Films I watched this week

[Shakermaker]

P-Jay said:

Stormfly1985 said:

Logan Lucky - very good and I hadn't seen any trailers so didn't know what to expect. 9/10

I enjoyed it that, funny, a bit silly and clever at the same time.

Mustang driving Women, wow.

Her name is Riley Keogh, and she is the eldest granddaughter (or would be if he was alive) of Elvis Presley. She's also in Mad Max: Fury Road.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Shakermaker said:

Her name is Riley Keogh, and she is the eldest granddaughter (or would be if he was alive) of Elvis Presley. She's also in Mad Max: Fury Road.

I'm pretty sure that you don't cease be a granddaughter when your grandfather dies - it's just that your grandfather is now dead.

[Juanco20]

Watched Margin Call again last night. Not sure why but it is one of my favourite films

Excellent take on the 2008 crash from within a single firm

[anonymous-user]

Juanco20 said:

Watched Margin Call again last night. Not sure why but it is one of my favourite films

Excellent take on the 2008 crash from within a single firm

i think because it feels like a play, you should give Glengarry Glen Ross a watch if you have not seen it,

[frisbee]

iwantagta said:

frisbee said:

Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.

Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.

Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version.

The Taco Bell version.

[frisbee]

Daniel1 said:

Winter soldier is far superior.

Like age of Ultron, civil war just draggggggged on

Winter Soldier reminded me of On Her Majesties Secret Service, the hero hunted and helpless, it really helps you connect to them. They need to do a proper Diana Rigg tragic love interest in one of these films though, there is no real sense of loss in any of them.

[poing]

frisbee said:

iwantagta said:

frisbee said:

Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.

Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.

Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version.

The Taco Bell version.

Hang on.... They did a Pizza Hut version? Was this a terrible sponsorship thing or just because Taco Bell wasn't in all countries at the time?

[iwantagta]

poing said:

frisbee said:

iwantagta said:

frisbee said:

Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.

Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.

Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version.

The Taco Bell version.

Hang on.... They did a Pizza Hut version? Was this a terrible sponsorship thing or just because Taco Bell wasn't in all countries at the time?

Taco Bell wasn't well enough known. You can barely tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8

[anonymous-user]

digimeistter said:

Can't disagree with most of this, the music was intense and not particularly enjoyable. I didn't see anything like 400,000 troops stranded, a good CGI would have been preferred to depict the realistic scale of what happened. I guess they spent it on the planes.

Still good though 7/10

I think the whole point of Dunkirk was to do a different war-film than others in the past, it was story film set in a war arena and from the perspective of individual soldiers, who might not see the bigger picture. I enjoyed it, as i enjoyed the story and not the historical inaccuracies.

[ukaskew]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 9/10

Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.

[slk 32]

John Wick

Terrible, terrible film.

Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.

Essentially someone kills Keanu Reeves dog and nicks his car. As a retired hitman he then goes on a revenge fuelled rampage killing everyone remotely involved.

I'm guessing he needed the money

[liner33]

It was about the dog , it was the gift his wife bought him when she died, the thing she knew that he could love when she left and it was love that pulled him away from that world

But yes a silly film , but silly films are good sometimes

[RemaL]

iwantagta said:

Life on Sky movies.
A bit average and formulaic but it romps along quickly enough.
6/10.

Edited by iwantagta on Sunday 10th December 16:30

Watched it last night.

a few jumpy bits but through it was ok at best so your 6/10 I agree. would not get a higher score from me either

[RizzoTheRat]

Shakermaker said:

I've never seen the badly dubbed Pizza Hut version to my knowledge, I thought that was only for other markets where they've never heard of Taco Bell but which also are not the UK...

I'd never even heard of Taco Bell when I first saw Demolition Man The Pizza Hut dubbed version is news to me though, that's terrible

[Terzo123]

I was dragged to the cinema to see Bad Moms 2.

In it's defence it's slightly better than the first one. But that's not saying much.

3/10

[phazed]

The Angles' Share.

A brilliant little film set mainly in Glasgow about a lad who narrowly avoides jail and through his community service leader obtains an interest in whiskey and it's making.


If you haven't seen it, I won't say anything more but it is a brilliant little film, hugely entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable. Directed by Ken Loach it has many comedic moments but also the seriousness and desperation running in the background.

8/10

[ajprice]

ukaskew said:

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 9/10

Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.

Screen Unseen lastnight?

It was really good. Didn't know anything about it, and I avoided the chatter about the clues on Facebook/Twitter leading up to it.

One of my favourites of the year

[phazed]

slk 32 said:

John Wick

Terrible, terrible film.

Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.

My thoughts exactly.

I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.

It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.

[droopsnoot]

Solace. Better than I thought it was going to be, with Anthony Hopkins as a retired psychic brought back to help with a case. Very watchable, marred only by my ageing PVR having various sound-stuttering incidents. One of few films I recall where they crash a car and, when getting out of the car, move as if they've just been in a car crash, rather than all sprightly as if nothing happened.

[Halb]

frisbee said:

Winter Soldier reminded me of On Her Majesties Secret Service, the hero hunted and helpless, it really helps you connect to them. They need to do a proper Diana Rigg tragic love interest in one of these films though, there is no real sense of loss in any of them.

I get the impression that's coming.