Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[Jockney]

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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.

This seems like an overemotional response to, what I admit, was an artistically-bankrupt ending that was almost certainly tacked on in post-production. The thematic elements worked well enough for me to invest in Michelle -- they didn't have to be lofty to have merit, just service her interactions with the other characters. It wasn't a character drama. Also the comments about Goodman's performance seem disingenuous. He was consistently fat, yes, but there were few scenes where he was outwardly angry and most of that anger simmered beneath palpable psychosis and barely contained self-loathing.

 

[redtilimdead]

Ex Machina-not bad, good "claustrophibic" narrative, good ending, just uncomfortable to watch the guy's/bots obvious sexual tension lol

 

[Christian Slater]

This seems like an overemotional response to, what I admit, was an artistically-bankrupt ending that was almost certainly tacked on in post-production. The thematic elements worked well enough for me to invest in Michelle -- they didn't have to be lofty to have merit, just service her interactions with the other characters. It wasn't a character drama. Also the comments about Goodman's performance seem disingenuous. He was consistently fat, yes, but there were few scenes where he was outwardly angry and most of that anger simmered beneath palpable psychosis and barely contained self-loathing.

He was good, I admit as much. Perhaps I was a bit harsh with the qualifier that his performance seemed better because it was an unfamiliar role. Calling him fat was a bit thick.

It's an awful film though. The crackpot's theories turn out to be true, another of the dozen or so overused clichés 10 Cloverfield Lane relied on. It felt like a computer churned out that plot.

 

[White Army]

The descent.

Really uncomfortable film to watch, I'm not one for confined spaces and there were moments during the film where I was properly freaking out. Accents were a bit annoying though.

7/10

 

[Jockney]

He was good, I admit as much. Perhaps I was a bit harsh with the qualifier that his performance seemed better because it was an unfamiliar role. Calling him fat was a bit thick.

It's an awful film though. The crackpot's theories turn out to be true, another of the dozen or so overused clichés 10 Cloverfield Lane relied on. It felt like a computer churned out that plot.

I thought it was a modest but tightly-scripted psychological thriller up until the final ten minutes. Of course then it jumps the shark so completely that it was hard not to feel insulted. If they'd cut to credits just after

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Michelle removes her gas mask and sees the spaceship in the distance

, they could have had their cake and eaten it.

 

[Jockney]

I saw ROOM tonight at Hackney Picturehouse with my girlfriend. I would not recommend watching this with family or a significant other unless unflinching depictions of emotional trauma are your thing. On the other hand, the subject matter is handled with respect and also respects the intelligence of the audience: it doesn't sugarcoat nor wallow in the horror of the mother and son's ordeal.

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

I saw ROOM tonight at Hackney Picturehouse with my girlfriend.

#humblebrag

 

[Jockney]

#humblebrag

good luck moving house you c***. yeah i saw the pictures, fuckin state of it.

 

[mente captus]

Metropolis (1927)

ive heard about the film some weeks ago ( first and only movie which was included in the UNESCO memory of the world programme).

i have to say this movie is really impressive. never have seen a silent movie before but that is really great stuff. science fiction at his first days and fantastic acting surrounded by incredible special effects ( for this time of course)

10 out of 10

who wants to see one of the milestones in films, here is a link to it with english score.

 

[mowgli]

Avengers Assemble (201)
Found this boring and fairly stupid,all noise and no substance. 5/10.

 

[SALTIRE]

Avengers Assemble (201)
Found this boring and fairly stupid,all noise and no substance. 5/10.

Flicked through last night and saw about 20 mins of it. What vacuous drivel.

 

[mowgli]

Flicked through last night and saw about 20 mins of it. What vacuous drivel.

Thank god i'm not the only one who hated it.

 

[Murphy]

Falling Down

Very good film I thought.

 

[Smally]

Started watching Man of Steel last night. Story was all over the place, I'll finish watching it later today

 

[PaulHaddock]

K19

Tries to tell a story but but Russian Indiana Jones gets quite tedious after a while

Smashed

Some weird drama that tries to relate to people with alcoholism but does the opposite. Aaron Paul can't even save this movie.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

10 Cloverfield Lane

Fantastic, best film I've seen this year so far. Without giving too much away, the ongoing dynamic between Howard and Michelle crackles and intrigues, always on a knife edge. And the escape attempts are proper edge of the seat stuff. The tension is relentless.

The ending sequences divide opinion and yes it might be a little jarring, but that's kinda the point I thought, I thought it was a great turn of events.

Go see it.

 

[Christian Slater]

10 Cloverfield Lane

Fantastic, best film I've seen this year so far. Without giving too much away, the ongoing dynamic between Howard and Michelle crackles and intrigues, always on a knife edge. And the escape attempts are proper edge of the seat stuff. The tension is relentless.

The ending sequences divide opinion and yes it might be a little jarring, but that's kinda the point I thought, I thought it was a great turn of events.

Go see it.

What other films have you seen this year?

 

[Stevencc]

Cloverfield on dvd.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Overakes Deadpool for 2016 releases IMHO. Although they are chalk and cheese.

I see Mr Slater isn't a fan on the previous page. Reducing Goodman's performance to "he's just a fat angry bloke" to me is baffling.

 

[Christian Slater]

That was a facetious comment. He's very good but the film overall is poor.

 

[Christian Slater]

Trumbo is another excellent performance by Bryan Cranston. Great, true story surrounding the rampant Mccarthyism during the Cold War.

The men that play Kirk Douglas and John Wayne are outstanding.

 

[SALTIRE]

Trumbo is another excellent performance by Bryan Cranston. Great, true story surrounding the rampant Mccarthyism during the Cold War.

The men that play Kirk Douglas and John Wayne are outstanding.

Yeah it looks a decent film even if they missed out one or two tricks in it apparently.

 

[Leewilson]

10 Cloverfield Lane

Fantastic, best film I've seen this year so far. Without giving too much away, the ongoing dynamic between Howard and Michelle crackles and intrigues, always on a knife edge. And the escape attempts are proper edge of the seat stuff. The tension is relentless.

The ending sequences divide opinion and yes it might be a little jarring, but that's kinda the point I thought, I thought it was a great turn of events.

Go see it.

Agreed. I loved it. Sometimes, films like this can drag but they really kept the twist 50/50 in my mind. I wasn't sure what was going to happen. I did think the end rambo sequence was unrealistic but it wasn't a big problem.
Not sure what Mr Slater hates about it really. All of the cast were fantastic, a tense mystery and a dramatic ending.

 

[Christian Slater]

As explained previously, it's a cliché-ridden TV movie that has an ending only The Undertaker could roll his eyes at. It was a decent, taut thriller with a notable performance by Goodman, and then it ended. It was one movie that had another tacked on the end. Its creators essentially bought in and offered their work as an advertisement for another movie, which is what this film was.

 

[Mustard]

Edge of Tomorrow

War of the Worlds meets...errr...Memento? I thought this was a really decent movie that could have been marketed better, because it's one of the better action movies I've seen in the past few years but I knew very little about it before I saw it. 8/10.

 

[MSB92]

The Jungle Book
What an amazing movie! Enjoyed it from the start to finish. The voice cast was exceptional and Neel Sethi played Mowgli very well. But what absolutely amazed me was the quality of the cgi, you simply get lost in the environment that they built. I never thought that they could get them to be so lifelike. Plus Bill Murray signing the Bear Necessities is the highlight of the movie for me. 9/10

 

[mowgli]

The Jungle Book
What an amazing movie! Enjoyed it from the start to finish. The voice cast was exceptional and Neel Sethi played Mowgli very well. But what absolutely amazed me was the quality of the cgi, you simply get lost in the environment that they built. I never thought that they could get them to be so lifelike. Plus Bill Murray signing the Bear Necessities is the highlight of the movie for me. 9/10

Not sure if i want to see this film....

 

[Oaf]

GOD DAMN IT NOW EVEN PEOPLE ON HERE ARE SAYING IT'S GOOD.

I badly need to see The Jungle book now. I still haven't got around to see Batman vs Superman (though even as a huge nerd, I'm not sure I want to...) or Zootropolis (which is apparently awesome)... by the next time I have a chance to go to the cinema The Jungle Book will be out, and if I take much longer Captain America Civil War will be out as well. TOO MANY.

 

[Stagat]

Zootropolis

So I just learnt this Zootopia film I watched the other week is called Zootropolis in some countries. Weird. Zootopia is a far better name. But a good film, aye, whatever it's called. Got taken along to see it by the missus but really enjoyed it. Quite liked the themes of

Spoiler

governments oppressing minorities to control the majority by fear and also of the demonisation of drug users too

Was a bit deeper than I expected from a film that looked like being about little more than a rabbit being a policewoman.

 

[Oaf]

Yeah, it's apparently got a lot more to say about society than you'd expect. It seems to have come along just as all this Donald Trump stuff is happening, making it turn out to be a lot more relevant to the modern world than they probably ever intended.