What film did you watch last night?

Gandhi - What can I say? The life of Gandhi from first encountering oppression in South Africa to bringing India peacefully together against the British. Another one of those films that make you hate us Brits and how we used to behave. 4/5
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) - 7/10

I actually liked it!! typical 'Turn your brain off and eat Popcorn' movie!

Some good lines from the guys, but year Megan Fox (apart from looking foxy :D ) was a bit winey in places!!

Still love the originals though!! :D

Battlestar Galactica - Blood and Chrome - 9/10

Watched this as the 10 Webisodes originally, now I have the Blu-Ray and (apart from the excessive lens flair) it looked great!, the story ties into both Caprica and BSG really liked it!, shame they're not making any more!!
 
Fury....

Hmmm....just got back from the cinema....first half showed promise but then it just became nonsense....

Shame....:mad:

6/10

Surely if two grenades go off in a tank it would damage a body close by?.... Norman would have been shot under the tank when the SS found him....


The film was ******** rhymes with rollocks....:p
 
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Gone Girl. Pretty good. I don't agree with the criticism that it's down on marriage or that it's misogynistic, because I don't think Amy is typical of women any more than the marriage is typical of marriage in general. Good acting, good direction, I wasn't bored, I liked the creepy score.

That said, I lost patience with the story when she slit the guy's throat. Up until then it was fairly clear that she was crazy, but it was still just close enough to the far end of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" for her to be interesting. Once it became apparent that she was boba fide nuts I lost interest, because I knew the film wasn't going to explore why she was nuts at that point, and I was right - it didn't. It felt exploitative at that point, because the whole story was then just "look what this mentally ill person did", without any regard to why she was nuts or what anyone intended to do about it. It's just a freak show at that point.
 
Simian said:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) - 7/10

I actually liked it!! typical 'Turn your brain off and eat Popcorn' movie!

Some good lines from the guys, but year Megan Fox (apart from looking foxy :D ) was a bit winey in places!!

Still love the originals though!! :D
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Fury....

Hmmm....just got back from the cinema....first half showed promise but then it just became nonsense....

Shame....:mad:

6/10

Surely if two grenades go off in a tank it would damage a body close by?.... Norman would have been shot under the tank when the SS found him....


The film was ******** rhymes with rollocks....:p
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Wow you really didn't understand that scene

The German soldier didn't shoot him because he is the German version of Norman, not every German soldier was a cold blooded killer. He is essentially the same as Norman was before being a member of Fury.

The German soldiers' compassion and humanity chose to let him live.
 
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Wow you really didn't understand that scene

The German soldier didn't shoot him because he is the German version of Norman, not every German soldier was a cold blooded killer. He is essentially the same as Norman was before being a member of Fury.

The German soldiers' compassion and humanity chose to let him live.
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It's not that I didn't understand IT...I just didn't buy it....:p

After the so called initiation scene with Norman being forced to shoot the German soldier on his knees. He soon changed his tune :p so I don't buy the soldier let him go after they mowed down most of the SS troop. I also loved the way the attack outside the tank stopped to allow the schmaltz to take place....then suddenly start again..the first tank battle showed promise and was excellent...unfortunately it just went downhill from then on and became filler (table scene) and unbelievable nonsense...was a real shame...plus Norman can't act....at all...
 
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That film title annoys the hell out of me^ :mad:

No Escape - 7/10

Strange fairly unknown Ray Liotta film about prisoners being sent off to an island. Remembered watching it as a kid so downloaded it and gave it another watch. Seems very dated now, but an enjoyable film.
 
Have a look at Fortress... Same film but set in a futuristic underground prison, with Christopher 'There can be only one!' Lambert
 
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - a feel-good film from Ben Stiller about a dreamer who starts an actual adventure. The film was fine but some of the scenery and shots were fantastic.

I wonder how much Papa Johns paid? Although it is my favourite pizza place it started to get a bit cheesey ;), especially when he walked into a Papa John's in a country that has no Pap Johns. 3/5
 
Ghostbusters 9/10
Not really seen this since I was a kid and on viewing it now, I appreciate the amount of adult humour that's actually in it, though the product placement is slightly annoying, though this may have actually been a joke in itself?
 
Fury - 6.5/10

It was ok, good enough.

I just felt it was trying too hard to be an 'epic saga' rather than let the subject matter do that on it's own. For example, something like Saving Private Ryan where the characters acted/spoke normally and the drama just came naturally. In this the whole dramatic music score combined with the dialogue trying so hard to be meaningful and poignant, just left me a little detached.

It surely showed the brutality of war and some of the early action scenes were great, loved the effects of the AT guns and Tiger with the ricocheting shells.

But the last battle against the SS troops....hmmm, that many men with panzerfausts and they couldn't just encircle an immobilised Sherman and attack it with a pincer movement.....hell, the Fury guys let them get all around the tank before starting to attack. That would have been game over right there.
 
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