What films have you watched recently?

Grunfeld

From Scotland with Love
Okay, no explosions or car chases but so interesting. 
Looking at dozens, hundreds of snapshots of people's lives. 
No narration other than a moving soundtrack of songs. 

Danny1969

@freakboy1610 ;
I thought Wind River was great, one of the better recent films 

@EricTheWeary ;
Yeah Walk among the Tombstones was quite dark in places, not a great film but unsettling in it's dialogue 

thing

I watched A Monster Calls the other day. Thought it was quite brilliant although it didn't do much at the box office.

Guitar_Slinger

Ready Player One. We took our 6 year-old to see it and enjoyed it. Lots of references (Easter Eggs) to other films.

Flink_Poyd

Thor Ragnarok 
Really? This has stupidly high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and other review sites. Im not saying it's a bad film but for me it was weak, very weak. Thor shows flashes of being the God of thunder but most of the time he's delivering crap jokes. Anyone for "devil's anus"?

They've managed to turn Hulk/Banner into something  so far removed from even the Avengers sideshow they made him that hes dumber as Banner than the Hulk. 

Loki is always going to be my favourite but totally underused. 

Too much comedy and too much of the same sort of comedy for me. 

Sporky

The Hunger Games - Catching Fire: 6.2 out of 9.1 

Reasonably predictable, but pretty watchable. Don't need to see it again, but OK.

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies: 8.3 out of 9.7

I'm not sure if I've seen any zombie films since Zombieland, but this is definitely the best zombie film I've seen since Zombieland. Also the best period drama I've seen since Zombieland. A darned good mash-up and a very enjoyable romp. 

ICBM

The Shape Of Water

Quite an interesting variation on the Beauty & The Beast story, but slightly let down by exaggerated clichéd characters and a similarly predictable plot, despite some attempts to make it more edgy and the characters more human... not bad, but I don't see it as a 'best picture' Oscar winner really.

7/10


Life Of Pi

Another one that I missed at the time but recently picked up on DVD. This is in a really different league, highly imaginative and visually mesmerising, even before the bit on the boat with the tiger - and emotionally quite powerful, with a surprisingly dark twist even though you know it's all a fantasy really.

9/10

DrJazzTap

Ready player one...all the pop culture references ever. Visually stunning, see it on the big screen and sit far back.

Danny1969

The Phantom thread : interesting film about a talented dress designer and his strange ways \ love life . The wife liked it more than I did

Stegman's dead : quirky film about the murder of a porn directer who was blackmailing villains. Not great but worth a watch  

Philly_Q

Darling
Arty low-budget horror from (very) prolific (very) young director Mickey Keating.  Echoes of Repulsion, Eraserhead and Les Diaboliques... not for all tastes, but I thought it was rather good.

not_the_dj

Early Man. 

A few funny moments but not one of Aardman’s best by a long way, and one very unnecessary and obvious naughty word that surprised me for a kids film. 

notanon

I think I recommended Bridesmaids. I will shout it again as I would never watch that type of movie in a million years. That story line would normally be strictly for my wife. It was so good it distracted me from my guitar. Still best for a Sunday afternoon with the missus rather than Saturday night IMO

A solid 9 out of 10

Danny1969

Bridesmaids is hilarious ...great chick flick that many blokes find funny too

Clarky

Transformers: The Last Knight

awesome

boogieman

Green Mile. Haven’t seen it in years but it’s still really good and had me choking up at the end, even though I remembered how it all pans out. One of the best Stephen King adaptations. 

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

Early Man. 

A few funny moments but not one of Aardman’s best by a long way

I thought that might be the case from the trailers - it just looked a bit forced and like it was recycling a lot of old Aardman characters. They've gone a long time without making anything less than brilliant, so it probably had to happen eventually...

not_the_dj

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

Early Man. 

A few funny moments but not one of Aardman’s best by a long way

I thought that might be the case from the trailers - it just looked a bit forced and like it was recycling a lot of old Aardman characters. They've gone a long time without making anything less than brilliant, so it probably had to happen eventually...

It's one of those where I imagine a meeting where someone goes, "what do kids like?"

"Football"
"Cavemen"

....that'll do, let's make it.....

(much like anything involving pirates and dinosaurs togther)

JezWynd

Philly_Q said:

JezWynd said:

I'm on a Besson binge atm, Big Blue is up next and Nikita is incoming.

Will you include his recent efforts, or stop at The Fifth Element?

I'm keen to see Valerian and he's made some interesting stuff in the recent past but (although they're very watchable) I'm a bit disappointed that he's making his bread and butter out of uber-style-violence movies like Taken and the Transporter franchise. Adele and Lucy were good in parts and I've got Angel-A waiting to be viewed.

Nikita hasn't aged well imo,it seemed quite hokey at times but that's probably because he's finessed the format over the years. Or maybe I'm just bored by violence in movies.

Watched Days of Heaven at the weekend. One of Terence Malick's early films with photography by the always wonderful and now sadly departed Nestor Alemendros (if you like film, search out his book Man With A Camera). Richard Gere looking incredibly young and a voiceover by a fabulous Linda Manz (shoulda been a big star). It's beautiful to look at, mostly shot during the magic hour each day and set on the wide open Texas landscape.

equalsql

Miss Firecracker.
Holly Hunter in great form. A stage play put to film but doesn't suffer from it. It's quite an old movie but the dialogue is crackling and there's a stellar supporting cast. One of those films that truly warms the old cockles. 

Philly_Q

The Raid 2

Bigger and more ambitious than the first film, but not necessarily better.  The whole undercover cops and gangs vs. gangs things has been done to death (maybe not in Indonesia but certainly in Hong Kong and elsewhere) and there's nothing new here.  Great action scenes, though!