What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[BFTD]

If people getting up to pee is the biggest distraction in a cinema, you're doing quite well.

[Paul Kersey]

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Alec Guinness plays Hitler hiding out in his bunker at the end of WW2 in this 1973 historical drama.

The same as Downfall but not as good. Hitler sounds like Obi Wan Kenobi and the rest of the Nazi high command came across like a bunch of English country gents.

Interesting, but nothing that I didn't know already.

5/10

[Arch Stanton]

On 14/06/2022 at 21:15, BFTD said:

[Stellaboz]

Went through the Fantastic Beasts trilogy past week.

 

Really enjoyed it, despite the glaring plot problems and lack of continuity with parts of them. 

The lad who plays Jacob is the real star though. An absolutely magnificent performance throughout.

[BFTD]

Scanners (DVD) - a young homeless man with uncontrolled psychic powers is recruited by a shadowy organisation to track down a similar, but dangerous foe.

I fucking love this film, even down to its wild mix of acting (from stiff and cheesy to Michael Ironside). It has a terrific score from Howard Shore too, with a goodly dose of threatening ambient sound to go with it. Cronenberg loves an enigmatic ending, and It's a bit of a disappointment when you arrive at this one, but only because it's a shame to leave this world of exploding heads and human modems.

It's also old enough now that it's transitioned from looking ancient in the Nineties, from the clothing down to the reel-to-reel computers, to seeming trendily retro.

[Zetterlund]

I watched Titanic for the first time in many years last night. It's obviously too long, but still a tremendous movie.

A couple of things I remember picking up on the first time I saw it which I couldn't unsee this time. Firstly, it's a bit silly that the ship seemingly only hit the iceberg because the lookouts were distracted by Rose and Jack fooling around on deck below them.

Then, in the scene which had the entire cinema on the verge of tears back in the day (not me, someone must've been peeling onions nearby), where she lets him go before being rescued, I felt she could have made a bit more of an effort to make sure he was dead. She basically whispers his name a few times, shakes his hand a bit, then tips him into the sea. Harsh.

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, Zetterlund said:

I watched Titanic for the first time in many years last night. It's obviously too long, but still a tremendous movie.

A couple of things I remember picking up on the first time I saw it which I couldn't unsee this time. Firstly, it's a bit silly that the ship seemingly only hit the iceberg because the lookouts were distracted by Rose and Jack fooling around on deck below them.

Then, in the scene which had the entire cinema on the verge of tears back in the day (not me, someone must've been peeling onions nearby), where she lets him go before being rescued, I felt she could have made a bit more of an effort to make sure he was dead. She basically whispers his name a few times, shakes his hand a bit, then tips him into the sea. Harsh.

You wanted to see her finish him off?

Just about anything would've been an improvement in that film, so I'll go with it.

[Zetterlund]

1 minute ago, BFTD said:

You wanted to see her finish him off?

The single biggest improvement would've been making it an hour shorter. Starting it an hour in, for example.

[coprolite]

On 16/06/2022 at 15:22, Twinkle said:

Jurassic World Dominion

 

Not as shite as i thought it would be. However still kinda rehashing the earlier films with both scenes and storylines

The original was basically rehashing Westworld anyway. 

But dinosaurs are cooler than androids, except Yul Brynner. 

[Detournement]

One Deadly Summer (1983)

I picked this off the BFI player recommendations without knowing anything about it because Isabelle Adjani stars in it and she was insanely hot back in the day. It starts off as a tame sex comedy and then takes a dark run as family secrets are revealed. Adjani is excellent playing a barely clothed and slightly psychotic 19 year old despite being in her late 20s and the second half of the film is gripping. It's very clever in the way that manipulates the viewer's expectations of Adjani's character as the film progresses.

Edited June 18, 2022 by Detournement

[DA Baracus]

You need to pick cinema screenings carefully. The first couple of weeks, at least, for a new release are out of the question. Friday and Saturday nights are always out. In fact, the weekends in general are a poor choice.

Ideally you want to go during a weekday, in the morning, but of course this isn't feasible most of the time. Therefore Thursday nights are probably best since there are often promotions for Tuesday and Wednesday nights meaning it can be busier.

Also, if you live somewhere with a smaller cinema in addition to the chains, go there. When I lived in Aberdeen for uni I often went to Vue midday screenings and many times had the entire screen to myself. It was glorious.

I despise folk at the cinema. Noisy scum who look at their bright, bright phones and too often have stinking food. There should be a Dr Evil style load of buttons for cinema screens whereby a cinema employee can press one if a person is noisy and/or looks at their phone. The button would correspond to the seat of said dickhead of course and they'be be tipped back in to a pit of fire.

[Stellaboz]

I took a sicky Friday when T2 Trainspotting came out on opening day.

Munchies aplenty in the old rucksack and a cheeky beer for the first late morning showing at Vue, barely 10 people there. Was fucking brilliant.

[MSU]

072 -- Lightyear. I had low expectations for this following Toy Story 4 but after a very ropey start where none of the jokes were landing that well, they introduced a robot cat and everything got better. It's visually stunning but light on emotion, and a little repetitive and I'm not sure I go along with the conceit that this was the movie -- a movie whose central premise features time dilation -- that Andy loved so much, or that Buzz comes across as all that heroic. I laughed out loud several times, mostly at the cat, but I just wish it had done more to have an equivalent of the toys about to go into the incinerator. 7/10

073 -- Swiss Army Man (#36 in the A24 series) According to Mrs MSU, I've seen this already. Well, I guess I was drunk or asleep or both because I don't think this is a movie you can forget you've seen. Paul Dano's character is stranded on a deserted island and about to kill himself when a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on the shore. The corpse seems to possess strange abilities, isn't quite fully dead, and might just be Hank's ticket back to civilization. I can totally understand why some people would hate this, but I loved it. I thought it was warm, heart-felt, beautiful once you get over all the farting, with a soundtrack that's absolutely designed to get you in the feels and it was funny. I had a smile on my stupid face all the way through. Even a telegraphed finale wasn't enough to spoil it for me, thanks in part to Mary Elizabeth Winstead. 9/10

[Mark Connolly]

10 minutes ago, MSU said:

072 -- Lightyear. I had low expectations for this following Toy Story 4 but after a very ropey start where none of the jokes were landing that well, they introduced a robot cat and everything got better. It's visually stunning but light on emotion, and a little repetitive and I'm not sure I go along with the conceit that this was the movie -- a movie whose central premise features time dilation -- that Andy loved so much, or that Buzz comes across as all that heroic. I laughed out loud several times, mostly at the cat, but I just wish it had done more to have an equivalent of the toys about to go into the incinerator. 7/10

Went to see this with the nieces this morning.

It was entertaining enough, though it definitely took me a bit to get used to Buzz not sounding like Buzz. Inclined to agree with your 7/10

[MSU]

43 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

It was entertaining enough, though it definitely took me a bit to get used to Buzz not sounding like Buzz

Yeah, that was totally weird. Definitely didn't help the laborious start when you're sitting there thinking, well this is wrong.

[Squalor Vic]

Hustle on Netflix. 

Fair enjoyed it, I like a sports drama/feel good film in a Sunday afternoon. You know what's coming and it's been done before, a bit Jerry Maguire the relationship between a pretty good Sandler and the bball player, an actual NBA star in Juan Hernangomez. 

A solid 7/10

[velo army]

Collateral Beauty

Bloody hell this had me in tears at various points throughout. It's superb and the cast are fantastic. Will Smith is a partner in an advertising agency with Ed Norton, but fast forward three months and Smith is a griefstricken father whose only child (a daughter) died aged 6. Also at the agency are Kate Winslet as a devoted employee whom we later learn has put her personal ambitions on hold for her professional ones, and Michael Pena who we later learn has had his cancer return, this time to deliver the coup de grace. Norton wants to sell the company, but Smith won't sell his shares. Out of ideas Norton hatches a plan to help his friend come out of his grief, while also trying to save the company.

Smith has been sending letters to Death, Love and Time, blaming them for the pain he feels now. A PI hired by Norton tells him this and fishes the letters out of the mailbox. Through casting for an ad Norton is taken by Keira Knightley's smarts and charisma and follows her to a theatre for a play she's in. Norton hires her and the two other actors to play Death, Love and Time. They arrange encounters with Smith and respond to the accusations in his letters. Helen Mirren plays Death, Knightley plays Love and Jacob Latimore plays Time. It's not a plan without dubiety as it involves an element of betraying his friend, but it is an understandable one.

It's well done and there's also a lovely side story where Smith hangs around outside a support group run by Naomie Harris for parents who lost children. There is a payoff to this storyline that honestly had me folded over crying. 

I would say this was a beautiful movie, and the relationships are hopeful and positive. I've been utterly fed up by the sheer amount of cynical and nihilistic relationships in movies/comedies that this was such a balm for the soul. The people in it are good, and there's a good hearted innocence to the whole thing.

I sometimes need a good cry, but can't just do it. I often need a movie to make the first crack in the dam. I loved this and would recommend it. You'll be a pile of wet washing after it, but it's worth it.

8/10. 

 

Edited June 19, 2022 by velo army

[Detournement]

Black Hat (2015)

I've loved Michael Mann since I was a child but this was shite. There's a scene near the end in Jakarta where Chris Hemsworth stabs a baddie in the eye in the middle of a huge religious festival and no one reacts at all that is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. 

Despite this crap I'm still going to preorder the Heat 2 novel because Michael Mann has money in the bank. 

[Miguel Sanchez]

20 hours ago, velo army said:

Collateral Beauty

Bloody hell this had me in tears at various points throughout. It's superb and the cast are fantastic. Will Smith is a partner in an advertising agency with Ed Norton, but fast forward three months and Smith is a griefstricken father whose only child (a daughter) died aged 6. Also at the agency are Kate Winslet as a devoted employee whom we later learn has put her personal ambitions on hold for her professional ones, and Michael Pena who we later learn has had his cancer return, this time to deliver the coup de grace. Norton wants to sell the company, but Smith won't sell his shares. Out of ideas Norton hatches a plan to help his friend come out of his grief, while also trying to save the company.

Smith has been sending letters to Death, Love and Time, blaming them for the pain he feels now. A PI hired by Norton tells him this and fishes the letters out of the mailbox. Through casting for an ad Norton is taken by Keira Knightley's smarts and charisma and follows her to a theatre for a play she's in. Norton hires her and the two other actors to play Death, Love and Time. They arrange encounters with Smith and respond to the accusations in his letters. Helen Mirren plays Death, Knightley plays Love and Jacob Latimore plays Time. It's not a plan without dubiety as it involves an element of betraying his friend, but it is an understandable one.

It's well done and there's also a lovely side story where Smith hangs around outside a support group run by Naomie Harris for parents who lost children. There is a payoff to this storyline that honestly had me folded over crying. 

I would say this was a beautiful movie, and the relationships are hopeful and positive. I've been utterly fed up by the sheer amount of cynical and nihilistic relationships in movies/comedies that this was such a balm for the soul. The people in it are good, and there's a good hearted innocence to the whole thing.

I sometimes need a good cry, but can't just do it. I often need a movie to make the first crack in the dam. I loved this and would recommend it. You'll be a pile of wet washing after it, but it's worth it.

8/10. 

 

Funny, I just watched this the other day

I might need to actually see it now to see where it actually lands.

[Miguel Sanchez]

And on the subject of other people at the pictures - two weeks ago I went to see The Bob's Burgers Movie (8/10 if you've seen the show higher if you haven't) at 1PM on a Thursday and I was the only person there. Until the trailers started and two girls came in and sat a few rows down from me. I don't think I've ever been as outraged in my life.