What films have you watched recently?

HAL9000

TheBigDipper said:

Farmageddon - totally charming and working at several levels for kids and grown-ups alike. Lovely sly (yet loving) digs at several sci-fi films/TV.

Saw this yesterday. Several laugh out loud moments, and hugely entertaining. Excellent!

EricTheWeary

JezWynd said:

JohnS37 said:

One of my all-time favourites is The Big Lebowski.  Does anyone know of any others in this wacky vein?

Check out O Brother Where Art Thou. It's by the Cohen's and is extremely entertaining.

Watched The Darjeeling Limited by Wes Anderson. What a great movie. Anderson's kooky style can be a bit hit and miss but when he gets it right, it's brilliant. Highly recommended.

O Brother is a great film, great music too ( huge selling soundtrack at the time). 

Heel

Can recommend The Souvenir and Booksmart. 

Don’t recommend the Joker movie at all cos it’s a big pile of doodoo. 

Sassafras

John Wick.
Can't see what all the fuss was about. Just another formulaic revenge flick. I'm sure Keanu Reeves is a nice chap but he should try not to deliver all his lines in such a loud, dull monotone. This is the second Reeves film I've seen this month. Why do I do it to myself?

JezWynd

Heel said:

Can recommend The Souvenir and Booksmart. 

Don’t recommend the Joker movie at all cos it’s a big pile of doodoo. 

It's certainly been hugely over-hyped for a movie that mainly revolves around Joaquin Phoenix throwing some cool shapes in clown makeup.

Lodious

Watched Carmine Street Guitars.

I can't say it's the best film I've ever seen, but when you are on a 8 hour flight to Detroit and the film selection is terrible, finding a film about a guitar shop with Nels Cline and Eleanor Friedberger in it feels like a gift from God delivered straight to the seat back in front of you. I enjoyed it!

CHRISB50

The Dawn Wall.

Good film with some amazing scenery, but I found I enjoyed the book, The Push (pretty much the same story), more.

BigBearKris

Terminator Dark Fate.

I like it. Sure - nowhere near as good as T1 and T2 but I think I liked it more than any other (pre?)sequels of the franchise. Good opening with the highway chase - bit dull in the middle. Plot and acting - mediocre but still entertaining on the big screen. No rewatch value.

5.25/10

Jalapeno

Sassafras said:

Blaendulais said:

Official Secrets

Good movie.  The director reined in Keira Knightleys simpering thanks goodness

Does she simper?
Can't say I'd noticed.

I enjoyed it too ! Keira did well.

Sassafras

Jalapeno said:

Sassafras said:

Blaendulais said:

Official Secrets

Good movie.  The director reined in Keira Knightleys simpering thanks goodness

Does she simper?
Can't say I'd noticed.

I enjoyed it too ! Keira did well.

Keira usually does do well.
If anyone simpers it's Emily Mortimer. That seems to be her speciality.

Sassafras

The Incredible Shrinking Man.

When I first saw this years and years ago I found it the most thought provoking sci-fi film I'd ever seen. I was fascinated by it and it stayed with me for ages. Made me rethink how we measure space, time and dimensions relative to our own puny selves.
For a film made in 1957 the effects hold up quite well.
It's only let down by the continuously over dramatic soundtrack. It's awful.
Incredible film. 10/10 and then some.

HAL9000

The Aeronauts. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones ascend to a record height in a balloon and we learn, via a series of flashbacks, how the trip came about. Some spectacular scenes but ultimately somehow lacking a little something in the 'does it hold your attention' department. 6/10 from me.

Longtallronnie

Mandy
Friends hated it, I thought it was pretty cool if slightly batshit mental. 

earwighoney

Sassafras said:

The Incredible Shrinking Man.

When I first saw this years and years ago I found it the most thought provoking sci-fi film I'd ever seen. I was fascinated by it and it stayed with me for ages. Made me rethink how we measure space, time and dimensions relative to our own puny selves.
For a film made in 1957 the effects hold up quite well.
It's only let down by the continuously over dramatic soundtrack. It's awful.
Incredible film. 10/10 and then some.

Superb film. 

The ending really stayed with me as well. 

breakstuff

Prevenge. 

A low budget British dark comedy, horror about a pregnant woman going on a killing spree to avenge the death of her husband, who's guided by her unborn child. 

As ridiculous as it sounds, but has a few chucklesome moments and one scene that will make every male viewer recoil in absolute horror. 

not_the_dj

Zulu Dawn on Amazon Prime. Not as good as Zulu. 

hollywoodrox

I thoroughly enjoyed half of joker 

EricTheWeary

The Death of Stalin. 

Interesting, bit different, reasonably funny, lot of nastiness largely off screen ( violence and sexual abuse), dragged a bit in the middle ( although any film over 90 minutes I’d probably say that about). The ensemble performance with everyone in their own accents and the scripted banter making it seem very much like a filmed play ( not that it is that I know of). 

ICBM

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Another one I missed at the cinema when it came out.

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell are fantastic, completely deserving the awards they got - it’s a dark, powerful film with some deep themes about life and death, and some very black humour. If it has a fault it’s that a couple of the scenes seem a bit far-fetched even for small-town America, but they don’t spoil it. The ending is surprising, but perfect for it.

9/10

stickyfiddle

Toy Story 4 - Do watch this, but don't watch it on a plane cos you'll cry at the end. Maybe not as good as the other three, but Pixar have still got it.

MIB: International - Watch this on a plane. It's not groundbreaking, but is fun enough.

Booksmart - Don't watch this on a plane as they take out most of the references to drugs and lesbians, which *seriously* misses the point. Otherwise fairly funny.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix - Just don't watch this. It's as terrible as the worst bits of Last Stand, Origins, and Apocalypse. Even the usually-excellent McAvoy and Fassbender are phoning it in.