Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
It really is a stunning film.
I will admit though, I watched it again a year or so ago, it was the super duper cut or something, it showed more of the relationship between Matilda and Leon than I'd seen on the original UK cut. It's 'innocent' but still made me feel uncomfortable to watch.
I will admit though, I watched it again a year or so ago, it was the super duper cut or something, it showed more of the relationship between Matilda and Leon than I'd seen on the original UK cut. It's 'innocent' but still made me feel uncomfortable to watch.
stongle said:
Gonna agree with this (I took the kids to see The House with a Clock in the Wall first, they'd have been better of watching this).
I like sh*t films. Normally the more violent the better. I got more misty watching Rambo3, than the mrs watching Tom Hanks death in Philadelphia. Robocop, Die Hard, Raw Deal, Hong Kong cinema, if it’s got bullet ballet I’m in. Hell, I even liked the first Transformers movie as a prolonged advertisement for Lockhead Martin, Raytheon etc. But this……
WTF! It felt like a mash up mix of the original Predator and Critters, with a touch of Spaceballs. It was disconcerting in the extreme. It seemed like it was shot in 60fps; but you only got 12 at the cinema.
Aliens that are for the most part impervious to .50 cal and heavy weapons seemingly off’ed or lobotomised by 9mm pistolas towards the climax? Really. The completely illogical Predator hunt at the end (sorta like the original Predator compressed into 32 secs), was the cinematic equivalent of playing hide & seek with 5 year olds. Except my kids are smarter. It was plain stupid. It seemed half the movie was aimed at a U audience (including the Ben10 ending) the rest a mild 15 (IQ, not rating). It was insanely stupid. I mean I was willing to suspend belief on a number of factors – even the likelihood a bunch of mental patients could out Delta, Delta force. But this was like Kelly’s Hero’s winning World War 2 with just the positive waves. By the end, you may as well have been watching Itchy and Scratchy.
It was cliché ridden and poor. If it was an Oscar run off between this and AvP; AvP gets a clean sweep.
Difficult to see where the budget went, effects that would’ve looked budget in Flight of the Navigator; and entirely shot on location in 2 square miles of Oregon. I can only assume the actors paid to be casted. It took $24m on opening in the US, which must be 24 times its production budget.
About the only redeeming feature was the use of the original 1987 score (for a few scenes).
A spaceballsup.
Good rant.I like sh*t films. Normally the more violent the better. I got more misty watching Rambo3, than the mrs watching Tom Hanks death in Philadelphia. Robocop, Die Hard, Raw Deal, Hong Kong cinema, if it’s got bullet ballet I’m in. Hell, I even liked the first Transformers movie as a prolonged advertisement for Lockhead Martin, Raytheon etc. But this……
WTF! It felt like a mash up mix of the original Predator and Critters, with a touch of Spaceballs. It was disconcerting in the extreme. It seemed like it was shot in 60fps; but you only got 12 at the cinema.
Aliens that are for the most part impervious to .50 cal and heavy weapons seemingly off’ed or lobotomised by 9mm pistolas towards the climax? Really. The completely illogical Predator hunt at the end (sorta like the original Predator compressed into 32 secs), was the cinematic equivalent of playing hide & seek with 5 year olds. Except my kids are smarter. It was plain stupid. It seemed half the movie was aimed at a U audience (including the Ben10 ending) the rest a mild 15 (IQ, not rating). It was insanely stupid. I mean I was willing to suspend belief on a number of factors – even the likelihood a bunch of mental patients could out Delta, Delta force. But this was like Kelly’s Hero’s winning World War 2 with just the positive waves. By the end, you may as well have been watching Itchy and Scratchy.
It was cliché ridden and poor. If it was an Oscar run off between this and AvP; AvP gets a clean sweep.
Difficult to see where the budget went, effects that would’ve looked budget in Flight of the Navigator; and entirely shot on location in 2 square miles of Oregon. I can only assume the actors paid to be casted. It took $24m on opening in the US, which must be 24 times its production budget.
About the only redeeming feature was the use of the original 1987 score (for a few scenes).
A spaceballsup.
Edited by stongle on Monday 17th September 14:41
Shoot Em Up
Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
LuS1fer said:
Shoot Em Up
Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Yup. Cartoon level violence done properly. With an on screen kill count of 141 - Smith (Clive Owen), tops John Matrix. Anyone whom can weaponise and dispatch a bad guy with a carrot (other than bugs bunny) gets my vote.Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Mary POppins 2....
wonder how this'll turn out?
Grace Reynolds@beyondthetrailer
wonder how this'll turn out?
Grace Reynolds@beyondthetrailer
Mary Poppins Returns Trailer REACTION
https://youtu.be/NhSRNvGhouAstongle said:
Yup. Cartoon level violence done properly. With an on screen kill count of 141 - Smith (Clive Owen), tops John Matrix. Anyone whom can weaponise and dispatch a bad guy with a carrot (other than bugs bunny) gets my vote.
Still can't hold a candle to Hot Shots! Part Deux though. 
stongle said:
LuS1fer said:
Shoot Em Up
Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Yup. Cartoon level violence done properly. With an on screen kill count of 141 - Smith (Clive Owen), tops John Matrix. Anyone whom can weaponise and dispatch a bad guy with a carrot (other than bugs bunny) gets my vote.Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
A Simple Favour
A real surprise, very funny dark thriller/comedy with brilliant performances from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
A rare film that ramps things up and up but knows how to end, in fact it gets better and better (and funnier) as things progress.
I'd watch it again just for Kendrick's facial reactions to whatever obscene thing she's hearing, loved it.
A real surprise, very funny dark thriller/comedy with brilliant performances from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
A rare film that ramps things up and up but knows how to end, in fact it gets better and better (and funnier) as things progress.
I'd watch it again just for Kendrick's facial reactions to whatever obscene thing she's hearing, loved it.
ukaskew said:
A Simple Favour
A real surprise, very funny dark thriller/comedy with brilliant performances from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
A rare film that ramps things up and up but knows how to end, in fact it gets better and better (and funnier) as things progress.
I'd watch it again just for Kendrick's facial reactions to whatever obscene thing she's hearing, loved it.
Yep, screen unseen?A real surprise, very funny dark thriller/comedy with brilliant performances from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
A rare film that ramps things up and up but knows how to end, in fact it gets better and better (and funnier) as things progress.
I'd watch it again just for Kendrick's facial reactions to whatever obscene thing she's hearing, loved it.
It's not one I would have gone to see from the posters, but both leads were really good in it. A bit of Aviation Gin product placement for Mr. Blake Lively too
The Predator.
Yes by all metrics the film is s
t - however, I did enjoy it. Some decent violence, some humour, a 'plot' (of sorts) make it not the worst film I've seen, I do wish, however, that this fetish for dark/night scenes dies! There are problems though: megapred (and his dogs) now seems to have bullet-proof skin most of the time, the autistic kid seems to be a common mcguffin in quite a few films and we've got a prof who seems to be more special forces than the special forces.
All in all score: one Danny Glover out of Arnie
Yes by all metrics the film is s
t - however, I did enjoy it. Some decent violence, some humour, a 'plot' (of sorts) make it not the worst film I've seen, I do wish, however, that this fetish for dark/night scenes dies! There are problems though: megapred (and his dogs) now seems to have bullet-proof skin most of the time, the autistic kid seems to be a common mcguffin in quite a few films and we've got a prof who seems to be more special forces than the special forces.All in all score: one Danny Glover out of Arnie
Shaun of the dead
Not watched it in years. Cracking film, great cast (I hadn't realised before that when he meets Yvonnes identical group going the other way, that's Martin Freeman, Reece whattsit from The League of Gentlemen (also in Spaced), Tamsin Grieg, Marsha from Spaced, and Matt Lucas).
Slightly overshadowed in the cornetto trilogy by Hot Fuzz IMO, but Worlds End was a bit of a let down in comparison to the first two.
A lesson in overacting from Paul Giamatti (wabbit) and a gunfight to Ace of Spades. Sublime.Great film, proper brain out OTT action movie with cartoonesqe violence.
Not watched it in years. Cracking film, great cast (I hadn't realised before that when he meets Yvonnes identical group going the other way, that's Martin Freeman, Reece whattsit from The League of Gentlemen (also in Spaced), Tamsin Grieg, Marsha from Spaced, and Matt Lucas).
Slightly overshadowed in the cornetto trilogy by Hot Fuzz IMO, but Worlds End was a bit of a let down in comparison to the first two.
popeyewhite said:
stongle said:
LuS1fer said:
Shoot Em Up
Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Yup. Cartoon level violence done properly. With an on screen kill count of 141 - Smith (Clive Owen), tops John Matrix. Anyone whom can weaponise and dispatch a bad guy with a carrot (other than bugs bunny) gets my vote.Does what it says on the tin. Rather than spend any money on subtlety of plot, the characters simply unerringly and correctly guess what the other will do next. There are no plausibility issues as it is entirely implausible from beginning to end and makes John Wick look like a skilled negotiator and humanist.
As usual, nobody, bar the good guy, can hit a barn door. Brain out, watch, ask no questions.
70 corpses out of 10 possible targets.
Rambo III
It was either this week or last week, but recently anyway.
And it's confession time too. This was the first time I'd ever seen it. Weirdly, I felt as though I'd seen it, probably after seeing snippets of it over the years and listened to others talk about how terrible it was, and how the 'Hind' was actually a tarted-up 'Puma'.
So it's an awful film? Right?
Well yes. As a piece of film making, it's co-written by Sylvester Stallone, probably as a means to pay Sylvester Stallone's bills, and as such any attempt at a plot seems to have been shelved after the first 15 minutes. And it's so ridiculously over-the-top in terms of military tactics, fieldcraft, and field medicine, that it looks more like a Rambo spoof than a good Rambo spoof.
It's very much a drumbeat film, very political too, and in some lines very prophetic (eg: when characters are talking about the history of wars fought in Afghanistan). Shame that only a few decades later the American led coalition forces would be locked in combat with the "gallant people of Afghanistan". It's clear that there's a Cold War being fought by proxy in the film, but in the real world, 15 months later, the Berlin Wall was coming down. Hindsight furnishes us with an odd lens through which to view such movies. Watching it after all this time it was odd. Visually it didn't "look" that old. But it certainly was an odd one. And despite it all I did perversely enjoy it. Suspend your disbelief, switch off the grey matter, and accept that John Rambo isn't a disfunctional Vietnam veteran, but rather a comic-book superhero in a bandana and vest, and this is a good old-fashioned rescue/adventure romp. Albeit with a very high body count.
After I'd watched it I wondered why I hadn't seen it before. Released in the UK in August 1988, I was a trainee boy soldier in the army at Dover. But because we were under 18, our training lasted a year, and was based on school/college terms, with 6 weeks holidays split over a year. So in August it was likely that I was on leave for the summer anyway. Beyond that I can't remember why I didn't see it at the cinema, but even so, I'd have thought I'd have seen it on one of it's many TV outings since? I'm not sure it's a wrong, righted. But I'm glad I watched it just to see what it was all about...
It was either this week or last week, but recently anyway.
And it's confession time too. This was the first time I'd ever seen it. Weirdly, I felt as though I'd seen it, probably after seeing snippets of it over the years and listened to others talk about how terrible it was, and how the 'Hind' was actually a tarted-up 'Puma'.
So it's an awful film? Right?
Well yes. As a piece of film making, it's co-written by Sylvester Stallone, probably as a means to pay Sylvester Stallone's bills, and as such any attempt at a plot seems to have been shelved after the first 15 minutes. And it's so ridiculously over-the-top in terms of military tactics, fieldcraft, and field medicine, that it looks more like a Rambo spoof than a good Rambo spoof.
It's very much a drumbeat film, very political too, and in some lines very prophetic (eg: when characters are talking about the history of wars fought in Afghanistan). Shame that only a few decades later the American led coalition forces would be locked in combat with the "gallant people of Afghanistan". It's clear that there's a Cold War being fought by proxy in the film, but in the real world, 15 months later, the Berlin Wall was coming down. Hindsight furnishes us with an odd lens through which to view such movies. Watching it after all this time it was odd. Visually it didn't "look" that old. But it certainly was an odd one. And despite it all I did perversely enjoy it. Suspend your disbelief, switch off the grey matter, and accept that John Rambo isn't a disfunctional Vietnam veteran, but rather a comic-book superhero in a bandana and vest, and this is a good old-fashioned rescue/adventure romp. Albeit with a very high body count.
After I'd watched it I wondered why I hadn't seen it before. Released in the UK in August 1988, I was a trainee boy soldier in the army at Dover. But because we were under 18, our training lasted a year, and was based on school/college terms, with 6 weeks holidays split over a year. So in August it was likely that I was on leave for the summer anyway. Beyond that I can't remember why I didn't see it at the cinema, but even so, I'd have thought I'd have seen it on one of it's many TV outings since? I'm not sure it's a wrong, righted. But I'm glad I watched it just to see what it was all about...
stongle said:
Gonna agree with this (I took the kids to see The House with a Clock in the Wall first, they'd have been better of watching this).
I like sh*t films. Normally the more violent the better. I got more misty watching Rambo3, than the mrs watching Tom Hanks death in Philadelphia. Robocop, Die Hard, Raw Deal, Hong Kong cinema, if it’s got bullet ballet I’m in. Hell, I even liked the first Transformers movie as a prolonged advertisement for Lockhead Martin, Raytheon etc. But this……
WTF! It felt like a mash up mix of the original Predator and Critters, with a touch of Spaceballs. It was disconcerting in the extreme. It seemed like it was shot in 60fps; but you only got 12 at the cinema.
Aliens that are for the most part impervious to .50 cal and heavy weapons seemingly off’ed or lobotomised by 9mm pistolas towards the climax? Really. The completely illogical Predator hunt at the end (sorta like the original Predator compressed into 32 secs), was the cinematic equivalent of playing hide & seek with 5 year olds. Except my kids are smarter. It was plain stupid. It seemed half the movie was aimed at a U audience (including the Ben10 ending) the rest a mild 15 (IQ, not rating). It was insanely stupid. I mean I was willing to suspend belief on a number of factors – even the likelihood a bunch of mental patients could out Delta, Delta force. But this was like Kelly’s Hero’s winning World War 2 with just the positive waves. By the end, you may as well have been watching Itchy and Scratchy.
It was cliché ridden and poor. If it was an Oscar run off between this and AvP; AvP gets a clean sweep.
Difficult to see where the budget went, effects that would’ve looked budget in Flight of the Navigator; and entirely shot on location in 2 square miles of Oregon. I can only assume the actors paid to be casted. It took $24m on opening in the US, which must be 24 times its production budget.
About the only redeeming feature was the use of the original 1987 score (for a few scenes).
A spaceballsup.
Excellent I like sh*t films. Normally the more violent the better. I got more misty watching Rambo3, than the mrs watching Tom Hanks death in Philadelphia. Robocop, Die Hard, Raw Deal, Hong Kong cinema, if it’s got bullet ballet I’m in. Hell, I even liked the first Transformers movie as a prolonged advertisement for Lockhead Martin, Raytheon etc. But this……
WTF! It felt like a mash up mix of the original Predator and Critters, with a touch of Spaceballs. It was disconcerting in the extreme. It seemed like it was shot in 60fps; but you only got 12 at the cinema.
Aliens that are for the most part impervious to .50 cal and heavy weapons seemingly off’ed or lobotomised by 9mm pistolas towards the climax? Really. The completely illogical Predator hunt at the end (sorta like the original Predator compressed into 32 secs), was the cinematic equivalent of playing hide & seek with 5 year olds. Except my kids are smarter. It was plain stupid. It seemed half the movie was aimed at a U audience (including the Ben10 ending) the rest a mild 15 (IQ, not rating). It was insanely stupid. I mean I was willing to suspend belief on a number of factors – even the likelihood a bunch of mental patients could out Delta, Delta force. But this was like Kelly’s Hero’s winning World War 2 with just the positive waves. By the end, you may as well have been watching Itchy and Scratchy.
It was cliché ridden and poor. If it was an Oscar run off between this and AvP; AvP gets a clean sweep.
Difficult to see where the budget went, effects that would’ve looked budget in Flight of the Navigator; and entirely shot on location in 2 square miles of Oregon. I can only assume the actors paid to be casted. It took $24m on opening in the US, which must be 24 times its production budget.
About the only redeeming feature was the use of the original 1987 score (for a few scenes).
A spaceballsup.
Edited by stongle on Monday 17th September 14:41
Ps it’s rambo 2 that gets me all misty eyed
You no esspendible Rambo
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