What film did you watch last night?

[benb]

I'd also recommend Kill List

Kill List is astonishingly good

Kill List is a good film, but by god it's dark. Not merely dark; absolutely jet black.
One word review: harrowing.

 

[stephec]

Last night was Forbidden Ground, a WW1 story about three blokes caught in no man's land trying to get back to their trench after going over the top.

Not a bad film, but not an outstanding one either, 6/10.

 

[MontyVeda]

With all these shouts for Sightseers and Kill List... may I recommend Inbred

 

[glenn forger]

On now. It hasn't really got the longevity you'd think it would have had when it first came out. It's lovely to look at but very shallow and trite and it doesn't really make sense. Also racist against Brits.

Also


SPOILER

why the flip does she chuck the necklace in the sea? Mad old trout.

 

[AndyRM]

Kill List is a good film, but by god it's dark. Not merely dark; absolutely jet black.
One word review: harrowing.

It's blacker than a piece of coal that's been painted black sitting on tarmac. Harrowing is an excellent summary. Bruising would be mine.

@glenn forger - I assume you were handsomely rewarded for sitting through that bobbins? My take on the necklace is that her life had come full circle and she was severing the only tie she had left to the ship, Jack and Cal.

I've just finished The Woman in Black.

4/10

Stuffed with more horror cliches than you can wave a shrieking violin at, which spoils an otherwise tightly wound and suspenseful adaptation. Bears no real resemblance to the book, but is still an engaging enough story, let down by hammered in 'scares'. Daniel Radcliffe is very good though, and I have to say I'm impressed he seems to be emerging successfully from the shackled world of Harry Potter.

For even better Radcliffe action, watch A Young Doctor's Notebook, a couple of short series he did with Josh Hamm. They are excellent.

 

[John the Monkey]

One of my favourite high-fallutin' concepty films is Valhalla Rising, which I watched again this afternoon.

8/10.

An almost hallucinogenic trip about the origins of man and religion. Barely any dialogue with some beautiful cinematography. Directed by the excellent Nicolas Refn, and featuring a brutish Mads Mikkelson it's a firm favourite of mine.

I caught that last time it was shown on Film 4 (it seems to crop up a lot) very good.

Have you seen Fear X? First Refn I saw, I thought it was very impressive.

 

[AndyRM]

I caught that last time it was shown on Film 4 (it seems to crop up a lot) very good.

Have you seen Fear X? First Refn I saw, I thought it was very impressive.

Fear X is probably my least favourite Refn effort, though that's not to say it's no good, I just find other films more impressive. I'd probably put them in this order, with not much between top and bottom position:

Valhalla Rising
Pusher trilogy
Bronson
Drive
Only God Forgives
Bleeder
Fear X

His next effort is set to be I Walk With the Dead. From the little info released it sounds a bit like a cross between Drive and Only God Forgives, which could make it very good or a pretentious disaster. Either way it will be a thing of beauty so I can always watch it with the sound off like a bellend.

 

[welsh dragon]

A town called Alice with Virginia mcKena and Peter Finch. World war 2 film. And species. I never thought sir ben kingsley could make a bad film. I was wrong. What a load of pants. 2/10

 

[John the Monkey]

His next effort is set to be I Walk With the Dead. From the little info released it sounds a bit like a cross between Drive and Only God Forgives, which could make it very good or a pretentious disaster. Either way it will be a thing of beauty so I can always watch it with the sound off like a bellend.

Turn the colour right down as well, and pretend you're Steven Soderbergh.

 

[AndyRM]

A town called Alice with Virginia mcKena and Peter Finch. World war 2 film. And species. I never thought sir ben kingsley could make a bad film. I was wrong. What a load of pants. 2/10

I don't think anyone came out of Species with much credit. At least Sir Ben had the grace to look vaguely ashamed of himself all the way through. I reckon it was almost singularly designed to appeal to young chaps of a certain age (and older ones who should know better), so I suppose in that way it did well.

Last night I watched This Is Not A Film, which needs two ratings really.

As a film, I'd probably give it 3/10, since pretty much nothing happens and bits of it make no sense at all.

As a protest, and a massive f£ck you to the Iranian government it's a 10/10, purely for the fortitude you'd need to make something like it when threatened. Words like 'inspirational' and 'heartbreaking' are bandied about too often in film reviews, but they are definitely applicable here.

ETA I'm about to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey...

 

[John the Monkey]

Bah, you had post 2001 and didn't report watching "A Space Odyssey"

I started "Unknown" last night. I'm old enough to remember Liam Neeson as the star of smallish, arty films. Anyway, this looks like bog standard amnesia thriller stuff, tosh, but enjoyable enough.

Also, re: Ben Kingsley, don't forget that he was in "Thunderbirds".

 

[welsh dragon]

Bah, you had post 2001 and didn't report watching "A Space Odyssey"

I started "Unknown" last night. I'm old enough to remember Liam Neeson as the star of smallish, arty films. Anyway, this looks like bog standard amnesia thriller stuff, tosh, but enjoyable enough.

Also, re: Ben Kingsley, don't forget that he was in "Thunderbirds".

Oh. Errr. I forgot about that. Ahem

 

[AndyRM]

Bah, you had post 2001 and didn't report watching "A Space Odyssey"

I started "Unknown" last night. I'm old enough to remember Liam Neeson as the star of smallish, arty films. Anyway, this looks like bog standard amnesia thriller stuff, tosh, but enjoyable enough.

Also, re: Ben Kingsley, don't forget that he was in "Thunderbirds".

I have hastily edited my mistake.

Ben Kingsley has been in some properly woeful films. BloodRayne, Prince of Persia and The Love Guru all spring to mind

And re: Neeson, Taken has pretty much ruined him, and pigeonholed him into a frankly unbelievable hard man typecast. On first viewing I thought that Taken was decent, but then a friend pointed out that you could replace his daughter with just about any object and the film wouldn't change, which sort of ruins everything.

'I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give my golf clubs back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.'

 

[welsh dragon]

I have hastily edited my mistake.

Ben Kingsley has been in some properly woeful films. BloodRayne, Prince of Persia and The Love Guru all spring to mind

And re: Neeson, Taken has pretty much ruined him, and pigeonholed him into a frankly unbelievable hard man typecast. On first viewing I thought that Taken was decent, but then a friend pointed out that you could replace his daughter with just about any object and the film wouldn't change, which sort of ruins everything.

'I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give my golf clubs back now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.'

i'd have given you the leading role.

 

[AndyRM]

i'd have given you the leading role.

I have been recently relieved of a nice set of irons...