What film did you watch last night?

I went to the cinema to see Baby Driver. Excellent film though I suspect that it won't be to everyone's tastes. Some parts are to all intents and purposes a musical. It's very music driven though this does not detract from a decent (though pretty generic) plot, some great action scenes and good acting. Jon Hamm and Kevin Spacey steal the show!
 
Gone in 60 seconds (1974)

WOW, what an epic car chase, one of the best I have seen and not an ounce of CGI to be seen.

The star, HB Halicki, wrote, produced and starred in this amazing film and only cost $150k, cheap considering the amount of destruction I witnessed and the permits that they must have had to procure to film it.

 
Spiderman - Homecoming. At last a near perfect rendition of what Peter Parker should have been like. Marvel delivers what all previous Sony attempts couldn't. This movie captures the story better than every single previous movies combined. Tom Holland was surprisingly good and Maricia Tomei was superb. But for me Michael Keaton really carried his character better than any marvel villain from any movie period. Probably my favourite marvel to date. Cant wait for 2nd showing. 9.5/10 (Imo)
 
Wonder Woman - 4/10 - The only thing I though worked really well was the person who was original thought of as the weak link - Gal Gadot. She was absolutely fantastic, able to convincingly portray the slow transformation from initial naivety to world weary and loss filled sorrow by the end. The rest just felt far too derivative, feeling like it took huge amounts of the Captain America film and re-shot them for Wonder Woman. Chris Pine did his "usual thing" and could have been Kirk or Jack Ryan for all the difference which is a shame because I like watching him on screen, he's just "the same guy" in every film though. The rest of the cast were OK at best, not good or bad but Chris Pines secretary seemed to really dig into her character more than the others. The CGI was very good in the main with the usual CGI-fest ending which is just boring to look at now. I liked the slight twist with Aries but it was telegraphed a mile away by making the German far too obvious for it to be him. The script was OK at best with plenty of "just accept it" moments which ask you to leave all common sense behind and that starts to get boring I found. Overall Gal Gadot saved the film for me as the rest of the film struggled.

Cinema experience - minus Eleventy Billion/10 - wow, just wow! Despite leaving it until the show run was almost over, meaning fewer people in the cinema, the mouth-breathers of Kent still can't manage to sit still and STFU for 2 hrs! Other people are why I'd rather pirate a film to watch at home rather than get stuck with a family of 5 continuously eating crisps for 2 whole bloody hours the inconsiderate ****'s.
 
slipperydave said:
Unbreakable - AKA Unwatchable. 1/10
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Glad I'm not the only one!

I was sold a duff film based on an action packed trailer with train crashes and super heroes from the master of suspense himself M. Night Shamalamadingdong and instead got a "talkie" film about a childs faith in his parent being slowly understood by the parent to be true. It's the only film I've genuinely wanted to walk out of the cinema too, it was so bad :D
 
Wonder Woman

Easily the best DCU film outside of the first 2 Nolan Batman films. That said, it is still only on par with the good MCU films, not a patch on the great ones.
Fight scenes were good, Gal is gorgeous, villains were a bit meh.

6.5/10


Hall Pass

Older Farrelly Brothers movie that neither me nor my gf had scene, so we loaded it up on Prime.
Standard Farrelly fare, so silly laughs and gross out gags. The sneeze on the bathtub was inspired though :D
Nicky Whelan is beyond hot.

6/10
 
Baby Driver: Good fun heist/crime/action film where the gimmick is the eponymous Baby listens to music to drown out his tinnitus and reconnect with his dead mother. Just when he thinks he out of the business of being Kevin Spacey's escape driver and falls for a girl, he gets pulled back in to do a last job that goes wrong. The interesting thing about this film is the way the soundtrack is integrated into the movie. It's not just background music, it's what the main character is listening to, dancing to, and driving to. It's a fun twist on what is otherwise a car chase movie with some stereotypes done well. Ending is clever too where you get not just one ending, but all endings. A very good film, not quite great, but it knows what it wants to be and embraces that unashamedly.
 
Babadook

wtf?? how did this get so highly rated? it's almost a stretch to call it a horror film, it's more a study into a womans deteriorating mental state then miraculous recovery. the kid in the film is the only scary thing about it (what's going on with his rubbery looking gub)
and don't get me started on that ending
so she's no keeping the babdook as a ******* pet?!

a solid 1 out of 10 - utter muck
 
Thekwango said:
Babadook

wtf?? how did this get so highly rated? it's almost a stretch to call it a horror film, it's more a study into a womans deteriorating mental state then miraculous recovery. the kid in the film is the only scary thing about it (what's going on with his rubbery looking gub)
and don't get me started on that ending
so she's no keeping the babdook as a ******* pet?!

a solid 1 out of 10 - utter muck
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Hated it after all the hype on release...however...

It's literally all in her head, there is no creature, the whole thing at the end with her keeping it downstairs is symbolic of keeping her rage under control and locked inside
 
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