What film did you watch last night?

[biggs682]

Having seen this post I flicked through the channels and am dowsing myself in a combination of Enter Dragon and Deathwish 3 to cleanse myself.

Just shows how different we all are

 

[Tin Pot]

Just shows how different we all are

They're rubbish to be fair, though it is funny to see how they tried to appeal to the paranoia of their day.

The evil gang members in Deathwish 3 were like rejects from West Side Story, dancing around like clowns, clearly no idea what real street violence is like.

 

[swee'pea99]

This Sporting Life - gritty depiction of post-war life 'oop North, with Richard Harris playing a Brando-esque blinder as a rising start of rugby league, torn between immense strength and self-confidence on the field and inarticulate, frustrated vulnerability off it. Arguably an early entrant in the kitchen sink drama genre, tho' kitchen sinks don't feature much, and a stark illustration of just how far we've come from the world as it was when I was born.

I also watched a Charlie Chaplin movie, for the hell of it and for the first time in getting on 50 years, and found myself, rather to my surprise, laughing out loud, repeatedly. The way he milks the 'applause' at the end of his sermon (as an escaped convict mistaken for the town's new preacher) is just genius.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tXXHCmKZL0

 

[Hitchington]

Green Inferno. A massively crap Cannibal Holocaust rip off; Eli Roth, I expected much better. Poor acting, script and stupid story. Nice amount of gore though which gets it an extra point. 3/10

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Watched Saving Mr Banks with the squids, actually a very enjoyable film, had the opportunity to be a schmaltz fest but managed to avoid that fate. Really nice period piece and did a great job of recreated that 60s American dream look. You knew the flash back stuff was going to all fall apart and it did. There were some touching scenes that even had my hard as nails 13 year old having a gentle sniff. Even the oft irritating Thompson and Hanks were very good. Worth a watch.

 

[AndyRM]

The Circle - 5/10

A disappointing adaptation of Dave Eggers' excellent book. Stellar cast floating around in an aimless pool of quasi philosophical tedium that neither raises nor attempts to answer anything particularly interesting or novel.

 

[swee'pea99]

Drugstore Cowboy. Not as good as Midnight Cowboy, but not bad.

 

[Threevok]

Brewsters Millions - I can't believe the wife had never seen it.

I also couldn't believe how many (not then) famous people were in it.

8/10

 

[NorthernDave]

A real selection of 90's classics to choose from last night, but in the end I decided to forsake Coming To America and Passenger 57 and watched what are probably Stallones finest two hours on screen, Demolition Man*.

Much like Con Air, it's a genre defining classic that just gets better the more you watch it - 9/10.

* - although Tango and Cash runs it close.

 

[cisamcgu]

How to Train your Dragon 2 - all I can say if this had been the first movie they would never have made a second. It was confused, preachy, unfunny and dull.

Brave - funny, original, touching and occasionally brilliant. This is now one of my favoured animated films

 

[Tin Pot]

A real selection of 90's classics to choose from last night, but in the end I decided to forsake Coming To America and Passenger 57 and watched what are probably Stallones finest two hours on screen, Demolition Man*.

Much like Con Air, it's a genre defining classic that just gets better the more you watch it - 9/10.

* - although Tango and Cash runs it close.

Demolition Man is definitely underrated. Although so is his Judge Dredd.

 

[The Jogger]

''I Daniel Blake'' a bit of light entertainment for a Saturday night. It was very good but.

 

[AndyRM]

What we do in the Shadows - 8/10

A New Zealand based mockumentary about flat sharing vampires. Directed by (and starring) the same guy who wrote the similarly excellent "Hunt for the Wilderpeople", Taika Waititi. He's going big budget later this year with the latest Thor film. I hope he doesn't disappear up his own posterior like Peter Jackson.

 

[swee'pea99]

The Deer Hunter. Still packs a helluva punch, with some fine performances at the heart of it, and a very true-feeling depiction of an American blue-collar existence that I suspect has by now pretty much gone the way of the stagecoach. The Vietnam scenes are as savage as I remember, with 'the enemy' depicted very much as Indians were before America invented Native Americans - ie, savage brutes, with not a redeeming feature in sight. Plus of course Cavatina - surely neck & neck with The Third Man zither for Most Iconic Movie Music ever. An easy 8/10, maybe 9.

 

[John the Monkey]

Unfriended (again), to see whether it held up to a rewatch, and for a review. Yes, mostly.