What film did you watch last night?

Grandmaster Fap! said:
StarTrek: The motion Picture 7/10

This gets a lot of hate but i always enjoy it, great premise of intelligent life finding our old tech.
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I really like it too. Best of the odd numbers in my opinion. I prefer it to Search for Spock (which I watched last night incidentally).

It's about exploring the unknown, which is what Star Trek is really about.

Near the start when Kirk gets in the pod to go and have an inspection of the Enterprise; that whole scene still gives me tingles, even after seeing it quite a few times now over the years. There's something magical about that; the build up, the music and the way Kirk and whole original crew view the Enterprise. Something that is completely and utterly lost on the new Star Trek films; which seems nothing more than a ship.

It's also Karl Urban's favourite Trek film.
 
The LEGO Movie! I'm giving it 10/10 as a work of whimsical genius, and I haven't even finished watching it yet. I'd heard it was better than you might expect at first glance, but I regret not catching it sooner now.
 
Andrew_McP said:
The LEGO Movie! I'm giving it 10/10 as a work of whimsical genius, and I haven't even finished watching it yet. I'd heard it was better than you might expect at first glance, but I regret not catching it sooner now.
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It's a astoundingly good film. I'm amazed that they managed to get something like that out of a comparatively weak franchise.
 
The Meg - 2/10.

I had free tickets so went to see this last night. Don't pay to watch it though, it's awful. The script is terrible, cheesy and cringey, the acting isn't much better, there's no real character development so when people died I didn't really care, there's no chemistry between Statham and his Chinese love interest, and the attempt to appeal to both Western and Chinese audiences seems forced and doesn't work.
 
Baby Driver

Loved it, absolutely LOVED it. First time watching as well. I loved how it began, I loved his character...actually, I loved ALL the characters. Found myself gripping the sofa during some of the car chases.

The whole thing was just bananas :D
 
BillHicksRIP said:
Well that is a recommendation. Koyaanisqatsi took my head off the first time I saw it. It's the first thing I'm watching when I finally spring for a home projector.
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I watched Koyaanisqatsi earlier this year and it went straight into my Top 10 (half of which is now directed by either Godfrey Reggio or Ron Fricke). Hopefully one day they get released on 4K bluray.
 
Phate said:
Baby Driver

Loved it, absolutely LOVED it. First time watching as well. I loved how it began, I loved his character...actually, I loved ALL the characters. Found myself gripping the sofa during some of the car chases.

The whole thing was just bananas :D
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Yeah that's a great movie :D The car scenes are some of the best I've ever seen! And the music is immense :D
 
Dunkirk


Third time watching and I still think it's one of Nolan's best from a directorial point of view. The pacing is such that it starts at 8 and dials itself up to 11 by the end.

I'm still not entirely convinced that the timeline mechanic is necessary. It seems to serve his style more then it does the ebb and flow of the narrative, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Definitely doesn't carry the same weight on a small screen however. First time watching it in iMax was just incredible.

I go back and fourth on how I feel about him as a Director. There's absolutely NO doubt that he's one of the best filmmakers of the past several decades, but people constantly talk about his 'style' as though it's this mystical force that only he possesses. Personally, I wouldn't so much call it a style, more a Kubrick type confidence in his craft. Regardless of what you think of him or his movies, Tarantino has GENUINE style. Nolan just isn't quite there yet.
 
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nicktay2605 said:
The Meg - 2/10.
... there's no chemistry between Statham and his Chinese love interest.
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I actually thought they were OK together. My wife (predictably) loved the scene where he comes out of the shower in a towel (he's 51 FFS!) and she gawks at him. When she leaves, comes back to look through the window and then again, it had the entire cinema chuckling.
 
Jurassic World of awful writing 2. The first is passable even though they try to turn a horrendously incompetent awful woman into a protagonist and try to have us sympathise with her, but there are some okay bits and it's definitely watchable if not a great film.

The second film is dire even by the standards of the first film, if the stupidity of the decisions being made in the first film made you angry the second film might send you on a murder rampage through Hollywood. Nothing anyone does at any point makes the slightest bit of sense. The pacing is horrendous. The end of what you might consider Act 1 would normally be the end of the film and the end of the film is a giant and ridiculous let down. It's like they spent 80% of the budget and had to rewrite the rest of it to take place in a basically a single small area to save cash and wrote a terrible story to fit.

2-3/10. A complete and utter joke of a film. The actual dinosaur part of the story was weak, at one point I thought they were just using dinosaurs as a back drop for the latest disaster/apocalypse type film before act 1 ended.
 
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