What film did you watch last night?

The Creator

What on earth was that? I had high hopes going into it and not reading any reviews or knowing much about it. However ironically it felt completely like it was written by AI. None of it made any sense, and it felt like a weird storyboard of scenes and set pieces put together that didn't have any logical link to each other.

Tonally it had no idea what it wanted to be. At the start it is striking a serious tone, as we are clearly made to feel sad about the ai robots being crushed/incinerated/coming back to life to act like humans and stressing the clean up crew etc. then there is a scene moments later where dismembered blown up robots wobble about stupidly that is clearly played for laughs....

Writing talent in Hollywood is seriously lacking. So many big budget films and seies' have such dire and nonsensical writing.

I'll give it a few marks because visually it was good and the score had some nice tracks

3/10
 
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Magnum Force

Very enjoyable film in the Dirty Harry series. Not quite as iconic as the original - Harry toned down but still acted in a way by Clint Eastwood that you just don't see anymore.

I'm a big fan of the aesthetics of this time period. The boxy cars, the fashion, the technicolor cinematography etc, it's almost painful to watch.

8/10
 
28 days later, followed by 28 weeks later.

Hadn't watched either of them other that after they came out. Some disbelief required of course, but these are zombie movies and so on that basis, pretty good.

Surprised to see Jeremy renner in the 2nd one. Of course he wasn't a big name back then, so perhaps likely why I didn't remember him in it. Same for Eldris Elba.
 
Platoon

I’m never too sure what to make of this one. It’s certainly one of the most bleak and miserable of the well known war films, but there is very little story / narrative for its run time and I think the night time sequences are too chaotic and hard to follow.

I don’t suppose that matters. It’s very good at what it sets out to do.

8/10
 
The Hunger Games https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/

One of those films that I've seen parts of before, but not the whole thing.

I quite enjoyed it, and tonight I may well try the next one in the series, Catching Fire.

Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress. Great screen presence, like so many other accomplished stars of the silver screen.
 
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Anatomy of a fall 7/10
Very well made french film. It's a little on the long side and the ending is a little ambiguous. Keeps you guessing what happened though the more the characters are unravelled. Good acting too.
 
Lone Star (1996)

I had huge expectations for this with the reviews and the cast list. But was too slow and boring in the end. I did like the way it transitioned to the past in the same locations with the camera panning from characters in the present to ones in the past.

4/10
 
The Van - somehow this ended up in my Youtube suggestions, Colm Meaney (Deep space 9, Con Air) got my attention so thought i'd stick it on for 20 min or so to see what it was like, ended up watching the entire film far to late into a school night, decent little low budget film that i can only compare it to a 2 person Full Monty based in Ireland and without a show. let down somewhat by the ending but put aside some of the acting that can only be expected at this budget and i think its a bit of an unpolished diamond.
 
LizardKing said:
The Van - somehow this ended up in my Youtube suggestions, Colm Meaney (Deep space 9, Con Air) got my attention so thought i'd stick it on for 20 min or so to see what it was like, ended up watching the entire film far to late into a school night, decent little low budget film that i can only compare it to a 2 person Full Monty based in Ireland and without a show. let down somewhat by the ending but put aside some of the acting that can only be expected at this budget and i think its a bit of an unpolished diamond.
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This is the third of the Barrytown trilogies - The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van. Whilst this is the weakest of the 3, I still have a soft spot as Colm's acting is brilliant.
 
She Came To Me NOPE/10

What was portrayed in the trailer as a unique film about Peter Dinklage being an opera writer with a mental block, married to Anne Hathaway who's a shrink, then he has an fling with tug boat captain Marisa Tomei and writes an opera about her, then his wife finds out and goes off the rails...

Turned out to be a woke load of nonsense about Dinklage taking on Hathaway's black son who's dating a girl with an extremely controlling racist father, who's horrible to his daughters, the BF and to his foreign wife... So Dinklage/Tomei arrange a secret marriage on Tomei's boat in a different states water which grants consent 16 years old vs 18 to avoid the racist girlfriends father getting Hathaways black son done for rape... Oh and Hathaway decides to become a nun... WTAF did I watch!

What a wasted cast, everything good/intriguing/unique in the trailer, happened within 5 minutes, then the madness happened!
 
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tangey said:
28 days later, followed by 28 weeks later.

Hadn't watched either of them other that after they came out. Some disbelief required of course, but these are zombie movies and so on that basis, pretty good.

Surprised to see Jeremy renner in the 2nd one. Of course he wasn't a big name back then, so perhaps likely why I didn't remember him in it. Same for Eldris Elba.
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The whole opening section of 28 Weeks Later was awesome, especially as I was living on the Isle of Dogs at the time of the cinema release :D
 
hood1971 said:
This is the third of the Barrytown trilogies - The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van. Whilst this is the weakest of the 3, I still have a soft spot as Colm's acting is brilliant.
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Yeah I saw some of those mentioned in the comments, might have to check them out! Colm really does a good job in this. (In fact most things he's in, proper underrated imo)
 
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