Films I watched this week

[poing]

Halb said:

iwantagta said:

I thought it was a strong 9/10.
Didnt find the kid annoying (certainly not compared to War of the Worlds kid).
Best superhero movie for a long time & best x-men movie. A far better representation of Wolverine.

we havea lot to thank Deapool for.

watch the RLM review for the comparison to the other Wolverine film, laughable.

Still only 8/10 for me. I'm not into the comics and full universe stuff so it's just a film featuring a particular character I've seen before in my eyes. I was glad I went to the cinema for it though because the entire place shaking when they were in the hotel (not giving anything away here before spoiler people freak out) wouldn't have been as involving at home. Unless I invested in a mega surround sound system!

[Pesty]

poing said:

Still only 8/10 for me. I'm not into the comics and full universe stuff so it's just a film featuring a particular character I've seen before in my eyes. I was glad I went to the cinema for it though because the entire place shaking when they were in the hotel (not giving anything away here before spoiler people freak out) wouldn't have been as involving at home. Unless I invested in a mega surround sound system!

That whole scene was fantastic. In fact there were so many good ones.

Might even do something I have not done since I was about 10 and go and watch it again.

[Rich_W]

iwantagta said:

Serpico - Also good 7/10 - far more rounded character than most inside cop things.

You might also like to try and find "Dog day afternoon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne6KMHLTvik

[Steamer]

Rich_W said:

iwantagta said:

Serpico - Also good 7/10 - far more rounded character than most inside cop things.

You might also like to try and find "Dog day afternoon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne6KMHLTvik

I've only just got round to watching those two as well - Serpico not being quite what I expected, but brilliant. Dog Day afternoon was also a great, gritty kind of watch.

Also - ScarFace (I know! Another classic that I just hadn't got round to watching!!) of all three this was my favourite, and it's interesting to see how many 'nods' have been made to it in other films, music, tv... lots of memorable quotes and scenes.

I've since heard a remake is being talked about - not sure that's going to be a good thing, but then again maybe I should watch the original Scarface first!

[generationx]

Looper

Bruce Willis and a younger fella getting messed around by time travel. Great performance by the child actor. Obvious ending is obvious.

7/10

[SS2.]

P-Jay said:

It certainly suckered me in, I put some of the negativity down to sexism, but no, it's just a really crap film.

Agreed - it's dire.

Good to see cameos from original cast members (although I wonder whether they cringed after seeing the final cut) as well as multiple nods to the 'proper' Ghostbusters movies. Other than that, the film left me totally flat. Little humour, found 2 of the 3 leads plain irritating, just weak all round - even some snazzy effects couldn't save it.

A poor effort - 3/10.

Edited by SS2. on Wednesday 22 March 07:26

[sly fox]

grumbledoak said:

Loving this free Amazon Prime "Films Wot Grumbledoak Missed" lark.

Just watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish language with subtitles version from 2009. I loved the books, and I really liked the low key feel of the film. Reminded me of Wallander, if you've seen that but not this. 8/10.

You should watch all three Swedish originals. Excellent.
The 3rd one should have been titled "revenge".

[Lefty]

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

[Edwin Strohacker]

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

I couldn't understand a word they were saying.

[Halb]

poing said:

Still only 8/10 for me. I'm not into the comics and full universe stuff so it's just a film featuring a particular character I've seen before in my eyes. I was glad I went to the cinema for it though because the entire place shaking when they were in the hotel (not giving anything away here before spoiler people freak out) wouldn't have been as involving at home. Unless I invested in a mega surround sound system!

I wouldn't care if no other Fox X-Man film existed, save maybe for Deadpool, I'm into shared universes, but not this one. The point was that Deadpool allowwed this last version of Hugh's Logan to be a vision rather than a run by the numbers.

[P-Jay]

SS2. said:

P-Jay said:

It certainly suckered me in, I put some of the negativity down to sexism, but no, it's just a really crap film.

Agreed - it's dire.

Good to see cameos from original cast members (although I wonder whether they cringed after seeing the final cut) as well as multiple nods to the 'proper' Ghostbusters movies. Other than that, the film left me totally flat. Little humour, found 2 of the 3 leads plain irritating, just weak all round - even some snazzy effects couldn't save it.

A poor effort - 3/10.

Edited by SS2. on Wednesday 22 March 07:26

I can't quite decide what aspect of it I disliked the most, but the characters is probably the main thing - despite the ghosts and marshmallow men they were believable, real people. The relationship between Egon and Janine is sweet and endearing. Peter's pursuit of Dana is funny without being creepy. Ray is a great character - half man-child, wide eyed and innocent half genius. Winston is Blue Collar Guy who acts as a real world grounding for the others not a token Black Guy. A apart from the fact Peter and Ray seem to chain-smoke throughout it and the 80s SFX it seems far more up to date than the 2016 version, crass 2 dimensional characters based on stereotypes.

It's a real shame that Ghost Busters 3 never happened, I know they tried and tried to get it off the ground for years, Bill Murray as ever being difficult to get on board, but when Harold Ramis, they should have let it die with him.

We should have known it was going to be crap, even during production they didn't know what it was going to be, it was going to be a straight sequel, then it was going to be a reboot, then it was going to be a reboot, but in the same 'universe' as the originals, how many re-writes and hack edits must have taken place.

[RBH58]

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

Sorry...it's just you and me that liked it...everyone else thinks it's rubbish.

[Quickmoose]

RBH58 said:

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

Sorry...it's just you and me that liked it...everyone else thinks it's rubbish.

and me!! but then I have a weird ability to watch a film and just accept what's in front of me without noting down aspects which annoy as they happen ... as long as the effects, direction, and acting are top class.

But then Contact, Interstellar etc are my type of films...

[RBH58]

Ha! I loved Contact & Interstellar too!

[P-Jay]

Quickmoose said:

RBH58 said:

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

Sorry...it's just you and me that liked it...everyone else thinks it's rubbish.

and me!! but then I have a weird ability to watch a film and just accept what's in front of me without noting down aspects which annoy as they happen ... as long as the effects, direction, and acting are top class.

But then Contact, Interstellar etc are my type of films...

Loved it too, it was different to a lot of recent films, I don't really know what's not to like about it.

[ajprice]

P-Jay said:

Quickmoose said:

RBH58 said:

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

Sorry...it's just you and me that liked it...everyone else thinks it's rubbish.

and me!! but then I have a weird ability to watch a film and just accept what's in front of me without noting down aspects which annoy as they happen ... as long as the effects, direction, and acting are top class.

But then Contact, Interstellar etc are my type of films...

Loved it too, it was different to a lot of recent films, I don't really know what's not to like about it.

Also a member of the 'I liked Arrival' club.

[GetCarter]

ajprice said:

P-Jay said:

Quickmoose said:

RBH58 said:

Lefty said:

Arrival.

Loved it, best new film I've seen in ages.

Sorry...it's just you and me that liked it...everyone else thinks it's rubbish.

and me!! but then I have a weird ability to watch a film and just accept what's in front of me without noting down aspects which annoy as they happen ... as long as the effects, direction, and acting are top class.

But then Contact, Interstellar etc are my type of films...

Loved it too, it was different to a lot of recent films, I don't really know what's not to like about it.

Also a member of the 'I liked Arrival' club.

Most of us liked it. Very few didn't. (Just read the reviews)

It is a bit of a 'Marmite' film. I get that. I thought it a bit slow at the top, but loved the last 15 minutes.

[Lefty]

Not sure why anyone wouldn't like it. Unless they were expecting Independence Day 3.

[Edwin Strohacker]

Arrival & Interstellar are high concept movies, which I reckon is to be welcomed, even if the execution is less than perfect. Anything that demands you pay attention to an idea, actually work stuff out as opposed to letting cowboys & Indians in space wash over you is surely a good thing, no?

Edited by Edwin Strohacker on Wednesday 22 March 11:24

[anonymous-user]

Again with the Arrival thing guys?

Anywayyyyyyyyy.....

Pulp Fiction last weekend. Interesting for the first time in years I think reservoir dogs might actually be the better flick.

Still a healthy 8/10