Rate the last film you watched...

[Anubis]

Expend4bles - 3/10.

Ropey 80s special effects with a shit story, a shit villain, and mediocre action sequences. The best bot is the two minute sequence involving a social media influencer. Swerve.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 02/10/2023 at 20:52, Red74 said:

Took my grandson to see this. Gave him my phone to play with while I had a kip after 20 minutes. He fell asleep too. Thank fuck we were the only people in there. 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 04/10/2023 at 03:57, DalyanPete said:

Reviews dont get much worse!

I can't remember which film Rich Hall was talking about when he said "I watched this on a plane.  I walked out."

[Elite]

4 hours ago, Anubis said:

Expend4bles - 3/10.

Ropey 80s special effects with a shit story, a shit villain, and mediocre action sequences. The best bot is the two minute sequence involving a social media influencer. Swerve.

It's atrocious. 3/10 is generous.

[Anubis]

3 hours ago, Elite said:

It's atrocious. 3/10 is generous.

it is. And I probably have been. But there is the aforementioned sequence, and Megan Fox’s jugs.

[Anubis]

The Retirement Plan - 3/10. 
 

I’m on a roll for crap action flicks. Retired grandad and former assassin, Nicholas Cage, helps his daughter out when she gets into trouble. Pearlman and Earle Haley slumming it here.

[DalyanPete]

6 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I can't remember which film Rich Hall was talking about when he said "I watched this on a plane.  I walked out."

Top comedian Rich, don't normally like American comedians.

[DalyanPete]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Nicholas Cage

Surprised to see a poor review of one of his movies! Amazed he still gets work 

[Carvalho Diablo]

The Gray Man

 

The Gos, Ana De Aromas, Billy Bob Thornton and a couple of others in a Bond / Bourne / Wick mashup.

 

Meh it's alright I suppose.

 

5.5/10

[Creator Supreme]

2 hours ago, DalyanPete said:

Top comedian Rich, don't normally like American comedians.

Went to see him at the Edinburgh festival years back, he was brilliant.

[Furmedge]

Cocaine Bear.

 

One of Ray Liotta's final films, if not his last.  Probably died of shame.

[Guest]

John Wick 4. The first 3 are very good (especially the first) but number 4 is just a very mediocre action beat em up. 4 Johns out of 10 Wicks.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Falling In Love

 

De Niro and Streep both on top form in a Sliding Doorsy romantic drama.

 

Good stuff.

 

7/10

[razor]

On 05/10/2023 at 06:41, sir roger said:

Sat earlier and Hobsons Choice came on.

Absolute masterclasses from Charles Laughton and John Mills, and loads of laugh out loud moments.

 

Brilliant performances all round.  And available here: 

 

[YorkshireRed]

Watched The Untouchables with my youngest last night. 
 

He’s recently finished The Sopranos, and is sort of enjoying Boardwalk Empire, so I thought he might enjoy it. 
 

I haven’t seen it in more than thirty years. It was nowhere near as good as I remembered. I’ve seen much better since I first watched it. 
 

My boy gave it an “ok”.

 

Back in the day, I’d have given it a nine. It’s really not much better than a seven. 

[Special K]

Just now, YorkshireRed said:

Watched The Untouchables with my youngest last night. 
 

He’s recently finished The Sopranos, and is sort of enjoying Boardwalk Empire, so I thought he might enjoy it. 
 

I haven’t seen it in more than thirty years. It was nowhere near as good as I remembered. I’ve seen much better since I first watched it. 
 

My boy gave it an “ok”.

 

Back in the day, I’d have given it a nine. It’s really not much better than a seven. 

I did the same a few years ago. Raved to my wife that it's a classic.

 

By the end she'd fallen asleep and I was wincing at how bad it was.

[Mook]

I find most De Palma films like that, completely over the top.

[SasaS]

11 hours ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Falling In Love

 

De Niro and Streep both on top form in a Sliding Doorsy romantic drama.

 

Good stuff.

 

7/10

 

Loved that film.

 

But surely Brief Encountery rather than Sliding Doorsy?

[Carvalho Diablo]

3 hours ago, SasaS said:

 

Loved that film.

 

But surely Brief Encountery rather than Sliding Doorsy?

Better comparison, agreed.

[Red74]

Indiana Jones new one.

 

Christ this is chronic. Id had enough by the time he got on the horse in the city. 
 

One of the worst half hours I’ve ever had and I’ve been at 3 childbirths 

 

avoid 0/10

 

edit. Tell you what, these Hollywood writers have got some nerve going on strike for more pay when they’re churning out shite movies & cringeworthy marvel & Star Wars every week since covid hit. 
 

Im all for people striking for better conditions but in this case, if I was the studios I’d sack them all and blacklist the lot of them like the McCarthy witch-hunts 

[Red74]

On 14/10/2023 at 10:01, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

And why not

[AngryOfTuebrook]

23 hours ago, YorkshireRed said:

Watched The Untouchables with my youngest last night. 
 

He’s recently finished The Sopranos, and is sort of enjoying Boardwalk Empire, so I thought he might enjoy it. 
 

I haven’t seen it in more than thirty years. It was nowhere near as good as I remembered. I’ve seen much better since I first watched it. 
 

My boy gave it an “ok”.

 

Back in the day, I’d have given it a nine. It’s really not much better than a seven. 

It's very stylised, which is fine, but if you're expecting anything realistic you'll be disappointed.

 

I still think the scene with the pram on the stairs is a cracking set-piece and some of the villains are hissably bad; there's enough there to make it enjoyable, but it's not a great film.

[Bjornebye]

The Burial 

 

Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. True story about a skint funeral home owner who brings a lawyer in to help him against a corporate giant cunt. Jamie Foxx is brilliant, enjoyed this. 7.5/10 

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's very stylised, which is fine, but if you're expecting anything realistic you'll be disappointed.

 

I still think the scene with the pram on the stairs is a cracking set-piece and some of the villains are hissably bad; there's enough there to make it enjoyable, but it's not a great film.

 

It suffers from typical problems as most De Palma's films, he does not seem interested in getting good performances from actors (it may be some "meta" thing, or a fetish, I think he married one of the worst actresses of all times) and he is constantly trying to work nods and homages and reworkings and postmodern comments into his films.

 

It used to be Hitchcock, here it is Eisenstein, with the pram scene from Potemkin and I think the villain is deliberately in white and good guys in black (this is from Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky I think).

 

So, usually style is the substance with De Palma. Which is often irritating.

[Paul]

The Creator - 8/10. Loved it. Made a relatively low budget go an awfully long way. Looks fucking incredible and JDW is almost as charismatic as his dad. Almost. 
 

No One Will Save You - 8/10. Again, superb. The last ten minutes are mental and pretty incongruous, but it’s still a cracking little B movie that looks way better than you’d expect for its pedigree and stature.