Films I watched this week

[Bullett]

Absolutely Anything - Simon Pegg gets powers, mildly amusing. 6/10

[smithyithy]

Bullett said:

mildly amusing. 6/10

Literally how I feel about every Simon Pegg film.

[walm]

TCEvo said:

Jason Bourne

Thin storyline, frantic pace and generally disappointing.

+1
Basically seemed the same as Ultimatum, as far as I can remember and I fell asleep at the same parts too.
No idea now why we are even supposed to care about him or Julia Stiles.
I was mostly rooting for the bad guys and for someone to hold the bloody camera steady.

[bodhi]

Olympus Has Landed - properly brain out action, far too many plot lines appeared to be ripped straight from Die Hard, and I still struggle with a Scotsman putting on an American accent, but it was enjoyable enough with plenty of explosions. Not surprised it didn't trouble the Academy Awards, but fun for 90 minutes nonetheless.

Probably a 6.5 / 10 for me.

[sandman77]

bodhi said:

Olympus Has Fallen - properly brain out action, far too many plot lines appeared to be ripped straight from Die Hard, and I still struggle with a Scotsman putting on an American accent, but it was enjoyable enough with plenty of explosions. Not surprised it didn't trouble the Academy Awards, but fun for 90 minutes nonetheless.

Probably a 6.5 / 10 for me.

If you would like to see the exact same film with different actors give White House Down a watch.

[skeeterm5]

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Very disappointing. It seemed to me to be essentially a remake of A New Hope;

= big weapon like a death star - check
= amazing weapon can be destroyed by small ships shooting at a weakness which the designers didnt spot
= no real Jedi apart from somebody strong in the force but untrained - check
= evil overload and sinister henchman - check
= unlikely companions - check
= jedi pupil seeks out master - check

Not sure what I was hoping for but this wasn't it.

5/10

[ukaskew]

London Has Fallen

Awful CGI (seriously, it's 2016 and they couldn't even do a decent CGI explosion?), riddled with obvious factual errors, obvious plot/outcome, just plain silly.

Enjoyed it, in a 'switch the brain off and enjoy some nonsense' kinda way.

The Martian

Watched this at the cinema after reading the book, loved it. Watched it yesterday on Sky, loved it even more. Perfectly paced, great humour, fantastic performance from Damon. I think I may edge this into my top 10 in terms of films I could just watch every now and again (and yes, Tremors is in that list).

Edited by ukaskew on Tuesday 30th August 22:04

[BryanC]

The Mechanic - Resurrection

The Stath does it again, fighting unbelievable odds without sustaining a scratch, superb action - although started a bit slow, fantastic international locations and at least 3 boats blown sky-high too.
Close up hand held camera in the fight scenes and you could easily confuse with any of the Bourne films although I think the Stath wins because of the higher body count.
....and he also shows his soft side too as Mr Bishop lets his girl-friend look after his dad's wrist-watch while he is on a mission in case he doesn't come back. Was there any doubt he wouldn't ?.

A good 8/10 based on mind numbing escapism and the usual level of violent excitement.

[anonymous-user]

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Great film rip

[motorizer]

Blood father

Grizzly aging ex bike gang member's missing daughter turns up with some evil gangsters in pursuit, Mel Gibson is great as ususal as is William H Macy as his only friend. I think it would have been fairly forgettable without Mel, but as it is 7/10

[Spanna]

skeeterm5 said:

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Very disappointing. It seemed to me to be essentially a remake of A New Hope;

= big weapon like a death star - check
= amazing weapon can be destroyed by small ships shooting at a weakness which the designers didnt spot
= no real Jedi apart from somebody strong in the force but untrained - check
= evil overload and sinister henchman - check
= unlikely companions - check
= jedi pupil seeks out master - check

Not sure what I was hoping for but this wasn't it.

5/10

I agree with the story points, but it was paced very well and they made Rey very likeable IMO. I think they had to play it safe on this one with the story to get Star Wars back on track. The next one should have a much deeper story to it.

[Halmyre]

Spanna said:

skeeterm5 said:

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Very disappointing. It seemed to me to be essentially a remake of A New Hope;

= big weapon like a death star - check
= amazing weapon can be destroyed by small ships shooting at a weakness which the designers didnt spot
= no real Jedi apart from somebody strong in the force but untrained - check
= evil overload and sinister henchman - check
= unlikely companions - check
= jedi pupil seeks out master - check

Not sure what I was hoping for but this wasn't it.

5/10

I agree with the story points, but it was paced very well and they made Rey very likeable IMO. I think they had to play it safe on this one with the story to get Star Wars back on track. The next one should have a much deeper story to it.

A bit like, er, a remake of The Empire Strikes Back?

[generationx]

skeeterm5 said:

Star Wars The Force Awakens

Very disappointing. It seemed to me to be essentially a remake of A New Hope;

= big weapon like a death star - check
= amazing weapon can be destroyed by small ships shooting at a weakness which the designers didnt spot
= no real Jedi apart from somebody strong in the force but untrained - check
= evil overload and sinister henchman - check
= unlikely companions - check
= jedi pupil seeks out master - check

Not sure what I was hoping for but this wasn't it.

5/10

I really enjoyed TFA, but unfortunately we now have to have politically correct Star Wars:

• Strong female lead - check
• Possible ghey male lead - check

<<sigh>>

[walm]

generationx said:

I really enjoyed TFA, but unfortunately we now have to have politically correct Star Wars:

• Strong female lead - check
• Possible ghey male lead - check

<<sigh>>

Surprisingly you missed the fact that Finn was black for your full bigotry trifecta.

[generationx]

walm said:

Surprisingly you missed the fact that Finn was black for your full bigotry trifecta.

I think you´re being provocative but I´ll let that slide.

[droopsnoot]

About Time. Not a cinematic masterpiece, of course, but the other Richard Curtis films have been quite good and I'd forgotten this one had been made. It wasn't bad, I guess, but it was a bit too sentimental for me. Idea was interesting, as was using a Nissan Bluebird and an Audi Coupe even in the present-day bits.

[ReallyReallyGood]

skeeterm5 said:

Star Wars The Force Awakens

+1

[durbster]

generationx said:

I really enjoyed TFA, but unfortunately we now have to have politically correct Star Wars:

• Strong female lead - check
• Possible ghey male lead - check

<<sigh>>

Yeah, they should have dropped the politically correct stuff and used characters more like the original films, such as the strong female lead Princess Leia and the camp robot C3-PO.

[Quickmoose]

durbster said:

generationx said:

I really enjoyed TFA, but unfortunately we now have to have politically correct Star Wars:

• Strong female lead - check
• Possible ghey male lead - check

<<sigh>>

Yeah, they should have dropped the politically correct stuff and used characters more like the original films, such as the strong female lead Princess Leia and the camp robot C3-PO.

and the really big evil black guy...

[Halb]

Don said:

I really liked Karl Urban's Dredd. Bought it on Blu Ray. Much truer to the source material than Stallone's effort - although they did change Judge Anderson's character somewhat - but it worked well.

How was it changed?