Film you recently watched: part 3

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by BigRossLittleRoss, Dec 30, 2015.

  1. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

  2. HeiaWatford

    HeiaWatford Reservist

    Alien, Close Encounters, Star Wars, Jaws were just purs brilliance and should never be compared to modern films.
    More 70s
    One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
    The Warriors
    Papilion
    Deliverance
    Midnight Express
    The Omen
    The Deer Hunter
    All of these above are just faultless and a joy to watch
    80s
    The Lost boys
    The Goonies
    But it felt like it was a decade where I went full Action film mode. But some real quality came out. But my pickled brain isn't working today.
     
  3. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    What an absolute classic, could watch that every weekend.
     
  4. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    Love that film. Years ago I played for Sunday League football team named The Warriors after the film. We even had a minutes silence for Cyrus, the gang member who dies at the start of the film, before are first ever game!
     
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  5. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Love it. Wanted to watch it with my wife over Christmas but she turned it down after asking ‘what’s it about?’ And ‘does it have a happy ending?’
     
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  6. HeiaWatford

    HeiaWatford Reservist

    That it is. Jack Nicholson at his very best. My mum was a nurse back then and my Dad used to call her Nurse Ratchet.
     
  7. HeiaWatford

    HeiaWatford Reservist

    No. Where was that team based?
     
  8. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    Amersham
     
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  9. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    The Gentleman.

    A typical Guy Ritchie movie full of twists and turns that I really enjoyed. Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell, Matthew McConoughay are excellent and even Hugh Grant was entertaining as a blackmailing journalist. Long and the short a drug king pin decides to get out of the marijuana game, but become a victim of a plot to defraud him.

    Solid Saturday evening entertainment. 8/10
     
  10. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Watched Sing last night as was downloaded on one of the kids's Fire tablets and the only alternative to fm radio.
     
  11. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Has anyone seen "The Great escape" ?


    Spoiler alert

    Steve McQueen gets tangled up in some barbed wire
     
  12. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Watched The Hunt on Netflix. If you're looking for a quick burst of tongue in cheek violence & murder that entertains and is over quite quickly then this is the film for you. An hour and a half of glorious killing as poshos hunt the poor, until they choose the wrong lady to hunt.
    One scene sums up the movie where they've as good as killed one guy and decide to finish him off with a grenade which you see landing next to his head. When it doesn't explode you hear one posho ask the other if they remembered to pull out the pin!
    Clive would love it.
     
  13. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I bet the cast, both rich and poor, is entirely made up of posho actors.
     
  14. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Night Moves.

    Kelly Reichardt had a hand in the script and directed so worth watching but not in the class of some of her previous films. The characters all outsiders as many of her films focus on are believable as are their motivations too. And how futile most actions we do are as her trio attempt to create something of note. Something touched on and a cornerstone in her past films. Tense at times but a little predictable towards the end. Topical enough with the subject of environmental terrorism (inspired no doubt by the literary works of early environmentalist Edward Abbey), sustainable communities moving off the grid and a minor morality tale in itself. Eisenberg and Fanning play the opposite in emotion to some of their better known roles as Lex Luthor and the annoying infant in War of the Worlds. The scenery also plays it's part and is always a feature in Reichardt films as in Old Joy and Meeks Cutoff not set too far away from Night Moves in Oregon.

     
  15. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Every film I've started watching recently has been absolute shyte, so I've turned it off after 10 or 15 minutes. Hence no recent reviews I'm afraid.

    The 11:00 film on Film 4 last night for example. Absolute bôllocks. Started off with a load of unidentifiable military people in black shooting each other and hiding. Never did find out who was supposed to be the goodies and who the baddies or why they were shooting at each other. Seen that film so many times before. Badass Yankee super military people going around shooting baddies.

    So that got turned off.
     
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  16. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    It's the same with books, so many of the same worn out action cliches. I remember reading the opening line of a chapter over someone's shoulder on the tube ages ago, which basically summed up the same old dross in one sentence: "Five cops grilled him".

    I'm sure there's some good fiction out there, but there's so much drivel, I stick to non-fiction.
     
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  17. nornironhorn

    nornironhorn Administrator Staff Member

    Watched Belfast at the weekend.

    I enjoyed it but don't think I would have enjoyed it if I wasn't from just outside Belfast. Fantastic soundtrack though.
     
  18. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Boiling Point

    Features Stephen (Bent Coppers!) Graham as a chef in a top class restaurant on the edge. While this doesn’t sound especially interesting the first half a least is a thoroughly absorbing study of a team at work. Shot in one take, you are plunged into the action, the awful customers and the difficulties of managing staff under pressure.

    The second half isn’t as good as the first, struggles to find a conclusion and, in time-honoured Stephen Graham tradition, lapses into melodrama. But it’s enjoyable enough and the characterisation is superb. 7/10.
     
  19. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    The director's cut of "Dune" looks very interesting:

     
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  20. HeiaWatford

    HeiaWatford Reservist

    Tonight I've stopped watching two. Scream and Texas chainsaw massacre. Simply appalling.
     
  21. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Scream was unique until they made 23 sequels. Both not to everyones taste but I wouldnt say appalling.
     
  22. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Texas Chainsaw was just another slasher with Leatherface wedged in. Would have been ok had they not try to link it in any way. What made Leatherface do good in the original was that he was like a toddler which made him petrifying, now in the new film he is just Michael Myers (not that one) with a chainsaw.
     
  23. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Looking forward to Messiah. Villeneuve has a real style to his work. Yes elements were left out but Herbert's novel probably requires several films to cover everything in detail. As it is it's a vast improvement on the first filmed Dune. DV wants it to be a trilogy so given the financial success of Dune this may well come to fruition.
     
  24. Eric IS Bananman

    Eric IS Bananman Academy Graduate

    Watched The Batman last night and it gets a huge 'meh' from me.

    Pattinson just came across as a prepubescent, angst ridden goth in Cosplay. For me, there was no warmth or charm in his Bruce Wayne because he spends so little time as Wayne and when he does the black eye shadow runs so he ends up looking like the Crow. I feel some breavement counseling was in order.

    Didn't find The Riddler menacing. Didn't care about the characters, didn't care about Alfred's 4 minutes of screen time and that he was in danger. Catwoman just came across as an angry teenager. It rains in Gotham more than England, the Batmobile is just an American muscle car with lights and a NOS injection system into the manifold...the car chase scene was boring and the ending anti-climatic - I just wanted it to be over.

    The positive was Colin Farrell as the Penguin.
     
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  25. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    I was going to see this. Thank you for saving me the money. Sorry it let you down. Micheal Keaton has never been replaced imho in the role. He was raspy and broody - exactly like the comics drew him as. I get he's too old now, but apart from maybe Ben Afleck who was "okay" in the role. nobody else has come close.
     
  26. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Watched Boss Level the other night. Really enjoyed it. I love the repeating day genre and this is a decent addition to the field.
     
  27. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Christian Bale was outstanding. The fact they offered him over $100m to stay for the Justice League movies says it all. I do love Keaton though. I put Bale just ahead.
     
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  28. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    The Rigs of Nigg is an entertaining little documentary on iPlayer. Tells the story of a Scottish village transformed when it was chosen as the place where a vast oil platform would be built before being floated off to the North Sea. Enjoyably dull
     
  29. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    I liked it but still agree with a lot of this, weirdly.

    I liked him as Batman but really disliked the depressed emo take on Bruce Wayne. His hair was hilariously terrible as well. Found myself wanting to laugh every time I saw him without the suit and mask on.

    Bruce Wayne is supposed to have a bit of charisma and cockiness.
     
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  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Value Kilmer is the best Batman
     
  31. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Ben Affleck is by far the best Batman there's been. Embodies the character by far the most accurately. People also need to watch Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition and Zack Snyder's Justice League, rather than the original versions that Warner Brothers absolutely butchered.

    Bale is probably the best Bruce Wayne but I think his Batman is hugely overrated and lacklustre, despite the first two films being brilliant (Rises was bang average).

    Keaton did a good job as both. I'd place him 2nd to Affleck as Batman and 2nd to Bale as Bruce Wayne.

    Pattinson is the 3rd best Batman and the worst Bruce Wayne.

    I'm not even going to include Kilmer and Clooney. I wish I could forget them and their films.
     
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  32. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Saw a screenshot on Twitter of the opening scene from “Threads” (because the date in said scene is Saturday March 5th, so someone had captioned it “oh ****..”). Wondered if I should watch it, since I never had and only knew the film by its reputation. Watched it. Then thought that, on balance, it probably wasn’t the best film to be watching right now. In some ways it is very dated; in others it remains timeless. Still packs an almighty punch and is terrifying.
     
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  33. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    Surely everyone agrees that the best ever Batman was Adam West?
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  34. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Don’t worry, Sheffield soon recovered from nuclear winter in time to stage the feelgood comedy sequel The Full Monty a few years later.
     
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  35. samuihorn

    samuihorn Academy Graduate

    I watched this a few weeks ago & booked a trip there as a result.. Got back last night, had a great time.
     
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