What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

Unwelcome - 7/10

B movie Irish folk horror nonsense, which actually elevates the genre by being well written, acted and shot. Don't get to see the beasties for an hour, which I always respect, and goes for practical make up and effects rather than CGI. Very enjoyable, and the ending is pleasingly bonkers.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Get Out - 8/10

Psychological horror about possession, racism, and all sorts of twisted themes. Very, very good, and kept me guessing for a while, which is always good. Had an inkling of what was going on, but nowhere near the scale of what ended up happening!

I really enjoyed that and found it deeply unsettling. One scene I didn't understand until I read about it later was Bingo, horrible.

 

[AndyRM]

Ambush - 5/10

A fairly by the book 'Nam movie, with curiously little action compared to similar films. Both Aaron Eckhart and John Rhys-Meyers are badly underused, Meyers in particular as he's the most interesting character in the whole thing.

 

[wiggydiggy]

The Eagle Has Landed

One of my favourite WW2 films, its got a great cast and they know it. Robert Duvall and Michael Caine lead in this story of a plot and attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill. Dodgy gravestones aside it's very well made and includes a young Larry Hagman playing what I'd imagine to be JR in the war.

The only thing I don't like about it is the scene set on Aldernay where Donald Sutherland is thrown out of a pub, residents of Aldernay were evacuated in WW2 sothis couldn't have happened!

 

[MichaelW2]

The Eagle Has Landed

One of my favourite WW2 films, its got a great cast and they know it. Robert Duvall and Michael Caine lead in this story of a plot and attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill. Dodgy gravestones aside it's very well made and includes a young Larry Hagman playing what I'd imagine to be JR in the war.

The only thing I don't like about it is the scene set on Aldernay where Donald Sutherland is thrown out of a pub, residents of Aldernay were evacuated in WW2 sothis couldn't have happened!

Donald Southerland's Irish spy was thrown out of the pub by Caine's German paratroopers after they accused him of being gestapo. There were no civillians there.

View: https://youtu.be/NG79BGJWrD0

 

[wiggydiggy]

Donald Southerland's Irish spy was thrown out of the pub by Caine's German paratroopers after they accused him of being gestapo. There were no civillians there.

View: https://youtu.be/NG79BGJWrD0

Perhaps they just didn't want to suck his thumb.

 

[cisamcgu]

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Complete and utter drivel. Overlong, nonsensical rubbish. Crude, violent and pointless.

We watched it last night, and it is probably the worst film that we have watched to the end. 139 minutes of tedious, dreadful film making, an incoherent mess with plot holes you could drive a bus through. A self-indulgent mess.

 

[ColinJ]

I didn't watch a film last night, but I can tell you which one I will be watching in the next couple of days...

Something very odd just happened. I used to have a DVD of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but I lent it someone and never got it back. It is one of the rare films that I have watched multiple times but always enjoy watching again***. I was thinking that I have not watched the film since my so-called pal 'mislaid' it. 5 minutes later I checked the TV schedule - it is on ITV4 tonight! I wouldn't have considered watching it on ITV4 until recently because the picture quality was awful but now it is in glorious HD. I'll record it and skip through the ads.




*** And like Groundhog Day, it always comes around again!

I like Groundhog Day. It's one of those films that I come back to every now and then and still enjoy, like The Shawshank Redemption and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

 

[bikingdad90]

I watched “The Sherpas” which follows the Sherpas who climb up and down Mount Everest, setting up base camp, laying the ladders, ropes etc. It’s amazing that they go up and down on average more than 30 times a season.

Also watched “Finding Michael”, where I found out that there are around 300 bodies on the mountain, many are not recovered as it costs about £70,000 and once frozen, bodies triple in weight! Climbers often push bodies into crevices and cover them with rocks to avoid people having to step over them.

 

[LardAbove]

Watched 'Elvis', free over my ROKU/Web app.
Contrary to critics.. I reckon Hanks was OK

LardAbove 🚴

 

[Profpointy]

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Complete and utter drivel. Overlong, nonsensical rubbish. Crude, violent and pointless.

We watched it last night, and it is probably the worst film that we have watched to the end. 139 minutes of tedious, dreadful film making, an incoherent mess with plot holes you could drive a bus through. A self-indulgent mess.

Admittedly it was slightly overlong but I thought it brilliant bonkers fun and hugely entertaining

 

[matticus]

EEAaO seems to be a very marmite film!

 

[Electric_Andy]

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Complete and utter drivel. Overlong, nonsensical rubbish. Crude, violent and pointless.

We watched it last night, and it is probably the worst film that we have watched to the end. 139 minutes of tedious, dreadful film making, an incoherent mess with plot holes you could drive a bus through. A self-indulgent mess.

I agree, I watched maybe an hour of it and couldn't even finish it. I have no idea what all the hype was about and the whitewashing of the awards

 

[LardAbove]

Watched 'Privelige', very Orwellian...

.... Govt wants to keep 'rebellious yoof' in line!

My take was, perhaps 'the banana bunch' 24/7 would have given them more 'traction' 🙄

LardAbove 🚴

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm watching the Towering Inferno.

Well, watching is maybe too strong a word. But it's on the telly in the same room as me. I've never seen it before.

Edit:

Spoiler

I think they've just put it out