Dawn Wall - OK not a film but a documentary about this goofy kid who becomes the best big wall climber ever ever, gets abducted by terrorists, chops off a finger and goes on to be a better climber than he was before. Inspiring bonkers story. The only glitch, He didn't actually climb the route he planned, his mate did. Probably me not understanding the nuances of climbing, it was just a 'hang on?' moment.
When God said to the both of us "Which one of you wants to be Sugar Ray?" I guess I didnt raise my hand fast enough
Green Book - I really enjoyed this, lovely little tale about a brief friendship in a working relationship between complete opposites. The most bizarre thing to me was, the chauffeur/bodygaurd lived into his 80s!!! What the fuck!!! The geezer was clearly a big fat man, he never stopped eating and smoking.
i thought the same. Great film made a rare outing to the cinema to see that one
Don't bully fat kids - they've got enough on their plate
Green Book - I really enjoyed this, lovely little tale about a brief friendship in a working relationship between complete opposites. The most bizarre thing to me was, the chauffeur/bodygaurd lived into his 80s!!! What the fuck!!! The geezer was clearly a big fat man, he never stopped eating and smoking.
Watched it last night but kept falling asleep, got about halfway through it.
Really good story and really good movie with great acting.
That black guy is a bit good on the old Joanna 👌🏼
Could see why this won Oscars as it appeals to everyone, true story as well.
Original story, decent movie. It seems a bit confusing in parts, but it all makes sense in the end. The last fifteen minutes is very tense as the four main characters come together and their stories become one.
Valley Uprising - Documentary covering the early big wall climbers of Yosemite. A different kind of climbing to what you'd expect from watching Dawn Wall, but bearing in mind they were often pissed the whole time impressive stuff. A running battle between two climbers and their mobs, who could climb what and who could climb it first, and climb it the right way.
Free Solo - Alex Honnold, free solo climber (no ropes) climbs El Capitan. Totally bonkers, totally wired differently to the rest of us. It's a documentary and it's the job of the film makers to sell it and make it as suspenseful as possible, but I think there was a genuine sense of everyone but him shitting their pants. No one really wanted him to do it.
When God said to the both of us "Which one of you wants to be Sugar Ray?" I guess I didnt raise my hand fast enough
Valley Uprising - Documentary covering the early big wall climbers of Yosemite. A different kind of climbing to what you'd expect from watching Dawn Wall, but bearing in mind they were often pissed the whole time impressive stuff. A running battle between two climbers and their mobs, who could climb what and who could climb it first, and climb it the right way.
Free Solo - Alex Honnold, free solo climber (no ropes) climbs El Capitan. Totally bonkers, totally wired differently to the rest of us. It's a documentary and it's the job of the film makers to sell it and make it as suspenseful as possible, but I think there was a genuine sense of everyone but him shitting their pants. No one really wanted him to do it.
Dude those climbing docs are amazing. I see that valley uprising is on Netflix now I’ll prob watch it today
Found new series Black Summer on Netflix. If you're a Train to Busan or Walking dead fan you might get stuck on it. About 3 episodes in and shot well with the whole fast pace multiple perspectives style.
Watched Free Solo last week - yes I got same impression that he was the only one not worried by it all ! I found the actual climb when he did it lacking in suspense after the build up !
This weekend I finally got round to watching Apocalypto - visually stunning, suspenseful and shocking. Highly recommended for those that haven't seen.
Thing it might have been a flop at the time because Mel Gibson was going through his crazy period ?
Don't bully fat kids - they've got enough on their plate
Terrible film, panders to the modern day PC crowd, shoehorns in loads of nonsense and disregards the world and characters that they have spent the last 10 years building, infinity war was brilliant, this was awful.
Terrible film, panders to the modern day PC crowd, shoehorns in loads of nonsense and disregards the world and characters that they have spent the last 10 years building, infinity war was brilliant, this was awful.
I did watch Captain Marvel, only because I knew she was in End Game but that was not great.
I will definitely watch End Game.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
Fat Thor, out of all of the Avengers Thor was easily the most powerful, this film undoes all the hard work that they put into the character and getting him just right, I mean he wears a fat suit throughout and has been reduced to little more than a joke.
Too much emphasis was put on Hawkeye and not enough on Iron Mans dilemma, I mean following the snap Iron man now has a nice little log cabin and he's settled down with Pepper and has even got a daughter, The Avengers rock up and tell him that he has a duty to save everyone that was killed in the first film, no real mention for how perilous this will all be for his own family, yeah at the end Hawkeye gets his family back but Starks kid is now fatherless
The world seemed to be getting on just fine after the snap, they still had wifi and broadband, they had nice restaurants where teenagers run around asking The Hulk for photographs, Captain America comments on how he has seen whales in the ocean for first time in years, the air and water are a helluva lot cleaner than before and they all seem to have been able to retire their superhero status and are concentrating solely on trying to track down Thanos and the stones, fuck me Thanos seems to have had a point
Captain America wielding Thors hammer, yeah we all knew this was going to happen but wait a minute...whats this, ol Cap is now apparently the god of thunder as well, he's shooting lightning out of every orifice at will, it wasn't ever the hammer that provided the thunder, it was the fact that...you know, Thor is the god of thunder
Professor Hulk was a massive let down, after being notable for his absence in Infinity War I was expecting him to come out and kick some serious ass here, instead he has learned to use the best of both of Hulk and Banner and he spends the film wearing cardigans and looking rather bored, nothing else, in fact other than him wielding the infinity gauntlet he may as well have not been in the film at all
They spent 10 years developing the characters all building up to this final event only to have Captain Marvel rock up at the last minute and save the day, no one is invested in her character, she is just overpowered and there is no real connection or explanation as to why she is needed (other than to satisfy the SJW's) oh look the mighty Thor is now a mentally weak, fat, shambling alcoholic, that doesn't matter though because...WOMAN IS STRONG, SHE SAVE THE DAY
Now on the last point I don't mind the whole feminist bollocks, I have been calling for a Black Widow solo film for years (its came 5 years too late in my opinion) and in my opinion Scarlett Witch has the best scene in the film (and I think that she has been massively underused throughout the franchise) but it is clear that they rushed Captain Marvel into the story just to appear as being 'progressive' there is a scene where there are about 20 female super hero's all fighting the bad guys together, not a male in sight, again this is fine but don't make it so fucking obvious that you are beating me round the head with it, it takes me out of the film
along with the feminist bollocks you have the general PC bollocks, so by the end of the film, the most powerful hero in the world...or universe or whatever is now a woman (step aside Thor) the ruler of Asgard is now a black woman, the new Captain America is a black man, again I want to stress I don't have any problems with any of this but it is so fucking blatantly obvious what the agenda was that they may as well have just flashed 'WE ARE BEING PROGRESSIVE' on the screen before not so subtly hammering this into us
for me there was so so so many things wrong with the film that the positives just seem insignificant and don't come close to rescuing the film
oh and finally, now that 50% of the population have been bought back after 5 years how the hell does Spiderman just rock up at school afterwards, surely 50% of his old classmates would be 5 years older, I'm pretty sure that would cause a few issues but apparently not, I know that is only a minor thing and you will always get it when you use the time travel aspect of things but its another gripe that I had
that may be a garbled mess and not the most coherent of posts but that is in keeping with the film in my opinion
Oh man, I have to admit I watched infinity war a while ago and thought it was a joke. If the next one is even worse I cant imagine how much Id hate it. Speaking of a film that loosely has to do with a superhero though, I watched and highly recommend Birdman, thought it was incredible. Its not for everyone, probably not for anyone who thinks anything like the Avengers is anything but dogshit If you read a little bit about the premise and think youd like it, you probably will love it though.
Oh man, I have to admit I watched infinity war a while ago and thought it was a joke. If the next one is even worse I cant imagine how much Id hate it. Speaking of a film that loosely has to do with a superhero though, I watched and highly recommend Birdman, thought it was incredible. Its not for everyone, probably not for anyone who thinks anything like the Avengers is anything but dogshit If you read a little bit about the premise and think youd like it, you probably will love it though.
Enjoyed birdman.
Last two movies would be the Original Jurassic park and the sequel, both great.
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