What film did you watch last night?

Watched "Ip Man" with the wife. Par of an ongoing mission to help her understand martial arts and action films. She loved it.
 
Got around to seeing Rush.8/10
I was initially put off 'cos it was a film about formula 1 drivers. Great film though. Excellent story, felt a tiny bit contrived in some scenes but well acted by the main 2 players! Recommended.
 
Nightcrawler very good movie thriller and had me glued to the TV for the whole movie. Jake gyllenhaal puts a top performance in as well.

Fury pretty good all round movie probably should appreciate it more but it wasn't really my type of movie. Would still watch it again though as it was definitely one of the better movies I have watched this year.
 
The Equalizer, 7/10 - classic unbeatable one punch hero vs nasty villains story that managed to escape B-movie cheese. Watch out for the superb, chills inducing use of Moby's cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades" as a homage/bridge to 1995 flick "Heat".

Gone Girl, 9/10 - wow, what a brilliant twist on procedural drama. My only slight, slightest critique, would be
that I felt Ben Affleck's character wasn't portrayed with as much cynical mercenary cold and calculation as Rosamund Pike's performance deserved, I think the movie would be even better if we couldn't side with any character. Similarly if the parents gave as much soul and sympathy to Amy's side as Carrie Co-on's Margo (sorry, for some reason swear filter thinks the actress' surname is a swearword) offered to Nick, the balance of bad on bad and good on good would be mesmerisingly perfect.
 
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Gone Girl 8/10.

the word I was going to use to describe Amy, and it would have become asterisked on these forums, was actually used by her at the end of the film to describe herself so I won't bother.

Sod it, what a ****.

I am a big fan of NPH, Barney Stinson is one of TV's great characters, but Neil you're gay and still have sex scenes with women far prettier than I'll ever manage, come on man stop rubbing it in :D
 
Paddington - 7/10.
Good, funny in places with great acting from Julie Walters who isn't even a main character.
 
Guardians of the Galaxy - 9.5/10

I loved it, my two boys loved it (my wife fell asleep just over halfway through).

Nearing the year's end, and this jumps straight into favourite film of the year position. With ease. So fun, so well-paced and directed, such wonderful comic book characters. An unadulterated joy from start to finish.
 
Transformers Age of Extinction

Good grief that should have been so much better. Some of the acting was shocking the script was plain awful and I just didn't care what the hell happened to anyone. It could have been at least 30 minutes shorter.

3.5/10
 
The Terminal. It's pretty good fun and quite sweet, and it's Spielberg and Hanks so it should be great, but it doesn't quite come together somehow.
 
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