What film did you watch last night?

Trusty said:
Yeah, i loved the bit where Katherine Johnson gets angry because she has to walk half a mile just to go to the toilet, the next scene is Costner smashing down the toilet sign, "here at Nasa, were all the same colour" he says as he's walking away.

Brought tears to my eyes that bit, awesome.


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Yeah, an excellent film. Didn't expect to enjoy it that much but was a great watch.

This is my fave track:

 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - 7/10

Not as good as the first one as it lacks the freshness and originality, but still a good film full of adventure and fun.

Although the special effects and character effects are superb throughout, the film relies too heavily on them, leaving an underwhelming story and the emotional turmoil of the characters at odds with the more light-hearted setting.

Comical in parts, but not that funny and not as memorable or exciting as it could have been.
 
The BFG (2016). Mark Rylance was very good and some of it looked excellent. I liked the visual design of his cave and the things he had in there. The story was a bit slow and ponderous, though.
 
A Dogs Purpose - 8/10. The feels!!!!! Wife and kids blubbering away and i may have had a bit of grit in my eye.

Very reminiscent of 80's movies, a simple story that the whole family can enjoy.
 
Magnificent 7 (2016)

Absolute rubbish. I've not seen the original, I hear it's a bit special. Was disappointed with this version. Pretty good cast (Denzel always brings it), but the film just didn't do it for me
 
Hacksaw Ridge - 3/10 - Woah controversial score there isn't it, well I'm sorry but it just has too many huge issues for me. So, I love war films and therefore I was expecting the 1st half of the film (him growing up, boot-camp etc) to be a bit slow and the 2nd half (the war bits) to be amazing, considering the Director and the material he was working with but holy hell was I wrong. I actually preferred the "build up" 1st half because the 2nd "war" half was awful. Let me explain, remember when Saving Private Ryan came out and it brought a new age of gritty realistic war movies which stunned and shocked audiences, and then shortly afterwards Windtalkers with Nic Cage came out which was a massive throw-back to the bad old 70's/80's days of never ending ammo, petrol-based firey explosions everywhere, enemies being mown down in droves by an unaiming "hero" etc and remember how badly it bombed in the theatre? Well the "War" half of Hacksaw Ridge goes back to those bad old days again, only with 10 tons of crappy CGI replacing the vast majority the practical bullet effects so nothing actually looks real except for a few amputees. It's like Mel Gibson hasn't realised that the world has moved on and War films now need realism for people to believe in them and this film fails spectacularly in that regard. You see the enemy and the US Marine "extra's" over there with bullet holes the size of a fist when they get shot, but when a cast "good guy" gets hit they just get a small hole and a bit of blood. You see those 16in naval shells tearing the ridge apart, well our hero can just run through those "petrol bomb" explosions no problem while hundreds of enemy are vaporised etc. God, there's so many bad throw-back moments to crappy war films that I really struggled to watch it in the end which I found to be a massive shame as the real story is absolutely heroic!

I liked a few of the shots Gibson used (close up of a Thompson sub-machine gun firing, Japanese generals committing Seppuku etc), the love story in the beginning was worked out well without being too cloying and I though Andrew Garside did a fantastic job but I think if the 2nd half had been filmed in a more modern way it would have been much more harrowing and much better for it!
 
Continuing my list of films that I haven't seen, I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off 7/10.

I never knew it was a John Hughes film, and after knowing, wish I knew that sooner, as I love all his other films.
 
Guardians 2 , 7/10. Good but not as good as the first. The film didnt seem to flow as well as the first film and felt disjointed in places. I also felt that the laughs were too forced and fell flat many times. I particularly hated the tom and jerry-esque warpdrive scenes.
 
Guardians 2. - 8.5\10

Little bit worse than the first one and on reflection, it does feel a little more forced than the first, but, it's still mostly hilarious, laugh out loud, stupid humour that makes it good.
 
cheesyboy said:
Magnificent 7 (2016)

Absolute rubbish. I've not seen the original, I hear it's a bit special. Was disappointed with this version. Pretty good cast (Denzel always brings it), but the film just didn't do it for me
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I thought it wasn't too bad. Nothing compared to the original but certainly not as bad as it was made out to be.
 
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