Films I watched this week
Discussion
iwantagta said:
frisbee said:
Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.
Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version. Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
Daniel1 said:
Winter soldier is far superior.
Like age of Ultron, civil war just draggggggged on
Winter Soldier reminded me of On Her Majesties Secret Service, the hero hunted and helpless, it really helps you connect to them. They need to do a proper Diana Rigg tragic love interest in one of these films though, there is no real sense of loss in any of them.Like age of Ultron, civil war just draggggggged on
frisbee said:
iwantagta said:
frisbee said:
Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.
Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version. Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
poing said:
frisbee said:
iwantagta said:
frisbee said:
Demolition Man, a 90s classic. I hadn't remembered how impressive (and fit!) Sandra Bullock is in it, she's speaking a completely alien language.
Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
Love this film - was it the Taco Bell version or the awesomely badly dubbed Pizza Hut Version. Lots of nice little touches in it, like the swearing the fines and the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8
digimeistter said:
Can't disagree with most of this, the music was intense and not particularly enjoyable. I didn't see anything like 400,000 troops stranded, a good CGI would have been preferred to depict the realistic scale of what happened. I guess they spent it on the planes.
Still good though 7/10
I think the whole point of Dunkirk was to do a different war-film than others in the past, it was story film set in a war arena and from the perspective of individual soldiers, who might not see the bigger picture. I enjoyed it, as i enjoyed the story and not the historical inaccuracies.Still good though 7/10
John Wick
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
Essentially someone kills Keanu Reeves dog and nicks his car. As a retired hitman he then goes on a revenge fuelled rampage killing everyone remotely involved.
I'm guessing he needed the money
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
Essentially someone kills Keanu Reeves dog and nicks his car. As a retired hitman he then goes on a revenge fuelled rampage killing everyone remotely involved.
I'm guessing he needed the money
iwantagta said:
Life on Sky movies.
A bit average and formulaic but it romps along quickly enough.
6/10.
Watched it last night.A bit average and formulaic but it romps along quickly enough.
6/10.
Edited by iwantagta on Sunday 10th December 16:30
a few jumpy bits but through it was ok at best so your 6/10 I agree. would not get a higher score from me either
Shakermaker said:
I've never seen the badly dubbed Pizza Hut version to my knowledge, I thought that was only for other markets where they've never heard of Taco Bell but which also are not the UK...
I'd never even heard of Taco Bell when I first saw Demolition Man 
The Pizza Hut dubbed version is news to me though, that's terrible The Angles' Share.
A brilliant little film set mainly in Glasgow about a lad who narrowly avoides jail and through his community service leader obtains an interest in whiskey and it's making.
If you haven't seen it, I won't say anything more but it is a brilliant little film, hugely entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable. Directed by Ken Loach it has many comedic moments but also the seriousness and desperation running in the background.
8/10
A brilliant little film set mainly in Glasgow about a lad who narrowly avoides jail and through his community service leader obtains an interest in whiskey and it's making.
If you haven't seen it, I won't say anything more but it is a brilliant little film, hugely entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable. Directed by Ken Loach it has many comedic moments but also the seriousness and desperation running in the background.
8/10
ukaskew said:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 9/10
Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.
Screen Unseen lastnight?Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.
It was really good. Didn't know anything about it, and I avoided the chatter about the clues on Facebook/Twitter leading up to it.
One of my favourites of the year
slk 32 said:
John Wick
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
My thoughts exactly.Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.
It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Solace. Better than I thought it was going to be, with Anthony Hopkins as a retired psychic brought back to help with a case. Very watchable, marred only by my ageing PVR having various sound-stuttering incidents. One of few films I recall where they crash a car and, when getting out of the car, move as if they've just been in a car crash, rather than all sprightly as if nothing happened.
frisbee said:
Winter Soldier reminded me of On Her Majesties Secret Service, the hero hunted and helpless, it really helps you connect to them. They need to do a proper Diana Rigg tragic love interest in one of these films though, there is no real sense of loss in any of them.
I get the impression that's coming.phazed said:
slk 32 said:
John Wick
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
My thoughts exactly.Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.
It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
ajprice said:
ukaskew said:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 9/10
Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.
Screen Unseen lastnight?Wonderful understated film with a couple of fantastic performances (Rockwell and McDormand in particular). Dark but funny and nice to see an ending that absolutely hasn't been Hollywoodised.
It was really good. Didn't know anything about it, and I avoided the chatter about the clues on Facebook/Twitter leading up to it.
One of my favourites of the year
O like, Life, best sci-fi horror for years.
SOlace, I watched it, it was OK, Hopkins can make anything watchable.
slk 32 said:
John Wick
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
Essentially someone kills Keanu Reeves dog and nicks his car. As a retired hitman he then goes on a revenge fuelled rampage killing everyone remotely involved.
I'm guessing he needed the money
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
Essentially someone kills Keanu Reeves dog and nicks his car. As a retired hitman he then goes on a revenge fuelled rampage killing everyone remotely involved.
I'm guessing he needed the money
phazed said:
My thoughts exactly.
I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.
It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
wrong. John Wick is one of the greatest pieces of cinema to ever contribute to the zeitgeist.I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.
It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Daniel1 said:
phazed said:
slk 32 said:
John Wick
Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
My thoughts exactly.Terrible, terrible film.
Watched it on netflix and suckered in as was convinced it had to get better. I was wrong.
I watched most of it at double the speed convinced it must get better but sadly not.
It surely must rate with one of the worst films I've ever seen.
With hindsight, Wonder Woman was a more realistic film.
I have never got Reeves as an actor but fair play to him, he's managed to fool most of the people most of the time.
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