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

[Cotty]

I know Dog Soldiers is billed as a horror but I didn't know that when I first watched it. I never really though about it as scary or gory, but there was a lot of black humor.

I still hate the knife on teeth scene

[Clockwork Cupcake]

ch37 said:

Dog Soldiers

Not seen this for many, many years. Showing its age a bit but great fun, the stomach scene is as funny/gross as I'd remembered it. Love it.

"My guts are hanging out!"
"Well shove them back in!"
"They won't fit!!"

[272BHP]

Oilchange said:

Captain Fantastic (2016)

Moving and beautifully acted, a family reintegrating through sad circumstances from a wilderness existence. Viggo Mortensen nominated for golden globe, BAFTA and best actor Oscar!

A bullseye with a bow and arrow.

Wonderful film. Up there with the best of feel good movies.

[NMNeil]

Pommy said:

Thanks I didnt know that. I couldn't find an English subtitled version.

I hope this works for the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w&vl...

[Saleen836]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

ch37 said:

Dog Soldiers

Not seen this for many, many years. Showing its age a bit but great fun, the stomach scene is as funny/gross as I'd remembered it. Love it.

"My guts are hanging out!"
"Well shove them back in!"
"They won't fit!!"

"I hope I give you the fu*&ing sh*ts!"

[NMNeil]

JagLover said:

But a necessary film.

Even many of those who know about Nazi crimes tend to glamourize German soldiers somewhat. That is the reality of what they were doing on the Eastern front in thousand upon thousand of Russian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian villages and towns.

I understand, just as Schindler's List, Coniston, My Lai Four and Soldier Blue were necessary to show atrocities against civilian populations during conflicts or invasions.
I just found it difficult to believe it was one of the best war films; certainly one of the most horrifying.

[vixen1700]

NMNeil said:

I watched Come and See, one of the supposedly "Best war films ever made".
I strongly disagree, and found it simply disturbing.

Haven't watched it in years, but you're right, it is disturbing and so it should be really.

[spikeyhead]

I watched Wasteland last night, a tale of a bloke trying to work out who he was prior to getting a severe beating.

It would have been better titled "Waste of Time."

[ch37]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"My guts are hanging out!"
"Well shove them back in!"
"They won't fit!!"

Took my now wife to see this on a date when we were both 20, amazing that she stuck around really. I mentioned that I had watched it today and despite her not seeing it since that night 19 years ago, she quoted this bit without hesitating!

[Doofus]

ch37 said:

Took my now wife to see this on a date when we were both 20, amazing that she stuck around really. I mentioned that I had watched it today and despite her not seeing it since that night 19 years ago, she quoted this bit without hesitating!

I took my first wife to see Above The Law, Steven Seagal's first movie.

It was st and, it transpired, she was totally fking bonkers.

The two facts may not be related...

[popeyewhite]

Doofus said:

I took my first wife to see Above The Law, Steven Seagal's first movie.

It was st and, it transpired, she was totally fking bonkers.

The two facts may not be related...

Above the Law is Nico isn't it? Maybe that's the UK release title. Brilliant movie back then!

[Radec]

Gone, baby Gone - 2007 - Netflix

Think this has recently been added to Netflix, as it's something that I've not seen thought I'd give it a watch.

Thriller directed by Ben Affleck set in Boston (guess Mark Walhberg lost out to nepotism).

A 4 year old girl has gone missing, the girls auntie and uncle hire a private investigator (Casey Affleck) and his girlfriend to find her.

Great film with a great cast including Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris.

If you haven't seen it then definitely recommend.

8/10

[droopsnoot]

Harry Brown on the TV last night. That's a depressing film most of the way through, though it gets going a bit when he starts shooting. I first saw this around the same time as "Gran Torino" and was somehow hoping the latter would head more in the same direction.

[RizzoTheRat]

Sean the sheep: Farmageddon

Not as good as the original but plenty of humour and an ok plot.

[Doofus]

RizzoTheRat said:

Sean the sheep: Farmageddon

Not as good as the original but plenty of humour and an ok plot.

I didn't know it was a remake.

[JohnnyF2]

Targets (1968)

I've been watching a lot of 60's / 70's thrillers lately. This one is an under-the-radar Thriller / Exploitation film from 1968, which apparently Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of.

Basically a mild-mannered, clean-cut, all-American young-man has an unhealthy interest in firearms, particularly sniper rifles, and decides to create mayhem along a nearly freeway, and it escalates from there.

Notable for being Boris Karloff's last dramatic role, playing to type as a fading, embittered Horror Movie star! Also notable is the first appearance of Frank Marshall, who has a small role as a ticket boy at a drive-in. He later went on to produce countless blockbusters from the 80s onwards, (Back to The Future, Indiana Jones, Bourne, etc)

Quite topical at the time of release, so soon after the shootings/assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King.

An enjoyable thriller, the main character reminded me of De Niro in Taxi Driver, or Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler... weird psychos existing on the fringes of society.

An 8 out of 10 from me.

[gavsdavs]

The Father (2020)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10272386/)

I've not been touched by a relative with a degenerative brain condition so I can't say if this is realistic but.....

Anthony Hopkins plays an ageing father slowly losing his memory of things recent and long gone. Supported by Olivia Colman this is a touching but arguably distressing story of his confusion, anger, loss as time moves on. Feeling people are out to get him, steal from him, remove him from his home. Not recognising people without medicine in the morning.

Not an easy way, but outstanding character work by all players. Leaves you feeling fortunate that you're still compus mentus.

8 out of 10 marbles. Recommended.

[normalbloke]

droopsnoot said:

Harry Brown on the TV last night. That's a depressing film most of the way through, though it gets going a bit when he starts shooting. I first saw this around the same time as "Gran Torino" and was somehow hoping the latter would head more in the same direction.

Don’t watch Tyrannosaur then...

[LuS1fer]

Pommy said:

Adam. said:

Schmed said:

Infinite (2021)

Critics hated it but with shades of Inception, Highlander and the Matrix, anything that starts with a Testarossa outrunning police cars through Mexico City (featuring a classic Aston), and then later on seeing a Vantage driven through a building without a scratch, this held my attention. Mostly.

‘Soulless action flick’, but absolutely worth a watch. 6/10

Crikey, is that a score or how far you get through it?

It's fking awful. Genuinely a terrible film.

It's absolutely dire from bad CGI to Wahlberg wanting to be Tom Cruise, ham acting from most actors, the clichéd nonsense script, lack of any palpable tension or depth to any character so no-one cared if they died, utter bilge. All the baddy had to do was shoot himself with his own bullet. 2/10.

[Supercilious Sid]

Johnnytheboy said:

Vampire Circus (1972).

Love me an old Hammer movie in a tongue-in-cheek guilty pleasure kind of way, but this was an absolute corker.

Plot synopsis: town isolated by plague is visited by strange circus, who start killing the residents.

Very eerie atmosphere and plenty of pretty girls with very little on.

Naked body-paint covered dancer a highlight:



8 sinister carnies out of 10 underdressed seventies lovelies

If you liked that try Blood on Satan's Claw or Horror Hospital.