Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[SALTIRE]

I have a mantra that seems to work. Any film rated below 6.5 on IMDB will not be watched however alluring it is. Try it people

Oh I dunno about that, films like Jack Frost and Samurai Cop can be great fun and they will be panned over there.

 

[mowgli]

Scream 3 (2012)
I fancied a laugh and got loads watching this as it seemed to take the piss out of the previous 2 films,there were so many laughs it was like watching Scary Movie 1 & 2,i'll give this 7/10 for all the s.

 

[silkyman]

The Babysitter. It's only on Netflix, I think.

A comedy horror film that's sort of slasher meets Home Alone.

Good fun. 7/10

 

[Lance Stoe]

The Babadook- Would have been better as a psychological drama. Was disappointed by the supernatural aspect to it. Still I've seen worse horrors. The little boy was an irritating little cretin though- 6/10

 

[mowgli]

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Superb but at time brutal film with scenes of torture and imaginative deaths,both Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler put in great performances and this film had me gripped. 8.8/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (1980)

Well this was mad as a box of frogs, full of delicious language, wit and insane shenanigans. Hilarious and bemusing in equal measure and Trevor Howard relishing playing the eccentric aristocrat.

8/10

 

[mowgli]

Trevor Howard relishing playing the eccentric aristocrat.

One of our greatest ever actors i reckon.

 

[SALTIRE]

One of our greatest ever actors i reckon.

He was great in comic roles, played a convincing seducer in Brief Encounter despite not being a looker; and was great playing tyrants too as in Mutiny On The Bounty or the Charge Of The Light Brigade. Versatile and always watchable, and definitely in the top ten British screen actors for me without a doubt.

 

[Jockney]

The Death of Stalin

Sexy Northern Jason Isaacs.

 

[SALTIRE]

The Death of Stalin

Sexy Northern Jason Isaacs.

Going to see that on Thursday, really looking forward to it.

 

[claret50]

Love, honour and obey.(2000)

A silly film at times about 2 London "firms" - north & south London - who are constantly at each others throats, and other various body parts, with chunks of karaoke thrown into the mix as in a sort of carry on gangster type film with Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Jude Law and other notables, the violence and comedy? kept me interested 'till the end.

 

[Stevencc]

While I was away I watched T2 Trainspotting (9/10), Paranormal Activity (5/10), Re-Animator (9/10) and Dead Alive (5/10).

 

[RavenBish]

Thor: Ragnarok

The best Marvel film so far and I'm qualified to make that statement as I have seen them all (except for the 2nd half of Doctor Strange because woah boy was that boring).

 

[Oaf]

Thor: Ragnarok

The best Marvel film so far and I'm qualified to make that statement as I have seen them all (except for the 2nd half of Doctor Strange because woah boy was that boring).

This excites me, then I remember your thoughts on The Fast and Furious movies...

Oh well. I'm going to see it next week. I still think it's looking as if it's going to be great. You've got to be right about something at some point, right?

 

[Son of Cod]

Thor: Ragnarok

The best Marvel film so far and I'm qualified to make that statement as I have seen them all (except for the 2nd half of Doctor Strange because woah boy was that boring).

This excites me, then I remember your thoughts on The Fast and Furious movies...

Oh well. I'm going to see it next week. I still think it's looking as if it's going to be great. You've got to be right about something at some point, right?

https://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/the-marvel-cinematic-universe-thread.1024/

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

You'll enjoy it if you don't mind Thor being given a personality transplant and any moment of seriousness or emotional weight being immediately punctured by a joke or quip.

 

[SALTIRE]

Are none of you bored by all these silly comic films yet that are all the same as each other?

The trailer for Thor came on when I went to see Bladerunner the other week, and I closed my eyes, as all that rubbish CGI-drivel, bad acting and dull characters bores me to tears.

 

[Dirk]

Are none of you bored by all these silly comic films yet that are all the same as each other?

Me!
I lost interest in watching these movies because it's too much for me (the same with all the DC/Marvel Comics tv series which I found interesting to watch in the beginning but now completely cancelled them ).
I really liked the "first arc" with the Iron-Man, Captain America, Hulk and Thor movies which culminated then into the good Avengers movies. But after that...typical Hollywood pattern: The bigger the better, milk it as long as its lasts.

 

[Oaf]

I've never bought into this bullshit argument of them all being "the same". Whenever people say that, I just assume that they know fuck all about the actual films.

Sometimes, yes, they can retread familiar territory (especially when dealing with origin stories), but as of Ragnarok Marvel are SEVENTEEN films deep into it now, so I think that a bit of repetition of themes can be forgiven. (On this topic, You never hear people use this same argument on the Bond movies, for example, even though they're far more similar than Marvels). They usually have enough of their own thing going on each time. I'm not saying that they're all totally unique and that there aren't films among those 17 that aren't guilty of feeling a bit devoid of original ideas, but generally speaking I think it's amazing that each film still mostly has its own flavour this far into it and, more often than not, Marvel movies tend to be seen as a success because they're good enough on their own merits. Guardians of the Galaxy and The Winter Solider, for example, are completely different types of movie and the only thing they have in common is the fact that they're both based on Marvel comics and in the same shared universe.

What people don't seem to realize is that these characters and this Marvel universe has been around in the comic book industry for the best part of a century and still endures because they're able to keep characters fresh and story lines interesting. There is no reason to suggest that they can't do this with the movies, they have literally thousands of cases of source material to draw from/adapt. This may piss some people off, but I think that we're just getting started in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Folks have been criticising the Bond franchise as repetitive since From Russia With Love. I suspect the (or _a_) difference is that we've had 26 Bond films in about half a century, whereas the main line MCU films alone are on schedule to pass that mark in a little over a decade of production. Comic book movies are now an omnipresent cinematic monoculture. There's almost never a time that there isn't at least one taking up a significant percentage of our cinema screens. To the degree that it can feel quite oppressive if you're not into them but do have affection for the blockbustery/spectacle movie type space that they now dominate.

I have somewhat mixed feelings, since I'd be quite happy to wank on about how that kind of abundance made the things _I_ like great/interesting, and even from my position of relative ignorance it's obvious that Logan isn't the same as Guardians of the Galaxy, say; but for folks that don't like them (and I've yet to watch one that I do) you can presumably empathise with the involuntary sigh that comes when we see another (and another and another and another and another) coming down the line, invariably accompanied by a near unavoidable full spectrum promo campaign...

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

Ultimately a hell of a lot of art house and indie movies owe their budgets to the money pumped into the industry by these types of movies, so it works out for everyone in he end even if these sorts of movies being the biggest of the summer can be galling for some.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Trickle-down economics cinema stylee!

1. Guardians of the Galaxy 7
2. ???
3. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
4. PROFIT!!!

 

[Oaf]

Ah yeah, I had meant to have added a part into that post along the lines of being able to appreciate that if you dislike those sorts of movies and don't watch them, it can look as if "the same shit" is dominating the modern movie scene. In the way that when I see that another Fast and Furious movie is coming out (YES THIS AGAIN BISH COME AT ME BRO) I shake my head.

I guess that the best way I could put myself onto the other side of the argument is to look at horror movies. I'm not really into horror movies and such, so I always get a little annoyed around this time of year when the big summer movies are replaced with a bunch of horror movies that, to me as somebody who's not into them, all look like the same jump scare shit. So yeah, if that was going on all year round I'd probably be pretty pissed off. Yet somebody who's into those sorts of films would probably argue the same case I've been arguing above.

Only obviously I'd be right and they'd be wrong, because HULK SMASHES PUNY MICHAEL MYERS.

 

[mowgli]

Spectre (2015)
Probably the worst James Bond film so far. 5/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

Spectre (2015)
Probably the worst James Bond film so far. 5/10.

Haven't seen it as gave up on the Craig Bond films after the boring Quantum Of Solace. However Spectre can't be as bad as Moonraker surely?

 

[claret50]

I found Spectre to be quite entertaining.

 

[Stevencc]

Evil Dead 2 (1987)

An improvement on the original with the comedy turned up to ten and a lot of the "greatest hits" (smoke, shadows and blue light, long tracking shots, big shots of the moon, cellar scares, tree attacks etc) revisited. Knowingly silly.

8/10

 

[smat]

Going to see that on Thursday, really looking forward to it.

Just wondering what you thought of this mate?

 

[SALTIRE]

Just wondering what you thought of this mate?

Didn't go on Thursday, something cropped up. Going to try for later this week.

 

[smat]

Didn't go on Thursday, something cropped up. Going to try for later this week.

None of my business but what was it that cropped up?