Question Film of The Year

[Vae]

Just got back from watching Gravity in IMAX. Top drawer film. Interestingly, there was an extended trailer for The Desolation of Smaug just before it, and the naturalistic handling of the 3D in Gravity made The Hobbit look fucking awful.

I saw Thor at the BFI IMAX last week. All the 3D trailers including The Hobbit and Gravity looked awful. Everything was blurred and in your face or looked like pictures set at 3 different distances. I was concerned the 3D in the film was going to be the same but it was fine. Makes me wonder if it's just the trailers 3D being shit.

 

[Raven]

The Hobbit is a prime example of why you don't have to do 3d for the sake of it. With the exception of a couple of scenes (The one with the eagles and the moth was excellent!) it just wasn't needed, at all.

 

[Billargh]

Just got back from seeing Gravity also, what an incredible film. It's one of only two films I've ever seen where the 3D seemed like a welcome addition to the film.

 

[Madmaxx]

well seems like im going to have to pop my 3D movie cherry and go to watch it then

 

[Chilly]

well seems like im going to have to pop my 3D movie cherry and go to watch it then

go to a good cinema. imax in Waterloo if you're a Londoner. Worth the 15 notes.

 

[Aoami]

jackass 3d was the best 3d film ever

 

[Edmond]

Not a fan of 3D either, but Hugo was very good in 3D

 

[Raven]

We're the Millers 4/5 Enjoyed it. I would still do Aniston until it fell off too.

 

[leggy]

Well it's finally a toss up between 'Before Midnight' and 'Gravity (IMAX)'.

Went to see Gravity last night before it finished it's run on the IMAX here (Jennifer Lawrence is up next, which isn't a bad thing). Absolutely fucking spectacular. I've never gripped the arm rests so much during any other film.

Oh, and Sandra Bullock looks outstanding... still!

 

[ECA]

Gravity was def one of the better Hollywood films this year.

That said New World is my film of the year. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2625030/

 

[ECA]

Oh, and Sandra Bullock looks outstanding... still!

Heh dem thighs. One of my friends was saying how awful she looked in this film... He does this shit all the time ( talking about how ugly x woman is ). And then he goes home and tries to find his penis under his 20 stone body to put the tip in his 20 stone girlfriend.
I have to bite my cheeks everytime.

 

[leggy]

Heh dem thighs.

Agree

Never found a woman in tight boxers so attractive before.

 

[Scouse]

Gravity was def one of the better Hollywood films this year.

That said New World is my film of the year. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2625030/

One for this weekend methinks

 

[Raven]

Just watched 12 years a slave, easily film of 2013.

 

[Billargh]

Just watched 12 years a slave, easily film of 2013.

Seen that last night too, utterly fantastic film.

 

[ileks]

I watched The Wolf of Wall st the other day. Brilliant film. Funny as fuck, good nudity (his wife is fucking stunning) and well acted.

I thought American Hustle was a bit overrated.

 

[Scouse]

One for this weekend methinks

Gravity was a bit shit tbfh.

Didn't get to see it in IMAX 3D - just normal 3D. And I think that made a big difference - it's purely an effects movie and unless you get punched in the face with the effects (IMAX) there's nothing else to hold your attention.

Put it this way - when my missus says:

Spoiler

WTF is Sandra Bullock's character doing in space in the first place?

1) She's a medical doctor.
2) She's also an engineer that designed a circuit board to add to a sattellite that monitors climate?
3) She's afraid of space.
4) Despite that fear they make her an ASTRONAUT!
5) To perform a MENIAL JOB - plugging in a circuit board!

SHE CLEARLY SHOULDN'T BE THERE!

It was pretty fucking dull tbfh. Woo-woo space and a shit story. Yes, the effects were good - but not great on standard 3D. I reckon I'd have enjoyed it more if I had the big-screen depth-perception jiggery-pokery of IMAX and it's field of view fun.

But I didn't. And I was bored.

 

[old.Tohtori]

For a space movie, which there are exactly ONE, it wasn't at all bad.

If your biggest problem is why a person is in space, you have issues

 

[Scouse]

If your biggest problem is why a person is in space, you have issues

It's a simple basic and obvious story issue that is so glaringly obviously stupid and easily rectified.

Maybe everyone else has the issue that their quality bar has been driven so low by years of hollywood churning out utter utter turd that when something shiny comes along they forgive stuff that's absolutely retarded.

Plus - the important thing is, due to the absolute lack of any story whatsoever, I (and the people I went to watch it with) found it dull.

Which is a shame as up until now I've actually kept buying Alfonso Cuarón's stuff...

 

[DaGaffer]

NASA is chock-full of polymath astronauts with multiple degrees; go and look at their CVs online, its both impressive and depressing. So her background wasn't unusual. Psych screening would be a bit more of an issue but I bet there have been a lot of mission specialists who don't fit the Right Stuff profile; they're not pilots after all.

The biggest thing I would take issue with is the "lack of any story", Gravity is all story. Its pretty much pared to the bone story. Characterisation is just enough to make their decisions understandable and no more. If you found it dull your brain's broken. To be honest apart from some minor quibbles about the physics it was one of the most exciting films I've seen in years. I will admit that its not going to stand up to repeat viewing at home though; this pretty much only works on a big fuckoff screen.

Watched 12 Years A Slave at the weekend. Its very well acted (the odd dodgy accent aside - Benedict), but a lot of the press has been how this kind of harrowing portrait of slavery hasn't been done as the focus of the story before. Really? Because although it was well executed film-making there was literally nothing surprising or new about any of it. Roots did this , Jesus...37 years ago and is still the benchmark as far as I'm concerned. And I enjoyed Django Unchained more

 

[Billargh]

Watched 12 Years A Slave at the weekend. Its very well acted (the odd dodgy accent aside - Benedict),

Benedict's wasn't the worst, Brad Pitt doing just about the only other accent he can do was. Whenever he spoke all I could think of was:

 

[Scouse]

The biggest thing I would take issue with is the "lack of any story", Gravity is all story.

Story is microstrike ohhh scared scared scared, go somewhere, same happens, oh scared scared scared, shit happens again, ohhh scared scared scared.

It's like a movie version of an Alton Towers ride - and I detest Alton Towers (and theme parks in general - they're dull as dishwater).

Basically, the film relys on bringing about a feeling of peril. I didn't feel it (no IMAX) - so I basically didn't get to feel what the film was supposed to be making me feel.

I will admit that its not going to stand up to repeat viewing at home though; this pretty much only works on a big fuckoff screen.

That's because there's no real story to back it up. It's an effects and events movie. A bit like Transformers in space but with less comedy.

It's a one-and-done thing - without the visual effect and engineered peril it's boring.

 

[old.Tohtori]

It's a one-and-done thing - without the visual effect and engineered peril it's boring.

A space catastrophe movie without effects and engineered peril would be boring? Go figure

I think you were expecting more of a psychological thriller then what it was

 

[Scouse]

I think you were expecting more of a psychological thriller then what it was

Nope. It was being described as A-MAZE-ING!!!111!11! by pretty much all the media. Oscar tipped at that.

It's just an effects movie. If I thought it was *just* that I'd not have bothered. "Amazing" to me is Gravity + "Compelling Story" at the same time - less is just meh...

 

[old.Tohtori]

Well some said Hobbit is "A-MAZE-ING!!!111!11!", but it was just good, or even ok. Different folks.

 

[caLLous]

Short Term 12 has shot to the top of my list.

 

[leggy]

Well some said Hobbit is "A-MAZE-ING!!!111!11!", but it was just good, or even ok. Different folks.

Agreed. It looked pretty awful in HFR 3D and the movie was quite stunningly average.... well maybe not so much agreement

I have NEVER understood the attraction to the LOtR and Hobbit movies. I watch them mostly because of the hype and subsequently wish I had spent the time picking fluff out of my belly button. P.S I love fantasy, these books just don't translate via Peter Jackson's vision (in my humble opinion).

I forgot to add Blue Jasmine to my previous list. I have a spectacular love for the Blanchett and this is probably the first Woody Allen movie that I have really enjoyed (haven't watched Manhattan though).

 

[Wij]

Agreed. It looked pretty awful in HFR 3D and the movie was quite stunningly average.... well maybe not so much agreement

I have NEVER understood the attraction to the LOtR and Hobbit movies. I watch them mostly because of the hype and subsequently wish I had spent the time picking fluff out of my belly button. P.S I love fantasy, these books just don't translate via Peter Jackson's vision (in my humble opinion).

I forgot to add Blue Jasmine to my previous list. I have a spectacular love for the Blanchett and this is probably the first Woody Allen movie that I have really enjoyed (haven't watched Manhattan though).

http://www.theonion.com/articles/boy-ive-really-put-you-in-a-tough-spot-havent-i,34949/

 

[Scouse]

I think the article is pretty horrible actually Wij. Bordering on slander. D'ya rekon?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/boy-ive-really-put-you-in-a-tough-spot-havent-i,34949/

Oh, sure, you could try to defend me in an argument by saying, “Well, he was never convicted, and it’s possible that this little girl just made all that stuff up,” but, c’mon, anyone who says that is bound to sound like kind of an asshole, right? Even if your intentions are good, that line of argument does sort of make you look like you’re throwing a potential molestation victim under the bus in order to defend, at all costs, that funny, neurotic guy in the glasses who makes you laugh, doesn’t it?

No. You're defending a principle in law that the innocent are innocent until proven guilty - one that protects all of us from injustice of the most serious kind.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I wouldn't argue anything that starts with the address "theonion"