Films I watched this week
Discussion
BrownBottle said:
Another Point Blank fan here, I actually watched it recently again for the first time in years and it was just as good as I remembered. I just love the style of it and Walker's such a cool customer.
Never heard anyone else mention it before, I thought I was alone...
It's a cult classic. Often talked about but perhaps not on here. I think it's slightly over rated by some but still a sold 8.5/10Never heard anyone else mention it before, I thought I was alone...
Pesty said:
BrownBottle said:
Another Point Blank fan here, I actually watched it recently again for the first time in years and it was just as good as I remembered. I just love the style of it and Walker's such a cool customer.
Never heard anyone else mention it before, I thought I was alone...
It's a cult classic. Often talked about but perhaps not on here. I think it's slightly over rated by some but still a sold 8.5/10Never heard anyone else mention it before, I thought I was alone...
I saw Terminator Genesys recently, it was quite run-of-the-mill. Stupid flat chested dragon lady from GOT stars, and is hopelessly miscast.
For some reason I thought there was a third version, in the 00s, but there wasn't.
Point Blank is an obvious iconic film, Payback is good, I didn't know there was a different version though.
"Helgeland in 2006 issued a director's cut that differs substantially from the version released by the studio."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_%281999_film...
Don't read the rest of the article if wishing not to know the differences.
Point Blank is an obvious iconic film, Payback is good, I didn't know there was a different version though.
"Helgeland in 2006 issued a director's cut that differs substantially from the version released by the studio."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_%281999_film...
Don't read the rest of the article if wishing not to know the differences.
JonRB said:
Watched The Hurt Locker this weekend as it was available on Amazon Prime Video. I've seen it before, so this was a re-watch.
It seemed strangely disjointed and episodic this time. I don't remember it thus from the previous viewing. Still a good film though.
Strangely enough, I've done exactly the same, and felt the same way.It seemed strangely disjointed and episodic this time. I don't remember it thus from the previous viewing. Still a good film though.
Watched it when it came out on a big screen with the sound up, and then a few months ago on Amazon, on the laptop with headphones.
Whereas for me when it came out it was the best film of the year, on second viewing, it's still 'very good' but not as good as I remembered. The reason being the episodic nature - the half dozen extended tensions scenes strung with 'downtime'.
That said, American Sniper is the same.
I guess it comes down to the immersive nature of a cinema affecting your response to the film.
Watched two films this w/e - Terminator: Genysis and Jurassic World.
I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
Jurassic Park was better i suppose, just because it was quite nice to look at. Story must have been written in 3 minutes: "Weve created an uber dinosaur. Oh s
t its escaped". I knew to expect that, but they could have built it up a bit.
Both films had two key themes that are ruining modern movies:
1) Every film needs a rom-com element. The hunky ex-soldier & gagging-for-it facility boss in JW, and hunky-but-dumb Kyle Reese & moody bh Sarah Connor in T:G. In both, they cant stand each other but end up getting it on.
2) Every film has to end up with a huge fight, which goes on so long you get bored, and which involves collateral damage on a vast scale - the two dinosaurs in JW and Arnie/RoboConnor in T:G. This seems to have increased with the recent crop of Marvel/DC films - every movie with Iron Man vs bigger robot, or Superman vs Zod (whole cities destroyed) or even recent sci-fi films like Elysium (man in exo-skeleton suit vs man in bigger exo-skeleton suit). I know Terminator 2 basically ended in a fight between the two machines, but it was on a smaller - almost believable - scale, in the metal works where punches knocked them back a few feet, rather than throwing them hundreds of feet away and then through a concrete wall.
I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
Jurassic Park was better i suppose, just because it was quite nice to look at. Story must have been written in 3 minutes: "Weve created an uber dinosaur. Oh s
t its escaped". I knew to expect that, but they could have built it up a bit.Both films had two key themes that are ruining modern movies:
1) Every film needs a rom-com element. The hunky ex-soldier & gagging-for-it facility boss in JW, and hunky-but-dumb Kyle Reese & moody b
h Sarah Connor in T:G. In both, they cant stand each other but end up getting it on.2) Every film has to end up with a huge fight, which goes on so long you get bored, and which involves collateral damage on a vast scale - the two dinosaurs in JW and Arnie/RoboConnor in T:G. This seems to have increased with the recent crop of Marvel/DC films - every movie with Iron Man vs bigger robot, or Superman vs Zod (whole cities destroyed) or even recent sci-fi films like Elysium (man in exo-skeleton suit vs man in bigger exo-skeleton suit). I know Terminator 2 basically ended in a fight between the two machines, but it was on a smaller - almost believable - scale, in the metal works where punches knocked them back a few feet, rather than throwing them hundreds of feet away and then through a concrete wall.
daddy cool said:
Watched two films this w/e - Terminator: Genysis .
I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
that and the idea that every time you jump you're then independent of the original timeline this avoids the problem with paradoxes (where Jon Conner is now the person who built SkyNet) thus meaning that nothing you or anyone else does when they go through a time machine makes any difference thus rendering all films pointless. I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
qube_TA said:
daddy cool said:
Watched two films this w/e - Terminator: Genysis .
I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
that and the idea that every time you jump you're then independent of the original timeline this avoids the problem with paradoxes (where Jon Conner is now the person who built SkyNet) thus meaning that nothing you or anyone else does when they go through a time machine makes any difference thus rendering all films pointless. I thought Terminator would be quite crap - and it was. The basic premise about the timelines becoming re-arranged allowed them to modify the classic "canon" storyline (i suppose) but some bits really boiled my piss - after judgement day, the terminators round people up to send them to extermination camps - why? Just kill them when you find them surely?! And the terminators actually drive a truck full of prisoners - again, why? Surely you would just make the transporter sentient like the Hunter/Killer planes?
I sat there constantly thinking why, what , don't be f
king silly, really? Things were set up early in the film Purely for one ' funny' line that wouldn't have happened anyway. Let's not start about the kid and strangers and oh fk it I'm rating the same as Prometheus and explosions and busses and helicopters and everything in the film was there to throw me out of the moment.
Oh and I've asked this before of two of these actors but how do the both keep getting work? In top films too. And the lady from got is beautiful but well she isn't a very good actress in this. She is very hot though so,I'll let her off but the two main main male characters.
Edited by Pesty on Monday 28th September 14:46
Pesty said:
And the lady from got is beautiful but well she isn't a very good actress in this. She is very hot though so,I'll let her off but the two main main male characters.
She was wearing a modern push-up bra in 1984 too, they didn't exist then. She was wearing THE BRA FROM THE FUTURE!!! Clearly another paradox the movie didn't explain.Edited by Pesty on Monday 28th September 14:46
qube_TA said:
She was wearing a modern push-up bra in 1984 too, they didn't exist then. She was wearing THE BRA FROM THE FUTURE!!! Clearly another paradox the movie didn't explain.
I think she has very fine assets and doesn't need braziers* from the future.
Not sure that's the right word and I'm now going to get slaughtered by the grammar nazis because that's something to make coffee with or something.
JustinP1 said:
JonRB said:
Watched The Hurt Locker this weekend as it was available on Amazon Prime Video. I've seen it before, so this was a re-watch.
It seemed strangely disjointed and episodic this time. I don't remember it thus from the previous viewing. Still a good film though.
Strangely enough, I've done exactly the same, and felt the same way.It seemed strangely disjointed and episodic this time. I don't remember it thus from the previous viewing. Still a good film though.
Watched it when it came out on a big screen with the sound up, and then a few months ago on Amazon, on the laptop with headphones.
Whereas for me when it came out it was the best film of the year, on second viewing, it's still 'very good' but not as good as I remembered. The reason being the episodic nature - the half dozen extended tensions scenes strung with 'downtime'.
That said, American Sniper is the same.
I guess it comes down to the immersive nature of a cinema affecting your response to the film.
AS is worse for this imho but not a terrible film, just misses the mark. The main downfall of HL is the maverick bomb desposal expert. i doubt very much whether that attitude would hold in real life and for me it lost a lot of credibility as a result. he was too gung ho and the supporting cast weren't strong enough to give his attitude enough context.
its worse on repeated viewing as you're finding out. 5/10 for me.
Watched Spooks Great good last night. quite enjoyed it, love the nod towards the series and it wasn't OTT despite a fair amount of hammy-ness. it didn't quite have the dramatic edge it needed either especially at the end and the motive for various people's actions wasn't really explained or justified - a good effort though 6.5/10
Ain't them bodies saints
Armed robber couple get cornered in an old farmhouse and the girl shoots a deputy, the man takes the blame and goes to jail while she is acquitted
Years later he escapes and sets out to reunite with her and his daughter, meanwhile the cop she shot befriends her.... 3 hitmen complicate things further.
Very slow paced modern(ish) western with a lot of dialogue, a nice cast, and not much action, worth a watch as long as you are not expecting car chases and explosions. 6/10
Armed robber couple get cornered in an old farmhouse and the girl shoots a deputy, the man takes the blame and goes to jail while she is acquitted
Years later he escapes and sets out to reunite with her and his daughter, meanwhile the cop she shot befriends her.... 3 hitmen complicate things further.
Very slow paced modern(ish) western with a lot of dialogue, a nice cast, and not much action, worth a watch as long as you are not expecting car chases and explosions. 6/10
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