Films I watched this week

[ajprice]

RBH58 said:

Nom de ploom said:

we watched Spectre last night.

hands down the worst bond since a view to a kill - terrible script, popcorn screenplay, anorexic plot and not enough screentime for Waltz.

really poor imho.

Yep...I’m a huge Bond fan and Spectre was a travesty. Christoph Waltz cast as Blofeld should have been brilliant...and it was a total dud. Rumour has it that the next one is a sequel. I think they should forget about it and move on.

When Christoph Waltz was announced for Spectre, I was hoping he would basically be Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, as bad guys go, he was brilliant in that. Blofeld wasn't anywhere close though.

[e30m3Mark]

Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri.

Watched online last night.

9/10

Excellent. Dark but very funny.

[droopsnoot]

Halb said:

Wonderful Star Wars doc on Sky Atlantic now
Elstree 1976

There was one on BBC4 a few weeks ago, basically bigging up the British contribution to the film, how it got to be made in Elstree and so on. Quite interesting, even though I haven't seen the film(s) as far as I can remember.

[Too Late]

Anyone seen "Shot Caller"

wow, what a great film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4633690/

[king arthur]

RBH58 said:

Nom de ploom said:

we watched Spectre last night.

hands down the worst bond since a view to a kill - terrible script, popcorn screenplay, anorexic plot and not enough screentime for Waltz.

really poor imho.

Yep...I’m a huge Bond fan and Spectre was a travesty. Christoph Waltz cast as Blofeld should have been brilliant...and it was a total dud. Rumour has it that the next one is a sequel. I think they should forget about it and move on.

I agree about Spectre. For some reason it felt like the whole was less than the sum of its parts. Great stunts, car chases, gadgets etc. but in the end just not a great film. In that way it reminded me of Quantum of Solace.

[toon10]

Caught up with a few movies over the holidays. A couple I can remember watching...

The Foreigner.

Jackie Chan revenge thriller. It was entertaining enough although it wasn't as dark or menacing as it could have been. Some good action and the plot (as flimsy as it was) flowed along at a good pace. 6.5/10

The Man from UNCLE.

Brain out, stylish action/espionage film. I'm a bit late to the party with this one. I actually enjoyed it despite a lot of negative reviews. Again, it's entertaining enough. 7/10

[parabolica]

toon10 said:

The Man from UNCLE.

Brain out, stylish action/espionage film. I'm a bit late to the party with this one. I actually enjoyed it despite a lot of negative reviews. Again, it's entertaining enough. 7/10

I really liked UNCLE - I put it in the same league as RED, Atomic Blonde, Free Fire etc in stylish action films that don't require brainpower.

[Watchman]

Criminal

I saw this film was recommended in this thread above somewhere… so I decided to give it a go. It had a lot of American and British A-list stars, was shot in and around London, involved some almost-believable science, and even had Kevin Costner’s character talking about paying XX “quid” for a car, all of which I liked.

The story was fairly predictable but enjoyable nonetheless. Critics hated it for its lack of originality. I confess, given the number of A-listers (Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Eve, Jordi Molla and Gal Gadot who must be an A-lister after Wonder Woman), I am surprised at the lack of gloss associated with the predictable storyline and the shooting location, and I’m not sure I’d have paid to watch it at the cinema, but as a New Year’s day/evening movie at home, it struck the right chord.

7/10

[Veeayt]

Too Late said:

Anyone seen "Shot Caller"[/img]

I saw i recently. Yes, it's excellent

[Clockwork Cupcake]

toon10 said:

The Man from UNCLE.

Brain out, stylish action/espionage film. I'm a bit late to the party with this one. I actually enjoyed it despite a lot of negative reviews. Again, it's entertaining enough. 7/10

I enjoyed it too. My only criticism (apart from the glaring continuity errors, gaping plot holes, and anachronisms) was that it played out like an origin story for a TV series rather than as a standalone film.

[BigGriff540]

iwantagta said:

Kong Skull Island - brain out fun. 7/10.
(Brie Larson in tank top assisted score)

Good shout, we enjoyed this one.

[anonymous-user]

Veeayt said:

I saw i recently. Yes, it's excellent

i watched it, it is an interesting story but way too far fetched.

[iwantagta]

The Zoo Keepers wife - Story about a family endeavouring to save Jews in Warsaw.

Emotional as one would expect.

Its no Schindlers list but is good - one of those films i would never have watched based purely on the name - sounded like a st rom-com!

Some people really did some amazingly great things during that dark period in history.

[Rich_W]

king arthur said:

RBH58 said:

Nom de ploom said:

we watched Spectre last night.

hands down the worst bond since a view to a kill - terrible script, popcorn screenplay, anorexic plot and not enough screentime for Waltz.

really poor imho.

Yep...I’m a huge Bond fan and Spectre was a travesty. Christoph Waltz cast as Blofeld should have been brilliant...and it was a total dud. Rumour has it that the next one is a sequel. I think they should forget about it and move on.

I agree about Spectre. For some reason it felt like the whole was less than the sum of its parts. Great stunts, car chases, gadgets etc. but in the end just not a great film. In that way it reminded me of Quantum of Solace.

To quote Richard Adoyade




They aren't GOOD films in the main. And they all have daft plot holes.

[Pesty]

I was rounded on in here when I said spectre was st

[Halb]

Difficult to know what they'll do next it was so bad.

[Jonesy23]

Pesty said:

I was rounded on in here when I said spectre was st

It's barely watchable. Good ingredients but the end product is garbage. The worst in the entire series as I can't think of a single scene that's any good.

[Quickmoose]

Well I liked Q and the new M
And I'll add Monica Belluci and leave it that.....

For me new Bond and new Star Wars tread similar paths.
Great ensemble cast, big names, great scores, polished beautiful results..... But whoever is writing them needs to go back to school..... I mean I loved Casino Royale... But you can't defend either brand due the ridiculous 'plots'......

Edited by Quickmoose on Tuesday 2nd January 23:50

[ukaskew]

Molly's Game

Basically Jessica Chastain on screen talking for 135 minutes (which I'm fine with), with a healthy amount of Idris Elba on screen talking to her (which I'm also fine with).

Easily half an hour too long but great zippy dialogue as you'd expect from Sorkin and superb performances from the two leads. The scenes with the two of them are easily the standout moments.

Enjoyed it despite it going heavy on poker terminology and strategy at times, which I don't get. It wasn't exactly The Big Short in getting the heavier stuff across, but I guess more people get poker than trading.

[Halb]

droopsnoot said:

There was one on BBC4 a few weeks ago, basically bigging up the British contribution to the film, how it got to be made in Elstree and so on. Quite interesting, even though I haven't seen the film(s) as far as I can remember.

The Galaxy that Britain built. A more straightforward doc, and an extremely good one.
This was a more personal talking head doc. Listening to the hierarchy tails between the featured artists and the background artists is amusing. Sad that Prowse is banned from the official Disney/Lucasfilm cons. They all appeared OK, up until the very last chat where Lyons utterly contradicts himself about not being able to learn lines, reminded me of Andy Millman from Extras.