What films have you watched recently?

Stratavarious

Count of Monte Cristo (1975)

Hugely watchable. They really knew how to make a solid movie in the past.  

8/10 

bobblehat

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Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Prime. 

Having known almost nothing about this I went in eyes open. Enjoyed the set up with the laundry and the lesbian daughter and then it was 8 hours of sci fi nonsense, FFS the multiverse thing has been done to death. I can see the Oscars for technical aspects and nothing wrong with the individual performances but it was just very, very boring. 

Agreed, I thought it was going somewhere at first but eventually it just went round in circles. I don't think it got anywhere near justifying the acclaim.

I'm normally a big fan of surreal movies but only got 45 mins into this film and gave up. If I'd watched it at the cinema I'd have walked out. I just found it annoying and didn't care about any of the characters. 

Boring. Not even worthy of a score.

I also wasn't as bowled over by it as the Oscar judges apparently were. My complaint with it was that it seemed like a sketch show with a variety of 10-15 min skits. I thought some of them were great and really funny, but a good chunk of them missed the mark for me and I got bored.

Very disjointed, but I did enjoy quite a lot of it. Definitely not Best Picture worthy, even though it wasn't exactly a vintage year.

We gave up well before the end.

Me too.  We can't all be missing something surely? 

Offset

bobblehat said:

Offset said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Shrews said:

tony99 said:

EricTheWeary said:

Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Prime. 

Having known almost nothing about this I went in eyes open. Enjoyed the set up with the laundry and the lesbian daughter and then it was 8 hours of sci fi nonsense, FFS the multiverse thing has been done to death. I can see the Oscars for technical aspects and nothing wrong with the individual performances but it was just very, very boring. 

Agreed, I thought it was going somewhere at first but eventually it just went round in circles. I don't think it got anywhere near justifying the acclaim.

I'm normally a big fan of surreal movies but only got 45 mins into this film and gave up. If I'd watched it at the cinema I'd have walked out. I just found it annoying and didn't care about any of the characters. 

Boring. Not even worthy of a score.

I also wasn't as bowled over by it as the Oscar judges apparently were. My complaint with it was that it seemed like a sketch show with a variety of 10-15 min skits. I thought some of them were great and really funny, but a good chunk of them missed the mark for me and I got bored.

Very disjointed, but I did enjoy quite a lot of it. Definitely not Best Picture worthy, even though it wasn't exactly a vintage year.

We gave up well before the end.

Me too.  We can't all be missing something surely? 

Emperor's new clothes.

strumjoughlamps

Dogma,  I hadn't watched it for a good few years, still one of my all time fave films.

SteveRobinson

Us (2019)

Didn't really enjoy this to be honest, not nearly as good as Get Out imo.

I understood what the film is saying but found the idea of the Tethered too far fetched.

Importantly, what did they feed the rabbits?

axisus

We have a ghost - netflix.

One of those comedies with heart. Not laugh out loud stuff, but I quite enjoyed it. Easy role for David Harbour, he doesn't speak once! To be honest it is too long, I think it was around 2h 7m, but a film like this really needs to be more like 1h 40 in my opinion.

With my empathy cap on I find stories like this sad, as it's basically a nice guy who got killed. I don't think that's a spoiler considering the title!

Hmmnn ... score maybe 6.5/10. I think it misfires in places although I did like it.

JEM

Good Vibrations - iPlayer

Biopic of the "Godfather of Belfast Punk" Terri Hooley. I'd never heard of Terri Hooley or Good Vibrations so I didn't really know what to expect. Richard Dormer is very good as Terri as is Jodie Whittacker as Ruth. Some of the other casting is a bit dubious and the tight budget shows sometimes but otherwise I found it very enjoyable. 

Worth catching before it disappears from iPlayer.

goldtop

Tried to watch Ted (Amazon Prime) last night. I've obviously grown up a bit. Either that or Macfarlane's humour is best done in smaller chunks. There are proper ROFLs, but they're outnumbered by a lot of laboured gags. I only watched about a third of it, so can award it 1.2/3.3. 

Philly_Q

Project Wolf Hunting (Amazon Prime)

A cargo ship is used to extradite a large group of criminals, accompanied by an equal number of cops, from the Philippines to South Korea.  The crooks soon manage to escape and much violence ensues, but there's a greater danger on board...

I'd heard about this a few months ago and thought it sounded amazing, but... it isn't.  The plot is paper thin, derivative, incoherent and doesn't justify the lengthy running time.  As always in body-count movies, it gets a little better when the number of survivors is down to single figures and the characters start be be distinguishable from each other, but I don't want to give it that much praise.  I like a violent movie, but this is just two hours of crunching bones and blood running down walls and corridors, it's idiotic and it's too much.

The end hints at a sequel which, let's be honest, I'll probably watch.  I hate myself.

Offset

^^ Added to my watch-list :-)

Philly_Q

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^^ Added to my watch-list :-)

Don't say I didn't warn you.  You might like it, I can see how people would, but for me it got the tone wrong, as often happens in horror movies.  It's quite a personal thing, it's interesting going to FrightFest every year and hearing that a film which is regarded as the very best by some of the audience is seen as the absolute worst by others.

Offset

I'll let you know how I get on.  It has the ingredients I usually like for this sort of film.

Haych

The Revenant

Very well made and some of the scenery is stunning but a bit long and boring really. 

guitargeek62

Flash

Much better than I expected it to be, but still a little clunky. Reasonable plot and script, (mostly) decent visuals, neat score, lots of fan service.

6.5/10

Philly_Q

Brooklyn 45 (Shudder)

December 27, 1945.  Five friends, all with connections to the US military or military intelligence, get together at the request of Clive, an Army colonel who, it turns out, wants to conduct a seance to contact his wife, who recently killed herself.  

This feels much like a filmed play, taking place in real time with a small cast, essentially in one room.  There are horror elements but it feels more like An Inspector Calls, with each person revealing their true character, and deepest prejudices, as the evening progresses.  Not much fun, but well worth a watch.

Keiko

The Black Demon - One of the worst films I've ever seen. Plot is ridiculous, but worst of all it's just boring, and there's not even any eye candy in it. 1/10.

Sisu - 7/10. Strangely watchable, but completely ridiculous. I'm hoping this was made as a bit of a comedy or tongue in cheek action film. "Most action films are unbelievable, so lets make one that really takes the piss..." If watching Bond films annoy you because "why don't they just shoot him when they've got the chance?" then this film will really wind you up!

Sassafras

Sid and Nancy.
I couldn't wait for it to be over.
It was no Harry & Meghan.

BigBearKris

"Nefarious" (2023).

Pretty decent theological horror - heavily dialogue based but well acted. 
6.666/10

"Indiana Jones" (2023).

Not sure about that one - I didn't enjoy it much. It supposedly had all the right bits - action, different exotic locations, some humour, but I found it tedious and there was next to no chemistry between Ford and Waller-Bridge (Helena). 
Watchable but on lazy Sunday afternoon on TV, not worth paying for cinema ticket IMHO.
4/10

Offset

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

^^ Added to my watch-list :-)

Don't say I didn't warn you.  You might like it, I can see how people would, but for me it got the tone wrong, as often happens in horror movies.  It's quite a personal thing, it's interesting going to FrightFest every year and hearing that a film which is regarded as the very best by some of the audience is seen as the absolute worst by others.

I should have heeded your warning.  Gave up well before the end :-(

Philly_Q

Offset said:

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

^^ Added to my watch-list :-)

Don't say I didn't warn you.  You might like it, I can see how people would, but for me it got the tone wrong, as often happens in horror movies.  It's quite a personal thing, it's interesting going to FrightFest every year and hearing that a film which is regarded as the very best by some of the audience is seen as the absolute worst by others.

I should have heeded your warning.  Gave up well before the end :-(

Wow!  I wasn't expecting that.