What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

Last night I gave up on Extraterrestrial, i think I managed about 45 minutes. It looked quite promising but was essentially Evil Dead with an alien, minus the humour.

Looking it up this morning I remember watching The Vicious Brothers' (yeah, seriously) first film, Grave Encounters, and being equally unimpressed. These guys clearly know and love the horror genre but bring absolutely nothing original to it.

Bit of a shame really because their films are neatly put together, just totally lacking imagination.

 

[MontyVeda]

Star Wars Holiday Special

Unreleased when made through sheer embarrassment I was reminded that this is now available on Youtube.

If you thought Star Wars I, II and III were bad...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg

I'm still avoiding that... no, I'm not gonna watch it.

I did watch The Empire Strikes Back last night though, it seemed like the right thing to do after enjoying Rouge One and Star Wars over the Easter weekend.

After Vader chops Luke's arm off... how the heck does he get the lightsaber back? Apart from that, 9.8/10

 

[accountantpete]

I'm still avoiding that... no, I'm not gonna watch it.

I did watch The Empire Strikes Back last night though, it seemed like the right thing to do after enjoying Rouge One and Star Wars over the Easter weekend.

After Vader chops Luke's arm off... how the heck does he get the lightsaber back? Apart from that, 9.8/10

If you like arms being cut off check this out


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb68HQUivfM

 

[swee'pea99]

Gave up on La Femme Nikita - lots of noise but basically all style no substance, that we could see at least. Despite some very positive imdb reviews. Switched to The Secret Life of Bees, which was much betterer, with some very fine acting, a great evocation of time & place, and a good story well told.

 

[RoubaixCube]

New movie with Keith David called 'Savage Dog' about a guy from the IRA that somehow finds himself on an island of convicted criminals of all walks of life somewhere in indonesia where the natives speak terrible chinese and the only town there is run by a convicted nazi war criminal and runs an underground fight club for money.but somehow it all goes pear shaped for the most dumbest reasons and the leaders cronies are running around with BB guns and shaking it as they pretend to fire them... dear lord.....

I love Keith David, I think hes a decent actor with a voice thats great for voice overs and narrating things but this movie was honestly so bad.

 

[AndyRM]

I'm still avoiding that... no, I'm not gonna watch it.

I did watch The Empire Strikes Back last night though, it seemed like the right thing to do after enjoying Rouge One and Star Wars over the Easter weekend.

After Vader chops Luke's arm off... how the heck does he get the lightsaber back? Apart from that, 9.8/10

The Boba Fett bit is very good. The rest is dire.

 

[postman]

After a raid on Cuban drug runners, soldier-of-fortune Shale must become a substitute teacher for his wife after gang members forced her out of the high school. He begins his war against drugs in the Miami school and deals with gangs with all-out force as if fighting an army.

The Substitute.or Rambo goes to High School.

Slow start then killings inside a school.Lots of bullets,even an explosion on the school roof.Bodies everywhere.Then at the end two men walk away from the carnage,walking towards a main road in the distance,cars are seen on the road.But not one person in the school vicinity has phoned the cops.Yeah right.Garbage.

 

[AndyRM]

I'm already looking forward to Liaen Ovencant!

 

[swee'pea99]

Breaking Away - loved it! Just as good as I remember. Ok, there's a bit of cheesiness, but what the hell. Full of great performances, great lines and a Masi doing 60 - what's not to like?

 

[Tin Pot]

Drunken Master

Not as funny as it was when drunk in the 90s, and couldn't find the scene where he's holding a flask that looks like a prick.

It still good.

8/10

 

[Melvil]

I watched Requiem For A Dream as I have just read the book. It was a brilliant film but a bit disturbing, one of those great films that I have watched only once that I am in no hurry to watch again, like Seven, Reservoir Dogs due to disturbing content.

A friend of mine loves arthouse and fairly extreme films and he came out of Requiem for a Dream with a thousand yard stare, swearing never to watch it again. Powerful stuff.

 

[jefmcg]

Drunken Master

Not as funny as it was when drunk in the 90s, and couldn't find the scene where he's holding a flask that looks like a prick.

It still good.

8/10

Did you see the right film? Drunken Master 2 is generally regarded as a classic of the genre, and is - IIRC - a far superior film. I'm wondering if you are comparing DM1 with your memories of DM2.

The first time I watched a Hong Kong movie (not including badly dubbed Bruce Lee) was a double of DM2 and Hardboiled. Changed my life.

 

[AndyRM]

A friend of mine loves arthouse and fairly extreme films and he came out of Requiem for a Dream with a thousand yard stare, swearing never to watch it again. Powerful stuff.

Other than 'Noah' (which is overblown claptrap and hugely disappointing considering what he'd done before) Aronofsky films are all brilliant IMO. Requiem and The Wrestler are probably the toughest to watch; the final scenes of both will stay with me forever.

 

[Cubist]

Get Out.

Don't Bother.

Utter Shite.

 

[benb]

Did you see the right film? Drunken Master 2 is generally regarded as a classic of the genre, and is - IIRC - a far superior film. I'm wondering if you are comparing DM1 with your memories of DM2.

The first time I watched a Hong Kong movie (not including badly dubbed Bruce Lee) was a double of DM2 and Hardboiled. Changed my life.

Fist of Legend is pretty good, for a more up to date (well, 1994) one. Jet Li is great in it, as is Yasuaki Kurata.
It's a remake of Fist of Fury, but IMO is superior to it.
Just make sure you get the subtitled one, as the dubbed version has some awful voice acting.