What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

The Empire Strikes The Return of the Wars Jedi Sith.

I don't know which one it was. Annakin Woodenactor got his legs chopped off it that helps. Dire acting, dire accent from Ewan McGregor, CGI that looked like it had been done with crayons, no plot to speak of. Notable only because Samuel L. Jackson went an entire film without swearing.

0.2/10. Absolutely dire.

I quite like Star Wars, but Episodes 1 - 3 are pretty much entirely without merit. There is literally no point in 1, for example, it's just a car race.

Spot on about the CGI too. There's no weight or depth to any of it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Regarding Ronin...I think I posted before on here,memory is bad ! The car chase was filmed in right hand drive uk cars with fake steering wheels on the left.So the actors looked like they were actually driving.Also it's actually De Niro really shitting himself to make it more realistic.
Bit of useless trivia from me sorry.

He acted that well

 

[EltonFrog]

The Empire Strikes The Return of the Wars Jedi Sith.

I don't know which one it was. Annakin Woodenactor got his legs chopped off it that helps. Dire acting, dire accent from Ewan McGregor, CGI that looked like it had been done with crayons, no plot to speak of. Notable only because Samuel L. Jackson went an entire film without swearing.

0.2/10. Absolutely dire.

Oh come on! It wasn’t that good.

 

[Threevok]

The Thing from Another World (1951)

Classic 50's horror movie

The original of John Carpenter's 1982 film - The Thing, with references also used in Predator

I love this sort of thing so 8/10

 

[MontyVeda]

The Empire Strikes The Return of the Wars Jedi Sith.

I don't know which one it was. Annakin Woodenactor got his legs chopped off it that helps. Dire acting, dire accent from Ewan McGregor, CGI that looked like it had been done with crayons, no plot to speak of. Notable only because Samuel L. Jackson went an entire film without swearing.

0.2/10. Absolutely dire.

Revenge of the Pith... one of my nephews claimed it to be the best film ever. To be fair he was only ten at the time, but that didn't stop me from disowning him, his brothers, his sister and his father and the family cat.

 

[cisamcgu]

The Dressmaker

A peculiar, funny, sad, bizarre film. Kate Winslet stars as a returning resident to a small Australian town in Victoria. The film is full of characters - weird and wonderful, quirky and funny, dark and unlikable. The plot is simple, and shouldn't be looked at too carefully in case the viewer falls into one of the many gaping holes, but overall I really enjoyed it - it certainly wasn't what I was expected 8.5/10

 

[Adam4868]

The Dressmaker

A peculiar, funny, sad, bizarre film. Kate Winslet stars as a returning resident to a small Australian town in Victoria. The film is full of characters - weird and wonderful, quirky and funny, dark and unlikable. The plot is simple, and shouldn't be looked at too carefully in case the viewer falls into one of the many gaping holes, but overall I really enjoyed it - it certainly wasn't what I was expected 8.5/10

Watched that myself over Xmas and thought it was good.

 

[Drago]

The Dressmaker

A peculiar, funny, sad, bizarre film. Kate Winslet stars as a returning resident to a small Australian town in Victoria. The film is full of characters - weird and wonderful, quirky and funny, dark and unlikable. The plot is simple, and shouldn't be looked at too carefully in case the viewer falls into one of the many gaping holes, but overall I really enjoyed it - it certainly wasn't what I was expected 8.5/10

I'm rather partial Kate Winslet. A superb actress, and rather nice to look at.

 

[lazybloke]

Macbeth - the 2015 version with Michael Fassbender. Follows the original script, so we're watching it with my 13 yr old to aide his English Literature studies. My young one always walks out at the first sign of gore but not for this, despite the R rating so it seems the reviews were correct to challenge that rating (on the basis that the gore is typically implied rather than explicit).

I seem to have forgotten all my own O Level studies of Macbeth, and really struggled with the language. Perhaps the subject matter makes it less accessible than when I'm on a picnic blanket with a bottle glass of wine watching open-air Shakespeare of a lighter nature at the Nat Trust.

My 13 yr wasn't keen. Had to watch it in sessions over 3 nights.
Feel like I should say something positive. Er, it's visually stunning?

 

[Profpointy]

Macbeth - the 2015 version with Michael Fassbender. Follows the original script, so we're watching it with my 13 yr old to aide his English Literature studies. My young one always walks out at the first sign of gore but not for this, despite the R rating so it seems the reviews were correct to challenge that rating (on the basis that the gore is typically implied rather than explicit).

I seem to have forgotten all my own O Level studies of Macbeth, and really struggled with the language. Perhaps the subject matter makes it less accessible than when I'm on a picnic blanket with a bottle glass of wine watching open-air Shakespeare of a lighter nature at the Nat Trust.

My 13 yr wasn't keen. Had to watch it in sessions over 3 nights.
Feel like I should say something positive. Er, it's visually stunning?

I was very disappointed with it. It indeed looked stunning and had a superb dark-ages feel, but it was very hard to follow (though I liked the strong accents). If I didn't know the play reasonably well I'd have been baffled. The primary failing was to make Macbeth, a play full of action and pace, into something dull and plodding.

 

[swee'pea99]

Just finished watching Capernaum - 'chaos', according to the subtitles - about the life of a 12 year old boy growing up in poverty in Beirut. The 'hook' is that he sues his parents for having had him, but that's almost by the by. It's a staggeringly real glance into an utterly different life in an utterly different world, with an astonishing central performance. Apparently at Cannes it received a 10 minute standing ovation. I can absolutely believe it. Gruelling, true beyond any non fiction, and anything but 'entertaining', it's a stonewall 10/10, and I am certain, on 14 January, that I won't see a better film this year. Or, likely, ever. If you have Amazon Prime and an open mind, I can't recommend it too highly.

 

[ianrauk]

Went to see 1917 last night at the local picture house.
Wow..a stunningly shot movie. This is a film that needs to be seen on the big screen. It will be totally wasted watching it on a TV.

Great filming, great story and great acting.

 

[Dayvo]

It's probably been reviewed here already but I'll give a max. 10/10 for 'Joker'.

A dark and deep study of mental illness, with the Batman character of the Joker being introduced to us prior to Batman in Gotham City, superbly acted by Joaquin Phoenix.

Apart from leading male role, the film, IMO, should scoop a big handfull of Oscars.

Go and see it!

 

[Proto]

A Private War, a film about the life, times and death of war correspondent Mari Colvin.

A superb film, but at times difficult to watch with the inevitable outcome. Rosamund Pike gave a brilliant performance. This really is a ‘must watch’. 10/10

A Private War - IMDB

 

[Adam4868]

Watched Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler last night.Not a bad film watched it with my kids and it wasnt what we were expecting.Good performance by Sandler.Id give it 7/8 out of 10