What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Geoffrey Firmin]

The Bank

Australian director Robert Connolly presents David Wenham ” I hate banks.” and Anthony LaPaglia “ I wear a better suit than God.”

A tale of revenge, mathematics, chaos theory and greed.

 

[edinatlanta]

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The Bank

Australian director Robert Connolly presents David Wenham ” I hate banks.” and Anthony LaPaglia “ I wear a better suit than God.”

A tale of revenge, mathematics, chaos theory and greed.

Good or bad?

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Good or bad?

Very good...I’m biased a friend was the Production Designer.

 

[Journeyman]

IIRC, it wasn’t that good, but I’ll watch anything with Noah Taylor.

The film wasn't that great, but the book was entertaining. There was also a theatrical adaptation, which was enjoyable.

I was at the same university as John Birmingham (the author of "He Died with a Felafel...") and we knew some of the same people, although he was a few years ahead of me.

After we graduated, one of my friends worked with a person who was (loosely) featured in the book. He rode his motorcycle through the office during their end-of-year Christmas drinks function - through the front door, weaving around desks and furniture while revving the bike, out the back door and down a flight of stairs. I suspect he was somewhat inebriated at the time. Good times - life seems more serious now.

So no share houses in the US? How do uni, or college, students live cheaply? Can't you rent a room in a three- or four-bedroom house and share it with other people?

 

[edinatlanta]

Very good...I’m biased a friend was the Production Designer.

OK. I like Australian films so I'll check it out. Go Tahs.

 

[Big Pun]

Share houses are common we just dont call it that

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Watched this last night, absolutely fantastic documentary about the far too brief of a remarkable musican.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

OK. I like Australian films so I'll check it out. Go Tahs.

Have you seen The Boys and Snowtown? Both highly recomended and both very dark.

 

[imatlas]

Inside Man sucked

**** you

Inside Man is almost perfect film

My wife and I frequently say “Thank you, bank robbah” to each other

Drugstore Cowboy - entertaining Trainspottingesque romp with Matt Dillon and a sexy Kelly Lynch. 7.5/10

I lived in Portland when this came out. It captured the zeitgeist of that time and place very well (and I remember that drugstore).

 

[edinatlanta]

Have you seen The Boys and Snowtown? Both highly recomended and both very dark.

No but I will.

**** you

Inside Man is almost perfect film

My wife and I frequently say “Thank you, bank robbah” to each other

The motivation for the heist was clear(ish) but the choices made in the film are not. And making Denzel's past a big issue but ultimately meaningless was bad.


So I finished "Macbeth" yesterday because Amazon had streaming problems when I first watched it. Even by Shakespearean tragedy standards hooooooooly **** was it dark. Love really stylistic films and that was certainly iconoclastic. Fassbender made Macbeth more King Lear-like than King Lear. Really stunning stuff. What was funny is I'm pretty good at following Elizabethan English and Shakespearean verse but those Scottish brogues, man...I had to turn on subtitles.

I'd give it 4.5/5 go watch it. Epic fight scenes, stunning supernatural scenes, a more interesting way to bring Birnam Woods to Dunsinane Castle and Macbeth is a difficult role to perform well. I think Fassbender nailed it.

 

[Texasmade]

So I finished "Macbeth" yesterday because Amazon had streaming problems when I first watched it. Even by Shakespearean tragedy standards hooooooooly **** was it dark. Love really stylistic films and that was certainly iconoclastic. Fassbender made Macbeth more King Lear-like than King Lear. Really stunning stuff. What was funny is I'm pretty good at following Elizabethan English and Shakespearean verse but those Scottish brogues, man...I had to turn on subtitles.

I'd give it 4.5/5 go watch it. Epic fight scenes, stunning supernatural scenes, a more interesting way to bring Birnam Woods to Dunsinane Castle and Macbeth is a difficult role to perform well. I think Fassbender nailed it.

Piob could've translated for you.

 

[edinatlanta]

Piob could've translated for you.

Ach, laddie. They're sayin' ooo wee lad 'as seein' thangs nooo other laddie could see, aye? Nooone inna castle cannae staep him, man's a gooner, aye.

 

[wojt]

Entertaining and quite thrilling movie, very good but imo not really worth 8.4 on imdb. That's what I'd give it on the first viewing though. Early me: 9, current me: 7



of the collaborations between Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, this is deep out of history of the cinema and quite dated, but it was a good movie nonetheless. Definately attention-grabbing and immersive, beautfully shot and dresses of MD were just otherworldly, work of art really. Definitely worth watching for cinema buffs.

 

[Van Veen]

This might be blasphemy, but I liked this more than the original (with the caveat that I watched the workprint version of the original, so that might taint my view). It was more coherent and lighter on the sophomore dorm level philosophy (while still having something to say). I wish I saw it in theaters because it's an absolutely beautiful film.

 

[King Calder]