Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 951144 times)

T42 · « **Reply #10325 on:** 08 January, 2024, 08:11:47 am »

Bullet Train. Bonkers.

Legs · « **Reply #10326 on:** 10 January, 2024, 06:45:35 am »

The Boys From Brazil on ITVX. Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, and the Dobermans.

T42 · « **Reply #10327 on:** 10 January, 2024, 03:28:19 pm »

Last night, the wonderful Galaxy Quest for the nth time. Was a bit short so we followed it up with Chicken Run to get a bit of culture.

Woofage · « **Reply #10328 on:** 10 January, 2024, 03:43:18 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 10 January, 2024, 03:28:19 pm

we followed it up with Chicken Run to get a bit of culture.

Watched the new Chicken Run fillum (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget) over the Christmas period. Great fun!

PeterM · « **Reply #10329 on:** 10 January, 2024, 09:56:28 pm »

Anatomy of a Fall. Highly recommended. Earns every second of its 2h31m runtime

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #10330 on:** 10 January, 2024, 11:33:48 pm »

Mark E Smith joke goes here ah ==>

T42 · « **Reply #10331 on:** 11 January, 2024, 08:38:47 am »

Quote from: Woofage on 10 January, 2024, 03:43:18 pm

Quote from: T42 on 10 January, 2024, 03:28:19 pm
we followed it up with Chicken Run to get a bit of culture.

Watched the new Chicken Run fillum (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget) over the Christmas period. Great fun!

It's on the list.

geoff · « **Reply #10332 on:** 11 January, 2024, 08:16:21 pm »

Catching up...

The Rider
Cast mostly playing real-life selves as rodeo riders and surrounding families/community.

Powwow Highway
Road comedy. Cheyenne bros seeking justice for their friend in a beat- up car. Dated - actually quite funny.

Past Lives
Really good in spite of the hullabaloo

Saltburn
Brideshead re-revisited? (Richard E. Grant's hair!!)

Mammal
Barry Keoghan's really good in this too

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fd3 · « **Reply #10333 on:** 13 January, 2024, 11:59:32 pm »

The 2021 version of Dune on teh flix. It is not good, bigly so.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #10334 on:** 18 January, 2024, 09:45:46 pm »

Alien. Vastly overrated. Too dark and confusing, indistinct dialogue in places, and the android bit is absolutely hilarious if you've seen The World's End first. I liked the cat.

T42 · « **Reply #10335 on:** 19 January, 2024, 08:43:29 am »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2024, 09:45:46 pm

Alien. Vastly overrated. Too dark and confusing, indistinct dialogue in places, and the android bit is absolutely hilarious if you've seen The World's End first. I liked the cat.

First film I saw in the US, that, on the box in the hotel at ~3 am because jet-lag. Quite enjoyed it. I'd have got out PDQ and left the bloody cat behind.

StuAff · « **Reply #10336 on:** 20 January, 2024, 10:50:05 pm »

The Exorcist, for the first time. Excellent!

IanDG · « **Reply #10337 on:** 20 January, 2024, 10:59:59 pm »

Whiplash (Netflix). About a jazz drummer trying to make it and a bastard band leader. Really enjoyed it.

Robh · « **Reply #10338 on:** 20 January, 2024, 11:17:07 pm »

Quote from: IanDG on 20 January, 2024, 10:59:59 pm

Whiplash (Netflix). About a jazz drummer trying to make it and a bastard band leader. Really enjoyed it.

Good film. In my mind I associate it with 'Birdman', which came out around the same time; a very different film, but with a great jazz drumming soundtrack by Pat Metheny's drummer Antonio Sánchez.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #10339 on:** 21 January, 2024, 05:26:20 pm »

Flood on Prime. A bit dated.

T42 · « **Reply #10340 on:** 26 January, 2024, 05:01:11 pm »

The Dead, on Prime. Digitized from a poor print with poor definition and blown highlights, but as grand as ever.

Part of the music in the background of Gabriel's soliloquy at the end is Silent O'Moyle, which my big sister used to torture to death when she was learning the fiddle. It's still a good tune. She gave up the fiddle.

ian · « **Reply #10341 on:** 26 January, 2024, 09:22:20 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2024, 09:45:46 pm

Alien. Vastly overrated. Too dark and confusing, indistinct dialogue in places, and the android bit is absolutely hilarious if you've seen The World's End first. I liked the cat.

Still one of my favourites. And Aliens 2 is awesome on its own terms, and possibly heretically, better. A rate case of sequels exceeding their prequels. Terminator 2, also. Sadly, both franchises should have called it a day thereafter.

World's End is also very good and I've been a bit scared of pub bogs ever since. I mostly pop out and do it in the car park, just in case.

toontra · « **Reply #10342 on:** 26 January, 2024, 09:53:50 pm »

Poor Things Greatly entertaining. The humour outweighs the cod philosophy/sociology and it's visually delicious.

Probably too much sex to make it an Oscar contender sadly. The soundtrack is vastly superior to Oppenheimer (which I found intrusive and actually oppressive).

citoyen · « **Reply #10343 on:** 27 January, 2024, 04:50:15 pm »

Quote from: toontra on 26 January, 2024, 09:53:50 pm

Poor Things Greatly entertaining. The humour outweighs the cod philosophy/sociology and it's visually delicious.

Probably too much sex to make it an Oscar contender sadly. The soundtrack is vastly superior to Oppenheimer (which I found intrusive and actually oppressive).

Very much want to see this but haven’t found the time yet.

Interesting about the soundtrack. We saw his last one, The Favourite, in the cinema and one of my overriding memories of it is how deafeningly loud and intrusive the music was. It was a great film despite that though.

T42 · « **Reply #10344 on:** 28 January, 2024, 08:36:02 am »

Waiting for the Barbarians. A nasty film that nobody needed to make.

Regulator · « **Reply #10345 on:** 29 January, 2024, 02:05:22 pm »

I watched Marry My Dead Body, a Taiwanese film (with English dubbing), last night. A gentle comedy, which I would recommend.

T42 · « **Reply #10346 on:** 04 February, 2024, 02:12:16 pm »

White Noise on that Netflux, featuring a fat Adam Driver and a frizzy Greta Gerwig. Bloody brilliant.

andrewc · « **Reply #10347 on:** 05 February, 2024, 04:06:50 pm »

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I really enjoyed it.

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Very Talented Mr Ripley, though, which after the trip to Prescot you could see coming.

The grave shagging was a new one though.

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It was the novel approach to cleaning a bath that had the highest ick factor for me.

I’ve somehow never got round to seeing The Talented Mr Ripley. You’re not the first person to make the comparison.

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It's an obvious comparison to make as its almost the same plot...fused with Brideshead Revisited for added ghey. It'll not be an enduring film I suspect. I did, however, love the deliberate vapidity, soulessness and blandness of Oliver's victims. They were there to be devoured. I think the bath scene where he eats Felix's jizz and the eating out of Felix's sister when menstruating was literally eating the rich. Devouring their essence before he could actually devour them.

I read a mildly negative review in the Guardian today which missed the point, I felt, which is the emptiness of the wealthy. The lack of depth is, I think, deliberate.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/05/the-saltburn-bathbomb-the-milky-salacious-treat-absolutely-nobody-asked-for

https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/saltbomb-bath-bomb I'll pass thanks.....

citoyen · « **Reply #10348 on:** 05 February, 2024, 09:01:53 pm »

All Of Us Strangers

V good but crushingly sad.

T42 · « **Reply #10349 on:** 06 February, 2024, 07:11:38 am »

Edmond, an imagination of how Edmond Rostand came to write Cyrano de Bergerac. Excellent, with some lovely gags: "Et à la fin de l'envoi je... louche?"