What films have you watched recently?

guitarfishbay · March 2018

Tomb Raider wasn’t as good as Black Panther...

Moominpapa · March 2018

Bronson (2008) - a hard film to enjoy, just because the title character is a vicious sociopath, but recommended for Tom Hardy's intense performance. Hardy is so good, he almost makes you like Charlie Bronson.

paulnb57 · March 2018

@Moominpapa ;Agreed, Bronson is a great film in which Hardy does justice to the lead role......captured Bronsons violent mood swings very much like the real thing, in his more lucid moments he is quite a likeable rogue, with a cracking sense of humour, the other side of him, almost unbelievable....

ICBM · March 2018

The Death Of Stalin

A seriously dark film even by black comedy standards - much blacker and less overtly funny than I expected given the director and cast, but better for it. And almost surreally, at least roughly historically accurate... even if some of the parts were possibly a bit overly caricatured.

8/10

mrkb · March 2018

Watched Wayne’s World with my son last night, he didn’t think it was as funny as I did!!

paulnb57 · March 2018

mrkb said:

Watched Wayne’s World with my son last night, he didn’t think it was as funny as I did!!

A bit dated and of its time?

TTBZ · March 2018

I didn't really know what to think of Annihilation either. Was ok and I liked the shimmer "world" and weird soundtrack, but the whole thing felt a bit pointless at the end. Maybe I'm just not clever enough to get it.

JezWynd · March 2018

Watched The Director's Cut of Leon last night. I hadn't watched it for a few years (in the current moral climate it hasn't had a tv airing in a while). Besson was seemingly obsessed by Natalie Portman's pubescent beauty, the camera giving constant glimpses of bits of Ms Portman. The sexually charged atmosphere is of her making - she relentlessly pursues Leon in an artless OTT fashion while he is a manchild with an interesting job who knows that she is off-limits. The final moment when he breaks down and confesses his love for her (before shoving her down an air shaft) is very moving (well, as moving as you are likely to get in a Besson film, where surface sheen and style are uppermost in his thinking).

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

BigBearKris · March 2018

JezWynd said:

Im on a Besson binge atm, Big Blue is up next and Nikita is incoming.

All great, entertainment pictures. Enjoy.
(Even Taxi).

I am covering everything directed by Woody Allen at the moment.

paulnb57 · March 2018

Just watched The Snowman....odd, very odd, can't decide if I liked it or not....

Danny1969 · March 2018

The Commuter : Liam Neeson's latest "older guy but still bad ass" type movie. It's pretty bad but I was amused by a fight which used a Strat as a weapon until it was pretty well relic'ed

ICBM · March 2018

Danny1969 said:

The Commuter : Liam Neeson's latest "older guy but still bad ass" type movie. It's pretty bad but I was amused by a fight which used a Strat as a weapon until it was pretty well relic'ed

A genuine 1954 Strat owned by the Fender museum, presumably...

Nah, no-one would ever be stupid enough to loan a priceless antique guitar to a film production, and then someone fail to substitute a prop for it and have an actor smash it to pieces without realising what it was, would they.

Philly_Q · March 2018

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?

Philly_Q · March 2018

The Voices
Blackly comic drama with Ryan Reynolds as a likeable but weird loner with a dark secret.

He Never Died
Blackly comic drama with Henry Rollins as a likeable but weird loner with a dark secret.

Quite different from each other really, and I enjoyed both.

boogieman · March 2018

Danny1969 said:

The Commuter : Liam Neeson's latest "older guy but still bad ass" type movie. It's pretty bad but I was amused by a fight which used a Strat as a weapon until it was pretty well relic'ed

Is it just me or is Liam Neeson just making the same film over and over lately?

Danny1969 · March 2018

boogieman said:

Danny1969 said:

The Commuter : Liam Neeson's latest "older guy but still bad ass" type movie. It's pretty bad but I was amused by a fight which used a Strat as a weapon until it was pretty well relic'ed

Is it just me or is Liam Neeson just making the same film over and over lately?

No it is indeed the same film, old tough guy doesn't want to get involved but has to and proves to still be a bad ass at 60

The Disaster Artist : if you have heard of The Room - considered to be one of the worse films but a cult classic purely for it's awfulness then this a a film about the making of The Room. I really liked it.

west · March 2018

JezWynd said:

Watched The Director's Cut of Leon last night. I hadn't watched it for a few years (in the current moral climate it hasn't had a tv airing in a while). Besson was seemingly obsessed by Natalie Portman's pubescent beauty, the camera giving constant glimpses of bits of Ms Portman. The sexually charged atmosphere is of her making - she relentlessly pursues Leon in an artless OTT fashion while he is a manchild with an interesting job who knows that she is off-limits. The final moment when he breaks down and confesses his love for her (before shoving her down an air shaft) is very moving (well, as moving as you are likely to get in a Besson film, where surface sheen and style are uppermost in his thinking).

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

"Find me the frenchman " ....

"Gondolierrrrrrrrrrrr" love the besson ....

west · March 2018

BigBearKris said:

JezWynd said:

Im on a Besson binge atm, Big Blue is up next and Nikita is incoming.

All great, entertainment pictures. Enjoy.
(Even Taxi).

I am covering everything directed by Woody Allen at the moment.

;D

equalsql · March 2018

'Brooklyn', currently showing on iPlayer.
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters.
Just exquisite, so beautifully filmed and paced. Ronan is so nuanced in the role of a young Irish girl sent to live in New York in the early 1950s. A simple drama, no action etc, just a tale of someone's experience in those post-war years.
Old fashioned film making at its very, very best.

goldtop · March 2018

Submarine - little indie-style Welsh movie directed by Richard Ayoade. Somewhere between Adrian Mole and Gregory's Girl. Good acting by the two leads, but the plot failed to deliver. 6/10

mar10 · March 2018

Ex-machina - excellent, you can see the twist coming but it’s clever

cloverfield road- was creepily excellent until the aliens appeared... yawn!

paulnb57 · March 2018

Winchester,
Widowed wife of the founder of Winchester firearms lives in seclusion in an eccentic ever expanding,mansion, where workers toil round the clock, shareholders in the company believe she is mentally unfit to continue her 51% stake in the business......they send in a psychologist to assess her.......ghostly goings on ensue..

Genuine cry out loud, hairs stand up on arms and legs, make you jump moments, formula stuff once it gets going, but quite well done...

goldtop · March 2018

They Live - that '80s John Carpenter movie, that I'd somehow missed. It's terrible, bad acting, comically poor dialogue and so cheaply made. Compared to The Thing (which he made earlier) it's total pants. 4/10

But I can see exactly where David Icke got his ideas. Perhaps he watched it on a bad acid trip and Bob's your shape shifting illuminati uncle?

stickyfiddle · March 2018

Paddington 1 & 2

Utterly charming. Q is excellent playing a bear. The rest of the cast are great throughout. Though I'm not 100% sure why #2 is getting labelled "best film ever". It's good, but it's hardly Empire Strikes Back/BTTF/Raiders of the Lost Ark/Pulp Fiction etc etc

Philly_Q · March 2018

goldtop said:

But I can see exactly where David Icke got his ideas. Perhaps he watched it on a bad acid trip and Bob's your shape shifting illuminati uncle?

I'm absolutely convinced he fell asleep in front of the TV, then in a drowsy half-awake way watched the original series of V.

BigBearKris · March 2018

goldtop said:

They Live - that '80s John Carpenter movie, that I'd somehow missed. It's terrible, bad acting, comically poor dialogue and so cheaply made. Compared to The Thing (which he made earlier) it's total pants. 4/10

But I can see exactly where David Icke got his ideas. Perhaps he watched it on a bad acid trip and Bob's your shape shifting illuminati uncle?

I love that movie!

I did age very bad, the acting was always horrible and sfx are tacky but... it's a classic!
The idea, the feel/mood/vibe of the movie is great and the story itself - simple, but when the "revelation" happens it's pretty freaky. I know... I cannot defend B class movie as it is what it is, but that movie along with Carpenter's "The Thing" were very influential pictures in my youth.

"Children of the Damned" anyone?

BigBearKris · March 2018

"No country for old men".

Love the film, love the book.

I generally love rural/western/americana movies. This one is great.

9/10

Philly_Q · March 2018

BigBearKris said:
"Children of the Damned" anyone?

You mean Carpenter's Village of the Damned?

It's utter pants, but the original Village of the Damned and Children of the Damned from the 1960s are excellent.

I love a lot of John Carpenter's films, but he's been in decline for such a long time... I wish he'd retire.

BigBearKris · March 2018

Yes, The original. 1964 I believe. Great movie.

And agreed re: Carpenter.

goldtop · March 2018

BigBearKris said:

"No country for old men".

Love the film, love the book.

I generally love rural/western/americana movies. This one is great.

9/10

That's the one with Bardem as the baddie? Great movie, but it really plays with your natural desire for justice and/or a happy ending for someone/anyone. I was left unsettled by it.

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