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  • stifflersmom
    stifflersmom Posts: 177
    The Death of Stalin - thoroughly justifies the great reviews.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Oui.

    Though, spoiler alert, if ya knows your soviet history, ya knows what's gonna happen.
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    edited October 2017
    awavey wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    3D really is pointless, I think it actually took away from the visual spectacle, but it was all that was available for when I could watch it. I don't think it makes me an idiot, however; if the only showing is in 3D...
    By paying to watch 3D films you are encouraging the cinema to continue showing 3D films.
    Desist.

    the problem you get though is most cinemas converted their biggest screen to 3D, and will only show films on that screen in 2D if its a blockbuster and no 3D print is available.

    That's not a problem, see it on a smaller screen, if you want the picture to be bigger, sit nearer the front.

    There's never any reason to have to watch something in 3D if you're an adult. If a film truly is not on in 2D at a particular cinema (not very likely surely?) then there are even other cinemas now.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Despicable Me 3

    As per usual the minions are the stars of the show (along with the prisoner on the toilet!) it's fairly funny but nowhere near as funny as the first two. This should be the last one I think.
  • qube
    qube Posts: 1,899
    The Holcroft Covenant.

    Classic 80's Michael Caine weirdness.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    All for One - the Orica-Scott documentary. Good fun, and Mathew Hayman comes out of it very well. :)

    Spoiler: He wins Paris-Roubaix.
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  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    +1 for Bladerunner 2049.

    I thought 2 hr 40 was going to be beyond my attention span, but I was thoroughly absorbed for the whole film.

    The plot jumps about a bit - it's a detective movie at heart and like alot of detective movies, you sometimes wonder how he got from scene 1 to scene 2. Mrs C tells me to suspend disbelief a little ...

    Great sound, great effects, worth seeing in a cinema if you get the chance.

    I did have to look it up on the internet the following day to find out if what I thought I'd understood from the film was right. Turns out I was mistaken ;-)

    Another one I saw at the weekend, Oblivion is on Netflix at the moment. Quite a stupid film all in all, worth watching on a rainy day (as, indeed, it was). I like the quote from Rotten Tomatoes
    If nothing else, "Oblivion" will go down in film history as the movie where Tom Cruise pilots a white, sperm-shaped craft into a giant space uterus.
  • vulva65
    vulva65 Posts: 118
    Original Blade Runner, in preparation for BR2049 but found it terrible and have lost the will to watch the new one now. The scenes were far too prolonged, could have shaved half an hour off easily....and I'm pretty sure he raped a robot which is frowned upon!
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    The Remains of the Day (1993) - Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson plus other acting royalty.
    Never seen before, it was on some spurious channel last night. Never seen it before. Excellent story, brilliantly acted.
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  • Lagrange
    Lagrange Posts: 652
    Saw a brilliant new sci fi battle movie - Galactic Nexus - fantastic. New special effects by pixel compression - whatever thaT MEANS renders the colour and HD visuals incredible. Saw it in Hong Kong and the surround sound is AWESOME. This is the BEST ACTION PIC EVER. 10 times better than star wars or BR.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Two films today

    First off, Captain Underpants with the little lady. It was quite funny, lots of fart jokes, but I was quite glad when it was over!

    Then this afternoon The Death of Stalin, really funny and very dark at the same time, Jason Isaacs stole the film and it was great to see Michael Palin back on screen as funny as ever
    As an aside I watched this film in a totally deserted cinema, nobody but me, a slightly strange and unnerving experience!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    House bound with leg in plaster so...

    Gone Girl - Good but a very annoying ending.
    F&F8 - Exactly what you'd expect.
    Guardians of the Galaxy - Good humour but absolute tosh. F&F8 had a more coherent plot, and that's saying something.
    Baywatch - Plot as expected, humour better than expected, cruder than expected.
    Ghost in The Shell - Better than expected.
    War for Planet Of The Apes - As expected.
    Atomic Blonde - Low expectations but shows the relativity. Enjoyable as it was better than expected.
    The Hitman's Bodyguard - Tosh, but enjoyable tosh.
    Wind River - Pick of the bunch.

    Plus a load of older films rewatched and boxsets.

    Nothing of particular note, and not my finest hours of cinema but not in the mood for anything serious...
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  • izza
    izza Posts: 1,561
    LA LA Land - what a waste of time. Saw it at a pop up outdoor cinema and the only thing stopping me doze off was the hypothermia.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    Tour De Pharmacy. A 40 minute mockumetary. Not sure it will go down well with the general public but as a cyclist and TdF fan I thought it was very entertaining.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    Unlocked - Not exactly ground breaking and Orlando Bloom gives a well, Orlando Bloom performance, but about as good as you can expect from this type of film.
    Jungle - True story so confined compared to the usual action thriller. Well acted with a sense of impending doom with the viewer never sure what that doom will be.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    The Exception - Perfectly passable but not worth spending money on. Christopher Plummer steals the show.
    The Circle - Scary as each small step seems plausible leading to a future that I for one wouldn't want.
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,497
    Despicable Me 3 - even Tashwife loved it
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    The Martian - 2nd Time of watching as was bored.
    Matt Damon gets stranded on Mars. Grows potatoes to survive. Gets rescued by the crew that abandoned him. And they all lived happily ever after. Quite good.
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  • voodooman
    voodooman Posts: 183
    Watched the Daft Punk film on Netflix.

    The bit with the Coachella festival gave me goosebumps. I still listen to "giorgio" from Random Access Memories. I'm nearly 50 and still love dance music.
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    The Last Jedi...hmm I think the 5 star critics went to see a different film to the one being shown at my nearest multiplex. disappointing I think Id say.

    its difficult to say too much without spoilers, but for me it actually felt like one of those documentary retrospectives of heres a clip of a really cool bit of Star Wars film, followed by an unrelated clip from another part of the film and then another, there was no thread or link or progression through the film, to the point you get to the end and think well so what is Episode 9 going to be about then.

    its like their storyboarding process was just heres a bunch of stuff,that looks cool we'll do that.I do wonder if the whole set in stone release date thing and the need to start filming pushes them into this, it was the same with the The Force Awakens in that they started filming before theyd really completed the story properly, and this looks like the started filming stuff and just hoped putting it together told a story
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Gods of Egypt (Netflix)
    Quite possibly one of the worst films I've ever seen.
    Luckily for Bryan Brown (FX Murder by Illusion ) his character is killed off quite soon. But can't think what went through any of the actors' heads when accepting a role in this stupidly FX heavy, lumbering nonsensical film. Clearly banking cheques was the only incentive.
    Gérard Butler dons chest plate armour and a skirt yet again for this outing. Rufus Sewell should be ashamed of himself for taking a role that yet again type casts him as a baddie. But I guess his bank manager is happy.
    The storyline is awful with an equally turgid script. Even the injections of humour were misplaced and didn't work.

    Steer clear of this.
    Rating : Minus 100,000,000.
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  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    The latest Star Wars. I wasn’t expecting much and I wasn’t disappointed. From the outset the film seemed to be lampooning itself. The girl dramatically hands Luke his sabre and he tosses it over his shoulder like it was a sketch out of a comedy show. Next he is running about milking cows and pole vaulting a ravine before spearing a fish and marching up a cliff with a fish bigger than himself over his shoulder. It was beyond ridiculous, amazing that they could have done that. Carrie Fisher obviously couldn’t talk anymore because she filled her top lip with cement and could’t move it. Everything Hamil said was ham and cheese and by the end it seemed obvious they have now killed all the original characters so that a new generation can own it. Not worth having though.


    Downsizing however looks like the single thing that solves all human problems in one go :lol:
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Paddington was way better than Star Wars.
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Monuments Men, better than I thought it would be.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    Hostage with Halle Berry. Typical B movie thriller, and better than most of that genre.

    Not a spoiler alert as it happens so early, but the film was nearly ruined by one scene that did my head in.
    A mother in a car chase to rescue her child gets overtaken by a lorry. (Bad enough but about to get worse) Cut to face shot, this stuff just got serious floor the accelerator. Cut to speedo accelerating from 20mph to 40mph.
    WTF? A car chase to rescue your child at 20mph!
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Baby Driver - pretty average script, brilliant soundtrack and screenplay. For example:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328

    Brilliant driving scenes.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Baby Driver - pretty average script, brilliant soundtrack and screenplay. For example:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328

    Brilliant driving scenes.

    We watched this too late on Xmas day.
    The opening car chase is excellent. The others paled by comparison.
    A typical Edgar Wright film. Even has a homage to his music video with Noel Fielding then features the original on TV in the main protagonist''s flat.

    I likened Baby Driver to a film version of a coffee table book.

    Jamie Foxx was irritating as I couldn't understand a single thing he said.

    Enjoyable but not a classic.
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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    Star Wars VIII The Last Jedi
    A boxing day treat at Bournemouth BH2 iSense.
    £60 later and I'm in process of writing to Disney to thank them for screwing with what was once a good saga of films.
    As others have said on here, it just seemed like they shot loads of different scenes and then sat down and tried to stitch them together. It didn't work to make a coherent story at all.
    Best scene was at the beginning but shan't spoil.

    Those penguin/puffin things played absolutely no part in the story despite their prominence in a trailer. Clearly Disneys' merchandising team leant on the production crew to include a cute character so that they could make millions.
    Best new character was Rose.
    Chewie was disappointing.
    Mark Hamill looked like he was crying all the time.
    Felt sorry that this was Carrie Fisher's last hurrah. Disney seemingly leant on her to loose weight and have collagen injections, which is disgraceful. And don't get me started on her mid film resurrection. What the F was that about? Completely rediculous.

    Don't know why Mark Kermode (Radio 5 Live film reviewer) rated it so highly. I would gave thought given his propensity to rip poor movies to shreds this latest Star Wars would be lying in tatters.

    Still I know that I'll go and see IX when it's out. Fool that I am.
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Don't know why Mark Kermode (Radio 5 Live film reviewer) rated it so highly. I would gave thought given his propensity to rip poor movies to shreds this latest Star Wars would be lying in tatters.

    Still I know that I'll go and see IX when it's out. Fool that I am.

    tbh I was gobsmacked by his review, I dont always agree with how he rates films, he thinks Mamma Mia is a masterpiece of cinema for instance, but I dont often feel like he went to see a completely different film to the one I did.

    he even praised its character arc development, which is one of the big problems in the film in that I had with it, as I felt that was glaringly missing. I can only assume he likes it alot because its the aspect that youve got a big juggernaut of a Disney blockbuster sci fi film, that chooses not to go type, it could have been a by the numbers standard Star Wars fantasy film, but it wants to subvert your expectations and be you could say alot more grown up sci-fi about things in a way you dont normally associate with Star Wars. and he saw it with a premiere crowd, no one was whooping/cheering or applauding in the screening I went to, in fact the only audience reaction was a slight embarrased guffaw when that one moment of total nonsense, you know the one, happens.

    and he also says it could be a standalone film, which I do agree with, but Id argue thats part of the problem :)
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    awavey wrote:
    Mr Goo wrote:
    Don't know why Mark Kermode (Radio 5 Live film reviewer) rated it so highly. I would gave thought given his propensity to rip poor movies to shreds this latest Star Wars would be lying in tatters.

    Still I know that I'll go and see IX when it's out. Fool that I am.

    tbh I was gobsmacked by his review, I dont always agree with how he rates films, he thinks Mamma Mia is a masterpiece of cinema for instance, but I dont often feel like he went to see a completely different film to the one I did.

    he even praised its character arc development, which is one of the big problems in the film in that I had with it, as I felt that was glaringly missing. I can only assume he likes it alot because its the aspect that youve got a big juggernaut of a Disney blockbuster sci fi film, that chooses not to go type, it could have been a by the numbers standard Star Wars fantasy film, but it wants to subvert your expectations and be you could say alot more grown up sci-fi about things in a way you dont normally associate with Star Wars. and he saw it with a premiere crowd, no one was whooping/cheering or applauding in the screening I went to, in fact the only audience reaction was a slight embarrased guffaw when that one moment of total nonsense, you know the one, happens.

    and he also says it could be a standalone film, which I do agree with, but Id argue thats part of the problem :)

    It's not that I want all subsequent Star Wars films to follow type. It's more that I want the characters to have purpose. Apart from the new girl Rose and the X-Wing pilot none of them had any purpose or depth of character. The likes of C3PO and Chewie might just as well not actually be in the last two films.
    How Leia/Gen Organa suddenly calls upon Jedi powers when in 4 previous outings she has done nothing Jedi like is laughable.
    Again I refer to the inconsequential Porgs and the quite clearly cynical Disney merchandising machine going into overdrive to get mummy and daddy to buy a soft fluffy Porg toys for Christmas.

    I appreciate that the saga has to move on from the original 3 but its very annoying that Disney are breaking with all the original concept of Star Wars. That was it is supposed to be removed from what we know on our own planet, ie; stitching on clothes, clothing that doesn't resemble our attire, ironing suits (you'll remember that snippet ) The casino scene completely went against this with slot machines, caps tables , evening dresses and suits, all in traditional black and white cloth. The cantina in A New Hope is everything that Star Wars is about regards the Star Wars universe. That bl88dy casino was not that far removed from any establishment in London or Monte Carlo.


    BTW did you spot Ade Edmondson?
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