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Post by alessia on Sept 20, 2024 21:46:17 GMT
I went to a preview of The Substance last night. Not 'enjoyable' as an experience but really good film. Expect a lot of gore and disgusting visuals, I couldn't watch sometimes. Great to see Demi Moore back in top form, she's really beautiful so the premise was hard to believe but anyway. If you've seen the trailer you have some idea, but they kept all the gross stuff out of it so don't be fooled and I'd say avoid if you are squeamish. Saying all that, it is a film with a powerful message (purposely on your face) and I loved it. I'm due to see it on Wednesday and am very squeamish, so sounds like I'll be putting my hands over my eyes at multiple points! You will. also, I would suggest not to eat beforehand. |
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Post by kathryn on Sept 20, 2024 22:33:17 GMT
Saw Blink Twice last night.
Excellent directorial debut by Zoe Kravitz.
Visually striking, and I thought the sound design was especially effective.
Story was obviously inspired by Epstein’s Island. Tense and disturbing, with a surprising ending.
Recommended.
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Post by Marwood on Sept 21, 2024 13:52:06 GMT
Just seen The Substance and agree it’s not one to have a big meal before seeing, and it will put you off eating anything whatsoever while you watch it (certainly not chicken drumsticks anyway): I thought the first two hours were excellent, those last twenty minutes though: 🤢
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 21, 2024 18:43:17 GMT
I'm due to see it on Wednesday and am very squeamish, so sounds like I'll be putting my hands over my eyes at multiple points! You will. also, I would suggest not to eat beforehand. Thankfully the screening I'm seeing starts at 17:50, so not my dinner time, but given all the positive reviews and the chance to hear from Demi Moore afterwards I couldn't pass up on it. |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 21, 2024 19:07:11 GMT
You will. also, I would suggest not to eat beforehand. Thankfully the screening I'm seeing starts at 17:50, so not my dinner time, but given all the positive reviews and the chance to hear from Demi Moore afterwards I couldn't pass up on it. Yeah after much refreshing I managed to snag a ticket to the same screening right near the back and all the way to the side so it'll be a bad view but hey-ho. Very excited! |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 21, 2024 21:35:11 GMT
Thankfully the screening I'm seeing starts at 17:50, so not my dinner time, but given all the positive reviews and the chance to hear from Demi Moore afterwards I couldn't pass up on it. Yeah after much refreshing I managed to snag a ticket to the same screening right near the back and all the way to the side so it'll be a bad view but hey-ho. Very excited! Well done! I'll also be off to the side but near the front (Honestly though, having sat almost everywhere in NFT1, back, front, in the middle and off to the side, I don't think there is a bad seat to be had). |
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Post by Jon on Sept 21, 2024 22:54:57 GMT
The Substance was balls to the walls insane. Have to admit, I found it funnier than expected rather than being horrified. I think it could have lost 20 minutes and it wouldn't affected the quality.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 21, 2024 23:45:19 GMT
Yeah after much refreshing I managed to snag a ticket to the same screening right near the back and all the way to the side so it'll be a bad view but hey-ho. Very excited! Well done! I'll also be off to the side but near the front (Honestly though, having sat almost everywhere in NFT1, back, front, in the middle and off to the side, I don't think there is a bad seat to be had). No I know it won't be too bad but I sat in a similar seat for The Taste of Things (AKA Le Pot Au Feu) last year and it wasn't brilliant so I know what I'm in for. |
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Post by Marwood on Sept 22, 2024 14:01:37 GMT
I wasn’t even aware that Demi Moore was doing a q&a until I had an email from the BFi saying it had sold out: oh well, not mega devastating, I think The Substance is the first film I’ve seen her in since the days of GI Jane (30 years ago?)
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Post by amyja89 on Sept 22, 2024 14:05:15 GMT
I wasn’t even aware that Demi Moorexwas doing a q&a until I had an email from the BFi saying it had sold out: oh well, not mega devastating, I think The Substance is the first film I’ve seen her in since the days of GI Jane (30 years ago?) This got me thinking about the last time I saw her in something new too. My Letterboxd informs me it was 2017's Rough Night, of which I remember very little! |
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Post by Marwood on Sept 22, 2024 15:49:09 GMT
I wasn’t even aware that Demi Moorexwas doing a q&a until I had an email from the BFi saying it had sold out: oh well, not mega devastating, I think The Substance is the first film I’ve seen her in since the days of GI Jane (30 years ago?) This got me thinking about the last time I saw her in something new too. My Letterboxd informs me it was 2017's Rough Night, of which I remember very little! Is that the one with Scarlett Johansson? I have very vague memories of her being in it very briefly, but it wasn’t exactly a masterpiece 🤣 |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 22, 2024 18:07:59 GMT
I wasn’t even aware that Demi Moorexwas doing a q&a until I had an email from the BFi saying it had sold out: oh well, not mega devastating, I think The Substance is the first film I’ve seen her in since the days of GI Jane (30 years ago?) This got me thinking about the last time I saw her in something new too. My Letterboxd informs me it was 2017's Rough Night, of which I remember very little! I think I've only seen her in Austin Powers so far! |
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Post by amyja89 on Sept 22, 2024 19:21:11 GMT
This got me thinking about the last time I saw her in something new too. My Letterboxd informs me it was 2017's Rough Night, of which I remember very little! I think I've only seen her in Austin Powers so far! Am I going mad or have I just completely deleted any memory of her in Austin Powers? |
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Post by solotheatregoer on Sept 22, 2024 19:56:19 GMT
Just got back from The Substance. The only research I did beforehand was watch the trailer which gives no hint at just how grotesque this is. I liked the message overall but thought it would have had more of an impact without all the comedy and insane antics, especially in the last 30 minutes. I have a very strong threshold for movie gore but I have to admit that I seriously regretted eating my chicken wrap in the first hour.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 22, 2024 21:50:22 GMT
I think I've only seen her in Austin Powers so far! Am I going mad or have I just completely deleted any memory of her in Austin Powers? Whoops, I went to her Wikipedia entry to see which films of hers I'd seen and didn't notice the bit saying she was a producer, not an actor in that (and my memory of seeing Austin Powers is quite hazy now). So my bad! |
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Post by amyja89 on Sept 26, 2024 16:38:08 GMT
Busy week coming up at the local Curzon for me, a visit every day Monday to Friday! Love this time of year when the summer blockbusters are fading.
Mon - The Outrun
Tues - My Old Ass
Weds - The Substance
Thurs - Megalopolis
Fri - Joker: Folie À Deux
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Post by showgirl on Sept 26, 2024 19:03:05 GMT
Suddenly - after the summer film famine - there's a whole feast. Gone/going 3 days in a row so have just see Lee (way better than I feared, even with Kate Winslet), The Goldman Case and The Queen Of My Dreams; tomorow I have The Outrun & have also booked for My Old Ass.
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Post by elizapot on Sept 28, 2024 17:57:40 GMT
Anyone else seen (subjected?) themselves to Megalopolis yet? Intensely weird, I don’t know if it works at all but I think I liked it?
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Post by Marwood on Sept 28, 2024 18:11:12 GMT
I’ve just seen Megalopolis and thought it was pretty dreadful, an absolute mess, it boggled the mind to think it’s from the same person who made The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. There was no shape to the whole thing it just trundled on for nearly two and a half hours , a plethora of terrible cgi that looked like it was from a video game made 20 years ago and some real bottom of the barrel acting: it gained a point when Shia Lebeouf got shot up the arse with maybe the most pathetic little bow and arrow in the history of cinema near the end though🤣
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Post by alessia on Sept 28, 2024 19:49:27 GMT
I am going to see Megalopolis tomorrow. Now bracing myself for a disaster after the above!! we will see
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Post by Marwood on Sept 28, 2024 20:20:37 GMT
I am going to see Megalopolis tomorrow. Now bracing myself for a disaster after the above!! we will see Go and look for Mark Kermodes review on YouTube, I’ve been kind to it compared to him 🤣(although he praised Caligula in that clip which I thought was even worse) |
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Post by alessia on Sept 29, 2024 6:22:54 GMT
I am going to see Megalopolis tomorrow. Now bracing myself for a disaster after the above!! we will see Go and look for Mark Kermodes review on YouTube, I’ve been kind to it compared to him 🤣(although he praised Caligula in that clip which I thought was even worse) ahah OMG. Maybe I should just get a refund... |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 29, 2024 17:08:10 GMT
Slightly belated, but I enjoyed The Substance overall, even if sometimes it veered from funny into silly. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley were both fantastic.
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Post by Marwood on Sept 29, 2024 19:22:36 GMT
On the subject of Megalopolis and Aubrey Plaza, I decided to try and wipe all memory of that and went to see My Old Ass. A lesson to myself to do more research before going to see stuff, I was expecting an updated female version of a Rogen/Franco or Stiller/Wilson film but what was served up was the sort of dull thing that Channel 5 stick on in the afternoon, pretty much a laugh free zone.
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Post by alessia on Sept 30, 2024 9:41:11 GMT
Well I did go see Megalopolis because I couldn’t get a refund- it is just as bad as everyone is saying. Utter drivel - scene setting was way too long and the message was superficial and done a thousand times before. Such a waste of good actors and money. I don’t know what Coppola was thinking tbh. Even Adam Driver was bad and I usually really like him!
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