What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Ira Gaines]

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Pretty uninteresting stuff, and a massive disappointment. The story that the title of the movie comes from is actually fun for the most part, and provides a bright spark in what is largely a pile of shit, so it gets points for that at least.

3/10

[Quentin Taranbino]

I thought the Eva Green storyline was the most boring part of the film. She was good but the story itself was dull I thought until the last 5 mins of it.

As pointless as it was I was more engrossed with the JGL storyline.

I would give it a higher rating than you have. For me it's a 6/10. I thought it was alright but nothing special.Good performances and well shot but pretty dull for the most part.

[Albino Rover]

The Skin I Live In

This thriller, written and directed by Pedro Almodovar, is about a troubled widower who uses his skills as a plastic surgeon to avenge his personal demons. The first thing I have to say is that there are many extremely disturbing scenes of surgery, violence and sick sexuality, but Almodovar's direction, without sugar-coating those moments, carried me through them comfortably. His work is extraordinary, as is Antonio Banderas' acting, in the challenging leading role of a man broken by the loss of everything dear to him, and compelled by a secret obsession- an uncommissioned and illegal pet project.

Even as the film goes back and forward in time, and the mysteries of the protagonist's past are uncovered piece by piece, the thrill and tension of the plot continues from start to finish, but throughout that the ethical ambiguity of the main characters, their motives, mistakes and their ideas of justice and morality give the film its important subtext. The hero is a victim and consequently becomes a criminal. Almodovar spends time on that irony, reasoning for Banderas' character but showing him no sympathy, and that is what accelerates The Skin I Live In from a good film into a great one. This is not a horror to make you jump out of your skin, rather one that will get under it.

8/10

[ScotlandGer]

Sid and Nancy

There is something in the pointlessness of their deaths and the meaninglessness of their lives that is incredibly moving.

Sid was a talentless bass player, with an abundance of youthful charisma, and Nancy was the woman he loved, and they were self-destructive, selfish, and ill.

Gary Oldman is outstanding as Sid, and the film is flawed, but cathartic and sad.

[Ira Gaines]

There was one seriously good thing about Sin City.

Eva Green's boobs. Lots of times.

[Mr. Brightside]

There was one seriously good thing about Sin City.

Eva Green's boobs. Lots of times.

[Albino Rover]

There were two seriously good things about Sin City.

Eva Green's boobs. Lots of times.

Fixed.

[tongue_tied_danny]

The Rover

Bleak Aussie thriller about a guy looking for his stolen motor.

A solid 8/10 from me.

[Biscuits]

The Raid: Redemption. What a film - breathtaking.

[P.C]

The Raid 2 is excellent get to watch it again soon

Just seen Lucy. First half of the film a solid 7/10. 2nd half was just constant wft

[btchmakesandwich]

Blue Ruin.

A very good 9/10

[Ira Gaines]

The Raid 2 is excellent get to watch it again soon

Just seen Lucy. First half of the film a solid 7/10. 2nd half was just constant wft

Lucy was the second in my "not very good movie" double bill at the weekend. I'd have given that the same as Sin City. A lot of pish for the most part.

[11thHour]

Gravity - 6/10.

Watched this in 3D (first time I used 3D on my new telly so I was well excited) but was largely let down. It looked stunning and it was an amazing exercise in technology but the story itself was pretty poor for me. A lot of it was just too convenient but one thing I will say is that it definitely didnt lack in suspense. Was holding on to the couch at times.

[SimplyTON]

Caught up with a few movies in the past week or so

Godzilla - 5/10
Disappointed. Just really didn't care what happened to in the end.

World War Z - 7/10
Enjoy this after putting it off for a while due to poor reviews.
The first 90mins are very good but Wales kinda lets its down in the end

Planes - Fire & Rescue. 6/10
Enjoyed this more than the 1st one

Guardians of the Galaxy - 9/10
Loved it - been humming hooked on a feeling for days now
Desperate for more Marvel stuff
(watched this at the local drive-in on Saturday night - awesome movie, superb setting. Hundreds of stars visible while still warm enough to sit out and take in the movies)

[lichtie23]

Glory Road

True story about a Texas college basketball coach in the mid 60s who decides to recruit and play black players. Pretty decent viewing even tho it didn't entirely tell the true story

6/10

[GrahamJags]

Donnie Darko. Not the first time I've seen it, but haven't watched it in about 6 or 7 years. Still an absolutely cracking film.

[yoda]

The LEGO Movie - A+

Wonderful film. Great fun.

Rust And Bone - B+

Two brilliant performances carry this - Cotillard's in particular - but it does fall away near the end.

[Albino Rover]

My Beautiful Laundrette

A relatively low-budget drama film, set in Thatcher-era London, about a young man named Omar whose ambitions in life are weighed down by the reality of the time. He lives in a tough, racist neighbourhood and his alcoholic father doesn't help him much but his uncle Nasser gives him a job running one of the family businesses- a run-down laundrette. Omar recruits his old friend Johnny to help with the business.

The complications of Omar's life - including race crime, involvement with drug dealers and forbidden romance - are reflected in Stephen Frears' direction of the film, which plays by all the rules without becoming too much a spectacle, although there are some nice shots in there. The standard of acting isn't terrific- Daniel Day-Lewis' performance as Johnny is one of his weakest, although I salute him for playing this character. Some of the talent around him doesn't help much: although Hanif Kureishi's script is well-written and the leading roles well-cast, the set design is very cheap and some of the cast (notably the white chavs) rather one-dimensional. It's far from perfect, at times it felt a little bit like watching a student play, but the story is honest and full of heart, and its sentiment is both bold and very romantic.

6/10

[Albino Rover]

Kind Hearts And Coronets

A dark comedy about aristocracy, class wars, family and serial murder. After his mother's death, a poor man realises that he is a distant heir to the D'Ascoyne fortune. You can guess his plan, but nobody could predict the circumstances or manner of the deaths. Of course, he is also torn between two lovers, a childhood sweetheart and a gold-digging seductress.

Made at Ealing, by Robert Hamer, and very ahead-of-its-time, this film is a bizarre mix of satire, wit, eccentric farce and superb comedy acting. Dennis Price plays the twisted hero to perfection but Alec Guinness steals the show with an incredible one-man revue, which challenges Peter Sellers' work in Dr. Strangelove as one of the best multi-role performances ever. Two lovely English actresses, Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson, support the male players wonderfully.

What makes this film strange is that, right from the start, the first person narration comes from a condemned murderer writing his memoirs on death row- even for a black comedy there is a very strange, grave tone the whole way through. Even once the flashback story is complete there's yet another unique twist, a worthy finale to one of the great original British comedies.

8/10

Edited September 3, 2014 by Albino Rover

[Albino Rover]

Judith Of Bethulia

Made in the early 1910s, by D.W. Griffith, and released in 1914, this isn't the same kind of Biblical epic we may associate with the genre. It was Griffith's first multi-reel film, and the first starring role of silent star Blanche Sweet.

The Book of Judith is a simple story: impoverished after the siege of Bethulia, Judith becomes the city's heroine by disguising herself and gaining the trust of a Babylonian general, whom she almost falls for, before beheading him. It's a 60-minute-long film but the truth is that, 100 years on, it drags. The story could have been told in half the time. It is, however, a landmark achievement, and the gateway to much bigger things for almost everyone involved on the film. It was necessary for Griffith to make an hour-long movie, and this film's importance and sentimental value are why I've given it a passing score.

6/10