What film did you watch last night?

[wiggydiggy]

Penance ?
The laughs I got....just not the scares.

I think that'd be too clever an idea for this film lol.

 

[ianrauk]

Red One - Amazon Prime - entertaining Christmas Show - that's it basically.

This has got slated in the press no end.
Myself and jnr decided to watch it Saturday and both agreed it was a highly enjoyable caper with some laugh out loud moments.

 

[Electric_Andy]

This has got slated in the press no end.
Myself and jnr decided to watch it Saturday and both agreed it was a highly enjoyable caper with some laugh out loud moments.

Me and my partner watched this last night. She thought it was a jolly old caper. I thought it was dumbed down trash and it copied a lot of themes from Arthur Christmas and Ant Man.

 

[ianrauk]

Me and my partner watched this last night. She thought it was a jolly old caper. I thought it was dumbed down trash and it copied a lot of themes from Arthur Christmas and Ant Man.

Each to their own innit. I haven't seem either of those.

 

[dicko]

Exodus, a three hour story of the making of a nation. Was rated X when I was younger.

 

[MontyVeda]

...
Jaws 3-D

Oof this is terrible, and not in a good way. Seen it before of course but the acting is all wooden, the plot (even without the shark) nonsense and it looks so cheap. The 3d effects I'd like to see working as there are some funny uses (floating arm is a good one lol).

I remember seeing that at the cinema. After Jaws and Jaws 2, our hopes were justifiably high. Ultimately our disappointment reached new depths... it was sh!t from the first scene and didn't get any better. Even the 3D was shoddy.

At least Jaws 4 was laughably bad.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I remember seeing that at the cinema. After Jaws and Jaws 2, our hopes were justifiably high. Ultimately our disappointment reached new depths... it was sh!t from the first scene and didn't get any better. Even the 3D was shoddy.

At least Jaws 4 was laughably bad.

Yeah that was my hope, a so good its bad like Jaws The Revenge. But its really just bad, also though J:TR gets mocked for having the shark roar it was also roaring in this film so thats where that started. The only mildly entertaining thing it has going is recognizing a few people I haven't in the past such as Lea Thompson and P.H. Moriarty

 

[presta]

Anyone watch The Last Bus last night? I toyed with the idea of doing that when I got my bus pass last September, but after a couple of hours poring over timetables and getting no further than Wick I was losing the will to live.

 

[Psamathe]

Last night a Netflix 2024 file "Carry-On".

Yet another script could have been written by AI (probably wasn't but totally uninspired, totally predictable). Gave-up after an hour and should have given up a lot earlier.

Made professionally enough, OK acting but just so predictable, so uninspired. Low budget in terms of very few different scenes and all very cheap with very few people.

There seem a lot of these cheap, uninspired "time filling" films around these days. I remember when video tape was becoming popular and people were crying out how it would kill the film industry with cheap rubbish being made. Then we god direct to video "films" which seemed easy to recognise and ignore. But fears from back then seem to have not happened back then but I think are probably happening now as the online TV download companies are finding there are not enough subscribers spread across too many companies ... so budgets shrink. There do seem some excellent big budget films for cinema still being made but my impression is that they are rarer than they used to be. And it's more than a change in the market as to me it seems a big drop in quality.

Ian

 

[dicko]

Home Alone 😂

 

[stephec]

Last night a Netflix 2024 file "Carry-On".

Yet another script could have been written by AI (probably wasn't but totally uninspired, totally predictable). Gave-up after an hour and should have given up a lot earlier.

Made professionally enough, OK acting but just so predictable, so uninspired. Low budget in terms of very few different scenes and all very cheap with very few people.

There seem a lot of these cheap, uninspired "time filling" films around these days. I remember when video tape was becoming popular and people were crying out how it would kill the film industry with cheap rubbish being made. Then we god direct to video "films" which seemed easy to recognise and ignore. But fears from back then seem to have not happened back then but I think are probably happening now as the online TV download companies are finding there are not enough subscribers spread across too many companies ... so budgets shrink. There do seem some excellent big budget films for cinema still being made but my impression is that they are rarer than they used to be. And it's more than a change in the market as to me it seems a big drop in quality.

Ian

Well it would have to be AI wouldn't it?

After all Sid James, Joan Sims, etc have all been gone for years now.

 

[ianrauk]

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 at the flicks yesterday
Rollicking good fun.
Jim Carey playing 2 roles to the max.
Thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Last night a Netflix 2024 file "Carry-On".

Yet another script could have been written by AI (probably wasn't but totally uninspired, totally predictable). Gave-up after an hour and should have given up a lot earlier.

Made professionally enough, OK acting but just so predictable, so uninspired. Low budget in terms of very few different scenes and all very cheap with very few people.

There seem a lot of these cheap, uninspired "time filling" films around these days. I remember when video tape was becoming popular and people were crying out how it would kill the film industry with cheap rubbish being made. Then we god direct to video "films" which seemed easy to recognise and ignore. But fears from back then seem to have not happened back then but I think are probably happening now as the online TV download companies are finding there are not enough subscribers spread across too many companies ... so budgets shrink. There do seem some excellent big budget films for cinema still being made but my impression is that they are rarer than they used to be. And it's more than a change in the market as to me it seems a big drop in quality.

Ian

I get what you mean, but we really enjoyed it once it got going. It was a bit slow to start. It probably helped that I love disaster/heist/hijack movies as long as they're done well.

 

[AndyRM]

This is a drawing of 2024 films. I recognise a lot but there's quite a few I'm not sure about or that I think are duplicates.

 

[Punkawallah]

'In Which We Serve', Noel Coward, John Mills and a very young Dickie Attenborough.