You absolutely nailed him in one sentence.

One of my tutors has been really recommending David Lynch's films to me so I've watched Blue Velvet and Lost Highway over the last few days and absolutely loved them, Mulholland Drive is next. Lynch seems bat shit crazy but his ability to create genuinely disturbing heart in mouth type suspense is amazing.

This.

Nothing special.

Let it go, man

I watched Frozen without hearing the hype, and loved it. I think peoples expectations largely determine how much they enjoy it.

Foolem - saw the lego movie last week too, loved it! Everything is Awesome! My nephew nearly died when he saw the IRL lego in the basement, he's so jelly :lol:

Finally watched Frozen on the weekend, not worth all the wanking people went on about it.

-PB

Also saw the LEGO Movie a few weeks back, really liked it, probably the best animated film since Toy Story 3

Saw it yesterday - equal favourite marvel movie with Iron Man.

Went to see Noah last night. I loved it. But I went with a bunch of people from church, and they honestly ruined it for me when we discussed it afterwards. (I wouldn't consider these spoilers, so don't get worked up if somehow you didn't know this but were still keen to see it) Basically, the people I went with could have sat in there, saw the rock-monsters, left the movie, and had the same view of the movie in general. All I heard them say afterwards was "so they took the idea of a flood, they took the idea of an ark filled with animals, and they used names from the bible, and that is the ONLY way in which it aligns with the storyline in the bible. The messages don't even align, and there were so many innacuries it made the movie shit". I call horseshit on that. I straight up asked them "OK, if you disregard the rock-monsters, disregard the fact that Methusala (sp) wasn't around then, and disregard the fact that the number of people on the boat wasn't aligned to the bible (apparently because the two younger sons didn't have their wives with them was a major story changer that affected their views on it majorly) - what is the central theme, the message, that the bible attempts to give from/about the Noah story, and what was the central theme/message the movie gave? If you get it down to bare bones, and ignore the Hollywood-ification of the movie, what is different between the two?". For ages they umm'd, ahh'd, and barely answered. My mrs was in my court, she agreed with me, but she was trying to stay neutral so answered the question as best as she could. The group came to the conclusion that the story in the bible was to show that God wanted to restart the world, as he did many times before Jesus, and that Noah was under his every command and did what was told of him - so the message was to trust in god that his decisions are what is best, and always listen. TBH I've barely looked into the Noah story (well properly, at least) and can only assume a group of bible-studying young adults at least drew a conclusion about a story that is slightly accurate, so I'll assume that message is what the bible tries to give. That message is exactly the same as what the movie showed FFS! One of the harshest things they critizised was how mean/angry/murderer-esque Noah was portrayed - that was how they showed that he was under Gods command, doing exactly what was told of him regardless of how he personally felt. Some didn't like the fact that Methusala (sp?) was there - he only strengthened that message, by showing that while there is good in the world it was ultimately up to Noah, under the guidance of God (or The Creator, as said in the movie) to make the decisions. Apparently Noah in the movie working out what he needed to do via going to Methusala was a complete disgrace, as opposed to God just telling Noah in the Bible - who cares, the movie would have been shitter if it wasn't Hollywood-ed up. And the rock-monsters - without them, there's no fight scene. Without them, there's no heartwarming moments. Without them, the movie is worse.

My group came to the conclusion that the movie is only detrimental to "the christian cause" because it so wrongfully portrayed the story, and if you're going to tell stories from the bible they have to be as-written or not told at all. I call horseshit - there's no such thing as bad press. There'll be a bunch of people who will at least enquire into looking more into the bible now, to see how accurate/innacurate that story was as well as find others that were as crazy, interesting, etc as the Noah one.

Also I had to :lol: at the stab at Creation vs Evolution that movie had. There was a scene where they kind of had a massive fxxx you to Creation, by pretty much showing evolution from a fish through to a human. I am the worlds biggest fan of evolution (for reasons that I think are obvious) and all I did was laugh at what was quite clearly a severe amount of butthurt around the globe when that scene happened :lol:

Saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night. So fucking good.

Captain Phillips is amazing

Bits and pieces. Haven't read the full thing. Too many books on the to read/to finish list. I tend to find American history books/books with a very strong American flavour a bit boring

Have you read the book zim? Worth reading?

I think Pitt has earned himself the opportunity to play the good guy. I think that scene, especially where he asks him to write the letter adds to the emotion surrounding his plight. Read a report though that some of the scenes were changed from the actual book. Patsy never asked to be drowned apparently. That meeting was actually by the master Ebbs and not Patsy.

I think some silent scenes can be quite poignant and strong if done correctly. I just think now they trying to overdo them and it just often devalues the impact they can have. The first sex scene with the slaves is one I didn't get. It wasn't in the book too and actually is a bit of a problem as it tends to show that he was unfaithful to his wife, something I thought about when I watched the movie but later realised was not true.

I liked Cumberbatch (and looooooove his name). But Pitt was IMO just a bit OTT and seemed to me that it was just Pitt himself pushing his ego, wanting to be seen as the good guy.

Good actors like how I saw Nyong'o, Ejiofor & Fassbender, give enough emotion & feeling to make the silent scenes insanely intense and heart-stirring. I quite like some scenes where the camera is just fixated on their face, silent, as the silence is message enough IMO.

Agreed Captain Phillips was amazing.

I watched Dallas Buyers Club last night. I don't think I should ever download a list of high-rating drama movies & watch them all in a week ever again - way too many feels, life lessons, etc to handle! This week I've watched DBC, Her, 12 Years a Slave. And from it all my head is just a clusterfxxx of emotion, and all I can think of now is eat healthy, value relationships & don't be too reliant on technology, stand up for what is right & value each person equally. I like to think I do this (at least to a certain extent) already, but having watched all these movies over the last week I can't help but hate humanity that tiny bit :lol:

DBC was amazing. Such a great, yet scary, story. A big clap emoticon to Leto - brilliant. At the end of the movie I said to the mrs "no wonder the 30seconds to Mars guy got best supporter" to which she replied (without me interrupting) "oh yeah, I forgot he got it for this movie. Wait, what character was he? WAIT, NO WAY! NO WAY!!!!!!" :lol:

TBH after watching Wolf of Wall Street a month or so back I genuinely believed there was no humanly way possible that Leo couldn't win the Best Actor Oscar. But after watching 12Years & DBC, I can see why he didn't win it. I would say that McConaughay & Ejiofor were neck&neck, and I'd probably say I thought Ejiofor was better, but I can see the respect McConaughay would have earned due to the sacrifices he made to play that role, and am happy he won the Oscar because of it.

Pitt and Cumberbatch were the only parts i actually enjoyed. I find movies a bit annoying now when they have those pointless long silent scenes. Almost as if they are just trying to fill up time or something.

I just watched Captain Philips today. Thought it was much much better than 12 Years a Slave. Found myself often getting disinterested in 12 Years and losing concentration. I would start playing on my phone or something. Captain Philips was damn good. Draw you in and you always expected something to happen. Good debut movie from Hersi.

Hit me like a fucking tonne of bricks when I watched it :lol:

Yeah they were my choices last night and from what I had seen of stuff for Non Stop I figured it was like Taken 3.0 :lol:

-PB

Well that's annoying. Had a choice between that and Non Stop during the week. Picked Non Stop, which was pretty much snakes on a plane without the snakes :lol:

Watched Her last night. That wave of feels!!!!

Saw Three Days to Kill, thoroughly enjoyed.

Trailer didn't do it justice.

-PB

Forgot to add - the only thing I didn't like about the movie was IMO there was 100% absolutely no reason that Brad Pitt needed to be in it. To me, his minor role lessened the effect of the entire movie. If they put some random in his place, it would have been perfect. Pitt was just a random inclusion. I'm led to believe he produced it or whatnot - but srsly there was no need. Someone so iconic shouldn't have played that role.

HNNNNNG. :lol:

That chanting music towards the end sounds like it was from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Love the Oscars time. All these movies that I've heard/read about through the year that either the Mrs didn't sound keen on or we didn't get the chance to see, she sees them nominated and says "we should watch that".

Watched 12 Years a Slave last night. No words for how much I loved it.

The cinemasins take on the 1998 godzilla is hilarious

Don't be hating on the 1998 Godzilla. Best comedy disaster movie, ever!

It bombed because it was an awful movie which basically shat on the entire Godzilla lore up until that point, in favour of making a cheesy american action movie. If it had been labeled anything but Godzilla, it might have been decent. As it is though, it was deservedly shunned.

What never made any sense was how the early 2000s release of Godzilla, featuring a cast of Hank Azaria (apu from the simpsons) and Harry Shearer (as a news reporter, speaking in Kent Brockman's Voice FFS) bombed at the boxoffice

Glad to see Cranston isn't tarnishing his reputation post BB, I cringed when I'd seen he was cast in this but that trailer is super impressive.

Brian Cranston gave it some Crystal Meth, didn't he.

Jesus man, YOU HAD ONE JOB!!! :lol:

I am suddenly incredibly excited for Godzilla.