Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 951205 times)

Kim · « **Reply #8200 on:** 23 December, 2018, 03:45:53 pm »

Bird Box

Dubious concept, but carried by strong acting. What's the opposite of a grue?

First Man

Extremely well done, but ultimately about as cool-headed and methodical as Neil Armstrong. Which is, I suppose, the point.

I can overlook the odd technical inaccuracy, but I found the time-expansion of the dramatised lunar landing and spacewalk irksome, as much of that dialogue is burnt into my brain, Quindar tones, pauses, static, and all.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #8201 on:** 23 December, 2018, 08:05:06 pm »

Breaking Away (again). Cracking feel good film. With bikes.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #8202 on:** 25 December, 2018, 02:33:02 pm »

Last night we watched the Muppet Christmas Carol as is tradition and then The Princess Bride which is a friend's Christmas Eve tradition which I think we're going to adopt.

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T42 · « **Reply #8203 on:** 25 December, 2018, 05:01:31 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 23 December, 2018, 03:45:53 pm

Bird Box

Dubious concept, but carried by strong acting. What's the opposite of a grue?

Started watching that but got bored and baled out Apart from the boojumaflipsits it looked like just another survival flick.

Peter · « **Reply #8204 on:** 25 December, 2018, 09:09:33 pm »

Scrooge - A Christmas Carol, the A. Sim un-retouched in B & W. Faultless.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #8205 on:** 25 December, 2018, 10:06:06 pm »

Just watched Hail Caesar!
Liked it. But then I am a sucker for the Coen Bros.

mattc · « **Reply #8206 on:** 26 December, 2018, 09:47:07 am »

The Bishops Wife - Cary Grant and David Niven*

Proper Christmas movie, with some really funny moments (as well as christmas carols and outdoor skating

); great straight delivery by the two stars.

There's a lot of ideas/jokes in here that are recycled in many many comedies to come, and a few more sinister movies about cuckoo-type characters. They did it first in 1947 kids, and without any violence/innuendo/nudity.

*What a team!!! I suspect they never** reunited as Niven didn't like being upstaged! (not his fault - the script gave Grant most of the best lines)
**Must check this ...

Torslanda · « **Reply #8207 on:** 26 December, 2018, 10:26:33 am »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2018, 02:33:02 pm

Last night we watched the Muppet Christmas Carol...

'HEATWAVE!!!!'

telstarbox · « **Reply #8208 on:** 27 December, 2018, 06:31:10 pm »

The Breadwinner. Not my usual fare being a children's animated film but it was an interesting story about one family's life in Afghanistan around 2001.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #8209 on:** 27 December, 2018, 06:32:55 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 26 December, 2018, 10:26:33 am

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 25 December, 2018, 02:33:02 pm
Last night we watched the Muppet Christmas Carol...

'HEATWAVE!!!!'

Light the lamp not the rat! LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT!!

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Tim Hall · « **Reply #8210 on:** 28 December, 2018, 11:18:04 am »

The Long Good Friday. Hoskins giving it his Lahndan best, while the skyline looks nothing like it does now. Much of the action is in King George V dock, now the site of London City Airport.

T42 · « **Reply #8211 on:** 28 December, 2018, 11:31:00 am »

A New York Winter's Tale. Geordie Drennan, my old English master, would have it called a good cry.

As probably remarked before, it's hard to believe that the guy who wrote that also wrote speeches for ~~Tricky Dicky~~ (oops) Ronald Reagan.

citoyen · « **Reply #8212 on:** 28 December, 2018, 12:19:16 pm »

Meet The Fockers was on telly last night. I was waiting up for my son to get home but I was too lazy to change channel...

The main joke appears to be that one of the characters is called Gaylord Focker (totes hilar) and he’s a nurse, and the story is about him introducing his hippy parents to his uptight father in law.

And it’s every bit as funny as that sounds.

What a terrible waste of that cast.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #8213 on:** 28 December, 2018, 02:36:53 pm »

A Prayer before Dawn.

Simple plot, one location, almost no dialogue, utterly gripping.

tiermat · « **Reply #8214 on:** 28 December, 2018, 07:30:46 pm »

The night before last was time for Avengers: Never ending Story

Last night was Ready Player One

My Whelmed is Under.

redshift · « **Reply #8215 on:** 28 December, 2018, 08:20:12 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 28 December, 2018, 07:30:46 pm

Last night was Ready Player One

My Whelmed is Under.

I saw that at the cinema earlier in the year, and when someone at work asked me what I'd been to see, I couldn't even remember the name. I just called it 'that Spielberg thing.' Underwhelmed doesn't even begin to describe it.

Kim · « **Reply #8216 on:** 28 December, 2018, 08:47:13 pm »

I expect some people had lots of fun making it.

redshift · « **Reply #8217 on:** 29 December, 2018, 10:22:44 am »

Quote from: Kim on 28 December, 2018, 08:47:13 pm

I expect some people had lots of fun making it.

Well, quite. You've just accurately described my 30+ years working in Telly!

Kim · « **Reply #8218 on:** 29 December, 2018, 01:47:04 pm »

Quote from: redshift on 29 December, 2018, 10:22:44 am

Quote from: Kim on 28 December, 2018, 08:47:13 pm
I expect some people had lots of fun making it.

Well, quite. You've just accurately described my 30+ years working in Telly!

My theory on the enduring popularity of horror films is that they're particularly good fun to make.

lou boutin · « **Reply #8219 on:** 29 December, 2018, 04:36:07 pm »

Christopher Robin

citoyen · « **Reply #8220 on:** 29 December, 2018, 06:43:33 pm »

Rampage

Load of shite but a very enjoyable load of shite.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8221 on:** 29 December, 2018, 08:40:56 pm »

Sunshine on Leith for the umpteenth time. Craig and Charlie even appear in a cameo. I bloomin' love the Proclaimers, so it can't go wrong really. My only gripe is that the stage show is more down to earth, inasmuch as the characters are more working class, but the big song scenes; Over & Done With and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) are excellent.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #8222 on:** 29 December, 2018, 09:56:26 pm »

Star Wars for about the 25th time. It never gets old. Peter Cushing makes it work, really.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #8223 on:** 29 December, 2018, 10:15:56 pm »

The Equalizer 2

I have no idea how this gets such a high rating. It abruptly flicks between various unconnected stories like you're flicking the channels and finding the same actor (with/without beard/hair etc). It takes about an hour before there's any semblance of a story, and all the random subplots you're expecting to come together, in the end they actually don't.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #8224 on:** 29 December, 2018, 10:34:07 pm »

Roma

Nothing to do with the Roma of central Europe, it's a B/W film set in the Roma district of Mexico City in the 1970s. Seemingly slow to set the scene it draws you in, and in, and in. Absolutely stunning: visually, emotionally, and aurally.