What film did you watch last night?

[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.

 

[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.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Escape to Athena

The Christmas war time season is upon us, a silly but entertaining romp with Roger Moore playing a 'good' Nazi, Telly Savalas as the local resistence fighter and David Niven basically having a free holiday. It's no classic but better than some I've seen, plus the motorcycle chase in it is rated as one of the best put on film.

Ps the title is nonsense, they are already on Athena, no need to escape to it lol.

 

[Adam4868]

The Substance
Demi Moore trying to find the elixir of eternal youth...started well I thought the first half of the film had potential.But went downhill for me.To surreal and gory in the end.
Drive
For the 5/6 th time...daughter is home for Xmas and hadn't seen it.Any excuse for another viewing,fast cars,great soundtrack and Ryan Gosling what's not to like 😁

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A Christmas Carol set to record this evening, the Patrick Stewart version
I'd have loved to have got tickets for his one-man show, a few years ago


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08e_4T-2Cs&t=174s



Plus Green Book (3rd January?)
Viggo Mortensen looks a world (or indeed a 'Middle Earth') removed from Aragorn here!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Watched a couple of science fiction films with daughter.

District 9 - seen it lots of times. 9.5/10 for me.

Alien Covenant, probably a 7/10. Was better than therecent Romulus, but still flawed.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Looked for Love Actually last night but nowhere does it free. So watched Notting Hill instead. Great film, hadn't seen it for years