What film did you watch last night?

[ayceejay]

Here's one to miss "Love Punch" with Pierce Brosnan (from Bond to crap) and Emma Thompson, whose performance here is more Dick Emery than Shakespeare.
I couldn't watch the whole thing. Imagine a scene in Paris where this dynamic duo approach the Champs Elysees in full cliche mode, struggle to speak French and generally plumb the depths of situation comedy.
I can imagine swee' pea or myself doing this for the money but surely Brosnan and Thompson are nit as desperate as us?

 

[John the Monkey]

"How I Live Now"

Youngsters survive the onset of war in the rural UK. Beautifully photographed, and quite disturbing in parts. Not really sure what I thought of it, but worth watching.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

my husband decided on an afternoon in bed with me watching a film... so he gave me a choice between Captain American and Thor... I chose the former. It was a good popcorn and fall asleep to movie and did what we needed...

 

[cisamcgu]

"Still Alice"
Well acted by the lead, Juliannne Moore and her daughter, Kirsten Stewart, but the rest of the cast were rubbish. Julianne was, I think, in every single scene bar one, quite an extraordinary performance.

The story was a feast of melancholy, her loss of self due to Alzheimer's was absorbing and depressing in equal measure. However I never really felt connected with her, always feeling I was watching a drama unfold from a distance.

8/10 - would have been more if Alec Baldwin could act just a tiny bit !

 

[gbb]

Deception.
Fine art dealer and auctioneer, oddball, loner, single, difficult and demanding but very wealthy and respected, who occasionally scams his clientel. He becomes obsessed with a reclusive agoraphobic woman who wants to sell her deceased parents vast collection. He's intrigued at finding parts of an automaton made hundreds of years earlier...but his interest is then divided between the automaton and her as she opens up to him. Deception follows of course.

A slow burner, kind of European in style, lots of emotion, love loathing, fear etc etc.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Put me in mind of 'The Secretary' Similar in style and pace.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Tonight, From Hell - a Jack the Ripper movie with Johnnie Depp as a Police Inspector. That wasn't worth $33million. Again, got pretty reasonable reviews overall, but pretty damn clunky in my view...spent a lot of it only half-watching, while browsing aimlessly...

From Hell is an average Hammer film made 30 years too late... with Johnny Depp filling the shoes that Ralph Bates would have filled if it had been made when it should have been made. It's the sort of film which, whilst not bad, can be watched whilst knitting, doing sudoku or giving oneself a pedicure. I quite enjoyed it. Are any films really worth their price tag to us laymen?

 

[welsh dragon]

Live die repeat with tom cruse. Not a bad film. A few anoying bits, and some funny bits. Quite enjoyed it. 8/10

 

[benb]

Live die repeat with tom cruse. Not a bad film. A few anoying bits, and some funny bits. Quite enjoyed it. 8/10

I think you mean The Edge of Tomorrow.
Live. Die. Repeat. was on some of the posters.

 

[AndyRM]

From Hell is an average Hammer film made 30 years too late... with Johnny Depp filling the shoes that Ralph Bates would have filled if it had been made when it should have been made. It's the sort of film which, whilst not bad, can be watched whilst knitting, doing sudoku or giving oneself a pedicure. I quite enjoyed it. Are any films really worth their price tag to us laymen?

Assuming you're not already, get acquainted with Shane Meadows' stuff. He makes very good films for very few £££.

 

[swee'pea99]

From Hell is an average Hammer film made 30 years too late...

I think the only problem with it is its pretensions to be something more.

True Lies last night - now there's a film that makes good use of a bloated budget! Excellent to see the Harrier jet in a co-starring role - what a machine! "You're fired!"

 

[benb]

I think the only problem with it is its pretensions to be something more.

True Lies last night - now there's a film that makes good use of a bloated budget! Excellent to see the Harrier jet in a co-starring role - what a machine! "You're fired!"

Love that film, such good fun.

 

[welsh dragon]

I think you mean The Edge of Tomorrow.
Live. Die. Repeat. was on some of the posters.

You see? You see? It was such a good film, I can't even remember what its called. Or it's the alzheimers........again

 

[AndyRM]

You see? You see? It was such a good film, I can't even remember what its called. Or it's the alzheimers........again

Are you sure it wasn't The Day After Tomorrow? Or maybe Tomorrow When the War Began?

 

[welsh dragon]

Are you sure it wasn't The Day After Tomorrow? Or maybe Tomorrow When the War Began?

Stop taking the mick you im quite sure.

 

[MontyVeda]

Assuming you're not already, get acquainted with Shane Meadows' stuff. He makes very good films for very few £££.

Yes i like his films... but even with his very small budgets, one could buy quite a lot of houses in the north. Is one 100 minute film really worth the same as ten 3 bed houses? Not in my book it aint, but I'm a layman.

Anyhoo, back on topic... last night i watched Satan's School for Girls (1972). Whilst i never had high hopes for it, i was hoping for a cheap slightly camp horror with a few unintentional giggles. Oh dear.... i think all the other films i thought were dull have just become average and this is a new found low in film making... I'll give it a 1/10 for at least pointing the cameras at the actors.