Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 959978 times)

Valiant · « **Reply #2800 on:** 28 December, 2012, 07:02:48 am »

Butter.

It's quite funny.

TimO · « **Reply #2801 on:** 28 December, 2012, 12:13:17 pm »

Ice Age 4 "Continental Drift", which was about on a par with the rest of the franchise. The same sort of easy humour, with a bit more of a bent towards teenagers with Peaches, than the earlier films. Overall OK, but not exceptional.

As ever Scrat makes several appearances, being blamed for the creation of the continental plates in a possibly not entirely geophysically accurate piece.

Dinamo · « **Reply #2802 on:** 28 December, 2012, 04:01:49 pm »

In Bruges.

Valiant · « **Reply #2803 on:** 28 December, 2012, 05:59:45 pm »

Sophia Assassins Bullet, Madagascar 2, How to train your Dragon.

As you can tell it's been a busy day

SAB was very good. M2 was a let down. HttyD was awesome.

jogler · « **Reply #2804 on:** 28 December, 2012, 06:29:49 pm »

Four Feathers,but I missed the first 50 mins

tiermat · « **Reply #2805 on:** 29 December, 2012, 02:04:35 pm »

All About My Mother, fantastic, sad, funny and just great !

andrewc · « **Reply #2806 on:** 29 December, 2012, 02:16:03 pm »

Village of the Damned, the 1954 B&W version. A pretty faithful adaptation of John Wyndham's Midwich Cuckoos . Triggered by tidying up some old paperbacks.

I've only seen it once before, during a BBC science fiction week back in the 70's , when it was shown with Forbidden Planet, Them!, The Incredible Shrinking Man and a few others.

Pretty good for it's age.

Canardly · « **Reply #2807 on:** 29 December, 2012, 02:30:06 pm »

A bit of LA confidential..... to be continued........

Valiant · « **Reply #2808 on:** 30 December, 2012, 04:22:09 am »

Been watching Abe Lincoln Vamp Hunter and Safe with Jason Stratham in it. Both were very enjoyable.

mark · « **Reply #2809 on:** 30 December, 2012, 01:13:43 pm »

The Hobbit. I thought it was a distinct improvement over the Lord of the rings movies.

citoyen · « **Reply #2810 on:** 30 December, 2012, 03:13:02 pm »

Watched An American Werewolf In London last night with my 14yo son. I think I was about the same age when I first watched it, and I found it mostly terrifying. He found it mostly hilarious.

Admittedly, some of the special effects haven't stood the test of time too well. It's still a great film though. And lots of it is obviously meant to be funny. Plus, if he's anything like his father, he'll have appreciated Jenny Agutter's contribution to the film, though we didn't actually discuss that aspect of it.

We also watched Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows the day before yesterday. Not as good as the first one - the story is too incoherent and rambling, it drags on far too long, and although I'm perfectly willing to accept a certain amount of preposterousness in the name of entertainment, this film goes somewhat too far down the road of ridiculous implausibility. And Stephen Fry is awful as Mycroft.

d.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2811 on:** 30 December, 2012, 08:06:57 pm »

We are watching The Name of the Rose.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2812 on:** 30 December, 2012, 09:32:30 pm »

The Hobbit. Very good, but way too long. They could have cut out quite a lot and it would have been much the better for it.

They should have left out

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bobb · « **Reply #2813 on:** 30 December, 2012, 09:39:48 pm »

The Hobbit. Boring as fuck. It was so long, I even had time for a kip without missing anything.

Canardly · « **Reply #2814 on:** 30 December, 2012, 09:41:49 pm »

Name of the Rose. Visited Montserrat some years ago reminded me a lot of the film!.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #2815 on:** 30 December, 2012, 11:12:07 pm »

Quote from: Dinamo on 28 December, 2012, 04:01:49 pm

In Bruges.

I saw that last Friday, but after the pub, so I shall need to revisit it. I do recall it being very dark, though funny.

mr magnolia · « **Reply #2816 on:** 31 December, 2012, 08:51:24 am »

Life of Pi.
Beautifully filmed, and true to the book, so you can decide in advance if its for you.
7 kids did well to sit through the 127mins.
Having watched it in 3D, I would suggest 2D. It reinforced my view that 3D is generally unnecessary and distracting trickery. Didn't get the 'big screen, curtains fully open' experience, but a smaller screen as per the advert size. Dunno if that's a 3D sacrifice.

jogler · « **Reply #2817 on:** 31 December, 2012, 12:40:06 pm »

Force 10 from Navaronne.
Because it appeared to be so dated I was suprised to discover that it was made a year after Star Wars

Pingu · « **Reply #2818 on:** 31 December, 2012, 10:54:50 pm »

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec.

Silly

tiermat · « **Reply #2819 on:** 31 December, 2012, 11:09:42 pm »

Pitch Perfect, even Mrs T said it's at least an hour too long!

mark · « **Reply #2820 on:** 01 January, 2013, 01:13:36 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2012, 09:32:30 pm

The Hobbit. Very good, but way too long. They could have cut out quite a lot and it would have been much the better for it.

They should have left out

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- the Radagast scenes
- the scene with Galadriel, Agent Smith, Gandalf and Count Dooku blabbering on about the witchking's sword
- an orc on a warg chasing Thorin
- the scene with the mountain giants hurling bits of the mountain at each other

None of those scenes contributed anything to the story. Most of them weren't in the book. They just made it too long.

I think Peter Jackson wanted to make The Hobbit a true prelude to the ultimate battle between good and evil that occurred in LOTR, rather than the straightforward excellent adventure/quest for treasure/children's story that Tolkien wrote. That would explain the Radagast scenes, as well as the scene with Galadriel, et.al. The orcs on wargs scene was a bit pointless, although I suppose it was meant to illustrate that more was at stake in this adventure than Thorin's pile of gold.

FWIW, Galadriel can show up in any part of the movie she wants to, I won't complain.

Hillbilly · « **Reply #2821 on:** 01 January, 2013, 02:27:59 am »

Point Break. Cheese. But better than I expected.

LindaG · « **Reply #2822 on:** 01 January, 2013, 04:10:18 am »

Quote from: Hillbilly on 01 January, 2013, 02:27:59 am

Point Break. Cheese. But better than I expected.

Love that cheesy movie.

citoyen · « **Reply #2823 on:** 01 January, 2013, 02:12:27 pm »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 01 January, 2013, 04:10:18 am

Quote from: Hillbilly on 01 January, 2013, 02:27:59 am
Point Break. Cheese. But better than I expected.

Love that cheesy movie.

+1. Great film. True entertainment.

d.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2824 on:** 01 January, 2013, 04:15:11 pm »

Force 10 from Navarone, much better than expected. Edward Fox playing Edward Fox, as usual.

Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 959978 times)

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