QI Films.

[efros]

A pity to start this thread in our new home with a negative. 

The Union: Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry

Currently has a 5.5/10 on IMDB, I'd be ok with that rating in fact a little lower would be more OK. Not a film I'd go out of my way to watch again. It is streaming on N'flix and I'm only watching that as it came free with my current phone contract. To be fair it is a fairly inoffensive piece that passed the time with a modicum of enjoyment.

Some enjoyable moments, but large plot holes and too much money spent on locations rather than script. Lorraine Bracco has a cameo as Wahlberg's mother and it took me a while to figure out who the familiar looking woman was. It was also curious to see that Wahlberg got a higher billing than Berry did, she really hasn't fared too well of late.

[jenny]

We watched that on Saturday and I'd pretty much agree with your assessment Efros. It was mildly entertaining and that's about as far as I'd go.

[tetsabb]

By a strange coincidence, I was just thinking of starting a film thread, as we have seen a couple in the last week that I thought worth mentioning

Songs my Brother Taught Me. 2015
Episodes from the lives of a brother and sister living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. 
Slow-moving, with not much happening, yet utterly gripping and moving.
Some of the short incidents are too short so occasionally hard to follow, but there is a gradual build-up of emotion.
I realised at the end why so much of tge feel of it was familiar: it was created and directed by Chloe Zhao, who was responsible for the amazing Nomadland.

Riders of Justice 2020
Danish thriller, starring Mads Mikklesen, as a military officer who is called back from a distant posting due to the death of his wife in a train accident.... or was it?
A survivor approaches him to help prove it was anything but an accident, with tge help of his hacker friends.
Little clues and coincidences and chains of events lead you one way and another, and raise questions about fate and choices.

Utterly gripping, with moments of humour darker than your average black hole.
Special mention to Andrea Heicke Gaderberg, who plays the teenage daughter: excellent performance

This was on Channel 4 , in Danish with subtitles. Occasionally you read the English, and hear the Danish. More than once it sounded similar to an English phrase.  We have learned that the Danish for 'fucking' as in 'this fucking car won't start' appears to be.... 'fucking'
😉

[suze]

Oh yes!

Should you ever need a lesson in Danish swearing, this song by a Danish woman called Anna David will provide it.  Despite being sung in Danish, NSFW I suppose. 

Lest you were wondering, du har pisset mig af also means exactly what you thought it did.

[crissdee]

Other than something to do with micturition, it suggests nothing to me...

[suze]

It means "you have pissed me off".  The pronoun mig (me) is pronounced like English "my".

[crissdee]

That makes sense, I should have seen that myself, but I am currently much occupied with my own troubles....

[jenny]

We watched a movie last night called Passengers, with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. The story is about a spaceship carrying many many passengers to colonize a new world. The journey takes 120 years so the passengers are all put into hibernation, expecting to be woken a month before they arrive. However, en route the spaceship is hit by a large series of rocks which damage its shield and damage the computers that run the ship, and one of the first things to happen as part of an eventual cascade of disasters is that one passenger is woken after only thirty years. The only "person" he can talk to is a robot bartender (played by Martin Sheen) and he is almost losing his mind when he sees through one of the hibernation pods another (female) passenger, with whom he falls in love. He is a mechanic, and he figures out how to jinx her pod and wake her up. The story continues from there. It wasn't a particularly successful movie at the box office, but we enjoyed it.

[Bondee]

I finally got round to watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Almost every scene had a Mario Bros. reference that had me pointing at the screen and (silently) yelling "Oh! Oh! That's from <insert game here>!"

One particular scene gave a massive nod to the history of the company that gave us the Mario Bros. It depicted a map of Brooklyn and two visible street names were Hanafuda Avenue and 1889th Street. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a company that produced hanafuda playing cards.

It was an entertaining 90 minutes for a Nintendo fanboy like me.

[suze]

I'm guessing that the movie doesn't make any nods to pre-cooked rice or to "love hotels". Those two things were less successful parts of the Nintendo corporate history.

[celebaelin]

Kind of tempted by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - it would be my first trip to the cinema in a few years.  I'll wait until I'm further recovered though because coughing and snivelling throughout doesn't sound like much fun for anyone.