I hated the first one too. All I can remember are annoying people and lots of screaming- those factors are probably linked.
I think I would only watch the remake on pain of death.
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I think I would only watch the remake on pain of death.
I thought the two leads were good, though the film lost me almost entirely as it descended further into the nonsensical.
I don't really like Garfield or Neeson so that won't help, but I have little compulsion to watch Silence. I'd like to see Scorsese's 17th century Japan though.
There's a person walking behind them in the final seconds, so it's all a bit ambiguous.
With the wife and baby suffering a horrendous cold, we stayed in and watched a ton of movies.
Deepwater Horizon
Not a bad movie at all. very dramatized and hard to follow once the shit hits the fan, but I guess that's the point of the film. Mark Wahlberg still isn't convincing in a serious role... Kurt Russell on the other hand is a don 7/10
Fences
An African-American father must look after his family in the 1950s but a past indiscretion comes back to haunt him. Pure Oscar bait. But putting that aside, it has two great performances from Denzel and Viola Davis. The dialogue was brilliant and I liked how much depth the characters had. However, it's very long and tedious at times and felt like a play rather than a film. It probably was adopted from a play I feel 6/10
Hidden Figures
This film is about three black women who provided NASA with critical mathematical information, that ultimately led to their first successful space mission. This was again a film that felt like Oscar bait. I did enjoy it somewhat. The story is one that is very important and needs to be told. But it felt really heavy handed and forced down your throat. There were a lot of things happening that feel like emotional pushes of the narrative and ignore the scientific thought processes attached to such decisions. A feel good movie that I know many of your average movie goers would lap up 6.5/10
Hacksaw Ridge
A film based on the story of an army medic who became the first man to earn a medal of honour without ever shooting a single bullet. Mel Gibson directs this war film about a very interesting character. The film really felt like it was split down the middle. The first half is about Andrew Garfield's character's back story, why he is a pacifist, his love interest, his hard-as-nails father and the army trying to force him to quit. The second half is the actual war and what he did on the battlefield. Really enjoyable film with good performances from Garfield, Hugo Weaving and even Sam Worthington. I felt the second half was a little too long but loved the film overall 8/10
Sicario
Finally got round to watching this. While I enjoyed it whilst viewing it, it's not a film I'll probably remember in a weeks time. Well acted and very tense but also very long and slow 6/10
Deepwater Horizon
Not a bad movie at all. very dramatized and hard to follow once the shit hits the fan, but I guess that's the point of the film. Mark Wahlberg still isn't convincing in a serious role... Kurt Russell on the other hand is a don 7/10
Fences
An African-American father must look after his family in the 1950s but a past indiscretion comes back to haunt him. Pure Oscar bait. But putting that aside, it has two great performances from Denzel and Viola Davis. The dialogue was brilliant and I liked how much depth the characters had. However, it's very long and tedious at times and felt like a play rather than a film. It probably was adopted from a play I feel 6/10
Hidden Figures
This film is about three black women who provided NASA with critical mathematical information, that ultimately led to their first successful space mission. This was again a film that felt like Oscar bait. I did enjoy it somewhat. The story is one that is very important and needs to be told. But it felt really heavy handed and forced down your throat. There were a lot of things happening that feel like emotional pushes of the narrative and ignore the scientific thought processes attached to such decisions. A feel good movie that I know many of your average movie goers would lap up 6.5/10
Hacksaw Ridge
A film based on the story of an army medic who became the first man to earn a medal of honour without ever shooting a single bullet. Mel Gibson directs this war film about a very interesting character. The film really felt like it was split down the middle. The first half is about Andrew Garfield's character's back story, why he is a pacifist, his love interest, his hard-as-nails father and the army trying to force him to quit. The second half is the actual war and what he did on the battlefield. Really enjoyable film with good performances from Garfield, Hugo Weaving and even Sam Worthington. I felt the second half was a little too long but loved the film overall 8/10
Sicario
Finally got round to watching this. While I enjoyed it whilst viewing it, it's not a film I'll probably remember in a weeks time. Well acted and very tense but also very long and slow 6/10
Your viewing habits certainly change when you're watching films with your wife.I tried to sneak in Blair Witch. She was having none of it
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) - I've not seen any of the previous xXx movies. Mindless action flick with hot women. Doesn't require much concentration and the story is pretty dire. Fell asleep for a 30 minute portion of the film, didn't miss much. 4/10
My wife still hasn't forgiven me from making her watch AuditionI tried to sneak in Blair Witch. She was having none of it
She had a nightmare and I had to wake up and accompany her to the bathroom at god knows what time.It's up there with Natural Born Killers as "zeitgeist classic that's borderline unwatchable now"...worse for being thoroughly unamusing, in even an unintentional sense.
The clever publicity campaign, and the eerie back-story, are more interesting than the film.
Gone Girl:
What a shite movie, plot is so bad.
It starts out decent, but at the end of the movie i felt completely cheated.
Can't believe it has an 8.1/10 rating on IMDB. I rarely criticise movies, but this one was simply bad.
2/10
What a shite movie, plot is so bad.
It starts out decent, but at the end of the movie i felt completely cheated.
Can't believe it has an 8.1/10 rating on IMDB. I rarely criticise movies, but this one was simply bad.
2/10
It was unwatchable at the time too.
Me and Orson Welles - when Linklater makes a film for somebody else the results are always a bit weird. This film was a flop anyway and I can see why. Offers nothing interesting on Welles and who cares about Efrons imaginary teenager.
Lethal Weapon - has been so parodied it's hard to take even slightly seriously. Add a mental Gibson performance and henchman named Mr Joshua played by Gary Busey and this is some sort of abstract hell.
Lethal Weapon - has been so parodied it's hard to take even slightly seriously. Add a mental Gibson performance and henchman named Mr Joshua played by Gary Busey and this is some sort of abstract hell.
Lion - based on the true story of a young Indian boy who went missing from home. A brilliant film, beautifully acted by all concerned, and directed unfussily in such a way as to let the story tell itself. It's moving, inspiring and captivating in equal measure: I challenge any of you guys to leave the cinema without a tear or two. Highly recommended.
The Girl On The Train - Pure crap. I liked the book for what it was but I'm not sure that a novel that had so much introspection from the main character would ever translate onto the main screen without some major narrative tweaks. I find with films that are adapted from books I have always read that it can be jarring when the director portrays things differently to how I had pictured them and can put me off enjoying the film but that wasn't a factor here, the settings are so basic (a house, a train, an underpass etc. etc.) that it was right in line with how I had seen it. The characters were bland, motivations were unclear. Just a waste of time really.
Oliver Stone is like a forgotten relic of the 80's/90's, still churns out films but no one cares anymore, not even about his 'classics' I reckon.
The only film of his that I still like is Platoon, but I haven't seen that for about 10 years, so even that may have changed!
Having said that, I've not seen a single film he's directed post Any Given Sunday.
That's a good example- few films have aged so badly.
Still has some cache though weirdly. I don't how many consecutive flops one has to direct before it disappears, but he's going for the record.
I think he's just about scraped it at the box office, seems to me he's desperately trying to remain edgy and relevant.
Wasn't his last one (Snowden) pretty well received? I didn't see it, but a couple of friends told me about it and said it was quite good.
Pandora's Box - I often find silent film soundtracks to be pretty boring so I improvised my own soundtrack by playing some records on my vinyl player, such as the second side of Bowie's Low, Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack to Cat People and some other moody stuff I had at hand, which sort of worked in the end. The film, however, I didn't really care that much for, bit of a drag though very risque for it's time and Louise Brooks was certainly radiant, there was something really contemporary about her looks and manners that you usually don't see in these old films.
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I think it flopped, poor box office and mixed reviews.
I saw that. Thought it was decent. Not amazing but a good watch. Joseph Gordon Levitt is really good in it.
Agreed, this was pure crap.
I also didn't know Emily Blunth can act so bad? That was some of the worst portrayal of being drunk I've ever seen. She probably hasn't had one drink in her entire life.
Barry Paris's Brooks biography is excellent.
Salvador is always watchable.
Interesting.
She had a smile that could melt celluloid.
I've been meaning to check that one out, actually, due to being interested in the conflict.
Rewatched Sexy Beast as it was on Channel 4 last week and I had it recorded. Great fun! One of my favourite British gangster films following a slew of them around late 90s-00s. Ben Kingsley is so goddamn terrifying. I've met a few people who are so intensely scary that you don't even want to be caught looking at them. Proper nutters.
Such a great gem that one. I know people talk a lot about Kubrick and Nolan but for me anyway Jonathan Glazer is the director closest to Kubrick.
I found Diary of a Lost Girl the more enjoyable Bob-Pabst collaboration. Pandora's Box's historical significance aside, I found it to be too silly a melodrama. Introducing Jack at the end was as ridiculous as the haircut.
Don't breathe
Three burglars hear an old Vietnam war veteran is sitting on a small fortune so decide to rob his house. Once there they realise he's blind, what they don't account on is his physical condition and the power of the mind. The blind man knows his property like a map.
There is a huge twist mid film that I won't spoil but I thought this was a fantastic movie.
8/10
Three burglars hear an old Vietnam war veteran is sitting on a small fortune so decide to rob his house. Once there they realise he's blind, what they don't account on is his physical condition and the power of the mind. The blind man knows his property like a map.
There is a huge twist mid film that I won't spoil but I thought this was a fantastic movie.
8/10
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Fantastic film, the twist at the end completely got me.
This is a must see film, the acting was excellent, well written and the music was perfect.
I rate it a bit higher than you did.
8.5/10
Didn't you guys find how she was able to decipher the alien language without any reference points in such a relatively short space of time off-putting and completely implausible. Kind of ruined the film for me but I still gave it a good rating. Amy Adams is so lush though.
I can see you point , but I could see how she did it, I put it down to when she first touched the glass and then said , now that was an introduction, they told her something to help.
Split
McAvoy... what a performance. Can't say too much without spoiling stuff but my God, I loved it. Having said that, don't think this is for everyone. Hats off to Shyamalan who seems to have rediscovered his early 2000 form. 9/10
McAvoy... what a performance. Can't say too much without spoiling stuff but my God, I loved it. Having said that, don't think this is for everyone. Hats off to Shyamalan who seems to have rediscovered his early 2000 form. 9/10
Inferno
3rd in the series about Dr Langdon and by far the worst.
I have not read the book , but know the ending, should of kept that ending , would of been better than the one they did.
I liked the first 2 films, very disappointed with this one.
4/10
3rd in the series about Dr Langdon and by far the worst.
I have not read the book , but know the ending, should of kept that ending , would of been better than the one they did.
I liked the first 2 films, very disappointed with this one.
4/10
Viral
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
Population wiped out and a few survive, this one was a parasite and not a virus.
It was OK, nothing special, but enjoyable, the ending was a bit meh.
5/10
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
Population wiped out and a few survive, this one was a parasite and not a virus.
It was OK, nothing special, but enjoyable, the ending was a bit meh.
5/10
Is this a joke?
