Author Topic: What was the last film you watched?  (Read 939834 times)

Wascally Weasel

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7950 on: 09 March, 2018, 03:11:14 pm »
Sharknado 2
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That was masterful.  More Kim IRC Chat Film Reviews please.

Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7951 on: 09 March, 2018, 03:30:18 pm »
There could be a website/series in this.
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mattc

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7952 on: 09 March, 2018, 05:07:32 pm »
Is this being shown in the UK?

We do have cinemas over here you know!

Not may of them showing that film, unfortunately.
Really??

Maybe it's a region-specific thing [like DVDs] - we could see it at all 3 main cinemas in Oxford tonight.(according to something called "www.bing.com" anyway.)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Three+Billboards+Outside+Ebbing&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IESR3N
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Jaded

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7953 on: 09 March, 2018, 05:20:40 pm »
I checked (after the Oscars) for this weekend's showings and there was one a day in a cinema to the south of Bristol at a not too convenient time. I sort of expected it to be much more available than that.

Oxford is, of course, different.  ;)
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7954 on: 09 March, 2018, 08:16:01 pm »
I watched Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last weekend. Probably my favourite film since Winter Sleep. For a start, it’s cinema at its most delicious and aesthetically satisfying. I thought I was in for a treat from the left-justified opening credits and cleverly composed shots of the billboards, and it lives up to those early expectations.

There’s much good acting and directing (Red’s physical movement fascinated me throughout, for example), the script is brilliant, and there’s just enough rough edges to make it all the more enchanting.

But it’s hard to explain why this film is so good. I guess it’s got something to do with the story being told so well, with the full range of cinematic tools expertly deployed on the spellbound viewer. It’s not a realistic story or realistically portrayed, and yet hardly any of it is jarring. It’s filled with crude tropes that no-one believes in and yet you don’t blame anyone for that. It’s probably evidence that even today there is no sure-fire method for making a great film. If you apply art you might, with luck, get a great film – but good luck distilling the trick into repeatable steps.

Is this being shown in the UK?

Maybe because is it a British/Irish film?  Not saying there aren't good US films, too mind.  ;)


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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7955 on: 09 March, 2018, 09:11:04 pm »
I watched 4 films on yesterday's flight and enjoyed them all, especially Elton John's appearance in Kingsman 2.

Kingsman, the Golden Circle: not as good as the original but overall very entertaining.
Atomic Blonde: end of cold war spy thriller, violent and sexy, what more could you want :)
Paddington 2: amusing light entertainment, even for adults watching without kids.
Death of Stalin: highly recommended on all levels.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7956 on: 09 March, 2018, 11:23:46 pm »
That was masterful.  More Kim IRC Chat Film Reviews please.


Sharknado 3

Oh hell no...  (Contemporaneous IRC logs again.  Edited for clarity, chronology, particularly confusing typos and to remove off-topic rantage about a ridiculously convoluted software download process)

<kim> well, i'm going to watch 3
<kim> i'll take one for the team
 * REDACTED salutes Kim's valiant efforts

<kim> opening chainsaw and a seagull
<kim> sadly not together
<kim> the president needs him!
<kim> again, not the seagull

<kim> sweepstake, how long until the first shark?
<REDACTED> 5 mins

<kim> it seems that the key to getting past white house security is running
<kim> ooh, thingy's pregnant
<kim> i'm betting shark vs umbilical cord at the end of the film
<REDACTED> half-shark baby

<kim> fin's getting a medal for saving humanity from sharks.  twice.
<kim> and is being interviewed by what i assume to be assorted minor american celebrities
<kim> he's been awarded the Order Of The Golden Chainsaw.  because that wasn't a completely terrible idea
<kim> national weather service are on the ball this time, and his sharky sense is tingling
<kim> and....sharknado! (about 8 mins in, for those keeping track)

<kim> whoever thought that having sharks in that big pond thing they have in front of the lincoln memorial was a good idea should really be fired
<kim> see, shark just landed in lincoln's lap

<kim> cunningly the golden chainsaw award is fully functional
<kim> "where's this bunker?" "in the basement" "water flows down, this is a bad idea!"
* kim thinks . o O ( 10 minutes into the third movie and *now* you're invoking gravity? )
<kim> bunker was, predictably, full of sharks
<kim> sharks are invading the white house.   do you think this is where donald trump's phobia comes from?

<kim> the president just used the holy hand grenade
<kim> and the sharks just blew up the white house, independence day style
<kim> "looks like the rules have changed"
<kim> roll title credits
<kim> if it fits the pattern, the rest of the film will now be shit


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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7957 on: 09 March, 2018, 11:37:08 pm »
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7958 on: 09 March, 2018, 11:41:35 pm »
I want to watch all the Sharknados now, dammit.

And Kim, Malcolm in the Middle was very good. Worth watching - Breaking Bad's in it as the put-upon dad, but it's not your average US sitcom.

T42

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7959 on: 10 March, 2018, 08:21:09 am »
Forgotten what it was called now but 1st ep of some Beeb krimi with droves of retreads from stuff already seen and a senior flic who has a B2C machine with a right-handed mobile panarello in his office.
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Torslanda

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7960 on: 10 March, 2018, 08:35:45 am »
T42 is possessed...

Either that or he's been hacked by a teen with a cappuccino addiction.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7961 on: 10 March, 2018, 08:59:10 am »
We’ve found more showings of Three Billboards in Bristol. Hopefully going tomorrow.
It is simpler than it looks.

T42

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7962 on: 10 March, 2018, 09:07:15 am »
T42 is possessed...

Either that or he's been hacked by a teen with a cappuccino addiction.

The first bit is right: too much coffee.  I was off decent coffee for a couple of years because meds, am just getting back into roasting. And despair not, I still use the lever machine too.

>>> if that machine is a Jura the flic is corrupt.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Samuel D

Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7963 on: 10 March, 2018, 09:22:41 am »
We’ve found more showings of Three Billboards in Bristol. Hopefully going tomorrow.

Go!

I dimly remember there being cinemas in the UK, but that doesn’t mean they show the same films at the same time as everywhere else. Winter Sleep was either shown at a different time or never shown in the UK; I know because a friend tried and failed to see it on my recommendation.

citoyen

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7964 on: 10 March, 2018, 10:55:50 am »
I find that the films I want to see are generally only on limited release. If I want to see them in the cinema, I have to go the one week they’re showing and tough luck if I’m not free that week or the screening times are inconvenient.

I was so keen to see Three Billboards that I made an effort to clear a space in my schedule. Very glad I did.

Multiplexes promote the myth of choice - yes, they may have 12 screens but fat lot of good that is to me if they’re all showing the latest Hollywood superhero blockbuster.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7965 on: 10 March, 2018, 10:22:39 pm »
To Be or Not to Be

I've not seen it before, which was my loss, as it was magnificent. I laughed a lot. Not bad for a film knocking on for 80 years old.

Jaded

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7966 on: 10 March, 2018, 10:59:54 pm »
Those early Bond films can be quite fun.
It is simpler than it looks.

Kim

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7967 on: 10 March, 2018, 11:50:24 pm »
<kim> it's saturday night, masochism night
<kim> must be time for...


Sharknado 4: The Fourth Awakens

<kim> i'm predicting laser chainsaws
<kim> and that it will be shit


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T42

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7968 on: 11 March, 2018, 07:54:42 am »
I feel quite tired after that.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Jaded

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7969 on: 11 March, 2018, 10:34:44 am »
Paddington 2. That was great fun.
It is simpler than it looks.

Kim

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7970 on: 11 March, 2018, 11:16:16 pm »
<kim> okay, fuckit, completionism time

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

<kim> oh, bonus franglais subtitles

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I think I'm safe until they make another one.   ::-)

fuzzy

Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7971 on: 11 March, 2018, 11:24:38 pm »
Olympus has fallen

In the words of Jim Diamond- I shoulda known better :facepalm:

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7972 on: 11 March, 2018, 11:48:59 pm »
Olympus has fallen

At least there weren't any sharks in that one.

Jaded

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7973 on: 11 March, 2018, 11:53:03 pm »
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Well, damnit, that was worth going to. Not a lot in it you could predict, apart from the eponymous billboards. Lots of snickering and giggles, some wonderful lines. Plus an ending that you need to see. Violence, violence, it's the only thing that will make you see sense.

I liked the quote off the bookmark bit a lot.
It is simpler than it looks.

Wascally Weasel

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #7974 on: 12 March, 2018, 09:42:39 am »
Olympus has fallen

At least there weren't any sharks in that one.

Thank you Kim for:

A) Watching the Sharknado franchise so we don’t have to.
B) Making it probably much more entertaining than the real thing.