What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

The first two of the Divergent series - 3/10

I know I'm not the target market, but these really aren't any good. Standard tales of a future dystopia that have been done far better already.

 

[Profpointy]

Transformers: Age of Extinction

I don't know why. I knew it was going to be shite, and it was.
Utterly inexplicable and implausible plot. Dreadful dialogue. Dull action scenes. Characters so two-dimensional they make Road Runner look nuanced and complex. And 2h45m!!
Stanley Tucci displays the only half-decent acting and does his best with the execrable material; he just manages to scrape the score up to 2/10, and I think I'm being generous!

And somehow this travesty took over a billion dollars at the box office!

oi - no dissing the Road Runner !

 

[swee'pea99]

The Birds. One of those 'Hitchcock classics' that just doesn't quite come off, for me at least. There's an unarguable spookiness about the thing, but too much of the tension relies on ludicrously impossible events (birds pecking their way through solid wood doors and the like) and people behaving with utterly implausible stupidity at key moments. Ultimately it's meant to be scary but it's just plain daft, albeit quite stylish.

 

[benb]

Yeah, not a patch on my triptych of favourite Hitchcocks: North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo.

 

[Snizzlepops]

We watched Brave last night - a fun Pixar film. It was the bfs choice and he enjoyed it but doesn't rate it high out of all the Pixars. Up and Inside Out are my favs.

The Birds. One of those 'Hitchcock classics' that just doesn't quite come off, for me at least. There's an unarguable spookiness about the thing, but too much of the tension relies on ludicrously impossible events (birds pecking their way through solid wood doors and the like) and people behaving with utterly implausible stupidity at key moments. Ultimately it's meant to be scary but it's just plain daft, albeit quite stylish.

Rear Window is my fav Hitchcock.

 

[PaulB]

Watched an unusual one last night. Film 4 at 9pm showed 'Locke', starring Tom Hardy and ONLY Tom Hardy! Although Olivia Coleman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott and others are listed, they never appear on screen!

The entire film consists of Tom Hardy making a long motorway journey taking and making increasingly desperate phone calls about 1) his disintegrating marriage. 2) Him being fired. 3) Frantic calls from the woman he barely knows about to give birth to his son as he tries to make the hospital to witness it and 'do the right thing'. 4) Despite being fired, he still oversees his responsibilities in delegating essential tasks relating to a major concreting job taking place and is the centre point of the film.

I know, it sounds unworkable but it's very good!

 

[MontyVeda]

Agreed. Locke is a belting little movie... like a good radio 4 play but on a screen

Last night I watched (actually it was the night before last) Violent Playground (1958) with David McThingy and Peter Watsit and Stanley Baker... the man who's eyebrows are so far apart he can only be filmed in cinemascope! Good film, certainly builds up the tension in its closing scenes.

 

[swee'pea99]

Miss Potter. A biopic of Beatrix, she of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck. Sheer delight, from start to finish.

Hard to believe Renée Zellweger was born & raised in Texas - she makes a totally convincing Beatrix. According to the final credits, Potter turned the money from 'the best selling children's books of all time' into 4,000 acres of Lakeland, which she saved from property developers and ended up giving to the nation.

Really, a rare gem.

 

[marknotgeorge]

An Officer and a Gentleman. Because I wanted to.

 

[MontyVeda]

An Officer and a Gentleman. Because I wanted to.

 

[swee'pea99]

Hero. Odd one this. Gets very high marks on IMdB, which is the main reason I watched it, but I can't say I was entirely convinced. Chinese and on a scale you can only achieve when extras are ten a penny, it's certainly astounding to look at - ravishing cinematography throughout. But other than that, it seemed to be a pretty thin story in which not a great deal happened other than interminable set-piece sword fights, involving lots of physics-defying balleticism - again, all very visual, but a bit repetitive and, to me at least, ultimately rather dull. As a spectacle, then, 10/10; but as a movie? I dunno. 6, maybe 7 in recognition of the spectacle.

 

[AndyRM]

JCVD - 8/10

I've loved Jean Claude since seeing his first roundhouse kick and I reckon this may be his best film. It kind of mirrors his life, he's playing himself and it is largely improvised which does result in a bit of self indulgent gubbins, but that doesn't take away from what is a really good film. His speech pondering his life and how he's done things is properly theatrical and very moving.

 

[stephec]

Behind Enemy Lines.

Loosely based on a true story, although the main character is apparently non too happy about the film.

Owen Wilson is a US Navy navigator shot down over Bosnia, and on the run from the Serbs.

Gene Hackman is the admiral trying to rescue him with more than a shade of BAT 21 when he starts talking about fairways.

It moves along nicely and would a 7/10, until it goes all Rambo/Top Gun at the end.

6/10, worth a watch.

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. (Family film night)Really enjoyed it. Going to watch the first part of The Deathly Hallows tonight.
It's nothing but wall to wall art house here....

 

[Levo-Lon]

An Inspector Calls..David Thewlis Ken Stott
6/10..tho id think the book would be far better...

i phisically bummped into Ken Stott in Edinburgh a few yrs ago..id get knocked of my feet by him now..he's packing it on ...