What was the last film you watched?

[citoyen]

Finally got round to seeing Barbie last night. It's excellent. Very funny. No confusing timeline nonsense, although there are one or two plot holes and a couple of bits that don't really make sense but I was happy to be taken along for the ride. Just the right length and no need for subtitles either.

[L CC]

Thks TimO, Avatar Whatever on the list now for next time.

We couldn't finish it. It's shite.

[T42]

Thks TimO, Avatar Whatever on the list now for next time.

We couldn't finish it. It's shite.

Can well believe it.  Post-ride shattericity dulls my critical senses, though.

[ian]

Thks TimO, Avatar Whatever on the list now for next time.

We couldn't finish it. It's shite.

Saw the first one, once I tired of the candy-coated CGI, the underlying plot was fairly tedious. I have no urge to see the latest one.

[Kim]

Avatar: The Way of Water.

Top Tip:  Just watch the end credits.  That way you get lots of pretty CGI alien sea creatures without any of the plot.

[Jaded]

Thks TimO, Avatar Whatever on the list now for next time.

We couldn't finish it. It's shite.

Saw the first one, once I tired of the candy-coated CGI, the underlying plot was fairly tedious. I have no urge to see the latest one.

The first one was !!3D!! Yes!! EVEN THE TINY SCREENS on screen ARE 3D!!!!! PS Bad people with lovely big machines kill the tree. HORNY BLUE GIRLS!!!

[Jakob]

To Catch A Killer on Netflix. Decent enough?

[andyoxon]

Tenet

Again.  Pretty sure that no one fully understood this 'most confusing ever' film at the first time of watching.  Did some timeline & plot 'research' which helped.

[Kim]

Tenet

Again.  Pretty sure that no one fully understood this 'most confusing ever' film at the first time of watching.  Did some timeline & plot 'research' which helped.

Presumably that's 'most confusing ever' as rated by people who've never seen Primer (2004)

[andyoxon]

Could be.  Have to watch Primer - budget $7000, Tenet $205 million.   

[rafletcher]

A documentary, Apache Warrior, about the first US Apache helicopter sortie of the Iraq war in 2003. Talking heads of the crews involved, and in-flight video & audio from 3 of the helicopters.  The calmness under fire was remarkable, as was the demeanour of the pilot whose gunner was wounded.

[Woofage]

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
I saw this at the cinema when it was released and didn't enjoy it much due to its departure from the original story. However, this recent viewing with fresh eyes has changed my opinion and it really is a great film. The animation is superb and the voice actors were well chosen. Excellent soundtrack too.

Barbie
We went to see what the fuss was all about. Really enjoyed it! Particularly liked the opening scene.

[T42]

L'Empereur de Paris, based on the career of Eugène-François Vidocq from his escape from the Toulouse bagne (slave-labour prison) to becoming head of the Sûreté.  Vincent Cassel at his most villainous.

[Legs]

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
…departure from the original story…

Of all the Ronald Dahl children’s stories, which I’ve read countless times as a child and as a parent, FMF absolutely bores me to tears.  So little happens in the story that I’m reduced to doing silly voices (Rat as Cockney, Badger as plummy-voiced country squire…) just to amuse myself as I read it to my little ones for the umpteenth time…

[Kim]

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
…departure from the original story…

Of all the Ronald Dahl children’s stories, which I’ve read countless times as a child and as a parent, FMF absolutely bores me to tears.  So little happens in the story that I’m reduced to doing silly voices (Rat as Cockney, Badger as plummy-voiced country squire…) just to amuse myself as I read it to my little ones for the umpteenth time…

Completely agree.  It was one of the stories we had on audio tape when I was a child, which - because younger sibling who found great comfort in repetition - meant I was regularly throwing up to it on long car journeys.  It doesn't even make sense.

[L CC]

Boggis and Bunce and Bean. One fat one short one lean. These terrible crooks, so different in looks, are nonetheless equally mean.

Clearly FMF predates the failure of the fix to memory protocol.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
…departure from the original story…

Of all the Ronald Dahl children’s stories, which I’ve read countless times as a child and as a parent, FMF absolutely bores me to tears.  So little happens in the story that I’m reduced to doing silly voices (Rat as Cockney, Badger as plummy-voiced country squire…) just to amuse myself as I read it to my little ones for the umpteenth time…

I always did voices? Isn't that part of the fun?

[Kim]

I always did voices? Isn't that part of the fun?

I was greatly amused to see niece ask SIL to read her a story.  "No, do it like granny!" she protests.

SIL then switches from her usual Manc to dubious (but far better than I could manage) Glaswegian.  "That's better!"


To be fair, I've been known to watch videos of Big Clive dismantling uninteresting Chinese tat before bed, which is the grown up geeky version of soothing bedtime stories.

[Legs]

Late to the party as always, I watched Green Book on iPlayer over the weekend.  Five stars.

[rafletcher]

A Storyville about the Genesis of Israel, the Blue Box. Fascinating

[Woofage]

The Menu
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Everyone's a dick, and everybody dies, except for one person who cleverly decides not to be such a dick.

[T42]

The Misfits.  Vile cruelty to horses with a hefty dose of 50's sexism + Arthur Miller's hokey philosophizing.  Watchable though.  Nice aeroplane fsvo nice.  Appeared to have a 5-cylinder radial engine. Didn't know that was a thing. Smoother I suppose.

Ahah: http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Misfits

The plane and the two main stars all looked pretty raddled.

[Kim]

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Basically a greatest hits album, in the style of Terminator: Dark Fate

Far too long and completely unoriginal, but less embarrassingly shit than the last one.

[T42]

The Manchurian Candidate, the original one with F. Sinatra and L. Harvey.  Stilted acting or crappy direction (John Frankenheimer), or maybe everyone spoke like that back then.  L. Harvey came across as a prize shit, but maybe that was because he had the reputation of a prize shit in private life.  Oh well.

[rogerzilla]

Airport, the film mainly known for being parodied by Airplane!

It's the best of the series (Airport '80 rivals Airplane! for comedy, unintentionally).  Some very good cinematic touches, like the sounds of the airport before the picture fades in from a black screen, and some terrible ones, like the liberal use of split screen.  The male actors mostly ham it up, especially George Kennedy, but the women are excellent.

[andyoxon]

Equalizer 3. 

Quite well done.  Denzel is always good value, but you really know more or less what to expect if you've seen Eq 1 & 2.

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Baddy minions throwing weight around in the close knit community, don't heed Robert's warning, & get what's coming.  Head honcho baddy has a strop & also gets what's coming, along with their small army. Plus some assorted plot 'tie-ins'