What films have you watched recently?

frankus

Lixarto said:

snakemanStoo said:

Thor the dark world : just fun, more of the same really.

I thought this was deeply shit - totally predictable, mostly terrible acting and a total waste of the best actor they had (Eccleston). Very disappointing.

Eccleston was the best Actor... was there any scenery left unchewed?

frankus

fretmeister said:

TimmyO said:

Ender's Game - brilliant scifi. I'm going to read the Orson Scott Card books on the strength of it. 

It's a shame the author is such a deeply unpleasant man.

Well if you will take free red wines from complete strangers you should expect to wake up with a sore arse

Lixarto

fretmeister said:

It's a shame the author is such a deeply unpleasant man.

I've not read them or anything, but: does it matter?

I suspect Mr Blackmore is probably not the easiest man to get along with, but boy he's a great musician.

bobblehat

Battle Los Angeles - decent scifi action nonsense.

RED - a lot better than I expected (and I really didn't expect much)

fretmeister

Lixarto said:

fretmeister said:

It's a shame the author is such a deeply unpleasant man.

I've not read them or anything, but: does it matter?

I suspect Mr Blackmore is probably not the easiest man to get along with, but boy he's a great musician.

I'm quite happy to split art from artist. But I'm also happier to go to the library and get out his books so he doesn't get any money from me.

Lixarto

Ha

Skipped

12 Years a Slave:  Harrowing and almost impossible to watch (for me).

Philomena: Much better than I was expecting. Gentle and moving.

Captain Phillips: A disappointment. The Pirates were not even in costume.    :-S

DrJazzTap

I was subjected to a Piggyback movie "2012 Doomsday"

My friend bought it on bluray from poundland, and was somewhat staggered that a bluray disc could be soo cheap......Until we watched it.

A piggyback film for those who don't know, is a film produced by a low budget studio which aims to "piggyback" the marketing of an upcoming major release. So 2012 Doomsday was cashing in on 2012. I've yet to see Atlantic Rim or Transmorphers.

2012 Doomsday was indeed terrible, 1.7 on IMDB. Literally no cohesive plot god awful.

randomhandclaps

Watched Event Horizon again for the first time in years.  I know it has some knockers but for a 17 year old sci-fi film I think it holds up pretty well.

Also watched Trance.  Pretty good all round.  A fair few twists and well worth a viewing.

IanSavage

randomhandclaps said:

Watched Event Horizon again for the first time in years.  I know it has some knockers but for a 17 year old sci-fi film I think it holds up pretty well.

Also watched Trance.  Pretty good all round.  A fair few twists and well worth a viewing.

I just saw the words 'knockers' and '17 year old' in the same sentence and got slightly excited  

randomhandclaps

 

IanSavage said:

randomhandclaps said:

Watched Event Horizon again for the first time in years.  I know it has some knockers but for a 17 year old sci-fi film I think it holds up pretty well.

Also watched Trance.  Pretty good all round.  A fair few twists and well worth a viewing.

I just saw the words 'knockers' and '17 year old' in the same sentence and got slightly excited  

Well Trance does have knockers of the other sort but they're at least twice that age.

Lixarto

I watched the new "Walter Mitty" last night.

Fucking painful. Avoid.

The23rdman

Just watched Apollo 18 and Europa Report. Variations on a theme, but I enjoyed the tension in both of them.

The23rdman

Oh, also watched Safety Not Guaranteed last night. That was excellent, combining sci-fi, quirky relationships and odd characters. Really recommend that one.

Handsome_Chris

I have just watched the 2002 remake of dystopian sci-fi classic Rollerball.  Where to start on this one.  It is absolutely awful. The lead role of Jonathan Cross, played by Chris Klein (you may have seen him in American Pie) is a bargain bin Keanu Reeves.  There is nothing about his character that made me care about what happened to him. His acting is flippin' awful too.  He makes a very unlikely action hero: In fact he doesn't make an action hero, unlikely or not.

There were a lot of action scene pasted together and the plot was not so much thin as emaciated.  

Jean Reno is in it and I like him.  That is about as much as praise as this film is going to get from me.

In summary: Thrash metal, dangerous sports, violence, not very intellectually challenging, oh and Slipknot are in it.

guitargeek62

randomhandclaps said:

Watched Event Horizon again for the first time in years.  I know it has some knockers but for a 17 year old sci-fi film I think it holds up pretty well.

Ok, so I only watched this for the first time on Friday but... what a crock of shit it was!

EricTheWeary

Handsome_Chris;182274" said:

I have just watched the 2002 remake of dystopian sci-fi classic Rollerball.  Where to start on this one.  It is absolutely awful. The lead role of Jonathan Cross, played by Chris Klein (you may have seen him in American Pie) is a bargain bin Keanu Reeves.  There is nothing about his character that made me care about what happened to him. His acting is flippin' awful too.  He makes a very unlikely action hero: In fact he doesn't make an action hero, unlikely or not.

There were a lot of action scene pasted together and the plot was not so much thin as emaciated.  

Jean Reno is in it and I like him.  That is about as much as praise as this film is going to get from me.

In summary: Thrash metal, dangerous sports, violence, not very intellectually challenging, oh and Slipknot are in it.

the original is a real favourite of mine but I only made it 15 minutes into the remake.

Watched the original of the Ladykillers. Not seen it for years and years. I know its a classic but I can't say I found it funny. It does have have some quite surreal moments though.

thumpingrug

National Theater production of Corialanus shown "as live" at the local multiplex.  Even included a 15 minute interval where we watched the stage hands clean the blood of the stage.  Was very very good but very long.  

DiscoStu

Rewatched Silent Running this afternoon on Film4. It hasn't aged particularly well in places - the ships clearly look like models and Joan Baez's hippy warblings are way out of date - but the message still holds true.

And the drones still rock. It's all about the drones.

goldtop

Saw Grand Budapest Hotel. Beautiful treat for the eyes, rambling storyline for the brain. Fiennes is brilliant, and Jude Law tolerable. F Murray Abraham has incredibly big ears.