What film did you watch last night?

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swee'pea99

Legendary Member
Me without you. Sort of rites of passage type deal centring on a pair of girl best friends growing up in the South of England in & around the punk era. They had a lot more fun than I did - but quite a lot more angst too. I guess that's how it tends to go. Enjoyable enough way to spend a couple of hours. 7/10.
 

benb

Evidence based cyclist
Location
Epsom
The Glimmer Man.

"This film contains scenes of extreme violence and bad language from the start", said the TV as I flicked through the channels. That was enough for me to stop there and watch intently.

Pretty much identikit Steven Segal fare, although this dates from the period where his waistline wasntnso big it had spacecraft in orbit around it.

Pretty good fisticuffs, ruined by typical lack or plot and cars that explode the moment they have a slight parking ding.

3/10. Not the worst he's ever done, but barely worth missing Newsnight to watch.

You failed to critique the weapons drills.
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
Wonder if they'll do verse 5.

They said they were going to... 4 years ago. Nothing yet! And I'm pretty sure they aren't a band any more.

Eta:

You know, we talked about it, but it's difficult to get everybody in the same place at the same time. We may still do it, or Bear and Gunz' new band The Stink (Official) might do it, or we might not do it at all. Fact is, the new movie wasn't really all that awesome, and as a result it didn't inspire us to add another verse to an already pretty lengthy (and for us, old and tiresome) song. Maybe we'll revisit the idea if they make a 6th movie that's actually a return to form. Thanks for listening and commenting, bro!
 
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John the Monkey

Frivolous Cyclist
Location
Crewe
You failed to critique the weapons drills.
Well, I'll step in, if you like;

In some of the fantasy sequences in "I'm a Cyborg..." Young-Goon imagines that she is a combat cyborg, and her fingers become the barrels of quite powerful machine guns. From what I could tell, her targetting was rather slapdash, expending a lot of ammunition in a very cinematic way, but she did neutralise all her targets[1]. None of her weapons were drills.

[1] This is the correct phraseology, I think?
 

Sandra6

Veteran
Location
Cumbria
Watched the first two planet of the apes films with youngest daughter - absolutely loved them.
Dodgy acting, terrible special effects, but amazing all the same.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
The Drop

2 cousins try to wrest back control of their bar from the Chechen mafia overlords who have been using it to launder money.

Older cousin is James Gandolfini, who tries, and fails, to solve the problem by going all gangster.

Tom Hardy gives a mesmerising performance as the younger cousin, a placid, slightly simple lad who finally snaps as the situation reaches a crescendo.

Mainly set at night, which gives the film a claustrophobic feel of foreboding. Subtle use of music to build the tension, but then to mislead the viewer.

Great plot, great acting, very well directed.

9/10. Do not miss it. This is one of those brilliant films that slipped undeservingly under the radar.
 

swee'pea99

Legendary Member
Wonderwall. Hippy dippy batshit bonkers from 1968 - what you get if you have a very small budget and spend almost all of it on drugs.
 

PaulB

Legendary Member
Location
Colne
Nocturnal animals. Wow, what a ride this is! If you can stomach the opening scenes where obese and, it has to be said...ugly, old women dance and cavort naked (I had to turn away until it was over, and even then, it wasn'!) then you get into a scene of horror where a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) drives his wife and young daughter to another town in Texas but in a remote part - no mobile signal - they are forced off the road by a trio of hombres intent on causing severe damage. This is from a story read by Amy Adams written by her former husband - Gyllenhaal's character - about himself. It's interesting to say the least and probably the best film I saw in the last six months.
 

Tin Pot

Guru
Mad Max: Fury Road

A great Mad Max movie with only one flaw, it's not about Mad Max. I'm not sure how they forgot to give Tom Hardy a part to play, but they got everything else right.

Imperator Furiosa: Fury Road
8/10
 

swee'pea99

Legendary Member
Anatomy of a Murder - rather an oddity, in that it's yer basic courtroom drama (based, I later discovered, on a real case) but with a strong jazz element - nothing to do with the story, as such, but a definite tonal impact. (Duke Ellington appears in the credits for 'Music' - and there's plenty of it.) Jimmy Stewart is great, as ever, Lee Remick never looked gorgeouser, and there are some nice performances all round, particularly one Joseph N. Welch as a benign but sharp judge. But I have to say I wasn't quite as taken with it as I'd expected. Films made around that time (1959) often had razor-sharp scripts; this one's sound rather than striking. But definitely worth the watch. 7.5/10.
 

biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Me before you

Very good and a strange subject for a film

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And yes I would watch it again.
 
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