What film did you watch last night?

Right after having last night ruined by WW84 decided to watch Soul.

/Clap

Cast was fantastic and a really nice heart felt message.

Not the best Pixar's film (My favourite is still UP) but it certainly can hang out in that category.

Bloody well loved the cat!!
 
Bigpig said:
Right after having last night ruined by WW84 decided to watch Soul.

/Clap

Cast was fantastic and a really nice heart felt message.

Not the best Pixar's film (My favourite is still UP) but it certainly can hang out in that category.

Bloody well loved the cat!!
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Everyone is different and has different views, but I thought Soul is leagues ahead of Up, even if Up was more.... ‘revolutionary’.

Up really kickstarted the exploration of ‘feels’ in family animation and it should be rightly commended for being strikingly different in that regard. Unfortunately, it really suffers through that twee Pixar bull that I was on about earlier. That kid is just ****ing annoying and even Doug, the bird and the other dogs can be a little grating on a rewatch.

Soul finally feels like they got a message and the setting of the film spot on. An underachieving good natured jazz musician... what an unusual character to explore the afterlife and, more importantly, how to live. There is some absolutely terrifying content in Soul, yet it takes such crushingly heavy subject matter and makes it fancy and light. The art style is also utterly delightful in all of the ‘other world’ scenes.

The barbershop scene is absolute amazing IMO in terms of such subtle revelations that the lead goes through. Oh man when the barber said it was so nice to talk about something other than jazz that really made me think about how self-absorbed I am!

I guess I think Up is a good story, but it’s merely a story. Soul is a great story but ultimately far more than a story.

That’s my thoughts anyway!
 
WW84 - dirge of a film.

Woke crap - women are strong, women say no to the privileged, white man. White men = bad sexual harrasers.

CGI was terrible and aside from the opening, it took nearly an hour to see WW.

Loved the invisible jet, but when the **** did WW fly?

And the main plot? Wishes? Fricking wishes?!

More like a Doctor Who episode than a Hollywood blockbuster.
 
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Watched Soul, was ok. Fantastic animation as always, some chuckles but it was pretty much by the numbers Pixar nothing particularly special. Not sure it would make my top 10 Pixar movies and wouldnt watch it again unlike a lot of the others.

7/10
 
Soul - watched on the recommendations here and enjoyed it but it wasn't the revelation that it was made out to be by some. Obviously very high quality animation and sound and a good story too. Wall*E is still my favourite. 4/5
 
Let him go. Decent movie that starts off a bit slow and then builds.

I wasn't hugely impressed with some of the plot decisions and some characters could have done with better development but it was ok.

6/10
 
chroniclard said:
Watched Soul, was ok. Fantastic animation as always, some chuckles but it was pretty much by the numbers Pixar nothing particularly special. Not sure it would make my top 10 Pixar movies and wouldnt watch it again unlike a lot of the others.

7/10
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I think I'm with this too. 7/10
 
Snowtown. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1680114/

I saw part of this once before and after recently watching a documentary about it,
I decided to finally get around to seeing it all the way through.

To be expected, it's pretty harsh content and viewing at times, but very well acted.
One of the main characters, Jamie - played by Lucas Pittaway, had barely done any acting before, so that's certainly impressive.

It's the sort of film you might have to be in the right frame of mind to watch, or it may not even appeal at all.
 
Destination said:
Me to, i thought it was grand, run of the mill superhero movie, i think too many of the marvel movies are of similar quality to this, but are overlooked due to rose tinted good ones in the mix.
We found it quite passable.
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I've seen the trailer, which is enough to put me off. It looks a bit of a steaming turd to me.
 
Destination said:
Me to, i thought it was grand, run of the mill superhero movie, i think too many of the marvel movies are of similar quality to this, but are overlooked due to rose tinted good ones in the mix.
We found it quite passable.
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Not sure I understand your argument. Comparing the bad marvel films to the good ones just makes the bad ones seem worse. I like the Marvel films in general but there are plenty (probably more than half) that I can take or leave. Personally I didn't have any real issues with Justice League or Aquaman and the first WW was decent enough. Again, nothing special but decent enough. This is by far the worst of the super hero films. To the point where I was considering skipping parts or giving up on it entirely.

WW84 was a car crash. I think like most people I went into it with an open mind and was expecting it to be quite good. Its not like people are going into the film expecting to not like it.

If you enjoyed it thats cool but I don't know how people can't see that all the criticisms of it are entirely valid.
 
I fully understand the critism but I think as it had been universally slated, i approached from below expectations, and found it not thoroughly awful.
I enjoyed the first WW film, barring the final act which frankly was dull and unnecessarily in pure CGI.
This just seemed happier for the times, I'd give it a 5/10.

Gadot and Pine have wonderful onscreen chemistry.
 
Wonder Woman 1984 5/10

And that's because Gal is lovely to look at. I watch any old crap and usually enjoy it however this film was just ridiculous, effects were awful, the story was rubbish. I had really looked forward to the sequel and hoped for something at least on par with the first, but it was a big let down.

Soul 9/10

Wonderful, wonderful film.
 
Return of the king (1 & 2 and the hobbits done over the last 2 weeks)

My favourite of the trilogy and probably my favourite of all time. Excellent story telling , cinematography and an amazing sound track.
 
fez said:
Personally I didn't have any real issues with Justice League or Aquaman and the first WW was decent enough. Again, nothing special but decent enough. This is by far the worst of the super hero films.
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Worse than Aquaman? Wow, that's disappointing, was going to check this out later.

I consider Aquaman one of the worst movies i've ever seen, i'm a completionist and will see almost all bad movies through to the end but it got switched off a little over halfway in.

As far as comic book movies go, Aquaman is Catwoman levels of bad
 
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