| Film 2025 17:13 - Jan 10 with 5106 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 807 views | robith |
| Film 2025 on 16:15 - Jan 14 by simmo |
Yeah mate I'm on Letterboxd - love watching their clips of 'favourite four' too - but I'm just not disciplined enough to keep it up to date and log things... I find it easier to add it to notes on my phone, but will try and transfer them over when done. Incidentally, and sticking with re-watching old faves...
6) The Faculty - 25 odd years ago I went to 3 separate cinemas when underage to get into this with all my mates before Muswell Hill Odeon had a girl behind the ticket counter that was probably hungover enough to not care. Some insanely attractive people and a fun high school / horror cross-over film.
7) The Fifth Element - much more mental than I remember and the casting is nuts - so many random British people turn up, including Lee Evans which I remember was odd at the time - but I love sci-fi, action, silliness and Gary Oldman, so this is a bit of me.
For those that had The RIver and The Wailing on their liked films, have you seen / would you recommend The Host or Memories of Murder? I have been working my way through asian recommendations and Bong Joon Ho especially, and these are supposed to be his best. [Post edited 14 Jan 16:15]
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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 742 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 659 views | robith |
| Film 2025 on 10:58 - Jan 15 by 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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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 638 views | ChrisNW6 |
| Film 2025 on 10:24 - Jan 13 by robith |
Went to see Nosferatu. I'm an Eggers stan but I loved it. Every shot dripped with menacing horny evil, I left the cinema feeling gross. Sound design and cinematography unreal, incredible physical acting by the central female lead |
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 638 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| Film 2025 on 10:58 - Jan 15 by 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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New series called Alian:Earth starts this year, also on Disney +. | | | |
| Film 2025 on 13:30 - Jan 15 with 550 views | E17hoop |
| Film 2025 on 12:12 - Jan 15 by robith |
I personally really enjoyed it. Not reinventing the wheel, but it's a fun self contained romp |
This - more like Alien than any other of the sequels or prequels. | |
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| Film 2025 on 14:21 - Jan 15 with 479 views | W4Hoop |
| Film 2025 on 00:44 - Jan 11 by Discodroids |
imo best films of 2024.
1.zone of interest
2. civil war
3. Holdovers
4,late night with the devil
5. dune 2 [Post edited 11 Jan 0:46]
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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. | | | |
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| Film 2025 on 09:22 - Jan 16 with 336 views | PunteR |
| Film 2025 on 12:12 - Jan 15 by robith |
I personally really enjoyed it. Not reinventing the wheel, but it's a fun self contained romp |
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 280 views | dmm |
| Film 2025 on 14:21 - Jan 15 by 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. |
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 176 views | W4Hoop |
| Film 2025 on 10:15 - Jan 16 by 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. |
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 169 views | dmm |
| Film 2025 on 16:09 - Jan 16 by 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. |
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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