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I was amazed I made it to the end, I knew so many of the characters from SNL but the music and the nonsense was almost too convincing and I thought it would just wear me out, I think the dig at U2 for streaming the new album into home appliances was my favourite, oh and his perfect reaction to the review in The Onion

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Regarding Hold The Dark - 

 

Call it No Country for Cold Men. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark is a chilly, unsettling a film loaded with death and dread. Like a Cormac McCarthy novel spliced with Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, Hold the Dark is a story about quiet people engaged in terrible, violent deeds while pushing up against the harsh elements. It’s one of the most unpleasant films you’ll see all year. It’s also a must-see.

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1 hour ago, Nathan Wind said:

Killing Gunther.

 

It's ace.  Dunno what's up with the miserable bastards that reviewed it so poorly.  Good old fashioned trashy B-movie fun, that's not pretending to be anything else.

Must admit I turned it off. Came close with Popstar, another SNL related effort, cos there was enough craziness to pull you along, but TBH there’s been so many great hit man movies this one just did nothing for me 

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2 hours ago, Goose said:

Regarding Hold The Dark - 

 

Call it No Country for Cold Men. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark is a chilly, unsettling a film loaded with death and dread. Like a Cormac McCarthy novel spliced with Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, Hold the Dark is a story about quiet people engaged in terrible, violent deeds while pushing up against the harsh elements. It’s one of the most unpleasant films you’ll see all year. It’s also a must-see.

 

Thought this out to the general public and you had seen it, then realised I had read that paragraph from somewhere and noticed it was in italics.

That quote is from Slash Film's review from the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Can't wait to see it, when released on the 28th :)

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3 hours ago, Goose said:

Regarding Hold The Dark - 

 

Call it No Country for Cold Men. Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark is a chilly, unsettling a film loaded with death and dread. Like a Cormac McCarthy novel spliced with Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, Hold the Dark is a story about quiet people engaged in terrible, violent deeds while pushing up against the harsh elements. It’s one of the most unpleasant films you’ll see all year. It’s also a must-see.

 

Well I just came

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Can I ask for recommendations in this thread? We’re looking for some shows to watch with the kids who are aged 4 and 8. We’ve watched all the baking shows (Bake Off, Nailed It, etc), several Attenborough shows. There just doesn’t seem to be much scripted family friendly stuff. Is Lost In Space decent?

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1 hour ago, ckny said:

Can I ask for recommendations in this thread? We’re looking for some shows to watch with the kids who are aged 4 and 8. We’ve watched all the baking shows (Bake Off, Nailed It, etc), several Attenborough shows. There just doesn’t seem to be much scripted family friendly stuff. Is Lost In Space decent?

 

What about the Lemony Snickers Unfortunate Events series? Think there are 2 series of it. 

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Stop watching all this misery @Benny! I notice Netflix has just got the excellent Moonstruck on, which is amazing in pretty much every way as one of the greatest romantic comedies of the Eighties or any other decade, but these four reasons alone make it an essential watch:

 

1) Cher's hair

2) Nicolas Cage's hair

3) Cher's eyebrows

4) Nicolas Cage's eyebrows

 

Go on and treat yourself!

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On 21/09/2018 at 17:52, Silent Runner said:

Anyone watched Maniac yet?

 

Watched it all over the weekend. It's like someone took 12 Monkeys, Eternal Sunshine and a dash of 2001, blended it into a bit of an incoherent mess then garnished with some Wes Anderson lite sensibilities. Curiously engaging at times but ultimately empty. 

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My review of Hold The Dark from the movieblog thread --

 

Some minor spoilers - 

 

Spoiler

 

An expert on wolves is called in to help find the body of a missing child, and to kill the wolf pack who took him. 

 

Jeremy Saulnier returns with his follow up to Blue Ruin and Green Room. Hold the Dark is a bleak murder mystery set in a small village in Alaska. The excellent Jeffrey Wright plays Russell Core, an expert on wolves who is contacted by a distraught mother, played by a haunted Riley Keough. She wants him to take revenge on the wolves before her husband returns from fighting in Afghanistan. Straight away, something is off with Keough's character and the whole village feels odd. There's then an interlude as we follow Alexander Skarsgård (Keogh's husband) in the war. There's a really creepy atmosphere and the harsh Alaska winter makes everything so much darker and days shorter, messing with perceptions. 

 

The film looks gorgeous with its stark landscapes and beaten little village. The first 50 minutes are unsettling as the pieces move into place, and It takes its time to ensure you're lured into the situation before unleashing some kind of hell.The two main leads are good, Wright in particular, though his meandering made it feel a little too close to his Westworld character at times. Skarsgård is a man of very few words, and he is mostly a forbidding presence. There was a great turn by James Badge Dale as the local police captain, as well as Saulnier's work partner (and writer of the picture) Macon Blair, playing a sleazy ex-con. 

 

It does strong work creating the atmosphere but it's an odd picture to be sure. There are two sequences that seem out of place and are perhaps unnecessary. The first one is obviously trying to convey something about the character, but it is quite ambiguous. The second comes later in the picture, and while you can see it in the context of the story, it's incredibly brutal and goes on far too long. Further, because this character has barely had any real impact on the story, his actions seem extreme to say the least. There is violence here, and a fair bit of it, but I don't think it's as graphic as Green Room. There are one or two moments in which I flinched, but at least one was because it came out of nowhere. The story is intriguing but I was little disappointed at things that were hinted at, that were never really covered. The ending was a little strange too, and I felt like I'd missed something.

 

The film is dark and depressing, and there's almost no let up in this. I don't think it's harsh for the sake of it, but right from the start, you know there's going to be no humour, no bright spot. Also, perhaps I read the trailer wrong, but there were elements I expected to see that didn't manifest at all. The picture does take its time, and may have benefited from being fifteen minutes shorter. It is certainly worth watching and I think it further cements both Saulnier and Blair's talent. For me it fell short of Blue Ruin and Green Room, but it was still very well made, very confident film making. Be interested to read what others thought of it.

 

 

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16 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

I’ve been watching Hilda with my 9-year-old; hard to say which of us loves it more. An absolutely gorgeous animated series with a nicely surreal edge to it. Highly recommended for kids and adults and everyone really. 

The comics it's based on are utterly wonderful too, I heartily recommend them.

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On 29/09/2018 at 01:44, Goose said:

My review of Hold The Dark from the movieblog thread --

 

Some minor spoilers - 

 

  Hide contents

 

An expert on wolves is called in to help find the body of a missing child, and to kill the wolf pack who took him. 

 

Jeremy Saulnier returns with his follow up to Blue Ruin and Green Room. Hold the Dark is a bleak murder mystery set in a small village in Alaska. The excellent Jeffrey Wright plays Russell Core, an expert on wolves who is contacted by a distraught mother, played by a haunted Riley Keough. She wants him to take revenge on the wolves before her husband returns from fighting in Afghanistan. Straight away, something is off with Keough's character and the whole village feels odd. There's then an interlude as we follow Alexander Skarsgård (Keogh's husband) in the war. There's a really creepy atmosphere and the harsh Alaska winter makes everything so much darker and days shorter, messing with perceptions. 

 

The film looks gorgeous with its stark landscapes and beaten little village. The first 50 minutes are unsettling as the pieces move into place, and It takes its time to ensure you're lured into the situation before unleashing some kind of hell.The two main leads are good, Wright in particular, though his meandering made it feel a little too close to his Westworld character at times. Skarsgård is a man of very few words, and he is mostly a forbidding presence. There was a great turn by James Badge Dale as the local police captain, as well as Saulnier's work partner (and writer of the picture) Macon Blair, playing a sleazy ex-con. 

 

It does strong work creating the atmosphere but it's an odd picture to be sure. There are two sequences that seem out of place and are perhaps unnecessary. The first one is obviously trying to convey something about the character, but it is quite ambiguous. The second comes later in the picture, and while you can see it in the context of the story, it's incredibly brutal and goes on far too long. Further, because this character has barely had any real impact on the story, his actions seem extreme to say the least. There is violence here, and a fair bit of it, but I don't think it's as graphic as Green Room. There are one or two moments in which I flinched, but at least one was because it came out of nowhere. The story is intriguing but I was little disappointed at things that were hinted at, that were never really covered. The ending was a little strange too, and I felt like I'd missed something.

 

The film is dark and depressing, and there's almost no let up in this. I don't think it's harsh for the sake of it, but right from the start, you know there's going to be no humour, no bright spot. Also, perhaps I read the trailer wrong, but there were elements I expected to see that didn't manifest at all. The picture does take its time, and may have benefited from being fifteen minutes shorter. It is certainly worth watching and I think it further cements both Saulnier and Blair's talent. For me it fell short of Blue Ruin and Green Room, but it was still very well made, very confident film making. Be interested to read what others thought of it.

 

 

 

Agree with every word of this review. Tjhe film has left me a bit baffled and disappointed.

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