Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 951519 times)

tiermat · « **Reply #6075 on:** 28 February, 2016, 06:37:14 pm »

Spectre

It's a Bond film, that about covers it.

bumper · « **Reply #6076 on:** 28 February, 2016, 06:39:48 pm »

Quote from: caerau on 28 February, 2016, 04:27:58 pm

Quote from: bumper on 15 February, 2016, 07:34:58 pm
Mad Max Fury Road

2 hours watching a truck being driven across sand.

Ah I'm not alone, thank god for that.

welcome to the club, now 2 strong

ElyDave · « **Reply #6077 on:** 28 February, 2016, 08:13:20 pm »

Water

an unusual Indian film in that it has a plot that does not revolve around spurious dances apparently in the Swiss Alps as a quick change from Mumbai.

This one was set in Bombay (as was) in 1938 with the backdrop of the growing independence movement. The plot is a child bride whos is widowed and sent to live in poverty in a house of other widows of all ages. A depressing fate as widows were very unlikely to get re-married at that time as there was a taboo against doing so. Anyway, a bloke fallls in love with one of the widows, his parents say no, she kills herself, he buggers off with Ghandi's independence mob and the closing scene is one of the widows handing the child bride up to him on the departing train, I'm assuming with an implied bright future.

The best Indian film I've ever seen apart from a few Raj Kapoor numbers

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #6078 on:** 29 February, 2016, 08:09:15 am »

The Fault In Our Stars

Pass the kleenex.

Jaded · « **Reply #6079 on:** 29 February, 2016, 08:11:50 am »

So Mad Max wins 6 Oscars, it must be good!!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6080 on:** 29 February, 2016, 08:40:16 am »

I wouldn't argue with the ones it won but if anyone had felt short-changed by it not winning Best In Show I should be inclined to shun them.

ian · « **Reply #6081 on:** 29 February, 2016, 10:23:43 am »

Max Max and Mightily Miffed Road wasn't that bad. Or good. It's a Mad Max film. People dress up like they're trying to upset their mum and zoom around a sand pit in glorified go-karts. I did think driving from A-B to first half of the movie and back from B to A in the second was bit of cheating. She could have been driving to her nan's and back.

I didn't actually mind The Martian as a movie. It was the book that narked me. I can put aside bad science and windy days on Mars but then I wasn't the one saying how accurate the damn thing was. Other than, it seems, the bits that weren't accurate. As mentioned, watching Damon get rescued again is always good value, I'd pay those billions to get him back from his nan's. Just not in a go-kart.

mattc · « **Reply #6082 on:** 29 February, 2016, 10:28:38 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 29 February, 2016, 08:11:50 am

So Mad Max wins 6 Oscars, it must be good!!

It had good editing and sound.

(according to the Academy, anyway - I haven't even seen it).

You need a lot more to make a good movie.

Kim · « **Reply #6083 on:** 01 March, 2016, 01:22:43 pm »

Spike Island

Mancunian inbetweeners tragically fail to see a performance by a popular beat combo. Watchable enough, but I suppose you had to be there.

Power In Our Hands

British Deaf Association archive^[1] footage spliced together with interviews and given a civil rights narrative. Well worth watching, though it is a bit of a BDA love-fest. Already being familiar with most of the politics^[2], for me it was about seeing the language evolve over the course of a few generations, from furtive, high-baud-rate-low-throughput fingerspelly sign to the evocative BSL we know today. Some thought-provoking stuff on the importance of film/video as a historical record for sign language users.

Made by Deaf people, so lots of refreshingly sensible camerawork and annoying plinky music. In BSL with English subtitles.

ETA: Expanded 'BDA' for clarity.

_{[1] Read: found in a cupboard.
[2] If you aren't, it's a good introduction.}

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6084 on:** 01 March, 2016, 01:40:32 pm »

Took me a while to work out that "BDA" wasn't a reference to the engine fitted to rallying Ford Escorts

fuzzy · « **Reply #6085 on:** 01 March, 2016, 02:09:02 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 04:37:54 pm

Never watched any of the Mad Max films because I don't like them...

How does that work?

fuzzy · « **Reply #6086 on:** 01 March, 2016, 02:10:50 pm »

J Edgar Di Caprio does a very good and creepy John Edgar Hoover as he takes over and builds up the FBI.

M as Ma Hoover as well.

Boy but was he a paranoid fucker.......

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #6087 on:** 01 March, 2016, 02:14:06 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 01 March, 2016, 02:09:02 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 04:37:54 pm
Never watched any of the Mad Max films because I don't like them...

How does that work?

I expect it is a bit like watching Breaking Bad.

Wascally Weasel · « **Reply #6088 on:** 01 March, 2016, 02:37:05 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 01 March, 2016, 02:14:06 pm

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 01 March, 2016, 02:09:02 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 04:37:54 pm
Never watched any of the Mad Max films because I don't like them...

How does that work?
I expect it is a bit like watching Breaking Bad.

On an ipad?

caerau · « **Reply #6089 on:** 01 March, 2016, 03:05:22 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 01 March, 2016, 02:09:02 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 04:37:54 pm
Never watched any of the Mad Max films because I don't like them...

How does that work?

I rether enjoyed this comment

Kim · « **Reply #6090 on:** 01 March, 2016, 05:28:59 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2016, 01:40:32 pm

Took me a while to work out that "BDA" wasn't a reference to the engine fitted to rallying Ford Escorts

It's not this lot, either:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5aVI60i4z0w&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5aVI60i4z0w&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/5aVI60i4z0w

mattc · « **Reply #6091 on:** 01 March, 2016, 06:43:07 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 01 March, 2016, 02:10:50 pm

J Edgar Di Caprio

... will *definitely* be my stage name.

jsabine · « **Reply #6092 on:** 02 March, 2016, 02:31:51 am »

Quote from: Wascally Weasel on 01 March, 2016, 02:37:05 pm

Quote from: mrcharly on 01 March, 2016, 02:14:06 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 01 March, 2016, 02:09:02 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 04:37:54 pm
Never watched any of the Mad Max films because I don't like them...

How does that work?
I expect it is a bit like watching Breaking Bad.

On an ipad?

I'd assumed it was like the Guinness.

citoyen · « **Reply #6093 on:** 02 March, 2016, 10:31:47 am »

Quote from: ian on 29 February, 2016, 10:23:43 am

Max Max and Mightily Miffed Road wasn't that bad. Or good. It's a Mad Max film. People dress up like they're trying to upset their mum and zoom around a sand pit in glorified go-karts.

The first Mad Max was a brilliant revenge movie. Subsequent episodes focused on the costumes and car chases rather than the story.

Haven't seen Fury Road yet but I can't imagine it's any worse than Beyond Thunderdome.

Jaded · « **Reply #6094 on:** 02 March, 2016, 10:59:37 am »

The Theory of Everything

A slow paced romantic biopic about a clever man with an inadequate body, and some wonderful women.

Taken 3

Exactly what I expected, given Taken 2 and the reviews of this film. I was therefore not disappointed in the slightest. An enjoyable romp.

Die Hard 2

Haven't films come on a lot in the last 25 years.

caerau · « **Reply #6095 on:** 02 March, 2016, 11:15:01 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 02 March, 2016, 10:31:47 am

Quote from: ian on 29 February, 2016, 10:23:43 am
Max Max and Mightily Miffed Road wasn't that bad. Or good. It's a Mad Max film. People dress up like they're trying to upset their mum and zoom around a sand pit in glorified go-karts.

The first Mad Max was a brilliant revenge movie. Subsequent episodes focused on the costumes and car chases rather than the story.

Haven't seen Fury Road yet but I can't imagine it's any worse than Beyond Thunderdome.

wafo

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #6096 on:** 02 March, 2016, 12:19:53 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 02 March, 2016, 10:31:47 am

Haven't seen Fury Road yet but I can't imagine it's any worse than Beyond Thunderdome.

I have news. It is. Much worse. Exactly much worse.

bumper · « **Reply #6097 on:** 02 March, 2016, 12:29:13 pm »

3 now in the club

ian · « **Reply #6098 on:** 02 March, 2016, 12:35:41 pm »

The first Mad Max was indeed a darker affair. Then they applied increasing levels of silly to the sequels. The Mightily Miffed Road sits somewhere to the south of Thunderdome. It does make tremendously little sense though.

Deano · « **Reply #6099 on:** 02 March, 2016, 11:15:05 pm »

Inside Llewyn Davis on Film4.

Great music, and a great snapshot of the period (I imagine). I hated the main character, but sympathised at the same time. It's a good movie.

I like Coen Brothers movies anyway, though I refuse to watch the Ladykillers cos it just can't come close to the classic Ealing comedy. Tom Hanks is no Alec Guinness and there's no one like Herbert Lom.