What film did you watch last night?

La la land.

I really wanted to like this, after hearing how good it was here and elsewhere. Technically, it's brilliant. It looks good and it's well shot and it's colourful and vibrant. The music and singing and dancing are well done. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling look great and they have great chemistry together. There's great long takes where people have long conversations and move about round the scenery and it's really impressive.

The story, however, is slow and ponderous. There is no drive or "urgency" and it's really hard to buy into either of them wanting the dream they're supposed to be pursuing. It's navel gazy and mimsy. I needed more something pushing it forward.

I know it's meant to hark back to some other time in Hollywood, but if you're after that then you can watch Singing in the Rain or if you want a modern wry take on things then watch Hail Caesar.
 
Batman vs Superman extended edition

While it explains a couple of things like the wheelchair bomb being encased in lead (1 of the 2 primary superman maguffins) its pretty much more "meh". Still struggling to see how Clark Kent is meant to return as he was in a coffin at "maw Kent's" house with all his work colleagues and friends from Smallville there. Unless they're just ditching the secret identity and not having Clark Kent appear anymore, which to be fair was always pretty dumb "secret identity".
 
Wonder Woman 6/10
Bit slow at times, action scenes were well done, but otherwise very run of the mill. Hopefully will lead on to better things with the justice league.

No post credit scene?
 
Traders (2016) - 7.5/10 On Amazon Prime

Hadn't seen it on Amazon before but had good reviews, was pleasantly surprised. Irish made film. Basic plot is after he loses his job at a big investment firm a man is approached by his colleague (Samwell Tarley of GoT) about an idea he has for 'Trading' where a person sells all their assets for cash and using the dark web website his colleague created and following a strict set of rules they meet with another person willing to offer the same amount of money, go to a random location and fight to the death. Not some cheesy martial arts fare but just people who need the money and are willing to kill for it. Worth a watch.

Will also mention 'Triangle' mentioned above as well 7/10. Good little backwards, what the hell is going on movie with a decent pace and ending.
 
asteldian said:
See, I am the opposite. I don't know what it is about the Rock, but he seems to just ooze charisma. Any film with him in just seems better because he was in it - even if a film is underwhelming, the fact he was in it tends to make the film more watchable rather than pure crap
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I saw this tonight and while is wasn't a shining example of movie making it was diverting and I laughed out loud quite a lot. It didn't take itselof seriously at all which I liked and I agree about Dwayne Johnson. He is made for parts and movies like this. 7/10. (8/10 for the women, Bikini's and those two dresses)
 
Gerard said:
Batman vs Superman extended edition

While it explains a couple of things like the wheelchair bomb being encased in lead (1 of the 2 primary superman maguffins) its pretty much more "meh". Still struggling to see how Clark Kent is meant to return as he was in a coffin at "maw Kent's" house with all his work colleagues and friends from Smallville there. Unless they're just ditching the secret identity and not having Clark Kent appear anymore, which to be fair was always pretty dumb "secret identity".
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The doomsday arc and the death of superman is 2 big stories which Imo should be films themselves as there a lot of content to cover but as the usual dc missing a trick and rushing things to roll out JLA. How on earth can you mess up Superman for crying out loud.
 
Kyo said:
How on earth can you mess up Superman for crying out loud.
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By letting Zack (the hack) Snyder and his "dull everything down" filter be involved :D. There was a video on youtube a while back with the colour adjusted in MOS and it looked really nice, ended up being removed as how dare they show colour in a Superman movie! Superman isn't even that likable in his latest incarnation in MOS and BVS, just seems to be a narky little git that's quick to get angry.

Not even sure why the decided to turn Zod into Doomsday, could they not just have made him a slightly mutated more powerful version of Zod? They basically turned the virtually indestructible Doomsday into a character that had the same weakness as Superman, so that character is pretty much done until they decide to yet again reboot or remake the Superman movies with yet another actor.

If they had went the route of just resurrecting Zod and not having a retarded Superman death scene in BvS (i can stab this spear into his chest just by throwing it but for some inexplicable reason i have to get within arms reach so i can also get stabbed) then MOS2 could have had Doomsday as the antagonist, assuming they actually put some thought into his look instead of copy and pasting the Cave Troll from LOTR.

They really have no clue what they're doing with these movies, it literally seems to be a case of throw a lot of **** to a wall and shoot whatever sticks.
 
Ninco! said:
Triangle 7/10

Think Momento, a story that replays. A weird film but different - Amazon reviews are either black and white - You either like it or hate it. Once I got the story and overlooked the dodgy CGI effects and apparent low budget, its a pretty clever film (if you like weird thrillers).
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I have seen this film too. Agree with you completely, it's a great little film.

Very much overlooked and underrated in my opinion.

But I do enjoy slightly weird films :p
 
Vargas said:
Life wasn't bad. A poor mans Alien.
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I couldn't get my head round how stupid some of the so called "smartest" people on the planet are. The amount of dumb decisions these professional astronauts make, is ridiculous. (Almost had me shouting at the screen)

Reading the imdb user reviews had me laughing. Well worth skimming through a few for a chuckle :D
 
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