What film did you watch last night?

Guardians of the Galaxy - a solid 7.5 / 10

The humour fell a little flat for me in places, but was great in others. The action and characters overall were very good. The overall polish of the film is great, the 3d was technically some of the best since avatar - good fluidity between fore, mid and background, no tangible blurring in fast action scenes.

Looking forward to the sequels
 
The Lego Movie - 8/10

Was very good until the final 15 mins, when it took an unexpected turn for the worse :/

But thoroughly entertaining and very funny before that. Really the only thing that isn't brilliant is that ending, which lets the film down quite badly (I think it's called breaking the 4th wall, or something).
 
August: Osage County. Very strong cast and well made, but exceedingly bleak. Lots of horrible characters and no redemption for anyone. Competent film, horrible story. Not sure I can recommend it on that basis.
 
Guardians of the Galaxy 9/10. I aren't normally a fan of the Marvel films but this one was fantastic. The only reason it didn't make 10 was because as another poster said, it fell a little flat sometimes, but I can easily forgive it those minor flaws. Thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.
 
A Beautiful Mind 7.5/10 Very enjoyable.

The Prestige 9/10 Excellent! Ironic that Christian Bale was alongside Michael Caine again but that this time Bale is called Alfred in the movie.
 
Thor 2

Enjoyed that more than the first for sure! Hogun looked right, and Chuck made a much better Fandral. Some good humour that I wasn't expecting. Heimdall and Freya were badass :D

7/10
 
The Bourne Legacy for the second time. Was distracted the first time I watched it and wasn't sure what was going on with the chems and viral load stuff. Second watch I paid close attention and really enjoyed it. Not as good as the first Damon bourne but easily as good as the other two sequels.

Almost an 8/10, think it's criminally underrated by a lot of people, Renner seems to get a lot of hate for some reason.
 
Bourne Legacy wasnt a bad movie.
It was just that it was same old, same old.
Basically more of exactly the same, albeit with different actors.

If you are doing a reboot, you should wait about 20 years.

There are plenty of other movies more than 20yrs old which can be re-made.
 
What I don't get is why some of the ww1/ww2 movies haven't been remade. They're so old and CGI/special effects are so much better, I mean lots aren't even in colour. Or just new movies, so many interesting battles. Give me a Pegasus bridge movie please.
Or the battles Jeremy Clarkson covered. So many to choose from, yet they just reboot recent films, I mean how long did spider man last until that was rebooted.
 
I think the "older" war movies are not relevant in today's age.
So any war movies made in 2014 would focus on recent events, eg. the Afghanistan war or Iraq war.

A lot of cinema-going public have no interest in wars which occurred 70 yrs ago.
Its easier to market an Afghanistan war movie, as more people can relate to it.

Of course, if Steven Spielberg or James Cameron do a historical war movie, it'll probably make heaps of cash.
 
sunama said:
I think the "older" war movies are not relevant in today's age.
So any war movies made in 2014 would focus on recent events, eg. the Afghanistan war or Iraq war.

A lot of cinema-going public have no interest in wars which occurred 70 yrs ago.
Its easier to market an Afghanistan war movie, as more people can relate to it.

Of course, if Steven Spielberg or James Cameron do a historical war movie, it'll probably make heaps of cash.
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What a load of rubbish.

WWI and WWII are taught in schools worldwide, they are burned into kids minds form an early age. Iraq and Afghanistan are piddling little conflicts in comparison, and no-one really takes huge interest in them as they don't affect us in general. We see it on the news, but it is distant and remote. Also, the events are nothing compared to the epic atrocities committed in WWI and WWII, so it also lacks impact form that angle.

Historical war movies are about as far from irrelevant as you can get, and I have seen or heard nothing that would make me think otherwise.
 
There was talk about making, or Re-Making 'The Dam Busters' at one point, would make a good story to re-tell with Modern CGI/Models etc...

Though I'm not sure what they would re-name Guy Gibson's dog (and the Subsequent 'Code' hit on the Dam)

Work on a remake of The Dam Busters, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first time director Christian Rivers, began in 2008. Jackson said in the mid-1990s that he became interested in remaking the 1954 film, but found that the rights had been bought by Mel Gibson. In 2004, Jackson was contacted by his agent, who said Gibson had dropped the rights. The rights were purchased by David Frost, from the Brickhill family in 2005. Stephen Fry is writing the script of the film. It will be distributed by Universal Pictures and StudioCanal. Filming was planned to commence in early 2009, on a budget of USD 40 million, although no project-specific filming had begun as of May 2009. The project has been delayed because Jackson decided to make The Hobbit.

Weta Workshop was making the models and special effects for the film and had made 10 life size Lancaster bombers. Gibson's dog "******" will be called "Digger" in the remake, Though no decision has been made yet!

The last living pilot of the strike team, Les Munro, joined the production crew in Masterton as technical adviser. Jackson was also to use newly declassified War Office documents to ensure the authenticity of the film.
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