Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[Gilly?]

Spy
It's ace. Really funny, some proper laugh out loud moments. Rose Bryne is tidy and Jason Statham didn't play Jason Statham as much as Jason Statham normally plays Jason Statham. I'd quite happily watch it again. 8/10.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Watched the first half of Amelie the other week before going to a mate's house. Would've liked to watch it all the way through as it was genuinely a very indulgent and lovely movie (as Jez from Peep Show called it having slept through a screening, "oh it was brilliant... the colours, the woman..." The sort of fillum that pumps you up with a bitta joie de vivre.

Looking back on this thread briefly I'm quite jelious of what Big Dave's been watching.

Have also been trying to search the net for a version of Fateful Findings, a film put out by a woeful director on level with Tommy Wiseau. It's apparently about a "hacker" who's been hacking into the "US government" but that's as deep as they ever go into it in the plot. He's still regarded as the movie's hero though, and the bloke in question is only the damned director having a cack-handed go at this acting lark. Apparently a mate of a mate tried screening it in the UK for over a year on permission of the director but it fell through because he was so insane.

 

[Leewilson]

Spy
It's ace. Really funny, some proper laugh out loud moments. Rose Bryne is tidy and Jason Statham didn't play Jason Statham as much as Jason Statham normally plays Jason Statham. I'd quite happily watch it again. 8/10.

My film of the year so far. Cracked up at the Statham parts in particular.

 

[The Iron]

TREMORS 2

It started off pretty bad and i was close to giving up on it, then it suddenly picked up a lot and in the end i quite enjoyed it. 6/10

 

[Cas]

Interstellar
9/10

Ghosthouse
5/10

 

[BCFC Jordan]

Man of Steel

Really underrated movie, in my opinion. Non-stop action but it's actually entertaining unlike shite like Transformers. It's the second time I've watched it but also the first and only Superman film I've watched. The soundtrack is great - definitely has a big impact on how enjoyable the movie is. Michael Shannon is perfect portraying the bad guy, as he was in Boardwalk Empire. Russell Crowe's voice-over during Superman's first flight scene is great. Just a really, really enjoyable blockbuster movie.

9/10

 

[SALTIRE]

DREDD (2011)

Dreadful more like.

2/10

 

[Cas]

Big Hero 6
9.5/10

The Harvest
6/10

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

Looking back on this thread briefly I'm quite jelious of what Big Dave's been watching.

The one I mentioned with the Nazi's is on youtube with subtitles under its 'I wake up and scald myself with tea' title...............but it is ONLY for them people who like entertaining bad movies, it is not a good film, just weird and ridiculously OTT, but its entertaining in its own way.

sadly the other one which is a superb film I cannot at all find on youtube at all.


Anyway my film at the Gym was Maverick

its a really hidden gem from Mel Gibson in my view, extremely entertaining and switches nicely between Action and comedy, very enjoyable film.
9/10

 

[Pliny Harris]

The one I mentioned with the Nazi's is on youtube with subtitles under its 'I wake up and scald myself with tea' title...............but it is ONLY for them people who like entertaining bad movies, it is not a good film, just weird and ridiculously OTT, but its entertaining in its own way.

sadly the other one which is a superb film I cannot at all find on youtube at all.

Thanks mate, still very tempted by it! Sounds like one of those you can watch with a couple of mates and laugh at how awful it all is. As compared to say, the Room, or God's Not Dead, a fairly recent Bible Belt masterpiece about a creationist schooling his atheist philosophy lecturer.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Scald Myself is not so bad it's good - it's just good. Absurdist yes, but clever, witty, wryly political, an original take on time travel. And great looking too, the retro futurist production design, the all time credits sequence.

It has some sort of notoriety amongst a certain stripe of British film anorak (and now I seem to remember having this exact conversation with someone on the old place?) owing to a Saturday night appearance on BBC 2 during the 80s (them were the days...).

The director also did a Lem adaptation called Ikarie XB 1 which is dead good...

 

[PrestonCha]

Léon: The Professional
8.5/10
Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is only 12 years old, but is already familiar with the dark side of life: her abusive father stores drugs for corrupt police officers, and her mother neglects her. Léon (Jean Reno), who lives down the hall, tends to his houseplants and works as a hired hitman for mobster Tony (Danny Aiello). When her family is murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield (Gary Oldman), Mathilda joins forces with a reluctant Léon to learn his deadly trade and avenge her family's deaths.

 

[PrestonCha]

The Secret Life of Water Mitty
Quite enjoyed this tbh. 7/10

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), an employee at Life magazine, spends day after monotonous day developing photos for the publication. To escape the tedium, Walter inhabits a world of exciting daydreams in which he is the undeniable hero. Walter fancies a fellow employee named Cheryl (Kristen Wiig) and would love to date her, but he feels unworthy. However, he gets a chance to have a real adventure when Life's new owners send him on a mission to obtain the perfect photo for the final print issue.

 

[SALTIRE]

The Secret Life of Water Mitty
Quite enjoyed this tbh. 7/10

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), an employee at Life magazine, spends day after monotonous day developing photos for the publication. To escape the tedium, Walter inhabits a world of exciting daydreams in which he is the undeniable hero. Walter fancies a fellow employee named Cheryl (Kristen Wiig) and would love to date her, but he feels unworthy. However, he gets a chance to have a real adventure when Life's new owners send him on a mission to obtain the perfect photo for the final print issue.

Watch the original - far better

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

On another of my Czech Journey with the superbly named film...'what about having some spinach' or as they say Coz Takhle Dat Si spenat (i'll give them some credit for some ridiculously superb film titles)

it was a quite entertaining sarcastic comedy film about 2 thieves who steal the plans for a machine which helps bring youth back into aged cows for a devious plan to use it on wmen who will pay to be revitalised.

the only thing to scupper the plan is a ridiculously problem where if you eat Spinach anytime shortly after the process it has drastic effects. Of course since Spinach in this ridiculous plot is the King of the leafs and the greatest food on earth They eat some and get zapped back into bodies of young kids and have to try and reverse the process...........where it gets more and more wacky.

its still a lot of fun and the backstory of the spinach from what I was told was during its filming in 1977 the communists had a mass supply of spinach in Hungary so were giving film grants if using it......so these lot did just that and then ripped the p*ss

 

[PrestonCha]

Midnight in Paris
7.5/10
Watched this with my missus and thought 'Oh 'ere we go, zzzzz' - But I was instantly hooked. Decent little film.

Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) is a screenwriter and aspiring novelist. Vacationing in Paris with his fiancee (Rachel McAdams), he has taken to touring the city alone. On one such late-night excursion, Gil encounters a group of strange -- yet familiar -- revelers, who sweep him along, apparently back in time, for a night with some of the Jazz Age's icons of art and literature. The more time Gil spends with these cultural heroes of the past, the more dissatisfied he becomes with the present

 

[PrestonCha]

After hours (Scorsese)
8/10
Quite bizarre, but really enjoyable. Great 80's movie.

In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters. He spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown.

 

[RavenBish]

Carel, I watched Pitch Perfect 2 and loved it, can you write a review for me. You watch all this weird foreign shit and I have no idea what you're going on about, would be cool to see you deconstruct Anna Kendrick's superb performance and the astoundingly good musical arrangements performed by Das Sound Machine (the bird in that was in Borgen, so there's your cultural link)

 

[mowgli]

Non - Stop (2014).

Liam Neeson as an Air Marshall on a plane with a bomb on board. A pile of crap! 4/10.

 

[Habbinalan]

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson 10/10

Slightly biased as I've been a lifelong Feelgood fan and the soundtrack could have been lifted from my record collection - from Leadbelly and Robert Johnson to Johnny Kidd & the Pirates and the Pretty Things, with a modest sprinkling of Feelgoods and Wilko.

Went to see it on the big screen last night. It is NOT about Wilko's music or the Feelgoods. It is a documentary about how a fascinating guy reacted to being told he had inoperable cancer and would die in 10 months - and then how after around 12 months (well through making the documentary) discovered that a 7:1 chance operation to remove Henry (his 4 kg pancreatic tumour) may be possible. No spoiler alert needed, we all know he has survived and we learn a little about how he's reacted to that second bombshell.

Full of humour and interesting imagery interspersed with Wilko telling us a bit about his life and his thoughts on life and, in particular, death.

Some might find the imagery and Wilko's love of literature a bit distracting (he studied Icelandic sagas at Uni and taught English before the band took off). I loved it and might even try again to read Milton's Paradise Lost.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Carel, I watched Pitch Perfect 2 and loved it, can you write a review for me. You watch all this weird foreign shit and I have no idea what you're going on about, would be cool to see you deconstruct Anna Kendrick's superb performance and the astoundingly good musical arrangements performed by Das Sound Machine (the bird in that was in Borgen, so there's your cultural link)

Not for nothing are the antagonists in Elizabeth Banks' exemplary new musical comedy Pitch Perfect 2 Germanic in origin - the film is no less than a thorough repudiation of the analyses of Frankfurt School-ites Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. It’s a fictionalised dialectic in the form of a song contest, an explosion of the false dichotomy of "high" and "low" cultures, and a banishing of the baloney binary between "serious" and "popular” musics. The verdict now that the lines are closed and the votes have been counted and verified? A big "Yes!" for the spunky girl band mentored by Coach Walter Benjamin!

In advocating for the emancipatory potentialities of popular culture Pitch Perfect 2’s greatest argument is itself. As Jean Luc-Godard so famously wrote of Anthony Mann’s Man of the West, Perfect Pitch 2 is “both course and discourse”, the echt form of precisely that which it argues for, a canticle with text and subtext singing in a harmony befitting an a capella act.

"Popular music ... is usually characterized by its difference from serious music", wrote Adorno. Perhaps, but then the old goat would probably have thought that Hailee Steinfeld’s best film was True Grit, too. The speccy four eyes twat. To hear Mark Mothersbaugh’s sublime arrangements is to know that claims to standardisation, heterogeneity and the soporific, subsuming mutability of individual compositional components have been exposed as utterly specious at a stroke.

I rate this movie Five Bags of Popcorn and 2 Sodas.

 

[RavenBish]

Superb.

 

[Craig]

The Water Diviner (2014).
Russell Crowe travels to Turkey after WWI to recover the bodies of his three sons who were killed at Gallipoli. Got mixed feelings on it, some aspects were gripping and emotional, others seemed OTT and soft. 7/10

 

[Cas]

Finding Nemo
9/10.

Scream 4
6.5/10

 

[SALTIRE]

Finding Nemo
9/10.

Scream 4
6.5/10

Finding Nemo is great. I love a lot of those films!

 

[SALTIRE]

War Book [2014]

British TV movie on iPlayer about a bunch of civil servants enacting a situation whereby a terrorist nuclear device is launched against a UK ally, and the responses to the supposed event as it escalates.

This is exactly what I thought it would be; mostly set in one room with the characters representing a minister of a governmental department acting how they'd see fit, with the others either agreeing or otherwise. A good cast headed by the always fantastic Antony Sher, giving fine performances as things supposedly unravel beyond their control until extreme measures are ultimately brought to the table.

This one flew in and I was gripped throughout, and the expected soliloquy by Sher at the end really packed a punch I wasn't expecting.

8/10

 

[mase]

I watched Twin Town again last week for the first time in years, had forgotten just how much of a classic it is.

 

[The East Terrace]

The Judge - Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall & Billy Bob Thornton courtroom drama.

7/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

Watched Prometheus for the second time last night. Its still flawed in sections, but it is pretty good and I am interested in the Engineers story so would like to see it continue in a sequel.

8/10

 

[Cas]

Monsters Inc
9/10