Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)

[272BHP]

One Life

Nicholas Wintons daughter reportedly insisted on Sir Anthony Hopkins to play her father before she would agree to the movie of his life - a very good choice it has to be said.

Heart warming story, you can't go wrong with this for a movie night.

7.5/10

[dave_s13]

RC1807 said:

Roadhouse, Swayze - tackier than I recall. 5/10


Roadhouse, Gyllenhaal - tackier than the original. 2/10
Adding that tt McGregor in there, well.... made it worse than it could have been.


American Fiction - 8/10
Very well written and acted.
Who knew Felix Leiter was alive and well and working as a writer?

The OG roadhouse is a steaming pile of shee....eyet

[croyde]

Composer62 said:

croyde said:

'The Quake'

It's a sequel apparently. A film called 'The Wave' about a rock slide causing a tsunami. Based on it actually happening back in the 1930s.

Might watch that tonight.

I was slightly surprised by how many flammable things there were after the Tsunami hit Otherwise a decent film.

Just watched it and thought the same. Bet the lighting director came up with the idea.

[goth.casual]

Barbie

It was pretty good, maybe an example of swallowing the hype but I was expecting more.

It was a funny, endearing movie with great songs but anyone who had a revelatory experience with it probably needs to look outside occasionally

A fun movie with a good message but it’s not on the rewatch list.

[Cotty]

Anyone have an idea where I can watch Career Opportunities or purchase the DVD.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101545/?ref_=nv_sr_s...

[ajprice]

Cotty said:

Anyone have an idea where I can watch Career Opportunities or purchase the DVD.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101545/?ref_=nv_sr_s...

Buy or rent on Prime, there's a button on the IMDb page you linked to. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Career-Opportunities-Fran...

[Cotty]

ajprice said:

Buy or rent on Prime, there's a button on the IMDb page you linked to.

For that money I was hoping I could pick up a second hand DVD.

[ajprice]

Cotty said:

For that money I was hoping I could pick up a second hand DVD.

£15 for DVD, it's no cheaper on eBay

[Cotty]

ajprice said:

£15 for DVD, it's no cheaper on eBay

I was hoping someone had spotted it it on a second have DVD site like https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/

[generationx]

Trawling Netflix last night:

The Immortals
Greek fantasy drama starring Henry Cavill et al.

Dark, depressing, violent, mumbly. Lasted fifteen minutes. Off.

Uncharted
A complete change of pace, Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg run around trying to find lost treasure before Antonio Banderas.

Apparently based on a computer game franchise which I’ve never heard of, it boiled down to a series of fetch-quests that led them from one to the other. Initially took itself a bit seriously (or the humour wasn’t hitting the spot with us), it lightened up in the second half and descended into silliness towards the end. I can’t imagine the slightly desperate sequel-bait at the end will come to much, just Sony grasping at straws.

7/10, must try harder.

[C5_Steve]

generationx said:

Trawling Netflix last night:

The Immortals
Greek fantasy drama starring Henry Cavill et al.

Dark, depressing, violent, mumbly. Lasted fifteen minutes. Off.

Uncharted
A complete change of pace, Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg run around trying to find lost treasure before Antonio Banderas.

Apparently based on a computer game franchise which I’ve never heard of, it boiled down to a series of fetch-quests that led them from one to the other. Initially took itself a bit seriously (or the humour wasn’t hitting the spot with us), it lightened up in the second half and descended into silliness towards the end. I can’t imagine the slightly desperate sequel-bait at the end will come to much, just Sony grasping at straws.

7/10, must try harder.

I'm a big fan of Immortals, it's very Zack Snyder-ish though so not for everyone. Very much style over substance.

[Cotty]

C5_Steve said:

I'm a big fan of Immortals, it's very Zack Snyder-ish though so not for everyone. Very much style over substance.

I like Immortals, the big fight was cool

[Clockwork Cupcake]

If you're into Greek mythology then I would thoroughly recommend the animated series Blood of Zeus on Netflix.

I have an interest in / knowledge of Greek mythology cos of school, and I really enjoyed it.

[C5_Steve]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

If you're into Greek mythology then I would thoroughly recommend the animated series Blood of Zeus on Netflix.

I have an interest in / knowledge of Greek mythology cos of school, and I really enjoyed it.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out. I'm not massively into the Greeks, but watching Vikings made me appreciate that era alot more and made me wish I'd paid more attention when going in school trips! :ROFL: Did go back to the Museum of London just for that.

[C5_Steve]

Walk Of Shame

Can't remember if someone on here of the Amazon thread recommended this, I really like Elizabeth Banks so gave it a go. It's exactly what you'd expect, bang average comedy with Ms Banks and James Marsden. Elizabeth Banks is very underrated when it comes to comedy IMO and she's the highlight of this film, no where near as funny as her parts in Pitch Perfect etc but it passed the time. Some genuine chuckles but otherwise inoffensive.

6/10

Godzilla x Kong

Not typing the whole title

I really enjoyed GVK, as well as all the previous iterations. To me, this was the weakest of all of them. There are some good bits, but by focusing on the monsters for the whole film you lose all sense of scale. Coming off the back of Minus One, it's just really front and centre.

More so than any of the others, the humans are all a waste of time. I didn't care about any of them at all and their dialogue was totally one dimensional.

Take the kids if they want huge monsters, the action does look cool but even Godzilla was underused for me. I was sat next to a kid about 10 years old and he loved it.

Oh and one last thing, there were portions where the background appeared overly blurred for some reason. Not sure if that was due to the 3D conversion (I saw it in 2D so not sure why that would be?) but it was very noticeable in parts.

6/10

Off to watch something guaranteed to be a banger as I'm disappointed (it might be Dune 2 again! )

[toasty]

number2 said:

Yeah.
I've still got a plasma - 50" pioneer Kuro .

Have a 77inch LG OLED that blows it out the water though.

The Samsung Frames are bang average at best.

CC - when you replace the plasma, go OLED. Don't do yourself a disservice buying an LCD (or whatever name they're using now to reinvent it).

Snap-ish. I’ve got the 43” Pioneer from 2005 and a 65” LG OLED, with the Pioneer still in daily use as the PlayStation screen.

[renmure]

Barbie on Sky Movies

Wasn't expecting to say this but,,, Err.... I quite enjoyed it.

[macron]

I am still confused how Gosling was oscar nominated for that one...

I watched The Northman

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11138512/

Quite Viking-y. Quite long. Moderately predictable.

Still, fun if you're in the mood for some vague fantasy hacking, in the axe, not pinching people's credit card details sense.

IMDB had it as 7, which I'd stick with.

Edited by macron on Saturday 30th March 23:20

[bloomen]

macron said:

I watched The Northman

I weren't that moved by that.

Compared to the creator's previous efforts it felt somewhat generic and had little of the sheer strangeness.

Good and pungent of course but it felt like something that I was expecting wasn't present.

[C5_Steve]

bloomen said:

macron said:

I watched The Northman

I weren't that moved by that.

Compared to the creator's previous efforts it felt somewhat generic and had little of the sheer strangeness.

Good and pungent of course but it felt like something that I was expecting wasn't present.

Yeah I wanted to like it more than I did but I feel it needs a rewatch tbh. Technically brilliant but it was just a little off the wall for me on first viewing