Films I watched this week

[Dick Dastardly]

Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut is a brilliant film. Very underrated.

[judas]

louiebaby said:

Hail, Caesar! - A Coen Brothers film about a studio fixer in the 1950's. My film watching buddies who came round didn't really get it, and were wondering what it was all about. I loved it, and now need new friends.

Coen Brothers films are very marmite. We loved Fargo and lent it to some friends. We now don't see them much any more...

[bucksmanuk]

Exam

It’s just 8 characters in a room with an “apprentice” type feel to it. Time flashed by, although I did guess who the “plant” was and why, early on.

[Halb]

judas said:

Coen Brothers films are very marmite. We loved Fargo and lent it to some friends. We now don't see them much any more...

I hop you got Fargo back.


At least the COen's experiment. Love their pre-2,000 stuff.
Watched A Serious Man the other day, unrewarding ultimately.

[louiebaby]

I was just looking at the Coen Brothers' filmography on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers_filmog...

There's a few I really need to get round to seeing, I think I'm a little over 50%.

I have Intolerable Cruelty to watch one night with the wife, when she wants to think she's chosen a film.

[Halb]

I've not seen either, Inside Llewyn Davis or Hail, Caesar!
After The Big Lebowski the only ones I would like to watch again are True Grit, No Country For Old Men (their best post 2,000 piece for me) and maybe The Ladykillers.

If Intolerable Cruelty, The Man Who Wasn't There or O Brother, Where Art Thou? were on telly and I was in, then I'd give them a viewing to refresh my memory.

[Halb]

https://youtu.be/vxfht74r2RM
5 Childish Mistakes Every Movie Makes

[Trevatanus]

Bit of old skool action with Black Rain last night.
Enjoyed that.

[Adam B]

Looking at the Coen brothers films they directed (not wrote) it seems I am a massive fan

Works of brilliance
1984 Blood Simple
1987 Raising Arizona
1990 Miller's Crossing
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1996 Fargo
1998 The Big Lebowski
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Burn After Reading
2009 A Serious Man
2010 True Grit

Enjoyed
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2016 Hail, Caesar!

Didn't enjoy
1991 Barton Fink

Not seen yet
2004 The Ladykillers
2012 Gambit
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis

[irocfan]

irocfan]Exit Wound - Steven Seagull [sic said:

and DMX. stty little actioner which (barely) passes the time 40%

[ben5575]

Trevatanus said:

Bit of old skool action with Black Rain last night.
Enjoyed that.

Great film.

Has anybody seen 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' yet? Mad kiwi comedy thing set in 1984 about a fat kid and his new foster parents. Really good review by Kermode and the trailer looks great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Xvsjy57X0

[Ace-T]

Adam B said:

Looking at the Coen brothers films they directed (not wrote) it seems I am a massive fan

Works of brilliance
1984 Blood Simple
1987 Raising Arizona
1990 Miller's Crossing
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1996 Fargo
1998 The Big Lebowski
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Burn After Reading
2009 A Serious Man
2010 True Grit

Enjoyed
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2016 Hail, Caesar!

Didn't enjoy
1991 Barton Fink

Not seen yet
2004 The Ladykillers
2012 Gambit
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis

There are two types of Coen bros films: fluffy bunny and not!

Just watched The Violin Teacher on Amazon. Almost standard story of good person goes to bad place and makes a difference but I liked the treatment and the performances. Loosely based on the Baccarelli Institute story.

http://institutobaccarelli.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-...

A solid 7 violas out of 10 double basses.

Edited by Ace-T on Thursday 22 September 23:03

[El Guapo]

Adam B said:

Didn't enjoy
1991 Barton Fink

For me, one of their best, with Miller's Crossing at #1.

[Halb]

Of the pre-2,000 stuff, Barton Fink is the one I could miss out. Hudsucker Proxy is weakest after that.

Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Fargo, Big Lebowski all classics and eminently watchable for me.

Though as always, and as with everything, this may be subject to a reviewing.

[Adam B]

El Guapo said:

Adam B said:

Didn't enjoy
1991 Barton Fink

For me, one of their best, with Miller's Crossing at #1.

I need to watch it again, as it is highly rated and in theory I should love it, just didn't get on with the John Goodman character

Edited by Adam B on Sunday 25th September 18:06

[Halb]

Mad Max 2 on tonight!!

[aquarianone]

ben5575 said:

Great film.

Has anybody seen 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' yet? Mad kiwi comedy thing set in 1984 about a fat kid and his new foster parents. Really good review by Kermode and the trailer looks great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Xvsjy57X0

Watching it now, it's brilliant (it's up in the usual places)

By the same guy that made What we do in the shadows

[SWoll]

aquarianone said:

ben5575 said:

Great film.

Has anybody seen 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' yet? Mad kiwi comedy thing set in 1984 about a fat kid and his new foster parents. Really good review by Kermode and the trailer looks great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Xvsjy57X0

Watching it now, it's brilliant (it's up in the usual places)

By the same guy that made What we do in the shadows

Watched it last night. Loved it.

Simple, funny, wonderfully written and beautifully shot. Loved the soundtrack as well. Bonus of a brilliant cameo from Rhys Darby.

9/10

Ghostbusters

The polar opposite of the above. Overblown, unfunny and too much iffy CGI. I get a feeling the all female cast was a decision made just so anyone with a negative view could be branded a misogynist. Would have been equally awful had it been men, which is basically exactly what Pixels was.

3/10

Edited by SWoll on Saturday 24th September 11:42

[London424]

Watched R.I.P.D last night. Quite fun for a Friday night after a long week of work and not having to think too much.

6.5/10

[renmure]

The Magnificent Seven

Just about to start on Sky.

I predict a Great Movie score of 7/7