What film did you watch last night?

[Piemaster]

Justice League.
I have a mate who has been telling me how bad it was and his opinions are very much shaped by online reviews, so i tend to give it the benefit of the doubt till I've seen it myself.
He was right.
In a scene where Aquaman is standing on the prow of a boat rescuing the unfortunate shipwrecked mariner my wife told me to stop humming the music from "The Titanic". Think at that point the film had lost my interest.

 

[Drago]

Drive Angry.

Im a sucker of anything with Nicholas Cage because im fascinated by his wigs. Pretty crap, violent and formulaic. The only good things are the cars, the attractive young ladies, and William Fitchner's brilliant performance hamming it up as the Devils right hand man.

3.5/10.

 

[Drago]

Taps.

Young Tom Cruise doing his thing.

An interesting film with an absorbing plot. A slightly disturbing plot and premise when one thinks about it, but all the better for it.

And it has George C. Scott, one of my favourite actors.

7/10.

 

[Profpointy]

This. It was Terminator 3 that f*cked the timeline up.

We do not mention T3

Just watched T3 last night (for the first time, though as with the others I had seen bits of it on TV), and thought it really good, and a worthy follow up to the first two. Whilst some of the car chases were a bit much and a bit overlong, it was very well done and well-paced. A bit silly that the the super-terminator tries to kill the protagonist by crushing them with a stolen truck and create mayhem instead of using her built-in death-ray. And given she can run faster than a vehicle, why does she merely amble slowly towards them, allowing them to escape by walking briskly on occasion - but these are minor points and "traditional" features of such films. Really liked the plot and the ending.

Each episode thus far has its own story and adds something. None of the first three are mere re-treads.

 

[MontyVeda]

Just watched T3 last night (for the first time, though as with the others I had seen bits of it on TV), and thought it really good, and a worthy follow up to the first two. Whilst some of the car chases were a bit much and a bit overlong, it was very well done and well-paced. A bit silly that the the super-terminator tries to kill the protagonist by crushing them with a stolen truck and create mayhem instead of using her built-in death-ray. And given she can run faster than a vehicle, why does she merely amble slowly towards them, allowing them to escape by walking briskly on occasion - but these are minor points and "traditional" features of such films. Really liked the plot and the ending.

Each episode thus far has its own story and adds something. None of the first three are mere re-treads.

My main problem with T3 was the guy they cast as John Connor... he was dreadfully wooden and just didn't fit the bill at all.

 

[Profpointy]

My main problem with T3 was the guy they cast as John Connor... he was dreadfully wooden and just didn't fit the bill at all.

Maybe not Olivier, but I thought he was perfectly OK to be fair. Conveyed a "hunted" look which was true to what he was supposed to be

 

[MontyVeda]

Maybe not Olivier, but I thought he was perfectly OK to be fair. Conveyed a "hunted" look which was true to what he was supposed to be

Each to their own I guess. He just doesn't convince me he's a younger JC from T1 or an older JC from T2... the femme-bot seemed a bit cheap too.

 

[Profpointy]

Each to their own I guess. He just doesn't convince me he's a younger JC from T1 or an older JC from T2... the femme-bot seemed a bit cheap too.

I didn't really notice his acting - so thinking about it, I guess I perceived him as the character rather than "acting"; which I suppose is a good thing.

Nice anecdote from Tom Hanks (I think), when he was just starting out, someone commented on Tony Curtis's first performance (as a postman), and the comment was "even as a mailman, you thought, 'there goes a star' "
Hanks's reply "surely you're suppose to think, 'there goes a mailman' ?"

Anyhow, I enjoyed it, and thought it on a par with the first two overall.

 

[benb]

Blade Runner 2049.

Brilliant, so good, I never knew 3 hours could go so quickly.

A classic and just as good if not better than the original.

I found it so dull and tiresome that I turned it off half way through for fear of dying from boredom... longest 90 minutes of nothingness I've ever experienced. Not a patch on the original. Not even close... IMO, of course.

I haven't seen it yet, but wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same thing?

 

[benb]

Air Force One.

A promising premise, but utter tosh. Guns popping off all over the place in a thin skinned pressurised fuselage, and miraculously not a single round penetrates. Utter rubbish.

1.03425/10.

Well, it's not totally unfeasible that the plane would be reinforced and bulletproof to small arms fire.
I quite like that film, massively improved (or saved) by Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman

 

[Profpointy]

I haven't seen it yet, but wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same thing?

Not Blade runner, but still related to your comment, my favourite film is <spelling edit> "Two Lane Blacktop" and I must have watched it a dozen or more times. Many people rate it as a one star film, huge bore, nothing happens and so on. These aren't silly comments, and you could fit the entire script on the back of a fag packet, yet I find it utterly compelling, and notice something extra each time I watch.

 

[benb]

[QUOTE 5243718, member: 45"]Chips. I was expecting a nostalgic reminder of Jon and Ponch. What I got was a film that really didn't know what it was trying to be.

2/10[/QUOTE]

You should've checked my review on page 598 before indulging.

Or mine on page 526:

CHiPS

Utter, utter dross.
There's a tiny grain of what could have been a decent film in there, but the plot, the script, and to a large extent the acting were terrible.

It's got 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that's incredibly generous.

It's supposed to be a comedy, but I don't think I laughed more than once.

0.5/10 and the half point is only because Vincent D'Onforio is in it

 

[swee'pea99]

American Psycho - Christian Bale terrific as the protagonist, perfectly capturing the manic intensity of the yuppie-slayer, in a brilliantly-rendered portrayal of that very specific '80s world, long since disappeared up its own nouvelle cuisine fundament. Really captures the feel of the novel, with its perfect blend of ice-cold control and lunatic savagery, expertly seasoned with just the right amount of perfectly timed and calibrated black humour. 8/10.

 

[Lavender Rose]

The Girl Next Door - truly horrific film, but horrific in the content - not the quality....morbid curiosity got the better of me.

8/10

 

[MontyVeda]

I haven't seen it yet, but wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same thing?

just offering an alternative opinion... and a warning that those three hours do not go quickly at all.