What film did you watch last night?

1408 (edit: on Amazon Prime)

A man stays over in a ‘haunted hotel room’.

Terrible. John Cusack starts off inoffensive but his ‘wisecracky / schmuck’ persona quickly becomes grating to the extreme once things start going bump in the night.

There are no surprises or revelations to be found here… it features one of the most painfully signposted ‘twists’ (non-twists?) ever. The film also sort of ‘gives up’ at the end… as if it became sentient and suddenly realised that repeating the same ‘non-twist’ would be even less effective.

I don’t think a film like this would be made anymore - standards for horror films have improved significantly!

4/10

Edit: I’m going to start adding where I’ve seen these to my posts… although only the curious ought to check this one out :o :p
 
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Nitefly said:
1408

A man stays over in a ‘haunted hotel hotel room’.

Terrible. John Cusack starts off inoffensive but his ‘wisecracky / schmuck’ persona quickly becomes grating to the extreme once things start going bump in the night.

There are no surprises or revelations to be found here… it features one of the most painfully signposted ‘twists’ (non-twists?) ever. The film also sort of ‘gives up’ at the end… as if it became sentient and suddenly realised that repeating the same ‘non-twist’ would be even less effective.

I don’t think a film like this would be made anymore - standards for horror films have improved significantly!

4/10
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Been a very long time since I have seen this and I did not think it was great back then.

Last night for me was A quiet place day one, I fell asleep with about 25 mins left or so, probably won't go back to it. It's not terrible.... it just struggles to raise tension like the first two films for some reason.

Thinking about this, 2024 has not been great for horror, I have a couple left to redeem it. Might watch Halloween tomorrow (original) seems to be becoming a tradition)
 
Rannoch said:
Outland (1981)

A police marshal stationed on Jupiter's moon, learns about a drug cartel operating in the mining colony and decides to stop them at any cost.

Sean Connery stars - 8/10

I think another one person on the forum likes this movie as much as I do :D
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Watched this last night after your post. Very enjoyable. Connery was a proper movie star!! Legend. 7/10
 
Rannoch said:
Outland (1981)

A police marshal stationed on Jupiter's moon, learns about a drug cartel operating in the mining colony and decides to stop them at any cost.

Sean Connery stars - 8/10

I think another one person on the forum likes this movie as much as I do :D
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I got vague recollections of this but will need to rewatch it again. Thx.
 
You're Next (2011)

Home invasion/horror slasher. As the premise has been done to death, I was at least hoping for some originality in how each victim met their demise. But there's nothing here we haven't seen before and I prefer the director's follow up film, The Guest (2014)

Quite how you get from these genre of films to helming the King Kong/Godzilla franchise is a mystery.

5/10
 
Medusa Touch 1978 , 8/10
Very good film , dialogue heavy but engrossing, think it's public domain now so it's on YouTube.
Don't know who L is though
Anyone read the book and can tell me.
 
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Alien: Romulus.

I wanted to see this at the cinema, but never got the chance. I did however pay 20 quid to watch it on Amazon Prime, partly off the back off Mark Kemode being moderately positive about it (More fool me)

I would describe the film as this. Film a bunch of fairly random scenes designed to capture to look and feel of the first two movies, including very awkwardly delivered iconic lines of dialogue. Awkwardly tie them together with a garbage script that may well have been the first pass of something chatGPT could have produced. Despite the initial scenes and world being set in the futuristic equivalent of a Victorian workhouse, cast a bunch of sleek, well fed looking children as the main protagonists, all of whom would be far more suited to a saccharine sweet American coming of age teen movie. Re-animate a major character from the first movie but cheap out on the CGI so it looks awful. Use stupid narrative devices to create peril which make no sense (the gravity thing for example) or the main characters, despite being the most downtrodden of the downtrodden, still having free access to an interstellar starship???. I could go on and on, overall the whole movies was just a mess.

This movie is the the cinematic equivalent of digging up the dead horse you flogged to death and setting it on fire. In the highly unlikely event of someone from 20th Century Fox reading this - please please stop making Alien movies.

Because I think the first movie is possibility one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever created (and the second is pretty damn good too) I keep getting sucked back in.

I'm glad I got that off my chest. (Unintended pun)

4/10 (would have been a 3 but the special effects aren't the worst, mostly)
 
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Alien: Romulus.

I despite being the most downtrodden of the downtrodden, still having free access to an interstellar starship???. I could go on and on, overall the whole movies was just a mess.
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Just on that point, it wasn't an interstellar ship because the planet they live/work on did not have cryo pods/fuel. That is literally the reason they go to the space station and also the reason that Weyland Yutani lets people use them without much oversight - They can't go anywhere in them.
 
esmozz said:
Alien: Romulus.

I wanted to see this at the cinema, but never got the chance. I did however pay 20 quid to watch it on Amazon Prime, partly off the back off Mark Kemode being moderately positive about it (More fool me)

I would describe the film as this. Film a bunch of fairly random scenes designed to capture to look and feel of the first two movies, including very awkwardly delivered iconic lines of dialogue. Awkwardly tie them together with a garbage script that may well have been the first pass of something chatGPT could have produced. Despite the initial scenes and world being set in the futuristic equivalent of a Victorian workhouse, cast a bunch of sleek, well fed looking children as the main protagonists, all of whom would be far more suited to a saccharine sweet American coming of age teen movie. Re-animate a major character from the first movie but cheap out on the CGI so it looks awful. Use stupid narrative devices to create peril which make no sense (the gravity thing for example) or the main characters, despite being the most downtrodden of the downtrodden, still having free access to an interstellar starship???. I could go on and on, overall the whole movies was just a mess.

This movie is the the cinematic equivalent of digging up the dead horse you flogged to death and setting it on fire. In the highly unlikely event of someone from 20th Century Fox reading this - please please stop making Alien movies.

Because I think the first movie is possibility one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever created (and the second is pretty damn good too) I keep getting sucked back in.

I'm glad I got that off my chest. (Unintended pun)

4/10 (would have been a 3 but the special effects aren't the worst, mostly)
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So... you'll be putting yourself through the TV series thats upcoming as well.

Like you, I keep getting sucked in hah.

I did see this at the cinema, someone threw up, so that was interesting.

Salems lot last night for me, fell asleep, but liked the vibe if what I seen thus far. Ironically unless this is great Alien Romulus will be the best new horror I have seen this year. I'm sure something will beat it, its a been a quiet one though.
 
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin on Netflix.

Not a movie to rate really as it’s a documentary about a WoW player, definitely worth a watch and must have been so nice for the family to learn about the life he had, given they didn’t think it was possible.
 
House of 1000 Corpses (on Amazon Prime)

A film about people stumbling into the wrong place at the wrong time and not much else.

It’s for fans of ‘trashy’ horror who like laughs with their macabre. It’s quite redundant, intentionally, so don’t expect anything profound.

The film is mired by mixing in random footage between scenes that’s a mix of grindhouse and ‘YouTube poop’. At its worse, this comes across as a bit ‘try hard’, but it’s trash breaking up the trash so arguably it’s on point. At its best though, the film is funny and bizarre.

There is a sequel film, The Devil’s Rejects, which I remember being quite good so that’s next on the list.

6/10
 
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Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

I can't stand her music, but my wife wanted to watch it, so I ensured.

Standard biopic fare, by the numbers and probably glosses over a lot of things to please the family.

I didn't think much to the actor playing Whitney and since she lip synced Whitney's singing voice most of the time, there wasn't anything else she did that even came close to resembling her.

Runtime was too long as well.

4/10 or 6/10 for fans of the music.
 
SupraWez said:
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin on Netflix.

Not a movie to rate really as it’s a documentary about a WoW player, definitely worth a watch and must have been so nice for the family to learn about the life he had, given they didn’t think it was possible.
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Super-interesting doc. I've never played WOW, but I still enjoyed the story.
 
For Halloween it was 2 of my favourites.

Evil Dead 2 and Scream (the original 1996 version) Both in 4k for the first time. They look great. Still great films too. EDII is my favourite of the trilogy, straddles the line between horror and comedy nicely. Scream is the absolute best teen slasher film. Absolutely love it.

Tonight it's 1931's Dracula with Bella Lugosi and hopefully if I've got time afterwards, Renfield.

Not seen the original Dracula for a very long time. Renfield is just fun.
 
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