Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 964106 times)

ian · « **Reply #8900 on:** 29 April, 2020, 10:59:34 am »

I have long welcomed the suspicion that anything with Marisa Tomei is going to be better. Winona would have been a good bet (she's good as the fragile, cranky mum in Stranger Things).

Back in the day, when I used to cycle through the Beckenham borders past Ringwald Close, I'd always shout MOLLY! (OK, don't spoil it by telling me it's spelt Ringwold.)

Apropos of nothing, the MJ Fox episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the best bits of TV ever

citoyen · « **Reply #8901 on:** 29 April, 2020, 11:05:36 am »

Quote from: ian on 29 April, 2020, 10:59:34 am

I have long welcomed the suspicion that anything with Marisa Tomei is going to be better. Winona would have been a good bet (she's good as the fragile, cranky mum in Stranger Things).

Back in the day, when I used to cycle through the Beckenham borders past Ringwald Close, I'd always shout MOLLY! (OK, don't spoil it by telling me it's spelt Ringwold.)

Apropos of nothing, the MJ Fox episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the best bits of TV ever

On a related note, the Marisa Tomei episodes of Seinfeld are among my very favourites.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #8902 on:** 30 April, 2020, 11:56:53 am »

I wish I had had the foresight to save copies of the poems wot my erstwhile* chum Samfast wrote when Winona Ryder got done for shoplifting. The only bit I can remember:

Winona, Winona
The judge had a bona
But couldn't condona
Your thieving persona

* he emigrated to Captain Cook's Mistake

Kim · « **Reply #8903 on:** 30 April, 2020, 01:27:25 pm »

Salyut 7 (2017)

Competent Russian dramatisation of the Soyuz T-13 mission. I found the combination of high-quality special effects and attention to technical detail jarred with the serious over-egging^[1] of the story for dramatic reasons; you're never sure whether you're watching Apollo 13 or Armageddon. On the other hand, the drama of the real events would likely be lost on a non-technical audience, and you've got to admire the whole thing as a set-up for...

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_{[1] They did at least borrow some elements from other space disasters.}

citoyen · « **Reply #8904 on:** 03 May, 2020, 08:25:47 am »

Quote from: Kim on 27 April, 2020, 06:25:09 pm

Quote from: ian on 27 April, 2020, 11:22:15 am
Dr Strange is one of the meh-er ones too. It suffers a bit because the eponymous hero starts out as a dick and remains like that for much of the movie, that and it's an origin story, so its heavy on the exposition.

Being a dick didn't stop Tony Stark, but yes. I still liked the film though, because it was pretty.

Dr Strange stands up well to repeat viewing (or it did last night at least). Yes, it does feel a lot like retreading old ground - it's like a mash-up of Iron Man, The Matrix and Inception, but it's done very well indeed. The visuals are wonderfully trippily spectacular too - yes, very pretty indeed - kind of wish I'd seen this one in the cinema. And Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant - it's great when you have a Proper Act-Or playing these roles and doing it perfectly straight as if it's Hamlet or something. Tilda Swinton and Chiwetel Ejiofor too. Marvellous.

numbnuts · « **Reply #8905 on:** 03 May, 2020, 11:58:22 am »

Contagion

rafletcher · « **Reply #8906 on:** 03 May, 2020, 12:16:15 pm »

The Full Monty. Caught the beginning by accident, and sat through it. It was quick and funny. And apparently the script was written by the guy who later wrote Slumdog Millionaire.

ian · « **Reply #8907 on:** 04 May, 2020, 10:45:34 am »

Quote from: numbnuts on 03 May, 2020, 11:58:22 am

Contagion

We did the plague porn weekend with Outbreak and Contagion. The latter is pretty much on the mark (and a reminder that in many ways we're dodging a bullet with Covid-19).

I don't remember enjoying Dr Strange so much (the visuals where very good on the Imax though), might have to revisit.

Kim · « **Reply #8908 on:** 04 May, 2020, 01:12:32 pm »

Outbreak is enjoyable in much the same way that Volcano is.

Wikinaccurate informs me that Outbreak was to be the Armageddon to an abandoned-in-pre-production film adaptation of The Hot Zone's Deep Impact. So we only got the silly one.

It was also fresh in our teenage memories when my dad returned from Sudan with a polystyrene box covered in biohazard stickers (in those days, such things were quickly waved through airport security to avoid inspection). It was sitting on our kitchen floor when a visiting friend of mine happened to enquire as to what it was. My dad proceeded to channel his inner Dustin Hoffman and open the lid, revealing an array of blood and CSF samples in billowing dry ice fog, and made some remark to the effect that it "Might be the 'flu, might be the next Zaire ebolavirus, we won't know till we get it to the lab."

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This was regarded as the coolest thing since that time I fixed another friend's computer by thumping it.

andyoxon · « **Reply #8909 on:** 04 May, 2020, 01:20:12 pm »

Extraction

On Netflix, with 'Thor' in the antihero lead role. Thought it was well done. Pretty violent of course.

ian · « **Reply #8910 on:** 04 May, 2020, 02:06:01 pm »

Outbreak wasn't as bad as I remembered. Donald Sutherland is the epitome evil military type. Morgan Freeman, whatever that man says is the truth. If the neutrinos are about to mutate*, I want to hear it from him.

Contagion was bit too close to the truth (some dramatic licence, but it's actually well done).

*everyone laughs at this, but they do change flavour, from salt and vinegar to cheese and onion and prawn cocktail.

T42 · « **Reply #8911 on:** 04 May, 2020, 02:19:22 pm »

Netflix France have removed Contagion. Shame, I've only watched it 3 times. They do have another called 93 Days, though, about a real Ebola outbreak in Nigeria.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #8912 on:** 04 May, 2020, 04:21:17 pm »

Quote from: andyoxon on 04 May, 2020, 01:20:12 pm

Extraction

On Netflix, with 'Thor' in the antihero lead role. Thought it was well done. Pretty violent of course.

I watched that. No glamour in the violence, getting stabbed, punched, hurts and is bloody messy.

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CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8913 on:** 04 May, 2020, 04:59:36 pm »

I finally got round to watching The Matrix. Underwhelming. The main thing was seeing all the tech gear - mobile phones mainly - that would have been cutting edge in 1999 that are now so old hat.

The Godfather - again, The Director's cut, though I couldn't see the difference. Great cinema, albeit on a 43" screen, but YKWIM.

Tonight it's Three Colours White. Out of sequence, but I need to watch it - again - for an assignment I'm going to do.

citoyen · « **Reply #8914 on:** 05 May, 2020, 12:57:42 pm »

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

Entertaining enough but not as outrageously enjoyable as Vol 1. Baby Groot is good. Kurt Russell is good. The Gamora vs Nebula sibling rivalry thing is good. The useless Sovereign are good. Rocket felt less convincing as a character than in the first instalment. The ending was a bit predictable.

Kim · « **Reply #8915 on:** 05 May, 2020, 01:37:29 pm »

Quote from: CAMRAMan on 04 May, 2020, 04:59:36 pm

I finally got round to watching The Matrix. Underwhelming. The main thing was seeing all the tech gear - mobile phones mainly - that would have been cutting edge in 1999 that are now so old hat.

There's a film that aged so badly that the innovative and initially spectacular 'bullet time' effect was old by about halfway through watching it.

Some of it's iconic 90s cyberpunk. The rest is contrived philosophy, transgender allegory, guns, lots of guns and lashings and lashings of Buddhist woo.

The Nokia 7110 was pretty cool tho. And it had a better screensaver than Galaxy Quest.

Shame they never made a sequel.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8916 on:** 05 May, 2020, 02:11:33 pm »

I paid £5 for the Blu-Ray box set, but I'm not sure I want to sit through the sequels...

citoyen · « **Reply #8917 on:** 05 May, 2020, 02:24:04 pm »

I still love the original Matrix and will happily watch it over and over.

I'm not aware of any sequels.

T42 · « **Reply #8918 on:** 05 May, 2020, 04:25:24 pm »

Be happy.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #8919 on:** 05 May, 2020, 04:31:32 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 05 May, 2020, 02:24:04 pm

I still love the original Matrix and will happily watch it over and over.

I'm not aware of any sequels.

Horses for courses, I just found it rather overblown.

I don't know about sequel being the correct word, but I was talking about Matrix Reloaded & Matrix Revolutions. Or I could be missing out on an in joke...

ian · « **Reply #8920 on:** 05 May, 2020, 04:40:52 pm »

I still love The Matrix, but yeah, the sequels. It's dated certainly, but in a cool way.

citoyen · « **Reply #8921 on:** 05 May, 2020, 05:18:55 pm »

Quote from: CAMRAMan on 05 May, 2020, 04:31:32 pm

Matrix Reloaded & Matrix Revolutions

Nope. Never heard of them.

ian · « **Reply #8922 on:** 05 May, 2020, 05:27:40 pm »

I think they might have happened. But then I woke up, and it was all just a terrible dream. The End.

drossall · « **Reply #8923 on:** 05 May, 2020, 05:38:06 pm »

I think The Matrix was the film that was on when I flew to the States or somewhere for work. The aircraft was so noisy that I didn't hear any of the dialogue, which made it really hard to figure out what was going on. So I had to watch it again another time, just to find out. I rather enjoyed it, though the sequel(s) weren't so good.

ian · « **Reply #8924 on:** 05 May, 2020, 05:50:15 pm »

I think we need to be clear. There are no Matrix sequels. Some people might have dreamed them, but they didn't happen.