Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[SALTIRE]

Amadeus.

Great film seen it dozens of times.

 

[JoeJoeJoeJoe]

The Hateful Eight - Very good, typical Tarantino film. 8/10

The Revenant - Great acting from Di Caprio and Hardy but the actualy story is pretty weak. 7/10

The Big Short - Fucking loved all of it. Brilliant performances from all. 9.5/10

 

[Cas]

Ponyo
8/10

 

[SALTIRE]

That Riviera Touch [1966]

Just caught about half of this while flicking through, it stars Morecombe & Wise as two half-wits going on holiday in the French Riviera. On their way they get caught up with some crooks, a beautiful femme fatale who both of them think she loves and dead bodies dropping like flies in the villa they are staying in.

The first M & W film I saw and I wonder why they weren't more successful, as this was very funny with some great one-liners and jokes at each others expense. The comic timing was spot-on by both as they blunder their way around the place getting into all sorts of mischief.

8/10

Nightcrawler [2014]

Jake Gylenhaal is exceptional in this film about a socially dysfunctional but ambitious chancer who moves stumbles into becoming an on-the-spot cameraman at accidents, murders and other crimes, before anyone else and doing anything it takes for him to get the exclusive footage. Jakes performance gets ever more creepy as the film progresses and he himself seems to physically become more insect-like and parasitical, being totally devoid of humanity or privacy, as he seeks the perfect shots that will sell the story the station tries to pursue.

9/10


The Angry Silence 1960

Richard Attenborough stars in this kitchen sink drama about a factory worker who refuses his union's request to strike on a petty issue, continues to go to his work through the mobs that stand outside; and becomes a social pariah, when things escalate further with terrible consequences.

8/10

Double Exposure [1982]

Caught this while flicking through the other night and it was so bad but I couldn't stop watching it! It tells the story of a successful womanising photographer who starts to have dreams about murdering women and his mind starts to unravel as he doesn't know if the dreams are becoming real. He also has a twin brother with one arm who gets involved and who seems to have a dark side.

The acting was awful, there was no suspense at all to it, and everything felt so cheap, though it did have a lot of women taking their clothes off so it gets a mark for that!

2/10

 

[SALTIRE]

The Martian [2015]

Really enjoyed this. Matt Damon gets marooned on Mars, is forced to come up with novel ideas to survive and to try an establish communication for a rescue.

It was a lot of fun, full of action and suspense, and had some good comic moments. It didn't take itself too seriously which is refreshing (unlike ott nonsense like Interstellar for example), and I'd happily watch it again.

8/10

Death Race [2008]

Jason Statham race revenge prison flick, it is what it is.

[6/10]

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson animation based on Roald Dahl's book.

George Clooney stars as the title character, who goes through a fox midlife crisis after he gets his dream house and family, and wants to raid the three farmers on his doorstep in order to feel like a fox should, with a chicken in his teeth. He does this, but the farmers fight back and, he, his family and friends all have to flee for their lives as the farmers come up with ever more ingenious means to drive them out.

Pretty good stuff, I always like Wes Andersons films and after an iffy start this got going well with some witty dialogue, great animation and some good setpieces. Some of the voice acting I think didn't quite work, like Meryl Streep playing his wife, and the two fox sons they have to look after; but all in all, it watchable enough.


[7/10]


Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1978]

What a film!

Never seen this before but heard about the ending before and thought I'd check it all out for myself.

Donald Sutherland stars as a health inspector who slowly begins to realise all is not what it seems, as people start to lose their personality and become husks of their former selves. Along with a very pretty young lass he gets tangled up with, both stumble across the truth that an alien invasion is happening before their eyes with people being swapped as the invaders grow copies of them from pods. They try to run from it and do what they can to stop it before it comes too late.

Superb stuff, as first of all you are put into Donalds situation where you see the world that you know well change quickly and it asks the question what would you do in his shoes. When things escalate paranoia sets in as he doesn't know who he can trust and the horror of what he uncovers is genuinely horrific even for 1970's special effects.

A good supporting cast with Leonard Nimoy and a very young Jeff Goldblum who add other voices and thoughts on the invasion which gives the film great scope and makes you really think this is happening everywhere making it feel realistic and utterly terrifying.

It has a great (and fairly well known) twist at the end and finishes on a bleak note which was prevalent with a lot of Seventies movies and it added more weight to what was shown, and if it was remade today you know it would finish on an upbeat note like all Hollywood big budget movies have to unless they are part of a saga.

Very highly recommended indeed if you haven't seen it.


[10/10]

 

[Craig]

Fantastic Mr Fox is a 10/10 at least.

 

[SALTIRE]

Fantastic Mr Fox is a 10/10 at least.

Aye it was good, but not 'fantastic'.

 

[Womble98]

SALTIRE Nightcrawler is stunning. It is so rare for an actor to genuinely make you feel uncomfortable like Gylenhaal does, he is a massive creep and it works perfectly. He is definitely the best actor I know of, this video shows him so well -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2N-n4Bp8s8

 

[SALTIRE]

SALTIRE Nightcrawler is stunning. It is so rare for an actor to genuinely make you feel uncomfortable like Gylenhaal does, he is a massive creep and it works perfectly. He is definitely the best actor I know of, this video shows him so well -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2N-n4Bp8s8

About the eyes, I always remember the great stage (and screen) actor Sir Ian Holm say that, to always use your eyes as it shows intelligence and helps bring a character to life which is what you don't see with poor actors like Keanu Reeves or Orlando Bloom and is one of the reasons they always look so stilted or static on camera.

 

[The Iron]

Flight of the Navigator [1986]

In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible for that.

A very good watch 7 /10

 

[Oaf]

10 Cloverfield Lane.

Absolutely fucking garbage. Don't waste your time.

Hm. I went and saw that today and I have to say I thought it was pretty damned great. What exactly did you not like about it?

Thought John Goodman was superb in it, possibly the best he's ever been. Well, no, that's a lie because he'll never out do Walter Sobchak. But you know, within reason. Every time he showed up, looking fucking huge, breathing heavily, guy carried a brilliantly intimidating presence all the way through.

 

[Christian Slater]

Hm. I went and saw that today and I have to say I thought it was pretty damned great. What exactly did you not like about it?

Thought John Goodman was superb in it, possibly the best he's ever been. Well, no, that's a lie because he'll never out do Walter Sobchak. But you know, within reason. Every time he showed up, looking fucking huge, breathing heavily, guy carried a brilliantly intimidating presence all the way through.

Spoilers

He's just an angry, fat guy. He is good but it's mainly because it's an unfamiliar role we're seeing from him.

The film itself is bizarre, in a bad way. For 7/8 it's a decent, taut thriller. Nothing special but interesting enough to hold your attention. Then for that last 1/8 it becomes a straight to DVD, stupid as fuck action movie.

It's cliché ridden (person that runs away from their problems, literally, ends up in a place they can't run away from, literally. Humans are the scariest monsters.) and full of handy coincidences.

It feels like a TV drama with a better budget to promote a future film.

 

[The Fack]

Brazil. Anything Terry Gilliam makes is just immense (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys). Would of loved to see him direct the Harry Potter films like JK Rowling wanted to before Warner had the final say.

Anyways, Brazil was Mindfuck City cleverly produced. Jonathan Pryce doesn't get noticed enough and the support cast was absurdly star-studded.

 

[DarkSithLord]

Is Bridge of Spies any good?

 

[Christian Slater]

Is Bridge of Spies any good?

Good but nothing special.

 

[JJ1532]

Batman v Superman. 6/10

Dear oh dear oh dear. Such a jumbled mess of a film. Can't even suggest that its worth seeing at the cinema, just wait for it to come out on DVD or online.

Spoiler

First of all, I liked Ben Affleck as Batman. His story arc and how cruel and sadistic he's become is good, but I actually think that a set up film with him in this role would have worked. However, they chose to skip a step and whilst it works, there just seems like there is plenty more they could have done with him before he squared off with Superman. I liked the fact that he has been branding people and killing them. You get that he's become dark and bitter and twisted in his old age and with the things he's seen, so you get that he's turned dark and almost evil. But like I said, they never go into that arc, which is a terrible shame.

Superman is a back seat character with minimal importance up until the end. Things just happen around him and its only towards the end that he actually becomes important. Eisenberg is a terrible choice as Lex Luthor Junior. He simply doesn't suit the character at all. His involvement is not needed either. Lois Lane, didn't need her. Martha Kent, didn't need her. Abomination..sorry, Doomsday, didn't need him. Someone I watched on youtube described this movie as 4-5 decent movies rolled into one crapfest and I agree. There were a number of dream sequences that I hate in movies, because it screams of poor writing and a lack of ideas from the screenwriters.

There should have been a Wonder Woman set up movie, an Aquaman set up movie, an Affleck Batman movie set in between Man Of Steel and Batman v Superman(which covers Robin and how he was killed) and a Man of Steel 2(which deals with the fall out of the first movie and goes over the "does the world need Superman, is what he does right and important?" plot, which was teased in this movie but never realised) before they even considered making this movie.

But as per, DC and the movie studios panicked when they saw that the MCU is already 2 Avengers films deep and is well into its phase 3. So they decided to catch up by skipping several important stories that needed telling and characters that needing introduction properly. They created a joyless, boring movie which gave away all its major plot points, all its excitement and surprise for no reason. They shoe horned in Aquaman, Wonder Woman and a couple of other characters into the film just to set up the Justice League in double quick time. But all it did was take all the stakes, all the fun, all the excitement out of this movie. This isn't Batman v Superman, they fight for 5 minutes at most. The fact that Gotham and Metropolis are across a small stretch of water is ridiculous, the way they threw that in was silly.

Oh and just when I thought they'd made things interesting by having Superman get killed by Doomsday, they do that silly X-Men 3 thing at the end where they show a brief shot of his powers making something move, so that you know he's alive. I was hoping they'd actually killed him off, would have made me far more interested for the Justice League movie knowing he wasn't going to be in it.

This movie is bang average. They gave away all their best shots, best lines, best action in the trailers. This film was poorly put together with a number of interesting storylines wasted and underused. They rushed everything and shoe horned things in awfully. DC once again proving there isn't even a debate between Marvel and DC. Its not even close, Marvel is the daddy and I'd imagine that Civil War will prove that once and for all.

I understand that if you want to see this movie, you are going to go and see it. But go in with zero expectations. None, nothing. If you have hopes of this movie, let them go. I went into the theatre expecting nothing and I got nothing. Therefore, I wasn't disappointed. DC is a shambles, wasted a great storyline and blew what should have been an epic movie. Oh well, not too long to wait for Civil War.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I'm shocked that anyone would go and see a film called Batman v Superman and expect anything other than a jumbled mess.

 

[last request]

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

I really enjoyed this. Ben Affleck didn't blow me away as Batman but he fitted in, certainly didn't stick out like a sore thumb. If I'm nitpicking there was one too many dream sequences. I don't think it tops some of the recent Marvel films but I thought it was a complete blast and very good fun.

jeremyirons/10

 

[G.B]

who won?

 

[Christian Slater]

The people that didn't go to see it.

 

[Benji]

Yeah I watched Batman v Superman as well. I don't know why I watch these films, I almost always hate them. It's Christopher Nolan and Guardians of the Galaxy's fault that I even think I might enjoy a comic book movie. I can only echo the sentiments from JJ. Affleck isn't bad, but the rest of the film is.

I couldn't wait for it to end, but it seemed to just keep going on and on forever.

 

[Christian Slater]

Comic book films are overkill now. They're overproduced and, for the most part, have the exact same structure.

 

[hodge]

Just got in from watching BvS, I think the start, first 30/45 minutes was setting it up to do very well, but then it just lost itself going forward. Liked Affleck's performance, fitted well as both Bruce and Batman, something not many have really done well. Eisenberg as Luthor I really enjoyed as well a modern and interesting twist on the character, definitely the two stand outs. Lois just got more annoying as the film went on.

6.5/10 I'd say.

However I find myself agreeing with JJ1532

Spoiler

DC pressed the panic button seeing how well Marvel is doing and wanted to get the Justice League on screen as soon as possible, every character who was shown should have had their own film, WW film we're getting should have been first, Aquaman and Flash definitely, Cyborg would be the only one I'd say you could do without, we've seen the transformation now. A Batman film as said before could have dealt with Batman and Joker, Robin's death etc but looks like they're saving that for Suicide Squad. A Batman film could have been all of the previously mentioned Joker storyline with the ending being 'X months later' and having the Bruce Wayne intro in BvS with the last shot being Bruce looking up at Superman with the kid in his arms.

Superman's motivation for the Batman/Superman fight annoyed me, should have played along the lines of 'consider this mercy' and Batman's determination to continue would have been enough. No need for Martha's kidnapping, the same scene could have been Batman trying to get to the Russian to interrogate him about the white Portuguese and have it earlier in the film. Doomsday, I saw a suggestion of Bruce could have taken Luthor up on his suggestion of a project together about a Superman deterrent and examining Kryptonite however Lex keeps Doomsday to himself giving Bruce some responsibility. The dream sequences while mildly interesting added little to this films plot but was all about Justice League.

 

[SALTIRE]

 

[MSB92]

Saw Batman v Superman opening night and left disappointed, it could have been a much better movie. The editing of the movie was bad and you feel there were a lot of scenes missing. What I liked about the movie were the fighting scenes, they were awesome. Plus Affleck and Irons were perfect as Batman and Alfred. I can't wait for the standalone Batman movie to come out. The fight scene between Batman and Superman was great as well as the final fight scene in the movie. I would give the movie a 6.5/10. I'll probably watch it again because there were a lot of things to digest in the movie that I feel I missed.

 

[hodge]

Yeah if there's one thing to take away, the solo Batman film could be the best Batman film yet.

 

[RavenBish]

Batman v Superman.

Don't even know where to begin. Went in thinking, 'oh come on, it can't be that bad, it's a big dumb action movie, what do people expect'

but oh man...Go fuck yourself Zack Snyder. No-one ever let this man make another film.

 

[Christian Slater]

The problem DC have had in kicking off their cinematic universe is they had no solid independent film to lead it in. Marvel used the success of Iron Man as a springboard, DC went for it after a mediocre Superman film.

 

[RavenBish]

The main problem is just that the film is fucking terrible. It's impossible to really know if it was ever going to be possible to launch that many characters in a well-paced film, I'd assume not, but I reckon they could've made a better go of it than that.

The ignorance towards 'critics' is proper weird too, like, they're talking as if it's 'for the fans' and you need to know the canon or summat but the critics loved Guardians of the Galaxy and that was a film involving a raccoon and a tree that pretty much no non-comic book fans would've ever heard of, let alone know their motivations etc...

 

[Martino Knockavelli]