Last Film You Watched

Complicit.

Not exactly a film, a feature length Channel 4 drama from a couple of years ago.
Compelling, realistic and smart spy thriller, David Oyelowo is brilliantly subtle as a driven MI5 agent facing bureaucracy, scepticism and moral compromise on mission to foil a terrorist attack. Arsher Ali is superb as his cunning quarry.

On Amazon Prime for a few days.
 

Right, 2 11 hour flights (NZ>Korea and the return leg):

Self/Less - Meh. My critical review is 'It passed the time'
Unforgiven - Classic, brilliant, awesome
Die Hard - 'nuff said

Coming back:

Trainwreck - Bit of a trainwreck of a movie. Funny in parts, but daft (not good) in others.

The rest of the time was on TV shows, the iPad or ZZZ's
 

Dylan said:
Right, 2 11 hour flights (NZ>Korea and the return leg):

Self/Less - Meh. My critical review is 'It passed the time'
Unforgiven - Classic, brilliant, awesome
Die Hard - 'nuff said

Coming back:

Trainwreck - Bit of a trainwreck of a movie. Funny in parts, but daft (not good) in others.

The rest of the time was on TV shows, the iPad or ZZZ's
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I remember flying to the Falklands 2x8 hour flights, watched Oblivion (meh), The Grey (Good), The Sweeney (Not a fan).
Flights back I took a tramadol and passed out listening to Genesis.
 

Sapie88 said:
Gonna do all 6 Star Wars now. Just put Ep.1 on, yes I know it's crap but hey, I've got a week off.
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I'm due to do this, only seen the prequels once when they came out, seen the originals a thousand times but not since the late-90's.

I got the original original trilogy from a mate: so no horrible new-effects spoiling the atmosphere. Granted I lose the remastered sheen but there's no way I'm watching things like:

- planets exploding with OTT computer graphics
- that punk in the Cantina bar shooting Han first
- a PS2-era Jabba the Hut losing any self-worth he had with that stupid expression when Han stood on his tail
- that awful cringey emo-teen who ruined Annakin Skywalker ghost-replacing the genial old fella we saw behind Vaders' mask

...and worst of all...utterly unforgivable...recently seen this on Youtube...on the Bluray release of the original trilogy they added this to my favourite scene, absolutely ruined the tension:




There's only one change in the CGI-era that was positive (other than general re-mastering) and that was adding Ian McDiarmid to Empire Strikes back. Even the fixed lightsabre battles I wouldn't count as an improvement, as in the originals the way they sometimes looked like conking out was in my mind just them running out of power, it added to the tension for me. The always-on power of the prequel lightsabres never felt very special.

So yeah, personally when we do the 6-film marathon before the cinema trip for the new film, we'll be watching the proper originals.
 
Donnie Darko last night...very good! Quality acting from all players, trippy directing and Lynchian vibe. Story was daft as all time travel stories are, but told in a nicely mysterious way.

I saw the original but hear the Director's Cut is a better bet as it adds scenes which help explain wtf is going on.
 
Everest.

A good film and an interest in tragic story.

I'd read Jon Krakauer accounts of the tragedy in his book 'Into Thin Air'. Kraukauer has been very critical of the film describing it as "total bull" I guess it's because he doesn't come across very well in the film. However, in his book I often got the overriding feeling that he was covering his own back and defending his actions throughout.
 

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