What film did you watch last night?

[benb]

Kingsman at the cinema.

A lot of fun, subverted the form nicely. Colin Firth was very good.
The final scene was unnecessarily gratuitous though.

 

[stephec]

I started to watch Frank, based loosely around the paper mache headed entertainer.

Unfortunately my twelve year old girl was with me and after about ten minutes I discovered it was a fifteen due to some of the choice phrases, I'll have another go again soon.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Jupiter Ascending. Twaddle, but I couldn't convince the friend I went with to see Kingsmen. I liked it the least of the three of us there to be fair. Too over the top, too pointlessly weird and left far too much completely unexplained. Probably nothing I shouldn't have expected from the Wachowskis.

We then went home and watched Iron Man 1 & 2 on DVD, much better.

 

[welsh dragon]

Intersteller. Not a bad film. Nearly 3 hours long though, and a bit complicated (for me) anyway, but it came good in the end. Dont think the film warranted being that long to be honest, but the CGI was excellent as always. I'll give it 8/10.

 

[MontyVeda]

Intersteller. Not a bad film. Nearly 3 hours long though, and a bit complicated (for me) anyway, but it came good in the end. Dont think the film warranted being that long to be honest, but the CGI was excellent as always. I'll give it 8/10.

Most of these films that knock on towards three hours don't warrant it. I've been watching the 2nd series of Broadchurch this week, which so far could have easily been a two parter if they'd left out all the boring maudlin scenes.

 

[LimeBurn]

Kingsmen - its actually pretty good in a very cheesy way. Think James Bond with added Cheddar mixed with Austin Powers with less Red Leicester.

 

[Mrs M]

Marathon Man, never liked it, especially the dental scenes

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Unbroken. Movie about a POW held by the Japanese during WW2. The POW was a former Olympic athlete who got beat up a lot by the Japanese bad guy camp commander. To me it was like a mix of Memphis Belle, Castaway and The Railway Man. It got a little slow in places but some nice scenery and decent special effects helped.

Saw this last night, I thought it was dreadful. Obviously an interesting guy; Zamperini, Italian American bad kid makes good, runs in Olympics, plane crashes during wartime, cast adrift, picked up by Japanese, treated in the most appalling and brutal fashion, survives, reunited with family, makes peace with most guards, carries Olympic torch in Japan, ends.

Angelina Jolie directs this Coen Brothers film and if she'd have got out of her own way and told the whole story it could have the makings of an interesting film rather than one where she's showing off her skills as someone who know what a film should look like. She concentrates most of her efforts on the Japanese camps and the film seems twice as long as it is, and it's a long film, there's just scene after scene of endless brutality.

1.5 stars out of 5. Get someone who's not interested in massaging your ego to road test the one you direct before you unleash it on the public.

Spare us another Japanese war camp film...

 

[cookiemonster]

Gravity on HBO Asia.

Awesome movie, well worth the hatful of oscars it won.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Selma.

watch it.

 

[AndyRM]

Most of these films that knock on towards three hours don't warrant it. I've been watching the 2nd series of Broadchurch this week, which so far could have easily been a two parter if they'd left out all the boring maudlin scenes.

Brooker nailed Broadchurch.

Watch from 9 mins

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gravity on HBO Asia.

Awesome movie, well worth the hatful of oscars it won.

That would have been a good film if it hadn't got Sandra Bullock in it, she seems incapable of playing anyone other than Sandra Bullock.

 

[AndyRM]

That would have been a good film if it hadn't got Sandra Bullock in it, she seems incapable of playing anyone other than Sandra Bullock.

Gravity was a solid 'Meh' I thought. Visually stunning in the cinema, but I can't imagine being bothered with it on the small screen. The allegory was being smashed into your brain by the end, just in case you hadn't got it an hour ago.

Watch Solaris or Moon for a much more satisfying space-based experience that doesn't involve lasers or aliens.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gravity was a solid 'Meh' I thought. Visually stunning in the cinema, but I can't imagine being bothered with it on the small screen. The allegory was being smashed into your brain by the end, just in case you hadn't got it an hour ago.

Watch Solaris or Moon for a much more satisfying space-based experience that doesn't involve lasers or aliens.

Yeah, even the remake of Solaris was better than Gravity. Moon is first rate.

 

[Profpointy]

Marathon Man, never liked it, especially the dental scenes

there's a great story from the filming of Marathon Man. Hofman turns up on set looking very dishevelled one day so Olivier comments "Oh Dustin, you look dreadful, is anything wrong" Hofman the committed method-actor explains that to prepare for a certain scene where he's hiding from the Nazis he hasn't eaten for 2 days and has slept in the garden. Olivier's response "try acting dear boy, it's so much easier"