Films you've watched recently.

[MK Shrimper]

Erm.....is the film not a version of this then?

Er no....try Louisa May Alcott?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Er no....try Louisa May Alcott?

I didn't know which book it was based on and assumed it was the Jane Austen one, I shan't bother then, the fact remains it is still the only Jane Austen book I enjoyed!

 

[MK Shrimper]

I didn't know which book it was based on and assumed it was the Jane Austen one, I shan't bother then, the fact remains it is still the only Jane Austen book I enjoyed!

It's based on Little Women!

 

[OldBlueLady]

It's based on Little Women!

Ok! Like I said, I had no idea - glimpsed in the trailers it was period and assumed it was Austen!

 

[Member]

Ok! Like I said, I had no idea - glimpsed in the trailers it was period and assumed it was Austen!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ok! Like I said, I had no idea - glimpsed in the trailers it was period and assumed it was Austen!

Ha ha! Go and see 1917 instead of dodgy mockney geezers.

 

[KevinJH]

Watched Wind River that we'd recorded on Ch4 Thursday gone - excellent, if uncomfortable watch. The film was highlighting the problem of Native American women who're raped and/or murdered that go unrecorded. As if the indigenous population hadn't been $hat on enough in the past, to see the final credit state "....that missing-persons statistics are kept for every demographic group except for Native American women, whose numbers remain unknown" was an eye-opener.

 

[kaymac]

Watched Wind River that we'd recorded on Ch4 Thursday gone - excellent, if uncomfortable watch. The film was highlighting the problem of Native American women who're raped and/or murdered that go unrecorded. As if the indigenous population hadn't been $hat on enough in the past, to see the final credit state "....that missing-persons statistics are kept for every demographic group except for Native American women, whose numbers remain unknown" was an eye-opener.

Watched that a week or so back and found it somewhat disturbing viewing. Hardly surprising such things happen in the good 'ol US of A though.

 

[united we stand]

Watched Wind River that we'd recorded on Ch4 Thursday gone - excellent, if uncomfortable watch. The film was highlighting the problem of Native American women who're raped and/or murdered that go unrecorded. As if the indigenous population hadn't been $hat on enough in the past, to see the final credit state "....that missing-persons statistics are kept for every demographic group except for Native American women, whose numbers remain unknown" was an eye-opener.

Saw this last week as well, tbh I had never seen it but checked the score on IMBD and thought I would give it a go.

Thought it was really good as well, and my wife watched the whole film which is very unusual.

Their were two “stupid” bits though,I don’t know how to do the spoiler thing so I will be vague. The main character didn’t pose the obvious question regarding his own daughter. And the FBI agent’s reaction and subsequent actions when the security guard named the victim.

But those two points aside excellent film,

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

Bad times at the El Royale. Quentin Tarantino meets Agatha Christie (completely my own words, and in no way stolen from an article I read online about it the other week ) but a very good film.

 

[AndyT]

Little Women - 9/10 - Superb adaptation of a classic story. Very surprised it didn't get anything at the Oscars

It won an Oscar for Best Costume Design.

 

[AndyT]

Ok! Like I said, I had no idea - glimpsed in the trailers it was period and assumed it was Austen!

Emma is on at the moment, so that could be where the mix up is, possibly?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214832/

 

[OldBlueLady]

Emma is on at the moment, so that could be where the mix up is, possibly?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214832/

That IS the one I'm talking about! Bloody people winding me up!

Edit - Just re-read things properly, I thought @Pubey had said he'd seen Emma, not Little Women. I've read that book a dozen times and enjoyed it, it's one of those I don't want to ruin by seeing yet another film version.

Apologies people, as you were!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Bombshell.Interesting film dealing with the recent sexual harrasment scandal at Fox news.

 

[Ricey]

1917....beyond words. Possibly the best film I've ever seen, it'll stay with me for weeks.

Really? I didn’t think it was all that. The way it was filmed was excellent but as war films go there are far better out there.

 

[Member]

1917 was massively overrated.

Parasite on the other hand wasn’t. Absolutely amazing

 

[MK Shrimper]

I totally and utterly disagree. Despite being set in WW1 it's not a war film as such. IMHO it is absolutely stunning on every level and I've never been in a cinema where the audience (and there were a lot or varying ages) where deathly silent when the film ended. It affected me on a level that films very rarely do.

I can't wait to see Parasite (it was a date night toss-up) but it'll have to go some to beat 1917.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

1917 was massively overrated.

Parasite on the other hand wasn’t. Absolutely amazing

Please explain why you thought Parasite was "amazing." I certainly liked the anti-capitalist critique presented in the first hour of the film.But the last half an hour or so (after and including the party scene) was just absurd,

You're wrong about 1917 too but MKS has already pointed out why.

 

[Napster]

Uncut Gems was brilliant

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Gentlemen gets a release here from tomorrow.Probably catch up with it next week.