What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[C. MacLeod]

Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark again a couple of nights ago on Showtime. Still enthralling 40 years and quite a few viewings later. Flew by in no time.

The last new movie I watched was The Suicide Squad. Not that familiar with most of the characters, but I found it highly entertaining. Much better than the first effort or The Joker.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

I cannot stand John Cena.

He’s everything wrong with the world folded up into a smug piece of fucking shit.

[velo army]

Out Of My League

Supposed charming Italian romcom about a lassie with a supposedly terminal illness who is hell-bent on finding love before she croaks. 

It's the familiar trope of "ugly dates beautiful" while she obviously isn't ugly, although the script tells us that she is, creating a disconnect. What she is however is manipulative and narcissistic. The way that she gets the guy (a beautiful and ultimately good hearted guy who is unhappy in his supposedly perfect life. The only interesting character in the whole thing) is dreadful. Basically stalks him, stealing the phone of a man who fancies her (a "loser" who is painted with broad strokes and about whom we find out nothing) and using it to look at photos of her quarry, before dropping the phone in the toilet and flushing it away.

So aye, it's hard to support her after that. The man she stalks confronts her and agrees to go out with her. There is chemistry between the two characters, but it's platonic. 

I could go on but ultimately my problem with this movie was the main character and the fact that she's ill supposedly excuses all her shitty behaviour. We even get the guy apologising to her after the first date, despite her reaction to it (being invited to a family dinner) being wildly over the top and egocentric.

The cinematography and music try and get you to think you're watching Amelie, but imagine Amelie as a selfish, entitled nasty arsehole who performs no acts of friendship or kindness for others.

Aye, I got irked at this film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kam C]

Check out the official release of The Pusher Man. A reporter has a grudge with a congressman. Great movie. Free download

[UpInTheAyr]

Out Of My League
Supposed charming Italian romcom about a lassie with a supposedly terminal illness who is hell-bent on finding love before she croaks. 
It's the familiar trope of "ugly dates beautiful" while she obviously isn't ugly, although the script tells us that she is, creating a disconnect. What she is however is manipulative and narcissistic. The way that she gets the guy (a beautiful and ultimately good hearted guy who is unhappy in his supposedly perfect life. The only interesting character in the whole thing) is dreadful. Basically stalks him, stealing the phone of a man who fancies her (a "loser" who is painted with broad strokes and about whom we find out nothing) and using it to look at photos of her quarry, before dropping the phone in the toilet and flushing it away.
So aye, it's hard to support her after that. The man she stalks confronts her and agrees to go out with her. There is chemistry between the two characters, but it's platonic. 
I could go on but ultimately my problem with this movie was the main character and the fact that she's ill supposedly excuses all her shitty behaviour. We even get the guy apologising to her after the first date, despite her reaction to it (being invited to a family dinner) being wildly over the top and egocentric.
The cinematography and music try and get you to think you're watching Amelie, but imagine Amelie as a selfish, entitled nasty arsehole who performs no acts of friendship or kindness for others.
Aye, I got irked at this film.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Not to be confused with She's Out Of My League, which is exactly a very funny comedy with Alice Eve. Currently on Netflix.

[UpInTheAyr]

I cannot stand John Cena.
He’s everything wrong with the world folded up into a smug piece of fucking shit.

He does a lot with that make a wish foundation. Think he's actually done more wishes than anyone so not a total piece of shit. Thought he was pretty good in Suicide Squad too

[UpInTheAyr]

Snake Eyes G.I Joe Origins or whatever it's called. Awful stuff.

Demonic. From the guy that did District 13. Was looking forward to it but even worse than Snake Eyes.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Watched Edward Scissorhands yesterday. Had a tear in my eye at the end. I suppose I liked it.

[sfha]

Clovehitch Killer

Seen this a few times and know it inside out!

[BigDoddyKane]

Nocturnal animals. I had read the book Tony and Susan few years before movie came out and I thought book was great.

The movie was different to how I imagined the book but that was why it worked I think as it had created its own feel but still exact same story. 

Really well filmed too. Great acting. 

 

[sfha]

Hunter Hunter

I was actually looking for another film but this had piggybacked on the stream. A strange film, its a mix of various storythreads that ultimately fizzle out until the gruesome finale. 

[Archie McSquackle]

Watched Edward Scissorhands yesterday. Had a tear in my eye at the end. I suppose I liked it.

I watched it for the first time recently with my daughter. My wife refused to watched it as she said she watched it years ago and it was rubbish so we waited until she had a night out. We both really enjoyed it, had a few good laughs and yes, someone must have been chopping onions nearby at the end.

[BFTD]

Candyman (cinema) - the forgotten boogeyman from the original film returns after an artist discovers the myth in the projects of his youth.

I was expecting this to be a reboot, but it's one of the rare sequels that seems to exist because someone had an actual idea for following up the original, rather than just to make a bit of cash. It's quite politically motivated, tying nicely in to concerns about gentrification and state/police brutality, and I thought it was really well done and a very worthwhile endeavour, expanding well on the themes. There will absolutely be people who are unhappy about the portrayal of life for poor African-Americans, especially by the ending, but frankly, they can get fucked.

BigFatTabbyBoy was stunned and absolutely loved it. Looking forward to showing him the original now and maybe tracking down the sequels (although I always presumed they'd be pish).

[BigDoddyKane]

Watched cool hand luke this evenng, probably seen it 5 times, last time maybe 15-20 years ago and it still hits the mark. Just a great movie, story, actors, acting and cinematography. Paul Newman at his best. 

i only planned watching the first 15 minutes but was just hooked again by it. The ending always makes me feel like i get what its about but to be honest i couldnt explain what its really about as im not even sure.

very few movies i would give a 10 for but this is one

 

[BFTD]

Free Guy (cinema) - a video game MMO character (Ryan Reynolds) achieves sentience and falls for one of the game's real-world player avatars.

This is a plot conceit that's in danger of becoming a cliche now, but it's still a fun, humorous action flick that won't tax too many brain cells, although there's slightly more to it than my summary. There's also a nice heel performance from Taika Waititi, and some surprisingly knowing satire on the video games industry, but it obviously still has plenty of "THIS IS NOT HOW COMPUTERS WORK" moments for the IT professionals. Your potential enjoyment can definitely be gauged by how much you've enjoyed Reynolds' prior films, as it's very much in line with his other arch, self-aware work.

I'd still have preferred a Mogworld movie, but WOW is pretty old-hat now, I suppose.

[MSU]

@BFTD we share last two movies seen. I loved Candyman. The original never meant that much to me but this revisit was far better than I expected. Beautifully shot and enough social commentary to make it worth a second look. 

Free Guy bored me a bit until the last fifteen minutes, which I found to be enormous fun and made it just about worthwhile. I may have just been in a bad mood but Reynolds was reminding me too much of Will Ferrell and whole thing looked like it was borrowing heavily from the Lego Movie. 

Saw trailers for Last Night in Soho and Halloween Kills tonight, both of which I’m pretty excited about seeing. 

Edited August 29, 2021 by MSU

[C. MacLeod]

7 hours ago, BigDoddyKane said:

Watched cool hand luke this evenng, probably seen it 5 times, last time maybe 15-20 years ago and it still hits the mark. Just a great movie, story, actors, acting and cinematography. Paul Newman at his best. 

i only planned watching the first 15 minutes but was just hooked again by it. The ending always makes me feel like i get what its about but to be honest i couldnt explain what its really about as im not even sure.

very few movies i would give a 10 for but this is one

 

Saw Cool Hand Luke in the theater on its original run. Terrific movie (Paul Newman is my favorite actor). Of course as I was only 10 at the time, I had no inkling of Luke as a Christ-figure and didn't fully grasp the anti-authoritarianism that won his disciples. But it was still cool. 

I have movies I can't help but get involved in too. Like every time The Best Years of Our Lives is on I think "I'm just going to watch until..." but then I end up getting involved and have to watch it till the end.

[Mark Connolly]

I know some of them are better than others, but did Paul Newman ever make a bad film?

The afore mentioned "better than" ones are generally 9 or 10/10s

[Fullerene]

45 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

I know some of them are better than others, but did Paul Newman ever make a bad film?

Depends what you think of "Quintet".

[NotThePars]

The Death of Stalin (2017) dir. Armando Ianucci

Rewatched this the other night as a mate hadn't seen it. Superb movie. Taking the petty weak people backstabbing each other in politics template of The Thick of It and substantially raising the stakes from "losing your job" to "losing your life" is a perfect move. I love this and it has some superb performances from Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend and Simon Russell Beale. Paul Whitehouse, Paul Chihidi and Michael Palin are also on good form.

Edited August 31, 2021 by NotThePars