What have you watched recently? 3D!

barrymanilow · 28-02-2019 10:14pm

Leave No Trace

about a 7.9 on the lighthouse cinema craft beer with posh crispsometer
Interesting drama that looks at a father and daughters relationship as they rough it on the margins of society , nice slow pace if your in that mood , I enjoyed.

7.8/10

branie2 · 01-03-2019 10:04pm

The Hole in the Ground in the cinema this evening. It was very good.

al87987 · 02-03-2019 10:55am

Sorry to bother you -7.5/10

Interesting concept well executed, memorable.

is_that_so · 03-03-2019 2:39pm

Life -not brilliant but holds your attention for the duration.

j.s. pill II · 04-03-2019 2:45pm

Den skyldige (The Guilty) 2018

Tight, tense Danish kidnapping mystery set in a police emergency contact centre.

Like Locke, the 'action' takes place entirely through phonecalls.

Really enjoyed this one - at 85 mins it was perfectly paced and had no unnecessary filler.

I think this film should be played at all those unconscious bias seminars that workplaces send their workers for re-Ned-ucation. Illustrates the concept very succinctly

El Duda · 07-03-2019 12:50pm

Do The Right Thing – 9/10

So far ahead of its time and alarmingly relevant to this day still. This ‘Spike Lee Joint’ frequently appears on many peoples top 10 lists and many directors speak of how influential it was for them.

The first hour has a very loose feel to it. It reminded me a lot of Dazed & Confused and Clerks where we are just being introduced to a variety of characters whilst maintaining a slightly improvisational tone to certain scenes. Tension slowly builds and tempers begin to flare in the scorching heat, building to a powerful and shocking crescendo. If you haven’t seen it, the less I say the better. You simply MUST see this film. It creates such powerful racial dynamics and critics have debated many aspects of the finale for years.

This film ticks so many boxes and lives up to its reputation. A fantastic piece of film making.

Unfortunately, the old DVD I had looked awful and the bright, vibrant colours looked garishly saturated, I need that bluray next time. Also, for some reason I got this mixed up with ‘The Right Stuff’ so for the first 20 minutes I was wondering when Mookie would begin his journey into becoming an astronaut.

pixelburp · 08-03-2019 10:34pm

Overlord (2018)

An effective and robust R-rated, B-movie: a stripped-down throwback to when Hollywood produced these kind of medium tier genre films; self-contained adventures with tangible low stakes and straightforward plotting. Even the character arcs, while cliché, were elementary, relatable. Only the CGI gore betrayed the era from which the film comes, but it was over the top enough to actually increase the pulp sensibility the film was aiming for. In a climate of shared universes, overblown scale and method, it was refreshing to watch a solid, visceral, almost "nuts and bolts" kind of movie.

branie2 · 08-03-2019 11:35pm

Captain Marvel in the cinema this evening; It was very good.

branie2 · 09-03-2019 12:19am

El Duda wrote: »

Do The Right Thing – 9/10

So far ahead of its time and alarmingly relevant to this day still. This ‘Spike Lee Joint’ frequently appears on many peoples top 10 lists and many directors speak of how influential it was for them.

The first hour has a very loose feel to it. It reminded me a lot of Dazed & Confused and Clerks where we are just being introduced to a variety of characters whilst maintaining a slightly improvisational tone to certain scenes. Tension slowly builds and tempers begin to flare in the scorching heat, building to a powerful and shocking crescendo. If you haven’t seen it, the less I say the better. You simply MUST see this film. It creates such powerful racial dynamics and critics have debated many aspects of the finale for years.

This film ticks so many boxes and lives up to its reputation. A fantastic piece of film making.

Unfortunately, the old DVD I had looked awful and the bright, vibrant colours looked garishly saturated, I need that bluray next time. Also, for some reason I got this mixed up with ‘The Right Stuff’ so for the first 20 minutes I was wondering when Mookie would begin his journey into becoming an astronaut.

And that's the truth, Ruth!

buried · 09-03-2019 12:28am

BlacKkKlansman disappointed the weewee out of me, but 'Do The Right Thing' is a film I can always watch again and again and again. Top notch tack.

is_that_so · 10-03-2019 8:54pm

I tried watching Love(very graphic) on Netflix. Dull and dreary arthouse and only lasted 20m with it.
I've also watched the two Stallone Escape Plan films. Silly nonsense but quite passable. Might be a little violent for some.
All the Devil's Men. Not great back-ops/CIA thing in Netflix but relatively short.
The Force Awakens - enough said.

TomSweeney · 11-03-2019 12:21am

Stand By Me Fantastic film
Always get so sad at the last 10 mins when he is just talking about how he drifted apart from his childhood friends, and of course the news about Chris.

Stephen King writes so well about childhood friendships, he had a similar theme in It about how the 7 changed after that summer.

And then of course what happened to River Phoenix, so sad only 23, good looking actor ... had it ALL!

Sugarlumps · 11-03-2019 10:13am

Heredity - Hilarious movie. Great cast, stark location.

otnomart · 11-03-2019 8:01pm

Blaze.
"A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement".
Director: Ethan Hawke
Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton

Best movie I have seen in months

is_that_so · 12-03-2019 11:16pm

Watched Juanita. Quite misfiring and disjointed premise despite the presence of the ever excellent Alfre Woodard. One of those short Netflix films.

barrymanilow · 13-03-2019 12:22pm

Gremlins 2 The New Batch

Big

Watched these last week , both well worth a watch if your an eighties kid who hasn't seen them since. They are both refreshingly un PC , littered with huge pot holes and delivered a lot of great belly laughs. Made me wonder if people had a better sense of humor or were more laid back in the eighties , simpler times I suppose.

NIMAN · 13-03-2019 12:25pm

Watched 2 of the biggies of this last year:

A Star is Born and Green Book.

Thought the former was good. Not great, but solid enough. Good performances all round, but maybe not my kind of film? I absolutely detest that Shallow song, so that doesn't help.
Probably a 7/10 for me

Green Book a different matter. Really enjoyed this and thought it was the best film I've seen in quite a while. Fantastic from both main characters, a 8.5/10 for me. Maybe even a 9/10. Didn't realise it would be so funny.

buried · 13-03-2019 11:48pm

Arrival (2016) - Really really enjoyable tack this is. Just perfectly executed and paced, great to see a film done to the one hour thirty minute mark again. Fantastic soundtrack to go with this too,

That scene with the first flyover glimpse of the craft on the edge of the clouds with that glorious synthy, whale cry sounding score is really brilliant

Just a great balance of mystery and entertainment infused with a feeling of empathy towards the main protagonist. This is how it should be done. Really great. Watched on Netflix but have bought the Blu-ray anyways. 8/10

Disposable1 · 14-03-2019 3:15am

otnomart wrote: »

Blaze.
"A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement".
Director: Ethan Hawke
Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton

Best movie I have seen in months

Glad to hear it. The trailer looked great, this review is going to make me track it down as soon as possible

Lionbacker · 15-03-2019 2:53pm

Watched "Burning" last night in the Triskel in Cork.
How this didn't get nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars baffles me.
Absolutely absorbing movie, among the very best I've seen in years, with a great cast & superb cinematography.

A 10/10 for me.

branie2 · 15-03-2019 10:00pm

The Aftermath at the cinema this evening; I thought it was very good

barrymanilow · 19-03-2019 11:52pm

Wildlife

Fantastic Drama , family turmoil seen through the lens of a boy on the edge of manhhod, set in 50/60s middle America , moving , touching , real , full of flawed humanity , a real piece of art.

Sugarlumps · 20-03-2019 10:11am

Hurt Locker - Boring storyline, phone in acting. Don't get the love for this film.

Tony EH · 20-03-2019 10:18am

^
Agree. Never understood the acclaim that has been heaped upon that film. Incredibly overrated, I think.

Sugarlumps · 21-03-2019 1:22pm

Anyone ever witnessed this atrocity? Beckinsale would be all over this as she can't act. But the other four have clout.

Gary Oldman
Peter Dinklage
Patricia Arquette
Kate Beckinsale
Matthew McConaughey

joombo · 22-03-2019 1:21pm

Free Solo was excellent.

Despite knowing the outcome, it was still on the edge of your seat stuff. Unreal
The Dawn Wall was pretty good, but after watching Free Solo, I just didnt feel the risk element with it.

The Princess Bride · 23-03-2019 6:15am

I've just watched Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, my first time seeing it.
What a gem, William Goldman was a superb writer, with a great sense of humour.
Highly recommended, (on Now TV).

Tony EH · 23-03-2019 9:19am

:mad: I can't swim!

:pac: Are you crazy...the fall will probably kill ya!

batgoat · 23-03-2019 2:51pm

The Princess Bride wrote: »

I've just watched Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, my first time seeing it.
What a gem, William Goldman was a superb writer, with a great sense of humour.
Highly recommended, (on Now TV).

The Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head moment is both wonderfully out of place and entertaining.

branie2 · 23-03-2019 6:35pm

Cold Pursuit at the cinema yesterday; I thought it was very good.

The Princess Bride · 24-03-2019 3:56pm

The Princess Bride wrote: »

I've just watched Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, (1969) my first time seeing it.
What a gem, William Goldman was a superb writer, with a great sense of humour.
Highly recommended, (on Now TV).

I am leading the William Goldman appreciation society this week.

All The President's Men today, (1976)- (YOUTUBE).
Another excellent film, the way the ending is presented in particular, followed by the credits and no music drowning it, is very effective.

Now to rewatch Marathon Man.(1976)

Gwynplaine · 24-03-2019 5:10pm

Put on 'Searching' earlier. Had to turn it off after 15 minutes. Maybe some people love it, but, not for me.

quickbeam · 24-03-2019 5:33pm

Have you read Adventures of the Screen Trade, TPB? Well worth it. Lots of insight into the films William Goldman was involved in.

branie2 · 24-03-2019 5:36pm

Tony EH wrote: »

:mad: I can't swim!

:pac: Are you crazy...the fall will probably kill ya!

Oooohhhh, Sh**********!

The Princess Bride · 24-03-2019 6:23pm

quickbeam wrote: »

Have you read Adventures of the Screen Trade, TPB? Well worth it. Lots of insight into the films William Goldman was involved in.

Ahem, have you seen my username?
Don't you know who I am?

(Joking, thank you, I shall have a look. I love the way his mind worked, it appeals to the satirist in me.)

joombo · 24-03-2019 7:35pm

A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

Good prison flick - based on a true story. 7/10.

Captain Red Beard · 24-03-2019 7:41pm

Dragged Across Concrete. Slow paced, noirish cops n robbers chicanery that is well worth a look.

barrymanilow · 24-03-2019 7:44pm

Lionbacker wrote: »

Watched "Burning" last night in the Triskel in Cork.
How this didn't get nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars baffles me.
Absolutely absorbing movie, among the very best I've seen in years, with a great cast & superb cinematography.

A 10/10 for me.

saw it yesterday , best film I have seen in ages , starts of seeming kind of boring but it gets its hooks into you and you end up hanging on every scene

24-03-2019 11:57pm

To live and die in LA 1985

Surprised that this isn't a bit of a cult classic really. Directed by William Friedkin who did the famous French Connection.
Well worth a watch. Starts off a bit kitsch but very good and features amongst other things a fantastic car chase. Ending is non-standard also. Great gritty 1980's LA scenery. Features a young Willem Dafoe and John Tarturro.

8/10

Mizu_Ger · 25-03-2019 9:28am

Piercing
Adapted from a book by the guy who wrote Audition and you get what you'd expect. It's only 80 minutes long and entertaining, but I was left wondering what the point of it was at the end. I feel like giving it another watch in a few months time. The design of the exteriors (stylised models of apartments blocks, streets etc) was well done.

Les Diaboliques
Another classic that I had never seen until now. I thought I knew what the story was about, but that was all done in the first 30 minutes

ie. two women plot to kill a man

. The rest of the film wound up the tension to a fantastic ending. Genuine edge-of-the-seat stuff. Well worth it.

j.s. pill II · 25-03-2019 2:37pm

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

Piercing
Adapted from a book by the guy who wrote Audition and you get what you'd expect. It's only 80 minutes long and entertaining, but I was left wondering what the point of it was at the end. I feel like giving it another watch in a few months time. The design of the exteriors (stylised models of apartments blocks, streets etc) was well done.

Tried watching this a few weeks back. Lasted 15 mins. Bit snuffy for my liking.

j.s. pill II · 25-03-2019 2:40pm

joombo wrote: »

A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

Good prison flick - based on a true story. 7/10.

Superb - I'd give it a 9.5/10

hgfj · 25-03-2019 3:07pm

Barry Lydon (1975)

I've seen this movie 5 or 6 times over the last 40 years or so. Each time I watched it was like watching it for the first time. This is a quote by Scorsese about this movie -

"“I’m not sure if I can say that I have a favorite Kubrick picture, but somehow I keep coming back to Barry Lyndon. I think that’s because it’s such a profoundly emotional experience. The emotion is conveyed through the movement of the camera, the slowness of the pace, the way the characters move in relation to their surroundings. People didn’t get it when it came out. Many still don’t. Basically, in one exquisitely beautiful image after another, you’re watching the progress of a man as he moves from the purest innocence to the coldest sophistication, ending in absolute bitterness — and it’s all a matter of simple, elemental survival.”

Tony EH · 26-03-2019 5:07pm

'A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors'

The third in the Elm Street series, 1987's instalment starts off relatively well, with some decent special effects and a good setting, which sees the remnants of the Elm Street kids all locked up in a mental home, for various reasons, where they try to avoid sleeping for more than a few hours at a time.

Heather Langenkamp makes a return as Nancy, the teenage heroine from the first film, and who was strangely absent from the second. But, she's really only there to form some sort of connection, as is her father, played by cult favourite, John Saxon. Everyone else is new, besides Robert Englund's Freddie Kruger, of course.

Surprisingly, after the poor second effort 'A Nightmare on Elm Street II: Freddie's Revenge', the third film has some entertaining parts. Its first half is quite well done and sets things up fairly promisingly. Well, fairly promisingly for a second sequel in a silly slasher franchise that is. In its latter half though, things go to hell, when the "Dream Warriors" do their best to make events turn into farce. The worst of whom is a speccy-four-eyed nerd, who fancies himself as a Dungeons and Dragons type "Wizard Master" and a teen junkie who, in her dreams, dresses up as the worst type of 80's punk cliche.

Everyone else is pretty bland 80's teen fodder, including a fat, funny (but not really), black character trope and the famous faces among the cast include Patricia Arquette in her first major role and a young Lawrence (Larry) Fishbourne as a hospital orderly, who basically disappears half way through the movie.

'A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors' is a goofy film, that has one or two funny moments, like when Freddie asks Zsa Zsa Gabor "who gives a fuck what you think" and it remains a favourite among fans of the franchise, even if it cannot hope to match up to the excellent original. But, for folk for whom Freddie means nothing, there's not too much to get excited about.

Del.Monte · 27-03-2019 10:27am

"Doomsday Gun" (1994) on YouTube

Based on the true story of Saddam Hussein's quest for a super gun capable of hitting Tehran and Israel from Iraq. Lots of shady activity in the world of international finance, arms dealing and politics. Gerald Bull, a Canadian big gun engineer is at the centre of the plot and his ego brings him to the heart of the affair.

A strong cast including Frank Langella (as Bull); Kevin Spacey and Michael Kitchen. Worth a watch. 7/10

NIMAN · 27-03-2019 10:30am

Del.Monte wrote: »

"Doomsday Gun" (1994) on YouTube

Based on the true story of Saddam Hussein's quest for a super gun capable of hitting Tehran and Israel from Iraq. Lots of shady activity in the world of international finance, arms dealing and politics. Gerald Bull, a Canadian big gun engineer is at the centre of the plot and his ego brings him to the heart of the affair.

A strong cast including Frank Langella (as Bull); Kevin Spacey and Michael Kitchen. Worth a watch. 7/10

Are we allowed to watch and enjoy anything with Spacey in it any more?

Dades · 27-03-2019 11:08am

NIMAN wrote: »

Are we allowed to watch and enjoy anything with Spacey in it any more?

Yes, especially Outbreak.

Just don't tell Twitter or you'll also be labelled a monster and send to wander the desert with Spacey and Harvey Weinstein. (Liam Neeson was sent there, but he has a special set of skills that helped him get back).

Tony EH · 27-03-2019 1:31pm

I think Kevin Spacey is a great actor.

Fuck Twitter!

There, I said it. :pac:

Seriously though, fuck Twitter. It's the worst thing on the web.

It's even worse that Kevin Spacey.

TerrorFirmer · 27-03-2019 10:34pm

Just watched that Mark Wahlberg film Instant Family. Not at all the film I expected. I expected a goofy comedy, what I got was a comedy-drama with serious feeling and unexpected depth. Really superb stuff.

Sugarlumps · 28-03-2019 10:37am

Tony EH wrote: »

Seriously though, fuck Twitter. It's the worst thing on the web.

It's even worse that Kevin Spacey.

I've copyrighted that.

What have you watched recently? 3D!

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