What films have you watched recently?

rze99

Haych said:

Your Place Or Mine

Netflix RomCom with Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon.

Reese (Debbie) and Ashton (Peter) had a brief fling 20 years ago and while their relationship went no further they remain best friends, call each other daily and apparently tell each other everything.

Fast forward to present day and Peter lives in New York while Debbie still lives in LA, where they met.  

Debbie needs to visit New York to take some classes for her degree and is let down at the last minute by her friend who was meant to look after her 13 year old son while she was away.  

Peter steps in and they effectively swap homes for a week, Peter flying to LA to look after Debbie's son, and Debbie flies to New York and stays in Peter's apartment while she studies for her degree.

While swapping homes for the week things happen and they learn that they don't quite tell each other everything.

It's very predictable, of course, and if I'm honest it's not very funny for a romcom, and given past works of both Ashton and Reese not at all what I expected.  But, I really enjoyed it.  It's sweet, entertaining and while not laugh out loud funny there are some amusing moments, but in a grown up kind of way.

If they filled it with laughs it would have detracted from what is actually quite a good story and it would just have felt cheap and probably have been less funny.

I wasn't expecting to like it but I really did.  Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon are both perfect in their roles and are great to watch.  They have both aged incredibly well, too!

I can't help it but I have to give it 8/10 for just being a really sweet, entertaining feel good boy-meets-girl kinda movie.

Daughter (23) watched this at ours last night with a pal. She said it was "a bit crap, really". Hard to please....

Philly_Q

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Plane

I now rate films based on the type of film they are, and for this type of film it's 10/10

What's the type of film?  The "utter shite with Gerard Butler playing an airline pilot" type?


(I haven't seen it. )

rze99

PSA very rare re run of the original Edge of Darkness - 80s conspiracy thriller series - is on now BBC Four / IPlayer. One of the best things the BBC ever made. And featuring Eric Clapton on soundtrack. 

Thank me later. 

Brio

Nope. I'll thank you now.
Thanks.
Watched the Mel Gibson version a month back. Good to compare.

Brio

Bugger only one episode up. Will they be dropping one a week?

Offset

Brio said:

Nope. I'll thank you now.
Thanks.
Watched the Mel Gibson version a month back. Good to compare.

Yes, I did too and I'm going to watch the Bob Peck/Joanne Whalley version yet again.  I already know which I prefer, but the Gibson version was unexpectedly good.

Brio

SPOILER ALERT!!!!
You can't mention Joanne Whalley without warning me to have a bath of ice waiting!

rze99

Brio said:

SPOILER ALERT!!!!
You can't mention Joanne Whalley without warning me to have a bath of ice waiting!

wasn't she lovely....?

rze99

Offset said:

Brio said:

Nope. I'll thank you now.
Thanks.
Watched the Mel Gibson version a month back. Good to compare.

Yes, I did too and I'm going to watch the Bob Peck/Joanne Whalley version yet again.  I already know which I prefer, but the Gibson version was unexpectedly good.

Bob Peck is magnificent in it.

rze99

Brio said:

Bugger only one episode up. Will they be dropping one a week?

dunno I just set it to record 

Pjon

rze99 said:

PSA very rare re run of the original Edge of Darkness - 80s conspiracy thriller series - is on now BBC Four / IPlayer. One of the best things the BBC ever made. And featuring Eric Clapton on soundtrack. 

Thank me later. 

I re-watched it a few years ago, having remembered how brilliant it was when first on. I thought it was rather silly by modern standards, and finished it feeling rather disappointed.

Greatape

'Star Trek: Into Darkness'. 

Saw the plot twist coming a mile off, and Cumberbatch chews the scenery, but it was diverting enough. Shit ending but decent cgi. 

rze99

All The Old Knives

2022

Prime. 

Henry Pelham (Chris Pine) is a CIA officer haunted by a disastrous event eight years earlier, when he was at the Vienna station: a plane hijacking ended in a hundred deaths because the terrorists were somehow able to anticipate the authorities’ counter-attack. And he is still heartbroken because his CIA colleague Celia Harrison (Thandiwe Newton), with whom he was and is deeply in love, broke up with him just afterwards, abandoned the service and is now a placidly contented wife and mother in Carmel, California.

Pretty well acted and Thandiwe is excellent and of course very lovely… to these eyes anyway. 

Convoluted and rather too slow. There’s almost no action. I’m not one for cgi and big explosions anyway but online a bit more movement and dynamism. It’s essentially a love story between spies with a complicated plot back drop. Unfortunately I didn’t find the plot credible once I realised what was going on and I nearly fell asleep a couple of times. My wife enjoyed it more than I did. 

5/10 me but my wife probably would give it a 7. 

HerbieTheRadDorklift

Philly_Q said:

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Plane

I now rate films based on the type of film they are, and for this type of film it's 10/10

What's the type of film?  The "utter shite with Gerard Butler playing an airline pilot" type?


(I haven't seen it. )

Action! Whilst it does have some typical "that wouldn't happen" bits, it does seem a damn sight more realistic than the rest of the Oridinary Man Rambo movies. Honestly, it was great!

Snap

The Batman - really liked it. 8/10
Godzilla v Kong - fantastic silliness. Deserves an oscar. 10/10

Snap

rze99 said:

PSA very rare re run of the original Edge of Darkness - 80s conspiracy thriller series - is on now BBC Four / IPlayer. One of the best things the BBC ever made. And featuring Eric Clapton on soundtrack. 

Thank me later. 

Watched this twice. Still a bit rattled by the inexplicable vibrator sniffing/kissing. Just weird.

axisus

I finally got around to seeing Hugo. What a beautiful film! Visually fabulous in many places, and a most touching and heartwarming story. I knew nothing about it beforehand, it was a lovely watch. 9.5/10 for me.

Blueingreen

Road to Perdition. This seems to have enough of the right ingredients to be a great film but somehow misses. It looks fantastic, the star wattage is high (Newman, Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law) and the performances are excellent. It’s an inventive twist on the gangster film focusing on father/son relationships. 

Its problem, I think, is that Sam Mendes is a little too fastidious in his good taste. The photography and soundtrack are beautiful but sombre. It steers clear of the easy excitements of the genre - there’s almost no sex, sentimentality is largely avoided (though the film is moving in places) and fantasies of power and revenge are undercut by continual reminders of the human misery caused by violence. 

These should all be good things, but the cumulative effect of all that emotional austerity is to hold the viewer at a distance, almost never fully engaged.  I feel there's the potential for a 9/10 film, here but in the end I'd score it at 7.5.

Haych

Morning Glory

Comedy with Rachel McAdams and some heavy hitters in the leads roles, Harrison Ford, Geoff Goldblum (or is it Jeff?), Diane Keaton and one or two lesser know, but still familiar faces. 

McAdams is fired from her job as a producer on a major breakfast TV show but soon lands a job as executive producer on a third rate competing show. 

It’s complete chaos but she makes changes and tries to befriend the lead anchor (Diane Keaton) and ropes in Harrison Ford, a veteran news anchor who hates everything about his new job, to be co-host. 

Despite the good cast and a decent story, by the time it was halfway through it still didn’t seem to have got off the runway. I was sticking with it because Mrs Haych seemed to be enjoying it, but when she voiced a similar opinion we pressed the big red button and went to bed. 

It’s on Netflix, your thoughts may differ. 

Offset

axisus said:

I finally got around to seeing Hugo. What a beautiful film! Visually fabulous in many places, and a most touching and heartwarming story. I knew nothing about it beforehand, it was a lovely watch. 9.5/10 for me.

Fantastic isn't it.  Absolutely adore it.