Movies

One of my favourites.

Saw Jaws in 4DX at the weekend as part of the 50th anniversary release. I thought the 4d thing would be a gimmick, but it did actually add quite a lot of immersion, especially the wind effects and the spray for the boat and beach scenes.

Also quite liked the chugging of the boat engines.

We did the same on Sat it was excellent.

Watched the Thursday Murder Club movie. I'd read the first book but didn't really remember it. Film is very gentle, especially considering there's 4(?) murders in it.

Most amusing bits are the random additional exposition for Americans. "I'm putting you in CID, the criminal investigation department"."I used to work for the met police, in London"

Missed at least one murder- five.

I have read it and enjoyed it. I thought the film was a overly "cutesy" or hammy or ... Something. But it was fine. Good thing to watch with the in-laws who were visiting.

Thursday Night Murder club was bland bollocks for such a good cast. Designed for general audiences and not worth anything really. Still...watched the whole thing for some weird reason. Forgot about the film as soon as it finished. Helen Mirren is good in everything mind you....

Watching Thunderbolts tonight and the new Spike Lee/ Denzel thing. Both out on steaming now.

Saturday night is film night but we can never decide what the hell to watch because ...well differences. So we rotate week to week personal choices. I have this week. No doubt she will complain.

Who knew time off was work...

Chicago: Always in a compromised position.

Mrs Rave and I watched TNMC the other day. It was fine and we laughed at bits. Not everything can be Endeavour.
Though I remember thinking when I read the book 'I don't think this would have attracted as much fuss had it been written by Joe Bloggs from not-telly-land rather than Richard Osman'. Also, being from telly-land Osman wrote scenes rather than chapters.

The counter to that is that it's sold loads all over the world, to the extent that Spielberg/netflix were prepared to pay £60m to film it (rather than the obvious, much cheaper 6 part bbc Sunday night adaptation), and Osman is pretty unknown outside the UK.

Yes, but those things hadn't happened when I read the book. Being a big telly-land person in the UK must've opened doors and kick-started some of the process that would've probably not happened to Joe Bloggs.

I watched this a few days ago, went into it with very low expectations and actually found it surprisingly entertaining. Fun cast (obviously centred around the lovely and talented Florence Pugh), reasonably tight script, and none of the tedious multiverse rubbish that caused the MCU to become such a po-faced pile of fanboi bilge in the last few years.

Speaking of Mirren, we watched The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover last night. Still as bonkers and enjoyable as when I last saw it 35 years ago.

She and Pierce Brosnan are immense in Mobland. Properly funny.

One of my colleagues at my old school had been watching Mobland and asked me if people in England really say cunt that frequently. Not as much as Australians. Probably.

I certainly do, especially when Kent are playing.

Watched Weapons tonight. I think Cregger is one of those directors I'm just not going to get on with, I didn't like Barbarian as much as most people did and I didn't like Weapons much either. He's got a surrealist comedy style that I find annoying, it reminds me of things like The League Of Gentlemen which I hated. It wasn't scary in the slightest.