Rate the last film you watched...

[sir roger]

I fucking loved Cloud Atlas.

 

Loved the book , wasn't aware of a film , will look it up.

[Pureblood]

Was there a movie version of Mortal Kombat aswell?

 

Aff-irmative.

[Jose Jones]

Annihilation

 

Some good fucked up shit, but just didn’t quite pull off the level of confusion and questioning the self and reality that it could have strived for. Still, quite enjoyed it.

6.5/10

[Red74]

Dodgeball. A truly magnificent film.

 

11 blood and semen deposits out of all of king Midas’ silver

[RedKnight]

Lady Bird - I was a bit bored for the first 25 minutes, not sure what the tone of the film was meant to be nor how I was meant to take Lady Bird's relationship with her mother and I found Lady Bird herself to be irritating. After that the film ended and I realised the last 65 minutes had flown by, I'd been totally engrossed and I'm not sure how that happened. I do think women, young girls specifically, will take a lot more from it than a bloke in his mid-30s but I found the film touching, especially as the layers were peeled back between Lady Bird and her mother plus how her relationship with her dad was so different. Good performances from everyone involved, Laurie Metcalfe being the stand out.

 

So, really nice film, stick with it if you find yourself flagging early on, and quite touching by it's end. 8.5 out of 10.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Snowpiercer. 1/10

 

You know that last section of train travel between Edge Hill and Lime Street in the tunnels and it seems to take ages to reach Lime Street ? Well that's what this felt like only it lasted two fucking hours.

[Elite]

Snowpiercer. 1/10

 

You know that last section of train travel between Edge Hill and Lime Street in the tunnels and it seems to take ages to reach Lime Street ? Well that's what this felt like only it lasted two fucking hours.

I gave up after about 5 minutes of that.

[RedKnight]

Transformers: The Last Knight - Morbid curiosity got the better of me and I got a headache for it. Totally incoherent nonsense that's too long, too loud and has some of the worst cinematography I've seen. Full of the usual Bay shit - everything shot at sunset, sweeping drone shots over and over and over and a fetishisation of the military that borders on pornographic. Characters talk over one other, or not loudly enough so it sounds like the sound edit has been fucked, things got blown up to ridiculous levels; I'm pretty sure that if half a planet landed on Earth then it wipe out everything. The villain has had no introduction, no background, no real motivation. Transformers was great as a cartoon, it's completely shitty as a series of films. 1 out of 10.

[Pureblood]

Sounds great.

[Red74]

Transformers: The Last Knight - Morbid curiosity got the better of me and I got a headache for it. Totally incoherent nonsense that's too long, too loud and has some of the worst cinematography I've seen. Full of the usual Bay shit - everything shot at sunset, sweeping drone shots over and over and over and a fetishisation of the military that borders on pornographic. Characters talk over one other, or not loudly enough so it sounds like the sound edit has been fucked, things got blown up to ridiculous levels; I'm pretty sure that if half a planet landed on Earth then it wipe out everything. The villain has had no introduction, no background, no real motivation. Transformers was great as a cartoon, it's completely shitty as a series of films. 1 out of 10.

 

Watching this with my lad last night and surprisingly I thought it was ok until Anthony Hopkins and his robot butler turned up. Then it went beyond shite.

[Section_31]

I've never seen any transformers films past the second one but I'd say that was comfortably the worst film I've ever seen. A transformer that turns into a person, what? Transformers that teleport simply to move the plot along because he can't be arsed inserting a cut scene of a plane flying or something. Plus the fights just look like someone exploded a bomb in the B&Q DIY aisle and captured the fallout in slow motion.

[Numero Veinticinco]

I liked the first one, the rest are just horrendous.

[Tony Moanero]

Only watched the first one. It was o.k. at best and not a patch on the animated Transformers The Movie.

[manwiththestick]

The first was okay, second too long. I have not seen any of the others, but let me say that is in no way linked to Megan Fox not being in the others, nothing to do with that, nothing.

[RedKnight]

Only watched the first one. It was o.k. at best and not a patch on the animated Transformers The Movie.

 

Now you say this because that's yourdefault position, that things in the '80s were better, but on this you're bang on the money. The '80s movie had more nuance, emotion and great moments than all 5 (yes, they've made 5 of them) live action movies added together and multiplied by 10. The Bay movies are loud, stupid, they leer of women in a manner that shouldn't happen in a movie that should be for kids and they're incoherent. Meanwhile the '80s movie had this.

 

[Guest]

The first was okay, second too long. I have not seen any of the others, but let me say that is in no way linked to Megan Fox not being in the others, nothing to do with that, nothing.

Megan Fox made it okay.

 

 

 

[Section_31]

I wrote a 30th anniversary piece for Sci-fi Now a couple of years back on Transformers The Movie. Interviewed the writer (who also did GI Joe), the voice actor who played Springer and Vince DiCola who did the soundtrack (and Rocky IV). I was like a pig in shit.

[Tony Moanero]

Brilliant. I have a load of old copies of Sci-Fi Now. I used to buy the magazine every month, but didn’t always get round to reading them. I don’t remember your Transformers article, but would like to read it. What month/issue number was it in?

[Section_31]

This one Tony, issue 127, think it might have been December 2016 possibly?

[Tony Moanero]

Thanks. I’ll dig it out.

[sir roger]

Snowpiercer. 1/10

 

You know that last section of train travel between Edge Hill and Lime Street in the tunnels and it seems to take ages to reach Lime Street ? Well that's what this felt like only it lasted two fucking hours.

 

You should have got off at Edge Hill , Dougie.

[Rico1304]

Wonder Woman. Goodish film, Gal Gadot looks like Kathy Lloyd.

[Anubis]

Tomb Raider. 6/10. As reviewed by a non-gamer.

 

Competent, but could have been more. Vikander makes for a better, earthy, streetwise Lara Croft compared to Jolie's rich girl seeking kicks. She's good.

 

Walton Goggins is totally wasted. His villain is poorly written giving him nothing to work with, and he comes across as completely bored with the whole affair. Which is a shame. He's a great actor, and his character is as much a hostage to fortune as Lara Croft, so with better writing and direction he could have been both sympathetic and bad at the same time. As it is, you just don't give a shit what happens to him.

 

The plot is a by the numbers 'origin' story, and you'd have to be absolutely brain dead not to have guessed early doors both what is waiting for them in the tomb that they are raiding, and who the real villain is.

 

Hopefully using this as a springboard will see better sequels.

[John101]

Annihilation 6/10

 

Not sure i fully understood it.

[sir roger]

Paddington 2 - great fun & sweetly done 8/10.

 

Was a little bit worried for him when Sally Hawkins had to rescue him from under water with her previous.