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Had a Second Sight released Blu ray double bill last night.

It Follows (2014). First time watching and I loved this. Some dodgy acting aside it was really really good. There’s a curse you can contract by having sex with a person who has it. The person who gave it to you is then free as long as you live. When you get it “it” will start following you. If it catches you it will kill you in a gruesome manner, but it can only move by walking towards you slowly so you can outrun it for quite some time. This was shot way better than most horror movies, and also had a weird timeline (nobody had cellphones, and the TVs were old tube TVs, otherwise everything seemed modern) and great 80s Carpenter style electronic soundtrack. Scary in the way I prefer (no jumpscares, instead it’s just really creepy).

Drive (2011). It’s been over ten years since I last watched this, and I wondered why. A perfect movie.

rhouses Will be doing both Soderbergs in the cinema

You never struck me as that kind of guy, Rhouses

    Homegrove Was planning on going to see it but not sure now. Will see what you say H 👍🏻

        Wally it won’t be in the theatres in the UK by the time I can watch it here, so not a great plan.

            Homegrove people I trust are loving it though (not a dig against you)

            No offence taken. All these reviews are purely subjective. I’d probably revise my score up to a 6 but I went in with really high hopes for this one and found it very forgettable.

              Wasily Saw this in the Royal Box in Curzon Mayfair

              Love this!

                • Amps

                  • Post #9990

                  Along_the_Wire What are your strong opinions?

                  All about context and contrast.

                  Brutalist buildings tend not to work in European city centres because they don’t contrast well enough with the other buildings around them. If like the Brazillians you drop them into the middle of a jungle or a huge park, the straight lines contrast against natures lines of foliage and landscape, as do the colours, and it looks boss.

                  Obviously scale and form come into it a bit too; Lang Stracht hotel and Cumbernauld town centre won’t ever look good anywhere, they’re just not fundamentally good enough. They’d have benefited from a bit of Futurism or Googie, but I assume they were just too cheap for that.

                  Think of Brutalist buildings like a pair of massive tits, they’re great in the right place, but nobody want’s them on a munter.

                      • Amps

                        • Post #9991

                        I’m happy that the film, The Brutalist, may completely debunk everything I have just written 😆

                        That was a good read, Amps. Ha

                        • Wasily

                          • Post #9995
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                          Along_the_Wire Don’t get me wrong- I wouldn’t decline it if I won it 😉

                          But the kitchen sink alone would drive me nuts. It would be like living in an Imperial Star Destroyer.

                          I see a lot of the Brutalist influence everywhere- even in Hifi. Chord make amazing sounding systems but (aside from pricing) I would never want something that looked like this in my home.

                            • Amps

                              • Post #9996

                              Wasily looks too much like a municipal building, shades of Pharell’s gaf.

                              Who knew he lived in a local college.

                                • Amps

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                                  Wasily would rather have the Goldstein place.

                                  Lloyd Wright vibes and proves you can have the brutalist look and be vaguely homely.

                                      Amps that is lovely amps. We need an architecture thread!

                                        Mickey 17 (2025). Some funny bits, and Robert Pattinson with yet another accent. Not especially great, but good times at the movies, and I’m glad we saw it at a movie theater than at home.

                                        Edit: A Letterboxd-review called this a feature length Futurama-movie and that is spot on.

                                        Rewatched Dune II in IMAX today. First time since release. Not sure I can fault it for anything, besides it probably being a complete waste of time on a TV at home. Easily the best movie to come out in 2024.

                                          • C_J

                                            • Post #10001

                                            Knox Goes Away (2023)

                                            This is basically a two hour version of Barry but less funny, and with Michael Keaton and Al Pacino.

                                            I really liked it.

                                            8/10