Good films I watched this weekend
Discussion
digimeistter said:
hapless said:
This is the trouble with scores. I think an 8/10 film should be a hugely rare treat of endless rewatchable enjoyability. An eight should be nigh-on a masterpiece, the like of The Godfather or Citizen Kane or whatever.
Nine is an unassailable, unarguable work of absolute genius, unanimously seen as wonderful.
There can never be a ten, of course.
All in my opinion.
Nine is an unassailable, unarguable work of absolute genius, unanimously seen as wonderful.
There can never be a ten, of course.
All in my opinion.
IMDB is a 'tough crowd' and with a large population, so you tend not to have scores skewed too much. For me, if it is 6.6 or above on imdb (and the subject matter sounds even vaguely interesting) I'll watch it. 6.2 - 6.6 is my 'grey area', where the subject matter will have to override the score. I'm unlikely to bother watching a film below 6.2 without a trusted, personal recommendation.
That may seem a very arbitary way of deciding what to watch, but there are many more films than I have time to sit in front of the TV, so something has to give.
V8mate said:
Agreed.
IMDB is a 'tough crowd' and with a large population, so you tend not to have scores skewed too much. For me, if it is 6.6 or above on imdb (and the subject matter sounds even vaguely interesting) I'll watch it. 6.2 - 6.6 is my 'grey area', where the subject matter will have to override the score. I'm unlikely to bother watching a film below 6.2 without a trusted, personal recommendation.
That may seem a very arbitary way of deciding what to watch, but there are many more films than I have time to sit in front of the TV, so something has to give.
I try to avoid putting anything on my Lovefilm list that has less than 7/10 on IMDB (unless the wife wants some crappy chick-flick)...although the "compelling" argument to do this was brought into disrepute by my wife after Winter's Bone and War Horse....IMDB is a 'tough crowd' and with a large population, so you tend not to have scores skewed too much. For me, if it is 6.6 or above on imdb (and the subject matter sounds even vaguely interesting) I'll watch it. 6.2 - 6.6 is my 'grey area', where the subject matter will have to override the score. I'm unlikely to bother watching a film below 6.2 without a trusted, personal recommendation.
That may seem a very arbitary way of deciding what to watch, but there are many more films than I have time to sit in front of the TV, so something has to give.
V8mate said:
digimeistter said:
hapless said:
This is the trouble with scores. I think an 8/10 film should be a hugely rare treat of endless rewatchable enjoyability. An eight should be nigh-on a masterpiece, the like of The Godfather or Citizen Kane or whatever.
Nine is an unassailable, unarguable work of absolute genius, unanimously seen as wonderful.
There can never be a ten, of course.
All in my opinion.
Nine is an unassailable, unarguable work of absolute genius, unanimously seen as wonderful.
There can never be a ten, of course.
All in my opinion.
IMDB is a 'tough crowd' and with a large population, so you tend not to have scores skewed too much. For me, if it is 6.6 or above on imdb (and the subject matter sounds even vaguely interesting) I'll watch it. 6.2 - 6.6 is my 'grey area', where the subject matter will have to override the score. I'm unlikely to bother watching a film below 6.2 without a trusted, personal recommendation.
That may seem a very arbitary way of deciding what to watch, but there are many more films than I have time to sit in front of the TV, so something has to give.
I watched a little low budget horror film recently that I enjoyed very much. I thought it was clever and interesting and transcended its in-places shoddy production. I rated it 7 and thought it was really good. IMDb scores it 4.2, but from a low turn out of voters, most of whom dismissed it in their comments for being cheap or annoyingly ambiguous. Both of which I agree it is.
Anyway. I advise treating IMDb ratings with care unless you're happily within the mainstream.
May cause a bit of controversy according to IMDB, but I enjoyed "The Grey".
I'd read lots of reviews that brand it as the 'worst film this year', but if you can overlook some of the action and silly decisions the characters make, it was quite a poignant film and not really an action movie as I thought it was when adding it to my Lovefilm list.
Maybe it's just my taste but I'd give it a 7 I suppose.
I'd read lots of reviews that brand it as the 'worst film this year', but if you can overlook some of the action and silly decisions the characters make, it was quite a poignant film and not really an action movie as I thought it was when adding it to my Lovefilm list.
Maybe it's just my taste but I'd give it a 7 I suppose.
I watched Mean Streets again for the first time in about 20 years, then watched Raging Bull and Taxi Driver again - Robert De Niro was a friking genius, how he ever ended up appearing in Meet the Fockers 2 is beyond me, I don't know if it's him or the movie industry in general but it makes me think ill of the human race as a species.
dudleybloke said:
XJSJohn said:
This may be a bit high brow for some here 
But watched "Cockneys v Zombies" over the weekend,it's not flash but it is bloody funny, great cast too, Richard briars, honor Blackman, Brick Top from Snatch and more.
il probably be watching this tonight.But watched "Cockneys v Zombies" over the weekend,it's not flash but it is bloody funny, great cast too, Richard briars, honor Blackman, Brick Top from Snatch and more.
im said:
dudleybloke said:
XJSJohn said:
This may be a bit high brow for some here
But watched "Cockneys v Zombies" over the weekend,it's not flash but it is bloody funny, great cast too, Richard briars, honor Blackman, Brick Top from Snatch and more.
il probably be watching this tonight.But watched "Cockneys v Zombies" over the weekend,it's not flash but it is bloody funny, great cast too, Richard briars, honor Blackman, Brick Top from Snatch and more.
mattnunn said:
I watched Mean Streets again for the first time in about 20 years, then watched Raging Bull and Taxi Driver again - Robert De Niro was a friking genius, how he ever ended up appearing in Meet the Fockers 2 is beyond me, I don't know if it's him or the movie industry in general but it makes me think ill of the human race as a species.
+1Such a disappointing career path he chose from his prime.
Gettysburg. A fairly lavish and straight recital of one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern historical era. For accuracy it does not stray from the common conceit that General Lee was a great tactician, but a lesser strategist (framed against WW2, think more Guderian than Von Manstein) and...fundamentally...on the wrong side. Slabs of time are given over to the layered relationships between Longstreet and his generals (Armistead and Pickett), with less of a hierarchical take on the Union side.
A four hour plus film, that whilst I wouldn't say is great, is most certainly an in-depth military period piece. A sub-theme that remains a constant surrounds the politics of the war that to many on the Confederate side was less about Slavery, more that the desire to secede from the Union as a principle, regardless of the catalyst, was the cause.
A four hour plus film, that whilst I wouldn't say is great, is most certainly an in-depth military period piece. A sub-theme that remains a constant surrounds the politics of the war that to many on the Confederate side was less about Slavery, more that the desire to secede from the Union as a principle, regardless of the catalyst, was the cause.
tigerkoi said:
Sounds very intriguing. Probably includes some Knights Templar activity too. In addition the Vatican are always in reasonable proximity whenever getting in the details.
I think I'll put an order in at Amazon. Thank you.
Most likely. I feel I wanna reread it now, but it's packed away with my collection of books.I think I'll put an order in at Amazon. Thank you.
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