What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by keirarts

It strays too much into the sinister europeans and evil russians stereotypes that some american movies fall into when dealing with some place not american. Hostel skirted it by having an icelandic character feature quite centrally, but here in chernobyl diaries the general assumption is that the russians are pretty much either crooked or incompetent.

Yep, this is what I found to be vulgar and reprehensible about it. Add to this that the lead characters who we are supposed to care about are a bunch of horrible people and you get the impression that the film is just generally misanthropic, but we should naturally be supportive of the non-Ukrainians no matter how awful they might be as people (and they are just dreadful).

Then there's the question of taste in writing a script using a real nuclear disaster as a playground for a shitty low budget film, and for the characters within to use as a tourist sight-seeing resort. I wasn't entirely comfortable with the tone of how this was done. It wasn't an anti-nuclear statement like Godzilla or anything it was just nasty and heartless.

I found it quite objectionable. Plus it's a plain bad film as well. Worthless.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

In the past month I have seen two massive budget science fiction epics from name Hollywood directors.

One was a pretentious barrel of boredom that looked pretty but misfired in every other possible way. The other was exceptionally well made, enormous fun in a glorious old fashioned way and a refreshing joy from start to finish.

The duffer was Prometheus, the joy was John Carter.

Yep, I thought John Carter was a wonderful film. It gave me the same emotional ride as Mike Hodges's 1980 Flash Gordon ie: IT WAS FUN!

Cast were great (I am now in love with Lynn Collins), it looked gorgeous, action scenes were plentiful but never overdone, the greatest integration of CGI and SPFX I have ever seen in a Live Action film, and it did not offend my sensibilities as a big fan of the original series of books.

I loved it. Silly, frivolous enjoyment, the like of which Hollywood seemed to have forgotten how to make in recent years.

I cannot for the life of me work out why it was panned by everyone.

For me it was the exact opposite!!

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Aren't all Europeans sinister and Evil? I thought that was common knowledge?

Aren't all Australians blood thirsty yobbo's?

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Rik

I think it may have been Suzi that said it was racist

Nothing to do with me - I've not seen the film!

[Wes]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Incidentally, does anyone know if criterion are planning to issue a tarkovsky box set? I have heard bad things about the uk set from artificial eye and i'm not interested enough to see them again that i'd fork out the asking prices on the seperate releases of Solaris and stalker.

Not sure dude. Criterion have just three Tarkovsky films - Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev and Solaris, so a box set would be limited to that I suspect. I'm hoping they might be able to put out a Blu of the so called Scorsese-cut of Andrei Rublev, but I heard the print may not be good enough to make a HD presentation of. I have the Russian Blu of the shorter International Cut and it's really a beauty...

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

For me it was the exact opposite!!

And me. I hated John Carter (of Mars) and though Prometheus was really good, but have the BD to watch which will see if my opinion of it at the cinema changes at all.

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

Aren't all Australians blood thirsty yobbo's?

I thought there were two types of Australians: those who are relaxed and like beer, barbecues and surfing, with the rest as (possibly inbred) homicidal maniacs who leer at women and take great joy in terrorising tourists.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I thought there were two types of Australians: those who are relaxed and like beer, barbecues and surfing, with the rest as (possibly inbred) homicidal maniacs who leer at women and take great joy in terrorising tourists.

Type 2 are the Tasmanians. We all make inbred jokes about them

[sawyer6]

Recent viewings,1-14) from the two fine Claude Chabrol box-sets released by Arrow,15)the magnificent,touching 9-hour documentary about the holocaust,16)Brazilian film made in 1981 about the life of child criminals

[mercury]

Tower Heist

[Delirium]

This thread would be infinitely more interesting of people added a short comment/review to say what they thought about the films they watched.