What films have you watched recently?

Philly_Q

fretmeister said:

https://www.justwatch.com/

It tells you what platforms have what films for free or subs streaming.

It’s very useful.

@fretmeister thanks for that, I always just Google the film title and add "where to watch UK", but this looks better!

roundthebend

I'm interested to know what's coming up at the cinema soon, which is suitable for me and my wife. We tend to like thrillers, tense drama, mature humour.

I won a couple of tickets through work, but we rarely go to the cinema.

LastMantra

Brio said:

You know Gary? 8-)

I knew his old man 

Keiko

roundthebend said:

I'm interested to know what's coming up at the cinema soon, which is suitable for me and my wife. We tend to like thrillers, tense drama, mature humour.

I won a couple of tickets through work, but we rarely go to the cinema.

If only there was a way to find out such things. Hmmm. That's a tough one.

SteveRobinson

Nobody (2021)  Netflix

Guy living a humdrum existence has everything turned round when a couple of kids rob his house and it ends up with him against a ruthless and well-armed Russian mafia gang.

If you like an action film, this may well be for you.

SteveRobinson

equalsql said:

Rye Lane Disney+

This is top of my to-watch list. I watched the first 15 minutes last night and thought that Mrs R would like it so stopped and will watch it with her tonight.

DaveJames

Greyhound,  I read the book "the
good shepherd" and the film certainly does it justice.

Shrews

1917 (BBC4, I think)

To be honest I didn't think I'd enjoy this one so I was pleasantly surprised when I did. Different to most war films I've seen and strangely for me I felt it could've had more gore (surely there would have been?). I don't normally like too much gore, sometimes it seems OTT, but in this case it just seems like there should have been more!

8/10

VimFuego

Air, an inspirational tale of how big business exploited talent, hard work and the developing world to make rich people even richer. 

axisus

SteveRobinson said:

The Menu (2022) Disney+

A group of diners travel to an exclusive restaurant on an island run by an obsessive celebrity chef.

It's reasonably entertaining with a pleasing twist at the end.

If it's Gordon Ramsay and they kill him at the end I'm going ...

axisus

Two old films, one a classic, the other not ......

So first off Total Recall. It's still a great watch but although made in 1990 it suffers from the '70s' sci-fi thing of having no imagination about the future! I've seen this film many times over the years and still seem to enjoy it. Arnie doing what he does well. The 'disguise' scene is great fun but also totally daft - he couldn't have possibly drawn more attention to himself if he tried! Anyway, it still gets an 8.5/10 from me, partly for nostalgia, also partly for retro cool.

And then the bad film. I remembered it as being terrible, and I was not wrong. It's a shame as Snake Plissken is one of my favourite characters in film. Yup, I'm talking about Escape from LA. The original film, Escape from New York was brilliant, one of my fave films of the era. The LA follow-up is just dire all over (except for Kurt Russell who is great in every scene). Terrible story, rubbish directing, woeful miscasting of lead baddie plus his girl, terrible effects editing. Stacy Keach was good though in his minor role. Such a bad film! 7/10  for Kurt, but 2.5/10 for everything else.

Is it too much to ask, I would love Kurt to play an aged Snake just one more time. Sign the character off with a great script and film!

Brio

Check out the 'new' Total Recall with Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.
Good film plus Kate Beckinsale!

chillidoggy

Rye Lane - Gave up after finding I couldn't understand the language being spoken, or the accents. Can't really score it because I never finished it.

Rams - With Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson (who's remarkably hot given she's my age). Aussie brothers living next to each other that fell out years before, come up against the sheep equivalent of BSE. No spoilers, but I found it touching, and hilarious in places. 8/10

boogieman

Nobody. Netflix. 

Bob Odendirk is completely unbelievable as an action hero. 

Christopher Lloyd as a shotgun-toting retired death-dealer is even worse. 

Has a ludicrous plot line. 

Lots of salacious and graphic violence. 

Full of stereotypical characters. 

Basically it’s utter nonsense. 

Excellent!!  9/10. 

Jalapeno

Guardians of the Galaxy III, I did enjoy it, but ... overlong. The verk dark Rocket backstory was very remeniscent of Wolverine, and the twee everybody needs family ending was a tad sickly.  7/10

The Mother on Netflix. Pretty much by the numbers Special Forces previous life catches up with them film. But good nevertheless. JLo is very good as the lead, I was suprised at her kick-ass abilities. 7/10

Haych

The Mother (Netflix)

J-Lo takes on the role of a bad-ass CIA trained type bod who goes after a bunch of bad guys after her daughter, who's removed from her by the state at birth, is kidnapped.

Meh, got twenty minutes in before I turned off, J-Lo was unconvincing in the role and it was just a bore-fest with no plot and no soul.

Don't bother.

-2.3/10

BigBearKris

Jalapeno said:

Guardians of the Galaxy III, I did enjoy it, but ... overlong. The verk dark Rocket backstory was very remeniscent of Wolverine, and the twee everybody needs family ending was a tad sickly.  7/10

The Mother on Netflix. Pretty much by the numbers Special Forces previous life catches up with them film. But good nevertheless. JLo is very good as the lead, I was suprised at her kick-ass abilities. 7/10

Haych said:

The Mother (Netflix)

J-Lo takes on the role of a bad-ass CIA trained type bod who goes after a bunch of bad guys after her daughter, who's removed from her by the state at birth, is kidnapped.

Meh, got twenty minutes in before I turned off, J-Lo was unconvincing in the role and it was just a bore-fest with no plot and no soul.

Don't bother.

-2.3/10

...soooo generally strong 4.7/10 then? 

Shrews

Calling The Shots (Talking Pictures)

This, I think, was a mini-series condensed down into a film. It started off rubbish B-Movie fodder, actually more like C-Movie. The acting, dialogue and script were all poor, very poor, but it had enough moments just to keep me intrigued a little.  

Not sure what happened after about 60 minutes!  Everything seemed to improve and it actually became memorable, scary and tense, not sure I've seen a film where there was such an incredible turnaround.

Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl herself) acts her socks off as the film progresses and it's worth watching for her performance alone.

Basics are: she is a journo investigating a rape and then gets targeted by the rapist with plenty of twists and turns along the way.  Reminded me of Prime Suspect, so if you liked that you will probably like this.

7/10

Jfingers

SteveRobinson said:

equalsql said:

Rye Lane Disney+

This is top of my to-watch list. I watched the first 15 minutes last night and thought that Mrs R would like it so stopped and will watch it with her tonight.

@SteveRobinson if you were to change Mrs R to Mrs J, and apply it to multiple films then that would be my televisual life.

Haych

Superintelligence (Prime)

A super-intelligent AI, voiced by James Corden, becomes self aware and infiltrates pretty much every electronic device it wants to (don't think too hard).

While deciding on whether it will help or destroy humanity it chooses Carol Peters (Melissa McCarthy) as a case study, as she's the most average and unambitious human on the planet, to help it decide the future of humankind.

It invades her life with humorous consequences and while she tries to reconcile with her ex (Bobby Cannavale) the likes of Microsoft and the government all want a piece of the action as Carol seems to be the only contact the AI has chosen to have with humans.

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this, most films I've seen having Melissa McCarthy in the lead role have been an unfunny swear-fest but this was appropriately rated PG and I don't think she uttered one foul word the entire run time.

It ended up being quite entertaining, even if it wasn't belly-achingly hilarious, and quite a sweet film with the love story between Carol and her ex nicely interwoven into the plot.

Melissa McCarthy is also strangely attractive in this film, maybe that's a by-product of her not effing and jeffing every third word?

Above average 7/10