What film did you watch last night?

[Richard A Thackeray]

Last Night
Wonder Woman, with a slightly drunken wife, who kept asking questions through it
"Why are they no men on the island"
"Why can she 'fly'/jump so high"
"Who is Ares1


This Afternoon
Smokey & The Bandit 2
Nowhere near as good as the first one (40 years on, still one of my favourite films)
Although, Reed did actually drive that GMC General, at the Truck Race, shown in the opening sequence, but only as the Pace-Truck


This evening
The Mark Of Zorro,, as it was on cable a couple of days ago
The 1940 Tyrone Power remake, who my father-in-laws mother liked so much that he was given that name!

Co-incidentally, both Antonio Banderas films have been on over the past few days too

On a lighter note, the last time they were on (last year?), I asked my daughter who did the character of Zorro remind her of
Sword, boots, hat, mask.............

It took a lot of persuading, & hints, to make her realise
Even, when just listening to the voice
Heck!!, I even had to retch, & mimic the "Hairball' scene, before she realised that Banderas was Puss In Boots (Shrek)

Likewise, trying to make her realise that Antony Hopkins, as the older Zorro, was 'The All-Father' in Thor
(despite Thor being one of her favourite films, due to Chris Hemsworth)

 

[gbb]

So having watched the third of the Cloverfield trilogy, tonight I watched Cloverfield, the first.
Unless I have it wrong the only connection between the two is how the monsters came to Earth..which is only obvious when you see Paradox...and even then, it's not in your face obvious.
So taken on its own again, it's Ok, a disaster movie, a monster wreaking havoc, a desperate fight for survival by the main players, filmed in a home movie/found footage format which at times was annoying, at times it added a kind of reality to it.

There' no explanation of how the alien monster came to be there, no great storyline, it' simply a fight for survival for a group of friends.

I didn't regret watching it but it didn' set the world on fire either. Maybe 6/10

 

[benb]

You clearly don't share my childish sense of humour.
I didn't find it offensive at all. But I giggle when I say cockermouth.

I watched Baywatch the movie last night and laughed my socks off. I'm going to say you won't enjoy that either, but I give it 8/10. The film its self was probably a 6, but I do love the rock and Zac Efron took his shirt off!

Not at all. I do have a childish sense of humour, and quite enjoyed Baywatch.
I think I laughed once during CHIPS, it was just awful.
But hey, it would be boring if everyone liked all the same stuff.

 

[swee'pea99]

All That Jazz. Roy Scheider excellent as Joe Gideon, a dancer-turned-director who's womanizing, boozing, smoking & pill-popping his way to an early grave.

 

[swee'pea99]

Calvary. Brendan Gleeson excellent (as ever) as the priest of a small Irish town, told in confession that he is to be murdered in a week, in a sacrificial redemption for the killer's childhood molestation at the hands of a now-dead priest. Excellent script, direction, and acting throughout, and with film of the landscape that makes you long to go there. Bleak, uncompromising, and a fitting testament to the crisis engulfing the church in Ireland (where, I read recently, the impact of abuse revelations has seen church attendance drop from c90% to under 10% in a generation).

 

[keithmac]

Kick Boxer
Nostalgia. How can you not like it (otherwise generally rubbish).

I much prefered Blood Sport to Kickboxer, there was a new Kickboxer out with Van Damme as the trainer and it wasn't a bad watch.

I watched Downsizing last night, very good watchable film!.

 

[AndyRM]

San Andreas - 5/10

If The Asylum was given a gigantic budget and a great cast, this is probably what they'd come up with, though they'd probably include some mutant monsters to keep things interesting. The Rock and Carla Gugino battle through CGI disaster after CGI disaster to rescue their daughter, while Paul Giametti does science.

Disaster movie by numbers, and pretty fun if you're prepared to switch your brain off, which my mother in law couldn't; trying to explain the inexplicable to someone who doesn't really "get" nonsense is challenging.

 

[AndyRM]

Cloverfield Paradox - 3/10

Again, a great cast and a promising start, but quickly becomes a series of homages to so many space and body horror films I lost count. A great cast wasted on a jumbled idea, which felt like a desperately pointless attempt to resurrect an otherwise neat pair of films into a franchise.

Possibly the weirdest thing about it was chucking Chris O'Dowd in as some sort of light relief, which only works if you've created any sort of tension in the first place.

Oh yeah, and the cinematographer should have been told that Dutch Tilt is effective, but not when you use it for 75% of the film.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Serenity - 5/10
Bumbles along nicely. Could hardly hear a word. Summer Glau does her best terminator impression since she played a terminator.
Quite likeable and well acted.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Superman Returns - 7/10
The big guy is back for the first outing without Christopher Reeve with some big red boots to fill.
It's pretty much an amalgam of other films with a good dose of vulnerability thrown in.
It didn't lose pace and 2hrs 24mins went by very well. It's a film that takes the time to tell the story and meet the people, unlike the Marvel an DC movies of late. It's a different pace.
Enjoyed it.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

The Last Castle - 7/10
You can tell I've just got a NowTV subscription can't you?
Robert Redford mobilises the inmates of a military prison to rise against a malicious governor.
It's a story told many times before and this one is pulled off quite well, although I've got problems with how such a thing would transpire in reality - building an accurate trebuchet in 1 minute? etc
Still it's entertaining.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Ted 2 i think..not sure about this one

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

Not a patch in the original TV show. The car is still the star though. Willie Nelson was good as Uncle Jesse.

 

[AndyRM]

I went to see The Shape of Water yesterday. It is a thing of brilliance. This is how I imagine the pitch went:

"So yeah, it's about a mute woman... who falls in love with a merman... and there's the cold war going on... loads of shagging, swearing and violence too... but it looks gorgeous, so...?"

"Get out Guillermo."

*He leaves*

"Wait, guys isn't he the dude who did the one with the monster who had eye hands?"

"Oh, f*ck yeah!"

"GUILLERMO!!!!"

I also have a theory that the merman is a feral version of Abe Sapiens from Hellboy.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

Not a patch in the original TV show. The car is still the star though. Willie Nelson was good as Uncle Jesse.

Best bit in that film is when they go to the city and are called 'rednecks'... "I prefer Appalachian American"