What film did you watch last night?

[Punkawallah]

It felt like a lot has changed since the film was made 33 years ago. Bill Murray's character Phil was being way too insistent in his attempts to woo Rita. The first 'no' meant no, so I felt uncomfortable watching him get a second one, and a third...

Do keep up at the back. It seems todays women are bemoaning men’s lack of persistence, and wondering why they do not pursue women as they once did - if we are to believe the media. They cannot understand why (after years of telling men that ‘no means no’) men actually take ‘no’ for an answer.

 

[Punkawallah]

The League of Gentlemen, 1960, Hawkins, Attenborough et al. The last act jars - not sure if budget or morals influenced it.

 

[cyberknight]

Over the last week or so i have been wading through the snyder cut of the justice league which people rave about and although it gets rid of some of the cringe inducing scenes i found it a bit over long just for the sake of it

 

[Pblakeney]

I started watching Outcome on ATV+.
I gave up after 10 minutes as I don't do introspection, and I'm not interested in others introspection.

 

[Profpointy]

The Commitments

Alan Parker's masterpiece of a film about a working class soul band in 80s Dublin. An absolute joy of a a film. I'd seen it before some 30 plus years ago and half forgotten how good it was. The story is pretty much as you'd expect but it really is exceptionally well crafted, scripted, and acted

10/10

 

[Profpointy]

The Naked Gun.

Absolutely woeful. Liam Neeson has none of Leslie Nielsen's comic timing, acting ability or charisma. Just appalling.

0/10.

Oh dear. I'd been rather tempted to watch that. Of course it won't match the original but I thought it'd be passable at least. I'm inclined to trust your rating and give it the swerve

 

[dicko]

Carry On Teacher, in all its monochrome splendour

 

[Profpointy]

Project Hail Mary

A sci fi adventure staring Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who awakes from a coma / hibernation to find his crew-mates dead and he himself with no memory of why he's there or what he's supposed to do. Turns out the Sun is dimming due to a strange astro-bacteria and he is on a last ditch mission to find a cure.

Anyhow the seemingly far-fetched threat is introduced and explained rather well so that it is all self consistent, plausible even and the journey and storytelling, interposing the adventure on the space ship with flash backs of the lead up back on earth are all rather well done. They do somehow get away with the unlikely mix of comedy and the really high stakes of mass impending human extinction, although there is a touch too much clowning around given the peril and time pressures. Like many modern films it could do with a half hour haircut, as it doesn't merit its 2:30 runtime, but in fairness it didn't fell quite than long. A big plus for me was they resisted the absurd modern fashion of sticking a lamp INSIDE Gosling's space helmet. Another was Sandra Huller, who I've not seen before, as the stern but very human, Earth based head of the project; she was genuinely superb in her role.

Anyhow a rather superior and thoughtful hard sci-fi story well worth seeing.

 

[Punkawallah]

Battle in Outer Space, 1959. Gerry Anderson meets Ishiro Honda - in colour!

 

[ianrauk]

Project Hail Mary

A sci fi adventure staring Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who awakes from a coma / hibernation to find his crew-mates dead and he himself with no memory of why he's there or what he's supposed to do. Turns out the Sun is dimming due to a strange astro-bacteria and he is on a last ditch mission to find a cure.

Anyhow the seemingly far-fetched threat is introduced and explained rather well so that it is all self consistent, plausible even and the journey and storytelling, interposing the adventure on the space ship with flash backs of the lead up back on earth are all rather well done. They do somehow get away with the unlikely mix of comedy and the really high stakes of mass impending human extinction, although there is a touch too much clowning around given the peril and time pressures. Like many modern films it could do with a half hour haircut, as it doesn't merit its 2:30 runtime, but in fairness it didn't fell quite than long. A big plus for me was they resisted the absurd modern fashion of sticking a lamp INSIDE Gosling's space helmet. Another was Sandra Huller, who I've not seen before, as the stern but very human, Earth based head of the project; she was genuinely superb in her role.

Anyhow a rather superior and thoughtful hard sci-fi story well worth seeing.

Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.

 

[Gwylan]

Little big man. Dustin Hoffman. Think Faye Dunnaway might have been in it,

A hundred years since I saw it. Was the least bad thing I could find on freeview
My wife fell asleep doing her sodu whilst pretending to watch.
I had to stick it out since it was a bit of a territory squabble over the remote control.

 

[C R]

Project Hail Mary

A sci fi adventure staring Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who awakes from a coma / hibernation to find his crew-mates dead and he himself with no memory of why he's there or what he's supposed to do. Turns out the Sun is dimming due to a strange astro-bacteria and he is on a last ditch mission to find a cure.

Anyhow the seemingly far-fetched threat is introduced and explained rather well so that it is all self consistent, plausible even and the journey and storytelling, interposing the adventure on the space ship with flash backs of the lead up back on earth are all rather well done. They do somehow get away with the unlikely mix of comedy and the really high stakes of mass impending human extinction, although there is a touch too much clowning around given the peril and time pressures. Like many modern films it could do with a half hour haircut, as it doesn't merit its 2:30 runtime, but in fairness it didn't fell quite than long. A big plus for me was they resisted the absurd modern fashion of sticking a lamp INSIDE Gosling's space helmet. Another was Sandra Huller, who I've not seen before, as the stern but very human, Earth based head of the project; she was genuinely superb in her role.

Anyhow a rather superior and thoughtful hard sci-fi story well worth seeing.

Agreed with everything except the hard sci fi, not really, not even close.

 

[Profpointy]

Agreed with everything except the hard sci fi, not really, not even close.

Any particular reason?

There is (to a point) logic to it all. In particular no faster than light travel, no superpowers/telepathy,

Maybe something like The Martian is just about the only more realistic (ie hard) SF movie I can think of

 

[AndyRM]

Any particular reason?

There is (to a point) logic to it all. In particular no faster than light travel, no superpowers/telepathy,

Maybe something like The Martian is just about the only more realistic (ie hard) SF movie I can think of

There's a reason for that: they're both based on books written by the Andy Weir, and adapted for the screen by Andy Goddard.

 

[C R]

Any particular reason?

There is (to a point) logic to it all. In particular no faster than light travel, no superpowers/telepathy,

Maybe something like The Martian is just about the only more realistic (ie hard) SF movie I can think of

The premise that we notice all stars dying at the same time would require the speed of light to be infinite. There's no explanation of how the black organism spreads through the stars seemingly instantaneously.

Travelling at the speeds needed to get to Tau Ceti and back would cause significant relativistic time dilation effects, the time passed in the spaceship seems to be the same as on earth. Interstellar dealt with this issue.

The idea that the other species would have achieved near speed of light travel without noticing relativistic effects makes no sense.

Oh, and the unbalanced centrifuge.

The Martian and Artemis, both by Andy Weir are both far fetched, but within what's possible according to the laws of physics. Project Hail Mary is closer to Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. It is a nice entertaining fantasy book/movie.

ETA. Oh, and the metallic Xenon at ambient temperature and pressure.