What film did you watch last night?

Fast and Furious 8. 4.5 out of 5 dog turds.

I’ve seen a few of the F&F films before and thought they were decent post-pub, brain in neutral entertainment.

Not this one. While I’m conscious that a certain suspension of belief is required for Hollywood action movies, being asked to forget the laws of thermodynamics, mechanics, physics and all common sense every scene was rather draining.

No, the Russian Defence Minister wouldn’t be driving around any city of the Motherland’s primary adversary with the nuclear launch codes/control device in the car. And this was possibly the most believable plot device in the entire film.

The ginger **** Wildling from GoT had a minor cameo where he appeared to play the same character with a gun, instead of a sword. Alas, The Hound wasn’t there to extract the urine this time.
 
Dead don't die: 1/10.
Amazing cast but idiotic writing, directing, everything. I've never been so bored. Tries to be clever but fails miserably.

Dark Phoenix: 3/10
Bland story, poor acting and a story that's been done better multiple times.
 
Dark Phoenix 7/10. Was not expecting to enjoy this as I find the Xmen movies average at best but as a turn your brain off visual and audio blast it ws enjoyable. I would sy it trumped Captain Marvel for me.
 
John Wick 3 - 8/10. Really enjoyed this, exotic locations, graphic violence, halle berry, attack dogs and ninjas!

Effects were really good too, several times i found myself wincing and sucking teeth not believing the death scene I had just watched :D

Not a good as the first much better than the second and looking forward to the 4th.
 
I started watching two films tonight and quite quickly turned them both off.

Do they get better or are they both just terrible?

Hellboy 2 - DNF/10

Lasted I think somewhere near 7 minutes. Just cringe-worthy form what little I saw. Like a really bad Men In Black where you wanted to punch all the characters to death.

Venom - DNF/10

Probably also 7 minutes. Looked awful - sterile, like it had been created by a machine. A machine which had analysed hundreds of comic book films and created something derivative. Big on graphics but low on casting, acting and writing.

The forced montage at the beginning was terrible. Seriously, we can only establish that this guy is a journalist by having a montage of him reporting all over the world? Lame. Might as well just have a narrator say, "Here is the central character. He is a journalist. He is a popular journalist. He's done lots of journalism. He reports the news on TV. His show is popular." They lost me at this point.

I've watched a lot of Marvel lately but I don't think I'm overdosed on comic based films. Still looking forward to the last Avengers when it comes to a streaming service.

But I think I've watched all the good ones and the ones left are just dross.

Do either of those get better?
 
@FoxEye Venom is a lot of fun if you stick it through. The brock/symbiote interactions are reasonably funny. It is CGI overload by the end to the point of effects boredom. It's best not to start watching expecting MCU quality.
 
Just watched the most recent MiB - 'Men In Black International' Thought it was okay. Not a work of art, reasonably simple and reasonably entertaining. 7/10
 
Crimes of Grindlewald - boring and pointless. Pointless as in just as the 2 hour intro is over and the film seems to start the credits roll. 2/5
 
SixTwoSix said:
@FoxEye Venom is a lot of fun if you stick it through. The brock/symbiote interactions are reasonably funny. It is CGI overload by the end to the point of effects boredom. It's best not to start watching expecting MCU quality.
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I agree, I quite enjoyed Venom. It was silly and bemusing.

@FoxEye probably the best way of describing it is that Venom himself is unexpectedly a bit like the Cookie Monster from sesame street. With a pinch of 90's sonic the hedgehog "rad, man".

Perhaps I have just raised expectations too high - but I did lol during the film a few times, which I think is what they were going for. Just..... silly fun.
 
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