What film did you watch last night?

Went a bit 'Jim Hensen' crazy on my day off and watched a bunch of old Muppet stuff and 2 of his flicks.


The Dark Crystal


It has zero character development, very by the numbers antagonists and an overly ambitious plot. But by god, I enjoyed every single minute of it. It really does lend credence to the phrase "every frame a painting". The puppetry was just awe inspiring and the artistic direction is impeccable. Cannot recommend it enough to people who like to see ALL the money on screen.


Labyrinth


Saw this once as a kid. Struggled a lot with it this time round. Without the ambitious artistic direction 'The Dark Crystal' had to bolster it's floors, I felt it was just quite a poor movie with some cool puppetry. Flabby, unruly dialogue with a poor central performance from Jennifer Connolly. Bowie of course was awesome cus... well, it's David freaking Bowie.
 
T2: Trainspotting. Disappointing. There were little vignettes that worked well, but overall it didn't really come together. It hangs on to its predecessor too much, and it doesn't stand on its own two feet. There's a story that could have been told without the constant references to the last film, or at least without splicing in scenes wholesale.

The tone doesn't work. It's too bright. It occupies a different world. Trainspotting was small and focused and this feels big and sprawling somehow. I don't even think it's an issue of it being out of its time, I think it's just poorly presented.
 
Vonhelmet said:
T2: Trainspotting. Disappointing. There were little vignettes that worked well, but overall it didn't really come together. It hangs on to its predecessor too much, and it doesn't stand on its own two feet. There's a story that could have been told without the constant references to the last film, or at least without splicing in scenes wholesale.

The tone doesn't work. It's too bright. It occupies a different world. Trainspotting was small and focused and this feels big and sprawling somehow. I don't even think it's an issue of it being out of its time, I think it's just poorly presented.
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Basically it was meh...

I thought it was very self indulgent of Boyle tbh, In fact unnecessary...Was i really interested in what happened to Renton? Not really... I was just watching ewen trying to save grace....Star wars rubbish, countless other rubbish and history

Some actors can pull it off but all I could think of with was bleach Blondie was a knock off version of Sherlock (Elementary) with Lucy Liu

I didn't care about any of them...as they all don;t have the acting gravitas to pull it off.
 
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Ghost in a shell

Not sure what to think about this one. I usually like sci fi films but I just couldn't get into this.
probably give it 4/10 and only because its got scarlett johansson. take her out and it'll drop to a 3/10
 
The Free State of Jones 8/10

I don't know what it is but I find Matthew McConaughey to be incredibly watchable these days, and after really enjoying him in Interstellar and Dallas Buyers Club I was expecting this one to be good too. Based on a true story I found it to be an interesting depiction of the time around the American civil war with some good performances and an enjoyable plot (could help but think of this as Mississipi Braveheart).
 
Mad Max: Fury Road... utter garbage... 3/10.

The Time Machine (1960) this has aged very well on the whole... 7.5/10

Excalibur... this has not stood the test of time quite so well, but I really enjoy Nicol Williamson's Merlin... 6.5/10
 
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Ghost in a shell

Not sure what to think about this one. I usually like sci fi films but I just couldn't get into this.
probably give it 4/10 and only because its got scarlett johansson. take her out and it'll drop to a 3/10
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Felt the same only lasted 40 mins and gave up,everything looked pretty in a Blade Runner type way but rubbish story.
 
Spider-Man: Homecoming:
I thought it was the most accurate representation of Peter Parker yet. Loved Keaton, he was just cool, imo. I did enjoy it, but I think I'm burnt out on all of these Super Hero movies. 7.5/10

Baby Driver:
It was definitely interesting. I haven't seen anything like it in a movie. But I found myself looking forward to it just ending about two thirds in. 5/10 maybe.
Also, I sat next to some guy that absolutely stank of stale cigarettes and body odor, and was breathing so loud through his nose. I was moments away from leaping out the seat shouting "f#"*ing hell!" and sitting somewhere else.
 
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 9/10

Wasn't quite expecting much from a spin off, but I thought it was excellent. Although it was obviously a different setting and time period to HP, it provided just the right amount of magic to make it feel part of the same universe and I think it worked really well. All the main characters were really likeable and the 'beasts' themselves were pretty good and well designed too. Maybe went a bit OTT near the end with the typical city wide destruction we see in superhero films, but apart from that I look forward to the next.

Alien: Covenant - 6-7/10

It's been a good few years since I've seen Prometheus, but I'm sure this was pretty much the same sort of film. :confused: Team of utterly clueless idiots do utterly stupid things amongst alien life. The captain dude looking over the egg reminded me of the guy touching the egg in the previous film, for example. Both with obvious consequences. Oh, and the CGI was awful!

Michael Fassbender was excellent though.
 
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - 7/10

A ‘prison break’ rather than a war film, focussing on a more personal scale and only briefly considering the bigger picture.

Still, the story is good, although it does suffer from a 2 dimensional main villain and lacks both big stakes and a grand finale.

The CGI effects are superb and the explosive action scenes are great to watch, but it is the strong acting and hard hitting emotional scenes that carry the plot forward.
 
Didn't mind War PAPs that much, though they're spreading it thin. Still, miles ahead of the dubious B-grade sequel ancestry the franchise was derived from and the original reboot in the early noughties, iirc. 6 or 7 is about right for it as an action film.
 
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