What films have you watched recently?

Philly_Q

HAL9000 said:

Mr Turner. Despite starring the excellent Timothy Spall, and at the risk of being branded a philistine, I would seriously recommend not wasting two miserable hours of your lives on this.

It was on at the London Film Festival, but I thought I could tell just from the look on Timothy Spall's face in the posters exactly what (a) his performance and (b) the film were going to be like.  Not for me.

boogieman

Bad Neighbours. Seth Rogan being crass, as usual. Not bad, has a couple of funnyish moments.

Snap

I watched WIllow Creek the other night. Found footage film about bigfoot hunting. yes, when I look at that written down I now see that I should have know it was to be total shite.

I have Cabin In The WOods to watch yet, that looks good, perhaphs

dafuzz

Boyhood - 5/10

After the initial "wow they took 14 years to make this, amazing" wore off, it's basically a three part TV drama smushed together to create one arse-numbingly long movie about the making of an emo teen. Never quite descended into dull and so I managed to watch the lot in one sitting, but if I wasn't massively hungover I probably would've found something better to do. Linklater still likes his angsty quasi-existential soliloquies and they really start mounting up in the last half hour or so as the film fumbles around in an effort to justify itself. Not bad but not recommended.

dafuzz

TMNT - 6/10

Yay Turtles! Roughly follows the plot of the first movie, Shredder and Splinter now extra badass, Megan Fox ftw. Missing Casey Jones though so I knocked off a couple points for that

Hertz32

The Babadook - 6/10
Had a reasonable amount of promise, yet it was just a bit too long for what it was, and is the only horror I have seen to have a happy ending. 

The Edge Of Tomorrow - 7/10
Groundhog day with aliens, guns and Emily blunt. 'nuff said

The 25th Reich - don't even bother/10

So shit, it's actually shit. Built up a load of tension, then got outright weird when a giant metal nazi spider butt rapes an american without warning. WTF

Hertz32

The Grey - 6/10 
Liam Neeson plays a depressed hunter-type in a plane crash. I enjoyed it but i can see how some might find it boring. 

The Silence Of The Lambs - 9/10 
A classic for a reason, one of my favourite films now. Great psychological thriller that is oddly captivating. 

Battle Royale - 8.5/10

The hunger games concept, but Japanese and WAY MORE FUCKING BRUTAL @Drew_FX might enjoy it actually. 
Thoroughly enjoyable.

Oldboy (Original Japanese) - 8/10
Long, and difficult to watch but worth the effort. Freaky in all the right places.

not_the_dj

I'm an hour into Battleship.....guffaw  :O)

Col_Decker

Alvin & The Chipmunks "Chipwreked"

 

Worse than it sounds, though there was a nice lady in it who even though she had a bit of a conk was still very nice to look at.

1/10 for the film

7/10 for Jenny Slate (the nice lady with a bit of a conk)

 

fretmeister

The Raid.

I know it's the same story as Dredd (and I know that Dredd was written first, but released second) but it was still very enjoyable.

The fight scenes were excellently performed and they had enough old school kung-fu influence to make them really entertaining, even if in real life fights don't last that long.

As with all subtitled movies sometimes I ended up reading too much and missing the action, and sometimes forgetting to read!

A very solid 7/10

holnrew

In the cartoon the chipmunks were human boy sized, it doesn't make any sense. 

Drew_TNBD

Hertz32 said:

The Grey - 6/10 
Liam Neeson plays a depressed hunter-type in a plane crash. I enjoyed it but i can see how some might find it boring. 

The Silence Of The Lambs - 9/10 
A classic for a reason, one of my favourite films now. Great psychological thriller that is oddly captivating. 

Battle Royale - 8.5/10

The hunger games concept, but Japanese and WAY MORE FUCKING BRUTAL @Drew_FX might enjoy it actually. 
Thoroughly enjoyable.

Oldboy (Original Japanese) - 8/10
Long, and difficult to watch but worth the effort. Freaky in all the right places.

JFYI, Oldboy is Korean, not Japanese.

You massive racist you

(Yes I love Battle Royale)

ThePrettyDamned

Battle royale 2.

What the fuck. Don't waste your time.

0/10.

I really want to watch the babadook.

Philly_Q

ThePrettyDamned said:

I really want to watch the babadook.

Don't expect too much. 

I saw it at Frightfest this year, some people really loved it.  Personally I thought it had some very good moments but overall...not so sure.

boogieman

Col_Decker said:

Alvin & The Chipmunks "Chipwreked"

 

Worse than it sounds

 

Is that even possible?

Lixarto

This one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/RedAlert.jpg

A prize for the first person to correctly identify the film.

Col_Decker

Blackhole?

Lixarto

Col_Decker said:

Blackhole?

No.

not_the_dj

Something Star Trekkie?...in fact "Star Trek the Motion Picture"

randomhandclaps

Drew_fx said:

Hertz32 said:

The Grey - 6/10 
Liam Neeson plays a depressed hunter-type in a plane crash. I enjoyed it but i can see how some might find it boring. 

The Silence Of The Lambs - 9/10 
A classic for a reason, one of my favourite films now. Great psychological thriller that is oddly captivating. 

Battle Royale - 8.5/10

The hunger games concept, but Japanese and WAY MORE FUCKING BRUTAL @Drew_FX might enjoy it actually. 
Thoroughly enjoyable.

Oldboy (Original Japanese) - 8/10
Long, and difficult to watch but worth the effort. Freaky in all the right places.

JFYI, Oldboy is Korean, not Japanese.

You massive racist you

(Yes I love Battle Royale)

JFYI, @Drew_fx it's South Korean, not Korean.

You massive insensitive KimJong loving commie. 

(Yes I too love Battle Royale)