What film did you watch last night?

barmyllama · 1 May 2024 at 07:06

Frailty (2001)
Bill Paxton stars and directs in this psychological horror/thriller.

It took me a good twenty minutes to realise I'd seen it before. Even then I couldn't remember the ending.

Still worth watching if you haven't seen it or forgotten you'd seen it, watching again.

7/10

Maximum Triceratops · 1 May 2024 at 13:11

LizardKing said:
Late Night with the Devil - im not really a horror fan but the premise of this one pricked my ears due to its originality. Well worth a watch if you have a spare 90 or so minutes!

Watched this last night, I'll agree with you but will put a score on it - 7/10 well worth a watch, captured the 70s really well

EddScott · 1 May 2024 at 17:09

Watched Layer Cake last night. Years since I'd seen it and Mrs EddScott hadn't seen it before. With Daniel Craig and a very young looking Tom Hardy, how could she refuse?

I'd forgotten just how could a film it is. Not as overly stylised as Lock Stock and Snatch and it's all the better for it.

A Gandalf Gangster 8/10 "Very Good"

VincentHanna · 1 May 2024 at 18:37

EddScott said:
Watched Layer Cake last night. Years since I'd seen it and Mrs EddScott hadn't seen it before. With Daniel Craig and a very young looking Tom Hardy, how could she refuse?

I'd forgotten just how could a film it is. Not as overly stylised as Lock Stock and Snatch and it's all the better for it.

A Gandalf Gangster 8/10 "Very Good"

Do you mean Dumbledore?

Stu999 · 1 May 2024 at 19:54

EddScott said:
Watched Layer Cake last night. Years since I'd seen it and Mrs EddScott hadn't seen it before. With Daniel Craig and a very young looking Tom Hardy, how could she refuse?

And Sienna Miller for yourself.

MCFC_ANDY · 1 May 2024 at 20:37

Just watched Arcadian. enjoyed. Effects pretty decent, sounds made me jump on occasion, the Sub bangs but feels like a B movie, camera works has Blair witch about it, its very A quiet place ISH, similar sort of thing I guess. Cage is pretty decent. Can see a sequel.
Overall 6.5.maybe 7 at a push.

rp2000 · 1 May 2024 at 21:01

X-Men (2000). 8/10

X-Men (2000) ⭐ 7.3 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

1h 44m | 12

www.imdb.com

The original X-men is probably my 3rd favourite of the mutant movies overall. It's a great introduction to all the main characters and sows the seeds for all the future films. Before watching this originally, the only X-Men I had seen was the animated series. Seeing those characters in live action for the 1st time was pretty cool, even if their powers and back stories vary a bit from the animation.

Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman look so young. Ian McKellan looks so old! The special effects are really good for their time.

Sadly both it's sequels were never as good for me, despite having even more mutants, big name actors and better special effects. Still planning on watching X2 and X3 in the next few days, just for the nostalgia.

rp2000

EddScott · 1 May 2024 at 21:08

VincentHanna said:
Do you mean Dumbledore?

Oh no, how embarrasing

Apologies

Stu999 said:
And Sienna Miller for yourself.

Indeed

Hades · 1 May 2024 at 21:23

Forest Gump
A very rare 10/10

Hard to fault this film in any way. It gets better each time I watch it and notice more little things.

barmyllama · 2 May 2024 at 07:02

Basket Case (1982)

Didn't see this when it was first released but always remember seeing it in the video shop, but never renting it for some reason.

I have to say, unless you have serious nostalgia for the film then it's very poor by any standards. The acting is particularly bad, the story almost non existent, the effects aren't that good even for its time and it's neither scary or that gory.

I will say that they deserve credit for what they achieved on the budget they had and it made money. But that's about all that's credit worthy.

2/10

Freakbro · 2 May 2024 at 07:10

barmyllama said:
Basket Case (1982)

Didn't see this when it was first released but always remember seeing it in the video shop, but never renting it for some reason.

I have to say, unless you have serious nostalgia for the film then it's very poor by any standards. The acting is particularly bad, the story almost non existent, the effects aren't that good even for its time and it's neither scary or that gory.

I will say that they deserve credit for what they achieved on the budget they had and it made money. But that's about all that's credit worthy.

2/10

Heh, that's a blast from the past. Yea, Basket Case wasn't that great, in that genre I much preferred Brain Damage (1988) and of course the pinnacle of splatter movies Braindead (1992) by Peter Jackson.

But usually the acting and budget aren't very good in any of those types of films if compared to mainstream stuff.

EddScott · 2 May 2024 at 10:51

steve5424 · 2 May 2024 at 10:58

Hades said:
Forest Gump
A very rare 10/10

Hard to fault this film in any way. It gets better each time I watch it and notice more little things.

Seen this so many times over the years and never get bored of it. It's just one of those rare near perfect films. Great story, cast and directing.

First time was on cinema release.

Bubo · 2 May 2024 at 11:20

Forrest Gump is on my list of films which if I happen to stumble upon it whilst channel hopping I will say to myself I'll just watch 5 minutes then always end up watching the whole thing every time.

barmyllama · 2 May 2024 at 12:33

Bubo said:
Forrest Gump is on my list of films which if I happen to stumble upon it whilst channel hopping I will say to myself I'll just watch 5 minutes then always end up watching the whole thing every time.

Same thing happens with Jaws.

JRS · 2 May 2024 at 12:42

Late Night with the Devil - 8/10

I watched this not knowing a single thing about it beforehand, hadn't even seen a trailer. And I thought it was great. Loved the way it was shot, the look and feel of it was perfect with the contrast between the 'TV show' scenes and the BTS ones. David Dastmalchian was great as Jack Delroy, in fact all the cast were really good.

the shadow · 2 May 2024 at 14:34

Not seen since the cinema had to watch on the projector :cool:

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) ⭐ 8.2 | Action, Drama

2h 10m | 12A

www.imdb.com

Kyo · 2 May 2024 at 22:57

I seen a few posts of people mentioning Alien 3 wasnt bad particularly the directors cut. I havent watched it since release. Surprisingly they were right. yes there was some awful plot holes which made no sense and some really dubious decisions. Ignoring these points it was better than i remembered. The cast put in a solid performance and the overall effects were ok for its time. Overall 5.5/10

It was another example where the director was unable to make the movie he wanted because of studio inference.

I particularly liked Renny Harlin's idea for Alien 3 where they would visit the Xenomorphs homeworld (Prometheus *yes it wasnt exactly homeword but did explore more of their origin*) but certainly was a missed opportunity. Again Fox shot it down thinking they knew better.

Shamikebab · 2 May 2024 at 23:26

American Honey - 8/10

Bit long but a wonderful slice of life road film

alchal · 3 May 2024 at 09:44

Kyo said:
I seen a few posts of people mentioning Alien 3 wasnt bad particularly the directors cut. I havent watched it since release. Surprisingly they were right. yes there was some awful plot holes which made no sense and some really dubious decisions. Ignoring these points it was better than i remembered. The cast put in a solid performance and the overall effects were ok for its time. Overall 5.5/10

It was another example where the director was unable to make the movie he wanted because of studio inference.

I particularly liked Renny Harlin's idea for Alien 3 where they would visit the Xenomorphs homeworld (Prometheus *yes it wasnt exactly homeword but did explore more of their origin*) but certainly was a missed opportunity. Again Fox shot it down thinking they knew better.

Never understood the hate for alien 3, only criticism I had of it was the CGI that aged extremely badly.