What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Burnt. 2015.

Bradley Cooper plays a chef aiming to rebuild his life and career and win a 3rd Michelin star.

It’s decent enough.

Chef with Jon Favreau is better cookery movie.

[Mark Connolly]

1 hour ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Burnt. 2015.

Bradley Cooper plays a chef aiming to rebuild his life and career and win a 3rd Michelin star.

It’s decent enough.

Chef with Jon Favreau is better cookery movie.

Chef is absolutely tremendous. Also recommend "The Chef Show" on Netflix, which is Favreau and Roy Choi, who was the consultant chef on the film, going round trying amazing food

[Steve_Wilkos]

On 06/05/2023 at 07:16, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Burnt. 2015.

Bradley Cooper plays a chef aiming to rebuild his life and career and win a 3rd Michelin star.

It’s decent enough.

Chef with Jon Favreau is better cookery movie.

 

On 06/05/2023 at 08:47, Mark Connolly said:

Chef is absolutely tremendous. Also recommend "The Chef Show" on Netflix, which is Favreau and Roy Choi, who was the consultant chef on the film, going round trying amazing food

Would recommend 'Boiling Point' on Netflix, a one-take film set in a restaurant.

[Mark Connolly]

4 hours ago, Steve_Wilkos said:

 

Would recommend 'Boiling Point' on Netflix, a one-take film set in a restaurant.

Is that the Stephen Graham one? If so, it’s on my to do list

[Savage Henry]

Prisoners 

 

Last minute decision on Netflix to watch this early Dennis Villeneuve film.  It’s a combination of Silence of the Lambs and Insomnia, and is 3/4 sensational.  It’s a case study in movies which need a good editor, as it’s about an hour too long, mainly because of quite a lot of hokum in the final act.  At its best, genuinely tense.  I’d highly recommend it.

7.1

[scottsdad]

John Wick 4.

A deep, emotional dive into the complex character, covering his childhood, first feelings towards women, mid life crises and struggles with everyday life. Reeves is a stick on certainty for an Oscar. 

 

 

Spoiler

Reeves says "yeah" 4 times, shoots about a thousand people and generally has violent fun. Like watching someone play a shoot em up on the PS. 

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

4 movies with the delightful Lyna Khoudri.

Haute couture. Fancy dresses and second chances. 6/10.

Les Trois Mousquetaires: D'Artagnan. A movie based on the classic cartoon Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. 8/10

Houria. Emancipation is some good shit. 6/10.

Papicha. Women are strong. Suck on that Islamic state. 7/10

[BFTD]

Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Guard Harder (cinema) - everybody's favourite NOT A RACCOON Rocket's past finally catches up with him, and his friends must risk their lives to save him from the obsessed eugenicist who made him what he is.

Possibly the weakest of the trilogy, but it's still a lot of fun when it needs to be, and absolutely pitch black at other points - there's some utterly grim backstory here, and if you've got any kids that are sensitive to animal cruelty, you might want to think carefully about taking them to this. It gets really dark and, despite it being pretty obvious where the story's going, it's still upsetting when it happens.

No spoilers, but it's a good ending to James Gunn's involvement, and they made some decent decisions regarding the characters (including some entertaining newcomers). Definitely the best Marvel film since the Thanos saga finished, but it's entirely isolated from their current Multiverse/Kang storyline, so that's perhaps not as big a win as it seems.

Obviously, a new Howard the Duck movie is the key to saving the MCU, and they're clearly desperate to do it. Make it so.

[Mark Connolly]

1 hour ago, BTFD said:

Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Guard Harder (cinema) - everybody's favourite NOT A RACCOON Rocket's past finally catches up with him, and his friends must risk their lives to save him from the obsessed eugenicist who made him what he is.

Possibly the weakest of the trilogy, but it's still a lot of fun when it needs to be, and absolutely pitch black at other points - there's some utterly grim backstory here, and if you've got any kids that are sensitive to animal cruelty, you might want to think carefully about taking them to this. It gets really dark and, despite it being pretty obvious where the story's going, it's still upsetting when it happens.

No spoilers, but it's a good ending to James Gunn's involvement, and they made some decent decisions regarding the characters (including some entertaining newcomers). Definitely the best Marvel film since the Thanos saga finished, but it's entirely isolated from their current Multiverse/Kang storyline, so that's perhaps not as big a win as it seems.

Obviously, a new Howard the Duck movie is the key to saving the MCU, and they're clearly desperate to do it. Make it so.

Howard can f**k off, give Cosmo the spin off

[MSU]

101 Romy and Michele's High School Reunion -- I forget how much I love this stupid movie until I watch it, and so it always seems to be years between viewings, giving me enough time to forget the jokes and the little looks between Lisa Kudrow and (Academy Award winner) Mira Sorvino and Janeane Garofalo. The story of two stereotypical airheads in LA heading back to Arizona for their 10-year High School reunion is simple enough but the movie has a wonderfully good and honest heart and there are many, I think, universal truths of acceptance and nostalgia and how the hierarchy of school means that we were all somewhere in the middle, simultaneously being treated like shit by some while treating others like shit in return. 9/10

102 Die Another Day -- Pierce Brosnan's tenure as 007 ends with a whimper and very much the sense of what could've been. I maintain that he's a good, maybe even great Bond, but he's had a couple of absolutely stinking stories to work with, and this is the bottom of the barrel. The story is poor, but the dialogue put around it is criminal. There's a scene where our villain is being questioned by a British press pack and honestly, the questions that are asked sound like they've been devised not only by someone who has never seen the British press in action but also by someone who has never heard a question being asked out loud. By the time Madonna, in her Cockney phase, and Oliver Skeet turn up in cameo roles, I had long given up. Not even a reasonable turn by Rosamund Pike is enough to save this calamity, and that's before I mention an invisible car. 2/10

103 Mutiny on the Bounty (#8 in the Best Picture series) -- There's an awful lot to like and enjoy in this epic historical/nautical romp with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as the dastardly Bligh. Acting in the 30s is to a different standard than these days but once you get used to it and adapt to the slightly odd way people talk to each other, it's something that can easily be tolerated. The production and location work is quite impressive for the time -- parts of it really were filmed in French Polynesia -- which must've seemed like extravagancies. Historically, apparently there are plenty of inaccuracies -- for example, Bligh was nowhere near as ruthless as depicted and the number of floggings on the Bounty was below average -- but what it left makes for great entertainment and it's easy to see why it picked up Best Picture. Oddly, it lost out to The Informer in other categories, and having three actors up for the Best Actor gong resulted in the birth of the Supporting Actor category. So that's nice. 8/10

104 Romancing the Stone -- Forty years on, just about, and it's still a hoot and a half and everyone is SO IMPOSSIBLY YOUNG! I always suspected that more recent movies like The Lost City and Jungle Cruise owed Romancing the Stone a debt of gratitude, and that has been more than confirmed. Douglas and Turner work well together and Robert Zemeckis's direction, while never really diverting from the tried and tested formula of 80s romantic comedies, is vibrant and full of fun. A more than decent way to spend 100 minutes on a dreary afternoon. 7/10

105 Casino Royale -- What a difference four years makes, so much so that this feels like a new franchise. No transition from one Bond to another has been such a reinvention. Daniel Craig's 007 plays by his own rules and it's an incredibly welcome move. There are obvious throwbacks, of course. The cast of characters remains largely the same, the globe is sufficiently trotted, and the baddies typically have some visible deformity, but it all feels like it's in the new century for the first time. I can't imagine any effort from Pierce Brosnan or Timothy Dalton featuring an extended base running sequence on a Madagascan construction site, although the thought of Roger Moore doing it is pretty amusing. Mads Mikkelsen is a fine villain, Martin Campbell's direction is an improvement on his work on GoldenEye, and Paul Haggis's script is sharp and thankfully not dripping in innuendo. This Bond is blunt, flawed, somewhat inexperienced, and brilliant. And the theme tune kicks serious arse too. 9/10

106 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret -- Been a quiet couple of weeks at the movies if you're not interested in Marvel, so this was Mrs MSU's pick and I guess all the nostalgia and memberberries that this serves up worked better for her than it did for me. It's a coming-of-age drama-comedy that wasn't all that funny and didn't have much in the way of tension, but it was charming, cute, and surprisingly frank in places as Margaret attempts to negotiate a new school, new friends, and the threat of puberty. There's an interesting subplot of her maternal grandparents being Christian and disapproving of their daughter's marriage to a Jew but it didn't really pay off at any point. Rachel McAdams is acting within her means throughout, Abby Ryder Forston as Margaret and Elle Graham as her friend Nancy are great, but it's Kathy Bates as Margaret's granny that steals the show. 6/10

[BFTD]

I really liked Die Another Day at the time, despite the awful CG, which was still pretty common. It's probably the most ludicrous entry, but they'd been ramping up the set pieces and concepts for decades by that point, and gritty realism hadn't arrived in the action genre yet.

I'd be interested to see if I liked it because it had the "so bad it's good" thing. I do remember both Madonna's cameo and title song being fucking awful though; funny to think there was a time where she could just turn up to things and people would accept whatever she did because, hey, it's Madonna.

[Guest ICTFCwife]

I’m not sure if you would define it as a movie or more of a documentary/concert but the last movie I watched was “Bruce Springsteen,Western Stars” well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. 

[LIVIFOREVER]

From memory of first watching Romancing The Stone it was pretty good, so thought i'd give it a rewatch. What a disappointment, it really hasn't aged well, it was god awful, i couldn't even finish watching the whole film. 

[scottsdad]

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Enjoyable nonsense. There were some scenes that were a tough watch but like the others in the series, worth the time. 

[Stellaboz]

3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Enjoyable nonsense. There were some scenes that were a tough watch but like the others in the series, worth the time. 

That's almost word for word what I said to my wife when we were going home from the cinema. The scenes involving the animals were really tough, had her in tears. 

 

[54_and_counting]

On 14/05/2023 at 14:48, Mark Connolly said:

Howard can f**k off, give Cosmo the spin off

Doubtful as she was a bad dog lol

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Space Oddity 2023

A man spends his days planning to go on a one way trip to Mars but changes his mind and bags a gorgeous woman instead.

6/10

Edited May 20, 2023 by Theroadlesstravelled

[Mark Connolly]

11 hours ago, 54_and_counting said:

Doubtful as she was a bad dog lol

Why would you say that?

[MSU]

107 STILL: A Michael J Fox Movie -- Still as a literal and figurative concept is something the movie tackles as it covers Fox's early life and rise to fame and diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. The documentary rather cleverly uses footage from Fox's movies and TV shows to reconstruct real moments from his life, which always serves as a reminder that in a lot of ways, the Michael J Fox we see is the version that Michael J Fox wants us to see, but when this is contrasted with more contemporary interviews, there is no such facade. The man who left his wife to raise his children, who became an alcoholic, who hid his horrible illness for as long as he could, is suddenly laid bare. Michael J Fox comes across as a good guy, but he's flawed and he doesn't hide away from those flaws. He's an arsehole just like everyone else in the world and because of this, he's more relatable. 10/10

108 The Great Ziegfeld (#9 in the Best Picture series) -- Two and a half hours of overblown, bloated extravagance as MGM proved they had tons of cash to burn on this biopic of Flo Ziegfeld, a big-time producer at the turn of the 20th century. Something to be endured rather than enjoyed or admired. 1/10

109  Hypnotic -- Ben Affleck seems to have been forced to play Danny Rourke, a cop whose daughter has been kidnapped and is missing, presumed dead. When he's given a tip about an upcoming bank heist, he discovers some strange clues that suggest she's still alive and comes across a mysterious bad guy who appears to be able to control people's minds. Through the confusion, Alice Braga shows up as a medium who is on hand to provide a running commentary for everything that's happening without once saying the words Inception, Memento, Tenet, or Scanners. The exposition from Braga was already enough to anger me, but the movie insists on really pushing my buttons with absurd dialogue, and a constant soundtrack that is there to tell you exactly how you're supposed to feel at all times. Robert Rodriguez directed, wrote, produced, made the tea, swept the floor, switched off all the lights on his way out, and got his daughter to write the score, and maybe half the problem is having one person behind these elements, and not enough people to tell you that what all this control is creating is shite. 2/10

[The Naitch]

7 hours ago, MSU said:

107 STILL: A Michael J Fox Movie -- Still as a literal and figurative concept is something the movie tackles as it covers Fox's early life and rise to fame and diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. The documentary rather cleverly uses footage from Fox's movies and TV shows to reconstruct real moments from his life, which always serves as a reminder that in a lot of ways, the Michael J Fox we see is the version that Michael J Fox wants us to see, but when this is contrasted with more contemporary interviews, there is no such facade. The man who left his wife to raise his children, who became an alcoholic, who hid his horrible illness for as long as he could, is suddenly laid bare. Michael J Fox comes across as a good guy, but he's flawed and he doesn't hide away from those flaws. He's an arsehole just like everyone else in the world and because of this, he's more relatable. 10/10

Watched this over the weekend and it was superb. Agree with every word of this.