What film did you watch last night?

[Psamathe]

Despite having Netflix & Amazon Prime Video, I still struggle to find a decent film to watch.
Maybe I'm just getting took particular in my old age as I tend to end up watching films I've seen before, one of the recent ones being 'Juggernaut' with Richard Harris & Omar Sharif - !

I also am finding it increasingly difficult to find films and TV I enjoy. There are a few excellent ones but they do seem few and far between.

I suspect in part it's budgets and a shift to streaming services making so many films, competing for budgets with TV series and where they need to generate a lot of content paid on a very different financial model from the days of films in cinemas followed by free-to-air TV once the cinemas audiences had declined. But also in part my own tastes. There used to be a lot of good films I could watch again, maybe after a few months, but great fun. These days most films I watch again I find tiresome and don't pay much attention. There are a few that I can repeat but nothing like as many as I used to enjow re-watching.

Ian

 

[AndyRM]

Heretic - 8/10

All three of the leads in this deserve all the praise their getting, particularly Hugh Grant who is totally against type as a twisted religious nutjob.

Relying on atmosphere and set pieces rather than cheap scares this is one of the best religious horror films I've seen for some time.

 

[icowden]

All three of the leads in this deserve all the praise their getting, particularly Hugh Grant who is totally against type as a twisted religious nutjob.

I've really started to like Hugh Grant as an actor since he escaped from the romantic comedy niche. He's had a whole pile of roles since about 2016 where he's been able to show what a good actor he really is, rather than just playing the same character again and again.

 

[AndyRM]

I've really started to like Hugh Grant as an actor since he escaped from the romantic comedy niche. He's had a whole pile of roles since about 2016 where he's been able to show what a good actor he really is, rather than just playing the same character again and again.

Much the same as Matthew McConaughey.

 

[lazybloke]

Omg, it's on again.
"Color out of space" starring Nic Cage.

There are some wild scifi ideas in it. There's also Nic Cage.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Omg, it's on again.
"Color out of space" starring Nic Cage.

There are some wild scifi ideas in it. There's also Nic Cage

Does it just share a title, or is it based on the HP Lovecraft story?

 

[lazybloke]

Does it just share a title, or is it based on the HP Lovecraft story?

Yeah, it's a screen adaptation. Supposedly one of a series of movies.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

CAlYeah, it's a screen adaptation. Supposedly one of a series of movies.

I've read the book, & most of his stories (Stephen KIng cites him as a big influence)

I'll look into it

EDIT @ 09:00
I've had a look at the Wikipedia page
It seems to be fairly close to the book!
(far better than Reanimator, or From Beyond, but......... they did give us Jeffrey Combs; Shran in Star-Trek : Enterprise)
I'd like to see a good film adaptation of (Lovecrafts) At The Mountains Of Madness or Call Of Cthulu

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might try & persuade SWMBO to watch 'Green Book' with me this weekend
It's an excellent film
If you didn't know it was Viggo Mortenson, you'd probably never realise he was once Strider/Aragorn/The King Of Gondor)


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

We watched it on Friday evening, she seemed to enjoy it
I know the chap portraying Don Shirley is meant to be a Rapper(?), but I have no idea of what he sounds like, but he plays the part well!


We've got Railway Children Return to watch tonight, with Jenny Agutter as a very much older Bobbi!
I had a quick look, & was pleased to see that it was filmed around Haworth/Oakworth
Keighley Station was used for the opening sequence, showing the refugees embarking on the train
(Keighley & WVR station was aloo used in the present version of All Creatures Great & Small, when Mrs Hall meets her son)

I'll reserve a full judgement on it, till after watching it



View: https://youtu.be/g6IsUeWO2Yw?si=rfhVHzjZKe5NX7y-

 

[MontyVeda]

We watched it on Friday evening, she seemed to enjoy it
I know the chap portraying Don Shirley is meant to be a Rapper(?), but I have no idea of what he sounds like, but he plays the part well!


We've got Railway Children Return to watch tonight, with Jenny Agutter as a very much older Bobbi!
I had a quick look, & was pleased to see that it was filmed around Haworth/Oakworth
Keighley Station was used for the opening sequence, showing the refugees embarking on the train
(Keighley & WVR station was aloo used in the present version of All Creatures Great & Small, when Mrs Hall meets her son)

I'll reserve a full judgement on it, till after watching it



View: https://youtu.be/g6IsUeWO2Yw?si=rfhVHzjZKe5NX7y-

The trailer looks like it's an enjoyable romp. It also looks very familiar and I'm wondering if I've seen it and forgotten.

 

[Drago]

The tv guide showed that the fillum Nobody was on the Beeb. Not having a tv licence I watched it on Netflix instead. Very black humour in this violent comedy thriller - the scene where the russian gangsters pull guns on Hutch Mansell only for him to then reveal the Claymore AP mine he is holding had me tittering. Pleased to see Nobody 2 is due this year.

Christopher Lloyd is typically brilliant as the OAP who near the end also turns out to be badass and surprises two assassin's with the shotgun he keeps under his blanket.

Not much plot, and what plot there is exists as a vehicle to link one stylishly violent scene to the next. But watch it for what it is, a violent comedy thriller, and set expectations accordingly it's pretty good.

7.5/10 on the Drago scale.

 

[Dogtrousers]

No, it’s bloody brilliant - I had it on VHS back in the day.

My favourite bit is when the German chap greets Arthur with ‘Guten Morgen’, and Arthur replies with ‘Pleased to meet you, Mr Morgen!’

"Seems like a nice bloke, but he didn't sound Welsh"

Arthur then addresses the German as "Taffy" later on, as a continuation of the gag.

 

[AndyRM]

Moana 2 - 8/10

Just as much fun and visually brilliant as the first one. A little bit darker too in places which is never a bad thing.

I also think it's very cool that they've done Polynesian dubs and The Rock hasn't had to Americanise his accent to play Maui.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The trailer looks like it's an enjoyable romp. It also looks very familiar and I'm wondering if I've seen it and forgotten.

It has its darker/segregation era moments too
The Bar segment has a very different style of playing


View: https://youtu.be/sLdVeh01ZvU?si=HzAGot-NOh4_FngB

 

[ianrauk]

Number 24, on Netflix.
War biopic based on Norwegian resistance fighter Gunnar Sonteby during WWII.
A fab watch.