Films The Official bit-tech Movie Thread - What have you seen lately?

I'm sold

 

The Hunt

Again, allegedly, under the category of 'horror' but it's utter comedy.

Elite liberals drug rednecks and the like and fly them to a hunting ground to pick them off.

They didn't count on one savvy lass (Betty Gilpin)

Absolute hoot.

 

Gonna be honest, it reads like you guys watch a hell of a lot of utter bilge…

 

Lol, true. I'm constantly looking for anything I've not watched tbh.

I mean I put The Hunt on expecting it to be absolute tosh but I found it hilarious. That was primarily down to Gilpin who I found completely endearing.

 

You know what they say: One mans entertainment is another's excuse for mockery.

 

Rebuild of Evangelion - “You Are (Not) Alone”, “You Can (Not) Advance”, “You Can (Not) Redo”, and “Thrice Upon A Time”: 9/10

Yes, those are four different films, released between 2007(!) and 2021, but I’m going to put them all under one banner. You can thank Hideaki Anno, since (AFAIU) he considers this version to be the definitive version of the story that he wanted to tell.

It's still batshit crazy. The characters are all still broken in one way or another. Shinji is still a difficult character to empathise with. It still throws around terms like “The Key of Nebuchadnezzar” or “The Gates of Guf” as if it expects the audience to nod sagely in understanding. I mean… I’m pretty familiar with the “gates of guff”, I open them quite regularly, but it’s not considered polite to do it when you have company.

But it’s still Evangelion, and it’s still a great story. I’ve already seen the original series and all the variations of the ending, but this version definitely does a much better job of explaining the core story and the motivations of the principle characters. I found this version much more humanising; it allowed a much greater understanding and empathy with the characters, and ultimately I found it a lot more moving.

 

Sisu - Finnish Commando / 10

It's not big, it's not clever: but it doesn't have to be. For those that like their violence simple and relatively plot free. Recommended.

 

Zero Hour! 6.5/10 - The film that Airplane! was based on

Take out all the comedy of Airplane! and that is what this is. As a long time fan of Airplane I did not know it was a "remake" so I had to give this a go and actually enjoyed it, maybe because I had the comedy in my head or because the comedy of Airplane made the story fun but I was a good enough film

 

Daylight - The only disaster film where you root for the disaster/10

I'm surprised Stallone's character didn't just up and leave the survivors for being such absolute bunch of insufferable ****s. had to turn it off halfway through they were that nauseating.