The Goonstation Movie Club

[HydroFloric]

I vote we watch mr. beans holiday for the week after

[Huff H Law]

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/la...t=sanserif

Made a handy countdown timer for the timezonally impaired.

I think we used this way back when this first started, thank you! I completely forgot about that website!

Also I watched Mr. Bean's Holiday when I was a kid, it's not very interesting. Or at least I don't recall it being so.

[Huff H Law]

It's happening in two hours, mates!

[Huff H Law]

Triple posting to tell you all Singham is an actual legit good movie that surprised me in many ways. Anyways here are the three choices I present to you, all about samurai:

Six-String Samurai

 

The film was greeted with a great deal of excitement when shown at Slamdance in 1998, winning the Slamdance awards for best editing and cinematography, and gathering extremely favorable reviews from influential alternative, cult and indie film publications such as Fangoria, Film Threat[2] and Ain't It Cool News. It is billed as a "post-apocalyptic musical satire".[3]

In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as "Lost Vegas", ruled by King Elvis.

[i]Samurai Cop[/i]

When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana take control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, the LAPD transfer in a Samurai Cop from the SDPD to help tackle the problem. Joe Marshall has been trained by the masters in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese, but dresses like a commoner.

Samurai Cop is a 1991 American direct-to-video action film directed, produced and written by Amir Shervan. The film stars Robert Z'Dar, Matt Hannon and Mark Frazer. The film has attained a cult following.

In Bruge

In Bruges is a 2008 British-American black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their boss. The film takes place and was filmed in the Belgian city of Bruges.[4]

Carrying out orders to execute a priest, rookie hitman Ray also accidentally kills a young boy. He and his mentor Ken are sent to Bruges, where they are to await further instructions, by their employer Harry. Ken finds the city charming and quaint, while Ray has nothing but contempt for it.

Since I believe in democracy, I am giving the lovely people of this movie club the choice to choose from one of these three samurai films, that we are going to watch next week.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13218312

[Huff H Law]

Here's the countdown, whoops, completely forgot to do this, haha!

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ta...nt=cursive

Holy shit I actually made the wrong timezone again! I hope this hasn't confused anyone!

[Huff H Law]

So question for everyone actually watching these movies with me (yes there are people doing this despite this thread being mainly be the past three weeks), would you be okay with starting the movie two hours earlier at 22:00 GMT+1? Not for this movie now but I mean for the future.

[Cyfarfod]

Just throwing this out there, if anyone cares I noticed that this movie (Six String Samurai) is legitimately available for free through youtube, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaPP00uNkNI

[Huff H Law]

The rabb.it link is http://lets.rabb.it/886j/Zqq1jhewfE in case someone actually reads this thread to find out where to watch it with us instead of using IRC or discord or anything!

[Huff H Law]

What an excellent movie. Anyway, anyone else got any wishes for movie night? Any complaints, suggestions, anything whatsoever?

[Huff H Law]

Hey, Hufflaw here with the 10th post in a row! Talking about movies! Me and Nitrous (The OP of this wonderful thread) watch good movies now! And hell, if you want to watch good movies as well with two or maybe more internet strangers, why not join us!

Tomorrow's Movie!

Shortly after the 1959 Cuban revolution overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, the socialist Castro government, isolated by the United States after the latter broke diplomatic and trade relations in 1961, turned to the USSR for film partnerships. The Soviet government, interested in promoting international socialism, agreed to finance a film about the Cuban revolution.

Why are we watching a movie about the Cuban revolution? Well other than the obvious it's apparently:

I Am Cuba (Spanish: Soy Cuba; Russian: Я Куба, Ya Kuba) is a 1964 Soviet-Cuban film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm. The film was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public[1] and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later.[1] The acrobatic tracking shots and idiosyncratic mise en scene prompted Hollywood directors like Martin Scorsese to begin a campaign to restore the film in the early 1990s.

The film is shot in black and white, sometimes using infrared film obtained from the Soviet military[2] to exaggerate contrast (making trees and sugar cane almost white, and skies very dark but still obviously sunny). Most shots are in extreme wide-angle and the camera passes very close to its subjects, whilst still largely avoiding having those subjects ever look directly at the camera.

So it ought to be interesting!

We're watching this tomorrow at 19:00 GMT+1, if you don't know when that is then you're in luck! 

I made a countdown https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/ta...sive&csz=1

Oh yeah right, forgot to explain it: be sure to be on #goonstation on Synirc.net before that time and we'll explain things more in detail there. See you!

[ZeWaka]

Can we watch Singham next?

[Huff H Law]

Can we watch Singham next?

Dude... we already watched Singham.  I guess we can watch it again though.

[ZeWaka]

Can we watch Singham next?

Dude... we already watched Singham.  I guess we can watch it again though.

Then we have a solution: SINGHAM 2

[Huff H Law]

Well I'm sorry but the next movie isn't Singham 2, it's...



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.

Since I am of an ex-Yugoslavian country I feel a certain need to see a mainstream movie from it, so you can see this as a non-official viewing of the goonstation movie club.

Anyway! It's gonna be on Thursday! 7 PM! And here is the timer!

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/va...sive&csz=1

[Studenterhue]

So, Thursday viewing, we didn't actually watch Black Cat White Cat. Quite the opposite, actually. We looked around for a version with English subtitles, visited some shady sites,  downloaded a virus or two, goofed off by watching some Boruto Naruto, then gave up and watched a different film, Stalker. Which is sort of like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but not really. Inspiried by the same thing but not quite.

Anyways, Stalker was...well, people compare to Heart of Darkness, and I can see why. It's less of an adventure story about three guys who go to this strange, mysterious place that can grant great wealth and more of a mildly strange psychological journey with three men who tend to engage in lots of philosophical discourse. With some superb cinematography, by the way. And a nuke.