Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)

[Bullett]

The Hobbit 2 (or something about a dragon).

It was ok. Overlong and with some very ropey looking cgi and then just sort of stopped (I know there is another one to come). Not as fun as the first one and just felt dragged out.

5/10

[VEA]

Watching a film called Starred Up.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567712/

Starring Jack O'Connell. He was good in Skins, he's pretty good in this. Good if you like a violent, English flick.

[moanthebairns]

bed neighbours - 6.5/10 Seth Rogan plays a middle aged new Dad, a house full of students move next door. As you can imagine it doesn't work out. Not the greatest film ever but ok

No clue - 8.5/10 a Canadian film about a stationary salesman who is mistakenly hired as a private investigator to find a missing man.

Actually really good, very funny in places and he is a dead ringer for my old boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH2wFY7yCqw

trailer

[Patch1875]

moanthebairns said:

bed neighbours - 6.5/10 Seth Rogan plays a middle aged new Dad, a house full of students move next door. As you can imagine it doesn't work out. Not the greatest film ever but ok

No clue - 8.5/10 a Canadian film about a stationary salesman who is mistakenly hired as a private investigator to find a missing man.

Actually really good, very funny in places and he is a dead ringer for my old boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH2wFY7yCqw

trailer

I enjoyed bad neighbours the airbag scenes are hilarious!

[HOGEPH]

Calvary, available on Sky Store.

[J18NHS]

jammy_basturd said:

Just watched Locke, starring Tom Hardy.

If you are fine with the omission of any sort of action or scenery change whatsoever in lieu of a great, gripping storyline and script then this film is for you.

Thoroughly enjoyable, not too long. A good 7/10.

I got bored and turned it off,


Goofs
They mention the "large" delivery of 355 metric tonnes of concrete with 218 trucks. Apart from the fact that wet concrete is usually referred to in volume, not weight, the calculation of trucks needed for this weight is wrong. The mixing trucks on average hold 18 tons of concrete each, meaning that they only need 20 trucks.

Edited by J18NHS on Saturday 16th August 23:27

[torqueofthedevil]

VEA said:

Watching a film called Starred Up.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567712/

Starring Jack O'Connell. He was good in Skins, he's pretty good in this. Good if you like a violent, English flick.

Excellent film.

Saw inbetweeners 2 on Friday - complete ste.

Saw trailer for the long awaited Sin City 2......hope it's better than the trailer made it look!

[Adam B]

HOGEPH said:

Calvary, available on Sky Store.

Great review thanks

[toasty]

A couple on Sky Movies

Nebraska - Old curmudgeon, possibly on the verge of Alzheimers, wins a million dollars but has to travel to Nebraska to pick it up. His son thinks it's a scam but takes him across country to pick it up. Shown in black and white but also available in colour this is not one for the Marvel generation but more for those who appreciate a good story with a few laughs. 7/10

The way way back - Coming of age film about a kid on summer holiday with his mum and stepdad. Bored by the beach he meets the owner of a waterpark (Sam Rockwell) and gets a job there. Not the comedy I thought it'd be but it passed a couple of hours OK. 6/10

[Pesty]

I watched first of the few yesterday.

Ok lets get something straight it was made at the beginning of the war and was obviously a propaganda film with a quite simple and laid on thick message. I also think that a lot of 'facts' were changed for dramatic effect.

Having said all that I like the way films were made. I like the pacing and the style. It was easy to watch.

im giving it an 7/10

[Pesty]

yes that was blatant we brits are so peaceful and just want to make fast planes the Germans are tooling for war, changed a good man into a driven with a purpose to protect Britain and killed himself doing it in the full knowledge that working on the plain would kill him and taking a holiday he would live.

those two bits were pushing it even for a propaganda film.

hmmmm but still enjoyed it.

see what you mean about his death, fascinating.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 17th August 17:36

[GetCarter]

Calvery. Pretty dark. Funny in places. Great performance by Gleeson. Slow but mesmeric. Would have been 7.5/10, but the last 30 secs pushes it to 8/10.

[Justin Cyder]

Great Budapest Hotel. Loved it, great performances with everyone hamming it up, beautifully shot as you would expect with Wes Anderson & squeezed the best out of a fairly thin story. Lots of laughs, I'd say 7/10.

[Digger]

Davie_GLA said:

Watched saving mr banks and found it very compelling. Fantastic in fact.

It wasn't really one I lined up, but I've watched it two nights in a row (on Sky) and i agree it's a must see IMO, made so perhaps by Emma Thompson's performance, who's given some great lines by the writers as well.

[Bullett]

Wolf of Wall Street. Another excellent performance by Leo and an interesting story but it somehow felt a bit flat. I didn't begrudge it any of the 3 hours it took so I'm a bit conflicted on this one. 7/10 I think.

[a311]

Boyhood. The film that they used the same main actor (and rest of the cast) and filmed over 12 years. Novel (pointless?) good cast that made up for the lack of grit.

It was reasonable enjoyable, the wife wanted to see it and the premise didn't much appeal to me. Not something I'd ever watch again and could have been a bit grittier/darker.

Robin Williams movies.

Dead Poets Society. Never seen this, not all that IMO RW was good in it though.

Good Will Hunting. Seen several times but not for a while, very enjoyable but cheesier than I'd previously remembered.....

[motorizer]

Bullett said:

Wolf of Wall Street. Another excellent performance by Leo and an interesting story but it somehow felt a bit flat. I didn't begrudge it any of the 3 hours it took so I'm a bit conflicted on this one. 7/10 I think.

I also watched this this weekend, enjoyed it 8/10

Also watched flight, alcoholic pilot heroically saves most of his passengers in a crash landing but finds himself under investigation due to being intoxicated, 7/10

[Alex]

toasty said:

A couple on Sky Movies

Nebraska - Old curmudgeon, possibly on the verge of Alzheimers, wins a million dollars but has to travel to Nebraska to pick it up. His son thinks it's a scam but takes him across country to pick it up. Shown in black and white but also available in colour this is not one for the Marvel generation but more for those who appreciate a good story with a few laughs. 7/10

I have been looking forward to this. To watch in black and white, or colour? I am going for black and white as presumably that was the director's intention. Interesting that it was filmed in colour; I didn't know that.

[blindswelledrat]

J18NHS said:

I got bored and turned it off,


Goofs
They mention the "large" delivery of 355 metric tonnes of concrete with 218 trucks. Apart from the fact that wet concrete is usually referred to in volume, not weight, the calculation of trucks needed for this weight is wrong. The mixing trucks on average hold 18 tons of concrete each, meaning that they only need 20 trucks.
]

I don't know anything about concrete but I also thought that a truck absolutely must hold more than a couple of tonnes.
Didn't spoil the film for me though although I was surprised that the film had such a specific technical aspect and they hadn't got it right.

[over_the_hill]

The Boston Strangler

Old movie now but well ahead of it's time I think, especially the way it addressed the mental issues being experienced by the strangler (Curtis) and the fact that the Police (Fonda and Kennedy) were not the usual gung-ho beat a confession out of him types common in movies at that time.