Films I watched this week

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PH XKR

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101 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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ash73 said:
I assume (hope) I'm missing some in joke with people praising A-team, is it the new space jam? Is the parrot swooping in? It's a bloody awful film.
No! I am being serious. I love the film!

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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we're in a strange country bub, strange country....


  • reads space odyssey*

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Halb said:
Vol 2-10 on next week?



The A- Team, awful waste. I don't see any connections to the series save for the names. Rotten miscasting and writing and direction.
It was awfully fun if you don't think about it too much. Shalto and face were great. Liam was miscast but the rest were OK.

Moved at a good pace never dragged once.

6.8/10 for me.

It's the A team it not meant to be serious so I can forgive it all the ste even if I did role my eyes right at the beginning several times.

Halb

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182 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Mud. Lovely lil film. Mat McConhahey, and two star turns from young actors (I've seen one pop up in S5 of Justified) in the Stand By Me mould.

DoubleSix

11,691 posts

175 months

Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Halb said:
Mud. Lovely lil film. Mat McConhahey, and two star turns from young actors (I've seen one pop up in S5 of Justified) in the Stand By Me mould.
Great film!

SWoll

18,206 posts

257 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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RacingPete said:
PH XKR said:
(Jurassic World) Would you say ok for small child upon your view or not? The original I wouldnt have a worry with.
Yep, same as original - if you were happy with the kids and that, then go for it - my 6 and 2 year old found it ok, but did get a bit bored after a while.
Can't agree with that. It's considerably more graphic than the original and I'd have been careful letting my kids watch it when they were younger. 6 & 2 year old? Really?

PH XKR said:
77m net profit should demand a new one!
The general rule of thumb is a movie needs to make back double it's production budget in order to be truly profitable these days as the costs of marketing etc. are huge.

DoubleSix said:
Halb said:
Mud. Lovely lil film. Mat McConhahey, and two star turns from young actors (I've seen one pop up in S5 of Justified) in the Stand By Me mould.
Great film!
Read the good reviews of this but found the film itself very dull.


Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 27th April 13:48

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

153 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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SWoll said:
Read the good reviews of this but found the film itself very dull.


Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 27th April 13:48
I'm with you on this one,seems to be the new ph Marigold Hotel,bored the pants off me.

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Watchman said:
Don said:
The Reader. Kate Winslet. Ralph Fiennes. More importantly David Kross.

Not my usual sort of movie, but it was very, very gripping in sad way. The outcome, at the end, was inevitable.

Recommended. This is not a chick flick.
I have watched this film a couple of times but I'm still not sure I have actually enjoyed it. I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame. It prompted me to read around the subject of post-war Germany a bit and I subsequently found a couple of reviews of the book that the film was taken-from, and the wikipedia article about the book (worth 10 mins of your time).

It seems the book offers "more" as you'd expect, and the reviews offered both criticism and approval. The subject matter is difficult for post-war Germans. Ignoring the actual perpetrators of the Nazi horrors who should have received some justice, the remaining population at the time the book is set comprises people who lived through the war and may be viewed as complicit (by doing nothing), and the "next generation" who are most certainly not complicit but their natural love of their older relations leaves them conflicted.

It's an interesting, if morbid, insight into a world that is likely alien to those of us born and raised in post-war Britain. We lived within the collective moral righteousness of the winners, and never had to question whether we could be criticised at all.
Thanks for posting that. It seems to me that you were as affected as I was by the story. So much to think about afterwards. I would agree, I am not sure I enjoyed the film, but it was thought provoking and intelligent and I got a lot out of it. Glad I watched it, overall. I'd say that was the reaction the director and cast were hoping for so they did their job pretty well.

BrownBottle

1,365 posts

135 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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I did enjoy Mud, one of the young actors was in 'Joe' not long after which was good as well.

DoubleSix

11,691 posts

175 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Funkycoldribena said:
SWoll said:
Read the good reviews of this but found the film itself very dull.


Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 27th April 13:48
I'm with you on this one,seems to be the new ph Marigold Hotel,bored the pants off me.
Did you read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a child?

PH XKR

1,761 posts

101 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Legend of Barney Thompson _ solid 7 out of 10

DS240

4,637 posts

217 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Whiplash (Sky movies on demand at the moment)

Sorry if already spoken about earlier in the thread.

Quite surprised how much I enjoyed it.

I think the two main actors were excellent and the story was good. Good music throughout also.

SWoll

18,206 posts

257 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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DoubleSix said:
Funkycoldribena said:
SWoll said:
Read the good reviews of this but found the film itself very dull.


Edited by SWoll on Wednesday 27th April 13:48
I'm with you on this one,seems to be the new ph Marigold Hotel,bored the pants off me.
Did you read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a child?
I did indeed but don't remember it doing much for me either.

I've got nothing against the coming of age genre, "Stand by Me" is a classic movie and a recent great example would be "The Way Way Back" which I thoroughly enjoyed.

coopedup

3,741 posts

138 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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DS240 said:
Whiplash (Sky movies on demand at the moment)

Sorry if already spoken about earlier in the thread.

Quite surprised how much I enjoyed it.

I think the two main actors were excellent and the story was good. Good music throughout also.
Going to watch this for the third time this weekend, really love it

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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coopedup said:
DS240 said:
Whiplash (Sky movies on demand at the moment)

Sorry if already spoken about earlier in the thread.

Quite surprised how much I enjoyed it.

I think the two main actors were excellent and the story was good. Good music throughout also.
Going to watch this for the third time this weekend, really love it
It is a great film. I've only watched it once so looking forward to the second time soon.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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I watched the Martian last night on BluRay and thought it was much better than the first time I watched it in the cinema - 8.5/10 for me.

Interestingly, I read the book and think that the book was too clearly in my mind when I went to the cinema as the film does not do full justice to the book. On second viewing, with the book now a distant memory, I appreciated the film more for what it is.

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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SWoll said:
I've got nothing against the coming of age genre, "Stand by Me" is a classic movie and a recent great example would be "The Way Way Back" which I thoroughly enjoyed.
THe Way Way Back is on Film4 on Fridat at 9pm.

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Just watched Avengers: Age of Ultron for the second time. I love a good super hero film and Ultron is such a cool bad guy.

patmahe

5,744 posts

203 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Halb said:
SWoll said:
I've got nothing against the coming of age genre, "Stand by Me" is a classic movie and a recent great example would be "The Way Way Back" which I thoroughly enjoyed.
THe Way Way Back is on Film4 on Fridat at 9pm.
In my experience, Sam Rockwell is a marker of quality, rarely a leading man in blockbusters but always seems to be in clever, interesting films.

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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patmahe said:
In my experience, Sam Rockwell is a marker of quality, rarely a leading man in blockbusters but always seems to be in clever, interesting films.
He was very good in Moon. Pretty much the only guy in the film.
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