ridden posh kids who seem to be in a way jealous of the lifestyle they've happened upon? As if the single authentic angle of British society is that of the slums. I don't know whether it's a general cultural malaise or more a sort of severe iconoclasm which eschews the dutiful and venerates reprobates. Gone are the colliers and labourers of 'Grim Up North' films of old, replaced by arrogant council-housers and suburban underdogs whose plights seem to be entirely of their own making, sustained as a legitimate cinematic experience only by aesthetes and cineastes who continue to prop it up as a kind of great exhibition, curiosities on full display for privileged viewers to chirrup about how "relatable" and "down to earth" it is.
This was one of the reasons I left film school. I thought 'there must be more out there than this'.
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Post by rushy on Apr 24, 2024 9:21:22 GMT
I don't know whether it's a general cultural malaise or more a sort of severe iconoclasm which eschews the dutiful and venerates reprobates. Tell me, what do you think of the assertion that the semiotic thickness of a performed text varies according to the redundancy of auxiliary performance codes? |
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Post by iank on Apr 24, 2024 21:14:50 GMT
Um...yes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2024 21:45:27 GMT
Yeah sorry, I was very high earlier and slightly pissed as well |
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Post by iank on Apr 24, 2024 22:52:30 GMT
lol No, I was continuing the quote. That was Sylv's response, wasn't it? lol
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2024 23:07:46 GMT
lol No, I was continuing the quote. That was Sylv's response, wasn't it? lol Don't even remember that being a quote from the show. Haven't watched some of the McCoy stuff for years though |
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