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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,777

    Baby driver: Loved it.

    5* fun.

    Assuming you like you plot lightweight and your action darkly fun (and very cool).
    Good shout. Cool,slick, enjoyable.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Dunkirk.

    I was really looking forward to it for a while, it looked like my cup of tea (can't stand your average thrown together films).

    I got the point of how it was executed, it was well filmed in the main, but it was a little disappointing after reading 5* reviews. I'd give it 3.75*. I think any war film that looks right can get slightly overrated.

    I enjoyed it, but I didn't leave the cinema thinking I'd seen a masterpiece that I was expecting. It had a lot of hype to live up to though.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Dunkirk.
    What Mfin says are my thoughts too. It was very good but not to the point where you'll be talking about it next day.

    We went to see it at the newish Bournemouth Odeon 'isense' cinema. It was very very loud. My ears are ringing just like from a loud rock concert. So be warned.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Dunkirk.
    What Mfin says are my thoughts too. It was very good but not to the point where you'll be talking about it next day.

    We went to see it at the newish Bournemouth Odeon 'isense' cinema. It was very very loud. My ears are ringing just like from a loud rock concert. So be warned.

    Seemed a bit odd too...

    Unusually for a film, the numbers looked not exaggerated but low, you didn't get the feeling of the huge numbers being trapped and over 300,000 being evacuated. I know we are used to over-exaggerated crowd scales in films, but this seemed way under to me at times.

    I think primarily it failed to convey any real feeling of peril or shock. It also failed to connect on character level which doesn't help in that regard, although I don't think it was supposed to.

    It was probably a mistake to make the film as a 12A, if it was a 15 it could have been much more graphic (it wasn't at all graphic), that would have made it possible for the film to have more impact, be more visceral emotionally engaging.

    Even Kenneth Branagh's watery eyes moment was like a standard clichéd cue to feel emotional that was needed to be put in as emotional build up was sort of absent.

    Oh well, like I say, it was well filmed but disappointing. It would deserve to get nowhere near a best picture award.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    mfin wrote:

    Seemed a bit odd too...

    Unusually for a film, the numbers looked not exaggerated but low, you didn't get the feeling of the huge numbers being trapped and over 300,000 being evacuated. I know we are used to over-exaggerated crowd scales in films, but this seemed way under to me at times.

    I think primarily it failed to convey any real feeling of peril or shock. It also failed to connect on character level which doesn't help in that regard, although I don't think it was supposed to.

    It was probably a mistake to make the film as a 12A, if it was a 15 it could have been much more graphic (it wasn't at all graphic), that would have made it possible for the film to have more impact, be more visceral emotionally engaging.

    Even Kenneth Branagh's watery eyes moment was like a standard clichéd cue to feel emotional that was needed to be put in as emotional build up was sort of absent.

    Oh well, like I say, it was well filmed but disappointing. It would deserve to get nowhere near a best picture award.

    Still getting over the ringing ears.
    I thought Brannagh was awful. However the Goo clan thought it was his best performance to date. That doesn't say much for him as his was, like all the others cameos. Don't get me started on the trailer of his self indulgent foray into playing Poirot in yet another rehash of Murder on the Orient Express.

    Funny you should bring up the numbers situation.
    Those beaches didn't look like they had upto 400k thousand troops on them. But then according to veterans who were there it was as accurate a war movie as you can get.
    Don't think blood and guts would've added anything to movie. I thought the scene where they were hiding in trawler was gripping but couldn't work out how on earth a beached vessel can end up in middle of channel in short space of time.

    Talking of time it took me over half an hour to realise there were 3 different timelines.
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  • What I DO really like about Bourne is just how euro the whole thing feels.
    Indeed - I always think 'Bourne!' when I am on holiday in Europe and hear one of their police/ambulance sirens!

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Mr Goo wrote:

    Still getting over the ringing ears.
    I thought Brannagh was awful. However the Goo clan thought it was his best performance to date. That doesn't say much for him as his was, like all the others cameos. Don't get me started on the trailer of his self indulgent foray into playing Poirot in yet another rehash of Murder on the Orient Express.

    Funny you should bring up the numbers situation.
    Those beaches didn't look like they had upto 400k thousand troops on them. But then according to veterans who were there it was as accurate a war movie as you can get.
    Don't think blood and guts would've added anything to movie. I thought the scene where they were hiding in trawler was gripping but couldn't work out how on earth a beached vessel can end up in middle of channel in short space of time.

    Talking of time it took me over half an hour to realise there were 3 different timelines.

    The thing is, they knew the emotions and thoughts at the time and the imagery would remind them of these, whereas we've only got the film to try get the emotion across and that is where I thought it failed. Watching it was neither an intense or particularly engaging or memorable experience really.

    Numbers-wise I don't know, perhaps it was right, I suppose it was researched and reflected bang on even if it didn't look it to me.

    I didn't realise anyone had rated Branagh in it, like you say it was just an average performance which I can imagine being done better by any of many quality actors.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Mr Goo wrote:
    . But then according to veterans who were there it was as accurate a war movie as you can get.

    So at Uni I did a bit on memory, which at the time was the cutting edge of history studies; the study of collective memory and how societies ‘remember’ things, rather than focusing on the ‘facts’ so to speak.

    There was a landmark study where they got veterans from the battle of Gallipoli to recount their experiences of it.

    In an unusually high proportion (above 50% IIRC), the memories they had correlated so strongly with the film staring Mel Gibson, that the author of the study was convinced that the film had essentially ‘replaced’ a lot of their own memories.

    I’m always reminded of that when you get people who experienced mass participation events that have since become part of the broader collective memory. Worth baring in mind.

    That Nolan’s first big film was Memento, where *spoiler alert* the entire twist is the main protagonist deceiving his own memory, I would imagine, is not lost on him.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974

    So at Uni I did a bit on memory, which at the time was the cutting edge of history studies; the study of collective memory and how societies ‘remember’ things, rather than focusing on the ‘facts’ so to speak.

    There was a landmark study where they got veterans from the battle of Gallipoli to recount their experiences of it.

    In an unusually high proportion (above 50% IIRC), the memories they had correlated so strongly with the film staring Mel Gibson, that the author of the study was convinced that the film had essentially ‘replaced’ a lot of their own memories.

    I’m always reminded of that when you get people who experienced mass participation events that have since become part of the broader collective memory. Worth baring in mind.

    That Nolan’s first big film was Memento, where *spoiler alert* the entire twist is the main protagonist deceiving his own memory, I would imagine, is not lost on him.

    Completely off topic, but this 'memory' thing is interesting and odd.

    When I was around 20, I rode my motorbike all the way to Bologna, Italy. I did several such trips and I have vivid memories of some of the places I went through, and even some sections of road. However, for some of these memories, my position on the road is transposed to the what is normal for the UK. I'm riding on the left side of the carriageway.

    The similar thing has happened to some recalls of driving hire cars abroad, I'm in the right-hand side of the car, along with the steering wheel and all the controls. Try as I might, I can't get the 'real' scenario to stick.

    And to pre-empt any leg pulling, I was where I was supposed to be on the road at these times (I can really remember the bits when i wasn't! :wink: )


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  • 22stu
    22stu Posts: 69
    A street cat named Bob

    Don't ask me WTF but kept the peace with the boss! Actually not a bad film to be fair! :lol:
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,498
    22stu wrote:
    A street cat named Bob

    Don't ask me WTF but kept the peace with the boss! Actually not a bad film to be fair! :lol:
    Watched that with the kids as they loved the children's book. Should have looked into it in more depth first! I guess you're never too young to learn about the effects of detoxing though :?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,572
    Free Fire. Gets off to a great start with lots of promise.
    Which fails to deliver. Decent, fine even, but not great. Baby Driver is far superior.
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Dunkirk, agree with what everyone else has said really, its a very good film, very tense and almost eerie in parts, but its not a great film, it ought to win an Oscar for sound editing, and the aerial pieces. And I was alright with most of the timey wimey stuff, but was beginning to get a bit fed up at the end where it seemed like we were watching the same 30seconds of story repeated.
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    The Lego Movie. Bonkers,utterly bonkers.
  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    Star Wars-Something about clones. Forgotten how terrible the prequels were. Absolutely awful
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,777
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Free Fire. Gets off to a great start with lots of promise.
    Which fails to deliver. Decent, fine even, but not great. Baby Driver is far superior.
    Have watched both and totally agree. Free Fire, great cast, great promise, doesn't deliver.
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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,587
    War for the Planet of the Apes

    Technically very good but a pretty crap film overall
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  • weezyswiss
    weezyswiss Posts: 123
    Planet of the Sharks.

    I think the name says it all :lol:
  • Watched the documentary Icarus over the weekend, well worth a watch.
    What starts out as an experiment to deliberately dope during Haute Route, turns into something much darker as the Documentary Maker is overtaken by unfolding global events

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/

    It's on Netflix, or (as I did) widely available as a T!?$@*&
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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm a bit late to this particular party as we both became [very] bored with the endless (and IMHO mostly mediocre) Marvel films and TV programmes and have therefore avoided them for the most part. However, after reading such good reviews of 'Volume 2', we decided to watch the first one as a run up to the second which is scheduled for next weekend and am very, very glad we did. What a great film - two hours of escapist nonsense with a rare sense of fun almost all the way through - and I do love a good space battle! If the second one is as good as reports say, next Saturday night should be a good 'un.
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm a bit late to this particular party as we both became [very] bored with the endless (and IMHO mostly mediocre) Marvel films and TV programmes and have therefore avoided them for the most part. However, after reading such good reviews of 'Volume 2', we decided to watch the first one as a run up to the second which is scheduled for next weekend and am very, very glad we did. What a great film - two hours of escapist nonsense with a rare sense of fun almost all the way through - and I do love a good space battle! If the second one is as good as reports say, next Saturday night should be a good 'un.

    You won't be disappointed. Vol 2 is better.
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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Freshly back from my hols, so to while away two eight hour transatlantic flights.....

    Deadpool :- Absolutely hilarious, I may have snorted with laughter too loud on several occasions. Watched twice and I will definitely be watching this again very soon.

    The Life of Pi:- Tedious, really really tedious

    Lion :- Moving, well acted, and strong story, great film

    Up :- Undoubtedly the most moving first twenty minutes in any film.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,572
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Up :- Undoubtedly the most moving first twenty minutes in any film.
    Good shout!
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    The Witch

    Great feeling and sense of situation,good acting even with the children,the scenery camera work and music was also good.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Watched the documentary Icarus over the weekend, well worth a watch.
    What starts out as an experiment to deliberately dope during Haute Route, turns into something much darker as the Documentary Maker is overtaken by unfolding global events

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/

    It's on Netflix, or (as I did) widely available as a T!?$@*&

    Just finished watching this with a couple of mugs of Joe. It is really worth watching. Gets very gripping towards the end and exposes the lengths to which a certain state was involved in doping athletes.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Deep Water Horizon - on Netflix

    Watched over the weekend. Dramatisation of the Gulf of Mexico, BP oil rig/spill disaster. Stars - Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch, John Malkovich and Kurt Russell amongst others.
    Not the greatest film. But watchable and I'm sure that a fair bit of artistic licence may have been taken in the portrayal of some ot the true life characters. However if the attitude of the BP execs on board the rig is accurate, then they really were a bunch of ignorant, corporate centric bar stewards with no regard for anything but money. Shame on them.
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,777
    Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Good characterisation, good interplay between characters, possibly slightly over long. All in all an enjoyable good watch.
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Arrival - Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner & Forrest Whitaker.
    Well thats almost 2 hours of awfulness endured with a stupidly obvious moral of the story outcome..... If we all work together and put our differences to one side the world will be a happy place..... Well duh!.

    I do like intelligent sci-fi but for me it just failed miserably. Perhaps I missed something.
    It's basically Interstellar but on Earth, without the fabulous soundtrack of Hans Zimmer and without any tension or excitement. It's National League Southern Division Interstellar. No its worse. It's Bournemouth Area Sunday League Division 9 Interstellar....... only worse.

    And what a waste of talent in Forrest Whitaker. Again typecast into playing an army officer. But hey I guess if it pays the bills...... Ain't that right Mr Statham?
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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    American Made

    I'm not much of a fan of Tom Cruise but he is undeniably excellent in this highly enjoyable 'true' romp!
  • The Hitmans Bodyguard, switch your brain off sweary.....v sweary entertainment

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