Can't remember if there was a specific film thread so here goes.

 

Anyone been/going to the cinema to see anything in particular?

 

I've been to see Inception and Toy Story 3 recently. Both were fantastic. Saw Toy Story in 3D but I'm not overly sure that it was necessary, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it was a great film. Fitting way to end the trilogy

It really is absolutely appalling how much stick John is taking for this.  My heart really goes out to him, it should have been one of the best nights of his life and now it will be a sore memory forever.

I'll say this though, Scotland has not been so united in their support for one of their citizens since Smeato  stopped that attack on Glasgow Airport. 

My mate worked with Smeato. He wasn’t a hero to his colleagues 

Always felt sorry for the guy who broke his foot volleying the terrorist in the baws, yet Smeato got all the glory 

14 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

My mate worked with Smeato. He wasn’t a hero to his colleagues 

Always felt sorry for the guy who broke his foot volleying the terrorist in the baws, yet Smeato got all the glory 

He is a hun 2bf 

Netflix : Munich The Edge of War.

Not too bad at all. 

Empire of the Sun, Spielberg film

What a bag of shite. 4/10.

Falling Down. Michael Douglas's finest hour. 

Robert Duvall his usual mercurial self and Barbara Hershey absolutely stunning. 

Top watch. 

I'm just back from the talkies, where I went to see the British comedy Mother's Pride.

It was good. A little bit cliched, but it was a fine escape from the awful situation unfolding at Pittodrie. Four stars out of five.

The Peaky Blinders Film

Never watched the TV series and after the film, won't be bothering.

We took out Netflix for Better Call Saul, but if it is the future of TV and Film, I'm sticking to books.

 

11 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

We took out Netflix for Better Call Saul, but if it is the future of TV and Film, I'm sticking to books.

 

Sadly this future started quite a while ago. I miss the days of watching things on set days, then chatting about them at work, and looking forward to 'next week'.

What an old man thing to say.

For me, Netflix is all about quantity - most of it is shite, some of it is pretty good. Very little of it sticks in your memory for more than about 2 days. It's just finding the right things. But we tend to spend more time looking for stuff to watch, so invariably give up and go back to council telly.

We also tend to rotate our subscriptons - Netflix for a few months, Apple for a few. They always throw offers at you to come back, and there is never a long term commitment so you can just cancel whenever.

Apple doesn't have masses of stuff, but they seem to have more quality things - at least we have found a lot more there that has some proper substance. We'll often take it when a freebie comes up for a month, keep it for three, blitz a load of stuff, then leave it for a year.

I could happily live without the streaming sevices. For the most part, you are better with a book - unless you fall in to the trap my wife fell into of just reading the crap that is churned out by Amazon for your kindle. 
Mrs Tattie: Oooh, 99p. How bad can it be
Me: Very - Like the last 40. Why don't you just buy a real book!

That's my issue with modern life (or one of many). We have too much choice, and 99% of it is pish. We are just told we need all these options and believe 'them'. Real music (including heavy metal - but not C&W or freeform jazz), four channels and some good books, thatll do me.

16 minutes ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Sadly this future started quite a while ago. I miss the days of watching things on set days, then chatting about them at work, and looking forward to 'next week'.

What an old man thing to say.

For me, Netflix is all about quantity - most of it is shite, some of it is pretty good. Very little of it sticks in your memory for more than about 2 days. It's just finding the right things. But we tend to spend more time looking for stuff to watch, so invariably give up and go back to council telly.

We also tend to rotate our subscriptons - Netflix for a few months, Apple for a few. They always throw offers at you to come back, and there is never a long term commitment so you can just cancel whenever.

Apple doesn't have masses of stuff, but they seem to have more quality things - at least we have found a lot more there that has some proper substance. We'll often take it when a freebie comes up for a month, keep it for three, blitz a load of stuff, then leave it for a year.

I could happily live without the streaming sevices. For the most part, you are better with a book - unless you fall in to the trap my wife fell into of just reading the crap that is churned out by Amazon for your kindle. 
Mrs Tattie: Oooh, 99p. How bad can it be
Me: Very - Like the last 40. Why don't you just buy a real book!

That's my issue with modern life (or one of many). We have too much choice, and 99% of it is pish. We are just told we need all these options and believe 'them'. Real music (including heavy metal - but not C&W or freeform jazz), four channels and some good books, thatll do me.

I'm relatively new to streaming (oh, and fuck Amazon), but last night, whilst on Netflix, Still Game was in their top 10 popular programmes, along with a couple of other BBC shows, which really is mental and shows how poor the overall quality of their programmes and films are.

The Wife is currently in the room next door finishing off Stranger Things, which really is utter, utter shyte.

I honestly can't see past the licence fee and the BBC, regardless how unfashionable it is now to do so. Worth it for the radio output alone, but love a deep dive into the iPlayer and just wish they would open up more of their archived programmes.

56 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I'm relatively new to streaming (oh, and fuck Amazon), but last night, whilst on Netflix, Still Game was in their top 10 popular programmes, along with a couple of other BBC shows, which really is mental and shows how poor the overall quality of their programmes and films are.

That top 10 is a bit of a con - it looks at your viewing history, and if you don't have one I reckon it is taking info from your IP (or something). My top 10 and most watched don't have any of that. There's an algorithm at play.

Finally watched The Unforgiven. Something that struck me about a movie written by Clint Eastwood, his own script was shockingly shite, whilst Gene Hackman's script was absolutely legendary.