Rate the last film you watched...

[Bjornebye]

8 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

I watched this earlier today. I don’t think it was as good as you did, I did quite enjoy it.

 

7/10.

It was the acting from the main two for me. I accept it’s probably more an 8/10 than a 9. 

[Scott_M]

16 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

It was the acting from the main two for me. I accept it’s probably more an 8/10 than a 9. 

Stan’s role was a difficult balancing act - if he went too far he’d have made Trump the caricature he is today, not far enough and you don’t fully think he’s a cunt. He was very good, I’d have like a bit more “Trump” at the end.
 

Strong was very good.
 

Ivanka was the lass from Borat 2.

[Numero Veinticinco]

40 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Lads takes mushrooms on her 18th birthday and hallucinates her 40 year wide cracking old self.

 

I feel like I've taken mushrooms reading that review, mate. Though I am interested in Aubrey Plaza's wide crack. 

[Bjornebye]

21 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Stan’s role was a difficult balancing act - if he went too far he’d have made Trump the caricature he is today, not far enough and you don’t fully think he’s a cunt. He was very good, I’d have like a bit more “Trump” at the end.
 

Strong was very good.
 

Ivanka was the lass from Borat 2.

I think he was much more Trump towards the end. It was the slow growth of bellendary that the film was about. He was almost likeable at the start. 

[Arniepie]

gladiator 2

almost a carbon copy of the 1st one but beyond absurd.

the "shark" battle was almost monumentally daft.

 

6/10 

[Sut]

Another Summer - a documentary screening at FACT last night. It's a series of interviews with Afghan and Ukrainian refugees. Really good.

[VladimirIlyich]

7 hours ago, Sut said:

Another Summer - a documentary screening at FACT last night. It's a series of interviews with Afghan and Ukrainian refugees. Really good.

Take it to the migrants thread and tell them how they feel about whether or not they got value for money!

[Bobby Hundreds]

Latest deadpool film. 6.5 baby knives out of 10. I dont think they should make anymore it wore thin.

[Bjornebye]

Speak No Evil

 

Fuck me I was anxious all the way through. McAvoy you horrible bastard. Brilliant thriller that. 8.5/10 

[Section_31]

22 hours ago, Arniepie said:

gladiator 2

almost a carbon copy of the 1st one but beyond absurd.

the "shark" battle was almost monumentally daft.

 

6/10 

 

Yeah I don't fancy it at all, that Mescal lad is wooden as fuck and there looks like there's about 15 villains in it. 

[Total Longo]

2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 

Yeah I don't fancy it at all, that Mescal lad is wooden as fuck and there looks like there's about 15 villains in it. 

 

I don't fancy it as it looks like the most pointless sequel since "Jaws : The Revenge" and the original is pretty much perfect. 

 

 

[Mook]

Civil War

 

Kirstin Dunst's character was really annoying in this. I thought it was generally dull other than the scene with Jesse Plemons.

 

5.5/10

[Elite]

Gladiator 2 - 8/10

 

I really enjoyed this, was over the top but I don't think that detracted from the movie as a whole. Denzel stole the show though, unreal screen presence.

[Carvalho Diablo]

27 minutes ago, Elite said:

Gladiator 2 - 8/10

 

I really enjoyed this, was over the top but I don't think that detracted from the movie as a whole. Denzel stole the show though, unreal screen presence.

 

Watching this now and completely disagree, I think it's horrendous, and your boy Denzel is no fucking Batiatus.

 

That said, I thought the original film was pretty crap, vastly overrated, and this is just just an amplification of that mess.

 

Only adds weight to my thoughts that Ridley Scott is a washed up chancer who got lucky with Alien and (the overrated) Blade runner, and who's been serving up dross for the past 40 years.

 

2/10 and that's being generous

[Elite]

1 hour ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

 

Watching this now and completely disagree, I think it's horrendous, and your boy Denzel is no fucking Batiatus.

 

That said, I thought the original film was pretty crap, vastly overrated, and this is just just an amplification of that mess.

 

Only adds weight to my thoughts that Ridley Scott is a washed up chancer who got lucky with Alien and (the overrated) Blade runner, and who's been serving up dross for the past 40 years.

 

2/10 and that's being generous

*Thumbs down*

[Carvalho Diablo]

28 minutes ago, Elite said:

*Thumbs down*

 

 

[Mook]

Rosie Plays Julie, a 2019 Irish film by two of the people involved with Kin. This was pretty heavy going with some really nice cinematography, a girl goes off to find her real Mum only to discover a load of skeletons in the closet. 7/10

[Bjornebye]

10 hours ago, Mook said:

Rosie Plays Julie, a 2019 Irish film by two of the people involved with Kin. This was pretty heavy going with some really nice cinematography, a girl goes off to find her real Mum only to discover a load of skeletons in the closet. 7/10

her mum died in an orgy? 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 17/11/2024 at 00:40, Strontium said:

 

People accuse me of being argumentative, but here we have people arguing over my review of a film they haven't even seen. Ho hum.

 

You know what the New Atheism movement is. Dawkins, Hitchens, and that lot. You're not so old that you can't remember the backlash that people like that got in the United States when they started writing critically about religion. Back when only about 6% of Americans identified as irreligious, compared to around a quarter now.

It's not an age thing; I didn't notice at the time.  Obviously, I was aware that those people existed and (in the case of Dawkins, at least) that they'd started writing about Atheism; I don't think I ever heard (or paid attention to) any talk of a "New Atheist Movement".  Maybe in navel-gazing circles that sort of stuff caused a ripple, but I've never given that much weight to the musings of "the Commentariat".

 

Are you implying that the writings of Dawkins, Hitchens, etc, effected that change in the USA?  I'd like to see more evidence before I accept a claim like that.

 

I'm not arguing over your review of the film: I'm disputing your assertion that a film that's heavily critical of religion couldn't have been made 20 years ago.  There have been films critical of religion, in one way or another, for decades.

[SasaS]

9 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's not an age thing; I didn't notice at the time.  Obviously, I was aware that those people existed and (in the case of Dawkins, at least) that they'd started writing about Atheism; I don't think I ever heard (or paid attention to) any talk of a "New Atheist Movement".  Maybe in navel-gazing circles that sort of stuff caused a ripple, but I've never given that much weight to the musings of "the Commentariat".

 

Are you implying that the writings of Dawkins, Hitchens, etc, effected that change in the USA?  I'd like to see more evidence before I accept a claim like that.

 

I'm not arguing over your review of the film: I'm disputing your assertion that a film that's heavily critical of religion couldn't have been made 20 years ago.  There have been films critical of religion, in one way or another, for decades.

 

They wrote on buses. As you well know, that works.

[Total Longo]

On 21/11/2024 at 18:18, Carvalho Diablo said:

 

Watching this now and completely disagree, I think it's horrendous, and your boy Denzel is no fucking Batiatus.

 

That said, I thought the original film was pretty crap, vastly overrated, and this is just just an amplification of that mess.

 

Only adds weight to my thoughts that Ridley Scott is a washed up chancer who got lucky with Alien and (the overrated) Blade runner, and who's been serving up dross for the past 40 years.

 

2/10 and that's being generous

 

Negged for saying Gladiator is "a mess" and Blade Runner is overrated.

 

It was Scott, Derek Vanlint and HR Giger that made Alien so good. I don't think he got lucky at all.   

[SasaS]

10 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

 

Negged for saying Gladiator is "a mess" and Blade Runner is overrated.

 

It was Scott, Derek Vanlint and HR Giger that made Alien so good. I don't think he got lucky at all.   

 

Surely Dan O'Bannon too, who first wrote it with Carpenter as a comedy in Dark Star.

[Total Longo]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Surely Dan O'Bannon too, who first wrote it with Carpenter as a comedy in Dark Star.

 

Obviously, but like Blade Runner, that had rewrite after rewrite. My point was that in the hands of another director it may not have been anywhere near as good.  

[SasaS]

21 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

 

Obviously, but like Blade Runner, that had rewrite after rewrite. My point was that in the hands of another director it may not have been anywhere near as good.  

 

He is certainly a good director who was in top form at the time and directed two great films which turned out to be extremely influential.

 

Gladiator on the other hand, is a bit overrated.

[Mook]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

her mum died in an orgy? 

 

I must have missed that bit when I was smashing one off to the rape scene.