What film did you watch last night?
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1917. Would give it a 9/10 but had the luxury of watching it on my 150" projection screen with surround sound. The whole film looks incredible from start to finish and it hits all the right notes in terms of capturing the horrors of war but with some genuinely touching character moments.
9/10? , the only thing going for it was that pseudo one shot camera take. This is a war film for the Marvel generation. There is limited emotion shown by the main characters, scenes that suspend reality and cliche, cliche.
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Things just seem to randomly work out for our hero, and quickly. There needed to be a few sequences where the hero is faced with the enormity of the situation, loneliness, desolation. Rather each time one chapter is finished he is immediately assisted in movies to the next.
This film pales in comparison to films like Saving Private Ryan and Platoon. An opportunity lost. The cinematography was great yes, but overall the film? 5/10 at best, and that's being generous.
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Really good post until you heralded saving private Ryan as being some sort of masterpiece. It requires almost exactly the same suspension of disbelief to not pick holes in.
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Super (2010) - 6/10
A grittier version of Kick Ass. Ellen Page makes it worthwhile.
Bloke in a red suit and a spanner takes on the comedy drug dealers that have kidnapped his wife.
A grittier version of Kick Ass. Ellen Page makes it worthwhile.
Bloke in a red suit and a spanner takes on the comedy drug dealers that have kidnapped his wife.
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Nailed it quite frankly. The whole one shot thing was a great technical achievement, but it ruined the rest of the film. As you mentioned, everything just rolled together too easily and too quickly and was quite jarring as a viewer.
Say what you will about Saving Private Ryan, but at least I had an emotional connection to the characters.
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I've spent the last week watching the Star Trek (TOS) movies. Apart from The Motion Picture, which I always find a little dreary and slow and would give a 5/10, 2 - 6 are all solidly entertaining 7/10's from me.
Apart from the ridiculous sniper shot, there is little in SPR that requires any suspension of disbelief. The movie flows, follows logically, they don't just stumble upon Ryan, they're asking questions all the way along with whoever they find.
However, I haven't watched it for some years and on a re-watch there may be some more eyeroll moments.
1917 just felt like a jolly stroll through the trenches with luck on his shoulder, technically great, logically less so.
However, I haven't watched it for some years and on a re-watch there may be some more eyeroll moments.
1917 just felt like a jolly stroll through the trenches with luck on his shoulder, technically great, logically less so.
Soldato
Watched Foxy Brown, a 70's blaxploitation movie starring Pam Grier.
Was pretty good, enjoyed it. Pam Grier was quite the woman in the 70s! Plan on watching a few more Grier movies.
Was pretty good, enjoyed it. Pam Grier was quite the woman in the 70s! Plan on watching a few more Grier movies.
Saint Maude - 7/10
Billed as a psychological horror, this art house film explores the descent into a psychotic breakdown with quite visceral sound and camera work. Lots of close up shots gave a claustrophobic and intense experience.
Definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, as it's slow and little happens for a good portion of the film, but we both enjoyed it.
Billed as a psychological horror, this art house film explores the descent into a psychotic breakdown with quite visceral sound and camera work. Lots of close up shots gave a claustrophobic and intense experience.
Definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, as it's slow and little happens for a good portion of the film, but we both enjoyed it.
Where did you watch it from?
Watched The invisible Man recently thought it was really good and would watch again.
Also watched Underwater. It was ok, got straight into it rather than building up a bit of background on characters etc which made a nice change. Not really a film I would be jumping to see again but if it was on tv and there wasn't something else of interest then I would watch it.
Also watched Onward on Disney plus. It is quite sad in places but kept my interest. I was doing fine until the ending with the song and then I did shed a few tears
Also watched Underwater. It was ok, got straight into it rather than building up a bit of background on characters etc which made a nice change. Not really a film I would be jumping to see again but if it was on tv and there wasn't something else of interest then I would watch it.
Also watched Onward on Disney plus. It is quite sad in places but kept my interest. I was doing fine until the ending with the song and then I did shed a few tears
A local Savoy cinema, thought is was just going to be the 2 of us, but another couple came in just before it started. The whole place seemed empty.
Whereas I went to see Akira on Sunday night at a different cinema and there were 30+ people, which surprised me.
Not even going to bother watching it. The trailer was enough. I see he's gone back to playing characters with speech impediments.
I finally watched Blues Brother 2000. After it got universally panned on release and being a big fan of Blues Brothers since the 80's, I avoided it, but I ended up watching this on Amazon Prime last night mostly in the background out of boredom and not finding anything else.
The movie story parts are basically bad and the addition of a kid Blues Brother does nothing for it, but I did still enjoy some of the musical parts including a number of appearances of now dead legends including BB King, Aretha Franklin and James Brown. Also a blues supergroup at the end with some pretty good guitar from Eric Clapton. John Goodman could be a good Blues Brother but they handle it clumsily overall.
It's as bad as they say, but still with some decent musical parts along with circa 2000 and old music legends nostalgia to boot.
Worth watching for a Blues Brothers fan even if just out of curiosity at how bad it is.
The movie story parts are basically bad and the addition of a kid Blues Brother does nothing for it, but I did still enjoy some of the musical parts including a number of appearances of now dead legends including BB King, Aretha Franklin and James Brown. Also a blues supergroup at the end with some pretty good guitar from Eric Clapton. John Goodman could be a good Blues Brother but they handle it clumsily overall.
It's as bad as they say, but still with some decent musical parts along with circa 2000 and old music legends nostalgia to boot.
Worth watching for a Blues Brothers fan even if just out of curiosity at how bad it is.
Watched Bloodshot the other night. 5/10. Bang average but about the norm for Vinny.
How some actors are able to steal such a good living without actually being able to act amazes me. I feel Vin Diesel literally just puts on a white vest and that's his acting done for the day
How some actors are able to steal such a good living without actually being able to act amazes me. I feel Vin Diesel literally just puts on a white vest and that's his acting done for the day