Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)

[anonymous-user]

spaximus said:

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And as for your comments on American films, yes they do razamatazz, but they also do good soul searching films highlighting the problems of race, crime and bigotry.

Aye, try Winter's Bone, it makes Kes look like a happy film!

[Pesty]

qube_TA said:

My most hated film, I'm convinced it's purpose is to simply paint the North as being rubbish and bleak so that everyone else can feel superior,

I worked in wombwell for a while with people from Hoyland in the 90s.

its rainbows and skittles compared to the real thing.

i imagine its bang on for the time it was set

[Halb]

ash73 said:

The Medusa Touch, loved this when I was younger and it's aged well. Fantastic and chilling film, Burton menacing and Remick delicious. Can see why it hasn't been on telly much since 9/11

"I have a gift for disaster"

Loved it.
Was it on the box?

Mad City was on this week...I had forgotten how it ends.....no wonder it's not on much.

[jonamv8]

GoneGirl

[rasto]

jonamv8 said:

GoneGirl

MissingSomething

[Salesy]

In the last week i have watched

The Equalizer.

Not a bad film but predictable, typical blokes film but i enjoyed it.

Fury

Again another decent film which i enjoyed on a lazy sunday afternoon

Dumb and Dumber to

Genius.....These guys had me in stitches throughout. As funny as the first film if not a tad funnier.

22 Jump street

I didn't think it was as good as the first, Ice cube ruined it for me for the fact that every other work out of his mouth was "muvva fker". There was no need to go over the top.



This weekend I'm going to take a look at American Sniper. Watched the first 5 mins and liked the look of it and after a couple of previous posters have said its a good watch.

Thank god for XBMC........................

[Agoogy]

American Sniper Long, drawn out, well detailed and well acted modern classic warfilm, based on true events. Alot like Enemy at the Gates in parts... I can see, or at least hope that this one of the Iraq war era films that is held up as the best depiction of the American experience. 8.1

The Gambler Dark, gritty, wordy portrayal of a clever rich, but stupid poor bloke who doesn't know when to fold. Lots of gangsters and crime lords here. Marky marky mark Marky does well... 7.1

[coppice]

Birdman - now we are talking quality films ..Utterly brilliant film , very funny and fascinatingly shot - whole thing looks like a single take .

[qube_TA]

coppice said:

qube_TA said:

My most hated film, I'm convinced it's purpose is to simply paint the North as being rubbish and bleak so that everyone else can feel superior, but it's little more than a chav lad who steals an endangered bird of prey where his brother then kills it with a brick.

The fact that it's regarded by some as being one of the great British films just pisses me off further, America will happily paint themselves as being brilliant and wonderful, just and noble in the media they export. But all us Brits seem to do is make bleak as fk films that paint the picture of nasty, gritty hardship with no future or opportunity. If you don't live in a rose garden you're scum. Make something grim then it's regarded as a wonderful work of drama and story telling. Everything is st, let's celebrate that.

I'm from a working-class background grew up in the North of England, fatha worked down t'pit, the film represents nothing I can relate to. The illustration of the PE lessons however were bang on

Films should be judged on how good they are as a film , not how accurately they may portray a place or an era . Kes , however was not only a superb film but also portrayed the West Riding as I knew it - I too grew up in industrial Yorkshire . Your charge of our making only bleak films is also very wide of the mark- just look at the phenomenal success of Richard Curtis films ; or Ghandi, Gregory's Girl or Chariots of fire. We do grit well I agree- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was arguably the template

so it's brilliant as Yorkshire is st and the film painted it as much?

Sorry, still missing why that's good.

If the story was about a good lad who lived in a crappy area of the world did something or tried to do something great but either failed or succeed then it could illustrate human endeavour, human spirit etc but it doesn't, the lad isn't a hero, he does something illegal, takes a bird of prey, and his brother kills it. The story has no redeeming features. It's nothing more than a portrayal that Yorkshire is st.

[Bullett]

Django Unchained - Late to the party I know but it popped up on Prime so I had to watch it.
Typical QT really, take a subject and both pastiche the classics of the genre and modernise it, throw in loads of violence and some clever wordplay and bingo. I think this one was toned down from previous movies and held together as a narrative in itself. Some funny moments (masks) and the scenes in the big house after dinner were extremely tense, you know it's going to kick off just not when. The acting was mostly excellent with CW, LDC and SLJ being particularly good but what was the accent QT was attempting? Foxx was weirdly an unsympathetic character I never really cared about.
I know lots of people were disappointed with the final act becoming a revenge film but I thought this was pretty obviously going to happen after all the horrible stuff they had been through and the fact it was QT, but the violence was handled as well as could be and apart from the ott blood spurts excellent.
8.5/10

[Strawman]

qube_TA said:

so it's brilliant as Yorkshire is st and the film painted it as much?

Sorry, still missing why that's good.

If the story was about a good lad who lived in a crappy area of the world did something or tried to do something great but either failed or succeed then it could illustrate human endeavour, human spirit etc but it doesn't, the lad isn't a hero, he does something illegal, takes a bird of prey, and his brother kills it. The story has no redeeming features. It's nothing more than a portrayal that Yorkshire is st.

He takes a wild bird and trains it, for falconry, it is based on the book 'A Kestrel for a Knave" and the main theme is that despite a rough and humble upbringing someone (Billy) can have aspirations to transcend their environment. The Knave part refers to a lower class and " The book is so named because of a poem found in the Boke of St Albans. In medieval England, the only bird a knave was legally allowed to keep was a kestrel."

Edited by Strawman on Thursday 15th January 10:49

[Raify]

Watchman said:

Sabotage

Finally - a really decent Arnie film.

8/10

Good God, this just shows how personal film taste is. Sabotage is one of the worst film I've seen in recent years.

Terribly shot, awful acting. Really a terrible film.

What happened in raid practice scene where Arnie spent 5 mins balling everyone out for not checking behind the door? Ah I thought. There's Chekhov's gun! This is getting fired in act 3!

And then the real raid comes. And there's the door! Behind the actors! And they haven't checked it!

Then nothing happens.

[Pickled]

Agoogy said:

The Gambler Dark, gritty, wordy portrayal of a clever rich, but stupid poor bloke who doesn't know when to fold. Lots of gangsters and crime lords here. Marky marky mark Marky does well... 7.1

Poor casting IMO, Mark W as a brilliant english professor? Just not believable. Did he get this role off the back of the last Transformers movie (brilliant mechanical genius)? Would have suited someone like Russel Crowe better.

[shakotan]

A Long Way Down - 7/10

Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul.

Black comedy about a group of people who meet on a tower block rooftop in London on New Years Eve where they've all individually come to commit suicide. An unusual relationship between the 4 develops. I don't remember it ever being on the big screen and its only from 2014. Aaron Paul is basically playing Aaron Paul as he does, but I thought it a good film.

Edited by shakotan on Thursday 15th January 15:14

[spats]

I finally got round to watching Guardians of the Galaxy on the weekend just gone. Late to the party but it was (as I'm sure everyone knows by now) a great film. Spotted the Teseract during the scene with the collector (geekmode) and quite like the very last minute question that is almost easy to miss and leaves you wanting the sequel.

Also a bit old school now but I also watched The Cube. Good film, nice twist at the end too.

[shakotan]

Hooli said:

Skyfall. Hadn't bothered to watch it before. I liked it, it's not a bond film to me but it was good. Returning to the original office at the end was a nice touch.

It's not a return to the original office, it's the first time any of them have been there.

[mu0n]

coppice said:

Birdman - now we are talking quality films ..Utterly brilliant film , very funny and fascinatingly shot - whole thing looks like a single take .

I'm not sure I would say it was utterly brilliant, but it really was very good! I loved it personally. My missus hated it.

It's definitely a love/hate film. Either you 'get it' or you don't. I found it quite emotionally involving and it really put me in Riggan's shoes. Mad film!

[ZesPak]

shakotan said:

Hooli said:

Skyfall. Hadn't bothered to watch it before. I liked it, it's not a bond film to me but it was good. Returning to the original office at the end was a nice touch.

It's not a return to the original office, it's the first time any of them have been there.

Still wondering how the "old" Aston Martin makes sense then...
Didn't Q make that one?

[moanthebairns]

ZesPak said:

shakotan said:

Hooli said:

Skyfall. Hadn't bothered to watch it before. I liked it, it's not a bond film to me but it was good. Returning to the original office at the end was a nice touch.

It's not a return to the original office, it's the first time any of them have been there.

Still wondering how the "old" Aston Martin makes sense then...
Didn't Q make that one?

I too watched this, along with about another dozen james bonds over the last few weeks.

The film was ok, but after about 30 seconds of the new Q I wanted to punch fk out him and hit him over his head with his laptop.

[whoami]

moanthebairns said:

The film was ok, but after about 30 seconds of the new Q I wanted to punch fk out him and hit him over his head with his laptop.