What film did you watch last night?

I enjoy Vacation and Christmas Vacation... there is just something endearing about the main dude... On the surface he’s kind of an ******* but really he’s just a human that only wants to have a nice time... I always find myself rooting for him.
 
Also, just watched The Twilight Zone: The Movie.

If you haven’t watched it, it’s a compilation of four short stories. It’s not amazing but there is something about the second that always makes me feel a bit pensive and sad. The third story really freaked me out as a kid and I still find it pretty freaky to this day.... notably:

The girl with no mouth...

The rabbit out of the hat...

The girl being sent to her cartoon death...

The cartoon that comes out of the TV :eek:

I think the third story is actually a remake of a story from the series.

The fourth story has been parodied a million time’s but it still a fun watch. Always surprises me that it’s John Lithgow :)

Not essential but a curious film that’s worth a watch, particularly for the freaky 3rd story and the classic 4th.
 
PC777 said:
I only just got a chance to read up on The Counsellor and based on the wiki, I'm not even going to bother seeking it out as I'm sure it is truly terrible as you've said, though I will watch it if I see it for free on Prime or on Netflix. The only thing I can offer in mitigation was that Ridley's brother Tony Scott committed suicide during filming of it by jumping off the Gold Gate Bridge and they halted filming so he could grieve.

I remember when that happened and it depressed me a bit as I liked Top Gun as a kid a few of his other action movies, I always wondered why he did it. Can't help think there may have been some undisclosed me too some involved.
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I don't think there is anything too suspicious with his suicide, he had inoperable terminal brain cancer and decided to end things earlier rather than let it slowly destroy him.
 
The Old Guard 5-10

Yet more trash to have on in the background while you laugh at what Bokkers try and sell on gumtree.
 
Contact (1997)

Not watched this since I was a teenager but I've always remembered it. I could recall the main plot points but everything in between was fuzzy, It was a pretty fresh experience watching it again.

Loved it, there were a few bits of the story that I would have liked to have spent a little more time with but other than that it holds up really well IMO, great performances from everybody.
 
The Prestige - 8/10

No idea why I've never watched this as it was right up my street. The best part was my GF didn't have a clue what had happened after the ending so she had to watch the last 20 again :D
 
SPG said:
The Old Guard 5-10

Yet more trash to have on in the background while you laugh at what Bokkers try and sell on gumtree.
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I think 5/10 is generous, had high hopes for this, looked great from the trailer. I've got about 30 minutes left to watch but little desire to finish if off tonight.
 
2001 A Space Odyssey

While I can appreciate what a technical achievement the film was for it's time. It doesn't cover the fact that it's a very slow and boring film. A two and a half hour run time that has 90 minutes with no dialogue must have been a chore to watch in 1968, let a lone in 2020.
 
SixTwoSix said:
I don't think there is anything too suspicious with his suicide, he had inoperable terminal brain cancer and decided to end things earlier rather than let it slowly destroy him.
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Yeah true that's as good a reason as any, but it still strikes me as a strangely public way to do it.

Though we'll never know 100% as he left suicide notes but the family won't disclose content.

"On 22 August, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winters said the two notes Scott left behind made no mention of any health problems,[52] but neither the police nor the family disclosed the content of those notes.[53]"

And it's not Golden Gate Bridge as I said but the Vincent Thomas Bridge just to be correct after reading his wiki, stands to reason it would be a LA bridge and not a San Fran one, I also totally forgot he directed True Romance as well, a great cult movie, he definitely was a good to great director in his own right.
 
@PC777 True Romance to me is a timeless classic, could have been made yesterday or 40 years ago. I feel it always gets unfairly credited to Tarantino, while he was the writer, i think it's a disservice to Tony Scott to heap all the praise on QT.
 
I agree, a fantastic movie, I swear I've spent half the time thinking Tarantino did direct it, but it really shows that Tony Scott had some great range as a director.

Maybe the most fun to watch movie made from a Tarantino script, including his own movies. Great sense of humour and fantastic supporting cast performances, maybe some of the best ever, Walken, Hopper and Gary Oldman, even Brad Pitt, just an amazing cast in that movie.
 
Project Power - 6/10

For a movie with two of my favourite actors in, I thought it was just okay.
Interesting plot, that I felt could have been used better (a bit like how I felt with the movie "In Time").
 
barmyllama said:
2001 A Space Odyssey

While I can appreciate what a technical achievement the film was for it's time. It doesn't cover the fact that it's a very slow and boring film. A two and a half hour run time that has 90 minutes with no dialogue must have been a chore to watch in 1968, let a lone in 2020.
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Its one of my favourite late night movies, love just sticking it on at midnight and chilling out on the sofa to it.
 
Train to Busan 2 - 2/10

Giving this a generous 2 even when I couldn't finish watching it because it's so bad. Everything that made the first one good is totally missing from this. The story is stupid and boring, like a plot from a B movie, very bad use of CGi and characters you don't care about.
 
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