Last Film You Watched

[Disgruntledgoat]

Sounds quite interesting. Although for me taken is one of the most overrated films I've ever seen. Some guy beats up a whole criminal gang one by one. Mind numbing stuff.

Taken is an absolute dog of a film

The way his daughter's mate is just forgotten about as soon as she dies, the way he needs a speeding car to catch up with a canal barge (a bike would do it).

 

[Tea_drinker]

Hairspray (1988)

 

[Nymzee]

Struggling to get on board with the 1917 hype, so many things were compromised by the one-shot concept.

The cinematography, score and overall feat was top notch, however...

Spoiler: Spoiler

The wooden delivery of dialogue (certainly in the first hour or so) kept breaking immersion and the fact they couldn't re-shoot as easily for minor tweaks really compromised it IMO.

Another thing that broke immersion is that I couldn't suspend enough belief for the fact he covered maybe just over a mile over the whole film? Obviously that was true in real life, but the long shot meant nothing was broken up enough to give the sense of distance, certainly not the feeling that the 12 hours or so would have been an ambitious undertaking. Without the K.O from the sniper he would have made it in well under 2 hours.

A good example of that is the truck convoy bit, they literally took him about 100 meters... he could have walked that and saved himself a shed load of time.

The underlying awareness it was such a short excursion also started to make random events feel entirely unlikely and a little bit Playstation FPS, they were like 200 meters apart.

By the time he's running across the trenches at the end and the explosions looked like MSPaint, I just got annoyed.

My fave part was when he was running away from the first German at night in the ruined town and the guy tried to drop shot him like I was playing online Call of Duty.

 

[Nymzee]

Taken is an absolute dog of a film

The way his daughter's mate is just forgotten about as soon as she dies, the way he needs a speeding car to catch up with a canal barge (a bike would do it).

Forwarded on your number to Liam Neeson. Expect a call soon...

 

[witchdoc187]

Taken is an absolute dog of a film

The way his daughter's mate is just forgotten about as soon as she dies, the way he needs a speeding car to catch up with a canal barge (a bike would do it).

It was like a computer game. Just scene after scene of Liam neeson beating up some people.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I watched Lawrence of Arabia yesterday afternoon.

Love that film.

 

[jaycee]

I liked this - as you say, quite brutal in places, but it really pulls you into its world. Patrick Wilson is good in it, too. If you haven't already seen them, have a look at the director's other two films: Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete.

Edit: forgot to say - I always felt Bone Tomahawk was heavily influenced by the "unfilmable" Blood Meridian.

Brawl in cell block 99 is poor I think,

 

[Nymzee]

Can’t beat Old Boy for senseless violent films.

 

[COYBL25]

Watched this over the weekend-
12 Strong.

Based on a true story, 12 American Special Forces soldiers are dropped deep into Afghanistan to assist an Afghani warlord and his tribe in fighting against Al Qaeda post 9/11.

Despite a stellar cast it goes for the “ gung ho “ patriotic approach, which makes it seem flat. Which is a shame as it doesn’t do justice to their incredible bravery.

The battle scenes are amazing though.

 

[jaycee]

Can’t beat Old Boy for senseless violent films.

Try "Itchi the killer"

 

[jaycee]

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Watched this over the weekend-
12 Strong.

Based on a true story, 12 American Special Forces soldiers are dropped deep into Afghanistan to assist an Afghani warlord and his tribe in fighting against Al Qaeda post 9/11.

Despite a stellar cast it goes for the “ gung ho “ patriotic approach, which makes it seem flat. Which is a shame as it doesn’t do justice to their incredible bravery.

The battle scenes are amazing though.

Felt pretty much the same decent except for the OTT flag waving,got to say when they showed the pic of them at the end it did enter my head that either there was a good deal of exaggeration or the baddies were bells

 

[TowerToffee]

And R-Patz's accent manages to go on a round-the-world cruise, too.

Was going to see it this weekend , think I'll wait until it comes on Netflix and watch it with the subtitles !

 

[McBain]

Struggling to get on board with the 1917 hype, so many things were compromised by the one-shot concept.

The cinematography, score and overall feat was top notch, however...

Spoiler: Spoiler

The wooden delivery of dialogue (certainly in the first hour or so) kept breaking immersion and the fact they couldn't re-shoot as easily for minor tweaks really compromised it IMO.

Another thing that broke immersion is that I couldn't suspend enough belief for the fact he covered maybe just over a mile over the whole film? Obviously that was true in real life, but the long shot meant nothing was broken up enough to give the sense of distance, certainly not the feeling that the 12 hours or so would have been an ambitious undertaking. Without the K.O from the sniper he would have made it in well under 2 hours.

A good example of that is the truck convoy bit, they literally took him about 100 meters... he could have walked that and saved himself a shed load of time.

The underlying awareness it was such a short excursion also started to make random events feel entirely unlikely and a little bit Playstation FPS, they were like 200 meters apart.

By the time he's running across the trenches at the end and the explosions looked like MSPaint, I just got annoyed.

Disagree entirely with this. An absolute masterpiece of cinema.

 

[Kurt.]

The Finest Hours


Watching it now.

 

[4737carlin]

Just watched 88 minutes, crime thriller with Pacino solving a murder, not great, seen much better thrillers many times including ones with Pacino in.