Rate the last film you watched...

[Elite]

10 minutes ago, Pidge said:

I always thought it was pretty clear he was a quality actor, even back in Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries he was clearly properly committed to his performances.  Then in Quick and the Dead he was almost sending up his own persona for the next five years before it had even happened.  Thing is when it all took off for him it was so manufactured it obscured the quality of some of the films, the Beach and Romeo + Juliet in particular.

I was going to mention The Basketball Diaries, boss film.

[Bjornebye]

35 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I like The Beach.

I do too and Romeo & Juliet. 

 

I don't think he is that good in The Beach himself though. That is one weird film that. I only watched it for the first time a few years ago (I'd always loved that All Saints soundtrack song) and was very surprised how dark it was. Robert Carlyle is a lunatic in it and the bit with the two Swedish lads getting bitten by sharks is seriously grim. 

[Tony Moanero]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I do too and Romeo & Juliet. 

 

I don't think he is that good in The Beach himself though. That is one weird film that. I only watched it for the first time a few years ago (I'd always loved that All Saints soundtrack song) and was very surprised how dark it was. Robert Carlyle is a lunatic in it and the bit with the two Swedish lads getting bitten by sharks is seriously grim. 

The only thing about The Beach is that Tilda Swinton is bloody annoying, as she is in everything bar The Chronicles of Narnia. She was a decent White Witch, but not a patch on Barbara Kellerman in the 1980s BBC adaptation.

 

Never seen Romeo and Juliet, as I cant stand Shakespeare.

[Elite]

Romeo + Juliet is actually good, quite stylish and well done I thought.

[Mook]

The Beach is easily in the top 5 worst films I've ever seen, absolutely shocking.

 

I made it about seven minutes into that Romeo & Juliet shite before I had to turn it off as well.

 

He was good in This Boy's Life though but I didn't see that until after I'd seen The Aviator or The Departed.

[Tony Moanero]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

The Beach is easily in the top 5 worst films I've ever seen, absolutely shocking.

 

 

What are the other films?

[Pidge]

46 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I don't think he is that good in The Beach himself though. 

Yeah, I mean his status kind of got in the way of the film Boyle was trying to make.  I think the intention was to subvert the idea of what a DiCaprio film was, but that aspect just doesn't land and the film would've been better with a lesser known main character thrown into the whole lord of the flies situation.

[Mook]

6 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

What are the other films?

Robocop 3

Anything Directed by Danny fucking

Boyle

What Dreams May Come

Beverley Hills Cop 3

Dirty Dancing

 

I can't watch anything with Adam Sandler or else his films would probably make up all five.

 

[Pidge]

48 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

The only thing about The Beach is that Tilda Swinton is bloody annoying, as she is in everything bar The Chronicles of Narnia. She was a decent White Witch, but not a patch on Barbara Kellerman in the 1980s BBC adaptation.

 

Can't back you on the Shakespeare comment, but with you on the BBC version love.

[Numero Veinticinco]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

Dirty Dancing

You absolute fucking MONSTER. 

[Pidge]

Fucking hell, haven't thought about that version in years.  With the mad people in make-up playing all the animals... reminds me of the old Look and Read films from primary.

[Tony Moanero]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

 

Can't back you on the Shakespeare comment, but with you on the BBC version love.

 

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

Fucking hell, haven't thought about that version in years.  With the mad people in make-up playing all the animals... reminds me of the old Look and Read films from primary.

 

I have it on DVD - It’s ace

[Pidge]

6 minutes ago, Mook said:

Anything Directed by Danny fucking

Boyle 

 

You monster.  Not even Millions?!

[Pidge]

4 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I have it on DVD - It’s ace

Do you have Geordie Racer and Through the Dragons Eye on Scotch VHS?

 

really want to see it again now, shame those kind of productions don't really happen these days, unless it's Wes Anderson doing it deliberately.

[Mook]

15 minutes ago, Pidge said:

You monster.  Not even Millions?!

I've not seen that, I've seen five or six of his films down the years & won't be watching any more of them. I find his stuff absolutely soulless.

 

Even that Olympic ceremony thing he was involved with turned my stomach.

[Bjornebye]

12 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Do you have Geordie Racer and Through the Dragons Eye on Scotch VHS?

 

really want to see it again now, shame those kind of productions don't really happen these days, unless it's Wes Anderson doing it deliberately.

Hahaha Geordie Racer. used to love the telly getting wheeled into class for a bit of that. Or Magic Magic Eeee. Which was ironic considering it was in about 1989. 

[Tony Moanero]

16 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Do you have Geordie Racer and Through the Dragons Eye on Scotch VHS?

 

really want to see it again now, shame those kind of productions don't really happen these days, unless it's Wes Anderson doing it deliberately.

Ha ha, no, but I do have The Box of Delights on DVD. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe looks very dated now, but I still love it.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Mook said:

I've not seen that, I've seen five or six of his films down the years & won't be watching any more of them. I find his stuff absolutely soulless.

Not liking Dirty Dancing or Beverly Hills Cop 3 is fucking soulless. I bet you were made-up when Uncle Dave got shot weren't you, you sick fuck. Bounce about the place like your some kind of blues, soul, music retro hipster flare wearing jive talking cool cunt. 

 

You're nothing but a shit-kicking thunder bastard. 

[Elite]

Hopefully this year yields some top movies as this decade as been dire, bar Django and The Wolf of Wall Street I'm struggling to pick a 'classic'. There have been some good films but nothing that makes you say 'wow'. Well apart from the 2 I've mentioned.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

Hopefully this year yields some top movies as this decade as been dire, bar Django and The Wolf of Wall Street I'm struggling to pick a 'classic'. There have been some good films but nothing that makes you say 'wow'. Well apart from the 2 I've mentioned.

Interstellar and Dallas Buyers Club both great films laa. 

[Mook]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Not liking Dirty Dancing or Beverly Hills Cop 3 is fucking soulless. I bet you were made-up when Uncle Dave got shot weren't you, you sick fuck. Bounce about the place like your some kind of blues, soul, music retro hipster flare wearing jive talking cool cunt. 

 

You're nothing but a shit-kicking thunder bastard. 

I'm not really into the blues.

[Aventus]

31 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Yeah, I mean his status kind of got in the way of the film Boyle was trying to make.  I think the intention was to subvert the idea of what a DiCaprio film was, but that aspect just doesn't land and the film would've been better with a lesser known main character thrown into the whole lord of the flies situation.

I think that's what caused Boyle and Ewan McGregor to fall out aswell. Mcgregor had been the lead in all of Boyles films til that point, then got replaced by some babyfaced yank. 

 

Think it took them about 10 years before they started speaking again. 

[Elite]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Interstellar and Dallas Buyers Club both great films laa. 

Not classics for me. I'd add them alongside Hell or Highwater of very good but not legendary movies.

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, Elite said:

Not classics for me. I'd add them alongside Hell or Highwater of very good but not legendary movies.

I think both are but We were on about this decade. They stand out for me with Django

[Elite]

The Irishman could potentially be a great movie, just a bit concerned it's a Netflix movie, which are generally shite.