What films have you watched recently?

axisus

French Kiss (amazon). I'm not big on Rom Coms but I've always liked this one. Kevin Kline is superb as the dodgy French guy, and Meg Ryan does what she used to do well back in the 90s. You also get a bit of Jean Reno for your money. 

So, it was nice and all, but there was one thing that really bugged me that I forgot about - a few times in the film Reno and Kline have conversations in French - with no subtitles! Also, if you actually enable subtitles for the movie, all it puts each time is the words "(Speaks French)". Clearly the director thought that it wasn't important to know what was being said, however, I find it infuriating. So French speaking viewers get an extra slice of the film that they rest of the world can't have!?! Sucks big time, particularly as I would like to know what was said in the last conversation.

That aside, I guess I'd give it 7/10. As mentioned, it was ... nice.

sinbaadi

The 2 part Charlie Sheen biographical film, on Netflix.

Wow

axisus

sinbaadi said:

The 2 part Charlie Sheen biographical film, on Netflix.

Wow

Wow can have quite a few meanings, care to elaborate?

sinbaadi

axisus said:

sinbaadi said:

The 2 part Charlie Sheen biographical film, on Netflix.

Wow

Wow can have quite a few meanings, care to elaborate?

He has led an incredible life, and the documentary is quite shocking in its frank portrayal of that.  I think perhaps the most incredible thing is that he is in it, and that it's not posthumous.

Brio

I like Charlie Sheen. He makes me look normal and reasonable.

BigBearKris

axisus said:

sinbaadi said:

The 2 part Charlie Sheen biographical film, on Netflix.

Wow

Wow can have quite a few meanings, care to elaborate?

I think OP was initially lacking appropriate words to describe the sheer craziness of life of Mr Sheen. 
Example (hard to spoil a bio-documentary) - Sheen opens the films with the story of piloting a passenger jet whilst drunk and on coke.

Winny_Pooh

Mission Impossible: Final reckoning

The franchise has fallen very far from it's peak Rogue Nation days.
This is a film for 12 year olds. Every plot point is explained in detail and recapped in the first 30 mins. The story moves from start to the planned end goal with no surprises, no twists and as such no real tension. Bad guys are usually stunned in physical combat, knife fights replace a good shot in the head. The baddie laughs crazily for no reason. Our man has a sexy relationship with a puppy eyed adoring woman but with no kissing and no sex. The underground lair of the US is a joke. (100 backlit drafting tables makes a command centre?) I could go on.. 
The plot holes are insane, like the protagonists just walking into the worlds "most inpenetrable data centre". 

3/10

axisus

Waterworld (Amazon). A much maligned film on release, I actually think that this is a pretty entertaining romp, putting all daftness an illogical stuff aside. For me there were two good things about the film - Costner's fabulous twin hull boat and the way he leaps around it doing everything when 'stuff' is going down, and secondly Costner himself. I found him to be believable in the raggedy hero role, he had enough of a physique to pull it off and just looked the part. I looked up, and apparently it is now often considered a misunderstood sci-fi classic. anyway, for pure enjoyment I'm going 7.5/10, but then I do like a bit of dystopian future. 

I never realised before, but Jack Black appears in the film for a short spell! You wouldn't particularly know it though, he's a pilot with a lot of get-up on. 

Philly_Q

axisus said:

Waterworld (Amazon). A much maligned film on release, I actually think that this is a pretty entertaining romp, putting all daftness an illogical stuff aside. For me there were two good things about the film - Costner's fabulous twin hull boat and the way he leaps around it doing everything when 'stuff' is going down, and secondly Costner himself. I found him to be believable in the raggedy hero role, he had enough of a physique to pull it off and just looked the part. I looked up, and apparently it is now often considered a misunderstood sci-fi classic. anyway, for pure enjoyment I'm going 7.5/10, but then I do like a bit of dystopian future. 

Yeah, it got ripped to shreds at the time but I saw it in the cinema and thought it really wasn't that bad.  I've got the Blu-ray with the theatrical cut and the extended version, but I've never watched the latter.

However, Costner's next three-hour epic, The Postman, was every bit as bad as the critics said.  I think I have it on VHS...

Lodious

The Town (Netflix)

Ben Affleck stars in and directs this Boston based crime thriller. Well paced solid film with some good performances and a slightly different take on traditional cops and robbers movies. 

7/10 

Grangousier

Went to see One Battle After Another at the IMAX. Stunning, and startlingly up-to-date considering how long it takes to make a movie. Everyone and everything in it is excellent, and I hope it wins the Best Picture Oscar, partly because it deserves it (can't think of anything more deserving this year), partly because it will really piss off Donnie and his goons.

relayar

Just checked out some trailers for this ^^^^ filum. Looks really entertaining. I do rate Paul Thomas Anderson as a filmmaker; Magnolia is magnificent, imo. If I don't see this one at the cinema I'll get it on BluRay.

Ta for the heads up.

John

ICBM

axisus said:

Waterworld (Amazon). A much maligned film on release, I actually think that this is a pretty entertaining romp, putting all daftness an illogical stuff aside. For me there were two good things about the film - Costner's fabulous twin hull boat and the way he leaps around it doing everything when 'stuff' is going down, and secondly Costner himself.

Three - the very end of it has one of the best movie jokes ever. But only at the time - the relevance has faded now, although those who remember a bit of history will still get it.

axisus

ICBM said:

axisus said:

Waterworld (Amazon). A much maligned film on release, I actually think that this is a pretty entertaining romp, putting all daftness an illogical stuff aside. For me there were two good things about the film - Costner's fabulous twin hull boat and the way he leaps around it doing everything when 'stuff' is going down, and secondly Costner himself.

Three - the very end of it has one of the best movie jokes ever. But only at the time - the relevance has faded now, although those who remember a bit of history will still get it.

er ... can't quite think what you are referring to there? Care to add a spoiler?

ICBM

Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon

We were looking for something lightweight last night and spotted this, which I think came out just after our kids had moved on to more adult-oriented stuff, so we'd never seen it.

Aardman animated comedy - basically ET with Shaun The Sheep. There are the usual huge number of in-jokes and references to classic movies - not just a very specific one to ET, but everything from Men In Black to Robocop to 2001: A Space Odyssey - plus Star Trek and Dr. Who. You'll spend as much time laughing at all those as the humour itself.

If you like Aardman it's hard to go wrong - possibly not among their very best, but a very enjoyable one. If I have a minor criticism it's that a couple of the songs on the soundtrack don't really quite fit with the vibe of it, especially as they're songs whereas the rest of the movie (in typical Shaun style) has no actual dialogue.

8/10

(iPlayer)

ICBM

axisus said:

er ... can't quite think what you are referring to there? Care to add a spoiler?

When Dennis Hopper's oil tanker sinks at the end...

... and the name on the back of the rusting hulk is Exxon Valdez.

(Unfortunately the Wikipedia write-up gives that away - you don't know until you see it, in the film.)

LPManic

Jurassic Park Rebirth

The original Jurassic Park might be my favourite cinema experience ever (I was a young 10 years old and believed all the magic) so I have a soft spot for these films. Really wanted to like this one but it is boring. Not good, not bad, just boring (and it's only 2 hours). No real peril in it. No real tension. So obvious from the beginning. I actually think the CGI or whatever they use now looks worse than the original movie. I found all the characters unlikable (maybe that was the point?). The dad hurts his leg real bad in one scene and then you see him running around at various parts after etc etc. Dialogue awful. The sub-plot family maybe the best ones in the film.

And the dinosaurs? The reviews seemed to have glossed over the most important thing in this film and that's the fact all the dinosaurs in the movie are man-made cross breeds. I think (strangely) that adds a bit of sympathy for them. And I think the fact they are cross-breeds actually adds something to the final boss dino too. 

Anyhow, yes it is worth watching but I just found it  all bloody obvious. I'm not sure it actually adds anything to the overall series even though it's better than the last few as the last ones were awful. I'd love a movie that actually gave the dinosaurs a bit of agency and made the humans the supporting cast.

Maybe a 7/10 but really a 6.5/10

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Grangousier said:

Went to see One Battle After Another at the IMAX. Stunning, and startlingly up-to-date considering how long it takes to make a movie. Everyone and everything in it is excellent, and I hope it wins the Best Picture Oscar, partly because it deserves it (can't think of anything more deserving this year), partly because it will really piss off Donnie and his goons.

Apparently he wrote the movie 20+ years ago, which makes all the more remarkable that it seems so current!

One Battle After Another (2025)

I was really excited for seeing this as a huge PT Anderson fan, but tried to remain as detached and impartial as possible. Also I avoided reading any reviews or synopses.

Couldn't help but be completely sucked in and engrossed from start to finish. Probably the best new film one seen all year. Can't really give it anything other than...

10/10

Stratavarious

Unforgiven

Been quite a few years since I last watched this Clint Eastwood flick. A genuinely great addition to the Western genre.

Hard to fault.  

9/10

goldtop

Downton Abbey - The Grand Finale (cinema) - impossibly sweet, with happy endings for everyone, no intrigue and no plot. New characters are paper-thin, many old characters are just there to provide familiar scenery for the main characters.

We only went out of habit. I suppose it's the natural end for a TV series that felt authentic at the start but slowly morphed into a soap opera with too few characters to support new plotlines.

1/10