Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Allison Janney is a talented actress, but before tonight I would have doubted her as a credible action star, especially now that she's in her 60's. However she crushed it in Lou, which came out two months ago on Netflix. Not the best movie though I'd still check it out if the theme appeals to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 True Romance, how come Tarantino didn't make it himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 2:52 AM, Jaxom 1974 said: The Crown certainly does its level best to vilify Diana in Season 5, don't they...? So I've finished the season now and I'm really not seeing this at all. I don't think she was vilified, it just wasn't the usual 100% sympathetic version of Diana we usually get, and I am totally fine with that, she gets held up as a saint far too often, but she was the same as anyone else. I think they did a reasonable job of showing how the relationship between her and Charles could break down. I did like the scene towards the end where it looks like they are going to let bygones be bygones but it all turns sour, that seemed to make sense. On the whole though, I thought this season of The Crown was pretty poor. Maybe it's the time period and the events but it all felt so cheap and tacky and poorly done. Some of the episodes are flat out terrible and very amateur in the way they are shot and put together. The performances on the whole are very good, Staunton looks incredibly like Queenie and Debicki I think gives probably the best Diana performance I've ever seen, making her feel human for once. The treatment of Charles I thought was very peculiar however. It felt like a lot of energy was put into presenting him as this forward thinking man of the people. There might be an element of truth there but hes still a grumpy old git with some old school ideas. Was this all done in sync with his PR dept? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Goncharov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 On 11/21/2022 at 4:19 AM, Isis said: Went to see The Menu last night (love having a decent 10 screen cinema five minutes walk from my house) and I thought it was hilarious. For those of us who lean into the whole tasting notes scene it makes you feel a little bit ?complicit? As a certified beer judge who laps up every episode of Chef's Table I know there is a fine line between being a massive nerd about something you love, which others see as just food or just beer and being a pretentious, insufferable arse who bores people to death in a patronising way. I know quite a few of the former but I know at least twice as many of the latter (we all know they're the loudest). This films hits all the cliches and caricatures we expect to see and in some ways (for a horribly shocking film) it is a bit obvious at times. But I loved it. Love Ralph Fiennes (perpetually), and Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult are good as well. Sometimes things can be satisfying even when they aren't terribly clever, just well done. I can only assume that they must have approached the producers of Chef's Table before they made this because it's far too heavily referenced directly and indirectly for them to just casually utilise the show. As a big fan of tasting menus and a strong hate for overly pretentious people, I cannot wait to watch this. Glad to hear it hit the right notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quijote Light Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 6 hours ago, TheLastWolf said: True Romance, how come Tarantino didn't make it himself I think the story is that he had two or three scripts, but though the studio wanted all of them, they would only agree to his directing one. He chose Reservoir Dogs. I think I prefer Scott’s version with Clarence surviving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Quijote Light said: think I prefer Scott’s version with Clarence surviving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 A few films watched: Notes on a Scandal -- Heard about this on the Screen Drafts podcast. It's a 2006 film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, and it's a tense, terrific little film about a new art teacher at a school (Blanchett) who falls under the eye of the veteran battle-axe history teacher played by Dench. Much of the film is framed by scenes of Dench's character, Barabra, writing in her diary about her acid observations about the school, its staff and students... and about Blanchett's character, Sheba, who gets herself involved in an affair with a 15-year-old student, and how everything plays out. As the movie goes on, you start to realize that Barbara herself is a central antagonist of the film, and the more scenes we get, the darker and darker her character becomes. Good stuff. A Christmas Story Christmas -- Amazing that they got so much of the cast together from the original and classic film, but this one was about as mediocre as one could expect. It was mostly going through the motions. I was very amused by Ralphie imagining himself winning the Pulitzer Prize with his science fiction opus, though, because he envisioned all the nominees standing up on a stage like it was a beauty contest... and up there with him were lookalikes for Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, and Anne McCaffrey. Heh. On 11/21/2022 at 10:19 AM, Isis said: Went to see The Menu last night (love having a decent 10 screen cinema five minutes walk from my house) and I thought it was hilarious. Also saw this at the theatre (it was this or Triangle of Sadness, and I couldn't resist this one)! Loved the film, pitch black satire that it was. Anya Taylor-Joy and Hoult were really very good but like you I'm a huge fan of Fiennes and he knocks it out of the park. It was definitely having fun with Chef's Table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Signed up for Netflix again. The first thing I watched was Enola Holmes 2. meh. Brown overacted the hell out of some scenes and Cavill wasn't given as much to do as I remember from the first movie. However, I liked the historical infusion with the match factory women, not that I'm familiar with the event. And Moriarity was good, too. Then I noticed season 2 of the German show Barbarians was out and started that. I got incredibly annoyed right away when Germanicus was called Germanicus before he actually scored any victories against the GERMANIC tribes, so I quit. Way to screw up a simple historical fact. I may return to the show when I'm in a different mood. But right now 1899 seems to be an intriguing show so I gave that a try. Episode 1 was good and it has my interest. Then I remembered I still need to watch season 3 of Derry Girls so I watched the first episode of that. So much silly fun. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford was simply a beauty, Deakins had a lot of fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Corvinus85 said: I got incredibly annoyed right away when Germanicus was called Germanicus before he actually scored any victories against the GERMANIC tribes, so I quit. Way to screw up a simple historical fact. My biggest problem was getting Robert Graves's indelible characterization in I, Claudius of Tiberius and Germanicus out of my head! For whatever reasons -- which I tend to believe the primary one was the pandemic shut-down, etc. -- this season, like so many programs that have returned post-pandemic after such long interruption, wasn't as involving as the previous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauberk Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Wrapped up the first season of Slow Horses on Apple+ just in time for the December drop of season 2. Very much enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 8 hours ago, hauberk said: Wrapped up the first season of Slow Horses on Apple+ just in time for the December drop of season 2. Very much enjoyed it. Probably my favourite show of 2022. Really love that we only had to wait 7 months for season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauberk Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: Probably my favourite show of 2022. Really love that we only had to wait 7 months for season 2. Picked up the book from the library as well. So far it seems to be a shockingly true adaptation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Person of Interest rewatch - season 4. The Machine runs simulations to try and get the team out of danger, ajd as time runs out, simplifies its predictions of their dialogue… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Its time for an annual rewatch of Penny Dreadful, I will never grow tired of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 25 minutes ago, HelenaExMachina said: Its time for an annual rewatch of Penny Dreadful, I will never grow tired of this Due one too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 I decided re-watch Dreamworks' Home, an animated film they did last year. I had the weirdest feeling watching it. Like I must have fallen asleep the first time around because I did not recognize most of this movie, at all. Still, I liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Wife, mother, and MiL sitting in the other room watching Spirited and I'm again struck by the idea that I actually enjoy just about everything about Ryan Reynolds, except his movies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauberk Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 6 hours ago, Jaxom 1974 said: Wife, mother, and MiL sitting in the other room watching Spirited and I'm again struck by the idea that I actually enjoy just about everything about Ryan Reynolds, except his movies... Watched it with my daughters last night and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it - either it was really good, my distaste for Ferrell (aside from Stranger Than Fiction and Talledega Nights) has mellowed or Reynolds was capable of overcoming that distaste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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