What film did you watch last night?

[Eziemnaik]

Elle - after a recommendation from the Dear Forum, I've consumed the latest P. Verhoeven work. A dark family comedy dressed up as a rape revenge movie can shock, but underneath all that violence it is a warm movie.
Superbly disengaged Huppert goes on a hunt after her rapist and in the process redifines her relationship with family and friends.
4/5

View: https://youtu.be/t-_rLtMnH8Q

 

[DCBassman]

Yesterday, Two Popes. Very good. This afternoon: Now You See Me, also enjoyed. Both on Netflix.

 

[swee'pea99]

Maxwell - a biopic with David Suchet as the bouncing Czech, lurching from one disaster to another as the wolves circle the dying embers. Not bad, considering, though the opening titles feature the slightly disconcerting warning that (I paraphrase) 'This is a true story, but we've also added some totally fictional characters and incidents to jazz it up a bit', so you're never quite sure which bits are which. But Suchet is good, the support is solid, and the script has some nice touches. Can't help thinking there's a better film to be made about the mad, thieving old bugger, but it's a workmanlike job. 6/10.

 

[PaulB]

1917. It was about a war.

 

[Drago]

1917. It was about a war.

Sure you weren't watching a digital clock?

 

[accountantpete]

Arkansas (Netflix Film 2020)

Filmed in various Chapters, two wannabe drug dealers join an established distribution organisation but things start to unravel.

An enjoyable but not great film - also has Vince Vaughan, John Malkovich and Michael K Williams( Omar Little) as the men heading the drugs empire.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Das Boot - masterpiece, up there with Come and See in the war movie category (and Kelly's Heroes). Harrowing, claustrophobic, raw - you can use any adjectives you like and it will fall flat. Opening line sets the tone - 3 in 4 German UBoot sailors did not make it. Gibraltar scene is as powerful as Omaha in Saving Private Ryan.
A movie one of a kind that is not made anymore.

View: https://youtu.be/7pzKyeIex2Y

 

[MichaelW2]

Captured.
Made by MOD and released by Imperial War Museum. Powerful and strange BW short movie about allied POWs held by Chinese in North Korea. Made as an instructional movie about how to cope with "enhanced interrogation" but more of a warning never to get captured. North Yorkshire stands in for cold, wet , bleak North Korea.

 

[keithmac]

Watched some behind the scenes videos on YouTube then watched "The Matrix" again.

Truly groundbreaking film, watched Reloaded last night and Revolutions tonight hopefully.

Some of the set builds, and the highway they built just for the car chase is insane really.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Smokey and the Bandit.

Great soundtrack by Jerry Reed.

 

[numbnuts]

The last King of Scotland

 

[stephec]

Killer Nun

The screenshot from Prime makes it sound a lot better than it actually is, if you're looking for kinky sex you'll be very disappointed.

Anita Ekberg is one of a group of nuns who look after patients in a hospital, and after brain surgery she becomes addicted to morphine and starts to kill the patients.

It's got wooden acting, and a poor plot, a bit dire really, but almost so bad that it's good.

4/10.

 

[Spartak]

#Alive

Netflix zombie film from Korea.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alive_2020

 

[stephec]

The Devil's Rock.

A film from New Zealand about two commandos who go to Guernsey on 05/06/44 to destroy some gun emplacements. Whilst there one is killed early in the film, but the other one goes on to discover a demon summoned up by the nazis to help them win the war.

WWII meets horror once again.

It all got a bit dull after that, 5/10.

 

[stephec]

Blubberella

The last of this week's, 'what junk can you find on Prime?'

An Uwe Boll film about a larger woman who's half vampire and hates nazis. During WWII she fights with the resistance in a real WTF have I just watched kind of film.

Hilariously entertaining if you like that sort of thing.

7/10.