What films have you watched recently?

rze99

Emp_Fab said:

'Pride' - The 2014 comedy-drama about a group of LGBT activists in London who supported the miners in the 1984 strike.

Stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine among others.

I've seen it before but it's a fabulous film - gets 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It's funny, poignant, inspiring and uplifting.

Don't let the subject matter put you off - watch it.  I promise you you will be glad you did.

I enjoyed it too except I just couldn’t believe in Dominic West’s campfest. 

Timcito

Offset said:

Timcito said:

Some films are so stupid they defy reason. Cabin in the Woods, directed by Joss Whedon. is one such. It's a kind of horror-fantasy-gore extravaganza which satisfies on no discernible level. Ridiculous is the best word for it from the basement in which I'm sitting!  

Ha ha!  One of my favourite movies of the genre!

Oh no! I am sorry - maybe I watched it with the wrong mindset.

Offset

^^ Don't apologise Tim - horses for courses 'n' all that :-)

rze99

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

comedy / spoof

I watched this on Friday night after the day of the "Worlds Worst IT Mass Outage!". After a long work day of pain and misery I wanted something light to have a couple of strong drinks with and, as it's Rowan Atkinson,  I knew there'd be at least one Aston Martin to drool over.

Little did I know that the script premise was prescient.

A mass cyberattack reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the secret service's last hope. Called out of retirement, English dives headfirst into action with the mission to find the mastermind hacker and presumed causer of multiple high profile cyber attacks on key infrastructure. As a man with few skills and analogue methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success.

Plot Spoiler:

It turns out that the world's most important cyber defence company CEO  is..... the cyber attacker disabling key infrastructure!!!!

Silly nonsense with the occasional snigger.

5/10

9/10 for the Aston Martin. it would have been a 10, but, sorry, red is NOT the right colour for a vintage V8 Vantage.

PS Bond level girl in nice outfits is pleasing on the eye.

Offset

Hellboy: Blood & Iron (2007), Prime.

Animation with Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Peri Gilpin.  Absolutely brilliant.

10/10.

sinbaadi

Skywalkers (2024) Netflix

A look at the lives of two young people who like to go to the tops of tall structures and take photos.  It's interesting, feels very dramatised with the "one last job and we're done" type stuff. 

It's a well made windo into a "sport" that few understand though.  I still don't get it really but they do take some amazing pictures.  For me the problem is that the climbing itself is not difficult at all really, most is designed to be climbed by normal maintenance people, albeit with fall protection.  There is a moment where one of them says "nobody has seen this" and there is a raft of different infrastructure bits and bobs which people have been up there installing. 

Anyway, worth a watch. 

7/10

Timcito

Offset said:

^^ Don't apologise Tim - horses for courses 'n' all that :-)

I guess so!

Jfingers

The Skin Of The Wolf - Netflix

In Spanish, English subtitles, barely any dialogue to read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_the_Wolf

spoilers lie within the wiki link obvs...

Good 9/10 for me while everything was quiet.

A bit rapey in parts, still an excellent film.

EricTheWeary

Weird: the Al Yankovic Story

Prime

Well, very much does what it says on the tin. It's weird. 
I had presumed it was an WAY biopic which it is but, well, a parody of a biopic for someone who made parodies. It is dragged out well beyond the breaking point of the joke but Daniel Radcliffe is very watchable in the main role. 
Jack Black playing, well probably doesn't matter what the role is supposed to be it's very much just Jack Black. 

ICBM

Philly_Q said:

Lord Of Misrule (Shudder)

Rebecca, her husband Henry and daughter Grace have recently moved to an idyllic English village where Rebecca has been appointed as the local vicar.  All's fine until Grace disappears during the harvest festival... and the "friendly" locals seem to be doing their best to prevent her being found.

This couldn't be more Folk Horror if it tried... quaint little cottages, misty fields, pagan rituals, annoying folk songs, creepy masked figures, a clash between Christianity and an older, darker religion.  Ralph Ineson adds a touch of class and commitment as the leading antagonist.  The film gets nearly everything right... but to me it feels like like it's all over-familiar and they're just trying too hard.  It's worth a watch though, you might like it more than I did.

Sounds like it’s at least heavily inspired by The Wicker Man…

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

Philly_Q said:

Lord Of Misrule (Shudder)

Rebecca, her husband Henry and daughter Grace have recently moved to an idyllic English village where Rebecca has been appointed as the local vicar.  All's fine until Grace disappears during the harvest festival... and the "friendly" locals seem to be doing their best to prevent her being found.

This couldn't be more Folk Horror if it tried... quaint little cottages, misty fields, pagan rituals, annoying folk songs, creepy masked figures, a clash between Christianity and an older, darker religion.  Ralph Ineson adds a touch of class and commitment as the leading antagonist.  The film gets nearly everything right... but to me it feels like like it's all over-familiar and they're just trying too hard.  It's worth a watch though, you might like it more than I did.

Sounds like it’s at least heavily inspired by The Wicker Man…

It would probably work a lot better if there was no such thing as The Wicker Man, but it's like an elephant in the room.

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Alien (1979)

Saw the latest trailer for the new one due later this year, so thought I'd go back to the start and make my way through from the start.

Unsurprisingly, the original is still an absolute stone cold classic. Fantastic ratcheting up of the tension like any great horror movie, and just so many iconic scenes, individual shots and lines.

10/10

Gonna watch Aliens and maybe Alien³, then Prometheus and possibly Covenant . All the others can get fucked.

VimFuego

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Alien (1979)

Saw the latest trailer for the new one due later this year, so thought I'd go back to the start and make my way through from the start.

Unsurprisingly, the original is still an absolute stone cold classic. Fantastic ratcheting up of the tension like any great horror movie, and just so many iconic scenes, individual shots and lines.

10/10

Gonna watch Aliens and maybe Alien³, then Prometheus and possibly Covenant . All the others can get fucked.

a movie with not one wasted minute, from start to finish a stone cold classic.

Timcito

I saw the original Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney Sr, the other night.

One thing that struck me about it in comparison with later talking versions is just how frighteningly dreamlike and surrealistic many of the scenes in this silent version are. There are moments like tableaux which remain with the viewer long after the film is over, like the image of the phantom's shadow cast against a wall as he speaks to Christine for the first time, the demasking scene in the catacombs, the phantom dressed as death in a broad-brimmed hat descending the staircase of the opera house, and when he hangs above the two unaware lovers at the top of the opera house, his cloaks swirling about him and his scorched skull face twisted in the torment of betrayal.

Perhaps it owed something to the experimental period in art which took place in the 1920s. For me, at any rate, it had a nightmarish power which eluded the later more prosaic versions.    

WYNIR0

Twisters.

Enjoyable enough action movie with excellent special effects but sadly the plot was paper thin and Daisy Edgar Jones American accent comes and goes.

Brio

Was there a flying cow?

Winny_Pooh

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Alien (1979)

Saw the latest trailer for the new one due later this year, so thought I'd go back to the start and make my way through from the start.

Unsurprisingly, the original is still an absolute stone cold classic. Fantastic ratcheting up of the tension like any great horror movie, and just so many iconic scenes, individual shots and lines.

10/10

Gonna watch Aliens and maybe Alien³, then Prometheus and possibly Covenant . All the others can get fucked.

Like me you may find Aliens disappointing. It's basically a shoot em up 80's action movie.

I wish they'd have done an coherent Prometheus, it had such potential.

Offset

I love both Alien and Aliens - both brilliant but in totally different ways.  Alien3 is awful, Resurrection isn't a whole load better, Prometheus is significantly flawed but I like it now after many viewings -  and Covenant has its' moments but ultimately has just too many flaws to make it anything other than a failure.

I'm really looking forward to Romulus.

Jfingers

The Skin Of The Wolf - Netflix

Better than The Revenant IMHO, Spanish with subtitles although dialogue is minimal. A bit 'Rapey' in parts.

Obviously spoilers in this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_the_Wolf

I watched it alone on a very quiet night. Solid 9/10 for me. Not one to watch while people chat.

Philly_Q

@Jfingers have you watched it twice in two days?