Film Discussion Thread *NO SPOILERS*

Dick Jones · Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:14 am

Forgot Bill Paxton was in this. Charlie Sheen's tweet about him is demented gold.

Tonight's viewing sorted.

Eucrid · Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:47 am

mooch wrote:you could tell Beatty knew there was a cock-up when he looked at the envelope. Dunaway thought he was messing. such a mess. yer man from LaLa Land was a bit of a dick i thought - but sure he thought he won best picture i suppose

hate that people are just saying "doddery old people's mistake"

They are saying he took the wrong envelope instead of waiting to be handed the one he was supposed to have.

billysexcrime · Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:52 am

But surely if they knew he had taken the wrong one and had not waited for the right one they would have interveened before the announcement?

Dick Jones · Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:53 am

Eucrid wrote:
mooch wrote:you could tell Beatty knew there was a cock-up when he looked at the envelope. Dunaway thought he was messing. such a mess. yer man from LaLa Land was a bit of a dick i thought - but sure he thought he won best picture i suppose

hate that people are just saying "doddery old people's mistake"
They are saying he took the wrong envelope instead of waiting to be handed the one he was supposed to have.

Don't know about that, I saw somewhere that Emma Stone had been walking around with her card the whole time since getting her one; it was a duplicate of it that ended up in Beatty's hand.

So like if he had taken the wrong envelope, how could she also have the right one.

It's actually quite interesting.

Eucrid · Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:28 pm

I expect PWC will take the fall either way. If they are doing it again next year its probably not really their fault.

Dick Jones · Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:14 pm

OK watched the clip.

You can clearly see Warren Beatty recognising there was a fuck-up. Faye was beside him going get on with it Warren you crazy old fuck.

It looks like he was thikning about saying hold yisser horses there's something wrong here, then she took the card off him.

LordPercy · Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:44 pm

It was nominated and didn't win the oscar but BBC 4 showed Life Animated there recently and I watched it over the weekend. Really good documentary about a kid with Autism who had become totally withdrawn and how Disney films allowed him connect with the world again and make some sense of it. Well worth a watch if you get a chance

Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:45 pm

ah they talked about that on gogglebox, amazing how he learned to speak through disney films

LordPercy · Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:04 pm

And learned to read from the credits!
His first words after 3 years of silence were to draw an analogy between how sad his brother was that his birthday party was over and Peter Pan not wanting to grow up. Amazing to see how he developed after they got through to him.

Lumbo · Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:09 pm

Ryan Tubridy interviewed his father on the morning that he got the Oscar nomination. The interview might still be on the Radio 1 website.

mooch · Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:43 pm

just watched a bit of the Oscars, it was grand. I thought Kimmel did a good job, but i like him anyway.

would've like Lin-Manuel to get the oscar & complete his EGOT, but La La Land really has an amazing soundtrack. so much so that i can't stop thinking about the film again now, even though when i watched it i wasn't really blown away. also between the 2 songs that were nominated, i thought the other should have won.

i might have to watch the film again

Eucrid · Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:46 pm

The La La Land song that won is horrible. Its barely a song, its just a couple of bars they repeat for the whole fucking film.

mooch · Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:50 pm

ah it's not a winner but it's not horrible, there is a 4 minute version. "fools who dream" is better

Phierstarter · Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:26 am

Trainspotting 2 didn't really do it for me unfortunately.
Being knackered didn't help.

maradara · Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:18 am

going through the oscar nominated movies i haven't seen

this is one of the stranger ones:

predicted a fair bit of it, and it felt like it should have ended 3 or 4 times, but entertaining none the less. not sure if it's supposed to be playing up to french stereotypes, but it does a good job of it

i_ate_cats · Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:34 am

Captain Fantastic
Couldn't wait for this to be over tbh, it's fairly obnoxious and very sentimental. I like Vigo Mortensen but he's playing a poorly realised character here. Don't know why I expected a less cutesy tone. I might have enjoyed it more if I wasn't exhausted.

stateofyouboy · Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:08 am

logan is great, probably the best marvel movie i can remember and john wick 2 is also great craic

i_ate_cats · Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:40 am

Was impressed by Logan. It has a lot going on and it manages to keep its balance throughout.

Reminded me of Midnight Special a bit.

It's the first Wolverine movie that I've enjoyed, shame Jackman is (supposedly) giving up the role, he's great here. Stephen Merchant is a bit rubbish.

Dick Jones · Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:59 am

I bet he doesn't give it up.

eventSecurity · Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:34 pm

He'll be back for deadpool 2, but not another wolverine movie