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

[Digger]

K12beano said:

Yup - I used to find this frustrating.

I don't know if it will help but there's an app and website Just Watch which I find really useful for sorting out what I can watch on the few different services I have available.... and I am always forgetting where I started watching a series too, so this can be helpful as well as flagging up all new releases (again, limited just to the subs I currently have) ....

Saved to my Bookmarks.

[ajprice]

2.50 today on Film4, 12 Angry Men .

[Doofus]

Digger said:

K12beano said:

Yup - I used to find this frustrating.

I don't know if it will help but there's an app and website Just Watch which I find really useful for sorting out what I can watch on the few different services I have available.... and I am always forgetting where I started watching a series too, so this can be helpful as well as flagging up all new releases (again, limited just to the subs I currently have) ....

Saved to my Bookmarks.

I use Justwatch too, but it would still be easier if the poster just told us where they'd seen a particular film.

[P-Jay]

Ace-T said:

The Favourite - Disney Star.

Billed as a comedy, but more of a historical political intrigue light. Great performances from the three leading ladies and the end scene is reminiscent of Bob Hoskins in the car at the end of Long Good Friday

13 badgers out of 17 rabbits

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I suffered through all two hours of it with my Wife to see a glimpse of Emma Stone's baps (actually it's only 1 bap). It wasn't worth it, I could have just found the clip online.

We found it on 4OD / Film 4, if you just want to see the Emma Stone's breast you can find it in seconds via Google.

[Ace-T]

P-Jay said:

Ace-T said:

The Favourite - Disney Star.

Billed as a comedy, but more of a historical political intrigue light. Great performances from the three leading ladies and the end scene is reminiscent of Bob Hoskins in the car at the end of Long Good Friday

13 badgers out of 17 rabbits

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I suffered through all two hours of it with my Wife to see a glimpse of Emma Stone's baps (actually it's only 1 bap). It wasn't worth it, I could have just found the clip online.

We found it on 4OD / Film 4, if you just want to see the Emma Stone's breast you can find it in seconds via Google.

To quote Julia Roberts 'they are just boobs, half the population has them'.

[JagLover]

P-Jay said:

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I suffered through all two hours of it with my Wife to see a glimpse of Emma Stone's baps (actually it's only 1 bap). It wasn't worth it, I could have just found the clip online.

We found it on 4OD / Film 4, if you just want to see the Emma Stone's breast you can find it in seconds via Google.

That's useful advice

If I were going to sit through two hours I would want some "Blue is the warmest colour" style action with Emma Stone, not one shot of one boob.

[TCEvo]

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) Disney+/Star

Battle lines re-drawn between geeky-scholars & party-jocks as Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity’s invited to a Floridian frat-council tt-fest.

Utter ste, unsurprisingly; and as seems to often be the case with ‘80’s “teen” movies, all of the lead parts are played by blokes in their mid-‘20’s.

Brief bit of airport slapstick & hotel check-in girl/girlfriend “Sunny” the only highlights.


The Surface (2014) Amazon Prime

Chap’s lonely Lake Michigan boat trip’s interrupted by a collision with some mysterious floating debris.

Pleased that I found this one buried on AP - it’s quite good & reminded me of All Is Lost.

[Pinkie15]

Doofus said:

tardelli said:

Also enjoyed Ronin last night. Some scenes are a bit suspect now compared to modern stuff like when they ambush the cars and Jean Reno amazingly dodges bullets an runs off whilst everyone at the cafe gets gunned down still a brilliant watch and sends you looking at M5 prices every time

S8's as well (couldn't afford one then, haven't got the Ball's for ones that I can afford now)

My huge gripe with Ronin is why the fk did nobody on the entire cast or crew tell Robert DeNiro how to pronouce Hereford?

It drives me fking mad. If I'd been in the SAS (I was, of course, but don't like to talk about it), and somebody asked me what colour the boathouse is at Hearford, I'd look fking gormless just like Sean Bean.

Though he could be talking about ‘‘Herford’ in W Germany where the SAS also had a base

[Crook]

The Guilty

Danish crime thriller but much like Tom Hardy's Locke it's all focussed on one guy's phone conversation.

I would say it's excellent - not a particularity fun watch - but worth it. It was on film4 a few weeks (months?) ago so it may have already been mentioned on here - I went back quite a few pages but couldn't see it.

It's also the directors debut which makes it even more impressive. Now being remade with Jake Gyllenhaal apparently.

[deadslow]

ajprice said:

2.50 today on Film4, 12 Angry Men .

epic film which never disappoints

[heisthegaffer]

Not sure if mentioned but recently watched A Call to Spy on Netflix. Decent. Agent Atkins looked lovely in it too.

[heisthegaffer]

boyse7en said:

Not a recent film, but I watched Passengers in Amazon prime last night.
It got pretty poor reviews when it came out but I don't know why as I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a big budget sci-fi with the usual plot holes aplenty, but it looks great, had some interesting moral dilemmas and has Jennifer Lawrence in a bikini. What's not to like?

I enjoyed it too. There's something so freaky about being on a ship with no one else around (one imagines).

[pquinn]

heisthegaffer said:

boyse7en said:

Not a recent film, but I watched Passengers in Amazon prime last night.
It got pretty poor reviews when it came out but I don't know why as I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a big budget sci-fi with the usual plot holes aplenty, but it looks great, had some interesting moral dilemmas and has Jennifer Lawrence in a bikini. What's not to like?

I enjoyed it too. There's something so freaky about being on a ship with no one else around (one imagines).

In the original script when they reboot the computer they accidentally kill everyone else on board. Now that would have left them isolated.

I also liked the idea of it starting with Jennifer Lawrence waking up, then introducing the early part of the story in flashback to show the 'why' much later so the audience finds out more or less when she does. That would have made it properly dark. Maybe one day someone will create an edit.

It had the potential to be a very different film, it's not bad but it could have been much better.

[Radec]

Unsane is on Film4 at the moment or catch it on plus 1 with Claire Foy, decent thriller and worth a watch.

[rider73]

Pinkie15 said:

Doofus said:

tardelli said:

Also enjoyed Ronin last night. Some scenes are a bit suspect now compared to modern stuff like when they ambush the cars and Jean Reno amazingly dodges bullets an runs off whilst everyone at the cafe gets gunned down still a brilliant watch and sends you looking at M5 prices every time

S8's as well (couldn't afford one then, haven't got the Ball's for ones that I can afford now)

My huge gripe with Ronin is why the fk did nobody on the entire cast or crew tell Robert DeNiro how to pronouce Hereford?

It drives me fking mad. If I'd been in the SAS (I was, of course, but don't like to talk about it), and somebody asked me what colour the boathouse is at Hearford, I'd look fking gormless just like Sean Bean.

Though he could be talking about ‘‘Herford’ in W Germany where the SAS also had a base

IIRC - they removed the abs and traction control from the cars used to get them to do the stunts they wanted.

also IIRC there is an alternate ending?

[RizzoTheRat]

Soul (Disney +)
Jazz musician gets his big break and then has an accident and winds up trying to help a soul find it's purpose. Not really what I was expecting but rather good. Typical Pixar, a touching story with some humor and a bit of an underlying message. A solid 8/10

[Mars]

Cosmic Sin

The latest nonsense from Bruce Willis. I would have normally not bothered at all, because anything with Bruce in it these days means crap however it also starred Frank Grillo, and he can be good sometimes. But sadly, no... I watched the first 15 mins until I twigged that the dialogue had been written by a 10yo, then I started to FWD through it. I don't think I watched more than 18 mins in total. Utter ste. Bruce plays that same character he does in every film he's made for the past 15+ years. Does he really need the money that badly?

Zero. Complete waste of 18 mins. Glad I didn't pay to watch it. More glad I didn't try to watch it all.

[LuS1fer]

Mars said:

Cosmic Sin

The latest nonsense from Bruce Willis. I would have normally not bothered at all, because anything with Bruce in it these days means crap however it also starred Frank Grillo, and he can be good sometimes. But sadly, no... I watched the first 15 mins until I twigged that the dialogue had been written by a 10yo, then I started to FWD through it. I don't think I watched more than 18 mins in total. Utter ste. Bruce plays that same character he does in every film he's made for the past 15+ years. Does he really need the money that badly?

Zero. Complete waste of 18 mins. Glad I didn't pay to watch it. More glad I didn't try to watch it all.

Thanks for the heads up though exactly what I was expecting.

Talking of desperate, Eddie Murphy is releasing Coming 2 America shortly so can you watch that for me and let me know if it's as horrendous as it sounds.

[vixen1700]

Radec said:

Unsane is on Film4 at the moment or catch it on plus 1 with Claire Foy, decent thriller and worth a watch.

Couldn't get into that at all, lasted 45 minutes or so.

[Radec]

vixen1700 said:

Radec said:

Unsane is on Film4 at the moment or catch it on plus 1 with Claire Foy, decent thriller and worth a watch.

Couldn't get into that at all, lasted 45 minutes or so.

Yeah it's a bit marmite, I enjoyed though, its done by Steven Sodenburgh and apparently all shot on an iPhone 7