What film did you watch last night?

checjb said:
My wife and I watched most of it and, although it was well acted and had a great cast, we found it meandering, pointless, self-indulgent and boring. Eventually we turned it off and read instead. Felt like an absolute waste of an hour. I won't bother watching the rest.
Oh, and the Bruce Lee segment just seemed like a needless insult to the man.
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You should have stuck it out, it has one of the best movie endings I have seen in recent times.
 
Conan the Destroyer.

While I love the original film and will watch it ever so often I always avoided watching the 2nd movie and after watching it last night I’ve no idea why. Yes it’s not as good as the original and it does look a bit dated now in parts but I was never bored and had fun watching Arnold as Conan again. Ultimately I would put it in the Die Hard 2 /Ghostbusters 2 category, a good film on its own merits but as its is a sequel to a classic they were always going to struggle to make something as good as the original.
 
Maximum Triceratops said:
You should have stuck it out, it has one of the best movie endings I have seen in recent times.
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I am not convinced this isn't just in contrast to the tedium of the preceding 2 hours.
I really enjoyed seeing DiCaprio act and act within act, and so on and so forth.
It was a masterclass without pretending to be one.
Plot dull, concept tired, duration tediously long, ending expected.
He's not the director he thinks he is, he's just a filmophile who knows everything about every old film, and the interactions of movie history, and while this can make some scenes play out well, it doesn't in this case.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Another vote for the Rapace trilogy, although Finchers version is very good.
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Yeah, I really like both. The Fincher version looks amazing, the cinematography and soundtrack is ace.
I like Noomi Rapace’s Lisbeth, but I find Rooney Mara much easier on the eye :D
Shame Fincher didn’t do the other two as well.

Less said about the new books and ‘other’ film the better. I’d genuinely forgotten the latest film existed until I’d started this reply, it’s that forgettable.
 
County Lines - 8/10 - a very sobering look at the grooming of a young impressionable teen into drug dealing across county lines.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7156898/

Quite a hard watch in parts as it's not glammed up, the moments of violence are short, sharp and punctuated, the lead isn't a hero character, just a 'lost' kid who gets groomed into a bad situation. Left me feeling low for a while after as the situation it portrays isn't exactly rare.

The term 'county lines' describes the practice of using children to traffic drugs from cities to coastal towns and rural areas, an under-reported fact of modern British life. Inspired by the stories he heard while mentoring kids at an East London pupil referral unit, writer-director Henry Blake's powerful feature debut boasts a compelling central performance by Conrad Khan as 14-year-old Tyler, whose mum Toni (Ashley Madekwe) is struggling to provide for him and his sister. Excluded from school, Tyler becomes a train-bound narcotics courier for local criminal Simon, played with a calm menace by Harris Dickinson. County Lines (2019) depicts the ensuing cycle of debt, deceit and violent exploitation with a quiet stylistic confidence that's all the more haunting for being so rigorously unsentimental.
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