What film did you watch last night?

[Tin Pot]

A Dangerous Man.

Starring Steven Seagal. No plot, implausible hand to hand sequences, weapons drills that would make ISIS shuffle with embarrassment.

And why do so many bad guys want to fight him? He's a 6'4" 290lb man. Even without his jap slapping skills he's a formidable presence and no one with half a grain of self preservation would start on someone that big because kinetic energy reigns supreme.

2/10. I'm a fan of mindless violence and needless slapping of bad dudes, but this was so dire even Van Damme wouldn't have touched the script, if there was a script to being with.

Seagal, not exactly the best action hero of movies.

His best movie has more people hating it than liking it:

http://www.amc.com/movie-guide/steven-seagals-best-movies

My favourite bad thing about him was his heroic Eskimo green peace nonsense.

 

[guitarpete247]

Can't really say watched, but "Chisum" was on TV in restaurant tonight. Thought the actor who.played Billy the Kid looked like guy who.played Hannibal Hayes in "Alias Smith and Jones". So Googled and found out they were brothers. Couldn't here it so.may have been dubbed in Maltese. Would have liked to hear John Wayne in another language.

 

[fossyant]

Wonder Woman - good if you like Marvel stuff 9-10
XXX The Return of Xander - silly kung fu action movie with Vin Diesel. 5-10
The Circle - Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and the red head girl out of Dr Who - 9-10 so far - it's a Google/Facebook/social media company taking over everything and monitoring lives.

 

[Doseone]

Dunkirk - didn't think it was that good. Disjointed and didn't develop any of the characters enough.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Rush - 6 out of 10
Bruhl's over-earnest delivery is mildly grating in the portrayal of Lauda, and the accent is plain odd given that he's German. Hemsworth plays Marvel's Thor playing James Hunt with his one British accent, and many scenes are given too much of the Hollywood dramatization when the actual facts would have been compelling enough. In particular the portrayal of the two as sworn, hated enemies eventually overcoming that is a bit insulting since everyone knows they were best friends.
On the upside it looks great, and it's fun enough if you suspend your disbelief for a while.

 

[biggs682]

Notebook very good

 

[Drago]

Terminator 2.

Great film, ruined by one continuity error. John Connor hands across a 1911 Model Colt .45 with the hammer in the cocked position, which is technically correct as the weapon had just been fired. As its handed over there is a split second close up and the hammer is in the de-cocked position, then as Arnie tucks it into his belt it's cocked again.

7/10, that error alone knocked two points off the score. Ruined it for me. Its like spotting Maximus Decimus Meridious in Reeboks. There are incredibly sad folk out there - yep, guilty as charged! - who will notice such things.

 

[MontyVeda]

A Dangerous Man.

Starring Steven Seagal. No plot, implausible hand to hand sequences, weapons drills that would make ISIS shuffle with embarrassment.

And why do so many bad guys want to fight him? He's a 6'4" 290lb man. Even without his jap slapping skills he's a formidable presence and no one with half a grain of self preservation would start on someone that big because kinetic energy reigns supreme.

2/10. I'm a fan of mindless violence and needless slapping of bad dudes, but this was so dire even Van Damme wouldn't have touched the script, if there was a script to being with.

Doesn't Steven Seagal self produce his films these days?

 

[Drago]

I think he does. He churns them out like Mills and Boon do books. Dolph Lundgren does the same, although he's reckoned to be quite a nice feller.

Under Siege and Exit Wounds were OK, but everything else he's done is dross. Still, he seems to be eating out well on it.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivett.

A charming little film from Jean Pierre Junet (Amilie, Micmaks, City of Lost Children) but lacked some of the 'quirk' of his earlier films.

 

[Tin Pot]

I think he does. He churns them out like Mills and Boon do books. Dolph Lundgren does the same, although he's reckoned to be quite a nice feller.

Under Siege and Exit Wounds were OK, but everything else he's done is dross. Still, he seems to be eating out well on it.

JCVD looks like he's doing an Amazon show, Jean Claude Van Johnson, saw the pilot episode and it was good.

Trailer:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqFYLYo0kc


It's a bit of a send up.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Terminator 2.

Great film, ruined by one continuity error. John Connor hands across a 1911 Model Colt .45 with the hammer in the cocked position, which is technically correct as the weapon had just been fired. As its handed over there is a split second close up and the hammer is in the de-cocked position, then as Arnie tucks it into his belt it's cocked again.

7/10, that error alone knocked two points off the score. Ruined it for me. Its like spotting Maximus Decimus Meridious in Reeboks. There are incredibly sad folk out there - yep, guilty as charged! - who will notice such things.

Continuity and obvious frauds ruin things for me too. The Bond move 747 on an airfield in Red 2, the guy in jeans backing out of shot in Gladiator, and the all time favourite of the implausible flipping car with the engine removed, so it flies better.

Also of course the re-edit of movies to the BBFC latest rules, such as the falling horses in Conan the Barbarian.

 

[Profpointy]

Terminator 2.

Great film, ruined by one continuity error. John Connor hands across a 1911 Model Colt .45 with the hammer in the cocked position, which is technically correct as the weapon had just been fired. As its handed over there is a split second close up and the hammer is in the de-cocked position, then as Arnie tucks it into his belt it's cocked again.

7/10, that error alone knocked two points off the score. Ruined it for me. Its like spotting Maximus Decimus Meridious in Reeboks. There are incredibly sad folk out there - yep, guilty as charged! - who will notice such things.

There's a splendidly silly "blaxploitation" spoof called "Black Dynamite" which sneaks in some brilliant continuity error jokes; the best of which is a fight scene where a baddie is thrown through a window and is miraculously tranformed into a different actor when he gets up. Not quite as clever or funny as, say Agent OSS, the French James Bond spoof but very entertaining if you like stupid fun. The final Kung Fu fight scene is worth hanging in there for. I won't spoil that one

 

[Drago]

JCVD looks like he's doing an Amazon show, Jean Claude Van Johnson, saw the pilot episode and it was good.

Trailer:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqFYLYo0kc


It's a bit of a send up.

I don't think JCVD takes himself too seriously. In Expendables II you can see he's enjoying hamming it up as a baddie. Does a lot of work for animal charities too, by all accounts.

 

[Crackle]

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.

In the actual cinema: Luc besson, so it can be lukewarm or cult. I'm not sure if this is going to be cult, it's no Fifth Element but the vision and imagery is superb, let down by a slightly lame storyline, some stereotypical dialogue and a few over-indulgent scenes like the one with Rhianna, which could just be cut and lose nothing. Overall enjoyable though, there are few directors with Besson's vision, unfortunately, it looks set to pan, probably the snappy title, still, well worth a watch if you generally like his stuff.