Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[Halb]

Yeah, it's a good film. I watched it at the pics, he starts off as a disgruntled employee, but the façade is revealed and we see a quite mentally ill person, it's a clever gimmick and may not sit well for repeated screenings.
I stll have the Empire mag (along with around 100 others) where they go over his route...it's impossible.

[LuS1fer]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Ballad of Buster Scruggs

was a bit 'Black Mirror: Wild West' but bloody brilliant with it

Opening scene does NOT set the mood for the rest of the film

A bit weird and inconsistent IMHO. Some great bits, some unresolved including the last part

[Pesty]

Cold said:

Ref Falling Down,
The way the viewer's sympathy/empathy towards Douglas' character switches part-way through the film is what makes it such a good movie. One moment you're nodding your head, the next his actions are making you feel a little uncomfortable and finally you just want the nutcase locking up for the safety of the public and his daughter.
All that within a couple of hours of movie time.

Oh you’re supposed to switch sympathy I was team d fens all through.

Well the fast food part was a bit Dickish rest all good.

[NoVetec]

Halb said:

I stll have the Empire mag (along with around 100 others) where they go over his route...it's impossible.

In a you can't do the Sopranos opening theme drive geographically correctly sense or Borat's flight plan from Almaty to JFK sense?

[SeanyD]

Watched "The Farm" yesterday, okay, but seriously fk'ed up film. Gruesome in places.

[poing]

The Greatest Showman

It's a musical. I hate musicals but was told this would change my mind. After watching this I still hate musicals.

[irocfan]

Widows - a not too bad little heist movie, enjoyable

[Mothersruin]

'Der Hauptmann'

German film - good film, st to watch at times. Subtitled.

Last few weeks of WWII, a deserting Private manages to escapes, finds a suitcase full of a Luftwaffe Captain's gear and decides to become that Captain, or 'Hauptmann'.

Amasses a band of merry men and somehow ends up running a detention camp for other deserters/crims.

And it's a true story.

7.5 Warcrimes out of Nuremberg.

[trooperiziz]

Beyond Suspicion on Sky, with Karl Urban in it.
Utter trash 1/10

[phazed]

Blood Father

I needed something light and entertaining last night and this didn't disappoint.

Mel Gibson does what Mel Gibson does best. A reformed drinker /Ex con suddenly has his estranged daughter turn up in dire trouble. Plenty of fun action and a storyline that doesn't really matter , perfect for this film.

7.2 tats/a full ink canvas

[Halb]

NoVetec said:

In a you can't do the Sopranos opening theme drive geographically correctly sense or Borat's flight plan from Almaty to JFK sense?

From what I recall, geographical walking, you can't walk to all them places how Defens does. The director's response was that he wasn't making a fking documentary, or somesuch.
Never seen Borat, and I didn't know the SOpranos opening is another 'con.'

[SpeckledJim]

NoVetec said:

Halb said:

I stll have the Empire mag (along with around 100 others) where they go over his route...it's impossible.

In a you can't do the Sopranos opening theme drive geographically correctly sense or Borat's flight plan from Almaty to JFK sense?

Costner's Robin Hood: lands at Dover and makes his way home to Nottingham. Via Hadrian's Wall.

[gavsdavs]

CharlieH89 said:

Seven.
I had always watched the start of it and never got past half way.
Really enjoyed it having sat down tonight and watched it all.
What an ending.

In my view this is a masterpiece of film making. Can't watch it too often as I don't want to become numb to the crimes and the finale, but all three leads were excellent in it.

[daddy cool]

Watched "American Animals" over the weekend - true story of a heist of some rare books from a US university by 4 students. Half dramatised, half interviews with the actual crims and victims, and really put together well to show how different members have differing recollections of what happened, and who's idea it was...
8/10

[Adam B]

Lady Bird

excellent teen coming-of-age drama brilliantly acted by Saoirse Ronan - 7.5/10

[Munter]

CREED2

Now I've not seen any rocky movie or creed. So....let's say I'm not invested in the characters. Who all seemed like the sort of people you'd try to avoid in your day to day life. Grown men who should know better and should perhaps grow up and deflate their ego a bit.

Anyway...from what the others I went with said, it follows the same formula as the previous film(s). So if you like them...you'd' probably like this.

Judging by other people I say: 4/5
Myself: 2/5 (Bored)

[Halb]

Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky Balboa are top tier films, 3 and 4 are good fun, and 5 is pretty boring/awful. Not seen either of the Creeds, but it's an impressive franchise and the only one of it's kind I think of that age, Bond is quite different as it's not a linear story.

[irocfan]

SpeckledJim said:

NoVetec said:

Halb said:

I stll have the Empire mag (along with around 100 others) where they go over his route...it's impossible.

In a you can't do the Sopranos opening theme drive geographically correctly sense or Borat's flight plan from Almaty to JFK sense?

Costner's Robin Hood: lands at Dover and makes his way home to Nottingham. Via Hadrian's Wall.

well obviously his satnav was on the fritz

[droopsnoot]

irocfan said:

SpeckledJim said:

NoVetec said:

Halb said:

I stll have the Empire mag (along with around 100 others) where they go over his route...it's impossible.

In a you can't do the Sopranos opening theme drive geographically correctly sense or Borat's flight plan from Almaty to JFK sense?

Costner's Robin Hood: lands at Dover and makes his way home to Nottingham. Via Hadrian's Wall.

well obviously his satnav was on the fritz

Not unusual though. I remember being unreasonably annoyed that the start of Tom Clancy's novel "Rainbow Six" was marred by the crack US team landing at RAF Northolt, driving south and somehow still arriving at Hereford.

Watched "Papadopoulis and Sons" (sp?) the other day, from a recording earlier in the year. Not as good as I was hoping when I recorded it, turned into an entirely predictable tale of a businessman losing everything except one tiny shop then finding he prefers the simple life of running that shop. Obviously meets a girl along the way, re-connects with his kids and brother, makes friends with the locals. A bit predictable really.

[LuS1fer]

Weinstein Backlash Season

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Not a bad film, by any stretch of the imagination but as ridiculously silly and far-fetched as most of this genre action film tends to be.
A sort of MI/007 meets chick flick and none the worse for it.
Lots of recycled stunts and action cliches, from other movies, just to show the girls can pull it off too, albeit in a more accidental way.
Same old, same old cliched characters, toying with your mind as to who the bad guys really are.
It's like a remake of a soup of other movies.
All been done before but perfectly watchable and entertaining.

6 birds out of a flock of 10

Peppermint

Rather darker and in the mould of Atomic Blonde, Kill Bill etc.
The meek and mild lead character, played by Jennifer Garner, watches her family being executed and watches the mocking killers walk free via a corrupt justice system (cliched Mexican drug dealers).
For no obvious or good reason, she inexplicably manages to totally transform into a devastatingly clinical fighter and assassin who, despite repeated fatal wounds, applies a sticking plaster and retains full death-inducing combat functions and the ability to resurrect faster than Jesus himself (or do I mean herself... other religions are available)
Summary justice is dispensed, in full "action film cliche" mode.
It's nothing you haven't seen before but, again, quite watchable.

7 implausible escapes out of 10..

Needless to say, none of the female leads is exactly ugly, otherwise you might not watch them.