Nictarion Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Old thread over 400 posts, carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer 24 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Shock! value of the year award goes to Ronald Moore. Congrats Starz hope you're proud of yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Irradiata Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watching Pretty Ugly People on Netflix. I watched this once years ago and didn't realize what a little gem it was. Re-watching now and loving it...smart, thoughtful, funny, and honest. Melissa McCarthy is nailing it. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Shock! value of the year award goes to Ronald Moore. Congrats Starz hope you're proud of yourselves. Jack you tease :p I'm already looking forward to watching the episode tonight :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I saw Starred Up yesterday. Definitely an excellent film. It's a prison drame starring Jack O'Connel and Ben Mendehlson, about a young highly aggresive convict being moved to adult prison, where he is confronted with his father, who's a high ranking prisoner there. The acting in this film is magnificent. Ben Mendehlson is so great, fans of his work should definitely check this one out (try for a version with subtitles though, the accents plus the prison slang make it difficult to follow some of the dialogue). Despite Mendehlson's excellence, the real star is O'Connel. I remember reading all those articles about him being the next big thing in Hollywood after he had been cast in Angelina Jolie's Unbroken and it made me really curious about him. I skipped Unbroken due to the bad reviews, but now that I have finally seen him in action I'm joining in on the praise. This guy is straight A starmaterial, what an actor. If the rest of his work is as good as this, I'll happily put him in the line-up with Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac and Tom Hardy as the best young (well relatively young anyway) actors out there today. The story was also excellent. I have read some reviews who found the ending a bit disappointing, but I don't really see it. I did think it could have used some more time to work out some of subplots, but not much more. The directing was also more than solid. Strange that this was yet another excellent prison movie. I always read about how that genre has gone completely stale, but between this and the magnificent 'Un Prophète' I think people who claim that should start eating their words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Agree on all fronts, Veltigar, about O'Connel. He really showed how talented he is in Starred Up. The movie was good and not great as I remember but I only saw it once a while ago so I really can't pinpoint the reasons, I'll have to do a re-watch. A Prophet is tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I didn't like Un Prophete that much, but I seem to be the only one. There's a lot of good prison movies out in the last few years, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 A Prophet is tremendous. All things considered this might be my favourite film of the decade. Definitely top three though :) I didn't like Un Prophete that much, but I seem to be the only one. Only one place to go :P http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/129821-ryan-goslings-desirability-and-other-confounding-entertainment-phenomena/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Clay Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watched the Mr. Robot pilot this morning. Edit: Watched it twice this morning. Excellent pilot. Really hope the season (starts next month) holds up. Giving USA it's propers for picking this one up. http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/eps10hellofriendmov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watching Cinema Paradiso at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer 24 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watching Cinema Paradiso at the moment. Did you see my post about Wayward in the last thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 All things considered this might be my favourite film of the decade. Definitely top three though :) Just out of curiosity, of the decade as in 'the last ten years' or of the decade as in 'the 00s'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Just out of curiosity, of the decade as in 'the last ten years' or of the decade as in 'the 00s'? Hmm, I was thinking last ten years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watched the Mr. Robot pilot this morning. http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/eps10hellofriendmov I watched that on Friday. It wasn't bad, the lead (Snafu from The Pacific) did an amazing job. I'll be shocked if we don't have a Fight Club situation though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watching Cinema Paradiso at the moment. Loved it. Did you see my post about Wayward in the last thread? I haven't watched it yet. Dunno if I can be bothered tbh, lol. Might go check if it's recorded on my TV tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Irradiata Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watched Cracks last night. Eva Green does fragile and unstable so goddamned beautifully. :love: The subject matter was very dark but I loved this movie and Eva was mesmerizing. Now I want to watch Penny Dreadful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watched Cracks last night. Eva Green does fragile and unstable so goddamned beautifully. :love: The subject matter was very dark but I loved this movie and Eva was mesmerizing. Now I want to watch Penny Dreadful!Do it! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Watched Cracks last night. Eva Green does fragile and unstable so goddamned beautifully. :love: The subject matter was very dark but I loved this movie and Eva was mesmerizing. Now I want to watch Penny Dreadful! DO IT DO IT DO IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nox Irradiata Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Okay. :D Starting on season 1 tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay B. Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Okay. :D Starting on season 1 tonight!We got another one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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