What was the last film you watched?

[Ian H]

I only watch films at the cinema.  The Lady in the Van this evening.  One of those films that are so good you ignore/forget/forgive all the faults.

[Andrew]

Irrational Man - don't bother.

If you've seen a Woody Allen film before then you've seen this one.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Jobs.  A bit disappointing, but then I was never a fan.  Amusing dialogue as suggested by the trailer and at least they acknowledged Alan Turing.  California? It ticked all my boxes. 

.. I did like the remark that the most efficient animal on the planet was a human riding a bicycle:

I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs

Maybe a human on a Condor bicycle is more efficient still especially if it has a cycle computer..

[mattc]

I only watch films at the cinema.  The Lady in the Van this evening.  One of those films that are so good you ignore/forget/forgive all the faults.

Really?!?

If true, there's a certain cool to that.

[L CC]

Mockingjay part 2 OMFG THE HUNGER GAMES.

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Chuck me, it's Brienne of Tarth!

Aside from that, it's part 4 of a series I've seen all of, read several times. Jennifer Lawrence really is very good, but I knew what was going to happen and wasn't really awed by it. No surprises, which makes it less OMFG than its predecessors, but not because it's less good.

[tiermat]

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.

Not a patch on the first one, feels like a "quick let's jump on the bandwagon" film.

The zombies are really scary, though.

[ian]

Gravity, on the little telly this time. A nice, compact film, doesn't need to overload back story and motivation, beyond that you're stuck the fuck in space and it's a long way down. Not quite the Imax spectacle, the space station coming apart and the sense of vertigo is quite literally breathtaking on a screen that captures your entire visual field, but it was still impressive scaled down to 45 inch in my living room.

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But yeah, the bit where Georgie drifts off still rankles, because physics.

[BrianI]

The vacation of tomorrow, today!

I watched Westworld (1973) last night.  Great movie, and one of the first films to use digital image processing to create the "android pixellated vision" effect:

Westworld was the first feature film to use digital image processing. Crichton originally went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, but after learning that two minutes of animation would take nine months and cost $200,000, he contacted John Whitney Sr., who in turn recommended his son John Whitney Jr. The latter went to Information International, Inc., where they could work at night and complete the animation both faster and much cheaper.[15] John Whitney, Jr. digitally processed motion picture photography at Information International, Inc. to appear pixelized in order to portray the Gunslinger android's point of view.[4] The approximately 2 minutes and 31 seconds worth of cinegraphic block portraiture was accomplished by color-separating (three basic color separations plus black mask) each frame of source 70 mm film images, scanning each of these elements to convert into rectangular blocks, then adding basic color according to the tone values developed.[16] The resulting coarse pixel matrix was output back to film.[17] The process was covered in the American Cinematographer article "Behind the scenes of Westworld"[18] and in a 2013 New Yorker online article.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld

[Mrs Pingu]

Touching The Void.

Again.

A documentary about events in 1985, when Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made the first ascent of Siula Grande, and Joe had a terrible accident on the way down the mountain.  Simon made a heroic, mad attempt to rescue Joe but in the end Joe was suspended by a rope, and Simon had to cut the rope and leave Joe for dead on the mountain.

I never get tired of this film.  It's a harrowing testament to the power of human will, and the hunger for life.  It's one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.  Good use of music, too.  Good extras on the DVD.

Brown girl in the ring, tralalala!

[Ruthie]

Touching The Void.

Again.

A documentary about events in 1985, when Joe Simpson and Simon Yates made the first ascent of Siula Grande, and Joe had a terrible accident on the way down the mountain.  Simon made a heroic, mad attempt to rescue Joe but in the end Joe was suspended by a rope, and Simon had to cut the rope and leave Joe for dead on the mountain.

I never get tired of this film.  It's a harrowing testament to the power of human will, and the hunger for life.  It's one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.  Good use of music, too.  Good extras on the DVD.

Brown girl in the ring, tralalala!

I know.  Poor bastard.

[Mr Larrington]

Mad Max

Make sure you poke the appropriate buttons on the remote to get it in the original Australian and not the piss-boilingly awful USAnian dubbed soundtrack.  Considering its rep for violence very few people actually get killed utterly to DETH on camera too.

[Mr Larrington]

Mad Max 2

Are you beginning to sense a theme here?  Just as good as it ever was.  It's 29 minutes shorter than Mad Max 4, which probably means that the latter is at least thirty minutes too long.

[T42]

Mad Max

Make sure you poke the appropriate buttons on the remote to get it in the original Australian and not the piss-boilingly awful USAnian dubbed soundtrack.  Considering its rep for violence very few people actually get killed utterly to DETH on camera too.

Not a yardstick. There's only about 1½ totally killed in Green Street.

[tiermat]

Ant-Man

I liked it, it was funny in the right places and scary in a few others.

We followed this with Ep1 of "Jessica Jones".  Two extremes of the Marvel Universe you will not be able to find!

[fuzzy]

No Escape

Owen Wilson is the father of a family going ex pat to the Far East for work. On arrival it all gets a bit fraught.

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Not a bad film but the ending left me quite flat

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

The Dressmaker.    Bizarre and surreal black comedy set in the Outback.  I found it amusing but that's just me.. 

[fuzzy]

Just completed the Harry Potter Septology (again) followed by Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace.

I know............

[L CC]

Horns

On Netflix. Right weird. Must've been good because despite not really watching it (the reason I go to the cinema for my filmic requirements) I was fairly gripped to the point of a repeated "WTF" conversation with No1Daughter.

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Horns

On Netflix. Right weird. Must've been good because despite not really watching it (the reason I go to the cinema for my filmic requirements) I was fairly gripped to the point of a repeated "WTF" conversation with No1Daughter.

I've read the book. So damn confused - gripping, yes - but when I finished the book I was left with the feeling that it was a very pointless story that wasn't all that entertaining.

[Andrew]

Jude - featuring 2 young Dr Who's (or should that be whose?) and a similarly young and very nekid Kate Winslett.

I dunno, I know I should have liked it. Michael Winterbottom is a very capable film maker, the actors acted earnestly, it was a good if bleak (very bleak) tale told well but... I found it slow and dull and ultimately a bit empty. Maybe that was the point. Life sucks and it rains... a lot.  Guess I was just in the wrong mood.

[Kim]

2 young Dr Who's (or should that be whose?)

"Doctors Who"?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Bridge of Spies

One of the best films I have seen for a while. Recommended.

it reminded me of watching 'Fail-Safe' a very of a long time ago and the atmosphere of those times.

[BrianI]

Aftermath (2012)

A nice cheery film (not) about the 30 days following a nuclear "exchange", with some unmentioned enemy and the US of A.
The aftermath of the exchange apparently results in zombie like cannibals?!?

[Ruthie]

The Goonies

Starring an even shorter Sam Gamgee.

I bloody love that film.  It's absolutely fantastic.

[Andrew]

The Goonies

I bloody love that film.  It's absolutely fantastic.

Agreed. It is one of my all time fave films - and I'm being serious!