What film did you watch last night?

Kainz · 21 Oct 2017 at 09:11

IP Man (2008)
I've had the trilogy in my collection for ages and have only just gotten around to watching it. What an exciting film! The story is gritty, showing us what happened in Foshan when the Japanese invaded South china during 1935. IP Man having no students ends up fighting kung fu masters from the Japanese army in order to protect his family and home town. I hugely enjoyed this and Donnie Yen is fantastic as the disciplined martial artist who just wants to care for his family - however he can't run away from what he is - a Wing Chun legend who went on to teach the greatest in the world.

9/10

kidloco · 21 Oct 2017 at 09:12

War of the planet of the apes - dull beyond belief, nearly fell asleep twice. Very week storyline. 3-10

VoG · 21 Oct 2017 at 10:29

Edge of Tomorrow. 8/10. I tend to avoid TC movies as I'm not a fan of his but I really enjoyed EoT.

awaybreaktoday · 21 Oct 2017 at 10:35

War for the planet of the apes - Brilliant Movie 10/10

FlakGunna · 21 Oct 2017 at 11:40

awaybreaktoday said:
War for the planet of the apes - Brilliant Movie 10/10

Really? I thought it was a bad end to the trilogy. Nothing really happened...

Gman · 21 Oct 2017 at 12:10

FlakGunna said:
Really? I thought it was a bad end to the trilogy. Nothing really happened...

same. thought it was the worst one, slow and not much of a war.

hyperseven · 21 Oct 2017 at 13:31

The Dark Tower, proper poo, would have been alright with a but more exposition earlier on in the film as kept asking myself why?

Zeebedy · 21 Oct 2017 at 14:52

Meat Grinder.

3/10 - Horrible, man, just...horrible.

w1ze1 · 21 Oct 2017 at 14:54

^^ Sounds painful. :eek:

Annabelle 2 Creation, good as far as todays movies go, watched the 1st one last week.

kidloco · 21 Oct 2017 at 15:18

awaybreaktoday said:
War for the planet of the apes - Brilliant Movie 10/10

Seriously, 10 -10, I have yet to watch a perfect film, pulp fiction for me comes damn close. But the annoying French woman takes it down to a 9.9 and that's my fave film of all time.

I know it's a personal rating but I'm baffled non the less

Jokester · 21 Oct 2017 at 15:22

I thought it was cracking up until the Apaches attacked like a scene from an advert for Mobile Command and was expecting Arnie to then appear whilst messing about with his mobile phone.

Zeebedy · 21 Oct 2017 at 19:13

kidloco said:
Seriously, 10 -10, I have yet to watch a perfect film, pulp fiction for me comes damn close. But the annoying French woman takes it down to a 9.9 and that's my fave film of all time.

I know it's a personal rating but I'm baffled non the less

ROFL - yeah that woman annoys me big style too!! Great film otherwise!

Raymond Lin · 21 Oct 2017 at 19:26

I don't do numerical rating anymore purely because liking a movie is so subjective, by placing such an objective number on it makes no sense.

IvanDobskey · 21 Oct 2017 at 19:50

No film is 10/10 and certainly not a planet of the apes film. Although I'm sure it's decent.

Always room for improvement in anything.

G-MAN2004 · 21 Oct 2017 at 19:54

awaybreaktoday said:
War for the planet of the apes - Brilliant Movie 10/10

He's done it. He's found the perfect film.

Steampunk · 21 Oct 2017 at 20:24

Suicide Squad. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but somewhat disjointed, and ended up being the "Harley Quinn Flashback Movie". A bit of humour, good effects, annoying plot-holes, and a ridiculous story where the person threatening the world was one of their own who goes AWOL straight away. Couldn't see that coming :rolleyes:

I think the real problem with this film is that there are too many characters to focus on (hence it's really all about Harley Quinn and Deadshot, with a bit of Joker) and the hype left people expecting something the quality of Avengers, but with bad guys. This simply didn't have the style, humour, or personalities to carry an ensemble film the same way that the Avengers did. It's just a really lop-sided and unbalanced film that feels a bit average when it could have been a lot more.

Quint · 21 Oct 2017 at 20:47

Just watched Jaws in Concert at The Royal Albert Hall live with the BBC orchestra. It was something else!

ELiTECH · 21 Oct 2017 at 21:41

Baby Driver, already saw it in the cinema for free many many months before release but it's such a great film and directed by the great Edgar Wright.

JediFragger · 21 Oct 2017 at 23:21

Steampunk said:
Suicide Squad. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be

Pimp Joker ruined it for me.

Steampunk · 21 Oct 2017 at 23:29

JediFragger said:
Pimp Joker ruined it for me.

I was okay with that given we've seen so many iterations of the Joker, and even more if you've read any of the comics. I think they missed an opportunity to really get into the Joker/Harley Quinn dynamic where he's psychotically abusive, and she's suffering from extreme Stockholm syndrome. There was a chance to explore how he seduces her to madness while she thinks she's saving him, but as usual DC misses the target. There's just no time to do anything interesting with the characters in a film with so many other characters to cover, and the usual "save the world" story to get through.