What films have you watched recently?

boogieman

Brio said:

Be sure to check out Chronicles of Riddick 

Known as Chronicles of Ridiculous round these parts. I did like Pitch Black though.  

Kittyfrisk

A must see all time classic ... 

LastMantra

Brio said:

There is only one good vampire film.
The Hunger.
Bowie, Bauhaus and Catherine Denuerve.

What we do in the shadows. 

Dusk till dawn. 

And for nostalgic reasons the lost boys. 

Jfingers

@LastMantra your most recent choices work for me. I'd add 30 Days of night which actually scared me despite having seen The Exorcist at around thirteen.

Stand by me is in my top ten.

Offset

Jfingers said:

@LastMantra your most recent choices work for me. I'd add 30 Days of night which actually scared me despite having seen The Exorcist at around thirteen.

Stand by me is in my top ten.

I loved 30 Days Of Night.  Another one I'll watch again fairly soon - thanks!

UnclePsychosis

chillidoggy said:

Brio said:

Be sure to check out Chronicles of Riddick and Riddick then. Both excellent in my opinion. Hopefully he will get Furyia finished at some point.

That trio of Riddick movies are all superb! ‘Pitch Black’ is my particular fave, but it’s a close run thing.

Have to disagree. 

Pitch Black is good, the other two are utter pony.

SPECTRUM001

chillidoggy said:

ICBM said:

rze99 said:

The Beach

2000 movie

Leo Di Capio seeks an off-grid perfect world with other cool kiddie drop outs living on the most beautiful beach in the world.
He shags the wrong ladies, lies and lies and it gets darker in a Lord of the Flies type way.

I avoided the first time round because... well, you know, he was everywhere and frankly I was far too cool up my arse for it.

It is ridiculous and flawed. But it's an enjoyable ride and looks fabulous.

That’s a film that I also avoided for years because of excess DiCaprio, after Titanic... but it’s actually brilliant. He’s outstanding, although Tilda Swinton is even better.

Snap!

I also avoided it for the very same reason, but Leonardo played a blinder. He’s a much better actor than I originally gave him credit for, too. I thought he was superb in ‘Catch Me If You Can.’

Tilda Swinton’s odd-looking but somehow hot.

It was the opposite for me. I bought and read the book when it was first published (unusual, as I am not a big reader), so was eagerly anticipating the film.

And initially disappointed that Ewen McGregor lost the role to Leo. A big mistake….but, yes he pulled it off, and along with Danny Boyle at his near peak, it is a very watchable film.

Great locations, themes and photography. And very true to the book - which is nice too.

Agreed - Tilda Swinton steals the show !

rze99

The Burnt Orange Heresy

15  2019 Art World Crime thriller /  drama ‧ 1h 39m

A wealthy art dealer is mysteriously sheltering a renowned painter in a building on land at his fabulous mansion on Lake Como. He invites a disreputable and slightly sordid Milan-based art critic and author to visit for the weekend and there he offers him a Mephistophelean proposition he is unable to refuse. Mick Jagger (yes)  Donald Sutherland (YES)  Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki star, along with the Lake Como location. An absorbing eventful yarn that gets increasingly dark. Well acted and filmed. Jagger plays it corrupted, sly and manipulative and is effective. 
8/10

VimFuego

Nobody.

You don't so much have to suspend disbelief as have a full disciplinary hearing, give it a final written warning, have security escort it off the premises, shred it's permanent record, burn what remains, seal the ashes in a reinforced titanium container, fire the container into orbit and set it on an intercept course with the sun.

But, it was bloody good fun, and a kicking soundtrack. 

ICBM

Le Pupille (The Pupils)

Short (just 38 mins) Italian film about some girls in a convent school at Christmas during WWII. It's quirky, odd, yet strangely captivating and brilliant. It's difficult to describe without seeing it, but as usual if you don't like odd foreign art films you'll be better avoiding it, but if you do or think you might it's less than 40 minutes to find out!

The only problem is the awful dubbing, which made it briefly almost unwatchable in places, but I couldn't find a subtitle option in the settings...

Film - 9/10
Dubbing - 4/10

(Disney+)

Timcito

The Last Kingdom - the final installment called 7 Kings Must Die ... or maybe it was 5! Anyway, great stuff. I've watched all the seasons of this gripping Viking-Saxon drama set in the pre-Norman conquest era with a hero called Uhtred (son of Uhtred!), who, we learn, is mysteriously excluded from all the history books. I'm sorry it's all over! 

skullfunkerry

Found a film on Prime last night called The Wretched. Pretty okay horror film, nothing particularly earth shattering in it, but definitely better than some of the other dreck that's out there. Kid moves in with his dad and discovers that an ancient witch is feeding on people. Solid 7/10

LastMantra

SPECTRUM001 said:

chillidoggy said:

ICBM said:

rze99 said:

The Beach

2000 movie

Leo Di Capio seeks an off-grid perfect world with other cool kiddie drop outs living on the most beautiful beach in the world.
He shags the wrong ladies, lies and lies and it gets darker in a Lord of the Flies type way.

I avoided the first time round because... well, you know, he was everywhere and frankly I was far too cool up my arse for it.

It is ridiculous and flawed. But it's an enjoyable ride and looks fabulous.

That’s a film that I also avoided for years because of excess DiCaprio, after Titanic... but it’s actually brilliant. He’s outstanding, although Tilda Swinton is even better.

Snap!

I also avoided it for the very same reason, but Leonardo played a blinder. He’s a much better actor than I originally gave him credit for, too. I thought he was superb in ‘Catch Me If You Can.’

Tilda Swinton’s odd-looking but somehow hot.

It was the opposite for me. I bought and read the book when it was first published (unusual, as I am not a big reader), so was eagerly anticipating the film.

And initially disappointed that Ewen McGregor lost the role to Leo. A big mistake….but, yes he pulled it off, and along with Danny Boyle at his near peak, it is a very watchable film.

Great locations, themes and photography. And very true to the book - which is nice too.

Agreed - Tilda Swinton steals the show !

I quite liked the beach, it wasn't perfect by any means but enjoyable none the less. 

I remember when it was first shown on British tv a few nights before they showed a program called, something like "the real beach" which was a documentary of sorts about what was obviously the inspiration for the movie. A bunch of people that tried to make a kind of commune in Thailand somewhere. Thing was they all really just wanted to party all the time. They were taking loads of drugs, people were getting into a state and it all kind of ended in tears.

A wee while later I noticed the exact same thing with the Blair witch project and "the real Blair witch story".
At that point I started to wonder if these "documentaries" were maybe made by the same people as the movies, to stir a bit of interest or something, I don't know. 

boogieman

Apocalypse Now, The Final Cut. 

Weird, brutal, beautifully filmed, funny, horriffic, incomprehensible, thought provoking, disturbing, utterly compelling. A film that absolutely deserves the title masterpiece. 

10/10. 

menamestom

Dungeons and Dragons.

Not as bad as it could have been.  A decent heist movie with some dry whit and good acting.
Didn’t feel as long as it was and High Grant played an excellent scoundrel.  Decent family fun.  To be fair could have been terrible.

Haych

Nobody (Netflix)

Bob Odenkirk plays the seemingly very meek and unassuming family man, Hutch Mansell.  Everything about him is ordinary, he has a mediocre job, a stale relationship with his wife and his kids don't seem to think much of him.  Yet he puts up with all of it and carries on his mundane routine day in day out.

I won't add anything more and spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

It was very different to how I thought it was going to be.  I'd seen the trailers before and from the look of those previews it looked like it was going to be something along the lines of Falling Down.  It wasn't.

Quite a violent film but also quite witty.  Bob Odenkirk is rather good but Christopher Lloyd, for his brief appearance, stole the show for me.

As @VimFuego said up there ^ somewhere, it's way beyond the realms of plausibility but a jolly good ride for all that.

The ending seems to have left the possibility open for film number 2, but it was a subtle suggestion rather than an outright nod.

rze99

Elvis 

2022

The movie is really about Tom Parker's obsessive control of Elvis spanning over 20 years. It's told in a cartoonish gaudy dizzying strip type style over essentially three acts. The main characters are thinly drawn and reduced and the other key individuals hardly represented e.g. Pricilla get about 5 lines. Dialogue is impoverished and the music only at times worthwhile. There's some good acting in there and It's entertaining but not at all rewarding. 
Not recommended
5/10

HerbieTheRadDorklift

Renfield - Great movie. Not a Dracula movie, but a Renfield movie though there are a couple of nods to the FFC movie (Cage is Coppola's nephew I think). Outrageous, over-the-top gore and funny sections. Cage's accent changes about a million times and ends up sounding like a Trump/Corleone mash up. Well worth a watch

The Pope's Exorcist- A true (?) movie about an exorcist priest who unwittingly finds one of the 200 fallen angels on Earth. Russell Crowe is brilliant, great Italian and great English/Italian accent. The rest of the cast are so/so, I didn't like Ralph Inneson's voice coming out of the possessed boy's mouth but hey ho. Again, worth a watch on Cineworld Unlimited.

axisus

equalsql said:

Three Thousand Year Of Longing.
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in fine form in this film about a women who finds the classic genie in a bottle and is then presented with the dilemna of choosing three wishes.
Very entertaining with a story arc completely different from how I imagined. Definitely worth your time. I enjoyed it so much I watched it twice over the weekend, something I never do.
Again a 9/10

So I watched this at the weekend. For me the jury is still out on exactly what I thought about it. Generally I like 'wordy' films, and I would call this a wordy film. It had a single pace throughout, which isn't necessarily a fail, but I felt it could have shifted up and down a bit more. I think that overall it gets a reasonably big thumbs up (nice re-enactments of the Djinn's stories), but I do feel that there was a slightly better story to be had out of the idea. Tilda's character gets spooked by a couple of other characters early on in the story, but I couldn't see the point in that. It had no bearing on the story and they are not referred to again.

One little spoiler comment:

Solomon - what a bastard! on a whim entrapping the Djinn in a way that left him trapped for 1500 years! (could have been much longer). Nasty ....

CHRISB50

Re-watching Some Kind of Monster.

Feeling sorry Kirk all over again.

Reminded what narcissistic arseholes James and Lars are. F me they are precious. 

7/10