What film did you watch last night?

Lima said:
Marley and me

I thought I was in for a stinker of a film when I read the synopsis and it said something along the lines of 'Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen are a married couple who get a troublesome dog.' I thought it would be a cheesy comedy chick flick with a crazy pooch doing ridiculous things.... I was wrong.

The film is actually more of a drama to do with growing up through your 20s to 40s and the ups and downs of being married and having kids, buying a house, moving up career ladder. While this is going on it shows their first pet dog grow from a puppy to old and how much of part of a family a dog can be. The last 15 mins or so of the film are very sad and almost had me shedding a tear.

Very surprising and good film 7.5/10
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Do you own a dog? Experienced a dogs death?

Ever seen, My Dog Skip?

 
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craig_t said:
Over Saturday, Sunday and Monday I watched all of the Fast and Furious, including going to the cinema to see number 7.

I was really happy with Fast and Furious 7, although my only comments on it now is that they are very much all action now and although there are some cars and fast cars etc, it is not quite what the first three films were, pure racing. After tokyo drift it started to go towards the action side of things and lost the street racing that it always was. I'd have loved a street racing based one again...
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I think it's a good thing that it's moved on from being a 'car' movie into an action movie that has a lot of cars in it. Some of the first films were a bit too much and alienated some people that weren't petrolheads. From, say, Fast 5 onwards they've become more wide ranging and IMO that's a good thing.
 
last night i watched maze runner, actually rather enjoyed it. much more than I thought I would. but then im a sucker for "mystery" esc films as it were.

watched paddington earlier, thats a smashing film. highly recommended.

divergent as well today. bit of an odd one. most probably won't like it but i sort of enjoy these worlds. such as maze runner.

I feel that i watched 2 others but i can't remember. Watch so many films :|
 
Working my way through my Fast and Furious BR boxset, watched The Fast and The Furious last night, still get's an 8 from me. Can't believe how old it is now! Makes me feel old! :o:D
 
Spikey said:
Working my way through my Fast and Furious BR boxset, watched The Fast and The Furious last night, still get's an 8 from me. Can't believe how old it is now! Makes me feel old! :o:D
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The original is genuinely very good. I've not seen enough of the rest of them to pass judgement.
 
Vonhelmet said:
The original is genuinely very good. I've not seen enough of the rest of them to pass judgement.
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Agreed, it is very good. Second one is not great (bunch of tonka toys rather than the street-level stuff found in the original), third is just wrist-slittingly poor, then they start to get better after that.

None of them match the first one and to be honest I don't think particularly tried to in some ways - probably the third one in parts but they stopped being more about the cars and moved to the storylines.

The only redeeming part of 3 was the Evo 9 (I still think mine looked nicer than that though). :D
 
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The Voices - 5/10
Nice idea and a great cast but didn't know how to end it except for the obvious. I have no idea what to make of the end credits. Nope, still haven't.

Monsters: Dark Continent - 9/10
Have seen some scathing reviews of this on Rotten Tomatoes which I suspect because it looks like an alien invasion movie but is really a war movie. That's no bad thing. Monsters was an excellent road movie with a cool turnaround that made you re-assess who were the monsters and Monsters: Dark Continent follows the same path. The US military in a warzone fighting insurgents and IEDs except with 100ft aliens who will occasionally stroll into a firefight and wreck peoples "freedom" and "jihad" goals. Some great cinematography and the odd wow shot too. Johnny Harris as a special forces guy is pretty damn impressive.
 
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2

A lot of peaks and troughs in this, but my god did the peaks have me in tears :D

Best comedy I've seen in years, 7/10
 
Just finished watching Independence Day for the what seems like 100th time. Still love it. Cheesy as hell but non-stop action.
Also the best explosion I've ever heard in a cinema - the bit when the crop duster fella flies his F18 into the spaceship towards the end of the movie. Think it was at Leicester Square.
 
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