What was the last film you watched?

[Mr Larrington]

The Italian Jobbie

This was, apparently, a remake of an old film.

A long time ago in management training I was taught to ask: How, What, When, Who, Where, Why.

This film could have been improved with some basic management training,

Yeah, I saw that a while back, I think the only connection was that they had Minis. The rest of it, other than The Stath™ of course, was entirely unmemorable.

With another title and the removal of the BIGI product placement it would have made a half-decent heist flick, though admittedly I only watched it on an æroplane, which means an immediate drop in standards of 76.4%.

[L CC]

Summer of Soul.

Obviously the music is fabulous, but the whole story of how it happened and how it was forgotten is quite a thing. And lordy, the outfits.

We finally watched this as I lay about exhausted from baking.

It was the dogs doo-dahs. Awesome.

[Kim]

With another title and the removal of the BIGI product placement it would have made a half-decent heist flick, though admittedly I only watched it on an æroplane, which means an immediate drop in standards of 76.4%.

I enjoy a good heist, and can confirm - by merit of having forgotten all the details (other than the afore-mentioned product-placement) in the years since I watched it - that it was only a mediocre one.

[andyoxon]

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

Nims Purja's incredible mountain climbing project.   

[rafletcher]

Garage People a slice of cinema verite set in the man caves of the Kola peninsular. Fascinating. Probably available on iPlayer.

[T42]

Monsieur Klein. Excellent 1976 film with Alain Delon as a rich WW2 profiteer in Paris who falls foul of ID theft. On Netflix but maybe not in UK.

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

[Jakob]

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

Nims Purja's incredible mountain climbing project.   

I enjoyed this. I followed it up with "Dawn Wall" which is even better.

[T42]

Taxi Driver, mostly because we hadn't watched it for 30-odd years.  Old Travis could've done with therapy.

Anyway, that's enough of 1970s films for now - the music is like a visit to my 1950s dentist. "Open wide, this won't hurt me a bit."

[andyoxon]

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible

Nims Purja's incredible mountain climbing project.   

I enjoyed this. I followed it up with "Dawn Wall" which is even better.

Yes, Dawn wall is great.   Re. 14 peaks, to some extent a single film is always going to struggle to some extent to do climbing the 14x 8000+m peaks justice.  Mind boggling record "first to reach the summits of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in a time period of 48 hours."

[SoreTween]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Great fun and very respectfully done.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Dune

I enjoyed it. There was a part in the first third that started to drag slightly; I wanted them to get on with the action (too many Marvel movies).

Comparing it to the Lynch travesty version, this is altogether grittier. Sandworms, you will be pleased to hear, are intimidatingly huge.  The ornothopters are absolutely brilliant, look entirely feasible machines.
They managed to communicate the politics of Dune without labouring on.

The only miscasting casting (for me) was Thufir Hawat. Didn't convey the calculating detachment expected of a Mentat.

[T42]

Velvet Buzzsaw again - 3rd or 4th time. The most delightful horror film ever made.

[Legs]

Going to watch Life Is Beautiful on Prime sometime over the weekend if we can find time.  Bloody love that film.  Pass the Kleenex. 

[Jakob]

The Suicide Squad While it certainly has it's moments, it's monumentally stupid.

[FifeingEejit]

Currently watching Nic roeg 1971 Glastonbury fayre
2 things stand out to me
1. The music's shite
2. There's next to no one there



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[Jaded]

Airplane.


Apart from the stereotypes, and the archaic placement shots, there are about 15 jokes.

This could have been done in a 20 min sketch show.

Plus... when did a 4 engine jet plane ever sound like a prop one?!

[hatler]

We sat and watched that (for the first time in about 30 years) with the kids about five years ago. Needless to say it fell very flat.

[Kim]

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Exactly as bad as, but somehow slightly more watchable, than I expected.

[woollypigs]

wow I didn't know that there was a #5, the first one was a classic

[T42]

That the one with Kevin "Streaky" Bacon and A. Nother

(click to show/hide)

scrambling from roof to rickety roof to avoid gettin' etten?

Classic indeed.

[Kim]

That the one with Kevin "Streaky" Bacon and A. Nother

(click to show/hide)

scrambling from roof to rickety roof to avoid gettin' etten?

Classic indeed.

That's the one.  Much better sandworm movie than any version of Dune.

The sequels are mostly notable for the way the characters have learned from the first film and adopt appropriate graboid-fighting tactics (IIRC the extremely satisfying opening scene of the second one involves a radio controlled car and dynamite).  Naturally the silliness escalates accordingly, so it's a good thing their opening gambit wasn't a shark-infested tornado.

[TheLurker]

Airplane.

....there are about 15 jokes.
...Plus... when did a 4 engine jet plane ever sound like a prop one?!

I think that may have been the 16th joke.   Dreadful film, never been able to watch more than a handful of minutes before tuning to another channel.

[Peter]

Airplane.


Apart from the stereotypes, and the archaic placement shots, there are about 15 jokes.

This could have been done in a 20 min sketch show.

Plus... when did a 4 engine jet plane ever sound like a prop one?!

When it's a film-set prop one?

[IanDG]

The Power of the Dog

[Kim]

Tremors 6: A Cold Day in Hell

Much less classy Arctic re-hash of the previous film.  This may be the only time in cinema history that South Africa has stood in as a filming location for Canada (they blamed the lack of snow on climate change).