Electric_Andy
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Take Shelter. Brilliant performance by Michael Shannon, bit dark and psychological but if you're not too depressed it's worth a watch
What film did you watch last night?
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The Accountant 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accountant_2
I was surprised. Started watching and from the synopsis prepared to give up . But real fun, engaging. Can't do scored out of 10 but recommend for people that enjoy such films.
Ian
I was surprised. Started watching and from the synopsis prepared to give up . But real fun, engaging. Can't do scored out of 10 but recommend for people that enjoy such films.
Ian
How To Train Your Dragon.
A quite enjoyable fantasy romp. A well made with super impressive soaring cgi flying dragon sequences and a dramatic big dragon boss battle. Nick Frost was fab and funny in his role and Gerard Butler was as usual, Gerard Butler.
Thoroughly enjoyable and think I enjoyed it more then my lad. Though I had never seen the original, he had.
A quite enjoyable fantasy romp. A well made with super impressive soaring cgi flying dragon sequences and a dramatic big dragon boss battle. Nick Frost was fab and funny in his role and Gerard Butler was as usual, Gerard Butler.
Thoroughly enjoyable and think I enjoyed it more then my lad. Though I had never seen the original, he had.
I've watched the original with my children. I understand this is a scene by scene remake of the original, but with real life actors, which I struggle to see the point of.
AndyRM
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28 Weeks Later - 8/10
Pleasingly a local cinema has shown Days and Weeks ahead of Years' release this week: it's been a while since I'd seen Weeks on the big screen (or at all) and I'd forgotten how relentless it is after the fairly genteel pace of Days. The camera work is a lot more chaotic, which makes sense in the context of the film but gets quite jarring, so I'm hoping with Danny Boyle back at the helm things will be a bit more considered.
Robert Carlyle is as excellent as you'd expect him to be, and the children are a lot less irritating than the girl in Days who I still think is distractingly terrible. I'd actually forgotten that Idris Elba is in it as a soldier who makes Christopher Ecclestone's character look positively lovely.
Pleasingly a local cinema has shown Days and Weeks ahead of Years' release this week: it's been a while since I'd seen Weeks on the big screen (or at all) and I'd forgotten how relentless it is after the fairly genteel pace of Days. The camera work is a lot more chaotic, which makes sense in the context of the film but gets quite jarring, so I'm hoping with Danny Boyle back at the helm things will be a bit more considered.
Robert Carlyle is as excellent as you'd expect him to be, and the children are a lot less irritating than the girl in Days who I still think is distractingly terrible. I'd actually forgotten that Idris Elba is in it as a soldier who makes Christopher Ecclestone's character look positively lovely.
Ha, coincidently I watched 28 Weeks later last night at home. I'd seen it before but worth another watch.
Electric_Andy
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I started watching Weeks last night but remembered I'd seen it before, but also that I'm not a huge fan of Robert Carlisle! I might re-watch it tonight though.
AndyRM
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28 Years Later - 9/10
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. Part folk horror, part political statement, part social critique and part comedy, all wrapped up in a totally bonkers premise that sort of makes sense but doesn't quite at the same time.
I suspect a lot of people will be mad as the adverts sell it to be something it really isn't, which normally I'd say is a mistake but here is absolutely intentional as it really gives nothing away.
It's worth it for seeing Ralph Fiennes doing his best Colonel Kurtz tribute and I don't mean that in a bad way at all.
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. Part folk horror, part political statement, part social critique and part comedy, all wrapped up in a totally bonkers premise that sort of makes sense but doesn't quite at the same time.
I suspect a lot of people will be mad as the adverts sell it to be something it really isn't, which normally I'd say is a mistake but here is absolutely intentional as it really gives nothing away.
It's worth it for seeing Ralph Fiennes doing his best Colonel Kurtz tribute and I don't mean that in a bad way at all.
AndyRM
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I'm not sure you're being serious here...
Yeah I am, honest. It was OK but no more. I also really think special forces soldiers have a bit more than what was portrayed in the film. Not in the daft "superhero" stuff some say but far better decision making through training.
Drago
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Aye, Frogman are switched on dudes. No flapping from them when it goes south.
That film is based on a real incident and made in conjunction with the guys who were there. Fairly sure they know more about what is real and what isn’t than you do.
I'm sure they do but that is my entire point. I was surprised how poor the decision making etc was under pressure. As Drago says, it seems odd they'd flap so much.
