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  • Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
  • Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
  • IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.
  • IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.
    IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.

    I always make allowances for 'poetic licence' and a happy ending, else the planet would be devoid of humans ((:>)
  • Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
  • Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    Same here.
    Thought the planes could have dropped the message. 
  • MrWalker said:
    Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    Same here.
    Thought the planes could have dropped the message. 
    That would have made it a very short film 
  • Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    It’s a big screen film, not tv. Dunkirk the same. 
  • kafka said:
    Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    It’s a big screen film, not tv. Dunkirk the same. 
    Some films just work better on the big screen.  Alien is another.
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  • IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.
    IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.

    I always make allowances for 'poetic licence' and a happy ending, else the planet would be devoid of humans ((:>)
    Indeed.  I didn't say the filmmakers were wrong to do it so quickly in the film, only that scientifically it wasn't accurate.
  • MrWalker said:
    Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    Same here.
    Thought the planes could have dropped the message. 
    That would have made it a very short film 
    Its like in LOTR, baffles me why Gandalf didnt just fly and eagle to Mount Doom and save everyone a bloody long walk!! 
  • Tenet release moved back again to 12th August and is one of the reasons a lot of cinemas aren’t opening yet.
  • edited July 2020
    ‘Marvellous‘ - on BBC iPlayer

    I’m sure it’s previously featured on this thread - it’s the biopic about a guy with learning difficulties, who became Stoke City’s kit man. We watched it again on iPlayer this week and it was just as good the second time around. If you’ve not seen it, I’d definitely tune in. Toby Jones is excellent as Neil and the drama is interspersed with chats between him and the man himself. A deserved winner of two BAFTAs.

  • Blucher said:
    ‘Marvellous‘ - on BBC iPlayer

    I’m sure it’s previously featured on this thread - it’s the biopic about a guy with learning difficulties, who became Stoke City’s kit man. We watched it again on iPlayer this week and it was just as good the second time around. If you’ve not seen it, I’d definitely tune in. Toby Jones is excellent as Neil and the drama is interspersed with chats between him and the man himself. A deserved winner of two BAFTAs.

    A Brilliant film. 10 out of 10
  • edited July 2020
    Anyone seen “king of Staten Island”? Probably the most tender and dramatic of judd apatow’s films. Bill burr crushes it though. 
  • Midsommar (Amazon Prime)

    A horror film, which is not normally my thing. Five American students attend a Swedish rural midsummer festival run by a pagan cult and things turn predictably nasty. Definite shades of 'The Wicker Man' and Florence Pugh is, as usual, very good.

    Eurovision (Netflix)

    A musical comedy spoof, as two small-town Icelandic singers - Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams - chase glory at the Eurovision Song Contest. It is complete and utter nonsense but I quite enjoyed it as the film went on. A useful antidote to the concession of late goals at Griffin Park

  • IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.
    IdleHans said:
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering
    Not new, but watched Contagion on Netflix.

    Thought it was really good. Pretty scary considering



    Agreed .. I have just watched this on DVD .. now we know where the pandemic terminology comes from .. more informative, if of course, highly dramatized, than most of the documentaries I have seen about the current pandemic. Ironically Minneapolis features a lot, a city now going through another regrettable kind of epidemic
    Watched it about a week ago - remarkably prescient considering where we are now. Recommend it.
    A lot of the science is generally accurate but they make the vaccine/cure, can't remember which, far too quickly.

    I always make allowances for 'poetic licence' and a happy ending, else the planet would be devoid of humans ((:>)
    Indeed.  I didn't say the filmmakers were wrong to do it so quickly in the film, only that scientifically it wasn't accurate.
    I find it interesting that films with 'realistic' tones get kicked a bit for doing anything unrealistic. Gravity springs to mind here - a film that treated the vacuum of space in a way that few, if any space films had before. But it's a popcorn action thriller, so most of it is not remotely close to realistic - nor is it supposed to be (stuff like using the fire extinguisher, the distances between space stations, Clooney tugging on the rope)! It's the marketing that leads to a backlash I think. 
  • Anyone seen “king of Staten Island”? Probably the most tender and dramatic of judd apatow’s films. Bill burr crushes it though. 
    We enjoyed it. Great back story too
  • Tenet delayed indefinitely
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  • edited July 2020
    Tenet delayed indefinitely
    Oh bugger that was the film I was considering venturing to the cinema for the first time in months for
  • Tenet delayed indefinitely
    Oh buffer that was the film I was considering venturing to the cinema for the first time in months for
     That delay is really not to going to help cinemas (or the jobs of people working for them).
  • Just watched 'Searching' on Netflix. 

    Pretty original and worth watching. Gets good reviews as well, 92% on rotten tomatoes.
  • edited July 2020
    kafka said:
    Solidgone said:
    Just watched 1917. Disappointed. 
    It’s a big screen film, not tv. Dunkirk the same. 
    It would have been a bigger disappointment. 😉
  • Red Midland has fame at last !😀
  • edited October 2020

    Anyone else seen the newly released 'horror' film Saint Maud? We went this weekend with high hopes after reading Mark Kermode's gushing review in which he reckons it is Oscar winning material. Well, we were greatly unimpressed. Only one 'fright' moment in the whole film. We didn't buy into the 'loneliness' angle of the main character and found the whole thing slow and tedious.

    That is 3 terrible films on the bounce for us; this, 23 Walks and Tenet. It's slim pickings at the moment. We were literally the only ones in one film and 2 of 8 people in Odeon Orpington on Saturday for SM. The film industry is gonna struggle to survive if this carries on. We keep going back as we live locally and have Limitless cards. That said, the poor offerings really are testing my 'limits' now.

  • Finished the Trial of the Chicago 7 last night on Netfix. Thought it was excellent with some great bits of acting and really well filmed.
  • Finished the Trial of the Chicago 7 last night on Netfix. Thought it was excellent with some great bits of acting and really well filmed.
    Just watched it, too. Very good and thought provoking film with some funny dialogues. Highly recommended. 8.5/10
  • meldrew66 said:

    Anyone else seen the newly released 'horror' film Saint Maud? We went this weekend with high hopes after reading Mark Kermode's gushing review in which he reckons it is Oscar winning material. Well, we were greatly unimpressed. Only one 'fright' moment in the whole film. We didn't buy into the 'loneliness' angle of the main character and found the whole thing slow and tedious.

    That is 3 terrible films on the bounce for us; this, 23 Walks and Tenet. It's slim pickings at the moment. We were literally the only ones in one film and 2 of 8 people in Odeon Orpington on Saturday for SM. The film industry is gonna struggle to survive if this carries on. We keep going back as we live locally and have Limitless cards. That said, the poor offerings really are testing my 'limits' now.

    I do wonder if films are becoming the bridesmaid and TV Series are the bride.
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