What film did you watch last night?

American Sniper 5/10 - badly scripted propaganda movie with stellar performance from lead actor. No questions, no answers, just pure "America, **** yeah!" and that's it.

The Imitation Game 7/10 - tear jerking biopic that doesn't rise above what is expected from a tear jerking biopic plot wise bar the great performance from leading actor. Historically it's about as inaccurate as any British production about Enigma has ever been, not only omitting the fact that Bletchley Park's task was based on work done by foreign cryptographers, but in addition to attributing all the math to Turing, it credits him with solely designing the Bombe, using just a single passing reference to Rajewski's mechanical design Bombe mimicked and never mentioning Gordon Welchman's modification at all.

The Theory Of Everything - 9/10 - well, that just made all biopics this year completely pointless.
 
SixTwoSix said:
The Theory Of Everything...glad it concentrated more on his personal side than the science of it, most of which goes over my head. Could feel my eyes welling up on numerous occasions but one certain part virtually had me about to start sobbing. Had I been at home, i'd have unashamedly had a good cry.

When he's with his wife after seeing the queen and he's typing something, then it reads "look what we made"...tears ahoy

9/10, it's been over 10 years since something hit me on such an emotional level. He deserves an oscar.
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I'm really pleased Eddie Redmayne has had a huge success like this. I saw him doing a good job in a few things on tv a while ago, and he was comfortably the best thing about My Week With Marilyn, so it looked like he was on the path to something big.
 
v0n said:
American Sniper 5/10 - badly scripted propaganda movie with stellar performance from lead actor. No questions, no answers, just pure "America, **** yeah!" and that's it.
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Perhaps a little harsh in my opinion. But its wasn't the best film I'm going to see this year, that's for sure. 6/10.
 
American Sniper - good movie thought it was well acted and really well shot (no pun intended). Classic Eastwood directing. Just hope he did not spoil it like in previous flicks. Did give you a good insight of a soldier experience.

8/10
 
American sniper

liked
Cooper does a good Kyle, Couple bits are believable, liked how they showed his PTSD and how he would never admit he had it, also the ambiguous do i shoot or not bits are amazing

didnt like
bad guy storyline was a bit made up, cheesy slow mo headshot at the climax, not enough sniper time - too much gung ho action stuff

Thought it was a good interpretation of the book, not just the story but the acting is really good 8/10

also funny to see
godfather and Eric kosher from generation kill back in iraq !
 
Headhunters - very dark and funny Norwegian thriller about a professional headhunter trying to recruit a new boss for a GPS company while leading a double life as an art thief for whom everything falls apart quite quickly. 5/5
 
Really want to try The Theory Of Everything but doubt I could manage it. Wife said she would be a wreck.

Rings - Short film to explain the events between ring 1 and ring 2. Decent for a short.

Maleficent - half watched while browsing web, seemed ok.
 
American Sniper - 9/10 - Brilliant film, and another excellent performance from Bradley Cooper.

Gone girl - 5/10 - When it finished I got that feeling of "why did I waste 2 hours watching this". Could have been so much better, but all in all, I thought it was terrible. Ben Afleck was poor. I'm only giving it a 5 (and this is generous), as Emily Ratajkowski got her knockers out, albeit in the dark and only for a few seconds. Then again I'd probably rather be put through Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines video to see more of them than watch that film again...
 
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Stardust - 7/10
It's been sitting on my Lovefilm list for ages as low priority and finally ended up on my doorstep. I quite enjoyed it actually, a reasonably entertaining fantasy jaunt with Neil Gaiman's sense of humour evident, particularly in the rather surprising turn by Robert DeNiro.
I believe it was the first of the collaborative efforts between Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn who went on to do Kick Ass and others.

A good one for sitting down with the whole family.
 
rossk26 said:
American Sniper - 9/10 - Brilliant film, and another excellent performance from Bradley Cooper.

Gone girl - 5/10 - When it finished I got that feeling of "why did I waste 2 hours watching this". Could have been so much better, but all in all, I thought it was terrible. Ben Afleck was poor. I'm only giving it a 5 (and this is generous), as Emily Ratajkowski got her knockers out, albeit in the dark and only for a few seconds. Then again I'd probably rather be put through Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines video to see more of them than watch that film again...
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Agree with American Sniper - very enjoyable and while I'm sure some of the exploits within are embellished slightly for film, it was an interesting insight into a snipers life!

Gone Girl I'd disagree with though - I quite enjoyed it right up until the end - quite an interesting premise and I didn't think Ben Afleck did a bad job at all! (although he's never been my favourite actor so maybe I just wasn't expecting much!?!?)

The issue I had with it was the end was very "meh" - felt like I did with No Country For Old Men - nice build up with basically no ending!
 
Manbatius said:
Really want to try The Theory Of Everything but doubt I could manage it. Wife said she would be a wreck.
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i welled up in two parts and there were another three incidents that were very strong but that adds to the film but i was a little dissapointed it didn't focus more on his condition tbh as i think that adds to his achievment.

it focuses a lot on his wife and her struggle to cope. she is more of a lead than him imo.
 
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