What films have you watched recently?

fretmeister

The Limehouse Golem.

Good fun, great performances.

8/10

Brio

ennspek said:

Brio said:

Steer clear of Die Hard 5. You’re welcome.

Odd name for a film....

Die Hard 5: Yippee Ki Yay Motherf***** was already taken.

TeleMaster

Danny1969 said:

Midnight Sky ... latest film on Netflix directed and starred in by George Clooney 

An unexplained event has made our world inhabitable in the near future

@Danny1969 how was it?

I saw Mary Queen of Scots with Saorsie Ronan and Margot Robbie and they were both amazing. 

hollywoodrox

I’m still watching every hallmark Christmas film I can get my hands on, and that’s a lot 

Limehouse_Blues

I watched Blood Diamond on Netflix today. Impressed.

Danny1969

TeleMaster said:

Danny1969 said:

Midnight Sky ... latest film on Netflix directed and starred in by George Clooney 

An unexplained event has made our world inhabitable in the near future

@Danny1969 how was it?

I saw Mary Queen of Scots with Saorsie Ronan and Margot Robbie and they were both amazing. 

It's very under done with a tiny cast but I quite liked that. It's set roughly 20 years in the future so technically a sci fi movie 

EricTheWeary

Wild Rose 

I’ve really done f**k all today  

On Netflix. Starring Jessie Buckley who was on I’d Do Anything ( couple of in jokes in the film about TV singing competitions) and Julie Walters. Both are excellent and Jessie has a tremendous singing voice ( she gigged a set based on the movie for a while apparently). Story of a woman from Glasgow trying to make it as a country singer. Partly set in the Grand Ole Opry which seems to be a real place in Glasgow. 

Good independent British film, probably helps if you have a taste for country music but not essential. 

stickyfiddle

Wonder Woman 1984

There's a good story in there, just crying out for a decent editor and much less-obvious wire work for the fighty bits. At least 40 mins too long. Pedro Pascal is excellent as ever, and Gal Gadot is still hot so there's that at least.

axisus

I watched the new Grinch animation with my daughters. I had pre decided that I wouldn't like it, however, it was rather nice actually, it lacked the pure unpleasantness of Jim Carrey's Grinch but as lighthearted Xmas fare it was OK. I can see us watching it again another year.

axisus

Finally got around to watching the Trial of the Chicago 7. Excellent film with some great performances. Quite shocking really, but also fascinating. It makes you realise that there are some right c***s in power, eg the Judge and also the Attorney General. 

stickyfiddle

Batman Returns

I've seen this a bunch of times and don't count it among favourites but I always forget just how damn weird it is. Basically just a generic Tim Burton movie that happens to have Batman in it. And it's pretty messed up.

Haych

Whiplash (Prime)

Why have I never seen this before?  It’s always been on my radar in the periphery but taken me a long time to get round to watching. 

An incredibly tense and emotional. I don’t think another film has made me feel the range of emotions this one did. 

I’ve seen films with tension before; hurry up you moron the killer is coming, or the heist has gone wrong and the protagonist is caught in an awkward situation - those types of things. The tension and range of different emotion in this film was altogether very different - very hard to describe but it was gripping in a very different way. 

J.K Simmons played his part incredibly well and those scenes where he’s laying into the musicians, I felt almost like I was in the room with them. 

The performances from all the actors were flawless and the music was wonderful. 

Best film I’ve seen for a long time. 

10/10

FarleyUK

Wonder Woman 1984

Don’t bother. The only decent thing in it is Pedro Pascal. 

3/10. 

VimFuego

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Fantastic cast, fantastic performances, great story. I wasn't totally convinced by the bad cop sudden epiphany, but other than that it was good. I liked the way it ended, nicely subverting expectations and all that. Surprisingly funny, for such a grim story. 

boogieman

VimFuego said:

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Fantastic cast, fantastic performances, great story. I wasn't totally convinced by the bad cop sudden epiphany, but other than that it was good. I liked the way it ended, nicely subverting expectations and all that. Surprisingly funny, for such a grim story. 

Great film, Frances McDormand is absolutely riveting in this. It took me a while to figure out where I’d seen the cop Jason before. He was Wild Bill in The Green Mile (Sam Rockwell). 

VimFuego

boogieman said:

VimFuego said:

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Fantastic cast, fantastic performances, great story. I wasn't totally convinced by the bad cop sudden epiphany, but other than that it was good. I liked the way it ended, nicely subverting expectations and all that. Surprisingly funny, for such a grim story. 

Great film, Frances McDormand is absolutely riveting in this. It took me a while to figure out where I’d seen the cop Jason before. He was Wild Bill in The Green Mile (Sam Rockwell). 

She's one of those actors who seems incapable to giving a bad performance, I think she's just fantastic. 

Danny1969

I think 3 Billboards is one of the best films of the last 10 years, both in the writing and the execution 

Watched Tesla last night. Wasn't actually bad but not the film it could have been. Then again making a film about a subject so technical was always gonna be impossible. 

exocet

Death of Stalin

watched it last night on iPlayer, it was one that I would have gone to see at cinema nut missed the very short showing window at my local.

It’s an Armando Ianucci driven black comedy project. It’s far from perfect but has high production values, a good cast and a few laugh out loud moments.

axisus

VimFuego said:

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Fantastic cast, fantastic performances, great story. I wasn't totally convinced by the bad cop sudden epiphany, but other than that it was good. I liked the way it ended, nicely subverting expectations and all that. Surprisingly funny, for such a grim story. 

It's a superb film, but I don't think I'd ever watch it again. Too much horribleness for me, and I didn't like the ending that much either. Can't say more without spoilers.

Note: It's not a bad ending, just my personal feeling about it.

axisus

FarleyUK said:

Wonder Woman 1984

Don’t bother. The only decent thing in it is Pedro Pascal. 

3/10. 

What about beautiful Gal Gadot?