Rate the last film you watched...

[John102]

Sightless

 

I fell asleep. Had a quick look on Wikipedia and it appears to have gone as expected.

 

4/10

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

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Nicholas Cage. 2008 film that they've put on Netflix recently. I'm not surprised I'd never heard of it before. He can see a couple of minutes into the future which turns out to be a bit of a pain in the arse when some bastards have a nuclear bomb ready to go off. Jessica Biel is amazing and pumps it from a 3 to a 5. 5/10

 

Nothing But The Truth

 

Who thought Kate Beckinsale wasn't just one of the most beautiful creatures to walk the earth but she can actually act? She plays a reporter who finds out some info about the CIA being arseholes and lets herself go to jail by not revealing her source. The missus found it on Amazon Prime. Well worth a watch. 7.5/10 

[cloggypop]

The White Tiger is a heartwarming rags to riches tale set in India. Based on the Man Booker winning novel so the story is decent and it's an interesting informative watch. It's obviously made for a western audience so there's no dancing. 8/10.

[Paul]

Watched a thing on Netflix at the kids’ insistence last night called Malcolm & Marie. It is basically John David Washington and Zendaya playing a beautiful couple having a row in their beautiful house. And that’s it. I hated it. 

[Anubis]

I’d happily argue with Zendaya for 2 hours just for the making-up part.

 

*checks notes*

Phew, she’s 24...

[RedKnight]

Birds of Prey - Warner Bros. and DC try another angle to kickstart their movies and fail once again. I've said it before but it's a huge embarrassment to Warner Bros. that they've owned DC Comics for decades and yet they're unable to coherently translate them to cinema. Birds of Prey was a tonal mess, jumping between lots of swearing, hyper colours, editing and barely a plot to speak of. Seemed to me a lot of what was put on the screen was put there because they'd thought it would look cool rather than it make sense within the world. A good cast is wasted making a shallow film.

 

Frustratingly bad and thinly sketched characters. It didn't make any money, though it's run was curtailed by the pandemic, so there probably won't be a sequel and if this is what they come up with then no surprise. 3 out of 10

[Anubis]

Meant to ask, RedKnight, will you be giving the Snyder cut a look?

[Elite]

Birds of Prey is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Absolutely awful.

[RedKnight]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Meant to ask, RedKnight, will you be giving the Snyder cut a look?

Probably, just for the film geek side of me. I cannot imagine any world in which more Snyder makes something better and I find the constant social media excitement for it bizarre, but when it's available I'll take a look.

 

Justice League was so edgelord and brown to begin with.

[RedKnight]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

Birds of Prey is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Absolutely awful.

I wouldn't go that far but it seemed to be made by people who thought the Fox Fantastic Four movies were the pinnacle of comic adaptations.

[Elite]

3 minutes ago, RedKnight said:

I wouldn't go that far but it seemed to be made by people who thought the Fox Fantastic Four movies were the pinnacle of comic adaptations.

I hated everything about it. Ewan McGregor was utter shite.

[Chip Butty]

The Little Things

 

 

Bang average just about sums this up. The plot, the musical score, the script, the acting, the whole shabang - bang average at best.

 

This film so wanted to be an upgrade on Se7en, and came out at about a 1.2, ish.  

 

Avoid.

 

4/10

[johnsusername]

2 hours ago, Elite said:

Birds of Prey is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Absolutely awful.

Not even a point for Margot Robbie?

[Elite]

Just now, johnsusername said:

Not even a point for Margot Robbie?

Even she was annoying as fuck in it. 

[Bjornebye]

26 minutes ago, Elite said:

Even she was annoying as fuck in it. 

She could walk round my house singing "I know a song that'll get on your nerves" 24 hours a day 7 days a week and I'd still love her to bits. 

[Juniper]

Ghost in The Shell (remake) 7/10

 

Not bad, it got panned on release due to Scarlett Johansson playing the lead but I thought she was actually ok.

 

Managed to recreate some of the visuals from the original manga version quite well, I thought.

 

Quite an enjoyable action film. 

[Paul]

18 hours ago, RedKnight said:

Probably, just for the film geek side of me. I cannot imagine any world in which more Snyder makes something better and I find the constant social media excitement for it bizarre, but when it's available I'll take a look.

 

Justice League was so edgelord and brown to begin with.

“Edgelord and brown”! Ha, ha, ha!!! 

[Special K]

Greenland - 5/10

 

An attempt at a weightier, Gerard Butler starring disaster movie. Sounds as strange as it was. Still used every cliché and coincidence in the book

 

The Rental - 1/10

 

Dave Franco makes a movie. It's shite. The 1 point is for his Mrs, Alison Brie

[RedKnight]

Greenland -  Disaster movie about a comet coming to destroy the Earth and Gerard Butler must get his family to safety. Decent addition to the disaster movie genre where the focus isn't on the special effects blowing every city up but on the family's journey from army base to Canada and all the obstacles in between. Style of shooting and decision to not show massive destruction pay off as the film avoids cliché for some of the runtime and it's enjoyably tense. Butler's accent is all over the map but he's fine otherwise. 7 out of 10.

[Geoff Woade]

20 hours ago, Chip Butty said:

The Little Things

 

 

Bang average just about sums this up. The plot, the musical score, the script, the acting, the whole shabang - bang average at best.

 

This film so wanted to be an upgrade on Se7en, and came out at about a 1.2, ish.  

 

Avoid.

 

4/10

Absolute turd of a film that. Confusing too. No idea how they got a blockbuster cast to agree to do it. 

[Scooby Dudek]

Terminator Genysis

 

Totally shits all over the original, in a bad way. Starts well with call backs to the original and gets more confusing and goes down hill rapidly.  5/10

 

The best thing about it, is the call backs made me watch the original Terminator, still a classic. Looking very dated but a great film 8/10

[Moo]

On 06/02/2021 at 06:35, Paul said:

Watched a thing on Netflix at the kids’ insistence last night called Malcolm & Marie. It is basically John David Washington and Zendaya playing a beautiful couple having a row in their beautiful house. And that’s it. I hated it. 

Struggled my way through it.  Shame though cos it might have worked if not for Washington's over-acting, he was painful to watch throughout.

[Moo]

On 06/02/2021 at 06:35, Paul said:

Watched a thing on Netflix at the kids’ insistence last night called Malcolm & Marie. It is basically John David Washington and Zendaya playing a beautiful couple having a row in their beautiful house. And that’s it. I hated it. 

Out of interest what did the kids think of it?

[Paul]

55 minutes ago, Moo said:

Out of interest what did the kids think of it?

They enjoyed it, the pair of fucking weirdos. 

[Paul]

Greenland - 7/10. A decent disaster movie that is remarkably lacking in cheese and quite high in genuine tension.