Most nihilistic movie of 2016: Superman and Batman vs Eddie the Eagle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FWAiXll_jw

Superbat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle_rKBpZ28

Supereagle

I had a free ticket to see Eddie the eagle but couldn't bring myself to show up for it

Why don't they get Bela Tarr out of retirement for the next shitfest? Would deffo watch that.

Rather than films that just feel 7 hours long

what with the two florence foster jenkins movies, it's quite a year for heroic failures. mcgonagall movie next obv

just a zabriskie point style 90-minute michael bay rendering of the tay bridge disaster with slomo replays, weird arty angles, everything in minute detail, as the great poem is read in turn by the great british actors of eddie redmayne's generation

Like

There is literally fuck all heroic about Eddie Edwards tho

oh obv, plus he isn't actually in the book of heroic failures (think he happened after it was published, but still, i'm not sure he'd have been apt)

an eddie the eagle movie coming out now is...i mean, what sort of dismal nostalgia for the days when you could openly bully people based on their appearance is this?

not that he's a victim here, he's obviously a) complicit and b) a massive egotist

The whole "why this film, now?" is baffling to me except there's a cosy Britcom audience that will lap up any old shit

The Lady In The Van was really quite good, so there are different tiers of Britcom at play here - worth interrogating, maybe

Eddie The Eagle strikes as a Brit version of Cool Runnings

I guess TLITV was niche lit-circles Britcom and ETE is razzle dazzle Event Britcom, the self-satisfied sins of the former dwarfed by the sheer swarming crapulence, the pandering abyss of the latter

I found the Harry potter performances of the entire supporting cast of lady in the van incredibly grating (these parts were also quite badly written) but yeah it was better than I had reason to expect

Withnail And I and Monty Python being the only good post-Ealing examples of the latter? ooh discuss etc

oh yeah TLITV was carried by the main two, but they were great

I don't dig much Bennett has done as a movie screenwriter at all, apart from Prick Up Your Ears really. TLITV's cloying wackiness did me in after 15 minutes, which is usually the case with most britcom movies.

wait a minutes, this Eddie the Eagle film was directed by DEXTER FLETCHER???

this is all julia sawalha's fault

I blame it all on Press Gang, myself

The night of the anniversary of the rising and it seems fair to opine that press gang being broadcast on rte might be the worst wound ye ever inflicted on us

High Rise is way worse than any of this btw.

so was Brothers Grimsby

I am only English by birth but will still humbly apologise for the exportation of rank fukin NKVD BBC preopaganda bullshit into the motherland in the late 80's!

loving xyzzzz's Wheatley/Jump vendetta, but no

http://www.feelslikehomeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Eddie-the-Eagle-Movie-Poster-2.jpg

What's taron Egerton an anagram of

A rotten goner

otter 'n orange

one r not great

gannet rooter

Certainly looks like people are consternated

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1846 of them)

top ten posters in that thread by post and word count pls

the fact that people have enough money to go and watch films they know they'll hate is just more evidence that our democracies produce the best standards of living

and that cineworld offers unlimited cinema visits for a monthly fee

Def finding 'death of cinema' laments from ppl who have gone to see Star Wars more than once tough to take seriously

High Rise isn't very good, tho :-(

Was told this had some beautiful shots. Not enough then.

loving xyzzzz's Wheatley/Jump vendetta, but no

Yet to give a single thought to either film in this poll. High Rise looked like Ballard for the Cameron babies at The Guardian

neither film in this poll deserves a thought other than as comic examples of terrible things that i happened to be over-exposed to the blurbs for over the weekend

Wheatley jump vendetta is good in an "ilx user turrican is using this poll about the best flavour of monster munch as an opportunity to say some really quite cutting things about the 1975" kinda way I suppose

I don't know about this 1975 business except I know Salo was made in 1975 and that wasn't quietly cutting at all.

it's way short of Pasolini's best work too, tbf

idk, its a pretty singular film. Pasolini might've been 'wrong' (this is what Gary Indiana was arguing in the BFI book of the film iirc) but you look at the world and most of the first three months of film in 2016 and tell me the world isn't turning like Salo

(I want to see Hawks & Sparrows sometime)

i have no idea why i said that last night other than my drinking is getting back out of hand

I think a few drinks would make me like Salo even more than I do.

halfway through batz v supes with my son, i was wistfully asking myself where the carry on team are in our hour of deepest garbage. rest of the film was spent mentally recasting: jim dale and angela douglas for clark and lois, sid for batman, charles hawtrey as robin (i know he's not in the film but come on), valerie leon as wonder woman, endless jokes about the planet krapton, jobs a good un

either that or redo it all with windsor davies and donald sinden as rival next-door neighbour superheroes, maybe call it never that wayne

Did anyone competent in winter sports compete at the Calgary olympics?

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oh dear

not that i'd ever heard of eddie edwards, but his biopic's digital cinema package has untamperably attached to the head of the movie file a thirty-second clip in which hugh jackman dutifully calls it "an inspiring story about dreamers and underdogs" and then thanks you, the audience, for making movies possible by going to them; so a belated vote for that, because i guarantee you nobody who's finally made it to the other side of all the trailers plus the melodramatic dolby countdown where fake celluloid burns away to reveal the infinite digital vista beyond is happy to hear the words "hi, i'm hugh jackman", but eddie the eagle does not care

^beautifully put

God I hate Taron Egerton