Last Film You Watched


Rita_Poon said:
nomadland.
Slow and steady, she does doe eyed like no one but. Understood the stone with the hole in it, understood the panorama. Saw 'Wall street', saw 'Thelma and Louise' and saw another important one that's name won't jump to mind right now. A lament upon the american dream delivered for those outside the 0.01% winners. When you've alienated 99.99% of everyone, it's difficult to turn the ship round. The long lasting scars of victory tend to be undoable.
Every ultimate culture sews the seeds of it's end. History is written in graves.
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Borrows no small part from the emotional reclusiveness of 'Gravity'. Personal loss is encapsulated in the loss of the american dream and vice versa here. Not defined by the hurt, but coming to terms with it. A clarion call of film making, where hollywood has never been less so and the art and message of film is paramount. Sad.
 
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Society of the Snow.

This will win a lot of awards, but I’m guessing that it will divide a lot of opinion.

The true story of the Uruguayan rugby team, who’s plane crashed in the Andes, in 1972 and the survivors fight for survival, which included eating the dead.

I’ve read the book AlIve and seen the film, so I was really interested to see where this went.

It pays much more attention to the spiritual and mental turmoil of the survivors, who are a Catholic rugby team, when they have to make a decision to eat the dead or die.

From reading about it, the cast of largely unknown actors starved themselves in order to accurately portray the survivors ordeal.

The attention to detail is meticulous, as some of the survivors acted as advisers during the filming and wanted it done right as a tribute to the dead and those that survived.

It’s an incredible film and is worthy of every award it will receive.

However, as they’ve tried to recreate the reality of being stuck in the middle of a freezing mountain range, there are periods where not much happens and it becomes all about the dialogue.

It’s two and a half hours long, which will put some people off and is also in Spanish with subs - unlike the original film, Alive.

Make your own mind up, but I thought it was truly outstanding.
 
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I know it's not the cool edge lord opinion to have, but this is a great movie. Pure popcorn. The visuals are still mindblowing, 15 years after last watching it in the cinema. It starts off a bit slow, but the story gets investing as soon as we get to see blue people. 8/10
 

SuperTimCahill said:
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I know it's not the cool edge lord opinion to have, but this is a great movie. Pure popcorn. The visuals are still mindblowing, 15 years after last watching it in the cinema. It starts off a bit slow, but the story gets investing as soon as we get to see blue people. 8/10
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I remember having a big row with a colleague soon after it's release.

He was a bona fide nerd who saw it 3 or 4 times in the cinema and gushed about it after each visit. He'd get realky mad when I called it Ferngully in space.

He made outlandish claims that it will 'Revolutionise how all movies are made from now on."

Well, its been such a revolution that the only film that looks even remotely like it was it's sequel, almost 15 years later.

Avatar: 7/10 (because it was different visually.
Avatar 2: It looked exactly the same as Avatar but with more water and a weaker storyline. 5/10
Avatar 3: It's gonna have to really wow me to avoid a 3/10
 
SuperTimCahill said:
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I know it's not the cool edge lord opinion to have, but this is a great movie. Pure popcorn. The visuals are still mindblowing, 15 years after last watching it in the cinema. It starts off a bit slow, but the story gets investing as soon as we get to see blue people. 8/10
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I remember having a big row with a colleague soon after it's release.

He was a bona fide nerd who saw it 3 or 4 times in the cinema and gushed about it after each visit. He'd get really mad when I called it Ferngully in space.

He made outlandish claims that it will 'Revolutionise how all movies are made from now on."

Well, its been such a revolution that the only film that looks even remotely like it was it's sequel, almost 15 years later.

Avatar: 7/10 Because it was so different visually and had a fairly decent story.
Avatar 2: It looked exactly the same as Avatar but with more water and a weaker storyline. 5/10
Avatar 3: It's gonna have to really wow me to avoid a 3/10
 
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Society of the Snow.

This will win a lot of awards, but I’m guessing that it will divide a lot of opinion.

The true story of the Uruguayan rugby team, who’s plane crashed in the Andes, in 1972 and the survivors fight for survival, which included eating the dead.

I’ve read the book AlIve and seen the film, so I was really interested to see where this went.

It pays much more attention to the spiritual and mental turmoil of the survivors, who are a Catholic rugby team, when they have to make a decision to eat the dead or die.

From reading about it, the cast of largely unknown actors starved themselves in order to accurately portray the survivors ordeal.

The attention to detail is meticulous, as some of the survivors acted as advisers during the filming and wanted it done right as a tribute to the dead and those that survived.

It’s an incredible film and is worthy of every award it will receive.

However, as they’ve tried to recreate the reality of being stuck in the middle of a freezing mountain range, there are periods where not much happens and it becomes all about the dialogue.

It’s two and a half hours long, which will put some people off and is also in Spanish with subs - unlike the original film, Alive.

Make your own mind up, but I thought it was truly outstanding.
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Glad you liked it. See your point about the runtime and the lack of action at times. But I was gripped throughout.
 
BNJ1878 said:
SuperTimCahill said:
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I know it's not the cool edge lord opinion to have, but this is a great movie. Pure popcorn. The visuals are still mindblowing, 15 years after last watching it in the cinema. It starts off a bit slow, but the story gets investing as soon as we get to see blue people. 8/10
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I remember having a big row with a colleague soon after it's release.

He was a bona fide nerd who saw it 3 or 4 times in the cinema and gushed about it after each visit. He'd get really mad when I called it Ferngully in space.

He made outlandish claims that it will 'Revolutionise how all movies are made from now on."

Well, its been such a revolution that the only film that looks even remotely like it was it's sequel, almost 15 years later.

Avatar: 7/10 Because it was so different visually and had a fairly decent story.
Avatar 2: It looked exactly the same as Avatar but with more water and a weaker storyline. 5/10
Avatar 3: It's gonna have to really wow me to avoid a 3/10
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I haven't seen the first one, cos I'm too damn cool, but went to see the second, and really enjoyed it. It's typical Hollywood popcorn action fare, but looks fricking amazing on the big screen.
 

Fatal Instinct: Police Squad does Basic Instinct/Fatal Attraction etc. Armand Assante plays a detective/lawyer - arrests the bad guys then defends them in court. He's no Leslie Nielson, but he is pretty good in the role. The film follows similarly: clearly mimicing Naked Gun etc (some of the jokes are very similar), it isn't at that level, but it's a decent watch.

Ferrari: Director Mann; Lead actors: Driver, Cruz, Woodley; Special FX: some guy's nan apparently! Was good, quite slow, but not in a dragy way (F1 pun intended!), Cruz especially was really good I think, but the sfx for the various crashes that occur in some of the racing scenes are completely laughable. Like you can actually see it's a dummy in one, the cgi in the others looks like something from the 70s/80s. Oh, and when they have the main crash (spoiler alert??) they suddenly show a body ripped in half, which seemed completely out of tone with everything they had shown before, even if factually accurate. Aside from that I enjoyed it.
 
The Woman in Black
A haunted house movie that's not just filled with jumpscares and loud noises (though they do happen). I think they manage to capture a nice atmosphere and the performances are pretty good from Daniel Radliffe and Ciarán Hinds. There's not much talking, but I think that helps create an unsettlig atmosphere throughout. Not original, but enjoyable. 7/10
 

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