What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[JustOneCornetto]

1922 (2017)

A Stephen King horror with an Edgar Allen Poe 'Tell Tale Heart' feel to it about a farmer who decides to kill his wife, with the help of his teenage son, so that he can keep the land she has inherited. Shortly after the deed is done strange and supernatural things start happening and lots of rats feature in those events.

7/10

 

[DA Baracus]

AWOL

7/10

Also known as 'Lionheart'. A Jean Claude Van Damme classic in which JCVD plays Leon, a French Foreign Legionnaire who, upon learning of his brother being gravely injured and hospitalised, asks to go to the US to be with him.

The Legion denies him this request, which is a poor decision. He batters a few of them then escapes to a boat that takes him to America. He thinks it docks in LA but it docks in NY. Skint, badly dressed and lost, he stumbles upon a fight under a bridge. After watching the victor get a stack of cash, he volunteers to be in the next fight. Obviously he knocks f**k out of the guy and draws the attention of a homeless dude, who becomes his manager.

The homeless dude is somehow well connected to a dreadful late 80s yuppie woman who is part of a lucrative underground fighting ring.

Leon wins a fight and gets the money to get to LA.

Alas, his brother has perished from his injuries and his brother's wife and daughter are in financial trouble. To support them financially, he must fight!

Some silly stuff but a classic JCVD film that follows the classic formula of some of his best films (i.e. he fights a load of folk in a tournament). Whilst there isn't quite a tournament here, Leon does work his way up the ranks until he faces off against the top fighter, Atilla.

[DA Baracus]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix 

4/10

Boring. So boring. Who were the aliens that were defeated so easily? Why should we care? We shouldn't, and nor should we care a single bit about anything in this film, especially given how little anyone involved cared.

A sad end to a decent series (especially the first two films, which were tremendous).

[Elric]

Watched The Father last night. Decent enough film if a little confusing at times but an outstanding performance bu Anthony Hopkins.  8/10

[YER SISTERS YER MAW]

Watched The Father last night. Decent enough film if a little confusing at times but an outstanding performance bu Anthony Hopkins.  8/10

Watched this last night as well. I'm the same and found it a bit confusing but I think that was the whole point, with the filmmakers wanting you to see it from the old man's perspective with his mind playing tricks on him. Have to agree that Hopkins put in a stellar performance.

[Mark Connolly]

12 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

X-Men: Dark Phoenix 

4/10

Boring. So boring. Who were the aliens that were defeated so easily? Why should we care? We shouldn't, and nor should we care a single bit about anything in this film, especially given how little anyone involved cared.

A sad end to a decent series (especially the first two films, which were tremendous).

It was arguably a worse attempt at the Dark Phoenix story than The Last Stand, and it was fucking dreadful. Sophie Turner also has the acting ability of a lamp post

[DA Baracus]

13 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

It was arguably a worse attempt at the Dark Phoenix story than The Last Stand, and it was fucking dreadful. Sophie Turner also has the acting ability of a lamp post

The Last Stand was at least fairly funny at times, even if that mostly unintentional.

Dark Phoenix is just so dull and plodding, with pretty much everyone phoning it in (except the massively wasted Jessica Chastain).

[jimmy boo]

Watched this last night as well. I'm the same and found it a bit confusing but I think that was the whole point, with the filmmakers wanting you to see it from the old man's perspective with his mind playing tricks on him. Have to agree that Hopkins put in a stellar performance.

I read a review somewhere which confirmed it was made that way to make the viewer connect with his condition.

[lichtie23]

Mulan (2020)

Never seen the cartoon version so can’t compare it to that. Watched it with the family and was a decent watch. Fight scenes were decent. 
 

7/10

[BFTD]

The Nun - another addition to the cash cow series about appalling scam artists and fraudsters Ed & Lorraine Warren. This time out, the "true story" is a flashback origin tale for one of the demons they made up for money.

That was just astonishingly bad. Barely any story, just a load of nuns, a priest, and a random French...sorry, French-Canadian...doofus running around a Romanian abbey. Random stupid things happen. Just a nonsensical mess of hot garbage masquerading as a horror movie. Frankly, I only watched it to depress myself further after the Israel game, but I didn't expect something quite this awful.

[Ira Gaines]

The spin off movies have been mixed. The second and third Annabelle movies are good fun in their own ways. But the first one, this and The Curse of La Llorona are all VERY poor.

[Honest_Man#1]

Finally watched Uncut Gems. Feel like I’m about to have a heart attack, and can’t decide if I loved or hated it. Leaning towards loved it but fucking hell.

[Stellaboz]

Finally watched Uncut Gems. Feel like I’m about to have a heart attack, and can’t decide if I loved or hated it. Leaning towards loved it but fucking hell.

Haha aye it's a roller coaster. That's why it's so good.

[Ira Gaines]

Godzilla vs. Kong

Oh yes. First off... the battles. EASILY the best ones so far. Especially the massive climatic one from the title. There's more use of music here, but it's all pretty well done. Found it a little odd at first, but the mood was well set. The humans probably worked like they should. As one big exposition dump to set up whatever's about to happen next with the titans. I'll be going extremely high with this, because it delivered pretty much exactly what I wanted it to deliver, and did so with gusto.

9/10

[coprolite]

Blade of the immortal

Supernatural Samurai revenge thriller with a lot of violence. 

Never quite got to the bottom of it really but lots of baddies died. Stuff about honour, codes loyalty with buckets of Kensington gore and colourful level bosses with a properly drawn big boss. I haven't seen the manga series but really enjoyed this. 

8/10

[NotThePars]

Good Time (2017) dir. Safdie Brothers

This is far more claustrophobic an experience than Uncut Gems which is more vibrantly insane but f**k this is good. Robert Pattinson’s a differently intense kind of stupid New York guy to Adam Sandler which nearly didn’t work for me but he’s superb in this role and Oneohtrix Point Never’s soundtrack is terrific in adding to the tension.

Great movie but one that feels like it was a messier demo to the classic that is Uncut Gems.

8/10

[NotThePars]

Finally watched Uncut Gems. Feel like I’m about to have a heart attack, and can’t decide if I loved or hated it. Leaning towards loved it but fucking hell.

Haha aye it's a roller coaster. That's why it's so good.

The GBX anthem at the end is like having the adrenaline shot from Pulp Fiction fired into you. I don’t think any other tune could’ve been more apt for releasing the tension I was feeling at the end of that movie.

[Biscuits]

Uncut Gems

Decided to see what all the fuss was about. Holy f**k - I need a lie down.

[sfha]

On 25/03/2021 at 18:32, JustOneCornetto said:

1922 (2017)

A Stephen King horror with an Edgar Allen Poe 'Tell Tale Heart' feel to it about a farmer who decides to kill his wife, with the help of his teenage son, so that he can keep the land she has inherited. Shortly after the deed is done strange and supernatural things start happening and lots of rats feature in those events.

7/10

 

When Stephen King's novels are made into a film they are either very good or very bad. 1922 is definitely the former.

[19QOS19]

American Beauty

Only the second time to have watched this and the first time I watched it I was nightshift so maybe wasn't 100% alert as I didn't get all the fuss.

I have to say I feel pretty similar having watched it the second time. It's a good film and the guy's breakdown is very well portrayed by the b.east formerly known as Kevin Spacey but it doesn't grab me as much as it seems to others. The score was fantastic (as Thomas Newman's work generally always is) but for me it's a sham that this beat The Green Mile to Best Picture (I'd probably have had Cider House Rules ahead of it as well tbh). When I have my inevitable midlife crisis I might appreciate it more.