What was the last film you watched?

[Exit Stage Left]

'The Right Stuff' on Blu-Ray, on the projector, and through the hi-fi. I showed it to friends who'd never heard of it. I was a bit worried about filling the evening with a 30 year old film about test pilots and astronauts which is 3 hours 12 minutes long. It looks great on Blu Ray, and we all enjoyed it.

[interzen]

Despicable Me 2

I LOL'd, but I prefer the original.

[LEE]

Aliens

BluRay, Big TV, big sound system.

Still a 10/10 film after all these years (although BluRay tends to show up some of the back-projection).

[clarion]

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.  Some splendid aerial sequences let down by poor studio work.  But jolly fun, nonetheless.

Currently most of the way through Cabaret.

[Kim]

WarGames 2: The Dead Code

Silly straight-to-DVD sequel to the Matthew Broderick classic.  I say 'sequel', it's practically a remake.  Unfortunately, it's a plot that hasn't aged well, and it comes off as a kind of low-budget version of Die Hard 4.0 without Bruce Willis or any of the action sequences.

Worth it for the homages to the original, including a cameo by WOPR (complete with 5.25" floppy disks).



Sharknado

Enough said!  Best film of 2014 so far.

[clarion]

West Side Story.

I think I have something in my eye....


Actually, every time I watch that film (and that's a lot of times), I see something else bold and radical about the lighting design.  Really wonderful.

[hillbilly]

The Fifth Element.

To my surprise, I realised I'd never watched this.  A feast for the eyes, with set and costume design that is amongst the best I've seen and steals the film from the "talent".  Bruce Willis does his usual turn as a Ross Kemp wannabe, Gary Oldman has fun playing an iconic malevolent and Mila Jovavich plays to her limited strengths as an actor. 

Someone described this to me as what Star Wars would be like if it was made in France.  I can see where they are coming from.  Definitely one of the better sci-fi films of the late 20th century.

[marcusjb]

The Wolf of Wall Street

Scorsese on form. Di Caprio is just amazing and it is a funny, shocking film based on a true story amazingly.

The cerebral palsy scene had me in tears of laughter - that'll make sense if you see the movie!

[fuzzy]

Zero Dark 30. In my opinion a great film. tense and thought provoking, event though the outcome was a given.

[Mrs Pingu]

On Hogmanay we watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was good but too long and then we watched Angel-A which was a French nod to It's A Wonderful Life (at least it borrowed bits) but was quite amusing. End dragged on too long, though that might have been partially due to the time racing towards 2am.

[clarion]

Slade in Flame.  A harsh look at the rough and cynical side of the pop music industry.  It didn't do their career much good at the time, but, in retrospect, one of the best rock movies.

Now watching The Italian Job (the proper one, it barely needs saying).

[Steph]

Scott of the Antarctic
Wonderful period piece, great music, and what a story.

[Jaded]

A good day to make a crap film.

I think that was the working title, and they then switched one of the CGI actors for Bruce Willis and called it Die Hard.

TBH the CGI computer game sequences included as extras were the best part of the Bluray, and they were utterly appalling.

[Jakob]

A good day to make a crap film.

I think that was the working title, and they then switched one of the CGI actors for Bruce Willis and called it Die Hard.

TBH the CGI computer game sequences included as extras were the best part of the Bluray, and they were utterly appalling.

Hah, I saw that too yesterday. (On Netflix). Amazingly bad hammy acting....even for Bruce Willis' standards. Helicopter crash at the end was cool, though.

[tiermat]

Iron Man 3, again.

Still as good.

[TimC]

Anchorman 2. Completely potty! As weird a collection of bizarre sketches as I think I've ever seen (plot? No chance!), and some truly cringeworthy moments, but I actually quite enjoyed it. I'm still at a loss to say why.

[T42]

German documentary about the bombing of Dresden. Excellent.

[ian]

A good day to make a crap film.

I think that was the working title, and they then switched one of the CGI actors for Bruce Willis and called it Die Hard.

TBH the CGI computer game sequences included as extras were the best part of the Bluray, and they were utterly appalling.

As a big Die Hard fan (I am indeed the man of class and culture), I was so looking forward to this. Really, guys, you have the damn multi-million-dollar spurting franchise fountain that is Die Hard. You've got Bruce Willis signed up. And this is what you did with it? It's not like ingredients of a Die Hard script are that sophisticated, but hey, why bother, just take some generic half-rate actioner that had evidently been sitting on the slush pile since the late 80s (seriously, Chernobyl?) and pad it with some special effects and frenetic running around and chases. They could have done the entire thing in cheap CGI. Perhaps they did.

I dunno how Hollywood works, but really, seeing the script written in crayon and the words DiE HaRd scrawled over the crossed-out original title should have been a give-away.

[rogerzilla]

Octopussy - nowhere near as bad as I remembered it.  The special effects are actually very good even by modern standards, and embarrass some of the crappy CGI in the Brosnan era.  Roger Moore is frankly far too old and portly by this point but he's still the Bond with the most charm.   Oh, and the sexist innuendo in this one is unmatched.

[spindrift]

http://youtu.be/043WEs_6TAo

[CrinklyLion]

Turbo, which was playing at the Reel Kids Club so me, both Cubs, my-mate-ang and her Eldest all got in for £6.75!

A snail dreams of race cars, accidentally gets super-charged, is found by a Taco salesman and takes on the Indie 500.  We thoroughly enjoyed it

[citoyen]

Catch Me If You Can

Seen it before, twice, but it was on telly yesterday evening and I had nothing better to do... I'm not sure what exactly it is about this film that I like so much, but I do. Maybe it's just the Spielberg factor - he knows how to tell a story and make his characters sympathetic. It's slick, polished and perfectly paced. DiCaprio and Hanks are both great too.

[Ruth]

The first bit of 'Worlds End'.  A friend came for tea and brought the DVD round to watch, but I was so bored I asked him to make it stop.  He made it stop.

Thank goodness.  Is it supposed to be funny?

[Dibdib]

The first bit of 'Worlds End'.  A friend came for tea and brought the DVD round to watch, but I was so bored I asked him to make it stop.  He made it stop.

Thank goodness.  Is it supposed to be funny?

I saw it the other day too, and thought the same thing. It gets better, although it's still the weakest of the Cornetto Trilogy IMO.

[citoyen]

The first bit of 'Worlds End'.  A friend came for tea and brought the DVD round to watch, but I was so bored I asked him to make it stop.  He made it stop.

Thank goodness.  Is it supposed to be funny?

Yes and no. I think the first part isn't actually supposed to be all that funny. In fact, it's a bit sad, the way Gary is clinging to the past while all his friends have moved on. I must admit, I wasn't convinced at first, and after about half an hour of it was starting to wonder how it fitted into the trilogy, apparently being nothing at all like Shaun Of The Dead or Hot Fuzz...

But when it kicks off, it really kicks off. I won't say any more than that, but I would say it is worth giving it another chance. I really enjoyed it. I would even go so far as to say I preferred it to Shaun Of The Dead, though Hot Fuzz is still my favourite of the trilogy.