What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Detournement]

Images. A psychological horror Robert Altman movie from the early 70s. Susanna York is a children's writer who receives threatening phone calls and is harassed by strange presences. It was shot in an incredibly beautiful part of Ireland but in a genius creative decision from Altman there are no Irish people in it.

 

[DA Baracus]

Jumamji: The Next Level

8/10

Like it's predecessor, this is tremendous fun. Often amusing, sometimes touching. A couple of tears were shed, many laughs were had.

[Stellaboz]

Jumamji: The Next Level
8/10
Like it's predecessor, this is tremendous fun. Often amusing, sometimes touching. A couple of tears were shed, many laughs were had.

Terrific couple of films. Needs more Karen Gillan though.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

On 01/04/2021 at 11:11, DA Baracus said:

Saw that this is now available on Prime.

Thought I would give it a watch this Saturday evening. Then I saw that it's £15.99 to rent.

 

[sfha]

Do Me  A Favor

I wasn't expecting much but this was a pretty good black comedy. Worth checking out.

[coprolite]

On 01/04/2021 at 23:36, DA Baracus said:

Cast Away

9/10

Just a marvellous movie. We've all seen it, we all know what it's about.

I'm very fond on how flexible the meaning can be to the viewer. Don't let anyone tell you that your version is wrong.

I haven't seen it. I know what it's about though. 

[well fan for life]

3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. From the same guy that brought you the wonderful In Bruges. 

Absolutely recommend it. A superb dark comedy. 

[NotThePars]

Shin Godzilla (2016) dir. Hideaki Anno

Made by the same guy who created cult classic depressive anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion and the movie/ episodes The End of Evangelion. This movie has some similar themes about bureaucracy and it even directly lifts the battle theme from Evangelion and gives it a series of reworks throughout the movie which I enjoyed in a Di Caprio pointing at the screen way. 

 

This was pretty good! The Godzilla (Gojira in the movie) looks really fucking goofy but it's less about the monster itself and more Anno using 'Zilla as a metaphor first for the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster and then later on for the US atom bomb strikes that closed World War Two. Anno seems to come to the conclusion that maybe nationalism is a good idea if it means saying "maybe we shouldn't just let America nuke us?" although I'm not sure how I feel about France being the sort of good guys in this scenario. Anno embracing nationalism also seems to be how he gets over the depression that led him to make arguably the best anime of all time and good for him. Japanese nationalism has never caused anyone problems.

It's more in the spirit of the original movies than the US equivalents are but it also can't compare to how class the Western monster looks.

7/10

 

[Ira Gaines]

Absolutely everything about Shin Godzilla is on point. From the bureaucratic human element, to the constantly evolving city destroying Godzilla, it just lands perfectly. The first version does look kinda silly at first, but the instant destruction does a good job of getting that out of the mind.

I absolutely love that movie.

[NotThePars]

2 hours ago, Andre Drazen said:

Absolutely everything about Shin Godzilla is on point. From the bureaucratic human element, to the constantly evolving city destroying Godzilla, it just lands perfectly. The first version does look kinda silly at first, but the instant destruction does a good job of getting that out of the mind.

I absolutely love that movie.

The bureaucracy scenes sometimes felt like they were on the verge of an Ianucci vibe. The first scene with the Eva battle theme with Yaguchi's task force rocked. Yea, the more I think about it the more I love it. 

[jimmy boo]

Sound Of Metal

Riz Khan plays a rock drummer touring the US with his girlfriend who loses most of his hearing through exposure to the volume level over time. Ends up in a deaf community rehab type place while waiting to raise cash for implants. Great preformance from Khan as usual along with the supporting cast.........7/10.

[tongue_tied_danny]

The Delta Force

Mid 80s video rental shop classic starring Lee Marvin and Chuck Norris as a pair of US special forces troops who kick f**k out of some terrorists.

Ridiculous but entertaining, as Cannon Group productions always were.

8/10

[Detournement]

Crimes Of Passion.

A crazily horny Ken Russell movie from 1984 with Kathleen Turner as a wild prostitute being surveilled by a bored suburban private detective with marriage problems and stalked by an insane priest played by Anthony Perkins.

The movie is basically like the 5 minute porno scene in Body Double extended to 100 minutes. Kathleen Turner was also in Romancing The Stone in 1984 which was a huge box office hit but didn't feature her anally raping a LAPD officer.

I need to watch more Ken Russell movies. 

Edited April 8, 2021 by Detournement

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Total Recall 1990.

Brilliant movie. 

 

Spoiler: It was all a dream.

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Kong v Godzilla.

A complete pile of shite. I turned it off when the wee lassie started signing with the gorilla.

[Biscuits]

Kong v Godzilla.
A complete pile of shite. I turned it off when the wee lassie started signing with the gorilla.

I didn't even last that long. Utterly pish

[BFTD]

On 08/04/2021 at 10:26, Detournement said:

Crimes Of Passion.

A crazily horny Ken Russell movie from 1984 with Kathleen Turner as a wild prostitute being surveilled by a bored suburban private detective with marriage problems and stalked by an insane priest played by Anthony Perkins.

The movie is basically like the 5 minute porno scene in Body Double extended to 100 minutes. Kathleen Turner was also in Romancing The Stone in 1984 which was a huge box office hit but didn't feature her anally raping a LAPD officer.

I need to watch more Ken Russell movies. 

Ken Russell was one of the thirstiest directors I've ever been exposed to, and that includes porn, where I get the impression that they get any sense of sexual desire beaten out of them pretty quickly. Needless to say, I'm a big fan.

Altered States and The Devils are all-time classic films. I'd recommend not bothering with Whore, but there's a whole smorgasbord of deviant, wildly excessive, absolute batshit insanity that he made in-between.

As a fan of Amanda Donohoe on LA Law, it was a delight to discover her work with the crazy old letch  

[BFTD]

Godzilla v Kong (torrent) - the best film you'll see this year in which a giant monkey delivers an absolute haymaker to the fizzog of an enormous lizard.

Sorry folks, but I really liked this. The four films in this series all have a different feel, and this one is a ripsnorting action-adventure to another world that refreshingly does exactly what it says on the tin. I wish I didn't know what the surprise was before going in, but it makes for a lovely finale, and the whole thing looks absolutely stunning - I especially appreciated that the combatants still move a bit like a couple of lads in rubber suits, while benefiting from modern CG.

There are a lot of macguffins, characters magically knowing everything that's going on as soon as they walk into a room, and other incredible stretches of credulity, but I was happy to go along with it because it was just generally good times in funsville, and I'll definitely be catching it again when the cinemas reopen. A series of movies that don't achieve greatness, but are perfectly happy to set up camp in the 'Good' section. See the original or Shin Godzilla if you need more from your angry monsters.

[tongue_tied_danny]

Stand By Me

I just caught this on one of the freeview channels. Last time I watched it was at least 30 years ago.

A gang of 12 year olds go looking for the corpse of a missing kid in this Stephen King adaptation.

Very good.

9/10

[BFTD]

Hot Fuzz (Netflix) - second film in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Simon Pegg's supercop is sent to a small village as punishment for solving all the crimes in London and making the rest of the Met look bad.

This was fucking great and, as a Shaun of the Dead fan, I'm kicking myself for not watching it until now. I guess it always looked like a spoof of the triggerhappy Eighties Hollywood action movie, with the joke being that it's set in a quaint English hamlet, but that's just a small (and the weakest) part of it. Just an absolute joy, with an incredible cast; Simon Pegg could be a quality straight actor if he fancied it.

Personal highlights were Olivia Colman being absolute filth, and one character who responded to anything involving body parts with "Ha! Tits/Cock/whatever", which my son was horrified by me pointing out is him down to a fucking tee  

The Shallows (cooncil telly) - surfin' Blake Lively is trapped by a big nasty shark near a remote Mexican beach.

Fairly standard entry into the survival genre, in which some daftie(s) head off somewhere remote without letting anyone know where they are, which would've come in handy when they inevitably end up neck-deep in the shite. In this one, Lively ends up a little bit munched by one of our toothy pals, and is trapped on a rocky outcrop tantalisingly close to the shore. All the regular tropes are present - near-misses with rescue, background detail that later becomes important, and a showdown with the villain that becomes personal.

While it's pretty competent, the main problem is that Lively isn't a terribly compelling actress, and isn't given a lot to work with, so I wasn't too fussed about what happened to her. That's death to any film in a genre that relies on tension to survive. I get the impression that the makers had an inkling that they were going to need more to attract an audience, as a lot of the marketing revolved around the fact that the camera spends a lot of time positively drooling over Blake Lively's body. I mean, seriously - if your idea of a good time is close-ups and panning shots of the Gossip Girl in a bikini, fill your boots.