What was the last film you watched?

[ian]

Another quite entertaining superhero romp where the heroes aren't so super. Will Smith seems to have stopped ageing about twenty years ago. He may be immortal. Like Nic Cage. Good god, that's an horrid thought, Nic Cage could be making movies quite literally forever.

Ackshually, the Cage isn't a bad actor, he just appears in godawfully-directed godawful films. He escaped for a while and was bloody good in Spike Jones' Adaptation.

Kurt Russel, now, he makes me puke.

I dunno, he seems to specialise in looking and acting like a constipated hound dog.

You can't say bad things about Snake Plissken. Take it back.

[lou boutin]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

My comments - Ermm

[T42]

Another quite entertaining superhero romp where the heroes aren't so super. Will Smith seems to have stopped ageing about twenty years ago. He may be immortal. Like Nic Cage. Good god, that's an horrid thought, Nic Cage could be making movies quite literally forever.

Ackshually, the Cage isn't a bad actor, he just appears in godawfully-directed godawful films. He escaped for a while and was bloody good in Spike Jones' Adaptation.

Kurt Russel, now, he makes me puke.

I dunno, he seems to specialise in looking and acting like a constipated hound dog.

You can't say bad things about Snake Plissken. Take it back.

Never seen "Escape...", but it goes to show that it's the director that makes the difference.

[Kim]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

My comments - Ermm

Quite.

As I say, it's a single gag.  Mind you, so was Buffy The Vampire Slayer, originally.

It's a lot better if you go into it expecting a comedy zombie film rather than a period drama, but it's too long for a comedy zombie film, and hardly any of the main characters get eaten.

[lou boutin]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

My comments - Ermm

Quite.

As I say, it's a single gag.  Mind you, so was Buffy The Vampire Slayer, originally.

It's a lot better if you go into it expecting a comedy zombie film rather than a period drama, but it's too long for a comedy zombie film, and hardly any of the main characters get eaten.

I wasn't expecting much and it lived up to that.  I found the kick ass zombie slaying Bennetts quite funny though.

[Canardly]

Just about to watch Red Cliff directed by John Woo.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Spider-Man 2. Woody Allen, Burt Bacharach and Ray Harryhausen join Stan Lee to make a motivational poster.

[T42]

Rewatched The Ring.  Wonderful: no gore, no splatter, no zombies,** a good plot.  OK, the wee fella was a bit formulaic but no more so than any two dozen action films.

Must watch Ringu some time.

**unless you count Brian Cox. Not that one, the other one.

[Wascally Weasel]

Another quite entertaining superhero romp where the heroes aren't so super. Will Smith seems to have stopped ageing about twenty years ago. He may be immortal. Like Nic Cage. Good god, that's an horrid thought, Nic Cage could be making movies quite literally forever.

Ackshually, the Cage isn't a bad actor, he just appears in godawfully-directed godawful films. He escaped for a while and was bloody good in Spike Jones' Adaptation.

Kurt Russel, now, he makes me puke.

I dunno, he seems to specialise in looking and acting like a constipated hound dog.

You can't say bad things about Snake Plissken. Take it back.

Never seen "Escape...", but it goes to show that it's the director that makes the difference.

Kurt starred in several John Carpenter films, all pretty good except for the Escape from New York sequel which was terrible.

[sg37409]

La famille Belier on prime. Very good

[Ruthie]

Suicide Squad.

Enough tattoos that I expected to served a flat white at any moment (try any East London coffee shop, it seems de rigueur for anyone working there to have more tats than an LA gangbanger these days).

Another quite entertaining superhero romp where the heroes aren't so super. Will Smith seems to have stopped ageing about twenty years ago. He may be immortal. Like Nic Cage. Good god, that's an horrid thought, Nic Cage could be making movies quite literally forever.

For once, they kept the length modest (note that, X-Men) when it could have been a lot longer (plenty of exposition required, didn't leave much room for more than simple linear plot), but the result was well-paced even if it did feel like the introduction to another super-hero franchise. Could have probably handled a bit more humour in the script, there's something faintly ridiculous to all these movies and they tend to benefit from acknowledging it (come on, a man dressed as bat fighting crime – a bat! – not to mention the tendency to wear pants on the outside).

Even in IMAX 3D I found this film dull and unsatisfying.  It's good that it wasn't longer because by the end I just wanted to go home.  The original comics all had this style and humour and morality to them.  This just seemed to be a bunch of in-jokes and a derivative mish-mash of a plot.  The dirty dozen with tank girl, Will Smith, and a Thing substitute, and an alchoholic second rate Australian Wolverine.  Meh.

The psychopath government woman was all right though.

[TimO]

Hail, Caesar!

From the trailer, you may think this is a comedy film about a kidnapping, but it's not.  That is just one, fairly minor, sub-storyline.

It's really a day in the life film, set in Hollywood in the 1950s, with lots of interlinked somewhat humorous stories and characters.

It's not an obvious comedy film, and whilst it's mostly quite light, it does have its somewhat deeper more serious elements.

I liked it, a lot, and it's not really the sort of thing that I generally watch.  There are no martial art fight scenes, car chases, monsters, or spacecraft.

[Mr Larrington]

How about explosions?  Preferably blokes jumping off exploding things while other things explode in the background.

I assume not.

[TimO]

How about explosions?  Preferably blokes jumping off exploding things while other things explode in the background. ...

I'm afraid not, and no tastefully explicit scenes or partial nudity either.

(or for that matter, no tasteless explicit scenes or complete nudity!)

[Wascally Weasel]

I've seen Hail Caeser too.  It was rubbish.  Nobody got killed or drownded, in fact nothing to laugh at at all.

Nobody asked anyone to Put. The. Bunny. Back. In. The. Box. either.

[T42]

Only Lovers Left Alive. First hour slow and pretentious, second hour not so slow but predictable.  Could have been much, much better. Won't be watching it again soon.

[lou boutin]

Men in Black 3. I quite it enjoyed it as a bit of light hearted merriment to pass the evening. I very much enjoyed Emma Thompson as O giving a eulogy for T

[andyoxon]

Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow 2014 -  with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

Actually very good I thought.  A sort of Groundhog Day meets Starship troopers. (Apparently based on a novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.)

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Last night I introduced bobb to the timeless classic that is Snakes on a Plane.

[fuzzy]

Grand Budapest Hotel.

Not at all what I was expecting- in a damn good way :thumbs:

[T42]

Been watching 11.22.63, 2 episodes to go.  I suppose it's not bad if you haven't read the book.  If you have, you have to make a lot of allowances. We're rather disappointed, particularly since James Franco seems to have based his stock of expressions on early Jerry Lewis.

[Kim]

Been watching 11.22.63, 2 episodes to go.  I suppose it's not bad if you haven't read the book.  If you have, you have to make a lot of allowances. We're rather disappointed, particularly since James Franco seems to have based his stock of expressions on early Jerry Lewis.

It's very watchable if you overlook the premise that's thoroughly established in the first episode...

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that you can go through the time portal (carrying whatever you like), change history, and reset everything by going through it again.  So all he needs to do is find and kill Oswald, go back to the future and see if that worked, and if not, try something else.

Why establish those rules if you're not going to make use of them?  Perhaps the book makes more sense?

Bonus points for a refreshingly definite ending.

[T42]

Not an answer but

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The guy's an English teacher, not a logician.

BTW, trying to remember:
A goes back & does something, returns then goes back ==> reset.
A goes back & does something, returns with B & stays. If B then goes back, does that cause a reset?

If King explains it [away] I've forgotten.

Anyway, the book is much, much better, as always - although "Stand by me" came pretty close.

I prefer "A Sound of Thunder" as a paradigm for time-travel & its effects, although the film of it is rubbish.

[citoyen]

Spectre

First, the good points: it more than adequately fulfils its exploding helicopter quotient. With style. And the plane/car chase is great fun. I also enjoyed the scrap on the train.

Ralph Fiennes makes an excellent M, plus he has the best line of the film: "Now we know what C stands for..." which made me guffaw. The script generally is much improved on other recent efforts (ie the turgid Skyfall).

Christoph Waltz makes a splendid Blowers too.

Ok, now for the not so good points. Despite the several positives, I found it, on the whole, pretty boring. The action stuff was great but suffocated under the weight of the self-mythologising that slowed the pace of the film down to less than walking speed at key moments. It suffers from the same flaws as Sherlock and the last few series of Doctor Who, where it's more about the people and less about the plot. Really quite tiresome.

Shame, because it's otherwise the best Bond film for years.

[TimO]

Jungle Book

It reminded me a lot of the much older animated version, to which it obviously and quite deliberately takes quite a few queues.  The character animation is excellent, and aside from the obvious personification, they are all very believable as animals.

The story is obviously very similar to the animated film, so clearly borrows from almost the same set of stories.  That's no big problem, because it worked the first time.  The end is (amazingly) not quite as saccharin as the animated version.

The voice artists all did a fantastic job, and it's very easy to not notice who they are, which to my mind is an indication of how good their "acting" was.  Baloo and King Louie were particularly impressive to my ears.

The only actor who you actually see, for any significant time, Neel Sethi as Mowgli, was very good, even more so when you realise that this is only his second ever role, and his previous appearance was in a 3 minute short film!  It was amusing to see one of the "making of" films, where you see how little of the film was actually real, and how he had to act against various puppets, which was at least an improvement against the emotionless ball-on-a-stick, which has been used in other animation and live action mixed films.  That was of course, why they used the puppets, for a much more realistic response from him.

So, if you didn't already guess, I liked it.