What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Silverton End]

Blood Diamond (2006)

An insight into Africa's  'conflict diamond' trade, civil war, mass murder, child soldiers, corruption & mercenaries.

Watched this again the other night, a great turn from Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny, it also has the lovely Jennifer Connelly too.

Great movie 9/10

Edited August 27, 2020 by Silverton End

[J_Stewart]

That's the film idea I had in high school, years before it was released. I can remember being at the pictures with my pals for another film and the trailer for this film came on. I sat watching open mouthed and when the trailer finished my pals commented and said "you came up with that plot about 2 years ago!". I was fizzing [emoji38]

 

Be Aware: Hollywood can steal your thoughts!

 

 

Not just Hollywood, many years ago as a young teen I sent a letter to the Nintendo magazine (what a dork) with an idea for a game, Mario Kombat, where the characters of Mario, satirising Mortal Kombat, fight each other in a cartoon manner. A few years later, out comes Super Smash Bros. The fuckers never sent me penny one for my brilliance. c***s.

 

Anyway, watched Guardians of the Galaxy for approximately the 764th time whilst hungover on Sunday and I become more convinced with every watch that it’s the best fun you can possibly have watching a film without Tommy Wiseau appearing. Glorious stuff.

[BFTD]

9 hours ago, NotThePars said:

Two other points I’m amazed people didn’t pick up on:
That the humans are badly losing the war
That Neil Patrick Harris’s character isn’t psychic

 

The meteor that destroyed Buenos Aires came from Klendathu.

Then we meet the bugs, and it's painfully obvious they'd nothing to do with chucking a targeted ball of rock across the galaxy. Like blaming primitive tribes on the Amazon for Tunguska.

[NotThePars]

The meteor that destroyed Buenos Aires came from Klendathu.
Then we meet the bugs, and it's painfully obvious they'd nothing to do with chucking a targeted ball of rock across the galaxy. Like blaming primitive tribes on the Amazon for Tunguska.

In fairness when the fleet arrives they immediately start getting wiped from the planet’s surface in the “wrong intel” scene.

That also reminds me of another class moment: when the news reporter just starts getting ripped to shreds, the cameraman is stood there two yards away filming it all attentively until the bug turns and starts ripping him to bits as well.

[killiepiemuncher]

Tenet...?

[paul-r-cfc]

Tenet...?

Just saw this tonight.


Outstanding looking film and enjoyable enough watch but far too convoluted and overly complicated for the sake of being overly complicated. It's not just that I struggled to follow it, but that I wasn't particularly interested in trying to.

Might watch it again in five years and think differently.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

V for vandetta (2005).

Hugo Weaving is a genetically enhanced Yorkshireman on a revenge mission to bring down the UK’s totalitarian government whilst donning a Guy Fawkes mask.

 

Ee by gum it is shite.

Not even Scatman John playing the Prime Minister could save it.

 

[8MileBU]

2 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

V for vandetta (2005).

Hugo Weaving is a genetically enhanced Yorkshireman on a revenge mission to bring down the UK’s totalitarian government whilst donning a Guy Fawkes mask.

 

Ee by gum it is shite.

Not even Scatman John playing the Prime Minister could save it.

Personally thought VFV was a great movie.

Last night the telly was garbage and ended up half watching the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters. 

Fucking hell.  Awful.

[welshbairn]

21 minutes ago, 8MileBU said:

Personally thought VFV was a great movie.

Last night the telly was garbage and ended up half watching the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters. 

Fucking hell.  Awful.

Payback on ITV4 was much better than I thought it was going to be, like a graphic novel. Sure the John Wick series nicked a fair bit from it.

[BFTD]

2 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Payback on ITV4 was much better than I thought it was going to be, like a graphic novel. Sure the John Wick series nicked a fair bit from it.

The Mel Gibson film? Aye, that's a fun one.

The days when Mel's name on a project usually meant there was a good time to be had.

[welshbairn]

Just now, BigFatTabbyDave said:

The Mel Gibson film? Aye, that's a fun one.

The days when Mel's name on a project usually meant there was a good time to be had.

He's the reason I've never bothered watching it before.

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

He's the reason I've never bothered watching it before.

Did you not like him as an actor before the whole Zionist Sugartits Conspiracy thing? He used to pick his projects well, back before he revealed himself to be a fud.

I'm a sucker for revenge films, personally. I blame my mother - her favourite film is genuinely Death Wish 2.

[welshbairn]

15 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

Did you not like him as an actor before the whole Zionist Sugartits Conspiracy thing? He used to pick his projects well, back before he revealed himself to be a fud.

I'm a sucker for revenge films, personally. I blame my mother - her favourite film is genuinely Death Wish 2.

Thought it was more recent than 1999.

[19QOS19]

V for vandetta (2005).

Hugo Weaving is a genetically enhanced Yorkshireman on a revenge mission to bring down the UK’s totalitarian government whilst donning a Guy Fawkes mask.

 

Ee by gum it is shite.

Not even Scatman John playing the Prime Minister could save it.

 

 

Is this a film that mocks the original? V for vandetta is a great film though.

 

[Silverton End]

Eastern Promises (2007)

The murky world of the Russian Mafia in London, a young Russian woman, pregnant, dies & leaves a revealing diary behind. As well as her newborn baby.

Quite like this film, but some of the acting/dialogue is pretty average though.

It's still very watchable & Viggo Mortensen is a beautiful looking chap.

7.5/10

 

[thomas]

Bill and Ted 3

 

Loved it. Loved the first two Bill and Ted's and thought this was great, I'm pretty sure plenty of people will think it's absolute nonsense but I thought it was brilliant.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

The House Bunny (2008)

Emma Stone, Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Katharine McPhee, Emma Stone, the huge titted one from 2 Broke Girls and Emma Stone star in a comedy about an ex-Playboy bunny (Faris) who becomes a mother figure at a sorority house.

 

An underrated classic.

 

[Gianfranco]

I See You on Netflix. I thought it was going to be some supernatural pish but I’m glad I stuck with it. I can’t really comment without spoilers but I never seen a couple of the twists coming. 8/10

[Ira Gaines]

There's been a lot of fun low key thrillers and horrors coming out in the last couple of years. This year especially is brilliant for it.

I've been seeking out as many as possible a lot more than I used to, and also got a year long subscription to Shudder as they're upping their game on originals later in the year, as well as having fun looking stuff I haven't seen yet.

Amazon Prime look like they're grabbing some new horror stuff too.

[BFTD]

10 minutes ago, Willow Rosenberg said:

There's been a lot of fun low key thrillers and horrors coming out in the last couple of years. This year especially is brilliant for it.

I've been seeking out as many as possible a lot more than I used to, and also got a year long subscription to Shudder as they're upping their game on originals later in the year, as well as having fun looking stuff I haven't seen yet.

Amazon Prime look like they're grabbing some new horror stuff too.

Do tell us about them please; I used to use you for horror recommendations.