Just watched Godzilla vs Kong in the cinema, draggy beginning but when all the thrashing and fighting begins, its all good. And good that there are no after credit scenes leaving more possibilities of different directions for future movies…
Watched 1917 by Sam Mendes again and i really enjoyed it and think the single shot thing was perfect for it.
If you are into war movies just put that smartphone away for 2 hours and don’t get distracted by snacks etc and you’ll have a good time.
Watched Oliver Stone’s Savages on Netflix. Picturesque and has a lot of big stars in it eager to work with him, I guess. Typical moronic drug dealer caper, however.
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I was watching a film last week and the end credits seemed to roll almost as long as the film.
It got me thinking about why is it only in Films and TV that absolutely everybody involved in the production is credited?
I mean when you buy a car you do not get a list of who built the gearbox, who provided lunch for the designer, or who ran to the shops to get some lightbulbs.
When you buy a house you dont get given the names of the plumbers, carpenters and roofers etc.
Im not saying its a bad thing - I just dont understand why it is so widespread in the entertainment industry and pretty much in no other realms - maybe the music industry to a degree. It just seems to be an accepted norm in the entertainment industry alone.
Anyone know why?
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Because there are awards for everything these days.
Which prompts the question: which came first- the third best boy or the Oscar for Third Best Boy? 
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Security was extremely lax for such a hi tech and nefarious company though wasn’t it!
Preferred Skull Island.
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Saw Tenet finally and didn’t like it. This is coming from someone who absolutely loved the show ‘Dark’ mind.
That’s depressing. Just didn’t deliver, or too complicated?
Kind of both. I presume it needs a second viewing which I haven’t yet, but typically such complicated plots do have some explanations during the course of movie/ show which I didn’t find in Tenet.
I found it tiring towards the end, the focus seemed more on action rather than the plot or character development is what I felt.
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Speaking of Denzel Washington’s son -
am watching Malcolm & Marie on Netflix at the Moment. Zendaya and Washington did an outstanding job there.
Absolutely horrible sound on that movie.
Saw it at the pictures. So loud that I had to cover my ears. Ruined the whole experience. The sound getting distorted and the chair vibrating like sitting on a speaker.
I thought it was just the cinema but looked online and loads of people complaining about it. Some people saying it depended on the cinema. The imax ones seemed fine.
If your going to watch it I would waiting for a TV release version and hopefully they sorted the sound issue
This thread shows what I experienced
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Yet to watch Tenet but I was expecting it not to be that good when I heard Hans Zimmer won’t be available for this Nolan movie.
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I thought Tenet was pretty ok, they did intrigued me but there are many points in the movie that got tiresome. Amongst movies that try to mind fuck you, I would rate it between Interstellar which was absolutely bad for me and Inception which was great.
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Yeah, same here. Interstellar let me down badly. They put a ton of effort into being scientifically accurate with the concepts they were playing with, and so it got big plus points from me for that, but then completely ruined it once they realized they had no way to tie it all up without a Deus ex machina ending.
At the other end of the scale, Shutter Island came out at around the same time as Inception and didnt get quite the same attention, but think it holds up better than Inception.
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I actually loved Interstellar but I haven’t focused on the ending too much, probably what I like is the build up to get there and then OK it kind of fizzles out at the end.
Inception I like but I’ve never really felt the urge to go back to. I’ve seen it twice, it’s a solid film (nowhere near as complicated as people make out) abut for some reason I just am not overly interested in seeing it again.
Shutter Island is my favourite of the three. The storyline is good but Di Caprio just blows it out the water - as he tends to do these days - and makes it so engaging.
Does anyone know if the Di Caprio version of Devil in the White City is still in production? Him playing H. H. Holmes is something I’m keen to see.
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Last I heard it had been switched to a TV series.
Shutter Island indeed is one of the best.
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Imagine 10 hour long episodes of Di Caprio murdering folks. Absolutely epic.
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Really? Cool, something to watch on Netflix at last.
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