What films have you watched recently?

HAL9000

robgilmo said:

HAL9000 said:

Mortal Engines. Mad Max meets Star Wars. Decent CGI, and the concept of entire cities travelling on wheels to survive actually kind of worked. Enjoyable but badly let down by one-dimensional characters, pointless sub plots, and predictability. 6/10.

I was really looking forward to this, the trailers look awesome. I watched Slender Man the other night, watchable, interesting but very much a teen horror flick.

Don't be put off. Despite its shortcomings it was imho still enjoyable. I was entertained.

Zoolooter

Juliet Naked 8/10
First Reformed 8/10
A Simple Favor 9/10
Breakfast Club & Bueller’s 10/10

EricTheWeary

Zoolooter said:

Juliet Naked 8/10
First Reformed 8/10
A Simple Favor 9/10
Breakfast Club & Bueller’s 10/10

Breakfast Club is very simple and quiet and slow by modern standards. Very hard to imagine it getting made in a similar way now. Yet it's an excellent film, although you do have to suspend disbelief as most of the cast were ( and looked) about ten years older than the parts they played. 

munckee

Breakfast club is a nailed on great

just watched bad santa for the first time. Possibly the greatest Christmas movie. 

stickyfiddle

Die Hard

Still the best Christmas film and an all time great action movie. MrsF had somehow never seen it.

Handsome_Chris

Overlord

This film is pure bonkers, but in a great way.  It is like they took Dead Snow and decided to make something similar, but with the villains being even more particularly evil.

If you are not into horror this may not be for you.

Shrews

munckee said:

Breakfast club is a nailed on great

just watched bad santa for the first time. Possibly the greatest Christmas movie. 

Don't forget there's a Bad Santa 2... and the shops are still open!

Moominpapa

For anime fans, I watched Tekkonkinkreet last night. Really excellent - distinctive art style, good writing, great direction.

breakstuff

Bird Box on Netflix.

Should have been brilliant,given the cast,but turns out it's just a bit pants. 

Hoped for an improvement when Tom Hollander turned up,but he's a bit wasted really. 

goldtop

Crimes of Grindelwald - terrible: an excessively convoluted plot, with not enough recap of the earlier film support characters. Lacking in the trademark JKR wit. Made worse because about halfway through you realise from the way the big CGI set pieces are going that you're not getting a self-contained story ... because it's now all about setting up an out for the sequel. 2/10

tone1

Mary Poppins Returns..... She shouldn’t have bothered 

equalsql

The Fabulous Baker Boys.
An utter gem from almost 30 years.
Good Lord Michelle Pfeiffer was so incredibly hot in that film, it makes me chew my knuckles.

not_the_dj

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BigBearKris

"First Man" 2018 with Ryan Gosling. 1st successful Apollo mission. Better than expected. Gosling is, sadly, still playing himself, other cast very good. Lots of emotional load but space scenes are a pleasure... combination of spectacular and mellow.
 6.5/10

tekbow

Bird Box. At first glance it seems like it'll be a ripoff of A Quiet Place, but it's actually an adaption of a book written before a quiet place.

It's a pretty decent horror movie in its own right, and shouldn't really be compared.

sinbaadi

Crimes of Grindelwald - I'm not a Potter fan but I enjoyed it.  Silly magical nonsense, but peril and fun nicely hand in hand. 7/10

The Post - very serious look at the dilemma facing the Washington post and other publications when a leaked Vietnam war study falls into their lap.  Streep and Hanks doing what they do best.  8/10

Operation Finale - hunting Eichmann in Argentina.  Really engrossing.  8/10

Brave - missed this Pixar film when it came out.  And it didn't appeal to me enough to seek it out.  Watched it with my girlfriend who is a big fan and I was blown away.  It's beautiful, funny, magical and the main character is a gutsy, strong, forthright young woman who will stand up for herself.  Great to see.  One of their best imho 9/10

Your Name - Anime.  It's soppy romance at its best/worst with a healthy dose of sci fi.  Rewatched because it's that good.  Some of the scenes are just incredible too 9/10

boogieman

BigBearKris said:

"First Man" 2018 with Ryan Gosling. 1st successful Apollo mission. Better than expected. Gosling is, sadly, still playing himself, other cast very good. Lots of emotional load but space scenes are a pleasure... combination of spectacular and mellow.
 6.5/10

I’m sure Ryan Gosling must’ve made some decent films otherwise he wouldn’t keep getting the gig, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one. He’s got all the charisma of a wet paper bag. 

Moe_Zambeek

Bumblebee - disagree totally with the poster above. It’s by far the best Transformers movie to date in that it was actually watchable without being a CGI storm. Very much aimed at a young-young adult audience I’d say (as you’d guess from the trailer). Some nice bits of 80s nostalgia and some whole-cinema-laughing moments. Even the wife liked it, and my son really loved it. Can’t fault the movie if the wrong audience attends

Bird Box - not the most original thing especially after just having seen a quiet place, but it was well done, had some scary moments and wasn’t too in-yer-face-Hollywood horror. Sandra Bullock has done something very odd to her face but she was pretty good in it, John Malkovitch played himself as usual which is all to the better, and it was free and premiered in my front room so no complaints from me!

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - another Netflix premier and I enjoyed most of it, the weakest parts were Tom Waits and Liam Neeson’s segments. Overall though I really enjoyed it.

Sporky

Dark Shadows. 0 out of 0.

Critters. 4 out of 7.

BigBearKris

Remake of the "Predator" - although I'm not sure it's the remake, some sequel or prequel or whatever- it's just a horrible movie. Blimey ... I really wanted to give it a chance - but the acting, story, humour - all fails. Do not watch. 
1.765/10