What film did you watch last night?

[IvanDobskey]

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.

Oh dear, that good eh?

They really should have left Jurassic park alone after the first one. All of the sequels have been pretty poor if you ask me.

The old cash cow must be milked though....

 

[Freakbro]

Utøya. 9/10

Pretty powerful stuff shot in "real-time" 90 mins of lump in the throat open mouthed and some holding your breath moments.

Very well made and filmed. I'll be amazed if this doesn't win some awards.

I've been waiting for this ever since your review, it's on Netflix from 10th Oct

 

[drunkenmaster]

Oh dear, that good eh?

They really should have left Jurassic park alone after the first one. All of the sequels have been pretty poor if you ask me.

The old cash cow must be milked though....

I mean the first film established what was a great setup for further stories. But that every time they go back they without fail decide to go back with weak equipment, untrained people and a plan that makes no sense and every single time ends up dismal failure is just... urrggh.

They are freaking dinosaurs, DINOSAURS ffs, this isn't the 20s, private military actually exists. You can get an attack boat loaded with cannons and crap to sit off the coast, you can bring turrets and explosive/anti armour weapons and set up a secure base that can actually kill big ass monsters if they attack and you can send out well trained guys with powerful weapons, tanks and anything else to go track down raptors or whatever. But it always ends up with some scientist and some kid being involved... and for some reason security or tracker types who have slow firing tranq guns, and cattle prods as if none of these guys have a clue what dinosaurs are, how big they are and how utterly stupid going up against them with that and a few guys with assault rifles. You can't sneak onto an island with dinosaurs, you go in hard, with guys with rocket launches, and tanks, and attack helicopters, etc.

There are loads of opportunities for films in which the dinosaurs get out, or they feel they have to go back in because monitoring shows they've started breeding and they fear they will get out, but instead every attempt is some ridiculous plan to go back in that's obviously going to fail with the worst people and equipment possible and every film is more irritating than the last.

 

[RobDogDog]

Calibre - 7/10

Scottish lads go hunting in a rural Scottish town. Stuff goes wrong. Thought it was pretty well acted for the most part.

 

[Steampunk]

I mean the first film established what was a great setup for further stories. But that every time they go back they without fail decide to go back with weak equipment, untrained people and a plan that makes no sense and every single time ends up dismal failure is just... urrggh.

That's pretty much the same for every Michael Crichton book, and they've kept that going in the movies, long after his stories have been used up. It's just the continual dumbing down of scripts in favour of visual effects and action scenes.

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Watched American Animals last night, true story about a couple of stoners who steal some rare books from a university.
Really enjoyed it, well done movie, slow burner but gets there in the end.
7.5/10

 

[DrToffnar]

The Thing (2011)


I mean it's not god awful, but it's getting there. There's certainly a few very neat ideas in here which would could have served it really well had more been done with them (the language barrier between the Americans and the Norwegians almost becomes a mechanic that could have played out nicely), but the whole thing starts to flounder at the end of the second act.

And that CGI... approaching 'Scorpion King' levels of bad during certain scenes. I'm not one of those snobbish prudes that dismisses CGI and it's presence in every movie and even taking into account that Bottin and Stan Winstons designs where never really going to be bested, there's not one point where the creatures feel in any way tangible. Even if the CGI where top notch it still wouldn't work. There'd still be that odd uncanny valley effect where by the body horror just wouldn't feel totally believable.

 

[robgmun]

And that CGI... approaching 'Scorpion King' levels of bad during certain scenes. I'm not one of those snobbish prudes that dismisses CGI and it's presence in every movie and even taking into account that Bottin and Stan Winstons designs where never really going to be bested, there's not one point where the creatures feel in any way tangible. Even if the CGI where top notch it still wouldn't work. There'd still be that odd uncanny valley effect where by the body horror just wouldn't feel totally believable.

The saddest thing is most of the monster effects were practical at one point but the studio decided to throw out perfectly good practical SFX and replace them with CGI. There a youtube video showing what the monsters would have looked like in practical and in most cases looked virtually identical to the CGI but more real of course :/

Studio execs are idoits

 

[DrToffnar]

The saddest thing is most of the monster effects were practical at one point but the studio decided to throw out perfectly good practical SFX and replace them with CGI. There a youtube video showing what the monsters would have looked like in practical and in most cases looked virtually identical to the CGI but more real of course :/

Studio execs are idoits

Aye, I remember seeing a few of those vids a while back.

It does seem bizarre when you see the final result. The CGI in the movie is astonishingly bad at times.

 

[Marky]

Like Father

Disappointing really... Was expecting a bit more, but it was quite boring in the end

Kristen Bell is still such a babe though... Definitely added a few points just because she was in it

5/10

 

[2013]

Good will hunting 7/10 I keep forgetting how good Robin Williams was till I watch one of his movies, I was never really a fan of Matt Damon in the past but im just now starting to see how good he is.

 

[Daftbrown]

Like Father

Disappointing really... Was expecting a bit more, but it was quite boring in the end

Kristen Bell is still such a babe though... Definitely added a few points just because she was in it

5/10

Each to their own.

I turned off The Good Place on Netflix due to not being able to tolerate her botox-ed/ surgically bothered / voodoo magicked / whatever it is face.

Well, that and the programme was otherwise uninteresting.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Jurassic world fc, this **** made 1.3 billion, what a travesty.

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Calibre - 7/10

Scottish lads go hunting in a rural Scottish town. Stuff goes wrong. Thought it was pretty well acted for the most part.

Watched this last night offshore, cracking film really enjoyed it 8/10.
Cheers for the heads up, had never heard of this one before.

 

[VincentHanna]

Each to their own.

I turned off The Good Place on Netflix due to not being able to tolerate her botox-ed/ surgically bothered / voodoo magicked / whatever it is face.

Well, that and the programme was otherwise uninteresting.

I don't find her very attractive, but 'The Good Place' is great fun.

 

[cheesyboy]

Each to their own.

I turned off The Good Place on Netflix due to not being able to tolerate her botox-ed/ surgically bothered / voodoo magicked / whatever it is face.

Well, that and the programme was otherwise uninteresting.

The Good Place is really average for the first 4 or 5 (ish) episodes, I almost gave up, but really takes off after that. It's not amazing, but a high-concept comedy show is a bit of a rarity, and it's pretty good.

 

[neviditelny]

2 nights ago I watched Upgrade. I really enjoyed it, thought it was pretty good made considering the limited budget they used. Good story and thankfully not too long either. I find that too many movies nowadays goes on and on a bit too long.

Last night I watched Red Sparrow. Also a good movie with pretty decent acting and a story that after all could be quite possible in real as well.

 

[SixTwoSix]

Red Sparrow is good for two things.

 

[hyperseven]

The Gate 1 & 2
Classic horror nonsense from when I was a youngster. Not in remotest bit scary but a good laugh. Now have the hankering to search down Ghoulies and House

 

[Ninco!]

Star Wars - Rogue One

A bit late in the day, only I gave up on modern incarnation Star Wars movies a while a go. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of the original trilogy!

I have got to say, I really enjoyed Rogue One and whilst I have yet to watch Solo or the Last Jedi (as I said I gave up on modern incarnations) as it stands; Rogue One is by far the best of the new breed of Star Wars films.