Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
wjb said:
Biker 1 said:
Mrs B forced me to sit through 'Arrival', featuring what I thought would be alien action, but turned out to be one of the dullest, most boring, s
te films I've watched in a while....
That film was a professional let down.te films I've watched in a while....I actually had high hopes for it.
Watched it again (by myself this time) a few months later and somehow it was like watching a completely different film. Something just sort of clicked and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
LuS1fer said:
Quickmoose said:
Matt_N said:
ukaskew said:
My favourite film last year...we're all different I guess!
One of mine too, I actually watched it again Saturday night, the soundtrack is superb too. It did relentlessly suspend disbelief by ignoring the laws of physics, as most alien things do, because vast and structures are magically not affected by gravity.
I'm happy with my view of it supported by the mass majority of people that can simply enjoy a well made bit of art...
Fastchas said:
Thirteen Days - from 2000! I know it's now 18 years old but I never saw it before and it was recommended to me.
Cuban missile crisis, it really brings home the tension to what everyone thought was Armageddon.
A solid 8/10.
Cuban missile crisis, it really brings home the tension to what everyone thought was Armageddon.
A solid 8/10.
Kev Costner has made some damn good cinematic greats
Stone Cold - at a special showing at the BFI last night. So terribly, terrribly bad that it's good. 1991 action movie that is equal parts cheesy and corny - think of a knock off of Turner & Hooch and Die Hard. It was a good laugh; terrible script full of cliches and a supporting case made up of mainly Hells Angels who cackle anytime something gruesome happens on screen.
Would recommend simply for the nostalgic feeling of a late 80s early 90s brainless action film.
Would recommend simply for the nostalgic feeling of a late 80s early 90s brainless action film.
Watched Annihilation on Netflix on Saturday night.
It's directed by Alex Garland based on a book of the same name. Weird alien shimmer comes from an asteroid in a remote area and military teams keep going in and never coming back out...except for Natalie Portman's husband (Poe from Star Wars) so he's ill, she goes in with an all female team to figure out what happened.
Some very silly decision making apart there are some unsettling scenes, some beautiful scenery, a fair bit of ambiguity and a couple of daft jump scares topped off by a trippy ending.
I didn't feel that it properly hung together but it was worth a watch. Probably would be quite cool after some magic mushrooms or maybe it would really freak you out (the bear).
It's directed by Alex Garland based on a book of the same name. Weird alien shimmer comes from an asteroid in a remote area and military teams keep going in and never coming back out...except for Natalie Portman's husband (Poe from Star Wars) so he's ill, she goes in with an all female team to figure out what happened.
Some very silly decision making apart there are some unsettling scenes, some beautiful scenery, a fair bit of ambiguity and a couple of daft jump scares topped off by a trippy ending.
I didn't feel that it properly hung together but it was worth a watch. Probably would be quite cool after some magic mushrooms or maybe it would really freak you out (the bear).
Halb said:
wjb said:
Halb said:
Kev Costner has made some damn good cinematic greats
Which ones are dross for you?
Tonight wee wiyl bee in maiy faaatherrs caaasle in naatinghaam...
I watched that in a Nottingham cinema and the other half commented (rather loudly I may add) 'what's he going to do? Get the f
king Intercity?' 
Halb said:
wjb said:
Halb said:
Kev Costner has made some damn good cinematic greats
Which ones are dross for you?
Bodyguard - no comment
Wyatt Earp - boring
Robin Hood - saved by Alan Rickman
Postman - so boring I turned it off
The guardian - lame
Most of his films don't have much appeal to even try them.
For balance, I loved Untouchables & JFK.
More recently, 3 days to kill was ok, as was black and white.
wjb said:
Waterworld - terrible
Bodyguard - no comment
Wyatt Earp - boring
Robin Hood - saved by Alan Rickman
Postman - so boring I turned it off
The guardian - lame
Most of his films don't have much appeal to even try them.
For balance, I loved Untouchables & JFK.
More recently, 3 days to kill was ok, as was black and white.
For balance, I really enjoyed Waterworld, Robin Hood and even The Bodyguard. They were excellent films and also streets ahead of many of the films that I have recently seen .Bodyguard - no comment
Wyatt Earp - boring
Robin Hood - saved by Alan Rickman
Postman - so boring I turned it off
The guardian - lame
Most of his films don't have much appeal to even try them.
For balance, I loved Untouchables & JFK.
More recently, 3 days to kill was ok, as was black and white.
Yes, they were American big-screen films but thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining as a film should be.
Conversely, not a film but the series , The Night Manager was recommended and we watched the first 15 minutes of the first episode.
Ham springs to mind land lots of it!
Maybe I was spoilt by the series Fargo but I'm of the opinion that everything else in the series world must be dross .
Ace-T said:
Robin Hood, Prince of California Accents has to be up there in KCs top dross films.
Tonight wee wiyl bee in maiy faaatherrs caaasle in naatinghaam...
I watched that in a Nottingham cinema and the other half commented (rather loudly I may add) 'what's he going to do? Get the fking Intercity?'
Sounds like AhNOld to me! Tonight wee wiyl bee in maiy faaatherrs caaasle in naatinghaam...
I watched that in a Nottingham cinema and the other half commented (rather loudly I may add) 'what's he going to do? Get the f
king Intercity?' 
wjb said:
Waterworld - terrible
Bodyguard - no comment
Wyatt Earp - boring
Robin Hood - saved by Alan Rickman
Postman - so boring I turned it off
The guardian - lame
Most of his films don't have much appeal to even try them.
For balance, I loved Untouchables & JFK.
More recently, 3 days to kill was ok, as was black and white.
I'd agree on Waterworld, not great, the Bodyguard is ok, more fluff than dross, it was on the telly recently. Boring isn't dross, but for me Costner hasn't made a boring western, I like detail and the nuances his westerns get, from Wolves to Open Range, he is really good in films that centre around Americana (the political stuff too). Robin Hood, considered really good at the time, but it's fluff too, I wouldn't watch it again now, the best bits on that are Rickman's interviews on his character work, he was really worried at the time. Bodyguard - no comment
Wyatt Earp - boring
Robin Hood - saved by Alan Rickman
Postman - so boring I turned it off
The guardian - lame
Most of his films don't have much appeal to even try them.
For balance, I loved Untouchables & JFK.
More recently, 3 days to kill was ok, as was black and white.
Postman, it was OK< I'd watch it on telly, not seen the others. My fave KC ones that are always worth a rewatch;
Silverado
No Way Out
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
JFK
A Perfect World
Wyatt Earp
Thirteen Days
3000 Miles to Graceland
Open Range
The Homesman..
On Iplayer at the moment..
Tommy Lee Jones as gnarled old claim jumper in the old west helping escort nutty women across the country to safety..
Good story and some nice dark plot twists with good female actors 'Hilary swank' gives an excellent performance.
I give it a solid 7.5/10
On Iplayer at the moment..
Tommy Lee Jones as gnarled old claim jumper in the old west helping escort nutty women across the country to safety..
Good story and some nice dark plot twists with good female actors 'Hilary swank' gives an excellent performance.
I give it a solid 7.5/10
Hurricane Heist...
Wow...I can't tell if this is supposed to be a serious movie, or a homage to films like Sharknado. For some reason, none of the 'actors' bar the girl are American, yet they all have tried to put on some middle American country style accent...all of them different and all laughably bad. After deciding in the very first seconds when the skull appears in the clouds that this was a joke movie it was fun...then a bit of imdb showed that it cost $35m to make (taking home $6m)...that is an expensive way to pay homage to the genre 'so bad its good' movie. It was one of those in the cionemas and on sky at the same time ones...who the fk spent the time in the cinema to watch this I have no idea.
1/10 or 8/10 depending on how you go into it
Wow...I can't tell if this is supposed to be a serious movie, or a homage to films like Sharknado. For some reason, none of the 'actors' bar the girl are American, yet they all have tried to put on some middle American country style accent...all of them different and all laughably bad. After deciding in the very first seconds when the skull appears in the clouds that this was a joke movie it was fun...then a bit of imdb showed that it cost $35m to make (taking home $6m)...that is an expensive way to pay homage to the genre 'so bad its good' movie. It was one of those in the cionemas and on sky at the same time ones...who the f
k spent the time in the cinema to watch this I have no idea. 1/10 or 8/10 depending on how you go into it
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