What film did you watch last night?

Guardians of the galaxy 3 5/10.
Lacking humour, plodded on, looked nice.

Mission impossible dead reckoning 5/10
Not up to the usual standard, far to long, could have cut over 30 min and it wouldn't have made a difference to the plot.

Indiana Jones dod ?/10 turned of at the hour mark.
 
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

I mean.... Was expecting it to be horrendous, it was average, which is better than horrendous I suppose.

Have a few gripes, a lot of the scenes are too dark, watching in a dark room and still struggling to see. Way too much CGI a lot of it just doesn't look real, real downer for me.

Also expected several star destroyers to drop out of hyperspace over the Roman battle, maybe Gandalf to appear etc.

4/10
 
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Face Off (1997)

I haven't seen this in a long time and it definitely hasn't aged as well as some other action films I've enjoyed before. Such as Die Hard, Predator or Lethal Weapon.

Cage's performance is turned up to 11 and now looks more like a parody. Some of the lines are just cringe now and the plot is utterly ridiculous.

However, the stunt work, and the action sequences deserve praise and while John Woo's style is still watchable, it's been supercede by the John Wick films nowadays.

Back when it was first released I would've scored it an 8/10. But it's more like 6/10 now.
 
I rewatched Inception 8/10

Boy those guys know how to dodge bullets lol ( no spoilers)

I think Nolans stuff after this are pure marmite but this and maybe interstellar are both standouts. Dunkirk and tenet just tried too hard but ultimately missed for me. A near miss but still not the bullseye :p dark night rises is great but more for the actors.
 
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I rewatched Inception 8/10

Boy those guys know how to dodge bullets lol ( no spoilers)

I think Nolans stuff after this are pure marmite but this and maybe interstellar are both standouts. Dunkirk and tenet just tried too hard but ultimately missed for me. A near miss but still not the bullseye :p dark night rises is great but more for the actors.
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Wish I had got to see Interstellar at the cinema, awesome film.
 
Saltburn https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17351924/

I enjoyed this, and didn't quite see the end shaping up to be what it was, so a bit of a surprise there for me.
Barry Keoghan has played a couple of characters now that give me the creeps, the other being in The Killing of a Sacred Deer.


Leave the World Behind https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12747748/

I was quite hooked throughout but found the ending was rather anticlimactic. Still, quite thought-provoking.
Maybe it was left that way for another movie to be considered.
 
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Better than the previous Indy and the trailers I saw for it.

The CGI was distracting and the final act was a shark jumping moment for me.

But somehow I was entertained and I think credit goes to Phoebe Waller-Bridge for carrying the film.

6/10
 
I enjoyed Dial of Destiny. Better than the last one by a long way.

However I was mostly distracted in the NYC scenes as they were all shot in my home town of Glasgow. Couldn't sway me that it was NYC. That and I saw some of the filming.

6/10
 
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Everyone is quick to say this is the ‘worst’ of the original three, but as silly as it is it may well be the most fun of the bunch.

The adventure is primal and stimulating on a childish level; bad guy looks bad, enslaving children is bad, bugs are scary and so on. Indi is played up as the cool macho treasure hunter slightly to pair and bicker with Willie the ‘damsel in distress’ and… yeah it’s just really fun isn’t it? So for those reasons it feels a bit ‘lighter’ as a piece of cinema, even if the tone is pretty dark and ‘horror-like’ at points.

There are definitely some of the most classic and memorable bits of the whole series here; the bugs, the crushing room and most obviously the mine cart sequence. Honestly that may well be my top pick for the best special effects sequence in anything ever. It goes on for so long and the non-green screen shots look soooo good - as if it really was filmed in an actual mine. It’s just an outstanding technical film-making achievement. It’s quite fun watching it just trying to figure out how they did it.

Always a must watch during the Christmas break for me and still as good as ever.

9/10

Edit: here’s the mine cart sequence, best watched in the context of the whole film of course but damn it’s just an amazing piece of film making :cool:

 
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I finally got around to watching Saltburn. What a strange mish-mash of Talented Mr Ripley/Cruel Intensions/Usual Suspects. Began interestingly, with some great performances, but soon veered into incredulous territory. 6/10 for me.
 
Live Free or Die Hard 7/10

This was actually better than I remembered. The story is a bit...woah hackerz can do everything...but it's functional. The supporting cast is pretty good (think Winstead is great as his daughter and Long is a good sidekick). Big fan of Olyphant and while this hardly stretches him he's a good baddie.

But the cons are it doesn't really feel much like Die Hard. The opening is great and feels perfect tone-wise but then the actions scenes quickly become too big. Die Hard has never been about McClane taking down fighter jets and helicopters singlehandedly. What made the series great is it was just a fairly ordinary cop thrown into circumstances out of his control and making best. At times this feels like Rambo.
 
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