What film did you watch last night?

aoaaron said:
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - 7.5/10,


In short, the characters are lovable, the plot is simple but sometimes stupid, the soundtrack is awesome and the ending was excellent and consequential. However it fell flat in the villain department imo.
I think I liked it so much because its such a refreshing take on the super hero genre, more than just how good it is.
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You are describing GotG 1, not the dissapointment that is 2 :p
 
cheesyboy said:
I'm really interested in the direction Sandler's gone with his career. But I can't quite bring myself to sit through what sound like utterly meritless movies. Are they as bad as has been suggested?

I like some of his older stuff: Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Singer and thought 50 First Dates was alright....
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Reign Over Me is a good film. Decent performance from Sandler.
 
Infinity Wars.

Wow. It doesn't go where you expect, the post-credits are the best yet, and the film delivers the best of Marvel's wise-cracking, visually stunning action. You really, really need to have watched the other movies though. There is no attempt to introduce characters or on-going plot at all.
 
Jumanji,
Not my usual type of movie but really enjoyed it. Some good laughs and as mentioned in a previous post, Karen Gillan,whats not to like.
 
Just adding my two pennith to how brilliant the Avengers : Infinity Wars film was

Even though my mate slept through most of it :rolleyes: That's the problem with those comfy lazy boy armchairs in the Showcase cinema! :D
 
Infinity War - Avengers were so-so, Thanos was amazing.

It was slightly spoilt by some moron family who loudly explained every joke just in case the rest of us missed it, and kept busting out a phone torch to look at their endless noisy sweets. And when in the living **** did cinema selfies during the film become a thing :mad:
 
The Bone Collector - 8/10

I had already seen it before, but not for a long while - Still a great crime thriller. I'd recommend it :)
 
Marky said:
The Bone Collector - 8/10

I had already seen it before, but not for a long while - Still a great crime thriller. I'd recommend it :)
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8/10 really??? You are out on your own with this one. I saw it in the cinema on release and thought it was contrived junk. There was practically a red flashing arrow over the killers head, absolutely no surprise at the end. It’s one of my biggest cinema disappointments of that era. I believe it was probably made off the back of the success of Se7en but it doesn’t match it on any level.
 
MookJong said:
8/10 really??? You are out on your own with this one. I saw it in the cinema on release and thought it was contrived junk. There was practically a red flashing arrow over the killers head, absolutely no surprise at the end. It’s one of my biggest cinema disappointments of that era. I believe it was probably made off the back of the success of Se7en but it doesn’t match it on any level.
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Hahaha :D Admittedly it hits me with nostalgia from when I watched it when I was younger, so it might win more points because of that. But I still rate it - Denzel was great in it :p
 
shorttricky said:
Infinity War - Avengers were so-so, Thanos was amazing.

It was slightly spoilt by some moron family who loudly explained every joke just in case the rest of us missed it, and kept busting out a phone torch to look at their endless noisy sweets. And when in the living **** did cinema selfies during the film become a thing :mad:
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Eurgh.

This is why I avoid cinemas a lot. Latest Starwars was the same, loads of people cheering and sorts. Shut up, I'm trying to watch a movie over here.
 
I watched Point Break on the train home yesterday and I had a bit of an interesting reaction to it. 5/10 and I'll tell you for why. I enjoyed the set pieces, I'm usually willing to forgive a decently constructed buddy cop action style thingy for any number of faults and I appreciate Bigelow as a director. However, I had real issues with the portrayal of Bodhi and the relationship between him and Utah. He's built up to be a kind of spiritual mentor for Utah who, in a weird twist of fate and without realising it is going through a bit of an existential crisis akin to the pack of lies he told Tyler to gain her trust (living his parent's lives, needs to break free, find himself etc). Now where this becomes problematic is that things go sideways pretty significantly and Bodhi's actions prove him to be a hypocrite of the worst order, the film shows you this but I don't think it ever really asks you to re-assess you opinion of him, by the end of the film I still got the impression that he was being presented as a free spirit who through no fault of his own ended up killing a bunch of people either directly or indirectly. The film still felt like it was saying he was a free spirit who just happened to do some bank robbery, anything else was unintentional, when actually he was a thug who rationalised that thuggery with philosophy.

I had a similar discussion with a friend about the end of Son's of Anarchy, she saw redemption for Jax in the way he safeguarded the club and his final sacrifice, I didn't think his end outweighed his actions throughout the show and at the end of the day the people he was safeguarding had as much blood on their hands as he did.

I don't know if I'm getting old, when I was younger I would have lapped all of that up but now it really does provide a problem for me, if the victim of circumstance card is to be played it needs to be played well, and if the aim is to tear down a paragon then that needs to be almost unequivocal.

On the other hand I also wartched Girlhouse which I really quite enjoyed as an old fashioned slasher flick. There's nudity but I didn't find it exploitative due to the nature of the setting, the violence was violent but nowhere near torture porn levels. Solid 7/10 for me, though it could be because of my love for the old 90/00s slasher flicks.
 
The Boondock Saints 6/10 (being generous)

I've wanted to see this for a while purely down to an audio clip that's used at the beginning of a song I like, so I didn't really have any real expectations on watching it other than hoping it'd be as good as the music. Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe and Billy Connolly partake in what amounts to be an almost comic book vigilante justice film, although nowhere near as good as that might sound. Tragically I'm actually going to watch the sequel at some point, although I have no faith that it's going to be any good.
 
Avengers: Infinity War 6/10
I thought it had way too much CGI and was a bit all over.
I think i was expecting too much, I did not like it as much as i was hoping,
 
Coco - 9/10 - was stunning incredible animation, excellent story. Very funny and it had me crying at the end :D
Justice League - 6.5/10 - wasn't bad. Found it quite fun. The humour was good. I think the cast itself is excellent...except Ben Affleck...just cannot get on with him as Batman. But otherwise I found it fun. Bit long but good otherwise. :)
Wonder - 8/10 - this caught me off guard. Had me blubbering like a baby on the plane. Wife was watching something else and she turned to see tears running down my face and panicked wondering what was wrong :D
 
Black Panther - 6/10 - I feel this has been a little over-hyped TBF. It's an OK film, probably equal with Ant-Man etc, or maybe it's because I've seen Infinity Wars and been amazed by it, but this just feels like a run-of-the-mill Marvel film to me. Great effects, good stunts with OK story and acting (although the sister came across well) but nothing that is "OMG 9/10" material and nothing which screams "I want to see this again and again".
 
Mr Jack said:
Infinity Wars.

Wow. It doesn't go where you expect, the post-credits are the best yet, and the film delivers the best of Marvel's wise-cracking, visually stunning action. You really, really need to have watched the other movies though. There is no attempt to introduce characters or on-going plot at all.
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Eurgh, was going to suggest this as our next cinema trip but haven't kept up to date on Marvel films... There's too many!
 
You don't need to have seen every one of them but the following would definitely help:

Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of ultron
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Guardians of the Galaxy II
Thor: Ragnarok
 
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