Films I watched this week

[Eddie Strohacker]

Quickmoose said:

garyhun said:

brrapp said:

I watched Apocalypto last night on C4 . I'd seen it before but had forgotten about it. One of the best subtitled films I've seen(and the only one in Mayan).

It's also brutal and some scenes are difficult to watch. Excellent apart from that

Mel Gibson was involved right?
He likes a bit of brutal gore.....Passion of the Christ I couldn't watch for the same reason...

Yeah, but best blowie gag of all time.

[Halb]

I remember thinking the Last Starfighter didn't look that good, way back when, in the same way that Scorpion King didn't look that good in MUmmy 2.

[irocfan]

Halb said:

I remember thinking the Last Starfighter didn't look that good, way back when, in the same way that Scorpion King didn't look that good in MUmmy 2.

the Scorpion King looked appalling in M2

[ClockworkCupcake]

Halb said:

I remember thinking the Last Starfighter didn't look that good, way back when

As I said, it was absolutely ground-breaking and state of the art (in the literal sense of the phrase) at the time, regardless of how good you thought it looked.

[PapaJohns]

Mothersruin said:

The Great Wall - Matt Damon.

Pish.

Pretty much

[toasty]

ClockworkCupcake said:

So there was this guy call McDonald (who people apparently referred to as "The McDonald"), and he had two brothers were in the franchise business, and a guy called Ray Kroc forced them out. What happened to McDonald himself?

Well, old McDonald had a farm....

[Halb]

ClockworkCupcake said:

As I said, it was absolutely ground-breaking and state of the art (in the literal sense of the phrase) at the time, regardless of how good you thought it looked.

And I wasn't disputing what you said, just that the tech wasn't good enough to do the job it was tailored for, as someone said, Tron was a really good way of using the tech successfully hiding it's short-comings. In the same way they used it in Avengers Assemble, but then poorly in other CGI fests.

[RizzoTheRat]

wjb said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Will have to dig out Mallrats and Chasing Amy next.

Love Mallrats, I actually prefer it to Clerks.

I didn't rate Chasing Amy though.

Followed up with Mallrats last night. I'm sure when I originally saw it I preferred it to Clerks, but less so this time round. Still fairly good but too many of the characters are just annoying. It didn't seem to have quite as many subtle gags as Clerks either.

Interestingly in Smiths book he reckons he got a bit of a pasting over Mallrats and people considered Chasing Amy to be more a return to form from Clerks. I still think Dogma's his best work though.

[Halb]

I liked Mallrats, not really got into Chasing Amy, it ws all a bit meh, and I cam away feeling...dunno, empty, I don't like it.

[droopsnoot]

Watched the first Jack Reacher film the other day. Wasn't as bad as I expected it to be (having read the books and done the mental comparison between JR and Tom Cruise), though the voiceover bit at the end was a bit cringey so I turned it off. Generally quite a watchable film though.

[keo]

I watched Apollo 13 for the first time the other day. I enjoyed it. Surprised not seen it before.

[boyse7en]

Watched John Wick last night. Moderately entertaining, but ticks every box in the cliche list...

Retired assassin - tick
terrible emotional tragedy - tick
revenge plot - tick
Russian villains - tick
fight scene in the dark in pouring rain - tick
unbelievable premonition where the bad guys are coming from - tick

[FourWheelDrift]

boyse7en said:

Watched John Wick last night. Moderately entertaining, but ticks every box in the cliche list...

Retired assassin - tick
terrible emotional tragedy - tick
revenge plot - tick
Russian villains - tick
fight scene in the dark in pouring rain - tick
unbelievable premonition where the bad guys are coming from - tick

But one of the few films of it's type that uses correct gun magazine usage. No endless shooting without reloading.

[GetCarter]

FourWheelDrift said:

boyse7en said:

Watched John Wick last night. Moderately entertaining, but ticks every box in the cliche list...

Retired assassin - tick
terrible emotional tragedy - tick
revenge plot - tick
Russian villains - tick
fight scene in the dark in pouring rain - tick
unbelievable premonition where the bad guys are coming from - tick

But one of the few films of it's type that uses correct gun magazine usage. No endless shooting without reloading.

The other thing we see (hear) a lot is constant up-shifts in car chases. I watched some nonsense the other day and reckon the car must have had 22+ gears.

[grumbledoak]

FourWheelDrift said:

But one of the few films of it's type that uses correct gun magazine usage. No endless shooting without reloading.

I think it's the only film I've seen where the hero follows up his awesome martial arts moves with a couple of bullets to the head just to be sure. I loved that. Might put it on tonight.

[jammy-git]

Wonder Woman

Hmmmm, not sure why this is getting all the plaudits that it's getting. It's definitely better than some of the other Marvel rubbish out there, but still nothing better than average. A definite 12A rated film!

5/10.

[Halb]

jammy-git said:

Wonder Woman

Hmmmm, not sure why this is getting all the plaudits that it's getting.

Possibly, because it's the best thing DC has crimped out since the fays of Nolan?

[johnxjsc1985]

Netflix... The life of John MacAfee the Antivirus guru. Holy st ( and you will see what I mean if you watch it) this man is just out of control.

[parabolica]

johnxjsc1985 said:

Netflix... The life of John MacAfee the Antivirus guru. Holy st ( and you will see what I mean if you watch it) this man is just out of control.

Will need to seek this out; LGR did a short history of him on one of his tech-tale reviews a few months ago and it was interesting (to say the least).

[johnxjsc1985]

parabolica said:

Will need to seek this out; LGR did a short history of him on one of his tech-tale reviews a few months ago and it was interesting (to say the least).

clearly a genius but completely mad.