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Last Film You Watched
- Thread starter GrandOldTeam
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Taking my daughter to see it tonight, is right. Did you see it in 3D?
The Cowboy
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ijjysmith
Calm
Father Ted
Mad Max - absolutely beltin' fillum, loved it.
Safety Not Guaranteed - indie time travel whimsy, not bad, quite sweet, killer line about stormtroopers.
Safety Not Guaranteed - indie time travel whimsy, not bad, quite sweet, killer line about stormtroopers.
MickA
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Saw this yesterday. Quite enjoyed it, more of a thriller than scary horror but a different take on the usual stuff.
Also watched Bedevilled which was worth a squint. I am never going to any remote Korean island in my life.
dholliday
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I was the last person expecting to enjoy a Harry Potter movie, but what can I say? Prisoner of Azkaban is almost perfect.
It's weird but sometimes I see this kind of comeback to criticism of a favourite thing, as if the lad can't accept other people find it not-that-great so thinks up reasons in his head why they must be saying so.
I rated the film a watchable 6/10, so not quite bashing it anyway, praising the visuals as the best I've seen in a very long time. Check out the highest-rated IMDB user reviews...full of highly-disappointed 1/10 tomes. I'd wager that it's not particularly hip to bash the film, rather that many people just didn't like it. It had ultra-cheap emotional triggers (which it kept repeating), utterly unrealistic plot progression and a cringeworthy George Clooney alongside the wimpy unlikable Sandra Bullock (quite a feat to make someone as nice as her unlikeable).
But amazing effects, granted.
It's not complex by any stretch of the imagination, its story is a textbook-template used by hundreds of other films/books/TV shows.
Visionary in terms of the camera movement (even if a lot of it was digitally-enhanced), I grant you. And even if sometimes unrealistic the depiction of movement in space was very well done. But in terms of the story, characterisation and deeper meaning there was nothing new here.
I watched The Andromeda Strain recently...now that is a complex science fiction story, with the emphasis on science. Not much in the way of emotional backstory to the characters, because who cares? We want the science fiction!
Other space films I rate higher than Gravity: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Black Hole, Sunshine, Pandorum, Star Wars trilogy, Event Horizon, Transformers: The Movie (1986).
Some of these aren't realistic space sims, obviously, but they're more engaging films.
dholliday
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Interstellar: dishonest & intensely-boring chick flick, with cheap effects straight out of Lost in Space and a teethgrindingly-nervous soundtrack, as if the organ player fainted and is still lying prone on the keys.
3/10. Recommended for girls with daddy issues. Otherwise, avoid.
3/10. Recommended for girls with daddy issues. Otherwise, avoid.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
Happened on Harry Potter and The Woman in Black last night.
Yet another film, alongside the afore-mentioned Interstellar & Gravity, which has the main protagonist agonise over a dead loved one so that the audience may feel some kind of contrived emotional connection to him. It's a cheap overused trick.
Also cheap and overused where the jump 'scares' the director attempted. Crap.
The story had potential. I gather the original TV series was superior.
4/10.
Yet another film, alongside the afore-mentioned Interstellar & Gravity, which has the main protagonist agonise over a dead loved one so that the audience may feel some kind of contrived emotional connection to him. It's a cheap overused trick.
Also cheap and overused where the jump 'scares' the director attempted. Crap.
The story had potential. I gather the original TV series was superior.
4/10.
Yeah Bry, worth it too, some great bits
Yeah really. Thought it was the second best of the films.
Anything with Chris Pratt in is immediately a 10 and can only get higher.
2 Guns with Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington. Was ok.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
Watched The Shining for the first time last week.
Jack was a bit theatrical but he did the possessed look very well, Shelley Duvall was annoyingly-ditzy at times but . The kid did really well in his role.
As expected: very immersive direction, superb atmosphere...but not particularly scary, tho' Jack did feel dangerous.
Still a very good 8/10.
Jack was a bit theatrical but he did the possessed look very well, Shelley Duvall was annoyingly-ditzy at times but . The kid did really well in his role.
As expected: very immersive direction, superb atmosphere...but not particularly scary, tho' Jack did feel dangerous.
Still a very good 8/10.