What films have you watched recently?

Handsome_Chris

UnclePsychosis said:

Thor: Love and Thunder 0/10 

Utterly irredeemably awful. Comfortably the worst MCU content. 

I like Marvel (been a fan for thirty years). I like the MCU. I did not like this, because its utter wank. Awful effects, awful writing, awful plotting. Avoid at all costs. 

@UnclePsychosis ,are you sure?  I can it really be worse than Wandavision?

UnclePsychosis

Handsome_Chris said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Thor: Love and Thunder 0/10 

Utterly irredeemably awful. Comfortably the worst MCU content. 

I like Marvel (been a fan for thirty years). I like the MCU. I did not like this, because its utter wank. Awful effects, awful writing, awful plotting. Avoid at all costs. 

@UnclePsychosis ,are you sure?  I can it really be worse than Wandavision?

100%. I liked Wandavision. It was fun. 

Cryptid

Split Second (1992)

A strangely enjoyable trashy B-grade sci-fi horror that had me laughing out loud. 

In the opening scene, Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) bursts into an S&M club and thrusts his badge in the face of a barking guard dog, "Police, dickhead" 

Stratavarious

Moonfall

Absolute total crap… It is so utterly bad that you can’t peel your eyes away from seeing what will happen next in this total mess….  it is great!   

Unscorable must see garbage

rze99

 
QE2 funeral Bank holiday Monday and I'm on me tod. Royalist Neighbours wouldn't appreciate me cranking up the amps so,  if the weather is a bit crap, I'll likely want to watch a movie.

Make me a recommendation, please!

I Like  - Thriller, suspense, spy, drama, comedy, intrigue, mystery, chillers, sometimes horror if well done but not slash and gore.

I don't like - CGI, Marvel, Superheroes, musicals, romance 

cheers

R

  

Stratavarious

rze99 said:

 
QE2 funeral Bank holiday Monday and I'm on me tod. Royalist Neighbours wouldn't appreciate me cranking up the amps so,  if the weather is a bit crap, I'll likely want to watch a movie.

Make me a recommendation, please!

I Like  - Thriller, suspense, spy, drama, comedy, intrigue, mystery, chillers, sometimes horror if well done but not slash and gore.

I don't like - CGI, Marvel, Superheroes, musicals, romance 

cheers

R

  

Spy with Sasha Baron Cohen
Argo
Bridge Of Spies

Handsome_Chris

UnclePsychosis said:

Handsome_Chris said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Thor: Love and Thunder 0/10 

Utterly irredeemably awful. Comfortably the worst MCU content. 

I like Marvel (been a fan for thirty years). I like the MCU. I did not like this, because its utter wank. Awful effects, awful writing, awful plotting. Avoid at all costs. 

@UnclePsychosis ,are you sure?  I can it really be worse than Wandavision?

100%. I liked Wandavision. It was fun. 

Wow!!! That Thor film must be bad!!! 

rze99

Stratavarious said:

rze99 said:

 
QE2 funeral Bank holiday Monday and I'm on me tod. Royalist Neighbours wouldn't appreciate me cranking up the amps so,  if the weather is a bit crap, I'll likely want to watch a movie.

Make me a recommendation, please!

I Like  - Thriller, suspense, spy, drama, comedy, intrigue, mystery, chillers, sometimes horror if well done but not slash and gore.

I don't like - CGI, Marvel, Superheroes, musicals, romance 

cheers

R

  

Spy with Sasha Baron Cohen
Argo
Bridge Of Spies

thanks Haven't seen Spy 

boogieman

Tales That Witness Madness. 1970’s anthology “horror” movie similar to Dr Terrors House of Horrors, except it contains nothing that could be described as horror, just the odd bit of red paint. It does however have oodles of truly atrocious acting from the likes of Joan Collins and Kim Novak and the occasional glimpse of tits’n’ass. Donald Pleasence and Jack Hawkins somehow manage to keep a straight face throughout, god knows how. Worth watching if only for the kitsch 70s scenery and outfits. 9/10 for the truly awful so-bad-it’s-good Polynesian god sacrifice section, 4/10 for Joan Collins’ body double nipples (@Emp_Fab ;; ), 3/10 for the rest. 

DrCornelius

Nobody on Prime . The bloke from better call Saul is in it which pulled me in.

Ridiculous film along the lines of History of Violence but nowhere near as intelligent.

Loved it .  8.5/10

axisus

After all these years I finally saw North by Northwest. Needless to say a classic. I really enjoyed it, Cary Grant was a wonderfully watchable star. On iPlayer if anyone is interested.

Mindhorn - an entertaining low budget film from Steve Coogan's production company. Steve has a minor role, the film is a vehicle for Julian Barrett, one half of The Mighty Bhoosh. If you like Julian's style of comedy (over confident buffoon) it's worth a look. Mindorn was an 80s TV detective, and the actor of the role (Julian) is co-opted by the police to help catch a serial killer who will only speak to the TV character. For me it was 7/10, I'm a JB fan. On Disney+

Pirates of the Caribbean - Salazaar's revenge Disney+. I loved the first PotC film, thought the second was poor, third even worse and the fourth I didn't get past the first 15 minutes. Roll on a few years - I'm not even sure why I put this one on, but straight away I liked the look of baddie Salazaar, with his hair looking like it is underwater. Strangely I found the film very entertaining! Yes, there was plenty of dire scripting (the entire safe scene), but I just 'went with the flow'. I've always liked Johnny Depp in these films, but I also think that Geoffrey Rush is great as Capt Barbosa. Kaya Scodelario was a good addition to the cast. I'm giving it 7/10, it doesn't deserve that as a film, but that was my personal enjoyment level.

I feel compelled to try film 4 again now .....

Blaendulais

DrCornelius said:

Nobody on Prime . The bloke from better call Saul is in it which pulled me in.

Ridiculous film along the lines of History of Violence but nowhere near as intelligent.

Loved it .  8.5/10

And yet totally superb I agree

Philly_Q

The Batman
It's three hours long and I fell asleep a couple of times - but that's standard for me and doesn't mean the film was boring.  Obviously I missed some plot points but the film is extremely stylish and well-made.  It's a strange one... there's not much character development, very little humour, a feeling that despite the lengthy running time not much has happened by the end.  I can imagine many viewers hating it.  But I still think it sort of works.  I'll watch it again.

strumjoughlamps

Today's Saturday matinee was Pinocchio (the new one) on Disney+

Never been a big fan of the story but the new version has some amazing touches, the cuckoo clocks are awesome (I'll say no more) and the animation is amazing. It's a weird thing to say but the animation is almost too good.

axisus

strumjoughlamps said:

Today's Saturday matinee was Pinocchio (the new one) on Disney+

Never been a big fan of the story but the new version has some amazing touches, the cuckoo clocks are awesome (I'll say no more) and the animation is amazing. It's a weird thing to say but the animation is almost too good.

Ahhh yes, I forgot that I watched it with one of the daughters last week. I thought it was a delightful film with much to enjoy. The cuckoo clocks were a joy to behold, I'm looking forward to someone sorting a compilation on YouTube so I can see them again but in one hit! big thumbs up!

Lodious

Leon The Professional

I'd seen this before (a long time ago) and thought it was great. I fancied it was a sure fire winner for a Friday night movie but TBH, I didn't think it had aged well. 

6/10

ICBM

axisus said:

I feel compelled to try film 4 again now

Ian McShane as Blackbeard. Mermaids.

It is worth seeing, although you may be disappointed if you expect to see quite as much as you think you’re going to of the mermaids .

LastMantra

Werewolves within. 

Fun murder mystery whodunit with werewolf. 
It's a 15 so not too scary a comedy really but lots of twists to keep it interesting. 
Not bad.

Brio

Mahoosive plus 1 for Nobody.

ICBM

Tolkien

Unsurprisingly, about the early life of J.R.R. Tolkien and how his childhood and experiences in WWI inspired his writing. Not too bad… well filmed with some pretty good imagery in places, although the acting/dialogue/direction seems rather clichéd and predictable, and the epilogue - set about fifteen years later - comes over a bit oddly since the characters don’t seem to have aged at all.

Disclaimer: I’m not a fan, since I found The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings more or less unreadable, and gave up on the first LOTR film as well - I wasn’t sure if this film would reveal anything which might make me inclined to give them another go.

Not really, although I possibly might…

6/10

(Disney+)