Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Agree. The amount of quality movies has been in rapid decline for a long time. Everything seems to be about series now. I don't have time for 15 seasons with 20 episodes. I really miss a steady flow of good movies.
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*** Official Film Thread ***
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Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
Watched The Triangle of Sadness the other day. Entertaining and interesting if not perfect. Not as good as Force Majeure which was pretty flawless.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Them two, along with a handful of others like Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro and Ben Wheatley, are contemporary directors I'll just automatically go and see anything they release, based purely on their name/back catalogue, and am almost never disappointed.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I don't think the production of films has really recovered yet from Covid. The last 2-3 years has been pretty poor all round. But late capitalism is also squeezing out just about any remaining resemblance of creativity and artistry.
That's true, but a good 6-8 episode mini series with Hollywood quality production allows for a lot more exploration than a film does.
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Yes, but in most cases, series have way to many episodes. A lot of unnecessary "dead" time in an awful lot of series.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
Watched this last weekend. It was fun
Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
Sightseers is everything.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I went to Crich Tramways Museum and the Ribblehead Viaduct, just because of that film
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
I've run over a couple of litterbugs.
With many being on streaming services now i don't get it. Each episode can be a different length, as can each series. 1 series can be 12 episodes, the next 8. Have them fit the story you want to tell. You are no longer trying to fill time slots.
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Didn't TLOU do that with the last episode being shorter as they wanted to stay true to the game? That was a high quality series with virtually zero deadtime
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
But there's massive padding out to get maximum hours of engagement. Like how did adapting a 250 page book, The Handmaid's Tale, end up being 70 odd episodes over 6 series? It's not telling the story in the most fitting way. There's no artistic integrity. It's just about getting a hook in, then bleeding as many hours possible out of those that cling on.
Ok but netflix now usually cancels a show after 3 seasons as it doesn't bring in new customers (think that is stupid because they lose others). For streaming the rules are different. Think it used to be 48 episodes would make the show franchised so it could be shown every week day for a number of weeks. Which meant they got a lot more money.
Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
Wish they'd done 3 seasons of Mindhunter.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Taking my little one to see this at 10am, looks a bit like the Spiderverse film in terms of style
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
Enjoyed “the Covenant”
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Yeh I liked it, I also enjoyed 12 strong TBH, bit all American Hero type film but suppose it has a right to be considering its a true story
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Falling Down is fantastic! Not sure how a character like that would be received these days even though he doesn’t target any specific person or demographic, he’s just fed up with the world. What strikes me is there’s no release whenever he loses his brick, just sadness. My favourite line in the film is when the old boy has a heart attack and he says “now you’re gonna die wearing that stupid little hat, how does it feel?” I don’t know if that was intentionally funny but it gets me every time
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Falling Down is fantastic! Not sure how a character like that would be received these days even though he doesn’t target any specific person or demographic, he’s just fed up with the world. What strikes me is there’s no release whenever he loses his brick, just sadness. My favourite line in the film is when the old boy has a heart attack and he says “now you’re gonna die wearing that stupid little hat, how does it feel?” I don’t know if that was intentionally funny but it gets me every time
For me it hit home and you feel sorry for him by the end. We all have days that things build up and things snowball into a day of frustration that is out of reality or context, days where literally everything upsets you. Not to that extreme but its so relatable, especially if you lived and worked in London.