Films I watched this week
Discussion
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Guy Ritchie film. Turns 1960's spy film into Lock Stock. Enjoyable but silly spy caper. Right from the early car chase it had Guy Ritchie's stamp all over it - right up to the slightly wrong era off road car chase. The whole thing felt a bit Austin Powers - then Hugh Grant turned up and it really was!!
Fun, easy watching - but definitely would have been annoyed to pay at the cinema for it
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Fun, easy watching - but definitely would have been annoyed to pay at the cinema for it
. ArsE92 said:
Requiem for a Dream. Not the first time I've seen it but still a .... I don't know what the right way to describe this film is but it's a must watch. Just not with the kids!
Darren Aronofsky really smacks you in the face with his films.Brilliant film, but hardly repeat viewing material.
sanf said:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Guy Ritchie film. Turns 1960's spy film into Lock Stock. Enjoyable but silly spy caper. Right from the early car chase it had Guy Ritchie's stamp all over it - right up to the slightly wrong era off road car chase. The whole thing felt a bit Austin Powers - then Hugh Grant turned up and it really was!!
Fun, easy watching - but definitely would have been annoyed to pay at the cinema for it.
Caught this at the cinema when it came out and again recently on Sky. I actually preferred the second time around.Fun, easy watching - but definitely would have been annoyed to pay at the cinema for it
. Just watched Superman vs Batman - 8/10
I didn't have high hopes and I wasn't sure they cast Lex correctly but it was far better than expected and Lex was decent. Strange seeing Wonder Woman not driving a car too fast but she has some new toys the woman from the old TV series certainly didn't have!
Antony Moxey said:
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Cotty said:
Just working my way through all the Star Trek films back to back. Just finished The Undiscovered Country and going to start Generations tonight. Then it’s the re-boots and Beyond to finish. Loving them.
The Original Series films
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) YES
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) YES
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) YES
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) YES
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)first few and last 20 mins, YES
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) YES
The Next Generation films
Star Trek Generations (1994)NO
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)NO
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)NO
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)NO
The Original Series films
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) YES
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) YES
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) YES
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) YES
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)first few and last 20 mins, YES
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) YES
The Next Generation films
Star Trek Generations (1994)NO
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)NO
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)NO
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)NO
Megamind...absolutely genius, great soundtrack too. Almost ridiculous how this was culturally eclipsed by the inferior Despicable Me.
Caught a bit of the first Borne too....Chris Clive Owen is wooden, can't believe I once wanted him to be Bond.
The fight was decent, and not half as ridiculous as I remember ones later in the series. Although the bit with him and the hunting shotgun against a sniper...
Caught a bit of the first Borne too....Chris Clive Owen is wooden, can't believe I once wanted him to be Bond.
The fight was decent, and not half as ridiculous as I remember ones later in the series. Although the bit with him and the hunting shotgun against a sniper...
Star Trek Beyond I loved it! This one in particular has much more character inter-play...but is also stuffed full of big scenes. The music in the big battle scene had me grinning from ear to ear.
A very satisfying cinema outing.
8.1/10
Blazing Saddles desperately non-PC western comedy, just brilliant 8/10
Money Monster It does ram the whole "financial industry is bad" message really hard down your throat, but it held my attention. Down on his luck, stock market investor, takes financial advise TV host hostage, live on air...to get answers... a couple of hours of well polished 'meh'. 6.4/10
A very satisfying cinema outing.
8.1/10
Blazing Saddles desperately non-PC western comedy, just brilliant 8/10
Money Monster It does ram the whole "financial industry is bad" message really hard down your throat, but it held my attention. Down on his luck, stock market investor, takes financial advise TV host hostage, live on air...to get answers... a couple of hours of well polished 'meh'. 6.4/10
Saw The Nice Guys at the weekend - absolutely loved it. Film noirish portrayal of a couple of fairly useless PIs with some nice black comedy and slapstick thrown in. Shades of Lebowski and Marlowe. A decent 8/10 from me, and Russell Crowe's best performance in a while. But boy does he look like John Goodman now!
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - time has not been kind 
I remember really enjoying this at the time but this time round it had lost 'something' in a way that the original crew films I've re-watched recently don't seem to have.
May have to try ST: Nemesis soon and see how a relatively poorly received ST pans out today
I remember really enjoying this at the time but this time round it had lost 'something' in a way that the original crew films I've re-watched recently don't seem to have.May have to try ST: Nemesis soon and see how a relatively poorly received ST pans out today
Another vote for The Nice Guys, wasn't sure what to expect but really enjoyable with some good black humour throughout.
Also saw Pete's Dragon at the cinema, surprisingly good, trailers led me to believe it would be rubbish but a great little family movie that will no doubt be forgotten amongst the BFG and Finding Dory all released at the same time.
Also saw Pete's Dragon at the cinema, surprisingly good, trailers led me to believe it would be rubbish but a great little family movie that will no doubt be forgotten amongst the BFG and Finding Dory all released at the same time.
Suicide Squad - 5/10 - I'm sure that somewhere there's a good version of this film lying around the editing suite but the cobbled together mess which made it to the screen is so badly edited it makes for tough watching. As mentioned by most it's mainly a Harley/Deadshot film with some other meta-humans almost doing a cameo instead of being fleshed out like the main two.
The villain is very weak, the bad guys are just bloody laughable, the CGI is poor in most places, there is virtually no backstory for 90% of the main "anti-heroes", the storyline isn't cohesive or linear, the soundtrack is jarring with yet another hit song every 30 seconds & DC proves that yet again it hasn't learnt from Superman MOS as yet another city is utterly destroyed and carnage ensues everywhere with seemingly no consequences for the world at large shown.
I really wanted to like this film but the 1st 3rd feels like an extended trailer, the middle 3rd stops still and the last 3rd is just plain badly written, acted, shot, edited etc.
I'll probably look at the extended version if they release it on BR like the BvS extended cut which was pretty good.
The villain is very weak, the bad guys are just bloody laughable, the CGI is poor in most places, there is virtually no backstory for 90% of the main "anti-heroes", the storyline isn't cohesive or linear, the soundtrack is jarring with yet another hit song every 30 seconds & DC proves that yet again it hasn't learnt from Superman MOS as yet another city is utterly destroyed and carnage ensues everywhere with seemingly no consequences for the world at large shown.
I really wanted to like this film but the 1st 3rd feels like an extended trailer, the middle 3rd stops still and the last 3rd is just plain badly written, acted, shot, edited etc.
I'll probably look at the extended version if they release it on BR like the BvS extended cut which was pretty good.
The Shallows Blake Lively..
not looking immaculate, talking to a seagull with a funny name whilst avoiding a big toothy angry fish. CGI not overly amazing in places, but superb in others. The story is very simple. Surfer gets caught on a reef, just out of reach of sharky but too far from the beach to escape...what WILL she do? well it turns out she's watched Taken enough to gather a specific set of skills...I'd buy the DVD for £3 in Tescos...maybe...and it made for a pretty and jumpy trip to the flicks...5.8/10
not looking immaculate, talking to a seagull with a funny name whilst avoiding a big toothy angry fish. CGI not overly amazing in places, but superb in others. The story is very simple. Surfer gets caught on a reef, just out of reach of sharky but too far from the beach to escape...what WILL she do? well it turns out she's watched Taken enough to gather a specific set of skills...I'd buy the DVD for £3 in Tescos...maybe...and it made for a pretty and jumpy trip to the flicks...5.8/10Mississippi Grind. Gambling/road film starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn (who was brilliant in both Animal Kingdom and Starred Up). Worth watching for the performances of the 2 leads, especially Mendelsohn, but sadly doesn't really go anywhere and sort of limps over the finishing line leaving you wondering what the point of it all was. 6/10 nonetheless for the acting.
OrphanA family adopts a young girl who is not all as she seems. To be honest I wasn't expecting much from this one as it looked like it had all been done before, but this was a pleasant surprise. Well written with believable characters, the adults acting like adults and the other children acting like children, and really well acted 8/10
Mr Snrub said:
OrphanA family adopts a young girl who is not all as she seems. To be honest I wasn't expecting much from this one as it looked like it had all been done before, but this was a pleasant surprise. Well written with believable characters, the adults acting like adults and the other children acting like children, and really well acted 8/10
I like that film, I love the twist.Talking of twists, we watched a film called The Boy, about an American Nanny (the woman who plays Maggie in The Walking Dead) who is a little disturbed to discover that the boy she's meant to look after is actually a doll. All is not what it seems, though.
Liked that one, too.
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