What film did you watch last night?

Seeing Red

Had its moments, but just nowhere near Pixar's best work. Some of that was stylistic choices that put me off, some of it was a subject matter that felt solidly aimed at teenage girls, but mostly I just think it lacked the multi-layered depth of most Pixar works. It wasn't terrible by any means, but I was just disinterested for most of its runtime and while there were genuinely brilliant moments and jokes they were just spread too thin.

Not for me 6/10.
 
Jean-F said:
We were Soldiers; 1/10
There’s a couple of hours I won’t get back, just my opinion but absolutely dire.
Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore was as convincing as Warwick Davis playing Jack Reacher.
Sam Elliott played Sam Elliott as he always does, very well, a good actor.
Aside from that, forget it.
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Just out of interest did you enjoy Platoon, Casualties of War, or Full Metal Jacket and which one is your favourite? Genuinely curious. :)

Definitely recommend some low budget war films (Land of Mine, The Captain) which often can be better than high budget blockbusters (despite limited effects or unknown actors); usually the depiction is more realistic.
 
Spider man- no way home 5/10

bit of a bore fest, def not living up to the hype.

doc strange bits are just a big mess and the green goblin looks like the director borrowed a villain from the power rangers. Overall poor imo.
 
NoobCannon said:
Spider man- no way home 5/10

bit of a bore fest, def not living up to the hype.

doc strange bits are just a big mess and the green goblin looks like the director borrowed a villain from the power rangers. Overall poor imo.
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Take it you didn't grow up with the original Spidey movies then? Two of the best villains and much loved by fans.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Watched this again last night (18 months since initial viewing) as missus hadn't seen it, would now rate as 7/10 on a rewatch but still a great movie.

Also had to show her an explainer afterwards as she took it on face value entirely.
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There's a part of that film where I nearly jumped off my sofa :D.
 
Offseason.

Marie is busy navigating the aftermath of a broken relationship when she receives a mysterious letter summoning her to the island where her mother was buried. The grave has been vandalised, and for legal reasons the local caretaker needs her advice on how to proceed.

Marie's ex-boyfriend helpfully drives her to the island, which is separated from the mainland by a folding bridge. Before crossing, they are advised that this is offseason, so the bridge is due to close at night and will not reopen until months later.

What happens next will shock you! :eek:

Offseason is a nice little indie film from experimental writer/director Mickey Keating, who most recently impressed me with Pod (2015).

Keating has a nice flair for atmosphere, so Offseason spends most of its 82 minutes being creepy as ****, ramping up the tension until it's tighter than piano wire. The plot is simple, and draws clear inspiration from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in a way that I found both creative and respectful to the original works.

Keating does a fine job of blending traditional thriller/suspense motifs with cosmic horror, and there's a scene near the end of the movie that proves he knows exactly how to handle a big reveal.

I rate Offseason at 23.31 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a highly respectable 7/10 on IMDB.
 
Umma.

5/10. For a horror film, I was expecting it to either head in to the direction of the horrific or the creepy, but I don't think it really fully achieved either.

I did enjoy how it was only 86 minutes though. I was hope and tucked up in bed before 10! :D
 
Spider-man - No Way Home - 6.5/10 - a fun film albeit very reliant on old nostalgia and love from previous SM movies, of which i'm not the biggest fan. The villains come across a bit limp and hollow when we've had far better writing around comic book villains since these originally came out.

RobDogDog said:
There's a part of that film where I nearly jumped off my sofa :D.
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Fairly sure I know the part :D
 
Ninco! said:
Just out of interest did you enjoy Platoon, Casualties of War, or Full Metal Jacket and which one is your favourite? Genuinely curious. :)

Definitely recommend some low budget war films (Land of Mine, The Captain) which often can be better than high budget blockbusters (despite limited effects or unknown actors); Iusually the depiction is more realistic.
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I thought that all three of the films you asked about were good.
“Full Metal Jacket” was best IMO, then “Platoon”, then “Casualties of War.”
I put Casualties last as if I remember it right that was the one where the grunts raped the Vietnamese girl.
I know that it’s only a dramatisation but I find that stuff icky.
 
Jean-F said:
We were Soldiers; 1/10
There’s a couple of hours I won’t get back, just my opinion but absolutely dire.
Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore was as convincing as Warwick Davis playing Jack Reacher.
Sam Elliott played Sam Elliott as he always does, very well, a good actor.
Aside from that, forget it.
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Finally, someone who feels the same, for a movie with so much happening, I was totally bored when I first watched this on release. I quite often mention to folks when chatting around Vietnam movies i'm not keen on it and I get some funny looks. I'd give it a fair'ish 5/10, I think 1 is a bit too harsh :)
 
Black Crab (2022) - 7/10

A relatively standard war story but in a different, somewhat isolated setting with some artistic and thought provoking scenes.

The representation of the civil war by the way the squad mistrust and turn on each is other is well done, even if most of their war horror stories are a bit cliché.

Good action scenes and acting, but the lack of explanation in regards to the wider context and the silly, drawn out ending spoil it a fair bit.
 
The American. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440728/

I haven't seen many Clooney films but I thought this was the best I'd seen with him in.

It's very much the slow-burner type movie with tense and atmospheric scenes throughout.

The only downside I can think of is maybe it was just a tad anti-climatic.

All in all, well worth checking out.
 
X (2022) - 7/10

Quite a good low budget effect horror slasher. Didn't really bring anything new to the genre but did what it did well. The music score was eerie and though it relied mainly on jump scares, they worked on the whole as it built up the general tension well.
 
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