What film did you watch last night?

Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - pretty entertaining, I guess it's a bit of a re-hash but it's nicely done, still pretty funny doesn't demand a lot of you. The execution scene had some great moments where I genuinely laughed hard. Thumbs up from me.
 
Bright

Was fully prepared to argue against the critics. If only I'd switched the movie off before the start of the second act...

It's just such a mess. About half way through it looses all sense of pace and just seems hell bent on dumping exposition on it's audience. The third act is a joke, just a nonsensical mess of twaddle. Wasn't a fan and the more I think about it, the less I seem to like it.


Mad Max: Fury Road

The lady friend had never seen it before so decided to enlighten her. Must be my 5th or 6th time watching it and it get's better and better each and every time. Millers direction is completely flawless. IMO, he has no equal when it comes to shooting raw action like this. Just superb.


National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Perhaps a bit late, but hell...

Can't believe I'd not bothered to check it out sooner. It floored me from start to finish. There where parts when I genuinely had to pause the flick to wipe the tears of laughter away. Chevy is a joy and I'm an idiot for not making this a (belated) Christmas tradition sooner!!!
 
I watched Raw and Miss Sloane at the weekend.

Raw: All I can say is that it's essentially a coming of age film with cannibalism, but really very good. 8/10

Miss Sloane was a fairly run of the mill Jessica Chastain film, but with good performances all round 6/10
 
Happy Death Day

I was hoping for more, way too many plot-holes. Lol at "fine vagine" though.

5/10

Leviathan (1989)

Decided to start with the weakest of the 3 80s sea-horror films. Terrible acting and stupid decisions by the crew. Williams is hot though. I'm sure I remember The Abyss and Deepstar Six being much better.

2/10

Don't Think Twice and The Morning After

Gave up on both after 30 minutes, blergh.
 
alexgrin said:
Molly's Game 8.5/10

True story of Molly Bloom who ran a very high stakes underground poker game in LA-NYC until she was busted by the FBI for unknowingly hosting members of the Russian mafia. The game regularly included actors, athletes and Wall St types etc.
The movie is written and directed by Aaron Sorkin so it's very heavy on dialog. Which I personally like a lot.
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Good 7.5/10, required attention with the fast dialog, indeed, need to watch it agan to better understand the poker lingo.
Some element of Billions with the intelligent dialog (..does that ever happen in real life?) and also Cage w/Lord Of War, for the andrenaline/ego ride.
In the zeitgeist of powerful women role models - maybe ?

thought endiing with judges sentence was surprising/confounding, given that she did not go for plea bargain


HEADS UP - The abyss being re-shown again on 26th UK freeview - will watch it all,
but with excerpts from 20th showing - E Mastrantanio part was more childish/romcom than I remember
 
The Commuter (2018) - 8/10

A good and traditional action movie with frantic action scenes, some cleverness in the story, and some suspense.

The plot is serviceable and although it uses a lot of elements from other films, it uses them effectively if not originally.

Overall, it’s a simply enjoyable action film as long as you don’t expect too much realism in the details.
 
DrToffnar said:
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Perhaps a bit late, but hell...

Can't believe I'd not bothered to check it out sooner. It floored me from start to finish. There where parts when I genuinely had to pause the flick to wipe the tears of laughter away. Chevy is a joy and I'm an idiot for not making this a (belated) Christmas tradition sooner!!!
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I watch it every Christmas Eve, what a classic, that and Elf/Home Alone
 
I watched Salyut-7 - it's loosely based on the story behind the Soyuz T-13 mission to repair the Salyut 7 space station when the electrical system on the station catastrophically failed between visits. Very loosely in places, a lot of details are exaggerated/borrowed from other space missions/outright invented for the film and most of the names have been changed. Some of the exaggerations and invented details will grate if you're pretty into space travel and the history of it. And there's quite a lot of anti-western (certainly anti-American) sentiment in the film, as I guess you could expect for the setting given that it's 1985 and therefore the USSR is still a thing. But it's still a good film - like Apollo 13 you know going in that the story doesn't end badly, but the film makers still manage to extract some tension from what's going on. And it's so damned pretty, with a bunch of it shot actually in zero gravity (also much like Apollo 13).
 
The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Modern retelling of Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis. Started strong and just kept getting better and better, until I was paranoid that it would end with an anticlimactic flop. It didn't.

I rate The Killing of a Sacred Deer at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as 8/10 on IMDB.
 
Detriot. I was expecting a movie of running battles but actually covers the Algiers motel incident. Police brutality and racism in the 60s. Not a classic but pretty good movie.
 
Evangelion said:
The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Modern retelling of Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis. Started strong and just kept getting better and better, until I was paranoid that it would end with an anticlimactic flop. It didn't.

I rate The Killing of a Sacred Deer at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as 8/10 on IMDB.
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Really excited to see this!
 
Evangelion said:
It's very impressive. Cinematography and music score are just fantastic. So much existential dread!
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see if you can spot any actual "acting" (it changes significantly at various acts..all part of the plan eh). One of the most wooden, stilted and hamfisted films i've ever seen. Sure the cinematography was pretty good but just about everything else was shockingly amateur hour.

The Lobster worked but he experimented too much with this one.
 
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