What films have you watched recently?

munckee

Well yeah I mean there was schindlers list, saving private ryan, goodfellas, the big lebowski, fight club and the matrix but what else was any good in the 90s....

ICBM

EricTheWeary said:

If ID was the greatest film of the 90s it must have been a truly awful decade for movies. I like the opening bit with REM playing I guess...

The bit where the alien city-destroyers spin off the mothership is good, and the alien attack on the air base - which is a direct steal from Tora! Tora! Tora! - but after that, not so much...

The whole thing is essentially nicked from this one image anyway! Arthur C. Clarke wrote it in 1953.

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

EricTheWeary said:

If ID was the greatest film of the 90s it must have been a truly awful decade for movies. I like the opening bit with REM playing I guess...

The bit where the alien city-destroyers spin off the mothership is good, and the alien attack on the air base - which is a direct steal from Tora! Tora! Tora! - but after that, not so much...

The whole thing is essentially nicked from this one image anyway! Arthur C. Clarke wrote it in 1953.

Are those two statements actually true, or are the scenes in question just a generic attack on an air base and an extremely generic image of a flying saucer?

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

Are those two statements actually true, or are the scenes in question just a generic attack on an air base and an extremely generic image of a flying saucer?

Have a look at them in detail and you'll see *way* more similarities than you think.

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

Philly_Q said:

Are those two statements actually true, or are the scenes in question just a generic attack on an air base and an extremely generic image of a flying saucer?

Have a look at them in detail and you'll see *way* more similarities than you think.

That would involve me having to watch Independence Day again - life's too short.  I'll take your word.

tony99

 

ICBM said:

EricTheWeary said:

If ID was the greatest film of the 90s it must have been a truly awful decade for movies. I like the opening bit with REM playing I guess...

The bit where the alien city-destroyers spin off the mothership is good, and the alien attack on the air base - which is a direct steal from Tora! Tora! Tora! - but after that, not so much...

The whole thing is essentially nicked from this one image anyway! Arthur C. Clarke wrote it in 1953.

oh FFS why are my quotes doing that thing again? someone help

boogieman

tony99 said:

 

ICBM said:

EricTheWeary said:

If ID was the greatest film of the 90s it must have been a truly awful decade for movies. I like the opening bit with REM playing I guess...

The bit where the alien city-destroyers spin off the mothership is good, and the alien attack on the air base - which is a direct steal from Tora! Tora! Tora! - but after that, not so much...

The whole thing is essentially nicked from this one image anyway! Arthur C. Clarke wrote it in 1953.

oh FFS why are my quotes doing that thing again? someone help

That happens if you edit your post. PITA ain’t it? 

tony99

I think it's ok now

paulnb57

The 12th Man, Netflix....great film!

schrodinger1612

Trainspotting 2 ... I enjoyed it, was better than I thought it would be. Loved the scene where Franco drops his viagra in the toilet cubicle. (“CUUUUUNT!!”)

Rickyd

Wife sat me through The Shape of Water at the weekend, something she'd always wanted to see, a nice fantasy film

So, within 10 minutes the star is diddling away at herself in the bath, which caught my attention, and I managed to watch it all the way through. Its different, extremely funny in parts, very sad in parts, but well worth a watch if you get the opportunity. Due to the stars morning bathing habits best not watched with the kids.

Blaendulais

Watched Ma!    Absolute total shite.  Avoid.  Simply not original, not scary and not funny.  Crap

Philly_Q

Bohemian Rhapsody
Yeah, I know you all watched it months ago but I finally caught up.  And it's pretty much exactly what I expected, superficial, inaccurate, playing up to all the biopic cliches (the scenes with Freddie's parents, Mike Myers, the head-buzzing press conference and the Live Aid call centre are all laugh-out-loud ridiculous).

Portraying Paul Prenter as an out-and-out villain seems harsh on a man who isn't around to defend himself.  The film makes it seem like a wide-eyed innocent Freddie was led into a life of debauchery rather than following his own desires.  I think there's a much more grown-up version of this story to be told.

Having said all that, the performances are good (although Malek always seems a bit ghoulish, he's more like someone out of Dark Shadows than Mercury as I remember him).  May, Deacon and Taylor aren't relegated to bit-players in their own story to the extent I expected.  The "let's put on a show" bits where they create some of their greatest hits (in non-chronological order) are stupid but fun.  In its silly, pushing all the right buttons, crowd-pleasing way I did actually enjoy it. 

goldtop

The Square - I haven't enjoyed a film so much for ages. A satire on the polite world of art and museums as a nice guy's liberal politics and lifestyle unravel over the course of a few days. Has a few excellent star turns, most notably the guy who does body-motion work as an ape for big Hollywood blockbusters - that's a truly powerful scene. Bonus: it features the best argument over a used condom ever* shown on-screen. 9/10

(* probably - I'm not an expert)

Sassafras

Rings.
Utter garbage. Laughable un-suspenseful nonsense.
I don't know, call me a racist but Caucasians just don't seem to make these kinds of film as well as the Japanese.

Budgie

Almost Famous

After seeing a thread about it on here. I hadn’t seen it before and really enjoyed it. 

Sassafras

Bohemian Rhapsody

Is a film I shan't be watching because I've never had any interest in Queen or their music.

Sassafras

ICBM said:

Paths Of Glory

Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick's early WWI film.

Very powerful - and very carefully and effectively directed, despite Kubrick's relative inexperience. So powerful that MrsICBM, who is normally not very interested in things like this, put her phone down after about ten minutes and watched the film intently all the way through rather than her usual habit of keeping an eye on both when it's something she's not really into...

If I have a criticism it's that the actors playing the generals are a bit stiff and caricatured, especially compared to Douglas, but it doesn't really detract from the overall effectiveness of the story.

9/10

I watched it the other day on your recommendation and it is indeed excellent. For a 1957 film it contained some incredibly powerful scenes and for such an emotive subject the acting was surprisingly restrained.
I've met a few high ranking French military officers, admittedly not Generals but still fairly high and they were all incredibly stiff, pompous, un-humorous boring and obsessed with their aristocrat lineage. It was as if the French Revolution never happened.

Moominpapa

From Up On Poppy Hill  - one of the less famous Studio Ghibli films. No fantasy elements in this one. In any other hands it would be a fairly bland and somewhat cheesy 'high school girl and high school boy come of age and fall in love' story, but the Ghibli touch raises it up beyond that. Not in the same league as masterpieces like Porco Rosso or Spirited Away, but still charming, heartwarming and entertaining. 6.5-7/10

Deadman

Bohemian rhapsody.

It was good. 7/10.