Films I watched this week
Discussion
Cotty said:
jammy_basturd said:
Having walked the Camino I'll have to check out the film!
You certainly live up to your name, I would love to walk the Camino but I would never be able to take off the 5 or so weeks it takes to walk from Saint Pied de Port. I know there are different and shorter routes or you can just do the last 100 kilometres to get your Compostela certificate. But the 780km French route just seems the right one to do. jammy_basturd said:
It was an amazing trip, probably the best travel based thing I've ever done. Though I'm not lucky enough to have walked the whole thing
This is a great Youtube vid of someone walking the whole French route. Really makes me want to walk it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvElrX--hN4
I know this thread is "Films I watched this week" but I think this counts as one persons film of the trip. Production values, music, commentary, locations, highs, lows, potential romance etc its a really an enjoyable half hour.
digimeistter said:
Batman vs Superman
Much, much better than I was expecting judging from the reviews and the premise. A bit silly towards the end and at 3 hrs long is a bit bum numbing.
Enjoyed it though 7/10
Watched this last night, the story line doesn't really flow and it tends to jump around quite a bit. All the same I quite liked it for entertainment value.Much, much better than I was expecting judging from the reviews and the premise. A bit silly towards the end and at 3 hrs long is a bit bum numbing.
Enjoyed it though 7/10
Edited by digimeistter on Monday 4th July 11:49
6/10
maccas99 said:
What flaws did you think existed in the plot?
Just off the top of my head...I found it hard to buy into that a guy keeping secret prisoners would have them in a shed with a skylight, for one. Minor point but why risk it? Not beyond the realms of possibility that it could lead to discovery - especially as the shots when they escape show they live in basically terraced housing with plenty of nearby neighbours.
On that note, this guy was going in and out with food and provisions for 7 years and no one noticed/thought it odd?
The escape was far fetched to say the least, would the guy seriously have not checked that it wasn't a trick? This is a guy keeping secret prisoners and he doesn't think 'hmmm I wonder if there's a plot afoot here' ?
Then surely, after the kid escapes and is with the police, he'd have raced back to the shed to cover his tracks (ie kill the woman) but several hours pass and he's not been back there?
And all that is before considering how a single police officer basically located the shed based on about three words the kid says. It would have taken them an eternity to locate that place.
Edited by BRISTOL86 on Tuesday 5th July 11:28
BRISTOL86 said:
Just off the top of my head...
I found it hard to buy into that a guy keeping secret prisoners would have them in a shed with a skylight, for one. Minor point but why risk it? Not beyond the realms of possibility that it could lead to discovery - especially as the shots when they escape show they live in basically terraced housing with plenty of nearby neighbours.
On that note, this guy was going in and out with food and provisions for 7 years and no one noticed/thought it odd?
The escape was far fetched to say the least, would the guy seriously have not checked that it wasn't a trick? This is a guy keeping secret prisoners and he doesn't think 'hmmm I wonder if there's a plot afoot here' ?
Then surely, after the kid escapes and is with the police, he'd have raced back to the shed to cover his tracks (ie kill the woman) but several hours pass and he's not been back there?
And all that is before considering how a single police officer basically located the shed based on about three words the kid says. It would have taken them an eternity to locate that place.
I agree with most of what you have said, however, it's a true story. Not that it would have happened in this exact way but most of the way it happened must be true?I found it hard to buy into that a guy keeping secret prisoners would have them in a shed with a skylight, for one. Minor point but why risk it? Not beyond the realms of possibility that it could lead to discovery - especially as the shots when they escape show they live in basically terraced housing with plenty of nearby neighbours.
On that note, this guy was going in and out with food and provisions for 7 years and no one noticed/thought it odd?
The escape was far fetched to say the least, would the guy seriously have not checked that it wasn't a trick? This is a guy keeping secret prisoners and he doesn't think 'hmmm I wonder if there's a plot afoot here' ?
Then surely, after the kid escapes and is with the police, he'd have raced back to the shed to cover his tracks (ie kill the woman) but several hours pass and he's not been back there?
And all that is before considering how a single police officer basically located the shed based on about three words the kid says. It would have taken them an eternity to locate that place.
Edited by BRISTOL86 on Tuesday 5th July 11:28
Halb said:
Cotty said:
A Walk in the Woods
Comedy/adventure tale of two friends hiking the Appalachian Trail. It was ok, couple of laughs 5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178665/?ref_=fn_al_tt...
Really wanted to watch that at the flicks.Comedy/adventure tale of two friends hiking the Appalachian Trail. It was ok, couple of laughs 5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178665/?ref_=fn_al_tt...
Spy
Melissa McCarthy vehicle. The laughs are a bit too sparing and it's too long (again!), but it's entertaining enough. Jason Statham carries it, and it was a surprise to see Jude Law playing a character that wasn't Jude Law for a change.
Vacation
A sort of remake of the National Lampoon film. It didn't review well - which I understand - but we quite enjoyed it and got a lot of laughs out of it, particularly early on. It did feel like an 80s comedy with the exception of a few parts that are really nasty; as if they felt they had to go to extremes to get the laugh. It really stretches the disbelief at times but I let that go because the cast and writing carried it.
And it was the correct length
Melissa McCarthy vehicle. The laughs are a bit too sparing and it's too long (again!), but it's entertaining enough. Jason Statham carries it, and it was a surprise to see Jude Law playing a character that wasn't Jude Law for a change.
Vacation
A sort of remake of the National Lampoon film. It didn't review well - which I understand - but we quite enjoyed it and got a lot of laughs out of it, particularly early on. It did feel like an 80s comedy with the exception of a few parts that are really nasty; as if they felt they had to go to extremes to get the laugh. It really stretches the disbelief at times but I let that go because the cast and writing carried it.
And it was the correct length
maccas99 said:
digimeistter said:
Batman vs Superman
Much, much better than I was expecting judging from the reviews and the premise. A bit silly towards the end and at 3 hrs long is a bit bum numbing.
Enjoyed it though 7/10
Watched this last night, the story line doesn't really flow and it tends to jump around quite a bit. All the same I quite liked it for entertainment value.Much, much better than I was expecting judging from the reviews and the premise. A bit silly towards the end and at 3 hrs long is a bit bum numbing.
Enjoyed it though 7/10
Edited by digimeistter on Monday 4th July 11:49
6/10
It was... OK. But there were issues with people's motives I couldn't really understand.
- Why do prisoners kill other prisoners with "bat" branding?
- Why did Superman want to shut-down Batman's activities? Why would he care in the context of everything else going on in the world?
- Superman didn't try hard enough to stop Batman from trying to kill him. He only needed to hold him while he convinced him they should work together
- I know there's a WW film coming next year but her motivations weren't explored at all
- Why did the senator's aide/jr help Lex?
- Why was there even a programme built into the Kryptonian ship to create a monster? What purpose would that have served?
The Man of Steel film was much more coherent. Within a 3-hour film, you'd like to think the characters could be explored a bit more. I've sometimes wondered what being Superman on a day-to-day basis might be like - when he's not fighting to save the world. Those moments were explored a bit better with Christopher Reeve, and even Brandon Routh (to a point).
And Batman... his story has been told so often - to the point where I failed to understand why his "origin" was portrayed yet again. It was a waste of time.
Overall, it was a bit hit-and-miss, which is a shame. All for the lack of someone reading the script with a more critical eye.
5/10
Watchman said:
A simple proof-read enables their point to be reviewed - what story they want to tell. It's so much more than spelling and grammar. Someone at DC needs to proof-read what's written.
Well they'd only have to proof read the title then. The entire plot (apart from some predictable superhero crisis of identity) was based around getting two fantasy figures to fight. Which Superman didn't do. In the bit tacked on at the end of the film they fought the same cgi monster that featured in one of the Spiderman or Avenger or somesuch films. How much more generic superhero rubbish can the studios chuck out?Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff