| Film 2025 17:13 - Jan 10 with 6097 views | E17hoop |
To save polluting the TV thread, I thought I'd start a thread for the films we've seen this year.
I saw A Real Pain the other day and it's a really nicely put together piece by Jesse Eisenberg. It unpeels like an onion, with each layer getting closer to the central pint. Good film.
Babygirl could have been so much better. Nicole Kidman does well but it all feels a bit 'off'.
Rewatched Anatomy of a Fall the other day - brilliant. | |
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| Film 2025 on 10:05 - Jan 15 with 1010 views | robith |
Re: Fifth Element, you're forgetting the randomest British person in and a QPR connection to boot - One Size Fitz Hall is in it! | | | |
| Film 2025 on 10:58 - Jan 15 with 945 views | PunteR |
Watching Alien Romulus tonight hopefully on Disney+.
I'm not expecting too much from it but hopefully its gives a decent account of itself and adds to the mythology and storyline that's currently gone completely off piste with the last few films.
I dont want my Alien films to try and explain to me how the very existence of life and Aliens as we know it was created. Its a completely unbelievable made up theory for a start, and so basically pointless.
Bugs in space on the other hand.... [Post edited 15 Jan 11:31]
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| Film 2025 on 12:12 - Jan 15 with 862 views | robith |
I personally really enjoyed it. Not reinventing the wheel, but it's a fun self contained romp | | | |
| Film 2025 on 12:31 - Jan 15 with 841 views | ChrisNW6 |
Going to see Nosferatu later, looking forward to some horny evil and feeling gross 😁 [Post edited 15 Jan 14:05]
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| Film 2025 on 12:31 - Jan 15 with 841 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
New series called Alian:Earth starts this year, also on Disney +. | | | |
| Film 2025 on 13:30 - Jan 15 with 753 views | E17hoop |
This - more like Alien than any other of the sequels or prequels. | |
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| Film 2025 on 14:01 - Jan 15 with 719 views | GaryT |
I've just watched the trailer for River and it reminded me of "Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes". I then saw in the comments that River is the director's bigger-budget follow-up to it so if you haven't seen it yet it's worth a watch.
Demi Moore looked great in Landman which is another great series staring Billy Bob Thornton, (following on from the excellent Goliath).
I was recently introduced to a series called Love, Death and Robots which, having only seen 2 very short episodes (about 12 minutes each) looks right up my street.
*edit* Just realised the thread is about films and not TV series. Never mind, I'll leave them here anyway. [Post edited 15 Jan 14:03]
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| Film 2025 on 14:21 - Jan 15 with 682 views | W4Hoop |
So agree about Zone of Interest - one of the best films I've seen in years. Both it and Anatomy of a Fall star the incomparable Sandra Hüller. and both were nominated at last year's Oscars.
I had my doubts about Conclave - I don't think a truly degenerate institution like the Catholic Church should be played for entertainment - but the film looked stunning. A certainty for Cinematography. | | | |
| Film 2025 on 09:22 - Jan 16 with 539 views | PunteR |
Alien: Romulus.
It's been Disney'ed up a bit hasn't it.
It looks great, but it felt like a montage of all the good bits of Alien and Aliens. I can overlook that, I loved those films, and it genuinely felt like you're back in that world. But the one thing that bothered me throughout was kids as the main characters. They looked about 14, taking on Zenomorphs and it just seemed ridiculous. Imagine Hicks giving Newt a pulse rifle in Aliens and she goes around blasting these things. Stupid.
So yeh, an obvious Disney agenda to get a younger audience involved and giving their new TV series Alien:Earth more viewers.
Apart from that, it was ok. 3 stars. Would have been more if they had some proper grown up characters, that at least would be old enough to have a pilot licence and military training ,let alone flying space ships. [Post edited 16 Jan 9:23]
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| Film 2025 on 10:15 - Jan 16 with 483 views | dmm |
Zone of Interest is a truly exceptional film, and Conclave is outstanding too.
I don't think you can raise your doubts regarding Conclave while praising Zone of Interest. The Catholic Church is an appalling institution, as the film shows, but of course that's also true of the Nazis. | | | |
| Film 2025 on 16:09 - Jan 16 with 379 views | W4Hoop |
That's a fair point, dmm. Until you pointed it out, I had not seen my potential inconsistency. In mitigation I would say that (leaving aside a few contemporary headbangers) the Nazis are universally condemned as evil, whereas the Catholic church purports to be a force for good. Conclave is a story of unscrupulous power politics in an institution which claims to be holy, caring and compassionate. The Nazis never claimed to be any of these things.
Conclave and films like it (The Two Popes, Doubt) rely on putting lipstick on the pig. They ultimately try to find the good in the Catholic church. Zone of Interest doesn't look for good in the Nazis. Everyone knows there isn't any. | | | |
| Film 2025 on 16:19 - Jan 16 with 372 views | dmm |
And you make very fair points too, W4Hoop.
Both those films stayed with me for a long time, particularly Zone of Interest. Its portrayal of the banality of evil, as Hannah Arendt put it, was truly shocking. | | | |
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