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The original Rate the Last Film you Watched thread got pretty full to bursting there, poor @omarcomin71 couldn't even open it, so I've locked that one and started a brand spanking new one. The original thread is still available to read here if you're ever looking for something to watch - Now, on to the reviews
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I am listening to my wife and an employee of ours discuss a soap opera that is on tv like it's real stuff. I need a bucket of sand to bury my head in.
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What can't you miss? What shows from the past did you love? It's walking dead for me
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I am a huge movie/ cinema fan. I scrolled through this forum of "off topic" and didn't find anything about movies. So I thought I would start my own. I thought this might be a great way to share amazing movies with each other or to divert others from wasting their time with a terrible film. It is also a great way to get a look into each crew members psyche buy which films they are a fan of. Rate the movie with a total of 5 - being the best movie you have ever seen in your lifetime, to a 1 - worst movie ever. *NO SPOILERS* Rate the film but leave the key details out for those who have not seen it but may now want to see it due to your recommendation. I guess I …
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The Clone Wars is back and so is Jedi Ahsoka Tano. As fans celebrate her return in this beloved animated series, they may have an even bigger moment to look forward to this year. According to Slashfilm, Tano will also appear in The Mandalorian's second season, which is slated to air on Disney+ this October. Since this is a live-action show, Tano will be brought to life by actress Rosario Dawson from Rent, Daredevil, and Eagle Eye fame. Dawson has long played along with fans requesting she be cast as Tano in a show. Now it appears to be happening. Tano was first brought to life in the animated series by actress Ashley Eckstein. Tell ‘em! #AhsokaLives https://t.co/n4d…
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With the Episode IX trailer dropping last week, the Mandalorian series on the horizon and the Jedi: Fallen Order on it’s way there is a lot to look forward too from the Galaxy far far away... whatever your thoughts on the influence of Disney.
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UFC
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After a quick search of our website I did not see a UFC thread. So, I thought I’d start one. 🙂 This made me happy… IMG_1060.mov
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Friday the 13th
by omarcomin71- 2 followers
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I can’t believe there hasn’t been a topic on the movie Friday the 13th. Only the greatest horror movie series of all time! I was only nine years old but clearly remember the trailer and when it was released in theaters. And that soundtrack, Creepy! Also my mom‘s reaction when she came back from viewing it. Scary stuff! The sequels would later get a bit silly but in the beginning it was quite different. @Con brought this to our attention that it’s the 40th anniversary of this classic slasher film.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015: XDBX Showdown 1 2
by Fido_le_muet- 1 follower
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Building Bridges Yep, it's that time of year again! It's kind of a big thing here in Europe but for some reason, the hype never crossed the french border Anyway, I know a lot of us european will follow the results. To spice things up, I thought it could be fun to host some sort of competition among those of us who live in a country participating in the contest. I did the math and at least 40% of the crew lives in a participating country. First: some ground rules. Time and Date : Two semi-finals will take place on May 19th and May 21st. The final will take place on May 23rd at 9:00 pm GMT+2 (I think) Participati…
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Actual art?
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So since this is Arts and Entertainment forum, is anyone into actual art, stuff like Picasso, Van Gogh, da Vinci?? I am not and I do not get what makes some "works of art" worth so much, especially Picasso. Jesus fuck I feel like I could throw paint at the wall and come up with better art than he did. I have known a couple professional artists, and they are weird a bit. The oddest was a Canadian lady, very nice but had an odd way about her, and it really isn't anything I can just say this or that was odd about her, just a whole package thing. And to be honest I am bit disappointed in our crew Canadians, she was way more stereo typical than you lot …
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Must-See Documentaries
by Protocawl- 2 followers
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Most of the documentaries I'll be posting here are ones I feel basically every human being in the present day and age should see (especially the first one: HUMAN). If you were to ever only watch a handful of documentaries, then (some of) these should probably be on that list (will be adding more in the near future). If you were to ever only watch one documentary (series), it should definitely be "HUMAN". If you haven't seen any of these documentaries, then I highly recommend watching them. Some of these documentary films will be entirely available to watch here, others will have to be found elsewhere. Feel free to post any other documentaries that you …
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Guess The Movie Quote 1 2 3
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Guess what movie the quote is from. Bonus point for naming the character. The member with the correct guess will post the next quote. Or give the opportunity to another member. The quote giver will confirm the correct answer. If a new quote hasn't been posted within 3 days, I'll post one to get things going again. A leaderboard will be kept to find RSC's ultimate film nerd. Guessing the movie gets you 2 point with an additional point for naming the character. Only the first member with the correct answer gets the points. If that member doesn't name the character and another member does before the answer is confirmed, the latter will get the bonus point. And…
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Lime's Book Reviews
by LimeGreenLegend- 2 followers
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I'll be posting short reviews of books I read here, mainly so I have somewhere to put down my thoughts. I've just finished my first book of 2019 so I'll start there. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938) Hale is a reporter who knows he is going to be murdered. He hangs out in the crowds of Brighton Pier for safety. There he meets Ida Arnold, a kind, caring woman who can see he's in trouble but doesn't know why. After being separated for only a moment he is killed by Pinkie, leader of a gang based around the racetrack, in revenge for the murder of his mentor. This happens within the first few pages and launches you off on a brutal tale of murder, obsess…
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Watching International TV Channels 1 2 3
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Here I watch tv channels from around the globe and share highlights with you all cause quarantine and stuff. Lets check in with the country of Oman...check this guys sword out. Final Fantasy size, and he is sitting down giving an interview: This was one of their Energy Drink commercial I think... Then I headed to Sweden and got this ad and i think its for companies that support XDBX and those that do not... On TV4 I got some information about the CoronaKrisen, it was very informative... One small observation @Lann, all the correspondents were …
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Upcoming Film Releases
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Excited about an upcoming film? Why not post a trailer here?! Here's a selection of what I'm looking forward to over the next couple of months.
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RIP Enio Morricone
by djw180- 1 follower
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The composer Enio Moriconni had died (aged 91) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53305397 He was probably most famous for the scores spaghetti westerns. I remember him most for the Untouchables, The Mission and Cinema Parridisso. I can't imagine those films without his amazing scores. They really were as integral to the film as the actors and the plot. Truly one of the all time greats of cinema.
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Joker
by LimeGreenLegend- 1 follower
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Just saw the first trailer for the upcoming Joker film, and holy shit it looks amazing! It was gonna take a lot to take Heath Ledger's Joker off of the top of the pile but this looks like it could do it. I didn't know much about this film apart from the fact that Joaquin Phoenix is playing the joker, which is a good start. I did some research and the story was hugely inspired by The King of Comedy, one of my favourite films. Joker also stars Robert DeNiro as a talk show host, which is funny because in The King of Comedy he plays a comedian obsessed with a talk show host. Anyways, this is now one of my most anticipated films, just from this trailer.
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If you like RDR2 you will like this show
by pete_95973- 2 followers
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Even if you have never played RDR2 and don't want to, you will like this show. Three seasons on demand HBO/Amazon Prime. It did not get a proper ending but finally this year they are making a movie to wrap it up. I highly recommend. I just started my rewatch last night.
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Arty Stuff
by doubleg213- 16 replies
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Something that I am sure the likes of @Paulie @JuniorChubb may be interested in and I am sure a few others will be. Thought this might be somewhere to share things anybody is working on, be they hand drawn/painted or digital or somewhere just to share various arty things you may find and be interested in. First up from me, something I found via Behance, the guy does artwork by hand and then reworks them in Illustrator and/or Photoshop and does limited run prints of movie posters amongst other things. https://www.behance.net/Anzelmgabz The level of detail he gets is stunning.
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What Are You Reading? 1 2
by LimeGreenLegend- 2 followers
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Reading for me is my absolute favourite hobby, even more so than video games. So I thought I'd start a little place where we can all share what we're currently reading and maybe get some good recommendations Right now I'm about halfway through The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch and its really starting to get good. Like a lot of her books she cranks up tension over a situation for the first half or so of a book, than has a big breaking point to spur the second half on, and I just reached that point so things are getting pretty heated! Anyone else reading something particularly good at the minute, or just want to share your favourite books/authors?
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Bringing this playlist back to life. We all enjoy different stuff. If we all add a new or old favourite track every now and then we will see a interesting collection grow. Lets keep it one or two tracks each per week, that way we all get new quality to listen to every week? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18FoozXR9oFq0IfNGq91gc
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Tiger King
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If you are locked in the house with Netflix and haven't watched Tiger King, you're doing quarantine wrong.
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The Warriors
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I loved this movie. Especially after experiencing the deep lore of the game, I think this is a hell of a great ride. Not sure if it's better that I played the game first or not, but I feel I got a deeper understanding of the gangs in the movie. What do you all think?
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Jaws 3. I was 7 or 8 when this come out, I had not yet seen the first 2. This was only the 2nd movie I had seen in a theatre and it was in 3D and I remember I freaked during th movie, I don't know if I would have done better if we weren't watching it in 3D.
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The Last of Us writer/creative director Neil Druckmann and acclaimed Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin are teaming up for an HBO series based on the hit video game. Naughty Dog president Evan Wells and Carolyn Strauss (executive producer of Chernobyl, among other HBO properties) will also serve as executive producers, and the TV series will be the first from PlayStation Productions. "Neil Druckmann is without question the finest storyteller working in the video game medium, and The Last of Us is his magnum opus," Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter. "Getting a chance to adapt this breathtaking work of art has been a dream of mine for years, and I'm so honored to do it in p…
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241Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #175 (May 5-11) BlacKkKlansman dir. Spike Lee/2018/2h16m BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee's biopic of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), who in 1972 became the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Not long after he becomes an undercover officer and is able to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan over the phone, his membership being expedited by the Grand Wizard himself, David Duke (Topher Grace). This is a stylish, impactful film that sees Lee utilising all of his trademark cinematic flourishes to great use. The montage of real world footage at the end, something he's done several times, was especially powerful as it featured footage from the white supremacist rally in Virginia in 2017 along with a speech by Agent Orange. At the same time this is also a very entertaining film with some great 70's fashion and hairstyles as well as a brilliant score by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Washington is a charismatic lead whose personality shines through in every scene, something I didn't get from him in the only other performance I've seen of his in Christopher Nolan's Tenet. Adam Driver is also very good as Stallworth's Jewish partner Flip Zimmerman, who was the in-person half of their Klan infiltrating duo for obvious reasons. One of Lee's best films, and it has me hyped for his remake of the Akira Kurosawa film High and Low, Highest 2 Lowest (starring John David's father, Denzel), out later this year. 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Longlegs dir. Osgood Perkins/2024/1h41m This 90's set occult horror thriller stars Maika Monroe as FBI agent Lee Harker who is investigating a series of murder/suicides all involving the father killing his entire family before himself. They are all linked by coded letters left by the mysterious Longlegs (Nicolas Cage). Like a lot of horror films dealing with the occult I find that the setup is always better than the conclusion, the recent Heretic comes to mind, and that's the case here. There's a whole thing here with creepy dolls that didn't really work for me, and the puzzle with the letters just feels like a stretch. The film would have benefitted from being much more ambiguous in the final act. That said, I still really liked the majority of this, with Monroe's performance really carrying the whole thing. Cage is creepy in the little screen time he has, but like the aliens from Aliens, the more you see of him the less scary he becomes. I actually started to notice a slight resemblance to Jackie Stallone, Sly's mother, in his bloated, pale face. But his first few appearances are really effective and had me checking over my shoulder. 7/10 Jazz on a Summer's Day dir. Bert Stern/1959/1h22m The only movie by photographer Bert Stern, this concert film documents the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. There are some incredible performances here, my favourites being Thelonious Monk, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson and Louis Armstrong who always steals the show, but what I really liked about this film is the relaxed atmosphere and how the experience of the festival and the people in attendance are just as important to Stern. He often pans away from the stage to capture a random person, and he doesn't just look for people dancing and getting into the music, he just focuses on what interests him like a woman struggling with an ice cream sandwich. I also like how the film progresses through the day chronologically, starting off in the morning with footage of boats taking part in a regatta adjacent to the festival and ending after the sun has set. It really feels like we've spent the day here. Good music, good vibes, good time. 9/10 Film Adventurer Karel Zeman dir. Tomas Hodan/2015/52m (edited from 1h38m) This documentary explores the career of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman whose innovative use of special effects bought to life some incredible films like Invention for Destruction and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Aside from the usual documentary talking heads of people inspired by Zeman like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton and clips from his films, the best thing about this documentary is watching students in a Czech film school trying to recreate scenes from his films using his techniques. Seeing a new generation get inspired by Zeman and marvelling at the genius of his way of creating new worlds was something I wish there was more of. And there may be more of that as I was watching a heavily edited version on Disney+ which is pretty annoying. I don't know what was edited out, or why, but I feel a little short changed. Despite that, I still enjoyed stepping back into the magical worlds of Karel Zeman, and highly recommend the two films I mentioned above, particularly Invention for Destruction which is also known as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. 7/10 Yakuza Graveyard dir. Kinji Fukasaku/1976/1h37m Tetsuya Watari stars as renegade cop Kuroiwa in this Japanese crime thriller from a director best known in the west for the incredibly influential film Battle Royale. The plot sees Kuroiwa playing two warring crime families, the Nishidas and the Yamashiros, against each other. When he learns that his superiors are involved he takes matters into his own hands. This is a bleak and gritty film shot using handheld cameras that really adds to the chaotic tone and it matches Kuroiwa's character perfectly. This is a lot like Dirty Harry but with a lead character that's much more intertwined with the world he's trying to bring down. This is represented by his intense relationship with Keiko (Meiko Kaji), the widow of a gangster that he killed. Watari and Kaji are both great in the lead roles, their scenes together conveying a sense of doomed hopelessness. Despite some exciting action scenes this is a film that remains downbeat to the end, but after spending time with Kuroiwa you know that he's only going out one way. 8.5/10 Two short films by Georges Méliès: The Pillar of Fire 1899/1m The Infernal Cakewalk 1903/6m These two films from Georges Méliès see him take on what seems to be his favourite role, a playful, impish devil. The first film sees him as a green skinned demon who conjures an angel. Using her wings she conjures a clous of holy smoke that defeats him, before she herself disappears into thin air. The second, more elaborate, film is set in hell where a big dance party is in full swing, with Méliès as the devil bursting out of a cake to bust some moves of his own. Wanting to know what the title meant I looked it up, and a cakewalk was a dance competition plantation owners would make their sl*ves participate in, with the winner receiving a cake as a prize. This is also where the term "to take the cake" comes from. Racial undertones aside I liked it more than the first film as his use of editing trickery is much more refined, even just a few years later. I'll give them a combined 7/10- 1
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241Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Outrun (2024) dir Nora Fingscheidt Saoirse Ronan plays Rona, a young alcoholic who returns to he native Orkney (a group of islands off the north of Scotland) after living most of her life in London. It's a bit of an unusual film. It does not exactly have the usual narrative plot. A lot of the time it feels more like you are following Rona about and I think she is in every scene. It's also very nonlinear, moving back and forwards from the present, in Orkney, her childhood there too, and then at least two different periods in time in London. Rather like Kate Winslet in The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you can tell which part of the time-line you are watching from the colour of Ronan's hair. But at first it does take a little getting used to. There is a story though. So we see her before she became addicted to drink, then the effects on her relationships as she becomes an addict through to her attempts to get help and then deciding she has to leave London and go back home, where there's less nightlife, but still obviously there is drink available. And there's tensions with her parents, who are separated, with her father also battling his own problems. There is a lot narration from Rona as we hear her thoughts on various bits of Orkney folk-lore, history, natural history and weather, some of which overlap. In particular there is the myth of the Selkie – people who drowned and turned into seals. It's good, and Ronan is great in the lead role with pretty decent support too. There are plenty of easy-on-the eye scenes of the Orkney landscape, sea, sky and the seals. But I did find it a little too long at nearly 2 hours. I have nothing against a film being that long or longer, if that is what is needed to complete a good story, but this felt like it didn't need to be that long. 7 / 10- 1
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