Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[mowgli]

Annabelle (2014)
Spin off from The Conjuring which was a good and times creepy film.The doll Annabelle is back but this film lost it's way early on and soon becoming boring. The ending was obvious long before the event happened as too many clues were thrown in and you'd have to slow witted not to see what was coming. 4.5/10.

 

[Benito]

Blue Valentine - (2010)

Film that charts the relationship bewteen a married couple (Ryan Gosling) & (Michelle Williams) over a number of years by criss crossing time periods.

Its a powerful emotionally gripping story that will effect you in one way or another and anyone that has experienced this in their own personal life It will bring back memories. fantastic acting I wont go into much more as I will spoil the story for those who havent already seen it.

fantastic film powerful story that will stay with you a long while

9/10

 

[Captain Scumbag]

Went to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. Disjointed, tedious shite.

 

[Stevencc]

Reazione a catena (A Bay of Blood) (1971)

An interesting halfway house between the gialli I've been watching lately and the slashers I was watching previously. One massive blood-soaked scrap over a large inheritance with some excellent kills and a rather silly ending.

7/10

 

[mowgli]

Taken 2 (2012)
Liam Neeson killing people again. I had seen this before and thought it was dull but the missus hadn't and wanted to see it and it was better than i remembered although nowhere near as good as the first film. 6.5/10.

 

[Stevencc]

Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin) (1971)

A woman has a series of SEXY dreams which culminate in the death of her SEXY neighbour. It turns out the SEXY neighbour is murdered in reality and in the exact same way our woman dreamt it in her SEXY dreams. Who bloody did it? Love the plot, love the way it was shot, love the trashy SEXINESS of the whole thing and just plain loved it, really. I'd also like to add Florinda Bolkan to the list of extremely SEXY women these films have introduced me to.

9/10

 

[PaulHaddock]

The Sorcerers (1967)

An OK concept film; weird ideas with a good cast but a poor plotline just let it down. 5/10

 

[PrestonCha]

Hell or High Water (2016)

Bloody superb. 9/10

 

[mowgli]

The Thin Red Line (1998)
An okay WWII film with anti war sentiments throughout. Thought the flashbacks to civilian life for one of the soldiers was quite pointless. Nick Nolte and Sean Penn were the 2 stand out performances. 6.5/10.

 

[Stevencc]

Non si sevizia un paperino (Don't Torture a Duckling) (1972)

A village in the south of Italy is plagued by a series of child murders. Numerous potential killers are subjected to a witch hunt (ha) with the villagers baying for blood. Entertaining mix of black magic, witchcraft and the lifestyles of the inhabitants of a small village in contrast to those of the rich city types and higher ups in the police force etc. Features a really brutal scene in which a group of villagers beat the life out of a suspected witch and murderer - quite tough to watch. The whole scene, including the choice of music backing it, was like something Tarantino would do twenty years later.

8/10

 

[Craig]

Moana (2016)
I thought it would never end. 1/10

 

[Stevencc]

Sette note in nero (The Psychic) (1977)

A clairvoyant sees a vision of a murder and manages to uncover the hiding place of the corpse. Things get complicated from there and the more she uncovers the less clear the story gets. This one didn't do all that much for me.

6/10

 

[SALTIRE]

Hypernormalisation [2016]

Adam Curtis's three hour mammoth documentary telling the story of why we got to the mess we are now in with Brexit, Trump, ISIS, Putin etc, and how we are entering a post-politic world, where politicians are helpless to enact any change to the infrastructure, and who are constantly playing catch up to world events far beyond their control.

Filmed in Curtis's inimitable way with some horrific scenes juxtaposed with cheerful pop music of the time, and it tells its own story of how he reckoned it all started back in the seventies where New York stopped being run by politicians and officials, how the banks took over and how Trump prospered when he proposed new buildings for the wealthy; and at the same time how Kissinger and Assad in Syria became enemies and sowed the seeds of the insurgencies we see now and the terrorist war with America and the west, and how the west, rather than go to war with Syria (who were tied in with Iran) chose Gaddafi as a supervillian and figurehead of evil, when in reality he had no power outside his own country (though he enjoyed the role it seems). It also states that we are all essentially powerless as well since everything is being run online under the glare of global corporations that spy on us all and whose tentacles extend everywhere. It also shows how the truth gets bogged down in masses of misinformation and how it doesn't really matter in today's world as shown by Trump's ascendancy.

Not the thing to watch before you go to bed or you'll be a nervous wreck! However its well worth a watch even if its probably not totally accurate.

8/10

Morning Departure [1950]

British classic sub rescue drama with a great cast in full form. Suspenseful and gripping throughout as you wonder what will happen to the men, with an unexpected ending; this was a jolly good old fashioned war film.

7/10

Home [2001]

BBC play starring the mighty Antony Sher in a production of JG Ballard's The Enormous Space, as a man who after suffering a car accident and wife leaving, decides to retreat inside his house and cut himself off from everything and everyone as much as possible, and sustain himself with whatever the house will provide. He records a video-diary of himself and his experiment, and to his astonishment he thinks he finds something is happening to the house itself.

Disturbing, comic at times, and brilliantly acted as he deteriorates (Day-Lewis and Di Caprio take note, this is real acting!), and utterly absorbing, this is well worth watching for the hour running time.

9/10

 

[Stevencc]

Gone for the square brackets, eh?

Interesting choice.

I'm watching you.

 

[mowgli]

A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014)
2 psychos kidnap,rape and murder drug dealer wives/girlfriends Liam Neeson an ex cop is hired to find and kill them. The first hour was rather dull but the last 50 minutes built up to a bloody ending. Not Neeson's best by any means but watchable. 6.5/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

Gone for the square brackets, eh?

Interesting choice.

I'm watching you.

Its easier than pressing shift and another button. Anything for an easier life

 

[Stevencc]

Lo squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) (1982)

Maddo with a blade is terrorising the ladies of New York. Also he likes to quack like a duck. Lots of blood and gore in this one - including a nipple being sliced in half. Perfectly placed in 1980s New York full of sleaze, empty subway trains plastered in graffiti and live sex shows.

8/10

 

[SALTIRE]

Lo squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) (1982)

Maddo with a blade is terrorising the ladies of New York. Also he likes to quack like a duck. Lots of blood and gore in this one - including a nipple being sliced in half. Perfectly placed in 1980s New York full of sleaze, empty subway trains plastered in graffiti and live sex shows.

8/10

Sounds like an old 'video nasty' as they used to be called back in the 80's when the censors went up in arms on films like the sound of this, Cannibal Holocaust, Driller Killer etc.

I see you are using the curvy brackets. You like to play fast and loose eh?

 

[mowgli]

300: Rise Of An Empire (2014)
I prefer this to the first film with Gerard Butler,better battle scenes,comical deaths and Eva Green gets her tits out on show so what's not to like? 7/10.

 

[Stevencc]

Sounds like an old 'video nasty' as they used to be called back in the 80's when the censors went up in arms on films like the sound of this, Cannibal Holocaust, Driller Killer etc.

I see you are using the curvy brackets. You like to play fast and loose eh?

I'm not sure if it was actually included on the video nasty list but Wikipedia has this to say about it...

"In the UK the film was refused a theatrical certificate in 1982 by BBFC chairman James Ferman, who then ordered all prints of the film to be removed from the country. Following Ferman's departure as chief censor it was released on VHS by Vipco in 2002 with cuts to the infamous breast-slashing scene, and all subsequent UK DVD releases have received the same cuts."

...I watched the uncut version, of course.

 

[SALTIRE]

I'm not sure if it was actually included on the video nasty list but Wikipedia has this to say about it...

"In the UK the film was refused a theatrical certificate in 1982 by BBFC chairman James Ferman, who then ordered all prints of the film to be removed from the country. Following Ferman's departure as chief censor it was released on VHS by Vipco in 2002 with cuts to the infamous breast-slashing scene, and all subsequent UK DVD releases have received the same cuts."

...I watched the uncut version, of course.

Yeah there was a lot of that going about in films back then tbh. It was even in an Emmanuelle film!

The BBFC were a lot different than they are now, as back then they seemed to be trying to be moral judges on films which was partly based on the power people like Mary Whitehouse had in telling the nation what they could and couldn't watch on tv; and it wasn't their job. I was watching Kermode uncut the other week and have been trying to find the clip he was speaking about, as it was about a particularly gory film (it may even have been the comic Evil Dead), and the BBFC refused it a certificate until the cuts they suggested were made, which the filmakers accordingly did. Then it went back to the BBFC again and they refused it again until further cuts were done, and again the filmakers did so. This went on five or six times, and some of the things that they wanted cut were really silly.

Edit : found it, and it was The Evil Dead

 

[RavenBish]

War Dogs (2016)

Jonah Hill (in fat mode for this flick) teams up with hunk-but-not-that-much-of-a-hunk Miles Teller for a 'true story' about a couple of lads that sold weapons to the US Government and made millions before it all came crashing down. Complete with an over-acted cameo by Bradley Cooper.

I enjoyed it - Hill was great even if he did just essentially reproduce his Wolf of Wall Street performance.

Ana de Armas is very very pretty.

There are no dogs in this film from memory.

 

[Son of Cod]

Went to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. Disjointed, tedious shite.

Yep. Got dragged to see that a few Fridays ago. Terrible film.

 

[Stevencc]

Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) (1972)

A jaded, alcoholic writer lives in a stately home with his long-suffering wife. The shadow of his dead mother hangs heavy about the place. The writer, Oliviero, becomes a suspect in the murder of a woman he was known to "see on the side", an ex-student of his from his teaching days. The maid of the house is next to die. Edwige Fenech turns up and things get much more complicated and much more arousing. Fantastic film, wonderful setting that is at once expansive and claustrophobic - excellent acting and constantly shifting portrayals of the characters cause the viewer to re-evaluate their opinion of them numerous times over the film. But not that cat, he was always evil.

9/10

 

[Stevencc]

Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh/Blade of the Ripper) (1971)

There's a killer on the loose and Edwige Fenech reckons it's either her husband, her lover or her ex-lover. She's right. This one was pretty good but it didn't grip me as much as the previous Martino/Fenech outing.

7/10

 

[mowgli]

Safe House (2012)
I lost the plot with this for the last hour as i hadn't a clue what the hell was going on A good cast of Denzel Washington,Brendan Gleeson and Ryan Reynolds that was all it had going for it. 4/10.

 

[mowgli]

6 Bullets (2012)
Typical Van Damme dumb action film this time taking out East European people smugglers. 5/10.

 

[Stagat]

The Stranger

Stone Cold Steve Austin forgets who he is, becomes homeless, speaks Spanish, shoots some people up, gets a job on a boat for a day, speaks Russian, and nicks a motorbike. Then someone made a film of it all! Straight to DVD. The kind of shit Stevencc would watch.

9/10

 

[QPR_Matt]

Went and saw that Fantastic Beasts the other day. I was dragged, but I actually really enjoyed it. It was easy to watch, a good bit of fun and escapism and your man there does a great job of playing a low-key likable good guy . It doesn't lean too much on the Harry Potter thing too much, other than a few nods here and there, and stands up really well on it's own. I'd recommend going to watch it definitely

I watched it today and thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10

Agree with both of you. Really enjoyed it and I much preferred it to Harry Potter. Felt more grown up, more magic constantly going through it. It was like a mix between Harry Potter and X-Men for me, and I enjoy both.

 

[TubularBells]

On the TV, was 'A is for Acid' (Martin Clunes). My other half has a morbid fascination with crime drama, murder, serial killers. Methinks she is educating herself on how to get away with the perfect murder of me
On Kodi. I watched the new 'Independence Day Resurgence' movie. That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!