What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[coprolite]

This week I fell asleep watching and didn’t finish two half arsed nostalgia cash ins.

Top Gun was just really boring. I was expecting dumb and cheesy, but incredibly it wasn’t dumb and cheesy enough. 
3/10

Space Jam new legacy was just shite. Never saw the original, don’t know basketball (I assume all the tall people were real players) and was unimpressed by WB showing off their IP portfolio. 2/10.

 

[paranoid android]

Licorice Pizza.

Not sure what to make of it, tbh - quite a fan of PTA's films.

Not many likeable characters, and it felt like a budget version of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood without the violence. 

[Comrie]

65

After Earth, but just about competent. Still not great, but it's short.

5/10

[Flybhoy]

Rise of the Footsoldier, Origins. 

The Tony Tucker story. 

6/10

Does what it says on the tin, don't expect too much in the way Oscar winning method acting or deep human interest stories 

Just yet another episode of this overdrawn franchise depicting another chapter of Essex gangsters and drug dealers robbing, torturing and killing one another with some obviously grossly exaggerated violence and made up scenes with some cheesy dialogue inserted in amongst it all to lighten the load.

Given it's principle characters were killed in real life and in the first movie they are now making umpteen prequels to cash in on it, frankly they have ripped the arse out it but, strangely still a mildly enjoyable hour and a half with a cracking 80's soundtrack, some proper gorey/comedy violence and a sprinkling of foxy young ladies , its target audience is obvious, read online there is another one just released, assuming the next prequel will have Tucker, Tate and Rolf robbing other kids dinner money in the playground with a Stanley knife. 

Okay for that kind of thing if a bit predictable. 

Edited October 10, 2023 by Flybhoy

[Miguel Sanchez]

The Mummy (1999) Some harm comes from reading a book. The ultimate blockbuster - action, horror, comedy, a history lesson, a healthy fear of the unknown and a distrust of Americans. And some utterly heinous CGI. As good now as it ever was. I watched this on TV at half six in the evening so some of the gorier bits were missing.

The Exorcist (1973) Priest has spiritual crisis and resolves it by going for a trip. Some films I watch and just instinctively know I'm watching something good, even if I don't fully appreciate and understand every aspect of it the way I'd like. Is it because I spend a lot of time watching Mark Kermode reviews on youtube? Probably. All I know for certain is this is just captivating from beginning to end, now matter how unsettling it is.

Alien (1979) What is it with horror films and people not acting the way people do? John Hurt is an astronaut on a ship that receives a strange signal from a nearby moon. He and his crew investigate and discover a huge spaceship crash landed on it. It's huge, it's black and glossy, filled with extremely intricate architecture and structures. There's a giant humanoid skeleton on a plinth with something sticking out of its chest. John Hurt finds a bunch of eggs surrounded by mist in a room. He goes and looks at one of the eggs and sees something moving inside, so he sticks his face over the top and the thing jumps out and wraps itself around his face. His crew take him back to his ship and do some investigating. They try cutting it but it has literal acid for blood. Then they go away and leave him for a bit. Then they go back and the thing has left his face and seemingly lies dead on the floor. Then they leave him for a bit again. Then they come back and he's up and fine and hungry so they go and have dinner and then the Alien bursts out of his chest. 

I've seen this before and never really taken to it, despite it largely having a bunch of traits that I like. I realised partly why I've struggled this time around. There's something... presumptive about the way the characters talk to each other and do things. I don't know if I'm just stupid but nobody talks to anyone, nothing is explained, they just seem to move to the next bit of the ship so the next scene can happen. There's very little conversation and really there's not much that suggests to me this crew know each other very well or really care. Luckily we have a young Sigourney Weaver who looks like the least likely survival horror action star possible but pulls it off very well. While watching this I discovered I've only ever seen her in three films - this and Ghostbusters 1 and 2. This is her best.

Boiling Point (2021) The world's most Scouse chef has the ultimate kitchen nightmare. Shot as a one-take (but not really, even though I watched it on streaming with ad breaks you can see the few cuts it has) we see everyone in a restaurant have a night. It's very real. It's so real you spend the run time even more wound up and anxious and angry than all of the people you see. You're in the restaurant as much as they are. You loathe and sympathise with certain characters, whether they're objectively annoying or terrible or not. Very good, but it will raise your blood pressure. If you've ever worked in a restaurant or bar this is probably the sort of fever dream you have years later where everything that can go wrong in a night does.  

[Roger the cabin boy]

There Will be Blood

No Country for Old Men 

It Could Happen to You

Con Air

 

 

[Ewanandmoreagain]

 

Judgement at Nuremberg - finally                                                                   managed to finish watching this fictional tale of four judges , etc on trial for crimes against humanity during the Nazi time in power

Incredible cast , including William Shatner , who are mostly brilliant . I do not think I am a Burt Lancaster fan but I imagine I am in a small minority. 

 

 

[RuMoore]

17 hours ago, Roger the cabin boy said:

There Will be Blood

No Country for Old Men 

It Could Happen to You

Con Air

 

 

I know it's nowhere near the best if you're a movie buff but for me it's in my top 5. 

Absolute classic. Some great acting, some great cinematography, some great lines, perfect length of film and a lovely soundtrack. 

[LIVIFOREVER]

On 14/10/2023 at 12:01, Roger the cabin boy said:

No Country for Old Men 

Brilliant film.

John Wick Chapter 4, exactly what you expect from a John Wick film, an enjoyable finale, topped off by the origin story of the Continental.

[Bert Raccoon]

Went to see Saw X on Friday. It was a Saw film and was as expected. Still hugely enjoyable of you're into that kind of thing 

[MSU]

207 The Exorcist -- This, I think, is my third viewing of The Exorcist, unashamedly triggered by the recent requel that's doing the rounds. First time I saw it was on a well-worn dodgy VHS back when it was still banned in the UK, or at least unavailable for home viewing, and it wasn't the crispest of experiences. I remember being baffled by quite a lot of it, especially the Iraqi intro. It freaked me out a little, and I was maybe 20 at the time, so it didn't leave me with a feeling that I'd seen a masterpiece of cinema or anything like it. It was fine, but little more than that. Second time was at the UCI in Edinburgh for its 25th anniversary. On the big screen, it was a far better visual experience but unfortunately, there was a group of girls in the audience who found the movie hilarious and guffawed all the way through. Again, not ideal conditions, and again I appreciated some of it but left somewhat underwhelmed. Tonight I feel like I watched it for the first time and for the first time, it blew me away. It's such a harrowing, disturbing, and thoughtful movie, a carefully structured movie, and it delivers so much with breathtaking performances. I genuinely got chills during Karras's silent dream sequence, watching his mother at the subway entrance as the demon's face flashes up and Mrs Karras begins her descent. Chilling. I've got goosebumps just thinking about it as I type. And despite all the possession stuff, surely the angiography scene is the most unsettling of all. I'm so glad I watched it again. I've never really described myself as a fan of this movie but it's never really been given a chance to impress me. I'm impressed now. An absolute masterpiece that absolutely is not about a possessed little girl. 10/10

208 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas -- So little on at the cinema this week if you're not interested in Taylor Swift. For the second week running, I ignored Paw Patrol and went to see something else and for the second week running, I regret this decision. When documentarian and narrator Mark Cousins asks Jeremy Thomas if David Bowie was a star, and then indulges in a word association game for what felt like ten minutes, you know, if you weren’t already fully aware, that this is a documentary where the maker is putting in way too much of himself.  You would think that after being involved in 60 odd movies as a producer and director that Thomas would have an abundance of cool stories to tell during a needlessly long 5 day 1,000 mile drive to Cannes, but if he does, Cousins doesn’t let him tell them, or ask the right questions to provoke them. Instead, we have vague, abstract conversations about sex and politics and death interspersed with Cousins quoting lines from Thomas’s movies and asking if he thinks the sentiments are true. I have no clearer idea of Jeremy Thomas now than I did before I sat down in my seat, and the meager contributions from Tilda Swinton and Debra Winger did little to illuminate matters. Thomas is important because everyone says so, and he thinks Marlon Brando was a star, and he associates nightmares with terror. I guess that’s something to be going on with. 2/10

[Gibby82]

The Long Good Friday.

Very dated and some really dodgy racist dialogue but good fun and Bob Hoskins is excellent as per. Bonus points for Helen Mirren being Helen Mirren, a cameo from the guy off Brush Strokes and silent IRA assassin/pretend homosexual Pierce Brosnan.

7/10

[scottsdad]

4 hours ago, richardsedmond said:

Tonight I am watching "Sound of Freedom" The film that everyone that as watched says it will blow you away and possible it could be film of the year.... Oddly enough it was made in 2018 but they could not get any studio to back it due to the topic that it covers.....

And the fact that it is worshipped by lunatics. That's what put most folk off. 

[Pocketman]

11 hours ago, richardsedmond said:

Tonight I am watching "Sound of Freedom" The film that everyone that as watched says it will blow you away and possible it could be film of the year.... Oddly enough it was made in 2018 but they could not get any studio to back it due to the topic that it covers.....

 

6 hours ago, scottsdad said:

And the fact that it is worshipped by lunatics. That's what put most folk off. 

I imdb'd it and was reminded this was the movie that conforms to right wingers' view on many conspiracy theories going around, centred around what seems to be one of their favourite subject matters - paedophillia. Saying that I liked Jim Caviezel in Persons of Interest and who doesn't like seeing a former US government agent pulled out of retirement to undertake a mission allowing him to kill johnny foreigner with such abandon? 

[accies1874]

41. The Knocking - Digital Rental

Watched this horror about a week ago and don't remember very much about it. Some cool shots in a forest, incredibly generic music and a narrative which places the past and present side-by-side but doesn't make the present interesting or mysterious enough, so I just wanted it all to be set in the past where the bulk of the story was taking place. 

42. A Haunting in Venice - Cinema

I found this quite strange as I'm not sure if some of the biggest issues were intentional or not. If they weren't, then this is an incredibly shoddy film; if they weren't, then Branagh successfully created an unsettling atmosphere but dropped then ball on making a properly compelling whodunnit. 

Usually with a whodunnit (or just any competent film), you expect to be eased into things by setting up your protagonist, supporting cast and the mystery, but I felt like A Haunting in Venice rushed right into things without giving you much time to settle, and this persisted pretty much throughout which made for an uneasy experience. Scenes were often shot in slightly unconventional ways (certainly intentional), dialogue was iffy (intentions debatable) and the characters were so thinly drawn that they almost felt like ghosts within this kinda ghost story (don't think this was intentional). Usually for a whodunnit, I'd think this made the film miles worse, and it didn't work for me as a mystery, but the fact that it's also trying to have horror elements at the same time, I did appreciate its unsettling atmosphere. It's a good pick for people looking for a Halloween-themed film that isn't actually a horror. 

I haven't been able to put my finger on these Poirot films. The first two started out as fun fluff before descending into something very earnest, however A Haunting in Venice maintained a solid tone throughout yet I thought that the previously-mentioned unsettling style didn't lend itself to a whodunnit where the whole fun of it is trying to piece the mystery together alongside the detective, so that's why I think it failed as a mystery - these things can always change upon a rewatch though. I love whodunnits and I love horror, and the two can match up really well, but I didn't feel like that was the case here. 

That said, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't an enjoyable 100 minutes, and it served its purpose of being a daft film to watch the night before an early-morning flight. 

[Salvo Montalbano]

On 14/10/2023 at 12:01, Roger the cabin boy said:

Con Air

 

 

 

On 15/10/2023 at 05:44, RuMoore said:

I know it's nowhere near the best if you're a movie buff but for me it's in my top 5. 

Absolute classic. Some great acting, some great cinematography, some great lines, perfect length of film and a lovely soundtrack. 

"My birthday is on July 14th... I'm gonna see ma daddy for the first time on July 14th"

"Put the bunny back in the box"

It was one of the few videos we had at our halls at uni (that and a substandard European porn film) so we must have watched Con Air on average once a week for 30 weeks. Cheesy greatness. I can probably still recite the dialogue back while I'm watching it. 

18 minutes ago, accies1874 said:

42. A Haunting in Venice - Cinema

 

I'm not a big fan of the cinematic versions (Finney and Ustinov) although they are generally fine films, but once they made the ITV series I have no idea why they make new adaptations of Poirot as they are always going to be compared unfavourably to the one true Hercule Poirot. Suchet can't be beat, ever.

[54_and_counting]

Same as @LIVIFOREVER with John Wick 4, a cracking end to them (so far), great action scenes as expected

Just checked there, John Wick himself kills 439 people across 4 films, that's fucking superb stuff, given the other deaths from other characters across the films you have to imagine it breaks the 500 mark or close to it

[coprolite]

5 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said:

Same as @LIVIFOREVER with John Wick 4, a cracking end to them (so far), great action scenes as expected

Just checked there, John Wick himself kills 439 people across 4 films, that's fucking superb stuff, given the other deaths from other characters across the films you have to imagine it breaks the 500 mark or close to it

Way less than Yosser Hughes in Titanic

[54_and_counting]

40 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Way less than Yosser Hughes in Titanic

Titanic is like getting the airstrike on cod for a killstreak, knock yer pan in ala john wick, get the points then carpet bomb the map and get the same kills ala titanic lol 

[LIVIFOREVER]

53 minutes ago, 54_and_counting said:

Same as @LIVIFOREVER with John Wick 4, a cracking end to them (so far), great action scenes as expected

Just checked there, John Wick himself kills 439 people across 4 films, that's fucking superb stuff, given the other deaths from other characters across the films you have to imagine it breaks the 500 mark or close to it

Must've had hell of an internal bleeding, taking all those hits, would imagine bullets still hurt wearing kevlar, hit by cars, falling onto a van after jumping out of a 3 or 4 storey window, not forgetting how chapter 3 ended, what a guy.