Films I watched this week

[Adam B]

Halb said:

That sounds really good. I was thinking of the one where he's an ex-soldier and has a dummy brother getting involved in oxy deals? IN redneck land.

out of the furnace

[Jonesy23]

Halb said:

That sounds really good. I was thinking of the one where he's an ex-soldier and has a dummy brother getting involved in oxy deals? IN redneck land.

Could be Out of the Furnace.

[Halb]

Adam B said:

out of the furnace

Yes that's it, nice lil film.

[Brother D]

Three Billboards - 8/10 It's not supposed to be a comedy but lots of laugh out loud moments. Great acting. Not sure why it's only on at select cinemas.

Star Wars - 7/10 Not amazing but pretty entertaining tbh.

Shape of water 7/10 - Another classic Will of the Bull, a mum with kids left about 5 minutes after the film started. I think she thought it was going to be a Disney film (to be fair I thought Pan's Labyrinth was going to be Alice in wonderland - not a horror/torture film)...
Main actress was Slasher (annoying ganster moll) from Layer Cake! I couldn't place her the whole film which was annoying - (great actress by the way). Nice film and all that, but verging on being a bit twee and predictable.

[ukaskew]

Where did you see Shape of Water? Really looking forward to it and quietly hoping it's the Screen Unseen next week.

[Pesty]

Halb said:

Adam B said:

out of the furnace

Yes that's it, nice lil film.

Preferred out of the furnace but the ending of harsh times dots so well with the film and is not a typical Hollywood ending. Complete opposite of ootf thinking about it.

[Daniel1]

Halb said:

Adam B said:

out of the furnace

Yes that's it, nice lil film.

Meh

For me it was too slow. As if it was the screenplay came straight from a novel without being adapted for film. Beautifully shot but poor pacing.

[generationx]

The Mummy (2017)

What in the name of all that's holy were they thinking? Awful Tom Cruise vehicle.

-10/0

[Pommy]

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[RBH58]

ukaskew said:

Where did you see Shape of Water? Really looking forward to it and quietly hoping it's the Screen Unseen next week.

On the list for this weekend with The Post.

Last weekend I saw Three Billboards (Brilliant), Florida Project (underrated) and Call be me by your name (2017 movie of the year, maybe the last few years for me). Darkest Hours and Molly’s Game planned for the following weekend!

After seemingly months of nothing, my God, what’s turning up now is good.

[toasty]

RBH58 said:

Call be me by your name (2017 movie of the year, maybe the last few years for me).

I've seen the good reviews but isn't this just another gay romance film like Moonlight, Brokeback etc?

[Alex]

Their Finest (2016) - Netflix

I was disappointed by this. Great cast and production values, but the story felt under-developed and manipulative. Good performances from Gemma Arterton , Bill Nighy (being Bill Nighy), Sam Claflin, and Helen McCrory and Eddie Marsan (not much more than a cameo), but the script lets them down. Dramatic events feel shoe-horned in.

5/10

[RBH58]

toasty said:

RBH58 said:

Call be me by your name (2017 movie of the year, maybe the last few years for me).

I've seen the good reviews but isn't this just another gay romance film like Moonlight, Brokeback etc?

No. It most definitely isn’t. It’s an amazing story about “first love” and a master class in film making. It is truly brilliant. Oh yeah....it is about two guys falling in love....but that almost seems incidental. It’s not a stereotypical “gay” movie.

Edited by RBH58 on Thursday 11th January 09:57

[Jonesy23]

generationx said:

The Mummy (2017)

What in the name of all that's holy were they thinking? Awful Tom Cruise vehicle.

-10/0

The bits that are actually 'The Mummy' really aren't that bad.

The problem is at least half the film was stuff to do with launching a new 'Dark Universe' series of monster films based on their old classics. Apparently they might have expensively binned this idea.

It feels a lot like someone wrote a nice dark Mummy film, then someone else came along, hacked most of the guts of it out and put all the unrelated franchise launch stuff in instead. Hence the Jekyll/Hyde and similar bits feeling so randomly stuffed in.

[Jonesy23]

ukaskew said:

Where did you see Shape of Water? Really looking forward to it and quietly hoping it's the Screen Unseen next week.

There seems to be a screener kicking about on the usual sources for those who wanted to see it early.

[Halb]

Jonesy23 said:

The problem is at least half the film was stuff to do with launching a new 'Dark Universe' series of monster films based on their old classics. Apparently they might have expensively binned this idea.
It feels a lot like someone wrote a nice dark Mummy film, then someone else came along, hacked most of the guts of it out and put all the unrelated franchise launch stuff in instead. Hence the Jekyll/Hyde and similar bits feeling so randomly stuffed in.

I hope so. Utterly stupid. When I first heard of it, it sounded like a decent idea, but I thought they;'d be in the horror genre, not action, most modern action films are turd. Shame really.
Georg Schimt did a great vid on the mummy. PLus a few other on the whole franchise.summer flop thing

A Postmortem of The Mummy (2017) – What Went Wrong?

https://youtu.be/DKvouWcjrHg

How Universal’s And Sony’s Upcoming Shared Universes Could Destroy Them

https://youtu.be/EKn-Rzt4qrI

Why The Summer Of 2017 Was Tough For Hollywood

https://youtu.be/VVdh6-4Hgys


I also just watched the RLM end of year vid
some films that sound really good in this round up.

Half in the Bag Episode 138: 2017 Movie Catch-up (part 2 of 2)

https://youtu.be/Yav1kBLXMxI

[ukaskew]

RBH58 said:

On the list for this weekend with The Post.

Last weekend I saw Three Billboards (Brilliant), Florida Project (underrated) and Call be me by your name (2017 movie of the year, maybe the last few years for me). Darkest Hours and Molly’s Game planned for the following weekend!

After seemingly months of nothing, my God, what’s turning up now is good.

I signed up to Screen Unseen on December 1st, got a hefty Black Friday discount so it was £133 for an annual pass.

On Monday I will have 'paid it off' already in terms of saved ticket costs. Not bad in 6 weeks considering I can only go on Sundays or Mondays after 8pm.

Molly's Game, Three Billboards and All the Money in the World were all superb and I would never have seen them at the cinema otherwise. Loads to look forward to as well, Darkest Hour is next on the list.

[Oakey]

bodhi said:

Adam B said:

Quickmoose said:

Oakey said:

Christian Bale is one of those actors you feel has been around forever because everyone knows him from Empire of the Sun (1987) yet between that and American Psycho (2000) his filmography is pretty much forgettable. It almost feels the Christian Bale we know today didn't take off until Batman Begins, even between American Psycho and Batman Begins the only films of note are Shaft and Reign of Fire..

very true.... certainly doing better more recently
The Fighter, The Big Short, American Hustle, Out of the Furnace,

The Machinist (pre Batman) and The Prestige (post) were excellent too

I also really enjoyed Equilibrium.

I'd forgotten those two were pre-Batman. I think Equilibrium and The Machinist are where he really started to become relevant again (after American Psycho) until Batman Begins catapulted him into the mega star actor we know now.

[Halb]

Christian Bale has been in my top five actors for decades, I had to go look to see when I started to like him. I watched American PSycho, I am surprised it was 2000, would yhhabe guessed at much earlier, I think it must be Reign if Fire, because I was please he became Batman. Not sure when I saw the Machinist, but I was absorbed by it. Love stuff like that, Memento, Mirage etc.

[TCEvo]

Baby Driver (2017)

Well covered here already; finally watched it yesterday - really enjoyed it. Excellent, fast paced entertaining nonsense.

Only downside - I would've preferred if they'd used Faith No More's cover of Easy .