Films I watched this week

[Eddie Strohacker]

Petyr is savage.

[liner33]

rasto said:

Eddie Strohacker said:

Caught about half an hour of What we do in the shadows last night & definitely want to see the rest. Not too many vampire mockumentarys out there.

"Remember we're werewolves not swearwolves"

Great film Also worth checking out "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" if you enjoy this, it's from the same director and has similar humour.

As is Thor Ragnarok , great movie and again the Waititi trademark humour

Well worth a watch probably my favourite Marvel film

[Clockwork Cupcake]

The Handmaiden

I had a vague recollection that someone had said this was good, either in this thread (or its predecessor), or elsewhere on PH, so when I saw it was on Amazon Prime currently I thought I would give it a go. I didn't really know what to expect.

Blimey, that was a bit more racy than I expected. And I got a bit confused at one point over the plots twists (the fact that there even was a plot twist is a spoiler, I reckon, hence the spoiler tag). But I enjoyed it.

I would give it four silver bells.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 31st October 23:16

[Legend83]

Late to the party but watched Passengers last night.

The lousy ending was more than offset by the visuals (of space and JL) - I am fascinated by space so loved the "walk" scenes. Stunning.


7/10

[anonymous-user]

digimeistter said:

Shot Caller

Well worth a watch.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4633690/

7.5-8/10

Edited by digimeistter on Saturday 28th October 09:42

Watched it last night and found it a little far fetched to be honest. It was a confused film. It didn't quite know which direction it was taking itself in imo. Like the screen writers were trying to fuse too many narratives together to cover every base. Strong acting from lead character and good production values though.

[Alex]

The Founder

Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, who took the McDonald brothers' fast food concept and turned it into the world's largest restaurant chain.

I really enjoyed this. From what I can tell, the story is pretty accurate. Keaton portrays Kroc as ruthless, but sympathetic.

8/10

[richatnort]

1. # Guardian of the galaxy 2

I thought it was pretty good, not as good as the first one in terms of story line but the humour was there for me. I think Dave Bautista (Drax) has been even better in this one to the last movie.

7.5/10 for me

[davek_964]

Legend83 said:

Late to the party but watched Passengers last night.

The lousy ending was more than offset by the visuals (of space and JL) - I am fascinated by space so loved the "walk" scenes. Stunning.


7/10

I had high hopes for that, but found it pretty disappointing - and much as I like JL, even she didn't save it for me.

I watched Ghost in the Shell last night and enjoyed that. Visually it looked great, and although it wasn't the most complicated plot I did enjoy it. Action packed, and never really dull.
I'm a big fan of Scarlett Johansson, but thought she was the weak link in this. Plus she seemed to have a very odd walk in some scenes - don't know if that was her trying to look less "human". Overall, an enjoyable film - albeit a simple action one.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

davek_964 said:

Overall, an enjoyable film - albeit a simple action one.

That was the biggest disappointment for me. Although visually stunning, and although the director clearly had a lot of respect for the original manga and anime, and clearly worked hard to (successfully) capture the aesthetic and feel of the original, the plot did rather boil down to a rather basic and clichéd one.

I thought they cast Batou brilliantly. Major Kusanagi less so (as you say).

[Halb]

Halloween week, and Film4 (a forgotten gem of a channel, I wish we could individualise our sky channels), has bene showing low budget home grown horror/thrillers all week...and for the most part, they have been ace.

Watched Dark SOng today, very good. Got a few more lined up.

[toasty]

The Party - A group of friends celebrate one of them becoming an MP but it turns into a complete bhing session. Black and white. Comedy. Timothy Spall. Watchable. 6/10

[Quickmoose]

Jungle
Daniel Radcliffe plays a beardy back packer bloke who goes to Bolivia to have an adventure. Makes some friends who want a similar adventure, meets a bloke who says he can provide the adventure....of they go into the jungle.
And it all goes very, very wrong.
Shades of "The Beach", a couple of stomach churny scenes, but a pretty atmospheric drama/horror/adventure.

And it's based on true events which always helps.

68 out of 100

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Jackie. The subject is Jackie Kennedy, wife of JF Kennedy, in the period after his death.

Both of us thought it was boring rubbish.

[langtounlad]

^ Switched it off after ~30mins as saw no likelihood of it getting interesting. Very rare for us to give up on a 'box office' film.

[TCEvo]

Gold (2016)

Well refreshed prospector Matthew McConaughey & his partner discover a gold mine in an Indonesian jungle. With vast riches promised Wall Street bungs out a soaring IPO. Indo Govt involvement & further mineral investigation follows.

Quite enjoyed this – ‘80’s period setting, Wall Street & Government dodginess and McConaughey (although he was edging a little too close to ham in this one) is a good combo IMO.

Bonus 944 & an XJ-S in background street scenes as well.

Edited by TCEvo on Thursday 2nd November 16:56

[P-Jay]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Jackie. The subject is Jackie Kennedy, wife of JF Kennedy, in the period after his death.

Both of us thought it was boring rubbish.

You watched it with Jackie Kennedy? Wow, I thought she died years ago.

[mattyn1]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

Jackie. The subject is Jackie Kennedy, wife of JF Kennedy, in the period after his death.

Both of us thought it was boring rubbish.

I got to about 25 minutes. The accent was sending me mental. Utter dross.

[Smitters]

Goodfellas and Good Will Hunting

Neither is new, but both a really, really good. If you haven't, you really should. In particular it made me a bit sad that the world is without Robin Williams - he really was jolly good.

[Halb]

toasty said:

The Party - A group of friends celebrate one of them becoming an MP but it turns into a complete bhing session. Black and white. Comedy. Timothy Spall. Watchable. 6/10

That sounds rather good, as does the Radcliffe vehicle.

[jammy-git]

Which character did Robin play in Goodfellas?