list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

^ A valid theory.

The Butcher Boy

It's like an Irish Clockwork Orange. More a social satire than a dystopian science fiction though. Neil Jordan at his best, excellent supporting cast featuring Stephen Rea and Brendan Gleeson.

Affleck is a much better director than actor if you ask me, and also turns out his best performances in those films he himself directed. Like I say, there's quite a gap between the kind of films he has to do in order to pay the bills and what he actually wants to do.

I'm pretty sure I've read that Bale is something of a diva, who quite frequently makes demands to the production and/or director. The problem with that is that actors are and have always been pawns in a game of chess - or so they should be imo. They're like models in that respect. Sure they should be encouraged to add their twang and magic to the role they play - or conversely interact with the director in certain scenes so as to maximise whatever outcome the scene is in need of, just like Kubrick used to do.

Atavachron wrote: Snowpiercer  Highly original future-shock adapted from the GN Le Transperceneige puts us on a perpetually moving train traversing a frozen, post-catastrophe Earth and follows the uprising of the trains' lower classes.   Refreshingly unique and with a distinct Asian worldview, Seolgungnyeolcha possesses an acuity not often seen in modern action movies and is as engaging as it is disturbing.   Tilda Swinton is hysterically chilling as the sadistic controller who manages the hordes, and John Hurt equally good as their spiritual leader.

That movie was fun but I couldn't help but keep thinking things like "man i hope no one breaks the toilet because it's going to be a long ride."

In the last few evenings I have watched:

The Worlds End.......minor comedy with Brit guys doing a pub crawl in their home town years later who meet up with aliens and the 'end of the world'. Mildly amusing...

I really liked Sam Rockwell in Seven Psychopaths and Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Over the week I've watched two very different movies about scientific expeditions where things didn't quite go as planned.


Surprised at how well the underwater photography holds up to this day, even though it's probably not as groundbreaking as back in 1954, and how convincingly the title monster is realized. The story's really bare-bones, but the conflict between the characters in how to deal with the creature is still somewhat well thought out.


Kinda reminds me of a more mainstream-friendly version of some of Werner Herzog's movies about mad explorers and colonists, in how it seems to focus on Thor Heyerdahl's ambition teetering unto the edge of full-blown hubris as well as the conflict it creates with the other members of the Kon-Tiki expedition. It obviously didn't wow me the same way as Aguirre the Wrath of God or Fitzcarraldo, but I liked that it struck an agreeable balance between that kind of film and a more accessible Hollywood adventure epic.

I saw the Kon-Tiki flick as well Simon and my reaction perfectly mirrors the one you had. Good movie, but I'd rather go watch Aguirre again if I'm in the mood for the explorer vs megalomaniac conundrum.