Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
Clockwork Cupcake said:
IanH755 said:
it's a powerful political story with a real heart and warning about the risks faced when good people try to change a corrupt system.
It's like that story of a farm boy who witnesses the murder of his adoptive parents, is radicalised in to a terrorist group by an old man in a beard, and kills thousands of people in a terrorist attack on a military installation. 
Ralph Breaks the Internet
I struggled with this a bit, in so much as I was pretty bored for long periods, a shame as I adore the first film. There was a real buzz of excitement when they discover the Internet as my mind was racing with all the possibilities that open up, but some very cute/amusing nods to internet culture aside I just didn't think it did much with the playground at its disposal.
The only time it feels truly fleshed out is when they visit Disney, as obviously they have pretty much every Disney IP at their disposal (and use them brilliantly), when it returns to generic internet it loses all of that yet again.
6/10
I struggled with this a bit, in so much as I was pretty bored for long periods, a shame as I adore the first film. There was a real buzz of excitement when they discover the Internet as my mind was racing with all the possibilities that open up, but some very cute/amusing nods to internet culture aside I just didn't think it did much with the playground at its disposal.
The only time it feels truly fleshed out is when they visit Disney, as obviously they have pretty much every Disney IP at their disposal (and use them brilliantly), when it returns to generic internet it loses all of that yet again.
6/10
Edited by ukaskew on Sunday 9th December 08:55
Brawl in Cell Block 99 - I'd read good things about this. What drugs were they on? Vince Vaughan goes on the rampage in prison. Like a character out of Get Carter, he's a big guy but out of shape. The fight scenes are slow and plodding and the gory effects straight from the facemelting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Get back to the comedy, Vince. 4 kidney puches out of 10 broken arms.
Battle of the Sexes - In the early 70's, Billie Jean King is the No.1 female tennis player in the world but gets fed up with being paid less than the men so forms a breakaway tour. Bobby Riggs is a 55 year old former tennis player and challenges Billie to a battle of the sexes tennis match. Very light-hearted and enjoyable. Steve Carrell is an uncanny likeness of Bobby. 7 chauvinist piglets out of 10 feminists.
Battle of the Sexes - In the early 70's, Billie Jean King is the No.1 female tennis player in the world but gets fed up with being paid less than the men so forms a breakaway tour. Bobby Riggs is a 55 year old former tennis player and challenges Billie to a battle of the sexes tennis match. Very light-hearted and enjoyable. Steve Carrell is an uncanny likeness of Bobby. 7 chauvinist piglets out of 10 feminists.
toasty said:
Big Trouble in Little China - I can't believe I've not seen this before, I thought I had but it was all new to me. Bad acting, dated effects, ropey props and hilarious monsters. Dayum, it's cheesy! But low quality cheese, like eating a block of McDonald's burger cheese. I feel dirty. But satisfied. 7 wontons/10 dim sum.
Halb said:
Big Trouble is amazing, one of the best films of the 80s
I remember getting off a tube train and seeing the movie poster for this and just staring at it thinking it looked amazing, and then being sad to see the "15" rating, as I was about 8 
When I finally got around to watching it, a few years later, it lived up to the poster! Put it on this morning, still a classic!
10 reflexes out of 10.
toasty said:
Battle of the Sexes - In the early 70's, Billie Jean King is the No.1 female tennis player in the world but gets fed up with being paid less than the men so forms a breakaway tour. Bobby Riggs is a 55 year old former tennis player and challenges Billie to a battle of the sexes tennis match. Very light-hearted and enjoyable. Steve Carrell is an uncanny likeness of Bobby. 7 chauvinist piglets out of 10 feminists.
The 1950's version with Peters Seller and Constance Cummings is a gem. #Nothing to do with the OP's version.
But involves a top good looking American troubleshooter (CC) being brought into an old fashioned Scottish Weavers Company to shake things up..
Battle between good (Tradition and Loyalty) and evil (Corporate Behemoth ideology) commences.
Peter Sellers is a meek accounts clerk who revolts against the turning tide and decides to act to preserve the status quo.
9 Spinning Wheels out of 10 Crofters.
yessir
The Edge of Tomorrow
A scifantsy thing about time travel, with TC, this is all I knew about it, plus a blonde. wanted to watch this for a while, always got it confused with Oblivion. Erm, it was OK. THe start was nothing like I expected, which felt odd, once we got into the groundhog day bit it got better, but lacked focus and got lazy towards the last third, I think the editors felt they could get away with harsh cutting because of the nature of the story. Got quite bored in the denouement as I didn't really give a s
t about anyone. But the very last scene did pull back some of the disappointment. A missed opportunity I feel, maybe with a different lead/director it could have been amazing, instead of an overlong Outer Limits ep, like Oblivion felt like.
O also watched another film yesterday, and cannot recall anything about it.
The Edge of Tomorrow
A scifantsy thing about time travel, with TC, this is all I knew about it, plus a blonde. wanted to watch this for a while, always got it confused with Oblivion. Erm, it was OK. THe start was nothing like I expected, which felt odd, once we got into the groundhog day bit it got better, but lacked focus and got lazy towards the last third, I think the editors felt they could get away with harsh cutting because of the nature of the story. Got quite bored in the denouement as I didn't really give a s
t about anyone. But the very last scene did pull back some of the disappointment. A missed opportunity I feel, maybe with a different lead/director it could have been amazing, instead of an overlong Outer Limits ep, like Oblivion felt like.O also watched another film yesterday, and cannot recall anything about it.
I watched Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald. Not bad, not great, kind of what I expected.
However I watched it with Dutch subtitles and discovered that many characters in the Potter universe have got different names in different languages. For example the future head of Hogwarts is called Albus Perkamentus. Substitutions where a name means something and is therefore translated in to a different language makes sense, but I found that a bit odd.
However I watched it with Dutch subtitles and discovered that many characters in the Potter universe have got different names in different languages. For example the future head of Hogwarts is called Albus Perkamentus. Substitutions where a name means something and is therefore translated in to a different language makes sense, but I found that a bit odd.
yellowjack said:
I watched The Enforcer and Gauntlet recently.
Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan on feminism...
"If she wants to play lumberjack, she's gonna have to learn to handle her end of the log..."
has so many great quotes from DH.Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan on feminism...
"If she wants to play lumberjack, she's gonna have to learn to handle her end of the log..."
Yeah, well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the b
d; that's my policy.Intent? How did you establish that?
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
I think he's got a point.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
A rather strange story, based on fact, concerning the inventor of the lie detector and Wonder Woman and his strange life in a relationship involving two women, all intimately involved with one another, their disregard of social norms in an age of intolerance and the children that resulted. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong when they are discovered, one day but the circle completes in a final reunion. When the Prof dies, the two women remain in their relationship, one living to 100.
Interwoven is the background to Wonder Woman and the idea of feminism and equality and truth and so forth.
Quite an interesting film, although the usual "beautiful people" bear scant resemblance to the actual photos we see of the sexually liberated threesome, at the end.
6 out of 10.
The Package
A gross-out teen comedy wherein it becomes clear the "the package" is one of the party's accidentally severed penis which becomes separated from its owner. By a series of unfortunate events, this develops into a race to reunite the member with its owner. Becoming ever more gross, as the film goes on, it nevertheless manages to retain a thread of reasonable black comedy that keeps you with the story.
The hardest part to swallow is why the cute girl would fancy the chinless ginger guy but that is by the by.
It's not something you will ever want to sit down and watch again and it is clearly aimed at the easily amused youth market but I'll give it 5/10 just for the number of times you're forced to say "Oh dear god..."
A rather strange story, based on fact, concerning the inventor of the lie detector and Wonder Woman and his strange life in a relationship involving two women, all intimately involved with one another, their disregard of social norms in an age of intolerance and the children that resulted. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong when they are discovered, one day but the circle completes in a final reunion. When the Prof dies, the two women remain in their relationship, one living to 100.
Interwoven is the background to Wonder Woman and the idea of feminism and equality and truth and so forth.
Quite an interesting film, although the usual "beautiful people" bear scant resemblance to the actual photos we see of the sexually liberated threesome, at the end.
6 out of 10.
The Package
A gross-out teen comedy wherein it becomes clear the "the package" is one of the party's accidentally severed penis which becomes separated from its owner. By a series of unfortunate events, this develops into a race to reunite the member with its owner. Becoming ever more gross, as the film goes on, it nevertheless manages to retain a thread of reasonable black comedy that keeps you with the story.
The hardest part to swallow is why the cute girl would fancy the chinless ginger guy but that is by the by.
It's not something you will ever want to sit down and watch again and it is clearly aimed at the easily amused youth market but I'll give it 5/10 just for the number of times you're forced to say "Oh dear god..."
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