What films have you watched recently?

rze99

School for Scoundrels
iPlayer 1960
Classic Ealing! It's a time travel joy.
Kind-hearted but weak-willed Henry Palfrey is cheated and abused by car salesmen, a head waiter, an upper-class cad and his employees. When charming April Smith is stolen away from him, Henry takes drastic action and enrols in the College of Lifemanship, run by Mr Potter, where he can learn to beat others in life.
Terry Thomas and Ian Carmichael.
Cad. Bounder. Shower. What ho old chap!

Excellently played and still engaging.

8/10

Oh and a lurverly Aston Martin DB3S 

Offset

The Spore (2021), Prime

This is fairly low-rent stuff and the plot is hardly ground-breaking - you can doubtless guess most of it from the title.  However, the storyline/narrative is a little more creative than usual within this sub-genre and there are a few scares, a fair bit of gore, some half-decent effects (non-CGI) and a slightly foreboding atmosphere.  It kept my attention fairly effectively and I must say it comfortably exceeded my admittedly low expectations.

Spot the nice little tribute in the end-credits.

Cautiously recommended with caveats if you're bored.

4.75/10

Kurtis

Villains Netflix 

Dark quirky comedy about two young thieves that break into a house looking for petrol and find the owners dark secret. Then the owners come home. Not exactly an original concept but rather well done. Quite enjoyable imo. 

robgilmo

Lords of Doftown.

Its basically about when surfers started to skate, no skate parks so they started using the pools of empty holliday homes, its a decent movie, worth a watch.

Kurtis

Brian and Charles

Not sure if this is a work of a genius or simply ridiculous! 

Brio

robgilmo said:

Lords of Doftown.

Its basically about when surfers started to skate, no skate parks so they started using the pools of empty holliday homes, its a decent movie, worth a watch.

Bollocks. that is a shit film.
Watch Dogtown and Z-Boys instead. The real story.

Brio

I can't belive how angry robgilmo's post makes me.
Grandad is shouting at clouds again...

Philly_Q

Brio said:

I can't belive how angry robgilmo's post makes me.
Grandad is shouting at clouds again...

I thought you were just upset about the spelling.

Brio

Nah. Just had a total failure of any basic commonsense/decency.
Sorry Rob.

Offset

Brio said:

I can't belive how angry robgilmo's post makes me.
Grandad is shouting at clouds again...

I can't believe how confused I am!

Brio

Me too...

Devil#20

rze99 said:

School for Scoundrels
iPlayer 1960
Classic Ealing! It's a time travel joy.
Kind-hearted but weak-willed Henry Palfrey is cheated and abused by car salesmen, a head waiter, an upper-class cad and his employees. When charming April Smith is stolen away from him, Henry takes drastic action and enrols in the College of Lifemanship, run by Mr Potter, where he can learn to beat others in life.
Terry Thomas and Ian Carmichael.
Cad. Bounder. Shower. What ho old chap!

Excellently played and still engaging.

8/10

Oh and a lurverly Aston Martin DB3S 

That's a brilliant film. My only criticism is why they called the Aston Martin DB3S a Bellini in the film. Could have preceded the Bond Films to promote the marque. Therefore I give it 8/10 for the film but it gets another point for Alistair Simms untrimmed ear hair. Watch when he looks into the camera for the aside at the end of the film. Most impressive. Like a couple of ear muffs. 

Incidentally, Aston Martin were quite clever getting the Aston Martin into the Bond films. They parked it up outside the studios and removed the Aston Martin badges and waited until the producers asked what it was. That was their in". Maybe they did the same here. 

JEM

rze99 said:

School for Scoundrels
iPlayer 1960

Utterly brilliant film. Thomas and Sim are both superb. "Hard cheese old boy!"

DrCornelius

The Fall Guy,

The gorgeous Emily Blunt and a pretty convincing Ryan Gosling lead the cast in an action comedy that although formulaic is pretty entertaining. Hannah Waddington steals the show as an untrustworthy film producer but there’s not really a weak link in it . Solid 8 out of 10 

Chuffola

VimFuego said:

half way through Oppenheimer; it's well cast, well shot, seems well written and a worthy biopic. Just it's, well a bit plodding I guess. Will finish it off tonight. 

Plodding is exactly how I felt too. I ended up watching it in 3 sessions because it just wasn't gripping me in any way, but it won all the awards so ...   

Honestly, I was bored for most of it. Well acted and well shot and I usually like Nolan movies but I'd give this 5/10

Offset

^^ Weird the way Oppenheimer divides opinion... I was enthralled more or less throughout.

Philly_Q

Butt Boy (Shudder)

A boring office IT manager named Chip Gutchel goes for a prostate exam and discovers he, errr, likes shoving things up his bum.  He progresses from bars of soap and remote controls to the family dog, a baby and a small child... all vanish without a trace.  A cop named Russel Fox meets Chip at an AA meeting and - for reasons which were totally unclear to me - suspects Chip is to blame for the disappearances.

If this had been directed by Quentin Dupieux it probably would've been jolly good fun... but it wasn't, and it isn't.  The two lead performances aren't bad, and there is some humour but it's played in such a deadpan way that it almost passes you by.  The plot is, obviously, nonsense, but it frequently doesn't make sense even in it's own nonsensical world.  I kept thinking I must have missed a key scene or piece of dialogue to explain something... but no, they're just not there.

I didn't hate this, but it's very boring and really not worth the effort.   

VimFuego

Chuffola said:

VimFuego said:

half way through Oppenheimer; it's well cast, well shot, seems well written and a worthy biopic. Just it's, well a bit plodding I guess. Will finish it off tonight. 

Plodding is exactly how I felt too. I ended up watching it in 3 sessions because it just wasn't gripping me in any way, but it won all the awards so ...   

Honestly, I was bored for most of it. Well acted and well shot and I usually like Nolan movies but I'd give this 5/10

yeah, I ended up watching it in 3 bouts (maybe that's down to my lack of attention spa...). In the end I thought it was really good, and I ended up enjoying the whole witch thing more than the A bomb thing (and it's always nice seeing Tony Stark get his comeuppance, he's such a cock). I'm glad they took their time with it rather than rush it through. 

Offset

^^ Thanks Phil.  I can't let your 90 minutes of audiovisual suffering go unacknowledged.

Philly_Q

Offset said:

^^ Thanks Phil.  I can't let your 90 minutes of audiovisual suffering go unacknowledged.

It would be a tough call between a single viewing of Oppenheimer or watching Butt Boy twice over.