[Film] Film 2024

[Albion my Albion]

Just make sure to leave your brain in another room.

Where did I leave that brain? I think I left the right brain in one place and left the left where I just left.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Perfect days, probably one of the best films I have ever seen. My other half says to me let go andd watch a film about a Japanese toilet cleaner. Why not ? The ending scene is beautiful,- absolute genius from wenders

 

[GOM]

Just make sure to leave your brain in another room.

Yeah. I particularly enjoyed the sniper who managed to park his van directly outside airport with a clear view inside of his targets.

Sometimes, in fact most times when I watch a film I like to leave my brain behind. It's a film, it's not real. Remember that old saying suspension of disbelief. Unless you are watching a documentary there will always be a need to accept the unreality. Just sit back and enjoy.

'Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoying its narrative. Historically, the concept originates in the Greco-Roman principles of theatre, wherein the audience ignores the unreality of fiction to experience catharsis from the actions and experiences of characters.]' - Wikipedia

 

[Triggaaar]

Sometimes, in fact most times when I watch a film I like to leave my brain behind. It's a film, it's not real.

But a lot of films are written well enough that you don't need to be a zombie to accept it all, and for me there seems to be a line. By all means use artistic license, but I just felt it became too much of a carry on.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Sometimes, in fact most times when I watch a film I like to leave my brain behind. It's a film, it's not real. Remember that old saying suspension of disbelief. Unless you are watching a documentary there will always be a need to accept the unreality. Just sit back and enjoy.

I will find myself using this through the next 4 years of the US presidency starting January 20, 2025.

 

[GOM]

But a lot of films are written well enough that you don't need to be a zombie to accept it all, and for me there seems to be a line. By all means use artistic license, but I just felt it became too much of a carry on.

I can assure you that myself and all others that enjoyed the film, and many more films that used 'artistic license' such as that great Christmas movie Die Hard, are not zombies

 

[Triggaaar]

I can assure you that myself and all others that enjoyed the film, and many more films that used 'artistic license' such as that great Christmas movie Die Hard, are not zombies

That's exactly what a zombie would say.

I also like the great Christmas movie Die Hard. Carry On is a poor rival.

 

[vegster]

Felt I owed Mrs V a favour so went together to see Better Man at the Connought in worthing.. The biopic of Robbie Williams's rise and fall and rise and fall. The twist is that Robbie is played in the form of a Chimpanzee but surrounded by humans. His reasoning being that he was less " evolved " than those around him and he had built in incapacity to stay on the rails.

Some good moments and some marvellous dancing scenes ( yes ) along the way, loads of cocaine use and the most foul language for a lot of the way through. Don't take your daughter !

It got a bit emotional in places, at one point I could feel myself welling up a bit and had to remind myself I was watching a CGI of a Chimpanzee in a white shirt and tie hugging Steve Pemberton of Inside Number 9 and that this was not normal.

Was never a big Take That / Robbie Williams fanboy beforeand this film has done nothing to change that, maybe 15 minutes too long as it starts to drag a bit, there are only so many times you can see Robbie trash things and wipe himself out with booze and coke before you start losing sympathy. However, the film does touch on the huge amount of sacrifice and effort needed to make it to the top...

I'd rate it as a 7.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

^ Gareth Bale's finest hour since those spectacular CL goals for Los Blancos.

Apparently he's had his flag amended to read:
1. WALES
2. GOLF
3. PLAYING ROBERT WILLIAMS
4. REAL

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Maybe a film 25 thread needed. Saw nosferatu today, overlong poor acting, nothing new on the usual Dracula take. Pretty crap all round 3/10

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Maybe a film 25 thread needed. Saw nosferatu today, overlong poor acting, nothing new on the usual Dracula take. Pretty crap all round 3/10

Agreed, very disappointing considering the director also made the Witch which I really enjoyed and where were the lesbian vampire love scenes which always livened up some of the more hammy Hammer vampire movies. And what's with the ridiculously loud soundtracks which accompany a lot of modern movies

 

[BadFish]

Felt I owed Mrs V a favour so went together to see Better Man at the Connought in worthing.. The biopic of Robbie Williams's rise and fall and rise and fall. The twist is that Robbie is played in the form of a Chimpanzee but surrounded by humans. His reasoning being that he was less " evolved " than those around him and he had built in incapacity to stay on the rails.

Some good moments and some marvellous dancing scenes ( yes ) along the way, loads of cocaine use and the most foul language for a lot of the way through. Don't take your daughter !

It got a bit emotional in places, at one point I could feel myself welling up a bit and had to remind myself I was watching a CGI of a Chimpanzee in a white shirt and tie hugging Steve Pemberton of Inside Number 9 and that this was not normal.

Was never a big Take That / Robbie Williams fanboy beforeand this film has done nothing to change that, maybe 15 minutes too long as it starts to drag a bit, there are only so many times you can see Robbie trash things and wipe himself out with booze and coke before you start losing sympathy. However, the film does touch on the huge amount of sacrifice and effort needed to make it to the top...

I'd rate it as a 7.

Just got back and was really impressed, it was f***ing dark though. I mean I am sure he must have enjoyed some of it

As biopics go though I love that Robbie bares his soul in a similar way to some of his songs.

Take that were shit though and Liam was badly cast/represented.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Just got back and was really impressed, it was f***ing dark though. I mean I am sure he must have enjoyed some of it

As biopics go though I love that Robbie bares his soul in a similar way to some of his songs.

Take that were shit though and Liam was badly cast/represented.

Agree. There’s been a ton of these films about famous pop stars at this point, and this is very near the top, if not at the top, of this particular genre. Very enjoyable, even if they could’ve trimmed 10 minutes.