Film you recently watched: Part 2

ok i will give it a go and let you know how i get on.

 

Let's Be Cops......Let's not. Terrible. Horrible.

 

The Fault in Our stars - Easily the best film I have seen this year, surprising too as i wouldn't really consider it my type of film

 

The Call. Terrible, predictable and boring.

 

Watched "Flight" last night.

Was quite impressed with it, Denzil Washington putting in a great performance of an utter****, who did a moment of pure heroism, and went back to being an utter****

 

Lego movie - brilliant

 

I don't do it.

 

Even educated fleas do it.

 

Apparently not.

 

Watched a favourite of mine tonight: A few good men.

Anyone who spends a lot of time in court will know exactly how everyone tries to incorporate the occasional line from the courtroom scene into real life.

"You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall!"

 

Why is this thread stickied? And the FM Manager one for that matter?

 

Yeah its not exactly like we have been discussing porno films

 

Talking of which, anyone seen this with Jennifer Lawrence?

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Gone Girl. Good film, gripping watch but there is something about it that just pisses me off.

 

Equaliser - all very unbelievable but a fairly decent way to spend 90 odd minutes

 

Saw Lucy in the Rex in Berko on Saturday. Great cinema, pretty good film too.

 

Road

The documentary film about the Dunlop brothers, their lives, accidents, crashes, deaths...

Doesn't matter if you're not into bikes... it's a brilliant powerful and emotive piece of film

Recommend it to anyone

 

Julia's Eyes.

Spanish thriller. Pretty good but I can't get on with the Spanish accent - it sounded too much like a Fast Show sketch at times.

 

As is often the case the book so much better

 

I just saw Interstellar and I watched Gone Girl a couple of weeks ago.

Both were very good.

Interstellar was incredibly ambitious, think about ten times bigger than Inception, but just has that Christopher Nolan classiness to it. Not my favourite Christopher Nolan film, but my favourite space film of all time. It certainly wasn't a perfect script, and at times it is very un-Nolan like in its soppiness, but afterwards you really feel like you have been on a journey. 8.5/10 Watch if you like: Inception, The Prestige, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Gone Girl was much smaller, twistier little number. It was dark in both an obvious, but also a clever subtle way, with some funny moments which were satirical, without losing the seriousness or tension. The film was long but seemed far shorter, and the end is original and thought provoking: which was very enjoyable yet incredibly frustrating at the same time. 8/10 Watch if you like: Shutter Island, Memento, Side Effects

 

Like the way you suggest other films that would be of interest.

Saw Interstellar as well last week, a lot slower in pace than I expected but on reflection it kinda is the pace needed for such a film. I loved Nolans visual interpretation of

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how the 5th dimension would look like to us. The only bit I didn't get was how Cooper reappeared in orbit of Saturn.

 

Interstellar is very good although the ending is a let down after a huge build up.

If you are from a scientific background suspend your disbelief whilst watching or it will anger you.

 

Gone Girl was good but my god that woman is a pyscho.

 

I know I'm late to the (Oscar) party with this, but I recently saw Lincoln for the first time. Two astounding performances from Messrs Day-Lewis and Jones. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but they pass the 13th Amendment. A gripping piece of cinema, even though it has a well-over-two-hour running time. I quite agree with Daniel Day-Lewis' decision to take a hiatus from acting because he believes "it will be very difficult to top [that performance]".

 

i finally got round to watching 'breakfast at tiffanys'. considering the era it was made, i must say i was surprised at it's liberal attitudes. a movie well-worthy of it's classic status.

i also watched kinky boots. i usually hate these regional movies about down-trodden factory workers finding hope in unlikely places (brassed off, made in dagenham, pride, full monty e.t.c) really ****, but i was trying to introduce a brazilian lady friend to 'real life' britain. she really loved it. i thought it was okay.

 

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But somewhat brilliantly, his lack of affect for the situation was perhaps even more creepy. I thought that she came away somewhat more human than he did, which is an incredible job considering some of the scenes we witnessed with her.

We are also of course left wondering what was real and what was not, as obviously, a lot of what was written in the diaries was fake.

If he did hit her, not want a child, ignored her in a strange town whilst she slowly had a breakdown etc. then her actions are slightly more (although, still not in the slightest) justified.

 

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Not really sure if I should put this in the spoiler brackets as it's gone off the cinemas now (I was one of the last to see it in my cinema with my mates). When I left the cinema, I was unsure as to where the truth ended and the lies began, but thought that the lies started much much later than what my friends did, who came to the conclusion that the lies started well before that (slightly after the marriage proposal). One thing's for sure, regardless of whether her actions were slightly justifiable due to Nick's actions, the fact that she's done it before to Desi and Tommy forces me to not believe anything she says and have no sympathy or empathy for her.

I watch a bit of Criminal Minds and in that show they always try to formulate some reasoning as to why the killers do what they do. For Amy, a possible reasoning (and certainly a justification in her mind) to do all this stuff is that her parents have used her and rewritten her life, making it seem better than it is to the general public- Amy wanted to create a name for herself with "achievements" that she's actually done and get noticed for it, as if she's jealous of Amazing Amy.

One thing that neither my mates or I can get our head round is how on earth did Amy get Nick's sperm sample from the sperm bank, as surely it should only go to Nick?(unless that's a huge lie and it's Desi's kid)

 

Everyone's thoughts on the new star wars trailer?

 

For what was 88 seconds (actually even less really), I thought it wasn't bad. Can't be any worse than the 3 prequels, and they have more artistic license now. We all knew what the story was in the last 3, no idea what they're going to do this time. Cautiously optimistic here.

 

Had a big argument with my housemate over it, he claimed that it looked fake, and that the circular droid looks stupid and so does the new lightsaber. It's ridiculous how people are writing off the trilogy already over an 88 second trailer.