What film did you watch last night?

[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.

 

[matticus]

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.

This sounds rather different to the last time they were on screen together!!!

 

[C R]

I had only ever watched the original three Star Wars movies many years ago, and was not impressed. Personally I like Spaceballs the best.

Yesterday my son and I decided to watch one of the newer ones, episode III I think it was. Sweet mother of jeezus, I thought the Harry Potter movies were bad, but this is another level, how did it not get laughed out of the cinema?

 

[Binky]

Watched half of Nosferatau last night, somewhat over the top acting. Will endeavour to finish it tonight.

 

[Psamathe]

Silk Road (Freeview fairly recently)
An interesting subject but maybe not feature film material. Acting OK, script OK but after 30 mins my attention was drifting elsewhere and at 1 hr realised I'd not been watching the last 15 mins so abandoned it.

Ian

 

[Pduk]

Me, Myself and Irene.

An oldie but still a goodie!
Jim Carrey in fine form. The part with the dry mouth reveal still gets me

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I’m not long back from seeing The Phoenician Scheme.
Great names on the bill; Hanks, Dafoe, Cranston, Cumberbatch.

All I can say is, WTF did I just watch?!

4/10

 

[AndyRM]

F1 The Movie - 7/10

It's basically Rocky but with F1 as the setting, and I'm fine with that. I feel like they've got enough to satisfy F1 fans and it stands on its own as an entertaining sports action film.

I was worried they were going to do something truly over the top with the ending, and I suspect they were tempted but managed to resist.

 

[ianrauk]

M3gan 2.
A bit of a suprise this one. Even though it's direct follow on sequel, the story follows a completely different path from the original (which I absolutely loved). Less of the suspense and horror of the first one, more of a Mission Impossible action style action, adventure with great comedy touches thrown in. But, it was a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours never the less.