What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Del79]

I seen Dawn of the Planet of The Apes in the cinema a couple of days ago and enjoyed it. The last movie I watched was The Negotiator which I thought was decent.

[Ludo*1]

What's everyone think of Cineworld's allocated seating? Most people I've seen are just ignoring that and the gimmicky star seating fad too. Although I have seen a couple of people arguing about it as well. Daft idea when the Dundee cinema barely sells more than half it's tickets for the biggest of screenings. Sitting people right next to each other rather than spacing it out too is just stupid.

[Ira Gaines]

What's everyone think of Cineworld's allocated seating? Most people I've seen are just ignoring that and the gimmicky star seating fad too. Although I have seen a couple of people arguing about it as well. Daft idea when the Dundee cinema barely sells more than half it's tickets for the biggest of screenings. Sitting people right next to each other rather than spacing it out too is just stupid.

The Purge was mobbed yesterday and everyone seemed to be going with the allocated seating.

EDIT: I think it's great to be honest. Means me and my mates can turn up not long before the movie is due to start and expect to be able to be seated together, no matter how busy the movie is.

Edited July 28, 2014 by NewDomDom

[JustOneCornetto]

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

Enjoyed this and it was noticeable how the CGI and motion-capture was so much better than Rise of POTA which I saw on tv last week. OK the story was pretty generic with a mixture of goodies and baddies on both sides but the film kept me interested throughout and a follow up film is surely on the cards.

8/10

I didn't sit in my allocated seat as there were only about 2 dozen people in but I think there could be big problems when a film sells out and people are arguing about what seat they have. I tend to go during the day and avoid first screenings so it's never been more than half full when I've been.

[yoda]

Pusher (1996) - Nicholas Winding Refn's (Drive, Bronson etc) first film, starring a much younger Kim Bodnia of The Bridge and Mads Mikkelson about a low level smack dealer in Copenhagen. Drug deal goes wrong, guy has to find money quick etc etc. Pretty standard stuff storyline wise but still a really excellent thriller, especially given the low production value. If you've not seen The Bridge (well, you fucking should) the guy playing the protaganist Kim Bodnia is a really top actor in my book. Dispite his flaws, he's a really charismatic and likeable character in TB and in this, his character is actually a bit of a shit, but you still really root for him. A very tricky thing to pull off, very decent film.

8/10

The entire trilogy is well worth watching even if it does drop in quality as it goes on. Three relatively solid crime thrillers.

I finally got round to seeing The Wolf Of Wall Street

A wonderfully self-indulgent, vulgar, mess. Put this film in the hands of anyone other than Marty Scorsese and it becomes an incoherent mess - thankfully it was in his more than capable hands and we get a spectacular return to form after the relatively disappointing The Departed and Shutter Island.

Every character in this is awful. There are no nice individuals. Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech applies here, but Jordan Belfort and his associates decided to take it to the extreme. There's something almost voyeuristic about TWOWS: there's something appealing about seeing this sort of lifestyle and wanting it but really, none of us mere mortals ever want to be involved, we couldn't cope with it. Some criticised the exploitation and glorification of this excess but I don't have a problem with it. Why show the consequences of this lifestyle when those living it didn't give a shit?

Bar a few questionable green screen backdrops, the film looks terrific. It's classic Scorsese. I - and just about everybody else on this planet - love the character narration segments. The performances are good and solid but not spectacular. Matthew McConaughey's brief appearance is a real highlight.

It's not Scorsese's best, it's not even his second or third best (don't hold that against the film however), but it is a thoroughly fun and enjoyable watch.

A-

[Smurph]

Allocated seating is utter shite.

[Tommy Nooka]

What's everyone think of Cineworld's allocated seating? Most people I've seen are just ignoring that and the gimmicky star seating fad too. Although I have seen a couple of people arguing about it as well. Daft idea when the Dundee cinema barely sells more than half it's tickets for the biggest of screenings. Sitting people right next to each other rather than spacing it out too is just stupid.

Call me old fashioned but I've always preferred allocated seating as that was how all cinemas used to be.

The only adavntage I saw to not allocating seating was that the fannies who come into a movie just as it starts/ just after the off would need to get in earlier to find a decent seat however this never happened and you just got the same twats standing in the aisle trying to peer through the darkness for empty seats which is incredibly distracting.

I'm all for seat allocation as I like to book tickets in advance so I'll rarely end up with a bad seat.

If the theatre is empty by the time the movie starts I have no problem with people sitting where they want though.

[Ira Gaines]

Cold in July

This is a good wee movie this. Michael C Hall is a man who shoots down an intruder to his home. What happens from here is best to be found out for yourselves. There's plenty of twists and turns in this one, and it certainly goes down the "gritty" route quite well. All three of the central characters are top drawer as well. All of them keep you thinking in their own ways, and I clearly haven't seen enough Don Johnson, because the guy is fucking glorious in this movie.

It's an unsettling movie at times, and when you get deeper into it, it doesn't get any better in that sense. It's a good 'un though.

8/10

[Co.Down Hibee]

The Purge

Great idea for a film, the idea that crime is legal for a period of time has many posibilities to it, be good to see the angle from a character that wants to be purged ,or some kind of vigilante or something, would make a very good real time tv series (like 24) IMO .

Enjoyed the film, Hawke plays it well as usual and a good twst towards the end, will go and see the sequel soon. 8/10

[Rob1885]

Just watched Filth as it's just been put on Netflix. Really enjoyed it, pretty fucking strange right enough. Mcavoy absolutely smashes it and i'm not really a fan of his.

8/10

[banana]

Also just finally caught up with The Wolf of Wall Street (7/10)

An enjoyable portrayal of the cocks that run in the finance industry, if a good half hour too long. McConaughey was fantastic, he's really coming on as a great actor. I generally despise the horrible performances that pass as 'acting' from DiCaprio, but he passed the litmus test here with some good crazed speeches and that hilarious scene where he's totally off his nut trying to get home. Johan Hill excellent playing a proper barmy character.

Style reminded me a lot of Goodfellas, but with a lot more humour. Lots of relevant T&A (T&E?) too, which was refreshing.

The Great Beauty (4/10)

Incredibly tedious Italian movie that won a lot of plaudits. A man reflecting back on his life through various boring and contextless interactions with his memory in different locations in Rome, punctuated by numerous wanky conversations with a series of pretentious characters you couldn't give a fcuk about and seemingly symbolic scenes that offer nothing. Maybe it's a mood film that I'll enjoy more when I randomly revisit in 15 years time.

The points I've given it are for the uplifting and gloriously shot party scenes, most notably the one at the start of the movie. Well worth a download if just to enjoy the opener.

Edited July 29, 2014 by banana

[11thHour]

I seen Dawn of the Planet of The Apes in the cinema a couple of days ago and enjoyed it. The last movie I watched was The Negotiator which I thought was decent.

Great film.

[BFTD]

The allocated seating thing doesn't really work without ushers, as people just sit where they like. Plus, as mentioned elsewhere, the staff have a weird desire to sit everyone in a wee cluster in the middle. Maybe it's so we can all hold hands at the scary bits? Not sure why they brought it back, to be honest.

I wouldn't want it brought back, but I used to like intermissions when I was kid. Our local cinema was the only place I'd ever been that sold raspberry cornettos, so I'd nip out for one while the adults were all having a quick pint

Does anyone else find the VIP seats at Vue less comfortable than the regular ones? I've only used them twice, but my arse was aching afterwards.

Edit for evil typos.

Edited July 29, 2014 by BigFatTabbyDave

[BFTD]

The Armstrong Lie 8/10

Should have been LIES plural, amirite! c**t couldn't stop telling lies, looking right into your face and lying, going on the news and lying, lying in court, lying in grand juries, lying to lawyers and UCI officials and the wives of teammates and Oprah Winfrey and the maker of this documentary, the guy just absolutely loves to lie and then shrugs it off and says "everyone else was cheating too, I just cheated the same amount so I'm technically still the best", absolutely deluded oaf of a man. Really good, pretty in-depth, fascinating even.

Thanks for the recommendation - didn't know much of the details until seeing this. Armstrong is a complete sociopath and everyone should be relieved that he ended up working in a relatively meaningless field.

[BFTD]

Klute, A Time to Kill and Backdraft are all brilliant movies.

He's also in The Hunger Games, which aren't bad movies at all.

Watching Disclosure at the moment, which reminded me of this. Looking forward to trying the above, but I draw the line at watching The Hunger Games again. I don't get why adults would find them remotely interesting; childish derivative muck, even down to the appalling character names. But each to their own, as ever

[BFTD]

Would recommend Jurassic Shark in there!

My son loves that film.

I'd include Sand Sharks in that list.

[BFTD]

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but what do people think the new Hercules film will be like?

A bit Rocky in parts.

I'll get my coat.

[BFTD]

The Prestige- 8/10. Second time I've seen it and it's a much different watch from the first time. Twists left, right and centre.

The book's worth a read too - the original ending was certainly entertaining to visualise

[Chupacabra]

Does anyone else find the VIP seats at Vue less comfortable than the regular ones? I've only used them twice, but my arse was aching afterwards.

Aye, when I went to the pictures with my mates it was empty, so we decided to help ourselves to the VIP seats. Lasted 2 minutes before we moved back to the regular ones. Literally wouldn't sit on those for free.

[BFTD]

Disclosure - Michael Douglas is sexually harassed by new boss Demi Moore, which wasn't considered a bad thing in 1994. Mike's had more than his fair share of quality ass, however, and is unimpressed, leading to a game of corporate cat-and-mouse.

The thriller aspect is quite fun, as are Demi's then-new boobs, and there's some hilariously bad techy stuff mixed in, culminating in Ms Moore turning into SHODAN from System Shock. There's some nice gender-reversal dialogue too. Quite entertaining.

The Forgotten - Julianne Moore's child dies, and then everyone forgets it happened. What could possibly be going on?

ALIENS!

It's an OK thriller, but becomes a bit soppy and has a wish-fulfillment ending. Not worth going out of your way to see, even for (the other) Ms Moore.

Them - the French horror flick 'Ils', not the legendary black and white Sci-Fi classic. A housesitting couple are terrorised by mysterious assailants. The film's pretty straightforward, and doesn't offer as much in the way of thrills as I was expecting. It doesn't build to a satisfying ending either, so a bit of a disappointment all round.

In Dreams - Annette Bening sees psychic visions of a serial killer's murders and attempts to track him down.

This is a very familiar plot with a lot of extraneous detail wrapped around. It's one of those curious psychic movies where nobody believes the main character's claims to begin with, but soon change their mind with very little evidence. It's all a little dull, to be honest, even when the mystery star murderer is unveiled.

Eye of the Beholder - Ewan MacGregor is a private eye who stumbles upon a serial killer (Ashley Judd). He spends the rest of the movie following her on her travels, alternately protecting her and jealously foiling her schemes.

This is a very peculiar film, and one that is clearly designed to have symbolic interpretations imposed upon it, but it doesn't change the fact that it's terribly dull to sit through, no matter what theory you conjure up.

On the other hand, Ashley Judd looks absolutely delectable, so somebody deserves praise on that score. Her parents, perhaps?

VLOG - a horribly self-absorbed narcissist finds herself attracting unwanted attention when she starts a soporific video blog. It's quite obvious where the plot is going at an early stage, and it gets surprisingly gruesome at times, but the film's more annoying than anything else.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose - a priest is put on trial after a young girl dies during an exorcism.

I don't remember having much of a problem with this on original release, but there so many of these "demons are real" films around now that it's starting to feel like they might be funded by the Catholic Church. It's probably still an enjoyable addition to the genre, but there are enough contradictions in the courtroom logic to make it off-putting, for me at least.

The Illusionist - Ed Norton is the titular magician, who reappears in nineteenth-century Vienna years after being separated from his childhood sweetheart, a young Duchess.

This is a surprisingly romantic tale, finishing with a Usual Suspects-style flashback twist at the end. The leading players are all very good, with Paul Giamatti a particular standout as the police chief charged with keeping Norton away from the duchess. The film had the misfortune to come out around the same time as the superior The Prestige, but this is still a solid tale that's well worth a viewing.

I think I'm done now. Night all!