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Post by flatapex on Jan 1, 2017 21:25:58 GMT
Well if we have one of these I would be very surprised. How many of us enjoy a film? Whether its the monthly trip to the cinema, or a nightly bit of film viewing in front of one of the on-demand services, we all love a couple of hours away from our normal lives.
What films have you watched lately? Do you love big name blockbusters or indie productions? As long as it has a decent storyline and is reasonably well acted then I am not really fussed (my 50 film challenge link is in my signature for anyone interested)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2017 22:16:21 GMT
I like a mix of genres from horror to chick flicks. My recent favourite has to be- me before you. I change film favourites like socks though! Will definitely have a look at your list
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Post by ian on Jan 1, 2017 22:44:59 GMT
I love movies! I like to think I have a fairly diverse taste in genres. I used to have a Cineworld Unlimited card, until the price just kept going up and the time I had to go the cinema became less. The O2 building used to be my local!
It's a big topic to cover so I'll finish the post by mentioning a few films (old and new) I've seen recently that I highly recommend: Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, Dead Alive, Hateful Eight, The Revenant
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Post by flatapex on Jan 1, 2017 23:26:52 GMT
mrsmith89 I like pretty much anything too except for horror. I am aiming to have at least one film a week added, I will be trying to add things that no-one has heard of but could buy cheaply, my first film was Election starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick and was £1 in Poundland yesterday. I am thinking of my next one being either The Frozen Ground (Nicholas Cage and John Cusack in a true story about a mass murderer) or Drowning Mona (Danny DeVito has to investigate the murder of the world's most unpleasant woman, played by Bette Midler, with Neve Campbell, Casey Affleck and Will Ferrell among a whole town of suspects). ian I nearly got a cineworld card, my brother in law has one but there is only one cineworld near us and its not close to anywhere so going after work for example would be difficult. Am I right thinking Dead Alive is the Peter Jackson film? I have Heavenly Creatures on my list of films to watch (its less of an actual list, more a stack of films on the shelves within my tv cabinet), also I got Ecstasy of Order for Christmas so I have that on my to-watch list as well. Now to decide, should I make a list of films to watch and tick them off, or decide on the fly what to watch?
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Post by retrokevretro on Jan 2, 2017 11:06:34 GMT
I used to absolutely love films. Myself and my wife used to have cineworld passes and would spend 3 or 4 nights a week at our local cinema until we got married and had kids. I missed it so much that I jacked in my job as a departmental Manager in a hotel to become a projectionist for Odeon cinemas in Manchester until they closed back in 2004. I got to watch all the latest films and we would even have special midnight showings of anticipated films like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc..just for staff/friends before release to the general public. There is an old saying that you should never turn your hobby into a job and that rang true for me as after about 3 years I tired of watching the same directors / film makers churn out the same repacked films time and again. It got to the point were I only had to read who the director / film makers were, watch 5 minutes of the film and I would be able to figure out the plot so wouldn't have to watch the rest of it. That said I do still enjoy the odd film. My favourite? About a Boy as it's an original film (Not the usual copy and paste film that is so popular these days)
Great thread by the way flatapex!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 11:29:19 GMT
You aren't missing much by not going cinema anymore... I'm sure people go to the cinema just to look at their phones and talk all the way through.... because they can't do that anywhere else Last film I watched in cinema was Tim burtons Alice looking through the looking glass... not as good as the first (from what I gathered as I didn't see much of it was distracted by idiots )
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Post by nearbythiscafe on Jan 2, 2017 19:32:43 GMT
Best film I have ever seen at the cinema has to be Back to the Future! Growing up in the 80s was amazing and every time i see that film, just like the Master System, it takes me straight back to my childhood!
They had a special screening of it on its 30th birthday and I went with the wife to watch it on the big screen, brilliant!
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Post by retrokevretro on Jan 2, 2017 19:43:16 GMT
Best film I have ever seen at the cinema has to be Back to the Future! Growing up in the 80s was amazing and every time i see that film, just like the Master System, it takes me straight back to my childhood! They had a special screening of it on its 30th birthday and I went with the wife to watch it on the big screen, brilliant! Absolute classic. Modern films just can't compete with classics like back to the future.
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Post by flatapex on Jan 2, 2017 21:00:09 GMT
My theory about the cinema is that back when we used to go in the 90s/early 2000s, things were different. The adverts didnt seem to be on as long, plus our attention spans were longer, we weren't constantly connected to the internet and social media, plus when I used to go with my friends in the mid 2000s, we used to go to the pub and got all our talking over and done with.
I find watching films at home much more relaxing, if I want to put my feet on the seat then I can (and often do), I can pause the film for snacks/takeaway/toilet, and turn the volume up or down at will, plus the only person I watch films with is Laura, so if she doesn't want to watch the film, she can just write a letter, or play sims or whatever she wants and no-one cares but us.
I went through a phase of watching 80s Brat-Pack films, stuff like Pretty In Pink, Biloxi Blues etc, I went to night school with people about 10 years older than me and one guy lent me a huge stack of vhs tapes with an entire season of 80s teen films, stuff that hadn't been released on dvd back then.
Last film I saw at the cinema was Sausage Party.....yeah, that was odd. 3 films in little over than 24 hours, I won't be able to keep up that momentum
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Post by Transatlantic Foe on Jan 2, 2017 21:11:49 GMT
When I was a student, I went to the cinema a lot... it was usually £3 or 4 a ticket with student discount. There was also an independent cinema (Cinema City) in Norwich which showed a lot of limited release films, it was a bit more expensive but the experience was superb - parts of the building date from medieval times.
The mainstream cinema experience had its drawbacks... I'm not sure why people can't grasp "don't talk during the film, you're not at home on your own" and I'm fairly sure tickets were so cheap because they never employed anyone to clean the place! But there was usually something half worth watching* every week and it was so cheap, I usually ended a Saturday morning shopping trip there because why not? Make the most of the bus fare!
Nowadays? Well cinemas are cleaner but people still haven't worked out how to SHUT THE HELL UP and we have mobile phones too. Yay. Since 2007 (Hot Fuzz) I've been to the cinema 5 times - 3 of those were on half price tickets and the other two were the latest Star Wars films (as much as I love Star Wars, the main reason I go is there is no way I could avoid spoilers on the internet until the DVD release).
* this is the point where my taste in films is literally described as "pretty much any old faeces as long as it's not romantic mush". I don't mind a serious, proper film.... but most of the time the winner is weeeeeee explosions!!! I don't much care for horror either, but it's because I always find them unintentionally hilarious. I think there's something wrong with me... besides the fact that I really like the Resident Evil and Transformers films.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 22:23:14 GMT
My theory about the cinema is that back when we used to go in the 90s/early 2000s, things were different. The adverts didnt seem to be on as long, plus our attention spans were longer, we weren't constantly connected to the internet and social media, plus when I used to go with my friends in the mid 2000s, we used to go to the pub and got all our talking over and done with. I find watching films at home much more relaxing, if I want to put my feet on the seat then I can (and often do), I can pause the film for snacks/takeaway/toilet, and turn the volume up or down at will, plus the only person I watch films with is Laura, so if she doesn't want to watch the film, she can just write a letter, or play sims or whatever she wants and no-one cares but us. I went through a phase of watching 80s Brat-Pack films, stuff like Pretty In Pink, Biloxi Blues etc, I went to night school with people about 10 years older than me and one guy lent me a huge stack of vhs tapes with an entire season of 80s teen films, stuff that hadn't been released on dvd back then. Last film I saw at the cinema was Sausage Party.....yeah, that was odd. 3 films in little over than 24 hours, I won't be able to keep up that momentum Haha just watching sausage party now!
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Post by flatapex on Jan 2, 2017 22:32:28 GMT
My theory about the cinema is that back when we used to go in the 90s/early 2000s, things were different. The adverts didnt seem to be on as long, plus our attention spans were longer, we weren't constantly connected to the internet and social media, plus when I used to go with my friends in the mid 2000s, we used to go to the pub and got all our talking over and done with. I find watching films at home much more relaxing, if I want to put my feet on the seat then I can (and often do), I can pause the film for snacks/takeaway/toilet, and turn the volume up or down at will, plus the only person I watch films with is Laura, so if she doesn't want to watch the film, she can just write a letter, or play sims or whatever she wants and no-one cares but us. I went through a phase of watching 80s Brat-Pack films, stuff like Pretty In Pink, Biloxi Blues etc, I went to night school with people about 10 years older than me and one guy lent me a huge stack of vhs tapes with an entire season of 80s teen films, stuff that hadn't been released on dvd back then. Last film I saw at the cinema was Sausage Party.....yeah, that was odd. 3 films in little over than 24 hours, I won't be able to keep up that momentum Haha just watching sausage party now! The last quarter of an hour is all I will say....
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Post by flatapex on Jan 2, 2017 22:48:41 GMT
I used to absolutely love films. Myself and my wife used to have cineworld passes and would spend 3 or 4 nights a week at our local cinema until we got married and had kids. I missed it so much that I jacked in my job as a departmental Manager in a hotel to become a projectionist for Odeon cinemas in Manchester until they closed back in 2004. I got to watch all the latest films and we would even have special midnight showings of anticipated films like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc..just for staff/friends before release to the general public. There is an old saying that you should never turn your hobby into a job and that rang true for me as after about 3 years I tired of watching the same directors / film makers churn out the same repacked films time and again. It got to the point were I only had to read who the director / film makers were, watch 5 minutes of the film and I would be able to figure out the plot so wouldn't have to watch the rest of it. That said I do still enjoy the odd film. My favourite? About a Boy as it's an original film (Not the usual copy and paste film that is so popular these days) Great thread by the way flatapex! About a boy was one of my favourite books when I was in college and when I went back to night school it was the sort of book I wanted to write. The films I watched for my course showed me however that a film set in England at that time went either the route of 'bumbling Englishman in rom com', 'british hardman gangsters' or 'low budget Brit com' and hugh grant had to leave his comfort zone totally, which he did very well and it helped me with my course and subsequent writing immensely
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Post by ShadowAngel on Jan 5, 2017 18:23:25 GMT
My theory about the cinema is that back when we used to go in the 90s/early 2000s, things were different. Of course they were. Things always change. When it comes to movies the biggest difference is that trailers back then were teasers, meant to stirr up some interest. Nowadays trailers already contain the best scenes, basically show you the whole plot and in certain genres even show you the antagonist, think back to how movies like Jaws or Halloween were handled including the trailers and compare that to today where they show the antagonist and don't make a secret out of it. When it comes to movies i'm like Michael DeSanta from GTAV prefering the classics and old movies over the crap they puke out today which is mostly remakes, sequels without or just some of the original actors and CGI crap without substance or all of those mixed into one crap of a movie that usually also has a political agenda tied to it (Like that abomination that was "Ghostbusters" last year, the perfect example about everything that is wrong in Hollywood) And my interest in modern movies is extremely low. I bought the Iron Man trilogy recently after a friend recommended it to me (months ago...) and i haven't even touched it yet...
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Post by nearbythiscafe on Jan 5, 2017 19:08:56 GMT
I very rarely watch new films either, its all the same c**p churned out.. Horror films are always terrible these days and the last one I did attempt to watch at the cinema was ruined by teens screaming and taking selfies every 10 seconds 😡
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