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

[V8mate]

Driveline Shunt said:

Quite enjoyed Management starring her & Steve Zahn, defo a guilty pleasure film.

Completely unrelated, just finished watching Baby Driver & the Freesat box was showing Notting Hill. Was about to switch off (despite Julia Roberts) when I noticed this:




Mansell's Donington drive in '98. When Touring cars was news!

And a cameo appearance from Jeremy Beadle's hand?

[Driveline Shunt]

V8mate said:

Driveline Shunt said:

Quite enjoyed Management starring her & Steve Zahn, defo a guilty pleasure film.

Completely unrelated, just finished watching Baby Driver & the Freesat box was showing Notting Hill. Was about to switch off (despite Julia Roberts) when I noticed this:




Mansell's Donington drive in '98. When Touring cars was news!

And a cameo appearance from Jeremy Beadle's hand?

My phone was doing odd things with perspective, took me 3 goes not to make Hugh Grant have a comedy sized head! P.S: Nige's shunt was in 93, was there for that one, not the later meeting.

Back on topic, Baby Driver was silly fun, 4/5 for me. Or 5/7 on the thread scale..

[popeyewhite]

A Quiet Place II

Fairly nicely done Sci-fi/thriller. You can spot the shocks coming from a mile away but that's no bad thing. Avoids most of the usual memes of survivors-fighting-for their-existence-in-a-destroyed-world. Good to visit the (deserted) cinema again.

[CSNY]

Dream Horse 2020

Based on a true story of how a small welsh syndicate (and one person in particular) managed to breed, own and win with their own race horse (Dream Alliance). It's amusing but you will know how the story goes even if you haven't heard it or know of the horse. A bit painting by numbers for me, but worth a couple of hours attention nevertheless.

6 disgruntled posh racehorse owners out of 10

[Dromedary66]

Conjuring - the Devil made me do it.

3rd film in the Conjuring Franchise. Not as good as the other 2.

6 snapping bodies out of 10

[biggbn]

Watched Rocketman last night, really enjoyed it, quite emotional in places, great soundtrack. An easy watch, recommended.

[oobster]

Went to see Nobody in the cinema yesterday, Bob Odenkirk was decent and some of the action scenes were done well but overall a bit meh.

6.5/10 for me.

[r159]

rider73 said:

He showed up the other TC racers that day despite an issue with a fuel pump and until tiff punted hon into the wall iirc

I was there, we’ll sort of. After a heavy night out my ‘mates’ let me sleep through the race waking me up after it has finished. The grass around Coppice is quite comfy, even when it is drizzling.

[JagLover]

The Outpost (Amazon Prime) is a very decent film set in the war in Afghanistan. Virtually all of it is actual events. A great representation of command incompetence and the bravery of ordinary soldiers.

If I have a criticism it is that this would have benefitted from a "Generation Kill" style miniseries as in movie format you don't have enough time to establish all the characters.

[pquinn]

JagLover said:

The Outpost (Amazon Prime) is a very decent film set in the war in Afghanistan.

By contrast Outpost (Netflix) is *not* a decent film.

You'd think mercenaries, an abandoned bunker in the Balkans and zombie Nazis would have more going for it.

[toasty]

JagLover said:

The Outpost (Amazon Prime) is a very decent film set in the war in Afghanistan. Virtually all of it is actual events. A great representation of command incompetence and the bravery of ordinary soldiers.

If I have a criticism it is that this would have benefitted from a "Generation Kill" style miniseries as in movie format you don't have enough time to establish all the characters.

Sounds good and I'll give it a watch but I do get a bit tired of the command incompetence cliche in military and police films/series.

[JagLover]

toasty said:

JagLover said:

The Outpost (Amazon Prime) is a very decent film set in the war in Afghanistan. Virtually all of it is actual events. A great representation of command incompetence and the bravery of ordinary soldiers.

If I have a criticism it is that this would have benefitted from a "Generation Kill" style miniseries as in movie format you don't have enough time to establish all the characters.

Sounds good and I'll give it a watch but I do get a bit tired of the command incompetence cliche in military and police films/series.

In this case it is entirely accurate though as based on real events.

You will probably give a WTF the first moment you see where their senior commanders decided to place a base.

[Oilchange]

Yeah, how to lose a battle before the firing even starts…

[Radec]

JagLover said:

The Outpost (Amazon Prime) is a very decent film set in the war in Afghanistan. Virtually all of it is actual events. A great representation of command incompetence and the bravery of ordinary soldiers.

If I have a criticism it is that this would have benefitted from a "Generation Kill" style miniseries as in movie format you don't have enough time to establish all the characters.

Has this just come out or something on Amazon?, I'm sure I reviewed it on here after seeing it a year or so back.
I really enjoyed this and recommend it to anyone that likes these types of films.

Don't get it confused with the other Outpost that's popped up on Netflix as that looks pants.

Couple I've seen recently are :
Conjuring - Devil made me do it
Didn't enjoy it as much as the poster above, more thriller than horror.
Not scary at all and probably the worst of the series.
5/10

Spiral - Book of Saw
Chris Rock takes the lead as the cop investigating the murders of fellow cops in Jigsaw-esque type murders.
Wasn't great and not even Sam L Jackson could save this.
Rock needs to stick to comedies as he doesn't have the range for this apart from his comedic rants.
Worst one yet.
4/10

[CooperD]

Went to see Dream Horse at the cinema yesterday. It was a good way to spend two hours but as previously mentioned there was a lot of artistic licence involved. As someone who has owned racehorses in the past there were a few liberties taken but it does say based on a true story at the begining of the film. Worth seeing however. 6/10.

[whoami]

CooperD said:

Went to see Dream Horse at the cinema yesterday. It was a good way to spend two hours but as previously mentioned there was a lot of artistic licence involved. As someone who has owned racehorses in the past there were a few liberties taken but it does say based on a true story at the begining of the film. Worth seeing however. 6/10.

If you’ve not already seen it, the documentary (Dark Horse) about the same subject is superb.

[Mortgage_tom]

Radec said:

Spiral - Book of Saw
Chris Rock takes the lead as the cop investigating the murders of fellow cops in Jigsaw-esque type murders.
Wasn't great and not even Sam L Jackson could save this.
Rock needs to stick to comedies as he doesn't have the range for this apart from his comedic rants.
Worst one yet.
4/10

This was so bad I turned it off. The casting of Chris Rock really doesnt work. It wouldnt have been a great film anyway but any slight suspension of disbelief you might have experianced is obliterated by officer Chris Rock.

[anonymous-user]

once upon a time in Hollywood.

Still 40 minutes too long, and not much action, but gets slightly better on second viewing. 6/10

The outpost, interesting, but a low budget and cheesey, but worth a watch. 8/10

[272BHP]

Antebellum

Heavy handed statement about race and American history wrapped up in a mystery that really doesn't hang together at all. I was hoping for something like 'Us' but this is just really poor.

4 out of 10

[Pommy]

Mortgage_tom said:

Radec said:

Spiral - Book of Saw
Chris Rock takes the lead as the cop investigating the murders of fellow cops in Jigsaw-esque type murders.
Wasn't great and not even Sam L Jackson could save this.
Rock needs to stick to comedies as he doesn't have the range for this apart from his comedic rants.
Worst one yet.
4/10

This was so bad I turned it off. The casting of Chris Rock really doesnt work. It wouldnt have been a great film anyway but any slight suspension of disbelief you might have experianced is obliterated by officer Chris Rock.

I cacked when I watched it when the way Chris conveyed his anger was a close up of a squinty quivering angry eye. It was like a school play actor.