What films have you watched recently?

DrCornelius

CavemanGrogg said:

DrCornelius said:

CavemanGrogg said:

That pretty much describes over 90% of British films over the last 20 years.

We watched Major Payne this evening, first time either of us have watched it, it had us in bloody stitches, and almost on the floor with laughter.

It gets a solid 8 out of 10 from us.

If that’s the one with Damon Wayans in then where did you see that Grogg ? I saw that in the cinema in the States about 30 years ago and it cracked me up, always kept an eye out for it since but haven’t seen it anywhere 

That's the one, we bought the HD version of it from the Google TV/Google Play store for something like £6, if you keep an eye on the ''Deals on popular movies'' section in the Google TV/Google Play store, the HD version is often found in there for under a fiver, though I don't know if these deals are catered to your viewing/purchase choices, we often see it in there though.  We didn't buy it from that section the other night though, it wasn't in there, we paid full price for the HD version, which as I said, cost us something like £6.  A lot of people said we should watch it, and they weren't wrong, it is bloody funny.

Thanks for that , I’ll watch that when we get back from holiday and see if I still laugh at the same bits :-)

rze99

Paris Exit

Movie 2020 Film4 

Quirky and European style satire of money-society decadence, with some daft witchery.

Formerly loaded depressed Manhattan socialite (deliciously played by wastedly elegant Michelle Pfeiffer) has been left high and dry financially by her ex-husband and ends up with pile of bank notes from the emergency sale of goods.

Now socially ruined by her lowly financial status, a kind pal offers her the use of her Parisian apartment to escape the New York cold shoulder and rebuild her esteem. 

Near suicidal, she sets sail for Paris accompanied on her liner by damaged space cadet adult son (Lucas Hedges) and their black cat, "Small Frank", who imaginary, or not, is a a form of channel for her ex-husband.  And so she arrives in Paris in a lovely flat a pile of cash and zero spirit. Will she recover or sink further?

It's pretty slight and silly but it's engaging and worth watching for Pfeiffer's decadent descent into oblivion with nothing left to live for. The cigarette lighter scene in the Paris restaurant is one of a number of minor highlights. 

6/10

  

sinbaadi

In need of something we didn't really need to pay attention to we watched

Unfrosted.  2024 Netflix

Utterly silly but some funny moments.  
Rubbish, but hard to dislike it really.

Kurtis

sinbaadi said:

In need of something we didn't really need to pay attention to we watched

Unfrosted.  2024 Netflix

Utterly silly but some funny moments.  
Rubbish, but hard to dislike it really.

I quite enjoyed it. Even though Jerry S makes me a little nauseous. 

Haych

Lou (Netflix)

Allison Janney is Lou, a sixty something year old woman living on Orcas Island on the northwest coast of the US in the early/mid 80s.

She's a loner with a shady past, and seems to like nobody.

When the young daughter of her neighbour is abducted on the night of a violent storm, Lou answers the call to find her.

Fairly formulaic and predictable.  It tries to have a deeper sub-plot and tries to save that particular twist for the end but Stevie Wonder would see it coming a mile away if he was locked in an underground bunker.

5/10

Haych

The Cloverfield Paradox

I can't decide if I've seen this one before or whether it just seems so familiar because it's the same as every other mediocre everything-goes-wrong-in-space sci fi flick.

So the story goes; the world is on the brink of all out war over energy, because there's precious little of it - enough to fuel a war, mind, but little else.  A crew of half a dozen scientists are on a space station orbiting earth ready to run an experiment that if successful will provide free, limitless energy for everyone on the planet,

That's the first paradox - we have no energy so we'll build a complicated space station and somehow find the energy to build and send that into orbit?

Of course, when they fire the particle accelerator in space something goes wrong and by means of science that the crew doesn't figure out until the end of the film, it transports them to a different dimension where things start getting really quite weird.

Then everything goes wrong and people start dying before the crew suddenly find the missing piece of information by sheer chance that made the experiment go wrong and which can now reverse their fortunes, well - those that are left anyway, and send them back to their own dimension and, bonus, we can now do that free energy thing too!

It definitely tries to capture vibes of Event Horizon in parts but never really manages the same tension.  Some of the casting choices are questionable, mostly a bunch of never-heard-ofs, but cast along side Chris O'Dowd?  Don't get me wrong, I like Chris, a lot, but he's always going to be the Irish funny man even if he is trying very hard not to be, and in what is meant to be a sci-fi horror he just doesn't work.

The film rides smugly on the coat-tails of the other (and better) films bearing the Cloverfield name.

3.5/10

EricTheWeary

The only film I have watched for months is Roadhouse on Prime. It’s virtue is in being so bad that once you start watching it’s hard to look away. Ticks along as mediocre but from when Conor McGregor comes on screen about an hour in it rockets away into the truly awful. 

[I am over 300 comments behind so apologies if Roadhouse has previously been dissected] 

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

The only film I have watched for months is Roadhouse on Prime. It’s virtue is in being so bad that once you start watching it’s hard to look away. Ticks along as mediocre but from when Conor McGregor comes on screen about an hour in it rockets away into the truly awful. 

[I am over 300 comments behind so apologies if Roadhouse has previously been dissected] 

@EricTheWeary it's certainly been mentioned, if not fully dissected, but glad to see you back! 

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

The only film I have watched for months is Roadhouse on Prime. It’s virtue is in being so bad that once you start watching it’s hard to look away. Ticks along as mediocre but from when Conor McGregor comes on screen about an hour in it rockets away into the truly awful. 

[I am over 300 comments behind so apologies if Roadhouse has previously been dissected] 

@EricTheWeary it's certainly been mentioned, if not fully dissected, but glad to see you back! 

Thank you 

I found the other Discussion as well. It’s a dissection you can probably do with a meat cleaver, I did enjoy it in it's way but as a piece of film making it really is stupendously bad. 

Ozzie744

I too watched "Unfrosted" and found it to be fun. It's just a silly movie about a silly subject that doesn't take itself seriously at all. A good waste of 90 minutes or so.
I also watched a horror/comedy called "Freaky". Vince Vaughn is a crazed killer who by way of an ancient dagger, switches bodies with a high school girl. Of course, the girl and her friends gave only 24 hours to switch them back.
Silly fun here too. Vaughn is good acting the part of a H.S. girl.
Not an award winner, but a fun bit of fluff with a couple of good "slasher" kills.

CavemanGrogg

Another one that mates strongly suggested we watch, Double Take.

Hard to describe the film or even give a synopsis of the movie other than to say it's an action comedy, which it really isn't, without giving away any spoilers.  This really is a film that you have to pay attention to for a hell of a lot of subtle hints, and are going to want and need to watch more than once - we've watched it 3 times in two nights now, it truly becomes a different movie, with a completely different story, the more you notice in the movie.  It's extremely clever and well done,without being pretentious or ''look how clever we are'' big headedness.

A solid 9/10 for us

EricTheWeary

The King's Speech

iPlayer 

Basically you know what is going to happen so it struggles to ratchet up the tension and I had queries about the presence of the corgis (they weren't in the royal household until Elizabeth had one for her tenth birthday)but there are some superb performances and it looks great. The impression given was that Edward was a wanker and would have been a terrible king (confirmed by the few things I know about him) although that's a bit of a sidebar. Also, Karen from Outnumbered was in it which was funny for some reason.

sinbaadi

Godzilla Minus One

Not sure I liked it that much but I'm glad that films like this are still being made.  I did find the bit at the end where he puts the little girl, who was surely going to be quite happy her "mother" isn't dead, to one side so that he can have his emotional moment a bit jarring. 

Great action sequences 

6/10

rze99

Elvis Costello And The Imposters: Live In Memphis

2006 Sky Arts 
Not a movie... OK.

Small 200 person gig in a Memphis club. I'm not really a fan of big gigs and open air gigs. I like small ones with a tight stage, tight venue and a lot of volume with the compression hitting you in the chest. Elvis and band knock 'em out at fast pace, tight but not prissy and with intent in a small club. Not a devotee, but I admire him ad this is top class.
Nice array of vintage guitars too,

It's excellent

8/10

Philly_Q

Under Paris (Netflix)

A marine scientist, a team of river police and a group of young environmental activists get in each others' way whilst trying to deal with a giant shark which has somehow made its way into the river Seine... on the eve of a triathlon scheduled to launch Paris Olympic year.

This is a bit slow to get going, has some dodgy CGI and a lot of standard shark-movie plot cliches, but I really liked the Paris settings and the action, eventually, gets pretty crazy.  Directed by hit-or-miss action/horror specialist Xavier Gens, this isn't anything amazing but it's a lot better than The Meg or 47 Meters Down.

equalsql

The Waterboy (1998)

Oh dear, oh dear. Honestly I have no words to really describe just how bad this film is.
I didn't think it would even be possible to make such a shyte piece of cinema.
The 'humour' is pathetically juvenile, I can't believe that an actor even as bad as Adam Sandler would have touched this turd. The script must have been written by a couple of 9 nine year old lads who had broken into their parent's liquor cabinet and got wasted on the contents.

Appalling.

-10/10

Haych

Under Paris

Somehow this is number one in Netflix films and has been getting rave reviews. This won’t be one of them. 

A giant Mako shark has found its way to the river Seine and is living in the catacombs below Paris a couple of weeks before a massive triathlon event is due to start. 

A bunch of activists want to save it, the main protagonist, who resembles a young Cliff Richards and whose entire team was wiped out by the same shark by sheer coincidence three years earlier in the pacific, wants to destroy it. 

The triathlon organisers and politicians want to ignore it.  

Oh yeah, and the shark is magically able to reproduce without mating so there are hundreds of its offspring also in the river. 

To be blunt, it’s utter bollocks. It takes half the runtime to get started and the last half of the runtime for everything to predictably go wrong. 

The acting is terrible, the plot laughable and there are enough loopholes in it to knit a sweater. 

And it’s dubbed. Half the time it looks like they used AI to sync the dialogue and you don’t notice, but the budget obviously wasn’t that large to cover the entire movie. 

Save yourself and don’t bother. 

Keiko

Ralph Breaks The Internet (bbc iplayer) . 8/10

Killler fillum.

Philly_Q

Haych said:

Under Paris

.....   And it’s dubbed. Half the time it looks like they used AI to sync the dialogue and you don’t notice, but the budget obviously wasn’t that large to cover the entire movie. 

@Haych I didn't notice the dubbing issue.  Were you watching in French or English?

Haych

Philly_Q said:

Haych said:

Under Paris

.....   And it’s dubbed. Half the time it looks like they used AI to sync the dialogue and you don’t notice, but the budget obviously wasn’t that large to cover the entire movie. 

@Haych I didn't notice the dubbing issue.  Were you watching in French or English?

@Philly_Q t’was English.