Rate the last film you watched...

[Bjornebye]

54 minutes ago, Mook said:

The Thin Red Line

 

Wasn't really in the mood for this 1998 war film with a big name cast so it was a slog and seemed about an hour too long, 5.5/10

Nah it’s much better than that. Easily an 8. 

[Tony Moanero]

43 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The Long Good Friday.

Life of Brian.

Mike Bassett.

Hot Fuzz.

Scum.

This is England.

Four Lions.

The Commitments.

Trainspotting.

71.

 

As an example.

The Third Man

Lawrence of Arabia

Brief Encounter

Kes

The Ladykillers 

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Wicker Man

Local Hero

The Snowman

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Safety Not Guaranteed

 

A short, quirky film with that Audrey Plaza bird, about a magazine investigating a weirdo advertising for a partner for his supposed time travelling.

 

A very easy and enjoyable watch.

 

7/10

[SasaS]

22 hours ago, Mook said:

The Thin Red Line

 

Wasn't really in the mood for this 1998 war film with a big name cast so it was a slog and seemed about an hour too long, 5.5/10.

 

Knight Moves

 

A chess murder mystery thing with the lamentable Christopher Lambert. 4/10 for the film, 10/10 for Diane Lane.

 

Ironically, it was cut for distribution from five or six hour-long Malick's first version.

[Mook]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Ironically, it was cut for distribution from five or six hour-long Malick's first version.

 

Badlands is still his best film IMO, of the ones I've seen.

[SasaS]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

Badlands is still his best film IMO, of the ones I've seen.

 

The one with Richard Gere wasn't bad either.

[Mook]

5 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

The one with Richard Gere wasn't bad either.

 

Aye, Days of Heaven. That's on my watch list.

[Chip Butty]

On Saturday me and Mrs Butty inadvertently watched two films, both with the word Black, in the title. 
 

Black Bag

Fastbender, Blanchett, Brosnan and the little fitty Marisa Abela. Thought it was a nice little double bluff, Espionage flick that was neither overly challenging or up its own arse, enjoyable enough to keep you interested and not bored. 
6.8953349/10

 

Boîte Noir(Black Box)

a really nicely paced corporate cover up movie with some nice performances and  enough about it, again, like previously - to keep you watching and intrigued. Lou de Laâge, as the love interest and has proper French fwoooar! about her. I find when the French make a good film, it sticks with you.

Sees/Dix

 

[Mook]

The Alto Knights

 

Not as bad as the kicking it has been getting but not as good as it might have been, 'seen it all before tbh. Definitely worth a watch though & DeNiro is probably better here than he was in The Irishman. 6/10.

[AngryofTuebrook]

On 13/04/2025 at 19:47, VladimirIlyich said:

The Long Good Friday.

Life of Brian.

Mike Bassett.

Hot Fuzz.

Scum.

This is England.

Four Lions.

The Commitments.

Trainspotting.

71.

 

As an example.

 

[AngryofTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Chip Butty said:

 

Black Bag

Fastbender, Blanchett, Brosnan and the little fitty Marisa Abela. Thought it was a nice little double bluff, Espionage flick that was neither overly challenging or up its own arse, enjoyable enough to keep you interested and not bored. 
6.8953349/10

 

 

About time someone adapted it for a film.

[Chip Butty]

I Refuse, to make a Taliban bin man joke, on the grounds of decency and all that is good in the world. 

[Strontium]

Recently I have watched:

Anora 3/4

Mikey Madison's stripper/upmarket call girl marries the son of a Russian oligarch, and fun ensues. Okay, not really, because there's an awful lot of misery in this film. This is this year's Oscar best picture, and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making it only the fourth film ever to win both. I don't think it quite merits such accolades. She is very good in the title role though, and you sure do see a lot of her. If you're in the market for a realistic, tragicomic take on Pretty Woman, this is the film for you. It's 20 minutes too long though.

 

Black Bag 3.5/4

Michael Fassbender's MI6 officer is tasked with weeding out a traitor, who may or may not be his wife Cate Blanchett. This is a slick, stylish and funny spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh, deftly mixing elements from the likes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Mr & Mrs Smith, aided by a very capable cast which includes Bond series alumni Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris, as well as potential future Bond, Regé-Jean Page. This is very far from Ian Fleming, however. Extremely enjoyable.

 

Last Breath - 3/4

Film based on real events, in which a diver is left stranded at the bottom of the North Sea after an accident during pipeline maintenance leaves him with just ten minutes of oxygen. This a simple story told in a clear, straightforward manner, with appropriate tension and decent performances. And sometimes that is all you need. 

 

Where the Crawdads Sing - 2.5/4

 

I didn't go to the cinema last weekend, so I watched this on TV instead. Daisy Edgar-Jones is quite good as a girl who lives a mostly isolated existence in an American swamp, then gets arrested on suspicion of killing her ex-boyfriend. This is an odd mix of courtroom thriller, coming-of-age drama and romance, set in a rural America that only seems to exist in movies. It's okay.

 

Mickey 17 - 2/4

 

Robert Pattinson is so desperate to get off Earth that he signs up for the ultimate danger job - one that requires him to die over and over again in the interests of science, before being cloned, memories intact. Bong Joon Ho's follow up to Parasite is a really weird film which - as with Where the Crawdads Sing - doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The performances are all over the place too; I've not seen such disparate acting since Coppola's Megalopolis (this, at least, is nowhere near as bad as that). Mark Ruffalo is the biggest offender, doing what appears to be a feeble Donald Trump impersonation. On top of all that, you have Tim Key basically doing his Sidekick Simon act from Alan Partridge, but in space. Any interesting ideas here are lost in a sea of less interesting ones. What a mess.

 

Drop - 3/4

 

Meghann Fahy is a single mother on her first date after the death of her abusive husband, and naturally, things don't go smoothly, as she is pestered by increasingly threatening text messages. I'd very much describe this film as Hitchcock-lite, which I hope is not damning it with faint praise. It is directed with some verve, and there are enough moments of suspense to compensate for the few moments of silliness. Entertaining.

[razor]

Good writing, Stronts.

[elvis]

9 hours ago, Strontium said:

Recently I have watched:

Anora 3/4

Mikey Madison's stripper/upmarket call girl marries the son of a Russian oligarch, and fun ensues. Okay, not really, because there's an awful lot of misery in this film. This is this year's Oscar best picture, and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making it only the fourth film ever to win both. I don't think it quite merits such accolades. She is very good in the title role though, and you sure do see a lot of her. If you're in the market for a realistic, tragicomic take on Pretty Woman, this is the film for you. It's 20 minutes too long though.

 

Black Bag 3.5/4

Michael Fassbender's MI6 officer is tasked with weeding out a traitor, who may or may not be his wife Cate Blanchett. This is a slick, stylish and funny spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh, deftly mixing elements from the likes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Mr & Mrs Smith, aided by a very capable cast which includes Bond series alumni Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris, as well as potential future Bond, Regé-Jean Page. This is very far from Ian Fleming, however. Extremely enjoyable.

 

Last Breath - 3/4

Film based on real events, in which a diver is left stranded at the bottom of the North Sea after an accident during pipeline maintenance leaves him with just ten minutes of oxygen. This a simple story told in a clear, straightforward manner, with appropriate tension and decent performances. And sometimes that is all you need. 

 

Where the Crawdads Sing - 2.5/4

 

I didn't go to the cinema last weekend, so I watched this on TV instead. Daisy Edgar-Jones is quite good as a girl who lives a mostly isolated existence in an American swamp, then gets arrested on suspicion of killing her ex-boyfriend. This is an odd mix of courtroom thriller, coming-of-age drama and romance, set in a rural America that only seems to exist in movies. It's okay.

 

Mickey 17 - 2/4

 

Robert Pattinson is so desperate to get off Earth that he signs up for the ultimate danger job - one that requires him to die over and over again in the interests of science, before being cloned, memories intact. Bong Joon Ho's follow up to Parasite is a really weird film which - as with Where the Crawdads Sing - doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The performances are all over the place too; I've not seen such disparate acting since Coppola's Megalopolis (this, at least, is nowhere near as bad as that). Mark Ruffalo is the biggest offender, doing what appears to be a feeble Donald Trump impersonation. On top of all that, you have Tim Key basically doing his Sidekick Simon act from Alan Partridge, but in space. Any interesting ideas here are lost in a sea of less interesting ones. What a mess.

 

Drop - 3/4

 

Meghann Fahy is a single mother on her first date after the death of her abusive husband, and naturally, things don't go smoothly, as she is pestered by increasingly threatening text messages. I'd very much describe this film as Hitchcock-lite, which I hope is not damning it with faint praise. It is directed with some verve, and there are enough moments of suspense to compensate for the few moments of silliness. Entertaining.

Where the crawdads sing, is way better than 2.5/4 or whatever that equates to , for a normal reviewer.

[Strontium]

4 minutes ago, elvis said:

Where the crawdads sing, is way better than 2.5/4 or whatever that equates to , for a normal reviewer.

 

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But if you thought I was harsh, you are just going to love Peter Bradshaw's 1-star review in The Guardian:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/21/where-the-crawdads-sing-review-daisy-edgar-jones

[Carvalho Diablo]

9 hours ago, Strontium said:

Recently I have watched:

Anora 3/4

Mikey Madison's stripper/upmarket call girl marries the son of a Russian oligarch, and fun ensues. Okay, not really, because there's an awful lot of misery in this film. This is this year's Oscar best picture, and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, making it only the fourth film ever to win both. I don't think it quite merits such accolades. She is very good in the title role though, and you sure do see a lot of her. If you're in the market for a realistic, tragicomic take on Pretty Woman, this is the film for you. It's 20 minutes too long though.

 

Black Bag 3.5/4

Michael Fassbender's MI6 officer is tasked with weeding out a traitor, who may or may not be his wife Cate Blanchett. This is a slick, stylish and funny spy thriller from Steven Soderbergh, deftly mixing elements from the likes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Mr & Mrs Smith, aided by a very capable cast which includes Bond series alumni Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris, as well as potential future Bond, Regé-Jean Page. This is very far from Ian Fleming, however. Extremely enjoyable.

 

Last Breath - 3/4

Film based on real events, in which a diver is left stranded at the bottom of the North Sea after an accident during pipeline maintenance leaves him with just ten minutes of oxygen. This a simple story told in a clear, straightforward manner, with appropriate tension and decent performances. And sometimes that is all you need. 

 

Where the Crawdads Sing - 2.5/4

 

I didn't go to the cinema last weekend, so I watched this on TV instead. Daisy Edgar-Jones is quite good as a girl who lives a mostly isolated existence in an American swamp, then gets arrested on suspicion of killing her ex-boyfriend. This is an odd mix of courtroom thriller, coming-of-age drama and romance, set in a rural America that only seems to exist in movies. It's okay.

 

Mickey 17 - 2/4

 

Robert Pattinson is so desperate to get off Earth that he signs up for the ultimate danger job - one that requires him to die over and over again in the interests of science, before being cloned, memories intact. Bong Joon Ho's follow up to Parasite is a really weird film which - as with Where the Crawdads Sing - doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. The performances are all over the place too; I've not seen such disparate acting since Coppola's Megalopolis (this, at least, is nowhere near as bad as that). Mark Ruffalo is the biggest offender, doing what appears to be a feeble Donald Trump impersonation. On top of all that, you have Tim Key basically doing his Sidekick Simon act from Alan Partridge, but in space. Any interesting ideas here are lost in a sea of less interesting ones. What a mess.

 

Drop - 3/4

 

Meghann Fahy is a single mother on her first date after the death of her abusive husband, and naturally, things don't go smoothly, as she is pestered by increasingly threatening text messages. I'd very much describe this film as Hitchcock-lite, which I hope is not damning it with faint praise. It is directed with some verve, and there are enough moments of suspense to compensate for the few moments of silliness. Entertaining.

 

Have you seen the BBC iPlayer documentary of Last Breath? Actual footage of the poor cunt laying almost dead on the sea floor, fucking mental.

[Bjornebye]

I enjoyed Where the Crawdads sing but can see why someone wouldn’t like it. 
 

Daisy Edgar Jones is great. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

 

Have you seen the BBC iPlayer documentary of Last Breath? Actual footage of the poor cunt laying almost dead on the sea floor, fucking mental.

They use some of the real footage in the film I think mate 

[Carvalho Diablo]

9 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

They use some of the real footage in the film I think mate 

 

Ah, nice one, might be the same thing then?

 

Very good and not just a bit scary.

[Strontium]

13 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Have you seen the BBC iPlayer documentary of Last Breath? Actual footage of the poor cunt laying almost dead on the sea floor, fucking mental.

 

I've not seen it, but hopefully I can catch it in future. I knew the film was based on a documentary, and I wondered if seeing one or the other first would make a difference to how I thought of the film.

[Bjornebye]

20 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

 

Ah, nice one, might be the same thing then?

 

Very good and not just a bit scary.

Absolutely terrifying mate. My bird asked me while watching it would I rather go out to repair a spaceship while tethered or dive to the depths of the sea to repair a pipe. I actually said I’d do both without too much fear tbh (I’ve done a fair bit of diving and space would be cool wouldn’t it?!) but you wouldn’t get me climbing that tower from The Fall or anything like it. Now that can fuck right off. 
 

 

[elvis]

57 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I enjoyed Where the Crawdads sing but can see why someone wouldn’t like it. 
 

Daisy Edgar Jones is great. 

Excellent film and book, whoever gave it 1/5 is obviously a pleb

[Bjornebye]

33 minutes ago, elvis said:

Excellent film and book, whoever gave it 1/5 is obviously a pleb

Especially for using the /5 not /10 measurement of quality scale. 

[manwiththestick]

5 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Absolutely terrifying mate. My bird asked me while watching it would I rather go out to repair a spaceship while tethered or dive to the depths of the sea to repair a pipe. I actually said I’d do both without too much fear tbh (I’ve done a fair bit of diving and space would be cool wouldn’t it?!) but you wouldn’t get me climbing that tower from The Fall or anything like it. Now that can fuck right off. 
 

 

I'd do all three before I'd attempt any of that John Edward Jones spelunking  shit.