Films I watched this week
Discussion
Rogue One
A proper Star Wars film. It was pretty enjoyable but some of the star ships looked very CGI in places, and the film as a whole overstayed its welcome in the final act. There were so many dramatic turns / last stands / nick of time setbacks / nick of time rescues, that with each one I started to care less and less until I was starting to think "oh FFS just blow this thing so we can all go home". And then, fortunately, it finally ended.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy it, but often less is more.
A proper Star Wars film. It was pretty enjoyable but some of the star ships looked very CGI in places, and the film as a whole overstayed its welcome in the final act. There were so many dramatic turns / last stands / nick of time setbacks / nick of time rescues, that with each one I started to care less and less until I was starting to think "oh FFS just blow this thing so we can all go home". And then, fortunately, it finally ended.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy it, but often less is more.
Centurion07 said:
parabolica said:
ajprice said:
e21Mark said:
parabolica said:
Free Fire
Hands down the most enjoyable film I've seen in the past 12 months!
50% gun play
40% crawling around in the dirt
10% witty barbs
If you liked the gun fights in Kingsman you'll like this, although it's a lot more gritty a film.
I've been looking forward to this since I saw the trailer a few months ago. Got rave review on the BBC this morning too.Hands down the most enjoyable film I've seen in the past 12 months!
50% gun play
40% crawling around in the dirt
10% witty barbs
If you liked the gun fights in Kingsman you'll like this, although it's a lot more gritty a film.
Unfortunately it doesn't open till next Friday down here in Truro.
Great fun film, and Sam Riley from SS-GB is in it, totally different and doesn't sound like John Hurt at all!
It's a very funny film with a lot of gasps as well - I didn't see the John Denver-soundtracked kill coming!!
It's a good film but I was hoping for more humour.
Vern was great!
37/51
I enjoyed it but I too had hoped for a little more. I'll watch it again though, if only for cardboard armour.
Wadjda The first feature film made in Saudi Arabia (no small feat, especially by a female director who couldn't direct the male crew in person).
A simple story about a feisty pre-teen girl wanting a bicycle. But girls aren't supposed to ride bicycles, and she's too poor to buy it. This film shows many ways in which the Saudi way of life restricts women's freedom. Well, we all know that, but this film is not at all heavy handed.
Instead it gives a warm insight into everyday life, and is quite open about some of the cruelty and hypocrisies in Saudi life.
A simple story about a feisty pre-teen girl wanting a bicycle. But girls aren't supposed to ride bicycles, and she's too poor to buy it. This film shows many ways in which the Saudi way of life restricts women's freedom. Well, we all know that, but this film is not at all heavy handed.
Instead it gives a warm insight into everyday life, and is quite open about some of the cruelty and hypocrisies in Saudi life.
Saw part of "Adrift" again last night, as it was on the Horror channel and I'd forgotten all about 'Car Share'. I can never work out why two of the guys don't lift one of the girls onto their shoulders so she can reach the edge of the deck, haul herself on board, lower the ladder, job done. Or why, when they make a makeshift rope out of their costumes and hook it around the post, they don't send the lightest person up it rather than the heaviest bloke so that it inevitably rips. Still, I guess it would be a really short film then.
Watched American Psycho with Christian Bale and immediately after saw another serial killer movie with Kevin Costner called Mr Brooks.
Both of these movies are stellar!! I only saw AP one time when it frst came out and I remember I couldnt like it for some reason, but after seeing it recently, wow, im blown away. It does get very emotionally tiring though, it is so intensely submerged in a caricature-esque world of a look behind the scenes of the young 1%'s of wall street. So over the top yet anchored and well paced.
Mr Brooks is slower moving no doubt, but no less impactful is the plots motives. I would try and rate them in comparison to eachother but it cant be done as they are vastly different even though they cover the same plot device i.e seriel killers who are addicted to their "craft".
I dont even know which one I preferred if I had to forget one ever existed and just chose which one the world would ever know.
I cracked up though whenever Bales character would delve into his monologues regarding the meaning of whatever song he was playing from Whitney houston album and on LOL
If you havent seen either one of these films, well, you are in for a right treat! I envy you to be able to see them again with virgin eyes (i rewatched them both...twice! Hehe). Much like I envy anyone who has yet to see any episode of GoT's or Bates Motel. Ahhhhh, to be able to see GoT's from the very 1st episode having never seeing a single second of it before...
Both of these movies are stellar!! I only saw AP one time when it frst came out and I remember I couldnt like it for some reason, but after seeing it recently, wow, im blown away. It does get very emotionally tiring though, it is so intensely submerged in a caricature-esque world of a look behind the scenes of the young 1%'s of wall street. So over the top yet anchored and well paced.
Mr Brooks is slower moving no doubt, but no less impactful is the plots motives. I would try and rate them in comparison to eachother but it cant be done as they are vastly different even though they cover the same plot device i.e seriel killers who are addicted to their "craft".
I dont even know which one I preferred if I had to forget one ever existed and just chose which one the world would ever know.
I cracked up though whenever Bales character would delve into his monologues regarding the meaning of whatever song he was playing from Whitney houston album and on LOL
If you havent seen either one of these films, well, you are in for a right treat! I envy you to be able to see them again with virgin eyes (i rewatched them both...twice! Hehe). Much like I envy anyone who has yet to see any episode of GoT's or Bates Motel. Ahhhhh, to be able to see GoT's from the very 1st episode having never seeing a single second of it before...
Rogue One - I watched this last night and my opinion was, meh. I loved the score (John Williams is beyond brilliant) but the film just left me cold. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest, but while the film was ok, it wasn't great. I felt it missed out on things such as the underuse of Forest Whitaker, a lack of Jedi commentary, Vader just not feeling right, the guy with the "chain gun" just seeming ridiculous, the fact that everyone died (so they don't end up with a reference in later films) and some convenient plot scenes.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
james_tigerwoods said:
Rogue One - I watched this last night and my opinion was, meh. I loved the score (John Williams is beyond brilliant) but the film just left me cold. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest, but while the film was ok, it wasn't great. I felt it missed out on things such as the underuse of Forest Whitaker, a lack of Jedi commentary, Vader just not feeling right, the guy with the "chain gun" just seeming ridiculous, the fact that everyone died (so they don't end up with a reference in later films) and some convenient plot scenes.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
+1I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
My other half stopped watching about half way through and I only just made it to the end.
GetCarter said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Rogue One - I watched this last night and my opinion was, meh. I loved the score (John Williams is beyond brilliant) but the film just left me cold. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest, but while the film was ok, it wasn't great. I felt it missed out on things such as the underuse of Forest Whitaker, a lack of Jedi commentary, Vader just not feeling right, the guy with the "chain gun" just seeming ridiculous, the fact that everyone died (so they don't end up with a reference in later films) and some convenient plot scenes.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
+1I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
My other half stopped watching about half way through and I only just made it to the end.
james_tigerwoods said:
Rogue One - I watched this last night and my opinion was, meh. I loved the score (John Williams is beyond brilliant) but the film just left me cold. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest, but while the film was ok, it wasn't great. I felt it missed out on things such as the underuse of Forest Whitaker, a lack of Jedi commentary, Vader just not feeling right, the guy with the "chain gun" just seeming ridiculous, the fact that everyone died (so they don't end up with a reference in later films) and some convenient plot scenes.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
For me it was like the parlour game "Fortunately, Unfortunately" also known as "Good News, Bad News", with it getting ever more frantic and ridiculous. I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
Character seems to be on top, unfortunately finds themselves in state of peril, fortunately rescued in the nick of time, unfortunately bad guy(s) show up and in peril again, fortunately good guy(s) turn up and save them, unfortunately they have a setback, fortunately something happens to resolve it, unfortunately another impediment happens, etc. In the end I kind of stopped caring.
And we never did find out who Manny Bothans was or how he died.
ClockworkCupcake said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Rogue One - I watched this last night and my opinion was, meh. I loved the score (John Williams is beyond brilliant) but the film just left me cold. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest, but while the film was ok, it wasn't great. I felt it missed out on things such as the underuse of Forest Whitaker, a lack of Jedi commentary, Vader just not feeling right, the guy with the "chain gun" just seeming ridiculous, the fact that everyone died (so they don't end up with a reference in later films) and some convenient plot scenes.
I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
For me it was like the parlour game "Fortunately, Unfortunately" also known as "Good News, Bad News", with it getting ever more frantic and ridiculous. I did like seeing Moff and, at the end, where we see Leia were two of the things I did like - There were others, I just wasn't bowled away by it.
Character seems to be on top, unfortunately finds themselves in state of peril, fortunately rescued in the nick of time, unfortunately bad guy(s) show up and in peril again, fortunately good guy(s) turn up and save them, unfortunately they have a setback, fortunately something happens to resolve it, unfortunately another impediment happens, etc. In the end I kind of stopped caring.
And we never did find out who Manny Bothans was or how he died.
However, I just didn't believe the scene where one destroyer is pushed in to another - How many of these bloody things does the Alliance go through anyway??
I didn't connect with the blind guy at all - Yeh, he's a badass, but meh.
The shoe-horning of R2D2 and C3PO in to the film was, in my opinion, utterly and totally unnecessary and fundamentally pointless - I kept wondering when we were going to see the Millennium Falcon.
ClockworkCupcake said:
And we never did find out who Manny Bothans was or how he died.
For that information you will need to wait for Rogue 2 set between Empire and Jedi. Manny died getting the plans for the second Death Star. Actually when you think about Manny was an imperial plant as famously the leaked plans were a trap. f
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