What films have you watched recently?

Hertz32

My Neighbour Totoro

One of the most famous anime's in the world, up there with Spirited Away, and for good reason. Great animation and voice acting, one of the best English dubs I have ever seen. Simple but wonderfully feel good story that just puts a smile on your face whatever your mood, who doesn't want to see a 12 legged cat-bus?! Watch it!
8.5/10

Fazer

Oculus - haunted mirror etc etc ..........
BOO!

Lixarto

Sunshine On Leith - marvellous stuff and, incidentally, proof that the Proclaimers are more musically valid than Hendrix. Nobody's made a musical full of his stuff, have they?

No. They haven't. Thank Christ.

ThePrettyDamned

Hard candy. Meh, I didn't think much to be honest. It was alright.

ICBM

Hertz32 said:

My Neighbour Totoro

One of the most famous anime's in the world, up there with Spirited Away, and for good reason. Great animation and voice acting, one of the best English dubs I have ever seen. Simple but wonderfully feel good story that just puts a smile on your face whatever your mood, who doesn't want to see a 12 legged cat-bus?! Watch it!
8.5/10

That's one of my favourites too, but of the Studio Ghibli films my first choice would be Castle In The Sky. It's probably the only film I've watched over twenty times.

dafuzz

Fazer said:

jodorowskys dune - documentary about the failed attempt to film dune in the early 1970s, lots of interviews with jodorowsky, giger, foss and other creatives involved in all the elaborate preproduction, including getting magma and pink floyd on board to do soundtrack, and orson welles, dali, mick jagger and others to star in it.
pretty interesting and its such a shame it never got funding because it would have been awesome

Saw that - bloody awesome documentary and a crying shame his vision never got off the ground. Must track down the graphic novels. Good call sir

dafuzz

ICBM said:

Hertz32 said:

My Neighbour Totoro

One of the most famous anime's in the world, up there with Spirited Away, and for good reason. Great animation and voice acting, one of the best English dubs I have ever seen. Simple but wonderfully feel good story that just puts a smile on your face whatever your mood, who doesn't want to see a 12 legged cat-bus?! Watch it!
8.5/10

That's one of my favourites too, but of the Studio Ghibli films my first choice would be Castle In The Sky. It's probably the only film I've watched over twenty times.

Porco Rosso is superb. Totoro is lined up for tonight by coincidence, if I can finish this stupid report I have to write by the morning

Hootsmon

watched SOME LIKE IT HOT again yesterday, well some of it........somehow I've never managed tae see the end of this film. I ALWAYS finish up in the backroom somewhere chuggin' away at the sight of Marilyn in that see- through negligee c/w them jugs...OO er I'm away AGAIN 

*Cary Grant voice*

" I think I can feel something in my big toe"  

DiscoStu

Monkeybone said:

Finally watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, tis really rather awesome. Very much want to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes now.

I rewatched 'Rise...' today and it's even better than I remembered. There are some beautiful touches in the ape performances, Andy Serkis is amazing.
Of the clips I've seen for 'Dawn...' the animation is on another level and I cannot wait to see what Serkis does in this one. Oscar worthy perhaps?

cpcompany

Saw Dawn of The Planet of the Apes yesterday. It was good, but I expected it to be better. Was supposed to watch Boyhood today but have come down with a cold.

EricTheWeary

Lixarto said:

Sunshine On Leith - marvellous stuff and, incidentally, proof that the Proclaimers are more musically valid than Hendrix. Nobody's made a musical full of his stuff, have they?

No. They haven't. Thank Christ.

I thought there was a biopic in the works. [googles] Out in September.

Lixarto

Of the Reid brothers?

Fantastic.

EricTheWeary

Lixarto said:

Of the Reid brothers?

Fantastic.

Andre 3000 as Charlie and Craig Reed. That I would pay to see.

holnrew

Legion. Decided to watch it because there's a TV series I've started watching based on it. Kind of a horror, a little bit like tremors, except the monsters are... ANGELS?  :-O

2/5, unintentionally funny, but there are some cool bits and Willa Holland, mmm.

Nunogilberto

The Hooligan Factory - a piss take of all the footy hooligan films. I bought it in HMV the other day as it looked funny.

It wasn't.

stickyfiddle

Amazing Spider-Man 2

Oh dear. Really just a bit dull. 

I love Andrew Garfield as Spidey but it's a shitty predictable film.

Danny1969

Locke :

The whole film is Tom Hardy in his car, talking on his phone. Strangely enjoyable as a film and as there's nothing to see it would work as an audio book too

DrJazzTap

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was enjoyable, I'm getting a bit fed up with going into a film having seen soo much of the film in trailers though.
That's why I loved Godzilla so much. Need to figure out how to avoid trailers at the cinema...hmmm

I might go and see boyhood tomorrow.

Aside from that I've seen

• Need for Speed- hmm based on a video game. Not great
• Under the Skin, really eery. Kind of made me fall out of love with Scarlett Johansson though Although I would probably still follow her into a vat of oil.
  

frankus

Grand Budapest Hotel 9/10

boogieman

Saw the new Planet of the Apes too. The CGI is incredible, probably the best I've ever seen: it barely registers that you're not watching real monkeys. The film is way too long though, needs some decent editing to cut the filler scenes out.

Also saw Tyrannosaur and The Beast the other day. Both excellent films in different ways but Tyrannosaur was the better film.