Films I watched this week

[IrateNinja]

Raw

French horror. Intelligent film about a girl going off to university having been brought up as a vegetarian. An initiation ceremony involving raw rabbit kidneys awaken a new side of her.

Loved it. My film of 2017. 9/10

Rec

Spanish horror. Film crew following firefighters for an evening go to an apartment block to help a woman in distress. Things go awry, with some religious nuttery contributing.

Haven't watched it in a while, but it's so good. It's 'found footage' style isn't for everyone though. 8/10.

[Halb]

I like Rec, but they ruin it with supernatural malarkey, I prefer the US remake.

[IrateNinja]

I've got that on Blu Ray as well actually, but it must be 5+ years since i watched it.

[P-Jay]

BigGriff540 said:

Baywatch.

The Mrs and I watched this to take us back to our 'yoof' and the reviews are indeed correct-its crap, but I think they somehow knew this when they made it and it was quite funny at times. We made it through to the end and it is worth watching if you have no expectations whatsoever, and it has some great eye candy too.

Agreed, for me it sits in the "so crap, it's sort of good" camp like 21 Jump Street.

Eye Candy, oh yes, stupidly so - there's a scene in a morgue, dead bodies to the left, lovely cleavage to the right, wonderful.

[Nom de ploom]

dead bodies are eye candy....interesting.



not a film but we binged Broadchurch series one over the weekend as neither of us had seen it. My its soooo good.

series 2 to come.

[anonymous-user]

Riding in Cars with Boys

an oldie from 2001 with Drew Barrymore and Brittany Murphy as the main characters, two schoolgirl friends who get pregnant aged 15 and the story of how that affects their lives as they grow up and deal with losing their dreams.

Really well done true story.

I thought i'd check up on Brittany as I've liked a few of her films over the years, only to find she died in 2009, aged 32 from pneumonia, her husband died of the same thing in the same house less than a year later. very odd.

I've been watching a newish TV channel that is putting out some great films and TV series, worth checking if you haven't come across it before. SKY 192 AMC from BTHD.

I watched the first series of Halt and Catch Fire on this over the Xmass break, series 2 starts this week, that's well worth a watch.

[Rich_W]

Bladerunner 2049

I'm kinda indifferent to the first one.

But this worked quite well imo. It's quite long, but doesn't feel it. Soundtrack is great.


7.9/10

I suspect there'll be another sequel.

[ukaskew]

All the Money in the World - 8/10

Had no idea about the real story but enjoyed this. Mainly astounded that Ridley Scott and Christopher Plummer etc managed to reshoot so much in 9 days, fantastic performance too.

Beautifully shot as you'd expect and the trademark single scene of graphic nastiness that Scott likes to throw in, he must really dislike 12A certificates.

[MYOB]

Megan Leavey

Biographical based on a female dog handler in US Marines sent to Iraq. Dog won Purple Heart etc.

I lik dogs so I quite enjoyed the film. Stars Kate Mara of the US House of Card series.

7.5/10

[daddy cool]

Nom de ploom said:

not a film but we binged Broadchurch series one over the weekend as neither of us had seen it. My its soooo good.
series 2 to come.

I wouldn't bother - series 2 wasn't a patch on S1, and (in my opinion) S3 was absolutely woeful.

[Pommy]

Rich_W said:

Bladerunner 2049

I'm kinda indifferent to the first one.

But this worked quite well imo. It's quite long, but doesn't feel it. Soundtrack is great.


7.9/10

I suspect there'll be another sequel.

As a piece of film making - 10/10

As a story to sit down, watch and enjoy to such a degree you’d want to watch it again - 6/10

[Legend83]

The Big Sick

Comedy drama based on true events and starring the Pakistani chap it happened to. Unlikely pair (flunking law student turned stand-up comedian / grungy but cute girl) become a thing until his culture make the next steps difficult, after which girl contracts life-threatening disease and chap has to consider life, what he wants etc.

Really didn't fancy this but was pleasantly surprised - it took a little while to get going but it was sweet, funny and just a nice feel-good, bitter-sweet, intelligent comedy.

7.2/10

[phazed]

Legend83 said:

The Big Sick
Really didn't fancy this but was pleasantly surprised - it took a little while to get going but it was sweet, funny and just a nice feel-good, bitter-sweet, intelligent comedy.

7.2/10

My feelings exactly although my wife would probably have given it 9.5/10.

[Alex]

I enjoyed The Big Sick, but found it a little lightweight.

[P-Jay]

Pommy said:

As a piece of film making - 10/10

As a story to sit down, watch and enjoy to such a degree you’d want to watch it again - 6/10

Can't disagree, even at 2 and 3/4 hours, if the story was covered at the sort of pace of say a Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes it would struggle to last an hour.

It was a wonder 'experience' at the Cinema, but I'm not really that fussed about seeing it at home, I'm sure I will, but I suspect it might seem a bit long when the long lingering shots of wonderful sets are shown on my old 1080, 40" TV.

[toasty]

Halb said:

montecristo said:

The Fall. A beautiful film, loosely in the same genre as Pan's Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Lemony Snicket. Baz Luhrmann meets Wes Anderson.

THat sounds wonderful! And it looks lil bit like Baron Münchhausen.

Love this film!

[Guvernator]

Pommy said:

As a piece of film making - 10/10

As a story to sit down, watch and enjoy to such a degree you’d want to watch it again - 6/10

Yep agreed and I'd take it further, wonderful wonderful cinematography, music and atmosphere but the pacing was so off it was unreal. I don't mind slow burn but this was positively glacial. I went to watch it with 2 other sci-fi buffs, one of them fell asleep and I was looking at my watch at the two hour mark. They should have either been a bit more ruthless with the editing or had more happen.

As it is I'd agree with the film making score but give it a 5/10 for the rest.

[LuS1fer]

I quite liked The Big Sick too.

Beyond Skyline

I'll be brief, absolutely f*****g awful. Aliens with blue LED lights harvest humans, no, I can't even begin to describe this twoddle.

[WinstonWolf]

Eye in the Sky

A tense drama about drone warfare. A strong 9/10 from me, I was on tenterhooks the whole way through.

[RBH58]

WinstonWolf said:

Eye in the Sky

A tense drama about drone warfare. A strong 9/10 from me, I was on tenterhooks the whole way through.

I thought it was awesome too. A really underrated movie. And probably a good depiction of “how it is” these days.