What film did you watch last night?

[Shortfall]

Watched both recently. Enjoyed A Real Pain and with wifey being Polish added an extra dimension. Hard to believe one of the cast was in dirty dancing as Jennifer Grey looks a completely different person these days.

Oscar winner Mike Madison was certainly convincing as a hard nosed stripper and taking one’s kit off seems to boost Oscar chances. The cast of largely unknowns performed well with the back and forth between the pushy Russians and a plucky Anora at the core of an enjoyable film.

But best picture!? A poor year for films.

Watched Anora last night. I thought it was a terrible film and all the main protagonists were deeply hateful people. The goon with the soft heart was the sole exception. Oh and it was at least 30 minutes too long.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Went to the cinema to see The Salt Path last night. Unusually for me I kept my eyes open the whole way through, so I must have enjoyed it. Nice feel good film.

 

[Psamathe]

The Accountant

Havive watched and enjoyed The Accountant 2 recently decided to watch the 1st in the series (series of 2). Fun but not as good/fun as the 2nd film. But that might in part be baecause I knew in part what to expect.

Ian

 

[Pblakeney]

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.

Who knew war is chaotic and that people might crack under the pressure of live fire?
As one vet said, unless you've experienced live fire then you have no comprehension.

 

[Binky]

Who knew war is chaotic and that people might crack under the pressure of live fire?
As one vet said, unless you've experienced live fire then you have no comprehension.

The Seals train under live fire and quite likely that wasn't their first battle.
Well whatever but regardless of that it's fairly obvious on this forum you will look to disagree with every and any post I make for some reason.
No idea why, but I guess everyone needs a hobby.

 

[Drago]

They wouldn't have passed Hell Week if they were psychologically flaky, much less the other psychological testing they go through.

A true story. Another special forces unit, the SAS, were first on the scene of the Kegworth air disaster. A squad of four troopers were on the motorway when the plane went down in front of them.

The SAS quite understandably went to assist and had to briefly assume command of the operation as many of the coppers, who would be no strangers to blood and gore, were freaking out and couldn't handle that which they were seeing. But not the Sasmen.

The premier special forces units are the SeALs, SAS, SBS, the PJ's and the Sayeret Matkal, and you simply won't be there if you were likely to freak under fire. That such units have now been in existence for 80 years and there are few, if any, such episodes in the public domain is evidence of this.

 

[swee'pea99]

They wouldn't have passed Hell Week if they were psychologically flaky, much less the other psychological testing they go through.

A true story. Another special forces unit, the SAS, were first on the scene of the Kegworth air disaster. A squad of four troopers were on the motorway when the plane went down in front of them.

The SAS quite understandably went to assist and had to briefly assume command of the operation as many of the coppers, who would be no strangers to blood and gore, were freaking out and couldn't handle that which they were seeing. But not the Sasmen.

The premier special forces units are the SeALs, SAS, SBS, the PJ's and the Sayeret Matkal, and you simply won't be there if you were likely to freak under fire. That such units have now been in existence for 80 years and there are few, if any, such episodes in the public domain is evidence of this.

I know nothing about the movie, but you bring to mind a story told me by a friend who'd arrived at Cambridge gormless and wet behind the ears, and happy to go for a drink with his new neighbour - older, maybe mid-20s, softly spoken, seemed like a nice chap.

Being new in town they managed to stumble on a 'town' rather than a 'gown' pub, and my friend was a bit taken aback by the way the place went silent as they walked to the bar. His new mate seemed unfazed, though, asked him what he'd like, drinks arrived, they started chatting. But my friend couldn't help being distracted by the murderous looks he was getting from one of a group of four blokes without a neck between them propping up the other end of the bar.

Things began to escalate, as discussion began, at deliberately to-be-heard volumes, about the terrible things that could happen to poor little rich boys who got the wrong side of the tracks etc etc. Just as my mate was wondering whether they might be able to reach the exits in time if they fled NOW, his new friend turned for the first time to the other end of the bar. "Steady," he said. And that was that. Not a peep for the rest of their pints.

My friend later discovered he was on a graduate course as part of his career in the SAS.

 

[ianrauk]

28 Years Later in a nice modern air conditioned cinema.
What a brilliant movie, fab filming, photography and set pieces. Great actors and acting. Ralph Fienes is on top form and I was really pleased to see an appearance by Jack O'Connell. This is part 1 of three. Apparently part three focuses on Jack's group. Looking forward to that.

 

[AndyRM]

How to Train Your Dragon - 7/10

Enjoyable and visually stunning, but it really is a shameless cash in.

 

[Binky]

Heretic

Not my usual genre of film to watch, not a horror fan but Hugh Grant is very watchable these days and had some good reviews.
However, started well, pretty interesting although always had feeling it would turn out to be a somewhat generic horror film and so it turned out.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Mists of Avalon... i think it was originally a 3pt TV movie, but I watched the three hour long version. The legend of King Arthur from his sister's perspective. Tiresome in places but mostly enjoyable. 6/10

 

[Dan Lotus]

Ballerina - action packed for more than 2 hours (But didn't feel like it), Ana de Armas is wonderful.

Great to see Lovejoy as well, and a cameo I suppose you'd call it from Keanu.

Solid entertainment though, maybe not the strongest of story lines, but with the fight scenes, and the amount of armoury she went through, it felt like a bit of an old fashioned action film - the town setting in the mountains I also thought was very atmospheric.
Here's hoping for a Ballerina 2 🤞

 

[Drago]

I know nothing about the movie, but you bring to mind a story told me by a friend who'd arrived at Cambridge gormless and wet behind the ears, and happy to go for a drink with his new neighbour - older, maybe mid-20s, softly spoken, seemed like a nice chap.

Being new in town they managed to stumble on a 'town' rather than a 'gown' pub, and my friend was a bit taken aback by the way the place went silent as they walked to the bar. His new mate seemed unfazed, though, asked him what he'd like, drinks arrived, they started chatting. But my friend couldn't help being distracted by the murderous looks he was getting from one of a group of four blokes without a neck between them propping up the other end of the bar.

Things began to escalate, as discussion began, at deliberately to-be-heard volumes, about the terrible things that could happen to poor little rich boys who got the wrong side of the tracks etc etc. Just as my mate was wondering whether they might be able to reach the exits in time if they fled NOW, his new friend turned for the first time to the other end of the bar. "Steady," he said. And that was that. Not a peep for the rest of their pints.

My friend later discovered he was on a graduate course as part of his career in the SAS.

Exactly this. SF operators are usually rock solid psychologically. Those that do wibble tend to do so decades after they've left and theyre away from the support network of their compadres.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Predator, Killer of Killers - Disney animation. Very good. Excited for the series coming up.

I need to watch that when I heard Michael Biehn is in it though not as Hicks I believe.

 

[wiggydiggy]

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.

I'll be seeing 28 Years at the cinema, a rarity for me, but I think it deserves it. I watched 28 Days Later again recently but not 28 Weeks as I'm not a big fan of it. I read recently the 'night' scenes in Weeks look odd as they were filmed during the day and re-coloured, this was to avoid breaking child employment laws in the UK for the child actors.