Spinnaker1981 974 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Ok, just starting now to watch 6 Underground by Michael Bay... And I am absolutely amazed at how bad the continuity of the car chase is! You can see the back window of the car being smashed, but you can see it smashed way before that, and you can see it intact right after being smashed... The rearview mirrors are smashed and (in a beautifull slow motion sequence), but are intact right after that and stay intact for a while. "We have a BMW on our tail" but the BMW appears way after that statement and after we see several cars being destroyed. The bullet holes on the back of the car are there, then disappear, then are there again, then we see it being shot, then disappear again... its so silly!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Spinnaker1981 said: Ok, just starting now to watch 6 Underground by Michael Bay... And I am absolutely amazed at how bad the continuity of the car chase is! You can see the back window of the car being smashed, but you can see it smashed way before that, and you can see it intact right after being smashed... The rearview mirrors are smashed and (in a beautifull slow motion sequence), but are intact right after that and stay intact for a while. "We have a BMW on our tail" but the BMW appears way after that statement and after we see several cars being destroyed. The bullet holes on the back of the car are there, then disappear, then are there again, then we see it being shot, then disappear again... its so silly!!! Holy shit what a fuck up. I mean, that’s real bad. I’m not gonna blame the script supervisor this time for that. I learned yesterday that Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill movie had a budget of $79M!!!! 1 RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 @Spinnaker1981 I mean, it's a Michael Bay film @Con thanks for reminding me Jack and Jill exists ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 13 minutes ago, LimeGreenLegend said: @Con thanks for reminding me Jack and Jill exists ? I know —— isn’t that a motherfuckingly awful fucking fuck of a fuck hole fucking anal cringe shit fucking fuck rot scabby pussy lips of a fucking vomit drinking turd stained hemorrhoid licking fucking movie. Sad part is...I own 2 Blu Ray copies of it. Lmao. RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Con said: I know —— isn’t that a motherfuckingly awful fucking fuck of a fuck hole fucking anal cringe shit fucking fuck rot scabby pussy lips of a fucking vomit drinking turd stained hemorrhoid licking fucking movie. I hate what they did to poor Al Pacino. 1 minute ago, Con said: Sad part is...I own 2 Blu Ray copies of it. Lmao. Burn them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, LimeGreenLegend said: I hate what they did to poor Al Pacino. Burn them! Bro, Al did that shit to himself. He showed up everyday on set. And I own two copies because my wife cannot pass up a sale. I think she paid $4 for both blu rays...lmao. I had no interest on watching it when it came out and when I finally watched it...I took a shower and felt totally ashamed of myself for doing so. Edited January 24, 2020 by Con 1 RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinnaker1981 974 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 you are going to make me watch that. I believe I am going to hate you 2 for this! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Just now, Spinnaker1981 said: you are going to make me watch that. I believe I am going to hate you 2 for this! YOU WILL NOT SIT THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING!! i put money on it. RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinnaker1981 974 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Just now, Con said: YOU WILL NOT SIT THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING!! i put money on it. I probably won´t... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Spinnaker1981 said: I probably won´t... You know how some movie comedies have a “heart”... well, this is all RECTUM, pal. 1 RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Spinnaker1981 said: you are going to make me watch that. I believe I am going to hate you 2 for this! Now we know what next month's film club film will be Edited January 24, 2020 by LimeGreenLegend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 The only time I laughed while watching. And then there’s this: Save our souls. Anyone. 1 RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido_le_muet 5,197 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 The Mrs and I are rewatching almost all of Tarantino's filmography in order. Last one we saw was Deathproof. Pulp Fiction The best to start. A well deserved Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival. I love everything about this film. The movie is cut in chapters that are not shown chronologically. This is cool cause you know what's gonna happen later on and how the characters got there. But at the same time, you wonder if you're gonna see what happened before a certain scene. The thing is you can't know and that's very cool . The characters are awesome. I mean have you seen Vincent Vega ? That guy looks so dumb the entire movie. He just walks around with Jules looking dumb. But he's awesome nonetheless. Love when is on screen. Great acting from John Travolta. And Jules ? Bad motherfucker indeed. So charismatic ! SLJ is the best. Probably my favorite actor ever. The way he delivers his lines ! He is helped by fantastic writing, as usual in Tarantino movies. Anyway we go back and forth and watch these scenes focusing on Jules, Vincent and boxer Butch. Their stories revolve around one another and around Marselus Wallace, a gangster. Every cast member is amazing. The music is fantastic. The dialogues are now known by everyone who's ever watched a movie. It is a cult classic and a masterpiece. No need to say more, I'm sure all of you guys have seen it several times. I love it. Zed's dead baby ! 10/10 Jackie Brown Another brilliant film that I love mostly because of the music and scenario. Pam Grier is the titular Jackie Brown, a flight attendant for a small mexican airline. She's smuggling money for a Compton gangster, Ordell (SLJ). She's caught by ATF agents who want her to work for them to betray Ordell so they can arrest him. Over the course of the movie, she creates a plan to double-cross everyone and leave with half a million dollar. The plot is great. I couldn't find any weaknesses in the plan and everything makes sense. No plotholes. Pam Grier is fantastic, as is SLJ as always. There is also De Niro who plays a sorta dumb ex-con. I loved when he loses it on the parking lot and kills Ordell's girl Melanie. She was pissing him off and kept going and going and going and you coult tell things were gonna go very wrong for her and that RDN was slowly becoming angrier at her and all of a sudden he shoots her in broad daylight ! Fantastic scene. I can't reduce the movie to that single moment but I loved it. The funky disco soundtrack is incredible. Really adds to the atmosphere of the movie. I find it incredibly rare when the music is the key element of a movie. The one thing that brings the film together and makes it stand out over other movies. Guardians of the Galaxy was like that. But I like that it's something rare because when you see a movie like that, you can instantly feel how essential the music is to that feature. Anyway, another treat from Tarantino. 9.5/10 Kill Bill Double movie ! A story of vengeance split over 2 movies, one being vastly superior to the other IMO. It's the story of a bride, member of a squad of deadly assassins who is murdered on her wedding day along with the groom and all the guests. Except she survives and comes back to kill each member of her old gang finishing with their leader : Bill. Again the movie is cut in chapters. One chapter per target. She kills each of them and ends up killing Bill. The end. Very quick summary but that's not what's to note about this movie. Volume 1 starts with the bride paying a visit to Verinta Green aka Copperhead (they all have snakes nicknames) at her suburban home where she leaves with her cute daughter. They fight. Hardcore fight scene but they stop suddenly when the kid comes back from school. She sees that something's off cause the two women are bleeding quite a lot but her mom sends her to her room. They stop fighting for a while and talk nicely in the kitchen but keeping on their guard and you can feel the tension between them even though they engage in calm conversation. Eventually they fight again and the Bride kills Copperhead in front of her daughter who came back to the kitchen. Oof. That was a bit hard. The girl remains silent while the bride tells her that her mom had it coming and that she'll be waiting if she decides to get revenge one day. And she leaves. Then we flashbacks to watch how the bride came back to life. We learn that she was raped several times while she was in a coma. When she wakes up, she kills one of the guys who was coming to rape her and steals his Pussy wagon, a big bright yellow pick up truck She goes to Japan to see Hatori Hanzo, the famous katana maker who creates a blade for her despite being retired and swearing never again to create a weapon. Then it's time for target 2 : O-Ren Ishii, Yakuza Queen. The bride goes to a Tokyo restaurant where Cottonmouth (Ishii) is going with her bodyguards and a few henchmen. The fight breaks out and we get to meet the Crazy 88, Ishii personnal army of katana wielding yakuzas. A bloodbath ensues in the restaurant and the bride kills every last one of them before killing O-ren Ishii. This is one of the most beautiful fight scene ever. It's wonderfully done and the imagery is amazing. It's so over the top ! Everything is exagerated. Fountains of bloods erupts from severed limbs. The killed guards make insane sounds and faces when they die! It's wonderful. It's an enormous amount of violence but the exageration with the blood and screams and stunts and acting makes it very easily watchable, even if you're susceptible to violent imagery. I like how this is the opposite of a previous scene in the movie, where we learn the background of O-Ren Ishii in anime style. We get a flashback sequence when the yakuza queen was a little kid where we see gangsters killing her parents at her home right in front of her. The entire scene is in japanese anime. I felt like I would be detached from the violence because it was drawings and not live action but I found myself very disturbed by the on screen violence. Much more than usual when watching a live action movie. Volume 2 is the continuation of the story. The bride goes to kill Budd (Sidewinder), Bill's brother at his trailer but he knew she was coming and blast her with a shotgun loaded with rock salt. He calls Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake) to sell her the bride's katana. Instead she comes and kills him with a black mamba snake hidden in his trailer. A fight breaks out and the bride plucks out Driver's remaining eye and leaves to confront the final target : Bill. Before that we get a flashback that shows how Bill sent the bride to train with the legendary martial arts master Pai Mei. She goes through hell during her training and Pai Mei ridicules her the whole time but she earns his respect eventually. In the present time, the bride learns that she has a daughter (she was pregnant with Bill's child at her wedding) who survived the shooting and has been living with Bill the whole time. Conflicted for a bit, she still kills Bill with the secret Five Points Exploding Hearts technique Pai Mei taught her and flies off into the sunset with her daughter. The end. Volume 1 is much better than Volume 2 IMO. Vol. 2 feels like a regular movie while Vol. 1 is much more. Everything is better in Vol. 1, especially on the creative side. The anime scene is wonderful and the Tokyo fight scene is incredibly made. Acts 2 and 3 pay homage to classic martial arts movie. Vol. 1 : 8.5/10 Vol. 2 : 6/10 Deathproof Review coming soon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 nice post @Fido_le_muet, I recently watched all of his films too. I won't write any reviews, but here's my personal ranking. (I'm not gonna score them, for me they're all at least 8/10, except Deathproof, and I'm counting Kill Bill as one film, because Tarantino does, and I can't watch Vol. 1 without watching Vol. 2 right after). 1. Jackie Brown 2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 3. Reservoir Dogs 4. Pulp Fiction 5. The Hateful Eight 6. Kill Bill 7. Inglourious Basterds 8. Django Unchained 9. Deathproof 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido_le_muet 5,197 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Deathproof Fun movie but probably the weakest Tarantino. The mostly women cast is great. Special mention to Zoe Bell and Tracie Thoms. Loved them in this. The movie is about Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) a Hollywood stuntman who murders women in his deathproof car. He follows 3 women in a bar, having set his eyes on one of them as his target and successfully claims a lap dance from her after she announced a contest on the local radio. She's reluctant at first but eventually gives him the lap dance. After that they leave but an acquaintance of them agrees to get a ride back with Mike. Fatal error ! There is no real passenger seat and Mike starts driving like a madman. The girl is bouncing all over the place and finally dies, smashing her head on the dahsboard. The car is indeed deathproof but only for the driver. After that, he catches up with the three women and crashes head on into their car, killing all of them instantly. That was probably the most gruesome crash I've seen in a movie. It goes on repeat 3 or 4 times to show us each of them being killed by Mike's car. One has her head crushed by a wheel, the other has her legs severed in the crash (she had it coming putting her feet in the dashboard and through the window like that. I HATE people who do that IRL!). It's a horrifice crash seriously. Felt wrong a little while watching it. Then we move on to another group of women who cross path with Mike but this time it doesn't go as planned for the killer. The girls test drive a Dodge Challenger from a local dude who wants to sell it but he only agrees because the girls leave one of their friend with him, telling him she's a porn star. That was hilarious. Zoe Bell (playing herself) wants to ride on the hood of the car so she does but that's when Mike arrives in his new deathproof car ! He rear ends them and crashes into them several times until Zoe is ejected from the hood. One of the girl shoots Mike in the shoulder so he bails. But Zoe's fine ! So they go after him seeking revenge. A long chase ensues and eventually they catch him and start beating him to death. The end. Fun little movie that pays homage to classic car movies from the 70s. The car chase at the end made me think of the Bullitt car chase. Loved it. The music is once again fantastic, the cast is perfect. Each of these women has a distinct personnality despite knowing pretty much nothing about them. 7/10 We're skipping Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds and Django cause we've seen them many times and/or not too long ago. So next up is The Hateful eight and finally OUAT in Hollywood which I haven't seen yet. I'm excited to do so as I've only heard good things about it and Brad Pitt is racking up awards for his role in this. Should be a treat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 @Fido_le_muet Brad Pitt does magical things with dog food in Hollywood, enjoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Ad Astra dir. James Gray Ad Astra is a science-fiction film about a man who goes on an epic journey to the edge of our solar system in order to find his father, who left on a mission decades earlier before losing contact, and bring a stop to giant electrical storms that are coming from that area and threatening life on Earth. This is a very slowly paced, thoughtful film that isn't in a rush to show you big explosions or fast action, but is more likely to show you surreal, dream-like sequences of space that really makes you feel like you are travelling into the truly unknown. That's not to say there isn't any action in the film, we open with an incredible sequence where Pitt free falls a very long way that had my heart in my mouth. Other scenes that had my anxiety levels rising were the dark side of the moon scene and all of the scenes around Neptune. This is a beautifully shot space film, the deep endless blacks of space make you realise how alone we are on this planet, a big theme for the film. Brad Pitt gives a solid performance, very understated, and Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic as his father, this faraway, elusive figure who still has incredible hold over his son. If you like sci-fi films like Danny Boyle's Sunshine, and Kubrick's 2001 then you'll like this. I know you'll dig it, @Con 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinnaker1981 974 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, LimeGreenLegend said: Ad Astra dir. James Gray (...) 8/10 I saw this movie a coule of weeks ago, and, dispite the excelent footage, I didn´t feel the history was compeling enough, I didn´t feel engaged with it. I don´t compare it to 2001. It lacks the atmosphere of despair of Kubrick´s masterpiece. I would give it a 6/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinnaker1981 974 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Back to 6 Underground... So, according to the movie, the Lamborghini Uros actually appears on a shot that was supposedly shot 1 year before the car was introduced in the market... Its almost like a plane crossing the sky of a shot of Troy... its just wrong! Somebody just screwed up over and over again on this movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con 5,703 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) @LimeGreenLegend I watched Ad Astra a few weeks ago and gave it a short review already. It wasn’t the best story but it wasn’t awful. Just felt the science doesn’t go far enough in certain places. Edited January 25, 2020 by Con 1 RSC FILM CLUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido_le_muet 5,197 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 3 hours ago, LimeGreenLegend said: Ad Astra dir. James Gray Ad Astra is a science-fiction film about a man who goes on an epic journey to the edge of our solar system in order to find his father, who left on a mission decades earlier before losing contact, and bring a stop to giant electrical storms that are coming from that area and threatening life on Earth. This is a very slowly paced, thoughtful film that isn't in a rush to show you big explosions or fast action, but is more likely to show you surreal, dream-like sequences of space that really makes you feel like you are travelling into the truly unknown. That's not to say there isn't any action in the film, we open with an incredible sequence where Pitt free falls a very long way that had my heart in my mouth. Other scenes that had my anxiety levels rising were the dark side of the moon scene and all of the scenes around Neptune. This is a beautifully shot space film, the deep endless blacks of space make you realise how alone we are on this planet, a big theme for the film. Brad Pitt gives a solid performance, very understated, and Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic as his father, this faraway, elusive figure who still has incredible hold over his son. If you like sci-fi films like Danny Boyle's Sunshine, and Kubrick's 2001 then you'll like this. I know you'll dig it, @Con 8/10 Not reading this one cause I wanna watch the movie first. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Fido_le_muet said: Not reading this one cause I wanna watch the movie first. Not really any spoilers in the reviews I write on this thread, just the basic plot synopsis. I do describe a couple of locations though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Queen & Slim dir. Melina Matsoukas Queen & Slim is the debut film from music video and advertisement director Melina Matsoukas, and she has come out swinging! Starring two British actors doing impeccable American accents, Jodie Turner-Smith with a strong film debut of her own, and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Black Panther) Queen & Slim is a dramatic road movie about two strangers on a first date who have to go on the run after killing a cop in self defense. I loved this film, Matsoukas has a real eye for cinema, and she directs with the confidence of a 30 year veteran. This has been compared to Bonnie & Clyde, but this is more like a Greek tragedy where you're just waiting for the consequences of their actions to catch up to them. The script is beautifully paced, giving us time to care about these characters and learn about them without having it spoonfed to us. Kaluuya plays Slim as a goodhearted, quiet soul who gains confidence as the film goes on, and Turner-Smith shows both great strength and incredible fragility as a lawyer caught on the wrong side of the law. This is a very powerful, moving film, at times fraught with unbearable tension, other times bursting with quiet tenderness, and always with a strong social conscience. This is especially seen in how the character Junior and his father both see Queen & Slim, and what that leads to (in one of the most moving scenes of the film, cutting between a love scene and Junior at a protest). Even as a white Englishman I was deeply moved by this film, and feel like in years to come will be seen as an important movie. You should definitely check this out, not just for the message, but because it's also a damn good film 9/10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidCore89 7,402 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 1917 - A solid 8/10. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGreenLegend 4,175 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Fighting With My Family dir. Stephen Merchant Fighting With My Family tells the true story of a family of wrestlers from Norwich, with the 18 year old daughter, Saraya/Paige (Florence Pugh) going on to become the youngest women's champion in WWE history. I had real low expectations going into this. It has a great cast including Nick Frost and Lena Heady as the parents, and it was written and directed by Stephen Merchant, co-creator of The Office, so it has a lot going for it, but it's also a film produced by WWE, who have only produced crap, and the only good film about wrestling I can think of is The Wrestler (2008) and that wasn't really a warmhearted underdog story like this is. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how good this is. It's funny from start to finish without it becoming slapstick, and the story has real warmth and heart without becoming sentimental. The real heart of the story is Saraya's older brother, Zak, played brilliantly by Jack Lowden. This guy had the dream to be a wrestler long before his sister did, and he is so happy when they both get tryouts with the WWE. But when only she gets picked he has a real struggle with his emotions, his jealousy of his sister, trying to figure out if he has any worth if he never achieves his dreams, he really drives the film forward. It is a pretty standard underdog sports film at its core, and it doesn't do anything special to really make it a great film, but everything it does it does well, and I think even if you know nothing/don't care about wrestling you will still enjoy this film for the characters and its heart. 7/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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