What film did you watch last night?

Jiu Jitsu - ?/10

I can't quite decide on a score for this yet.

Previously, my 0/10 was reserved for The Great Wall - which is a terrible, terrible film. And this film is also absolutely terrible. But it did cost rather less than The Great Wall. Plus, it does have Nicolas Cage in it.

But damn is it bad. Some not particularly impressive set pieces loosely strung together with something that resembles 'plot' in name only. The VFX are truly abysmal. The fight choreography is pretty 'meh'. The cast are either MIA or Nic Cage, there's no real in-between.

So...yeah. A bad film.
 
Clone Wars...

So I'm watching the TV series, and as part of the watch order early on then you see the movie ... and that makes it kinda hard to judge ... as a long TV episode it's fine, but if I went to watch a movie and saw it then I really don't think there's enough of an arc to it or something to really have it feel like a movie... I don't know if it was ever anything that was in cinemas though, so maybe it was never really meant to be a movie movie.
 
RoboCop & RoboCop 2 - 8/10 & 6/10 - I was watching a discussion of the original on YT (The Critical Drinker) when he mentioned something which, despite this being one of my favourite films, I'd somehow missed through all my viewings. Specifically that Murphy was pre-chosen by OCP as an ideal candidate for their RoboCop programme and he was therefore deliberately placed into the worst crime area by an OCP reshuffle, specifically in the hope that he would be killed (OCP estimated <90 days for this to happen) and could therefore be harvested for the RoboCop programme. I'd always just assumed it was chance/luck that OCP was ready with the RoboCop programme right when Murphy was killed, shows how naive I can be I suppose.

The line is given by Bob Morton seconds after the ED209 goes rogue and kills an OCP staff member in the boardroom (approx 13mins in) when Morton says "We've restructured the police department and placed prime candidates according to risk factor. I'm confident we can go to prototype within 90 days."

I'd somehow missed that line and it's connotation's as to just how "evil" OCP really was, well over and above the more standard corporate levels of "evil" we are used to.

After rewatching it, and it's still one of my favourites which I'll be watching again and again for years (unlike the 2014 remake), I popped in RoboCop 2 which feels a little more relevant now than on release (OCP goes "woke" with RoboCop during his rebuild) but it's still quite obviously a far weaker film than it needed to be, despite being light-years ahead of RoboCop 3!
 
ianh said:
RoboCop & RoboCop 2 - 8/10 & 6/10 - I was watching a discussion of the original on YT (The Critical Drinker) when he mentioned something which, despite this being one of my favourite films, I'd somehow missed through all my viewings. Specifically that Murphy was pre-chosen by OCP as an ideal candidate for their RoboCop programme and he was therefore deliberately placed into the worst crime area by an OCP reshuffle, specifically in the hope that he would be killed (OCP estimated <90 days for this to happen) and could therefore be harvested for the RoboCop programme. I'd always just assumed it was chance/luck that OCP was ready with the RoboCop programme right when Murphy was killed, shows how naive I can be I suppose.

The line is given by Bob Morton seconds after the ED209 goes rogue and kills an OCP staff member in the boardroom (approx 13mins in) when Morton says "We've restructured the police department and placed prime candidates according to risk factor. I'm confident we can go to prototype within 90 days."

I'd somehow missed that line and it's connotation's as to just how "evil" OCP really was, well over and above the more standard corporate levels of "evil" we are used to.

After rewatching it, and it's still one of my favourites which I'll be watching again and again for years (unlike the 2014 remake), I popped in RoboCop 2 which feels a little more relevant now than on release (OCP goes "woke" with RoboCop during his rebuild) but it's still quite obviously a far weaker film than it needed to be, despite being light-years ahead of RoboCop 3!
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One of my all time fave movies. DROP IT!

The scene when he enters the police station for the first time though... amazing.

 
ianh said:
The line is given by Bob Morton seconds after the ED209 goes rogue and kills an OCP staff member in the boardroom (approx 13mins in) when Morton says "We've restructured the police department and placed prime candidates according to risk factor. I'm confident we can go to prototype within 90 days."

I'd somehow missed that line and it's connotation's as to just how "evil" OCP really was, well over and above the more standard corporate levels of "evil" we are used to.
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Mind...blown!
 
Mr Jack said:
The Revenant

I've been meaning to watch this one for a while but never got round to it, partly because of its length. It's a wonderful shot, atmospheric, film with a gritty but simple plot. Despite the running time, I didn't find myself getting distracted or bored which is substantially to its credit. That said, I thought it had a believability problem: I could buy his avoiding death in an unlikely fashion once or twice but it just kept happening. Add in a couple of "how could you be so stupid" moments and some oddly fourth wall breaking camera choices, and I found my suspension of disbelief ruffled. I think it particularly hurt here because it's such a grounded, gritty feeling film that relies on that earthiness to carry it along.

A bit flawed, but still excellent 8/10
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I disliked ALL the action scenes in that movie, especially the opening one, probably partly down to the weird uber-modern cinematography style jarring so much with the setting.
 
Watched the romcom/horror 'Spontaneous' - well worth the £1.99 hire on Prime. I'm really not one for romcoms but it was very very well done with the horror aspect worked in.
 
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human - 7/10
I remember catching bits of it on tv along time ago so thought I would give it a proper watch, comedy/mockumentary.
 
Boss Level - 5/10 - A competent enough "Groundhog Day vs Murder/Mystery" type film. It's over-starred for the low budget, with Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts as the leads and Michelle Yeoh, Ken Jeong and Will Sasso as side characeters, which unfortunately left the CGI budget extremely low for a CGI heavy film like this which sadly shows in almost every single CGI shot as they are very poor at best (Youtube levels of bad). The story is unimaginative but competent, there's some humour, some family drama, some "who dun 'it" elements which all work together and the action is well done bso it passes the 90 screentime easily enough but there's nothing particularly captivating that would make me want to watch it again, even though the first viewing was OK. The director, Joe Carnahan, has made a few similar style films to this before which have worked well with a bigger budget (Smoking Aces, A-Team, Bad Boys 3 etc) so I can't help think that just another chunk of money to improve the woeful CGI would have made this far better as thats the biggest downfall for me.
 
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore (2017) - 7/10

A dark comedy about a woman who has had enough of the injustices in her life and the way people treat each other and decides to take matters into her own hands.

The plot has some good observations and enough funny moments but it gets silly towards the end and her role in the finale didn’t really fit for me.

Great acting from the lead actress and Elijah Wood as the ‘keyboard warrior’ neighbor.
 
RossGReds said:
Best cinematic experience I've ever had watching that.

Good Time (on netflix)

8.5/10. Faast paced Crime/Thriller. Thought Pattinson was excellent as the central character. Makes me think he'll do a pretty good job as Batman.
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Yeah this changed my mind about him as Batman too, absolute excellent movie.
 
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