What film did you watch last night?
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The Hateful Eight - 8/10 (In-Laws BAFTA society pre-release screener)
Fantastic, if Tarantino is your thing...
Watched a couple of movies with the family yesterday:
Minion Movie - 7/10
Decent enough family movie, some very funny parts even having already seen it at the cinema.
San Andreas - 6/10
Formulaic disaster movie, with the usual predictable plot. Decent special effects, and certainly worth a watch, just don't expect anything too taxing or original.
Saw this at the cinema today:
Star Wars - The Force Awakens - 7.5/10
Leagues ahead of the prequel trilogy, in terms of story and "feeling". Not particularly impressed with the "villain", but certainly not bad enough to ruin the film. Almost shed a tear when the Millennium Falcon appeared for the first time in the movie - strangely emotional.
Minion Movie - 7/10
Decent enough family movie, some very funny parts even having already seen it at the cinema.
San Andreas - 6/10
Formulaic disaster movie, with the usual predictable plot. Decent special effects, and certainly worth a watch, just don't expect anything too taxing or original.
Saw this at the cinema today:
Star Wars - The Force Awakens - 7.5/10
Leagues ahead of the prequel trilogy, in terms of story and "feeling". Not particularly impressed with the "villain", but certainly not bad enough to ruin the film. Almost shed a tear when the Millennium Falcon appeared for the first time in the movie - strangely emotional.
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Daddy's home - 6/10. Funny in places, drawn out in others. Watch if you enjoyed The Other Guys but I wouldn't go out of my way.
Dark places: how they managed to get two of the world's sexiest actresses together in an adaptation of such a dark and compelling book and drive it so far in to the ground is beyond me. Turned it off.
Steve Jobs: another flop. Boring, uninspired load of toss, turned it off too. Such a waste of so much potential.
The walk: 8/10 - brilliant film, very tense where it needs to be and keeps the dull bits interesting with clever dialogue, camera angles and little details. Never been a fan of Gordon-Levitt but he delivered in this film, definitely worth a watch.
Dark places: how they managed to get two of the world's sexiest actresses together in an adaptation of such a dark and compelling book and drive it so far in to the ground is beyond me. Turned it off.
Steve Jobs: another flop. Boring, uninspired load of toss, turned it off too. Such a waste of so much potential.
The walk: 8/10 - brilliant film, very tense where it needs to be and keeps the dull bits interesting with clever dialogue, camera angles and little details. Never been a fan of Gordon-Levitt but he delivered in this film, definitely worth a watch.
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Not the kind of film I normally watch based on synopsis alone, but it is a horror and I am a fan of the genre so gave it a go. It's pretty much entirely shot through the lens of a laptop webcam or laptop screen which was quite different. Interesting seeing all these familiar apps being used, gave it a sense of realism in a way.
Anyway, some jump scares and flashes here and there, overall predictable and there's a glaring questionmark throughout.
It's better than low budget horrors where the actors act like vegetables, so 5.5/10.
Not the kind of film I normally watch based on synopsis alone, but it is a horror and I am a fan of the genre so gave it a go. It's pretty much entirely shot through the lens of a laptop webcam or laptop screen which was quite different. Interesting seeing all these familiar apps being used, gave it a sense of realism in a way.
Anyway, some jump scares and flashes here and there, overall predictable and there's a glaring questionmark throughout.
It's better than low budget horrors where the actors act like vegetables, so 5.5/10.
Pacific Rim
Totally not what I expected (I knew nothing about it other than it had big monsters and big robots), but still quite predictable. However, we never got bored, so for a 2 hour brain out entertainment film it scores highly.
7/10
Totally not what I expected (I knew nothing about it other than it had big monsters and big robots), but still quite predictable. However, we never got bored, so for a 2 hour brain out entertainment film it scores highly.
7/10
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The Martian - 8.5/10
Really loved this. Mat Damon was brilliant.
Really loved this. Mat Damon was brilliant.
The rest of the trilogy (vengenace trilogy) is also worth a mention even if not as good as Old Boy.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengance and Sympathy for Lady Vengance. Found them quite entertaining and still provide that shock factor that Old Boy is famous for.
Your right though, Korean movies are fantastic. So much good entertainment there, and the production values match that of Hollywood. They surpase them with the quality of organility and storyline too.
Watched a few films recently;
Steve Jobs - I don't understand these films, just watch the documentary if your interested. It is watchable, but again I'd rather just watc
The Walk - Same, acted brilliantly though, but I watched the documentary a few weeks before so it was just the same thing with some nonsense thrown in. The documentary is far more fulfilling. I even turned it off, which I never really do with movies. If I never watched the documentary I may have found it more interesting if I never watched the documentary so recently.
Creed - Superb.
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The Raid 2 : Berendal 8/10
Having loved the original i had high expectations for this, it did not disappoint. This and the original easily rate as 2 of my best action movies of all time.
I saw the Devil : 8/10
All the talk of old boy reminded me of this movie so had to watch it again. Holywood just doesnt make movies like this and long may it stay that way.
Having loved the original i had high expectations for this, it did not disappoint. This and the original easily rate as 2 of my best action movies of all time.
I saw the Devil : 8/10
All the talk of old boy reminded me of this movie so had to watch it again. Holywood just doesnt make movies like this and long may it stay that way.
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The car chase scene in this one is crazy! Loved the brutal fight in the kitchen too.
Huge fan of the first one and have this loaded and ready to watch when I get a spare 5 mins!
Along with Sicario and a million others
Having said that, I did have some spare time the other night and fancied watching Wolf of Wall Street again. 9/10! Absolutely love that film.
War of the Worlds - pretty good retelling if the old story, was quite intense for younger viewers. Tom Cruise hasn't aged at all in 10 years! 3/5
No but he has in the last few Mission Impossible/Mimic/Oblivion films.
Just watched Sicario. Wasn't impressed, don't understand the fuss about it?!
Admittedly the cinematography was excellent, and the performances were too, especially Benicio del Toro who is awsome in everything!
For whatever reason it just didn't do it for me. Horses for courses I suppose.
Admittedly the cinematography was excellent, and the performances were too, especially Benicio del Toro who is awsome in everything!
For whatever reason it just didn't do it for me. Horses for courses I suppose.
