Designer1

Really good fun.

A nicely grubby 70s aesthetic, with a few blatant nods to the Manson family coupled with a supernatural subplot and a bonkers final third.

44 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

I know, I know, everyone else picked it up months ago. I’m a bit slow.

It's not quite up to the same level as The Night Chancers but it's still a bloody good album.

It's probably heresy to say, but overall I like his stuff more than his dad's (and I liked his dad's stuff a lot).

1 hour ago, choffer said:

Not PFE or anything but I genuinely don't understand the love for Sopranos. 

I didn't watch it properly back in the day and am going through it now (at her behest). I'm persevering (in to season 3) but some of the acting is wooden, the plot lines predictable and the dialogue is laughable. 

I remember when you used to wait in the car, and frankly you should still be there!*

It's one of the best shows ever made and I bloody love it.

49 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

Loads of crap in the 60’s, loads of crap now. Good stuff always, if you’re interested.

This is it innit.

You could probably change the 60's to a fair few other decades too.

Good (and bad) music spans a **** long period of time. Sometimes you might just need to put a bit of effort in to find it.

24 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

Might sell my PS5 once FF7Rebirth comes out and I've played that. 40 this year and my gaming has dramatically decreased as of late. Might be time to hang up the boots and be a grown up.

I think if your enjoyment has decreased with your time spent then yeah, I can see why you'd want to pack it up.

I'm 53 this year and I enjoy gaming just as much (if not more) than I have since I picked up my first Binatone controller in the 70's. It's very much still one of my main two vices (along with movies).

I don't subscribe to the whole 'grown up' narrative tbh. Average video gamer is around 35 these days iirc, so the days when they were 'just for kids' have long gone.

I reckon they'll have to pry my controller from my cold dead hands 

This show is always one of the first that comes to mind as a child in the 70's.

Kids TV was a totally different kettle of fish in those days. Pretty much zero budget meant very, very low production values. Crap lighting, loads of greys and browns, sinister looking puppets held together with sticky back plastic and greats like Brian Cant and Derek Griffiths ruled the roost.

It was fantastic.

13 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Kaitlyn Dever cast as abby in the last of us 2

She's got to put some muscle on but she's definitley got some chops, brilliant in unbelievable and dopesick 

She was great in No One Will Save You - especially since there was only a few lines of dialogue in the whole film. Really good physical performance.

11 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Musketeers double bill tonight …  d'Artagnan finished , quick pizza break then part 2 Milady

there’s been countless Musketeer movies and of course the masterpiece that is Dogtanian  , but this is easily the best one they’ve ever made  even allowing for it being in French with English subtitle's… 

Looking forward to watching Milady, and that has absolutely nothing at all to do with Eva Green...no siree, not at all.

19 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Set myself a target to watch at least 100 movies this year. I only managed 67 last year, that's what having a kid does to you.

Already up to 5

Saltburn
Train to Busan
Do the Right Thing
When Evil Lurks
Toy Story 4

 

All been watched so far this month. Trying to stick to at least one new (ish) release and one old release from my watchlist every week

 

Society of the Snow will probably be next

I did 378 in 2023 (that's what having older kids does for you )

That's 5 strong movies to start the year with tbh. 

Society of the Snow is very good indeed.

21 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

I was serious but totally off the mark, confused with Stanley Baker ffs. getting old. Coomment about Hell Drivers still stands. Would be right up your street 

Oh I've seen it a few times. It was the Baker/Baxter mix up I was referring to

53 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Hell Driver, will live forever. Must watch that again soon 

Not sure if serious

Finally managed to book tickets to see Poor Things next week. Feels like the UK release has taken forever.

Lanthimos is one of the most unique contemporary director's for me and I've loved all his work so far.

Colour me excited. 

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

One of my recent favourites, nasty twist at the end as well to top it off 

Yeah, the bit with...

2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

add the Dark and the Wicked as well, also top notch on Shudder 

Done all the Hell House now, would recommend 1, 4 and 2 

Dark and the Wicked is fantastic.

The atmosphere and feeling of unseen dread throughout is incredible. 

15 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Just watched Salems Lot (1979 TV mini series) for the first time in decades. 

Probably seems very tame now but I'd forgotten how terrified I'd been as a child about the scene where the vampire is floating outside the window scratching on the glass, and when the guy jumps down onto the coffin. 

Plus how terrifying The Master Vampire was. 

Brilliant performance from James Mason as well. 

Strange how all the vamps go green and ugly except his girlfriend who turned more glamorous though. 

Available on catchup on The Scifi channel. 

Definitely Tobe Hoopers second best movie. 

Re. How Susan looked, the vampires sometimes use a 'glamour' to appear normal/attractive/young to their victims. There's a scene when the woman who runs the boarding house has been 'visited ' by the vampire version of her ex husband (the town drunk Weasel) - and she says something like 'I dreamt Weasel visited me, he was young and handsome again'. 

4 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Yeah it was excellent. The combination of disturbing and actually being a good movie is rarely done. But this nails it

Terrified (2017) by the same Director is worth a watch too, but not quite up to the standard of When Evil Lurks.

1 hour ago, leemond2008 said:

I've just renewed Shudder, are there any other gems on there, I haven't had this for about 2 years now so hopefully there is a few things that I can take a look at.

Here's a few on Shudder I've enjoyed recently:

Hell House LLC origins

Influencer 

The Retreat

The Sacrifice game 

Speak No Evil

Deadstream

The Mortuary Collection

The Sadness

Becky

Anything for Jackson

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

 

watched this tonight. Absolutely brilliant, but one of the most disturbing movies I’ve seen. Horrible

My favourite horror from last year. It's fantastic.

This third movie adaptation of the true story of the 1972 Uruguayan Rugby Team air crash, is easily the best.

Brilliantly made, with exceptional performances from the cast (many with debut performances). 

Really, really good stuff.

23 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Crikey. I've recently recorded Salems Lot which I haven't seen since my teens.  Will definitely have to watch it now out of respect. 

Always preferred Hutch to Starsky. 

I watch it every few years. Its still pretty damned good tbh.

On 17/12/2023 at 17:40, Designer1 said:

Just back from:

As @Follyfoot says, it's a very good movie indeed.

It's kind of difficult not to compare with the glitz and shine of the contemporary Hollywood film series, but apart from having Godzilla in the title, there's very little in the way of similarities. 

The main characters have emotional depth, and I connected immediately with them. The story has many layers with a central theme of guilt which is very well done and the post WW2 setting is portrayed with some pitch perfect cinematography. 

In a nutshell, the Hollywood movies are about Godzilla with a few human characters thrown in whereas this is very much a movie about people which just happens to have Godzilla in it.

It's brilliant.

 

15 minutes ago, Pongo Waring said:

Anyone watched Godzilla Minus One?

Brilliant 

Yep.

56 minutes ago, Chindie said:

Stumbled this YouTube channel, which has an occasional series on forgotten PS1 titles. I really quite like it. The guy has a good eye and ear for the presentation and his retrospectives are on the money.

This latest episode though jumped out because he covers Loaded and ReLoaded.  Loaded is one is those weird games that has chopped itself into my brain, but only in fragments - I could remember some of the music, some of the downright bizarre FMV sequences, some of the gameplay and the character design, most notably Fwank. I couldn't ever remember what the game actually was, but I had those snippets from when I played it, far too young, and enjoyed it's mindless gameplay, violence, banging soundtrack with bonus Pop Will Eat Itself tracks, and 'edgy' humour and design, welded into my brain. So it was nice to get a retrospective on it. I know it's rubbish, but it kinda has a place in my heart. That 2000ad design and the mid-90s-tastic cocktail of dark edgy humour, industrial rock and techno, and mindless violence, you can't beat it.

That's a blast from the past. I remember being blown away when I played the demo over and over on the disc which came with the PS1. Pretty sure I picked up ReLoaded later on too.

Usual New Year's Eve/Day for me:

NYE - Family party at our place with lots of food, games and then a bit of a dance later on.

NYD - I park myself on the sofa at 10am for my annual 12 hour movie marathon. The wife and kids will pop in occasionally throughout the day if there is a film on they want to watch.

As much as I like my job, I always hate the first day back on the 2nd.

30 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Tom Wilkinson 75

That's a shame. Good actor and decent bloke by all accounts.