What film did you watch last night?

Narrow Margin (1990)

Gene Hackman spends most of the films runtime on a train protecting a witness (Anne Archer) from the Mafia bad guys trying to kill them and stop her testifying against their boss.

For me the film is bookended by two impressive stunt sequences that can't mask the dull, (a lots of time walking up and down train carriages) but ludicrous and predictable events that happen while they are all on the train.

There's so much time spent going up and down the train, for no reason, that it's almost like they only had a hours worth of film script and had to drag it out to 90 minutes.

5/10
 
barmyllama said:
Narrow Margin (1990)

Gene Hackman spends most of the films runtime on a train protecting a witness (Anne Archer) from the Mafia bad guys trying to kill them and stop her testifying against their boss.

For me the film is bookended by two impressive stunt sequences that can't mask the dull, (a lots of time walking up and down train carriages) but ludicrous and predictable events that happen while they are all on the train.

There's so much time spent going up and down the train, for no reason, that it's almost like they only had a hours worth of film script and had to drag it out to 90 minutes.

5/10
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The Narrow Margin (1952) ⭐ 7.6 | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

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Twisters 6/10
Competent with nothing original

Forest Gump 30th Anniversary Re-issue 8/10
Better than I remembered, but not seen it in 25 or so years. Could recall most of it just not the ordering of sequences.
Just a sweet film.
 
Got around to watching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Quite bad. Don't know why they bothered. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was awful. Perhaps they wanted to try to improve on the quadrilogy as it was. Apparently it was agreed to have 5 Indy films when the first one came out and was popular?
 
Furiosa

Brilliant, just non-stop action from start to finish. Taylor Joy can act without saying a word, just her eyes alone can convey everything you need to know. Don’t know many actors can do that.

Ends perfectly leading to Fury Road, which brings me to the CGI on her face, it’s done so well how they transition.
 
Watched strangers chapter 1 ... it was ... ok 5/10. Very similar to the original too similar IMO. Some plot holes and just too similar to the other one made it kind of worthless IMO. But worth a watch if you are bored and have nothing else to watch :)
 
The Road (2009)

My wife picked this one, even though we've seen it before, she said she couldn't remember it.

Unfortunately I could remember it and it's still just as grim as the first time I watched it.

Certainly not one to watch if you need cheering up, but a well made and well acted film either way.

7/10
 
"The Covenant" on Netflix. Guy Ritchie's film about a US soldier and his Afghan interpreter. My wife and I really enjoyed it. Makes you rage against US bureaucratic incompetence (or was it willingly hanging them out to dry) but at least this story ends well.
 
barmyllama said:
The Road (2009)

My wife picked this one, even though we've seen it before, she said she couldn't remember it.

Unfortunately I could remember it and it's still just as grim as the first time I watched it.

Certainly not one to watch if you need cheering up, but a well made and well acted film either way.

7/10
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This film was probably one of the most depressing films I've ever watched, or maybe *the* most depressing one.
 
K-19 The Widowmaker (2002)

Not the best submarine film, but not the worst either. But after watching for a second time since it came out, I wouldn't ever bother again.

Most of the acting is decent apart from their accents, with Harrison Ford giving up on trying to do one about half way through the film.

5/10
 
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