What film did you watch last night?

Snyder Cut

Pretty much despised it from start to finish. When you combine how much has been spent overall on the film alongside it's lengthy run time, it does nothing of any real intrigue when compared to any of it's predecessors. That was the biggest thing for me, just felt like a huge wasted opportunity to do something different. I wanted Snyder to finally prove his supposed worth but no. He no longer has the omnipotent judgement of the big nasty studios to hide behind, he just isn't a very talented Director.

To be honest, I might have been a little more lenient on the film if it weren't for those last 20 minutes. I have never seen such a pathetic case of desperate showboating from a Director in all my life. Basically Snyder waving his despairing ego in the air shouting "AND THIS IS WHAT YOU COULD HAVE HAD YOU BIG MEANIES!!!".

I dunno. Ultimately he just frustrates me as a Director. He often shows such a flare for visual storytelling but he doesn't see the bigger picture at all.

Nitefly said:
Do you mean ‘screen time’, ‘more back story’ or ‘character progression’?

There was a lot more of the first, more of the second but still pretty limited on the third.

I can’t recall any character progression for any of them. As in, where any of the characters go through some sort of conflict, or have to make hard choices, or do anything that defines them.... whatever. The closest person to someone who got more of that was cyborg. I can’t remember anything like that for the flash.
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It kind of frustrates me that people are marking the film up for giving it's characters more supposed on screen 'progression'. It's 4 hours long... that's the absolute least I expect from any movie, let alone one of this length. I don't care what the Whedons version did by comparison. A movie this long has absolutely no excuse and I refuse to give it extra points for it. As you said, it's only really Cyborg that get's a few extra nods and even that's beyond mundane.
 
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Poltergeist - the 1982 original. Really enjoyable horror/comedy. Didn't realise that the poor child actress, Heather O' Rourke died at 12 years old due to misdiagnosis of intestinal issues as Crohn's. Still a great film and some of the effects defintitely don't hold up but amazing to watch anyway 9/10
 
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 3/10

While looking through movies on Disney plus yesterday I saw this and decided to give it watch. I had seen it before, years ago, but forgot nearly everything about it, apart from the fact that Sean Connery is in it. Not sure why, but I thought I remembered it been ok when I first watched it, I was wrong!!

Terrible special effects, terrible storyline, terrible acting. Just a terrible movie.
 
Deadpool 2

By times, crude, juvenile, irreverent, and really clever, Deadpool 2 is perhaps not as good as the first one, but has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and fun action none-the-less.

Worth a watch 8/10.
 
Killer Joe (2011)

A William Friedkin film with Matthew McConaughey as the title character in, what I think is, one of his best roles. He plays a detective who moonlights as a contract killer, who is hired by a family of Texas trailer trash to murder their mother/ex wife for the insurance money.

Great performances all around and just one of those films you owe it to yourself to watch. Even if it can be very uncomfortable at times.

9/10
 
I watched Zack Snyder's Justice League, it was pretty cool, I can't really remember anything about the reshot one that they originally put out, but I don't think I thought it was anything that special.

Didn't really feel like there was any wasted screentime despite being 4 hours... quite liberal use of slowmo and some soppy voiceover bits but I really don't think it could have been cut down to a couple hours or whatever it was being demanded... If it's received well I wonder if it might encourage studios to put out longer flicks so they've actually got the time to put together a lot of threads and try for something that feels like it covers a full story and has the potential to be epic, rather than something that gets rushed through and follows the usual set few stages we often get.

I'm still not really sold on Ben Affleck as Batman, it feels like a step back from Christian Bale who nailed it... but as for one brief minute we're reminded of how bad Jesse Eisenberg was as Lex Luthor I can't complain so much about him.

My only one major gripe with the movie though was how the hell did Darkseid forget which was the one planet that kicked his butt and he left the mother boxes on... I've gotta imagine there was a better explanation for all that in the comics, if the same thing even occurred.
 
Haywire with Gina Carano before she got fat, mental and cancelled. Complete guff of a thriller, a modicum of ok fighting, poor acting and silly plot despite some actual big name stars in it. (Fassbender, McGregor, Tatum, Douglas, Banderas)

Tonight I shall watch Scorched Earth with Gina.....looks equally as bad. :p
 
I watched it a few months back. Excellent film.

Also from the same writer that I can recommend is.

Hell or High Water and Sicario.

And if you enjoy those try.

Galveston (2018)
 
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Pathfinder on Disney+.

Possibly the worst film I have watched for a while. Well, I have 20 or so minutes left and I should've done something else. Like, gone for a poo I don't need or done the dishes.

Damn, it's bad.
 
simpletom said:
Pathfinder on Disney+.

Possibly the worst film I have watched for a while. Well, I have 20 or so minutes left and I should've done something else. Like, gone for a poo I don't need or done the dishes.

Damn, it's bad.
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It surely can’t be “A Wrinkle in Time” bad (a Disney film that came out a few years ago).
 
Nitefly said:
It surely can’t be “A Wrinkle in Time” bad (a Disney film that came out a few years ago).
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Only God will know that...

This thing I watched is gratuitously violent, including kids getting butchered, and filmed in 3dgel0rd desaturated, high contrast kind of filter. Imagine a GCSE photography project by a smelly kid who thinks Manowar are cool. Lots of slow motion shots of vikings fighting native Americans.

It isn't a Disney film, and as much I dislike Disney, they are usually pretty good at what they do.

This was an utterly joyless experience that served to remind me that setting my testicles ablaze is sometimes the better option.
 
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