Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[1602Mark]

ajprice said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Brother D said:

The Gentleman

My word it was a mess of a film. Couple of funny bits, but basically just a mashup of his previous works mixed in with layer cake/sexy beast and little to no character development. Genuinely disliked it

2/10

I thought it was worse than that.

I thought it was great

1. metoo

[phazed]

Where was this on?

[ajprice]

phazed said:

Where was this on?

The Gentlemen? Still showing now, at least at the Odeon local to me.

[psi310398]

ajprice said:

The Gentlemen? Still showing now, at least at the Odeon local to me.

Seems to be on at most Cineworlds still.

[Adam B]

Parasite

Wow, had heard good things, saw 99% on Rotten Tomatoes (!) and someone on here waxing lyrical. Went to an advanced Unlimited screening and it lived up to it.

Poor Korean family take advantage of naive rich family and things go very off the rails. A brilliant social satire.

It is fantastic, kooky in a Korean cinema way, very funny and thoroughly original.
Nicely judged ending too.

10/10 (can’t remember the last time I did that)

Edited by Adam B on Sunday 26th January 11:03

[phazed]

ajprice said:

phazed said:

Where was this on?

The Gentlemen? Still showing now, at least at the Odeon local to me.

Must be one of the films that my local cinema didn’t take up.

Can’t be bothered with these big town cinemas so will wait until it comes up on Netflix or elsewhere.

[TX1]

Adam B said:

Parasite

Wow, had heard good things, saw 99% on Rotten Tomatoes (!) and someone on here waxing lyrical. Went to an advanced Unlimited screening and it lived up to it.

Poor Korean family take advantage of naive rich family and things go very off the rails. A brilliant social satire.

It is fantastic, kooky in a Korean cinema way, very funny and thoroughly original.
Nicely judged ending too.

10/10 (can’t remember the last time I did that)

Edited by Adam B on Sunday 26th January 11:03

Yes very enjoyable and well made.

[Lordbenny]

CooperD said:

Saw The Personal History of David Copperfield at the cinema. It's was very good with an excellent cast. Directed by Armando Iannucci . Also some of it was filmed in my home town of Bury St Edmunds so quite interesting to see how they made it look like a Victorian town centre and also they used the Regency theatre we have here for the opening scene.

Mark Kermode was going apoplectic about this....compared it to death of Stalin and absolutely loved it.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Lordbenny said:

CooperD said:

Saw The Personal History of David Copperfield at the cinema. It's was very good with an excellent cast. Directed by Armando Iannucci . Also some of it was filmed in my home town of Bury St Edmunds so quite interesting to see how they made it look like a Victorian town centre and also they used the Regency theatre we have here for the opening scene.

Mark Kermode was going apoplectic about this....compared it to death of Stalin and absolutely loved it.

As an aside, I found Death of Stalin to be a grower.

I was entirely "meh" about it on first viewing, but have ended up watching it several times since and enjoyed it more each time than the last.

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

As an aside, I found Death of Stalin to be a grower.

I was entirely "meh" about it on first viewing, but have ended up watching it several times since and enjoyed it more each time than the last.

I think you'll find David Copperfield to be completely different. It had very little comic moments in it, most of it only made you smile slightly, if that and the majority of it was in the trailer. It really was droll.

[Matt_N]

rider73 said:

Interstellar - i like mr nolans movies a lot, but this one just missed a beat for me - sure its well polished, not sure , perhaps its the lead of MM that didnt really gel with me.

i'd enjoy watching a movie with those robots in it all day though.

I needed a second viewing a while later to really gel with it.

[Chris Stott]

Matt_N said:

rider73 said:

Interstellar - i like mr nolans movies a lot, but this one just missed a beat for me - sure its well polished, not sure , perhaps its the lead of MM that didnt really gel with me.

i'd enjoy watching a movie with those robots in it all day though.

I needed a second viewing a while later to really gel with it.

Agree with that. I've watched it a few times now and I really rate it.

Watched Gone Girl last night... saw it when it came out at the cinema, so the story wasn't as surprising, but it's a really enjoyable film with decent acting throughout the cast. Oh, and it has Emily Ratajkowski in it :drool:

[Black can man]

Pesty said:

Escape room (2019)

Enjoyed it, nothing too new a kind of Saw light

6.5-10

I had the misfortune to sit through this last night.

I thought it was worse than dreadful , Mrs BCM quite enjoyed it though.

[anonymous-user]

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

jsf said:

I thought it was rubbish.

I can completely understand that you didn't like it and/or it wasn't your thing, but I'm struggling to understand how anyone could describe it as rubbish.

[rider73]

The thing with Interstellar is if some advanced (future human race?) creatures can create a wormhole to show us new worlds for us to try and get to and save our species, and manipulate gravity across time, and create a 3 dimensional tesseract / time room "that Cooper can understand" from 4 or 5 dimensions, yet, they cannot simply create a big sign that says "heres the data that you need to figure out gravity like we have..."

thats if i got what was going on was correct.

[Halb]

I recall enjoying Interstellar, I'd need to rewatch to think further on the film. I did like the science as it went into extreme possibilities of quantum and stuff.

[NoVetec]

rider73 said:

The thing with Interstellar is if some advanced (future human race?) creatures can create a wormhole to show us new worlds for us to try and get to and save our species, and manipulate gravity across time, and create a 3 dimensional tesseract / time room "that Cooper can understand" from 4 or 5 dimensions, yet, they cannot simply create a big sign that says "heres the data that you need to figure out gravity like we have..."

thats if i got what was going on was correct.

Be a short film though that way.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Halb said:

I recall enjoying Interstellar, I'd need to rewatch to think further on the film. I did like the science as it went into extreme possibilities of quantum and stuff.

The thing I liked about it was that, like all good sci-fi, it posited a plausible (not necessarily accurate, or realistic, but plausible) framework and then stayed consistent with it throughout. The whole thing felt cohesive, to me. And there were very few instances of someone doing something totally stupid or out of character or that made you say "Why would anyone *do* that????" (I'm looking at you, Prometheus).

Plus, of course, Nolan's cinematography was brilliant, the music really worked, and I liked how they used a lot of practical effects for the robots in order so that the actors interacted with them realistically (rather than them simply acting to thin air with post-production CGI).

There are some interesting featurettes on the Bluray that go into this in more detail and are worth watching.

[Hedobot]

Widows Walk, found it on Amazon video

Intriguing ghost story and definately worth watching if you fancy a change of pace.