Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)
Discussion
On the week following a major release (Interstellar), how much quieter do the screenings tend to be for a mid-week, morning showing?
I want to see this with as little distraction as possible. I doubt I will ever eclipse having the biggest screen all to myself and a friend for Gravity.
I want to see this with as little distraction as possible. I doubt I will ever eclipse having the biggest screen all to myself and a friend for Gravity.
grumbledoak said:
Patrick Bateman said:
Can anyone explain to me why The Evil Dead is meant to be a cult classic? I know it's meant to be over the top but it was just a bit s
t really.
I think you need to see it in context. I am old enough to have seen it when it was new and it was a genre changer. Frankly, they could have stopped making horror films after that and just gone straight to the Scary Movie piss-takes.t really.Also, the trilogy does a very successful horror -> action -> comedy shift.
Another vote for interstellar, very very very good, absolute emotional roller coaster with some serious edge of the seat tension.
The robots are flipping awesome supporting characters! When you first see them you think "what use are they going to be?" Then when they get going, how cool!
Love the jokey nod to 2001, probably loads of other references I missed too, looking forward to seeing it again.
The robots are flipping awesome supporting characters! When you first see them you think "what use are they going to be?" Then when they get going, how cool!
Love the jokey nod to 2001, probably loads of other references I missed too, looking forward to seeing it again.
Another Interstellar review... simply superb, marrying superb visuals, with solid sciency stuff, overlaying that with an emotional father/daughter story (which had me in bits), I thought it took the best of Contact, 2001 and Gravity and made something worthy of the word 'epic'.
Great performances, score was a bit odd, supporting robots were quite something!
Not sure why the hollywood ending, it was satisfying but a bit predictable, but then I guess thats because when it comes down to it humans will suffer the human conditon, be they directors, actors, spacemen or physicists....
9.9 for me.
Great performances, score was a bit odd, supporting robots were quite something!
Not sure why the hollywood ending, it was satisfying but a bit predictable, but then I guess thats because when it comes down to it humans will suffer the human conditon, be they directors, actors, spacemen or physicists....
9.9 for me.
Watched "The Wolf of Wall Street" earlier today & enjoyed it. I'd read his books about a year ago & it was very true to that. I'd say it's definitely a "bloke" film & I never thought I'd find myself saying that about a film with Leonardo DiCaprio as the lead!
If I had to score it, I'd give it a good 7/10.
If I had to score it, I'd give it a good 7/10.
.Watched quite a few films this week, mainly mindless action
300: rise of an empire - pretty much the same as the first, but not as good. Film 5/10, Eva Greens boobs 10/10
The counselor - A counselor and his mates drug deal with the cartels goes horribly wrong when the shipment is stolen, Not Ridley Scott's best, but not the complete disaster I'd been led to believe it was, good cast. 6/10
Raze - Secret society kidnaps women and forces them to fight to the death with their bare hands, not as exploitative as it sounds, since it's pretty much exactly the same film as it would have been if they were men, unfortunately equality in this case means getting brutally killed off by the dozen, not since sons of anarchy have so many lovely ladies met their demise. Brutally well done fight scenes but a bit thin on plot 6/10
The purge anarchy - Like raze it feature scenes where the rich sip champagne and watch people killed for their amusement, I guess film producers are rich enough to get invited to these do's and know what they are like...hmmm... Possibly better than the first since it actually does something with the idea of the purge, which the first didn't. Mindless ultraviolence but ok 6.5/10
Cloud atlas - I was expecting pretentious drivel to be honest, based on the reviews I'd seen, but what I got was six fairly entertaining stories set hundreds of years apart, Feature actors and actresses playing characters of different genders and races, and while some of the makeup is superb, some of the prosthetics leave people looking like extras from star trek.... Jumps around from story to story too much but I'm giving it a generous 7/10 for being better than I expected.
300: rise of an empire - pretty much the same as the first, but not as good. Film 5/10, Eva Greens boobs 10/10
The counselor - A counselor and his mates drug deal with the cartels goes horribly wrong when the shipment is stolen, Not Ridley Scott's best, but not the complete disaster I'd been led to believe it was, good cast. 6/10
Raze - Secret society kidnaps women and forces them to fight to the death with their bare hands, not as exploitative as it sounds, since it's pretty much exactly the same film as it would have been if they were men, unfortunately equality in this case means getting brutally killed off by the dozen, not since sons of anarchy have so many lovely ladies met their demise. Brutally well done fight scenes but a bit thin on plot 6/10
The purge anarchy - Like raze it feature scenes where the rich sip champagne and watch people killed for their amusement, I guess film producers are rich enough to get invited to these do's and know what they are like...hmmm... Possibly better than the first since it actually does something with the idea of the purge, which the first didn't. Mindless ultraviolence but ok 6.5/10
Cloud atlas - I was expecting pretentious drivel to be honest, based on the reviews I'd seen, but what I got was six fairly entertaining stories set hundreds of years apart, Feature actors and actresses playing characters of different genders and races, and while some of the makeup is superb, some of the prosthetics leave people looking like extras from star trek.... Jumps around from story to story too much but I'm giving it a generous 7/10 for being better than I expected.
Robocop (2014) - Notice this turn up on Netflix. I went into it with a heavy heart as the original is one of my fave films. I was actually quite surprised, not as much satire as the original one but it was there still. Not a bad film. Action scenes and effects good, plot a little see through. Oldman and Jackson deliver as usual, I suspect without them the score would be lower. 7/10.
Civpilot said:
The Hypno-Toad said:
Halb said:
The Cabin in the Woods, very good, it kept me entertained! Nice premise, something newish.
"Wait....wait.....have you, have you got me on speakerphone?"
I do love that movie...
"Yeah, uh, I had to dismember that guy with a trowel. What have you been up to?"
but I'm not a vir-
Look, we have to work with what we've got
Aphex said:
ZesPak said:
Just went to see Interstellar. Brilliant flick, very much wants to be the next 2001 but it does it with a great style nonetheless.
Deffo on the must see list for me.
love.. LOVE, aaaaarrgghhh Deffo on the must see list for me.
To put it in the words of the great Arthur C. Clarke:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Patrick Bateman said:
Can anyone explain to me why The Evil Dead is meant to be a cult classic? I know it's meant to be over the top but it was just a bit st really.
Agreed.t really.Army of darkness is the one deserved of the cult classic statement.
Ash said:
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (again - my favourite film).
This one divides people less today than it did decades ago when it wasn't deemed as "serious" as its contemporaries. I think most people view it as a classic today, and it has gained the respectability it didn't have originally.
My wife bought me a "restored" version of the film on DVD a few years ago but I had watched the film numerous times leading up to then, so I left the DVD in the cupboard. My intention was to watch it afresh sometime later. That was back in 2008 and I've not seen it since. Prompted by the relatively recent death of Eli Wallach, I used my first "free" day since then to catch up with it. This film also reminds me of Christmas, because I could only watch it on TV before we had a VCRs and it seemed to be on only at Christmas when I saw it for the first few times as a child in the 1970s.
People call this a Clint Eastwood film but really the star character was Tuco, played by Eli Wallach. You learn all about him, his family and background, and his thoughts and feelings throughout. You learn virtually nothing about "Blondie" other than he's a mercenary with little emotion or human ties. Even Lee Van Cleef's "Sentenza" or "Angel Eyes" character has a more fleshed-out character than Blondie's.
You don't need an explanation of the story here but if you haven't seen it, watch it. Try to forget the production values of a film made in Spain by a relatively poor (by Hollywood standards) Italian production team in the mid-1960s, and enjoy the story, the style and Morricone's haunting music.
10/10
This one divides people less today than it did decades ago when it wasn't deemed as "serious" as its contemporaries. I think most people view it as a classic today, and it has gained the respectability it didn't have originally.
My wife bought me a "restored" version of the film on DVD a few years ago but I had watched the film numerous times leading up to then, so I left the DVD in the cupboard. My intention was to watch it afresh sometime later. That was back in 2008 and I've not seen it since. Prompted by the relatively recent death of Eli Wallach, I used my first "free" day since then to catch up with it. This film also reminds me of Christmas, because I could only watch it on TV before we had a VCRs and it seemed to be on only at Christmas when I saw it for the first few times as a child in the 1970s.
People call this a Clint Eastwood film but really the star character was Tuco, played by Eli Wallach. You learn all about him, his family and background, and his thoughts and feelings throughout. You learn virtually nothing about "Blondie" other than he's a mercenary with little emotion or human ties. Even Lee Van Cleef's "Sentenza" or "Angel Eyes" character has a more fleshed-out character than Blondie's.
You don't need an explanation of the story here but if you haven't seen it, watch it. Try to forget the production values of a film made in Spain by a relatively poor (by Hollywood standards) Italian production team in the mid-1960s, and enjoy the story, the style and Morricone's haunting music.
10/10
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