Rate the last film you watched...

[manwiththestick]

55 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Shadow of the Vampire or Nosferatu?

Well I wasn't around in the 1920's and I doubt there were any major movie rental chains knocking about either.

 

So yeah, Shadow of the vampire.

[J-V]

Crawl -  one of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve seen this year.  Avoid at all costs.

[Carvalho Diablo]

On 19/10/2019 at 19:55, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Andhadhun

 

A work colleague recommended this to me. I watched it on Netflix.

 

Indian film, about a blind pianist who gets entangled in a series of twists after being at a murder scene of a famous actor.

 

Starts off slow, but trust me it's worth sticking with. A masterpiece.

 

10/10

Meh, didn't do it for me this one. Enjoyable in a farcical way but the acting was poor and the incidental music and songs throughout were a bit cringey my western tastes.

 

6/10

[Anubis]

Wounds 1/10. Based on a novella named The Visible Filth, which is quite well received. Never read it but I’m sure it has lost something in the translation to film. Worse than Crawl. And I haven’t seen Crawl.

[RedKnight]

Green Book - Enjoyable retelling of Don Shirley's tour of the deep south in the '60s that's not very big on nuance or subtlety but is well done. Came out of it realising the real Tony Lip was Carmine in the Sopranos and having my mind blown. 8 out of 10.

 

Pitch Perfect 2 - The first one was a really fun film, this one stretched the premise a little too thinly but was still fine. It starts leaning a little too heavily into the absurd and Glee levels of cheesiness. They probably should have left it here with this. 6 out of 10. However...

 

Pitch Perfect 3 - Awful. Just one of the worst films I've sat through in a while and the film people think, who haven't seen the first one, the first is like. Basic script, tacky sets, shot like it was straight to video and on a small budget, ludicrous plot and does it's best to make you think poorly of the other two films. 2 out of 10.

 

 

[Duff Man]

Toy Story 4 - funnier and more lighthearted than I remember the others being, I genuinely laughed out loud quite a few times. Obviously was blown away by the quality of the animation, too. Really enjoyed it. 9/10.

[polymerpunkah]

"Lady in the Water"

 

5 of 10

 

A very difficult thing to do--set the correct tone to make a story like this believable.

 

Never made it, for me. 

[easytoslip]

Age of Shadows was good the other night, about Korean resistance under Japanese rule.

[SasaS]

On 22/10/2019 at 01:53, Jose Jones said:

Watched The Laundromat, Steven Soderbergh's take on the Panama Papers on Netflix

 

I was hoping for a bit of The Big Short style farce based on real financial shenanigans, or something as fun as The Informant! which was Soderbergh's own corporate disorder comedy based on real life events.

While Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas are good value as Mossack and Fonseca, narrating in a variety of ridiculous tuxedos, most of the film is just really boring.  The events depicted are either not shocking enough, or not funny enough and the whole thing fails to come together in any meaningful way.

A wasted opportunity.

 

3/10

 

I haven't seen the Laundromat but it's not easy to make a good film about such topics, this is why The Big Short should be much more appreciated than it is.

[Scooby Dudek]

Wind River   6.2/10 Slow and plodding, showing the landscape and building the drama for the first 80 minutes. Then just goes crazy for the last 15 minutes. Bit of a miss-match which is a shame.

[Jordy Brouwer]

At Eternity's Gate with Willem Defoe portraying Van Gough. An amazing piece of visual film making and an unbelievable central performance. At bit slow in places and drags towards the end so you have to be in the right mood but I thought it was extraordinary. 

 

Its on Netflix. 

 

 

8/10

[SasaS]

50 minutes ago, Scooby Dudek said:

Wind River   6.2/10 Slow and plodding, showing the landscape and building the drama for the first 80 minutes. Then just goes crazy for the last 15 minutes. Bit of a miss-match which is a shame.

 

How dare you?!

 

Wind River was at least 8!

 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

 

I haven't seen the Laundromat but it's not easy to make a good film about such topics, this is why The Big Short should be much more appreciated than it is.

The Big Short is a great film. Easily Steve Carells best performance. 

[Jordy Brouwer]

15 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

The Big Short is a great film. Easily Steve Carells best performance. 

Another fantastic and even more under rated film on the same topic is 99 homes. A true hidden gem. 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, SasaS said:

 

I haven't seen the Laundromat but it's not easy to make a good film about such topics, this is why The Big Short should be much more appreciated than it is.

is The Big Short unappreciated. It’s well-loved on here.

[SasaS]

17 minutes ago, Anubis said:

is The Big Short unappreciated. It’s well-loved on here.

I didn't say that it was unappreciated. We had a debate on here as far as I recall, something along the lines of is it better than the Wolf of Wall Street. 

[elvis]

42 minutes ago, Jordy Brouwer said:

Another fantastic and even more under rated film on the same topic is 99 homes. A true hidden gem. 

Very true excellent film 

[Jordy Brouwer]

I don't know if anyone does "film nights" but The Big Short, Margin Call and 99 Homes would make an amazing triple bill showing the same crisis from three different perspectives. Margin Call shows it from the perspective of the big players, The Big Short shows it from the perspective of people who are some way into the system but still relative outsiders. 99 Homes shows it from the perspective of the people who really suffered; the systems outsiders. 

 

 

[Stouffer]

Halloween 2018, Billy Connolly vs Michael Myers. 

 

4/10.

[Stouffer]

The Night Sitter; scariest thing about this is the "acting".

 

Absolute shitfest.

0/1

[Anubis]

May give that 99 Homes a look tonight. Depends how knackered I am.

[Bjornebye]

8 hours ago, SasaS said:

I didn't say that it was unappreciated. We had a debate on here as far as I recall, something along the lines of is it better than the Wolf of Wall Street. 

Tough one that. Wolf of Wall Street is a cracker. 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Anubis said:

May give that 99 Homes a look tonight. Depends how knackered I am.

Good film, that. Never heard of it before today, well worth watching.

[Leyton388]

Terminator Dark fate

 

Shite.

[Stouffer]

The Apostle, long winded load of shite.

 

3/10.