What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
"An ode to Ghostbusters 1984."
6.5/10

It was a nice way to reboot the franchise rather than just pretend the other movies didn't happen like Marvel/DC constantly and messily do.
 

I'd rank the films thusly -
1. Ghostbusters (1984)
*gap*
2. Ghostbusters 2 / Ghostbusters (2016)
3. Ghostbusters: Afterlife

 

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It needed more ghosts IMVHO. There's like 6 ghosts.

 

[djchapsticks]

Eternals

I hated this film, two and a half hours of utter tripe.

Some of the visual effects looked pretty nice though.

 

[Thorongil]

14 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
"An ode to Ghostbusters 1984."
6.5/10

It was a nice way to reboot the franchise rather than just pretend the other movies didn't happen like Marvel/DC constantly and messily do.
 

I'd rank the films thusly -
1. Ghostbusters (1984)
*gap*
2. Ghostbusters 2 / Ghostbusters (2016)
3. Ghostbusters: Afterlife

 

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It needed more ghosts IMVHO. There's like 6 ghosts.

 

I would agree but I did like Lady Ghostbusters. 
Have never understood the broad dislike for Ghostbusters 2. Have always thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Thorongil]

On 02/12/2021 at 20:37, Archie McSquackle said:

A Boy Called Christmas. Sky Original Christmas film - tedious, saccharine shite. Felt as though it had been written as a school project with a clumsily-written script and wooden acting. Lots of big names but they're absolutely dialling it in.

And what's intended as the big twist is obvious after about 5 minutes (but maybe I'm reading too much into a kids' film).

Anyway, bah humbug. ‍

I could tell by the trailer. Sky are getting like the BBC with their lazy shite.

[Genuine Hibs Fan]

Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (I dunno like 2010-odd) 

Sensational stuff. One of the best thrillers I've ever seen, Villeneuve manages to handle tone so well. As so often with his films even while in a realistic setting he manages to convey a sense of a world where something is just a bit off. Dano Gyllenhal and Jackman on top form. Bit long but just about earns it

[Arch Stanton]

Villain (Netflix).

Craig Fairbrass plays his usual hardman role in what, for 90-odd minutes is a decent film, performance and story wise.

There is then a Carlito's Way style ending which shows the screenplay writers just ran out of ideas.

 

[BFTD]

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (cinema) - reboot of the movie series based on the video games. A quiet company town is on the verge of closure as the corporation closes its facilities, only for a top-secret biological weapon to find its way out of their labs.

Pretty bog standard zombie flick, of the kind you'd expect to see on a streaming service (or straight-to-video back in the day). It's more faithful to the games than the original attempt, working through elements from RE1 & 2, but the original was probably more entertaining. This one's a bit slow, and people who aren't familiar with the "story" (what little there is) and the characters would probably be a bit bored, although genre fans might still find it passable. As a fan of the first three games twenty years ago, I thought it was OK.

Random thoughts: they decided to have the film take place in the late Nineties, and are weirdly keen to remind you that's where it's taking place, with a random assortment of "hey, remember this Nineties classic?" tunes thrown in, and oddities like a character playing Snake on their shitty old Nokia phone. Have we arrived at the point where 1998 is about to experience a retro revival? Also, this is one of those films where you get regular captions to remind you of the time, which doesn't always work out so well. At one point, we cut away from two characters urgently heading off to a nearby room, and cut back to them entering it after half an hour has supposedly passed.

They also used the John Carpenter typeface throughout, which is a cute touch, but also blasphemy.

Edit: forgot a monologue where a character essentially reels off a list of "things to do in 1998", including going to Blockbuster to rent a video. Very odd how keen they were to hammer home the time period considering the film could easily have taken place in present day without changing anything.

Edited December 5, 2021 by BFTD

[yoda]

I watched Drive My Car over the weekend. It's good. Very good. But it stumbles a bit in the third act. An enjoyable way to spend 3 hours of an evening though - I sat back and just lost myself in the film.

Two of the better films I've seen in the cinema over the past few years have been based on Murakami short stories (this and "Burning"). Food for thought, certainly. Or more likely a coincidence.

[Meldrew]

On 08/09/2021 at 08:47, Shandon Par said:

Betty Blue

A nice film about painting and decorating that turns a bit dark when someone pulls their eye out.

10/10

Saw this on Channel 4 probably sometime in the early to mid 90's

On 10/09/2021 at 09:31, well fan for life said:

Nobody - 8/10

Like John Wick but with a bit more nonsense. Very entertaining. 

Saw this at the weekend, agree it was pretty entertaining, the fact that the main guy was like ''yer da'' and didn't rip his top off to reveal 22 inch arms made it all the more enjoyable and less cliched 

[Hard Graft]

Just Mercy - watched this on a plane the other night and it was gripping. What a way to treat human beings.

[sfha]

On 27/11/2021 at 22:02, jagfox OG said:

Jaws - brilliant 9.5/10

That's  too low a rating, my friend. Nothing less than 10/10 for this film. A classic in every sense.

[scottsdad]

Batman Forever

My trip through the 80s/90s Batman films with the kids continues. Having enjoyed Batman Returns more than I remembered, I was a touch hopeful about this one. I remembered it as being a bit naff but maybe, 25 years on, it wasn't so bad?

My thoughts:

• Vil Kilmer, very badly miscast. That said he wasn't as dreadful as I remember. 
• The genuinely awful acting came from Tommy Lee Jones - who just cackled all the time - and Nicole Kidman. I normally like Kidman but William Shatner would have given a more convincing performance as Dr Chase Meridian, the love interest. 
• I can see what Joel Schumacher was trying to do. Taking the very dark Burton series and adding in some slapstick comedy. It just didn't work. The storyline was just dreadful and Jim Carrey was just goofing around playing himself. 
• The best parts of the movie concerned Robin. When he came into it the film calmed down a lot and became much more enjoyable. The first 30 minutes were utterly atrocious.
• You can see that the peak had passed and we were now well on the downhill slope of this series. Just 1 more to go...Batman & Robin
• I had completely forgotten that Drew Barrymore was in this film.

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[Raidernation]

Risky Business is great. 
80s teen movies loved a heavy dollop of class politics. 
 

And cleavage!

[101]

Die Hard, 9/10.

Watched this for the first time last night, brilliant film.

Alan Rickman is absolutely brilliant as per but Sgt. Powell might be one of the best characters I've seen in a long while. Outstanding. 

[sfha]

4 hours ago, 101 said:

Die Hard, 9/10.

Watched this for the first time last night

 

[killiepiemuncher]

 

He must be a young pup.

[101]

24 minutes ago, sfha said:

 

 

6 minutes ago, killiepiemuncher said:

He must be a young pup.

It did come out nearly a decade before I was born but yes I probably should have seen it before now.

[BFTD]

Aye, for anyone old enough to have watched Die Hard when it first came out, youngsters watching it now would be like us watching something like Casablanca or The Maltese Falcon back in 1988. Nobody under 30 was doing that except genuine cinephiles and hipsters ("films were so much better in black and white; you wouldn't understand").

Edit: @101 - watch Gremlins next.

Edited December 13, 2021 by BFTD

[101]

4 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Edit: @101 - watch Gremlins next

Any idea what platform it's on? Or will I have to get the DVD?

[BFTD]

9 minutes ago, 101 said:

Any idea what platform it's on? Or will I have to get the DVD?

Looks like you can rent it on Amazon Prime or YouTube.

Damn sight cheaper just to nip down to your nearest charity shop and see if they've got a copy. It's a pretty common DVD to find. Grab Gremlins 2 if you see it too - very different film, it's like a satire of the first one, but it's still a very entertaining watch.