The film thread.

[podknocker]

I do like bleak, apocalyptic sci-fi films with a bit of hope at the end. Oblivion and Interstellar in particular. I love everything the Nolan brothers write and produce.

 

[12th Monkey]

Christine on 4k - not the greatest film ever made, but enjoyable nonetheless. Have a soft spot for the showdown towards the end as the bit where the (previously hidden) car's headlights come on made my kids jump quite memorably when they first saw it!)

 

[davidf]

Christine on 4k - not the greatest film ever made, but enjoyable nonetheless. Have a soft spot for the showdown towards the end as the bit where the (previously hidden) car's headlights come on made my kids jump quite memorably when they first saw it!)

I’ve watched Christine a lot over the past 5 years or so, especially since picking it up on 4K. Some of the script is a little bit “of its time”, and I hate it when a character spouts an acronym, and another character basically says the whole thing to inform a dumb audience (in this case, TTFN). Another great score by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth.

 

[12th Monkey]

Love the long shot in that, that travels over three floors, through a keyhole etc etc.

Looks like the proposed 4k version is still not in the offing. Interestingly you can get it on blu ray - it was released in Spain last year. There's a seller on eBay doing them for £20 all in, so I've bought a copy.

 

[davidf]

Looks like the proposed 4k version is still not in the offing. Interestingly you can get it on blu ray - it was released in Spain last year. There's a seller on eBay doing them for £20 all in, so I've bought a copy.

Lots of Fincher stuff needs a 4K release, although I’m guessing some might need a good amount of work done as some of his films were from the early digital camera period, and were captured at 2K - you can’t scan 2K digital at 4K like you can 35mm or 70mm film!

 

[12th Monkey]

Educating Rita on blu ray - I don't think Michael Caine ever delivered a better performance. And I think only he and Richard E. Grant in Withnail & I have ever delivered properly convincing drunk performances.

 

[12th Monkey]

Trainspotting and The Witches on blu ray. The first is a genuine classic, the latter enjoyable enough (though I can see why Roald Dahl hated the tacked-on end).

 

[12th Monkey]

Carrie on 4k. A game of two (unequally-sized) halves in that Spacek and Laurie are great but some of the supporting cast is poor, and the attempts at humour don't work - for me at least. The prom scenes look great with HDR, but overall it's not the greatest advert for 4k, as I think most would suspect.

 

[12th Monkey]

Magicians, still not available on anything other than DVD. If you like Mitchell and Webb you'd enjoy it - it not, probably not...

 

[12th Monkey]

The Final Curtain - wonderfully black comedy about two warring game show hosts - Peter O'Toole and Aiden Gillen. Scripted by John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) - really undeservedly obscure.

 

[12th Monkey]

Aliens gets a US 4k release in April, so hopefully we will soon thereafter. Trying to source a US copy of a newly-released 4k cut means having to accept being debagged, it seems to me!

Available for pre-order for March!