Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
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Mental, but awesome.Veeayt said:
For those who recommended Anna on here - thanks for helping me waste my time. Nothing is remotely meaningful about that film, or its plot.
I am sure that no one actually recommended Anna, it was compared to the likes of Lucy. I am no expert critic, but I wouldn't see that as a ringing endorsement...
jsf said:
Apollo 11 is now on Netflix, it's a superb film using NASA footage from the first moon landing.
I saw it on IMAX last year, but it still works on TV.
It is incredible. I saw it on IMAX last year, but it still works on TV.
Quite how you can take off from the surface of the moon and rendezvous with another spacecraft, travelling at 5,000mph, in orbit around the moon, by docking something the size of a dinner plate, 225,000 miles away and 6 days after you left earth is, well, frankly mind blowing.
ben5575 said:
It is incredible.
Quite how you can take off from the surface of the moon and rendezvous with another spacecraft, travelling at 5,000mph, in orbit around the moon, by docking something the size of a dinner plate, 225,000 miles away and 6 days after you left earth is, well, frankly mind blowing.
Apollo 14 was even more bonkers. They couldnt get the two sections to dock at normal speed after a dozen attempts, so they decided to take a runup at higher speed and ram the bugger home, and that was on the outbound phase, they still landed on the moon.Quite how you can take off from the surface of the moon and rendezvous with another spacecraft, travelling at 5,000mph, in orbit around the moon, by docking something the size of a dinner plate, 225,000 miles away and 6 days after you left earth is, well, frankly mind blowing.
I watched today The Steve Irwin Story
More of a documentary IMO.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9389612/
I cannot believe it was 2006 that he lost his life, back when I used to watch TV I enjoyed his shows.
More of a documentary IMO.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9389612/
I cannot believe it was 2006 that he lost his life, back when I used to watch TV I enjoyed his shows.
Watched Jexi after reading about it on here, easy going romcom that started well, had a few genuine lols from both my wife and me (although not at the same time) but sort of trailed off towards the end. Just felt like they didn't really know how to end it.
An amusing 7 Alexas out of 10 siris.
An amusing 7 Alexas out of 10 siris.
The art of self-defence.
It looked quite interesting in the trailer and the summary so I watched it last night. It's described as a black comedy. The only bit that I found comedic in any way was right, and I mean right, at the end. The big "twist" wasn't a surprise at all. Jesse Eisenberg's face barely moved during the whole film.
Was it the worst film I've ever seen? Not by a long chalk, but I'll saved you the bother of sitting through it, it's just nothing like as "good" as it looks in the trailer. I know we're all gonna be hunting for something anything to watch in these coming months but there really are better ways to spend an hour and a half.
It looked quite interesting in the trailer and the summary so I watched it last night. It's described as a black comedy. The only bit that I found comedic in any way was right, and I mean right, at the end. The big "twist" wasn't a surprise at all. Jesse Eisenberg's face barely moved during the whole film.
Was it the worst film I've ever seen? Not by a long chalk, but I'll saved you the bother of sitting through it, it's just nothing like as "good" as it looks in the trailer. I know we're all gonna be hunting for something anything to watch in these coming months but there really are better ways to spend an hour and a half.
Bullett said:
Watched Jexi after reading about it on here, easy going romcom that started well, had a few genuine lols from both my wife and me (although not at the same time) but sort of trailed off towards the end. Just felt like they didn't really know how to end it.
An amusing 7 Alexas out of 10 siris.
Gave it a go. Switched off after 40 mins. We tried.....An amusing 7 Alexas out of 10 siris.
Too childish, (phone swearing at him etc).
5.0/10 generous I reckon.
Ad Astra.
I had high hopes being a sci-fi fan and seeing the good critical response.
Very, very average - Brad Pitt is mis-cast, the rest of the cast are underused and there were some frankly odd casting decisions (Liv Tyler?!).
The voice over aspect was unnecessary and distracting, I was sure it was going to start telling me how to tie my own shoes at one point.
Maybe with a more suited lead and with some sequences chopped out it would have been better, but it's hard to have a character centric story about such a two dimensional and unrelatable main character.
Most of the movie required a suspension of belief and basic science beyond what I could manage, if you've seen it you'll know some of the bits i'm talking about.
Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
I had high hopes being a sci-fi fan and seeing the good critical response.
Very, very average - Brad Pitt is mis-cast, the rest of the cast are underused and there were some frankly odd casting decisions (Liv Tyler?!).
The voice over aspect was unnecessary and distracting, I was sure it was going to start telling me how to tie my own shoes at one point.
Maybe with a more suited lead and with some sequences chopped out it would have been better, but it's hard to have a character centric story about such a two dimensional and unrelatable main character.
Most of the movie required a suspension of belief and basic science beyond what I could manage, if you've seen it you'll know some of the bits i'm talking about.
Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
Desiderata said:
designforlife said:
Ad Astra.......
Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
Wow! Any film which was worse than "Gravity" , I just don't want to see. (Gravity was) Definitely the worst film I've seen in the last couple of years.Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
Desiderata said:
designforlife said:
Ad Astra.......
Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
Wow! Any film which was worse than "Gravity" , I just don't want to see. (Gravity was) Definitely the worst film I've seen in the last couple of years.Gravity did it better in just about every sense. 5/10
What offended you so much?
I'm curious also, i saw Gravity at the cinema and loved it for the pure spectacle, I also thought that Sandra Bullock put forward a great performance and added that human and relateable element to the story (Ad Astra tries to do this and just fails, IMO, especially when they pivot the whole story around the main character).
Desiderata said:
Wow! Any film which was worse than "Gravity" , I just don't want to see. (Gravity was) Definitely the worst film I've seen in the last couple of years.
This is the Gravity that won 7 oscars, 223 other awards and scores 7.7 on imdb?It had (large) faults, but you must have seen very few films to think it the worst!
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