What films have you watched recently?

boogieman

I honestly don’t get all the love for Knives Out. I thought it was terrible....very much like Daniel Craig’s “American” accent. 

Agreed on the Ford vs Ferrari film though, thought it was excellent. 

RobDavies

Gran Torino on Prime. 

Clint Eastwood directs himself as a curmudgeonly, racist and deeply unpleasant old man who reluctantly befriends Asian neighbours.  

Dirty Harry for octogenarians.  An enjoyably, simple movie. 

ICBM

RobDavies said:

Dirty Harry for octogenarians.  An enjoyably, simple movie. 

"Get off my lawn."

Haych

Midway

Certainly action packed and some of the sequences were made very well, no doubt CGI was employed extensively.  

As a movie I didn't find it particularly engaging though.

A gung-ho flag waver with balls to the wall action but not much else.

goldtop

Valerian and the thousand something or other - the Luc Besson daftness. I sort of liked it, although I think I heard that it was a bit 'marmite' for some sci-fi fans. What's to like - a sci-fi with as much imagination as there is CGI effort, plus lots of Besson whimsy and it was unpredictable (except for feeling a bit Avatary). Lead actor was miscast, and Clive Owen was non-stop annoying. 8/10

Almost worth an extra point for the awesome outro song which I'd never heard before. It's immense:

Philly_Q

Sky Sharks
Possibly in the running for a place in my top ten worst films ever.  If I had such a top ten.

HAL9000

Predestination - interesting and engaging time travel story. Well worth a watch.

EricTheWeary

Finding Your Feet 

Film4. What you end up watching when you can’t be arsed to do anything else.
Feel good work creation scheme for ageing British actors. Probably belongs on a wet Sunday afternoon. 

guitars4you

365 days - On Netflix  - actually a crap movie - but soft porn at its best - and Anna-Maria Sieklucka is certainly looks desirable/hot 

guitargeek62

RIP Chadwick Boseman

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/189007/rip-chadwick-boseman

Moominpapa

Noroi: The Curse (2005) Japanese documentary-style horror film. Very enjoyable. Lots of chilling moments, and the narrative is cleverly fragmented to gradually build up the picture of what is going on.

DiscoStu

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Netflix. I'm no Will Ferrell fan and I could happily live without Eurovision but I thoroughly enjoyed this. Yes the accents are dodgy (Pierce Brosnan!) but it's all done with a fondness. Plenty of laughs and the music is spot on.

Not life changing but a lot of fun for a night in.
7/10

breakstuff

Venom on Netflix.

It's pants. Don't bother. 

goldtop

Blade Runner 2049. It's on Amazon Prime, so I rewatched it. Far better than I remember, even on a laptop screen. Only "the resistance" distraction grated, and I still feel that the meaning of the Joi character could have been better explored. But the rest of it was excellent. 8/10

ICBM

Sully: Miracle On The Hudson

Competently-made, well acted, but not very exciting - it stretches a fairly minor aspect of the story (the investigation into whether Sully actually did the right thing or not) into a movie, but it's probably hard to do much more with it and not try to dramatise it more than the truth allows - the entire flight only lasted five minutes. Even so, the portrayal of the investigation is too Hollywood and paints the NTSB more as villains than they should have been.

In the end, the key to the whole thing is in the first minute or so... what would have happened if he'd tried to go by the book but been wrong - which he couldn't have known he wasn't with absolute certainty at the time, and is the whole point of why he made the decision he did.

6/10 - 7 as a film, but 5 for accuracy.

(iPlayer)

stickyfiddle

goldtop said:

Blade Runner 2049. It's on Amazon Prime, so I rewatched it. Far better than I remember, even on a laptop screen. Only "the resistance" distraction grated, and I still feel that the meaning of the Joi character could have been better explored. But the rest of it was excellent. 8/10

Wis. Obviously it's not as groundbreaking as the original, but I honestly think it's a better piece of narrative filmmaking. 

guitartango

Hard kill 2020 

Mercenaries race against the clock to stop a madman from using a computer program to wreak havoc around the globe.

All i can say is that it stars Brucie 

3/10 

EricTheWeary

guitartango said:

Hard kill 2020 

Mercenaries race against the clock to stop a madman from using a computer program to wreak havoc around the globe.

All i can say is that it stars Brucie 

3/10 

Good game, good game! 

chrisjac2

Was bored last night so re watched Life. The Ryan Reynolds Jake Gillenhall film about an alien on the ISS. It was way better than I remembered worth a watch if your bored

boogieman

ICBM said:

Sully: Miracle On The Hudson

Competently-made, well acted, but not very exciting - it stretches a fairly minor aspect of the story (the investigation into whether Sully actually did the right thing or not) into a movie, but it's probably hard to do much more with it and not try to dramatise it more than the truth allows - the entire flight only lasted five minutes. Even so, the portrayal of the investigation is too Hollywood and paints the NTSB more as villains than they should have been.

In the end, the key to the whole thing is in the first minute or so... what would have happened if he'd tried to go by the book but been wrong - which he couldn't have known he wasn't with absolute certainty at the time, and is the whole point of why he made the decision he did.

6/10 - 7 as a film, but 5 for accuracy.

(iPlayer)

I quite enjoyed it, but as has been pointed out before, you think “oh it’s Tom Hanks“ rather than “oh it’s a brave pilot who’s gone for shit or bust”.