What films have you watched recently?

ftumch

Seen any good films recently michael?

Lixarto

Yes - "Deja Vous" CSNY

Col_Decker

Just watched Ironman 3. Was alright, ticked all the boxes I guess but instantly forgettable

chillidoggy

Was Gwyneth Paltrow in it as Pepper Potts?

TimmyO

Rush - loved it 

chrispy108

Ruby Sparks - weird, good

Moneyball, nerdy, good

Horrible Bosses, silly, ok

RobDavies

The Road.  Very emotional if you're a father.....    It got very dusty in our house for a few minutes.

fretmeister

Iron Man 3

It was better than the second one and I really liked 'Trevor'

Jalapeno

Dean Man Down.

Mainly because it had the delicious Noomi Rapace in it, but I really enjoyed the film overall.

Also in yesterday's film marathon staycation/wife out session:

A Long Memory - very noir post war revenge with a twist.  John Mills was ace.

The Fighting Seabees - John Wayne winning the Pacific war on his own. WW2 propoganda, with some very racist anti-Japanese language.

Pirates of The Caribbean (1) - jolly romp

IanSavage

RobDavies said:

The Road.  Very emotional if you're a father.....    It got very dusty in our house for a few minutes.

Absolutely true, I want to watch it again but don't know if I'd get through it

Last night discovered a mini-series from 2003 called 'Hitler: The Rise of Evil' with Robert Carlyle as yer man; fell asleep part-way through as I'd just done three 12-hour days on the bounce, but looks very good indeed. Shall be going back to it.

 

VimFuego

Paul, simon peg et al. Brilliant, his best yet. And I really want a "Evolve This" tee shirt.

ddlooping

World War Z

I enjoyed it even if the last 3rd is a bit weak.

Lixarto

"Slither", which I'm surprised I missed when it came out.

Excellent(ly bad) horror

ICBM

Shooter

Hadn't seen it right through before. Mark Wahlberg excellent as usual. Not sure about the plot - it was great at first but became progressively more far-fetched, especially towards the end. The "action movie" stuff was a bit overdone... too many little "only in the movies" bits as well, which spoil the believability.

Probably 7/10 if you disengage most of your brain and don't take it too seriously.

Myranda

Lixarto said:

"Slither", which I'm surprised I missed when it came out.

Excellent(ly bad) horror

Bad? was Excellent in an excellent way! Love that film.

I've been off work with gammy shoulder for a bit, so have watched so many films on Netflix that I've lost track of them all...

Recently I watched some black-and-white movies with Mr Wong - Detective in and Charlie Chan Chinese Detective. Was 70 years ago another planet? Such stereotyping of foreigners that makes The Damnbusters dog naming seem perfectly normal and non-racist. In Carlie Chan movies the black character "Birmingham Brown" is practically a Black-and-White-Minstrel show caricature of of every negative stereotype ever thought up for people of dark skin! Staggering... For history buffs who want to look at race relations in the last century it's worth a look at Charlie Chan In The Secret Service and The Scarlet Clue... just wow!

Watched a LOT of bad horror 

Also got Phantom on bluray (the 2013 film with Ed Harris on a russian sub) aside from being a film about Russians during the cold war on a Russian submarine with the most Russian sounding name in the cast was Duchovny it was rather enjoyable. Sort of Crimson Tide, but russian... if you like Crimson Tide you should like it - though there's no Gene Hackman so it's not going to be quite as fun

jimmyd

The Paper Boy - the first half is an enjoyable 60s retro comedy romp, the second half - jesus - incredibly depressing, and not very good.

CabbageCat

Mama - Really enjoyed it. Nikolai Coster-Waldau and some skinny chick move in with some spoooooky children that were brought up in the haunted weelderness. Hijinks ensue. A well made and very watchable "Guillermo Del Toro Presents" movie (that had very little to do with GDT), much like "The Orphanage".

Jalapeno

ddlooping said:

World War Z

I enjoyed it even if the last 3rd is a bit weak.

Just the last 3rd ?      (Brad and the girl who played the Israeli soldier did their best, but it was dire)

EricTheWeary

CabbageCat said:

Mama - Really enjoyed it. Nikolai Coster-Waldau and some skinny chick move in with some spoooooky children that were brought up in the haunted weelderness. Hijinks ensue. A well made and very watchable "Guillermo Del Toro Presents" movie (that had very little to do with GDT), much like "The Orphanage".

I think I mentioned this one early on in this discussion. I guess some kind of law of averages says somebody, somewhere had to like it.   

fatherjack

Finally got round to watching Seven Psychopaths - very funny in places, but not as wonderful as it perhaps likes to think, but Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken were as enjoyable to watch as always.