What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Gianfranco]

Cinderella Man - 7/10.


Commando - 9/10.

[The Naitch]

Ready Player One - 7/10

Enjoyable stuff from Spielberg. Will watch again just to catch the references that I missed first time around.

[Christophe]

https://dejareviewer.com/2014/04/29/cinematic-chiasmus-robocop-is-almost-perfectly-symmetrical-film/

Holy shit this is amazing

wasnt really anywhere more suitable to post this and probably not worthy of a whole new thread but WELL worth a read this.

[mjw]

Saturday night-Unsane.
A bit of a ropey plot but it was only 90 odd minutes so not a chore to watch.
Sunday-Enter Player One.
Only went into this as it was starting after we'd been for something to eat.
I'm not sure whether you'd have to be into computer games but it was hard work for me.

[Christophe]

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Isle of Dogs 7.5/10

Not sure the story totally worked but there was so much to enjoy in this, more in the small detail than the overarching plot, that I didn’t really care. One of those films that I would prob want to see more than once because the ridiculous amount of stuff going on in it means I probably missed loads. (cinema)

[steelmen]

Lovely long flights to and from austin.

outbound:-

Justice League 7/10 - I enjoyed it. Superman just coming back with little fan fare was a bit strange

Dunkirk 3/10 - Hated it. would have prfeed the boats getting together and heading over rather than focusing on one boat and jumping all over the place. Way to much of Branagh staring into space.

3 Billboards 10/10 - Excellent film. It just flew by. I can see why it was up there in the Oscars. can't believe it is a film 4 production.

Shape of water 9/10 - I really thought i would turn this off after 10 minutes but it got me hooked and i ended up loving it. Again i can see why it was favourite for an oscar.

inbound:-

Atomic Blond 7/10 - good film with some excellent Charlize Theron scenes.

Thor: Ragnarok 7/10 - The best Thor film for me. had a good laugh at it.

Darkest Hour 5/10 - it was watchable but i was a bit tired watching it. will probably give it a go again when it is on Sky.

Kingsman 2 5/10 - Not as good as the first one. First one was a surprise how much i enjoyed it, this one was watchable but was never going to be as good.

[tongue_tied_danny]

If you don't stop it.... you'll go blind.

Cheesy 70s comedy. A series of sketches rather than one storyline with plenty of gratuitous nudity and crude, juvenile humour. About as subtle as a boot in the steens but amusing in places. Any film starting Uschi Digatd gets a thumbs up from me.

5/10

[Ira Gaines]

Dave Made a Maze

A guy called Dave builds a maze from cardboard and gets lost in it. People go in to get him, not realising just what he's built.

It's a great movie with a massive WTF feeling the whole way through, but in a good way. I loved it.

9/10

 

[Ronish Baxter]

Last movie I watched was on yesterday. The name of the movie - Apocalypto and director is Mel Gibson. A great movie that I saw after a long time and really loved watching the end part especially. Great actors, great direction, fight sequences and set. Really loved it!

Edited April 3, 2018 by Ronish Baxter

[Ludo*1]

Say what you like about Mel Gibson, there's a fair few things you can beat him with, but he's a fucking excellent director. Braveheart, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge are cracking films. I must confess, I've never seen Passion of the Christ, but it seems to have a decent reputation (Tarred by Gibson's actions in real life. The Man Without a Face is one I've not seen either and haven't really heard of, but even if it is a dud, it's not a bad track record.

[GrahamJags]

A Quiet Place - 8/10 (cinema) - One of the best horrors I've seen in a long time. Tense as f**k throughout, and actually has a consistently excellent storyline rather than falling to pieces towards the end like most other similar sort of films do. John Krasinski is excellent, as is the girl playing his daughter.

 

Journeyman - 7/10 (cinema) - Pretty bleak watch. Hardly a boxing film and more a story of how the person affected and those around him struggle to deal with a brain injury. Paddy Considine and Jodie Whittaker are both great in the lead roles.

[Co.Down Hibee]

Spiderman homecoming (SKY)

Tom Holland is good in the Peter Parker role and being a Marvel Universe film it's a fun watch, not sure if it's particularly better than any of the previous Spidey films and their is that conveyer belt feeling to the marvel stuff now but yeah it's good. 7/10

 

[Christophe]

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Ready Player One 5/10

A lot to like about this tbf, especially the Shining segment. TJ Miller is great as the MMPORG troll character, Ben Mendelsohn very enjoyable as the cartoon villain irl, Finchy plays Future American Redneck Finchy. Iron Giant. Loads of things to look out for. Spielberg’s sure eye for visual spectacle.

A lot to be pretty fucking meh about though: the story, the clues, the completely unsurprising twists, everything outside the VR world (apart from the “stacks” which are a great concept). Spielberg’s trademark schmaltz ending totally killing the mood of the whole film, really old school video game references that surely only about 10 people in the world will get or care about, and none of them will have watched the film, even though they’re absolutely central to the plot. 

Worth a watch for the visuals alone and will probably go and see it again since it’s free and there’s loads I know I missed in the clusterfuck battle scenes. (cinema)

[Arch Stanton]

Lost Highway (1997)

Everything you'd expect from Lynch and it's hard to discuss without spoilers. Maybe some things are best left unexplained.

[tongue_tied_danny]

Ready Player One

Not perfect but very entertaining in a mindless way. Excellent visuals and I'm glad I paid the couple of extra quid for 3d. It was good fun spotting the pop culture references. I would say the film is better than the book, the action scenes are more exciting and the references are slightly less geeky.

7/10

[Crroma]

I'm glad my barometer for seeing a film more than once isn't 5/10

[19QOS19]

Say what you like about Mel Gibson, there's a fair few things you can beat him with, but he's a fucking excellent director. Braveheart, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge are cracking films. I must confess, I've never seen Passion of the Christ, but it seems to have a decent reputation (Tarred by Gibson's actions in real life. The Man Without a Face is one I've not seen either and haven't really heard of, but even if it is a dud, it's not a bad track record.

Oddly enough I was thinking exactly this yesterday. No idea why it crossed my mind but I was thinking if he wasn't such a nutcase he could be making more terrific films. I have seen all his films and every one of them I've loved. The Man without a Face isn't as good as his other works but it was a really good film and again well directed. For me, every one of his films has been a success.

[moniton]

Just finished watching The Godfather 2 & 3 , loved them both although Sofia Copolla's acting is God awful at times. The end to both films are masterful and the storylines are genius. 10/10 & 7/10

[nsr]

In the last week I've seen:

Wonder Woman (2/10) - pretty dreadful, never really built up the character of Diana Prince herself, some details just made no sense (she knows where babies come from and can speak however many languages but doesn't know what marriage is?), seemed to confuse World War 1 with World War 2 (World War 1 certainly wasn't anywhere near as clear a good v evil fight), and the fights made no sense. Why didn't any of the Germans try shooting her in the leg where she has no armour and can't reach with her wristbands? The big reveals were pretty obvious.

Dr Strange (7/10) - surprisingly good. I knew nothing about the character besides one episode of an Avengers cartoon my son watched one time. It was well acted, I have no idea how faithful it was to the source material, but ultimately suffered from the usual problem of half the film covering the hero's origin and his biggest foe (because you've got to sell it somehow) being defeated relatively quickly in the latter half.

Justice League (5/10) - again, better than I expected. Flash was good. Aquaman seemed a bit unnecessary. I kept forgetting he was there. He didn't do anything particularly related to his water-based powers. Batman seemed a bit out of his league (see what I did there?) as well as old and out of shape. Wonder Woman was OK. Cyborg wasn't really explained. Steppenwolf was....there. Fairly generic stuff but a decent enough way to while away a couple of hours on a child-free evening.

Downfall (10/10) - horrible to watch but utterly riveting. I think it was made to try and dispel the myth that the Nazi leaders were some sort of mystical demonic force, and also the myth that they were just misunderstood Germanic heroes. They're portrayed as just a bunch of ordinary people who were nevertheless very sick and depraved and had almost entirely lost their grip on reality, or were just in too deep or too scared of the Russians to pull out and surrender. Magda Goebbels was beyond chilling.

[young_bairn]

No fucking way did you rate justice league above Wonder Woman [emoji68]