What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Zetterlund]

High Plains Drifter (1973).

Clint Eastwood stars and directs, presumably living out his fantasy as he shoots and rapes his way through the Old West with impunity. Alarmingly, when one of his young lady victims tries to take revenge she is restrained by the sheriff and advised "next time a man wants his way with you, you let him have it".

Who'd have thunk ol' Clint was OFTW? 

[sfha]

9 hours ago, Zetterlund said:

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Who'd have thunk ol' Clint was OFTW? 

OFTW?

 

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Elvis was phenomenal really lived up to the hype. Butler is outstanding as Elvis and Tom Hanks is great at being the sneaky b*****d colonel.
Obviously with these biopics you need to take parts of it with a pinch of salt but I’d recommend people go see this film - 9/10.

I really enjoyed it 10/10 - and thankfully didn't listen to that bitter twisted w**k that is Robert Daniels.

[Arch Stanton]

54 minutes ago, sfha said:

OFTW?

 

One For The Watching.

[Squalor Vic]

Went into Elvis with low expectations and was amazed how much I liked it. Austin Butler was phenomenal, far better a performance than Remi Malek's depiction of Freddie Mercury. Some of the more dramatic scenes were a bit Channel 5 on a Sunday afternoon and it took a bit of getting used to Tom Hanks who was like a cartoon character at first but got better as film went on. As good a film I've scene at the cinema for a while 

[coprolite]

Minions- The rise of Gru

Perfectly acceptable cash-cow miliking. 

The Minions are less funny and the baddies are less entertaining than earlier efforts. There were some laugh out loud funny bits and it didn't get boring. 

Odeon needs to sort it's shit out. They forgot to dim the lights for the fourth time out of the last six we've been.

The public need to sort their shit out. I had to turf folk out of our seats, the wife asked the guy behind her to stop yapping about 20 minutes in and had to ask kids in front of her to sit down. Plus teenagers seem to be clapping at films like Americans now. We need National service back.

5.5/10

 

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Went into Elvis with low expectations and was amazed how much I liked it. Austin Butler was phenomenal, far better a performance than Remi Malek's depiction of Freddie Mercury. Some of the more dramatic scenes were a bit Channel 5 on a Sunday afternoon and it took a bit of getting used to Tom Hanks who was like a cartoon character at first but got better as film went on. As good a film I've scene at the cinema for a while 

Butler's performance is just incredible - particularly recreating the final scene that is so haunting and lingers long after the credits - you couldn't tell if it was him or actual footage of Elvis it was that convincing.

[jimmy boo]

Minions- The rise of Gru
Perfectly acceptable cash-cow miliking. 
The Minions are less funny and the baddies are less entertaining than earlier efforts. There were some laugh out loud funny bits and it didn't get boring. 
Odeon needs to sort it's shit out. They forgot to dim the lights for the fourth time out of the last six we've been.
The public need to sort their shit out. I had to turf folk out of our seats, the wife asked the guy behind her to stop yapping about 20 minutes in and had to ask kids in front of her to sit down. Plus teenagers seem to be clapping at films like Americans now. We need National service back.
5.5/10
 

Grandson(5) went to cinema for first time yesterday to see this and absolutely loved it[emoji3]

[Scotty Tunbridge]

3 hours ago, coprolite said:

Minions- The rise of Gru

Perfectly acceptable cash-cow miliking. 

The Minions are less funny and the baddies are less entertaining than earlier efforts. There were some laugh out loud funny bits and it didn't get boring. 

Odeon needs to sort it's shit out. They forgot to dim the lights for the fourth time out of the last six we've been.

The public need to sort their shit out. I had to turf folk out of our seats, the wife asked the guy behind her to stop yapping about 20 minutes in and had to ask kids in front of her to sit down. Plus teenagers seem to be clapping at films like Americans now. We need National service back.

5.5/10

 

Kids movies are the worse for bad behaviour. Some adults just let their kids run wild as long as they aren’t annoying them. Went to light year recently and someone was just letting their kid run and then crawl on their hands and knees through rows of seats (how fucking manky).

I remember when I was wee I got taken to see a Batman film maybe the one with George Clooney and I was acting up by running up and down the aisle. I then got dragged out the cinema and taken home by my mum minutes into the film. Don’t think I ever misbehaved in the cinema again after that, although if I was old enough to appreciate how bad a film that was I’d probably have thanked my mum for taking me out of there.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Scotty Tunbridge

[BFTD]

59 minutes ago, jimmy boo said:

Grandson(5) went to cinema for first time yesterday to see this and absolutely loved it

Prepare yourself for when he gets older. My son loved the Minions when the films first started coming out, but he's a teenager now and they're just a mindless capitalist cash-grab for idiots, maaaaaan.

Bit shit, as I'd quite like to go see it, but I don't fancy being glared at by mothers for turning up on my own to a film for young children. Especially as I know to keep my pants on now.

[jimmy boo]

Prepare yourself for when he gets older. My son loved the Minions when the films first started coming out, but he's a teenager now and they're just a mindless capitalist cash-grab for idiots, maaaaaan.
Bit shit, as I'd quite like to go see it, but I don't fancy being glared at by mothers for turning up on my own to a film for young children. Especially as I know to keep my pants on now.

I wasn't there thankfully but it sounds like it was relatively quiet with everyone well behaved. You'll just need to wait until it appears online [emoji1]

[paul-r-cfc]

Sherpa (Netflix)

Eye opening account of the experience of Nepalese Sherpas who guide rich white folk up Everest. No surprise that the people that run the expedition companies appear to be heartless, money grabbing scum. Particularly Russell Bryce who keeps referring to them as militant for demanding better conditions and pay after 13 people die in an avalanche. Also to the scumbag American climber who makes reference to speaking to their "owners" to get them fired before also calling them terrorists.

[Crazy Days]

Had the misfortune to watch the remake of Father of the Bride with Andy Garcia. One of the worst things I have ever watched.

[Mark Connolly]

3 hours ago, Crazy Days said:

Had the misfortune to watch the remake of Father of the Bride with Andy Garcia. One of the worst things I have ever watched.

Is it a straight remake of the remake?

Andy Garcia is not exactly the first person I’d think of in the Steve Martin role

[Crazy Days]

Along the lines of the steve martin one but without any of the comedy. Do yourself a favour and give it a miss.

[BFTD]

So that'll be two shit remakes of Father of the Bride.

I've never seen the Spencer Tracy film - anyone know if we can make it a hat trick?

[MSU]

070 -- The Sea of Trees (#40 in A24 series) The overarching subject matter of Aokigahara, the Japanese Suicide Forest, is fascinating in a grim kind of way, and the cast is good, so this should be at least decent. Following a personal tragedy, Matthew McConaughey's character, Arthur, travels to Japan, to the suicide forest at Mount Fuji, to kill himself. Once there, he sees and rescues a Japanese businessman, played by Ken Watanabe, but the two of them become lost and soon rather than ending their lives, their focus shifts to survival and over the course of a night, they learn about themselves, each other, love, life, the universe, and everything. Cloyingly sentimental in its approach, there's a horrendous twist in the tail. 2/10 for the shots on the forest.

071 -- American Honey (#41 in the A24 series) Andrea Arnold isn't the most cheerful of film makers. This comes somewhere between Red Road and Cow, the depressing movie I saw earlier in the year about a dairy cow. Star is a young woman in her late teens, already lost in life, looking after her mother's kids, and living in fear from her abusive father. She meets charismatic Jake, Shia LaBeouf in his most Shia LaBeouf role, at a K-Mart and abandons her life to embark with him and a bus load of other young adults as they tour the midwest selling magazine subscriptions by any means necessary and getting up to exactly what you'd expect them to do. It's a movie that has you itching in the first fifteen minutes and it never really relents. With a handheld camera and what appears to be more ideas than a plot, Arnold employs a Cinéma Vérité style as this cast from a modern-day Oliver Twist moves through wealthy suburbs to slums to oil fields to Badlands, and along the way, maybe Star learns a few things about herself and life. At nearly three hours, it's the longest movie in the A24 catalogue and that's an awful lot of Shia LaBeouf. Would've been easier to like had it been an hour shorter. 6/10

072 -- Moonlight (#42 in the A24 series) The fact that La-La-Land was very briefly the Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards is made all the more ridiculous by how good Moonlight is. It's an extraordinarily good film with note-perfect performances throughout, an amazing score, and such an emotional experience. You watch it and for a moment or two, you feel a better person having seen it. 10/10

073 -- Supersonic (#43 in the A24 series) Two arsehole brothers start a band and as the band becomes bigger, they become bigger arseholes, until being massive arseholes is more important to them than being in the band. I like Oasis's music well enough, but I've never really fallen for the mystique of the Gallagher brothers, or agreed for a moment with their own sentiment that they were the biggest band in the world, so this insight into their lives and careers and one drug-fuelled fight after another became a little tiresome, but there were many cool moments, some light-hearted fun at a drummer's expense, and footage from rare performances so the attention isn't allowed to wander too far. 6/10

[Arch Stanton]

4 minutes ago, MSU said:

070 -- The Sea of Trees (#40 in A24 series) The overarching subject matter of Aokigahara, the Japanese Suicide Forest, is fascinating in a grim kind of way, and the cast is good, so this should be at least decent. Following a personal tragedy, Matthew McConaughey's character, Arthur, travels to Japan, to the suicide forest at Mount Fuji, to kill himself. Once there, he sees and rescues a Japanese businessman, played by Ken Watanabe, but the two of them become lost and soon rather than ending their lives, their focus shifts to survival and over the course of a night, they learn about themselves, each other, love, life, the universe, and everything. Cloyingly sentimental in its approach, there's a horrendous twist in the tail. 2/10 for the shots on the forest.

071 -- American Honey (#41 in the A24 series) Andrea Arnold isn't the most cheerful of film makers. This comes somewhere between Red Road and Cow, the depressing movie I saw earlier in the year about a dairy cow. Star is a young woman in her late teens, already lost in life, looking after her mother's kids, and living in fear from her abusive father. She meets charismatic Jake, Shia LaBeouf in his most Shia LaBeouf role, at a K-Mart and abandons her life to embark with him and a bus load of other young adults as they tour the midwest selling magazine subscriptions by any means necessary and getting up to exactly what you'd expect them to do. It's a movie that has you itching in the first fifteen minutes and it never really relents. With a handheld camera and what appears to be more ideas than a plot, Arnold employs a Cinéma Vérité style as this cast from a modern-day Oliver Twist moves through wealthy suburbs to slums to oil fields to Badlands, and along the way, maybe Star learns a few things about herself and life. At nearly three hours, it's the longest movie in the A24 catalogue and that's an awful lot of Shia LaBeouf. Would've been easier to like had it been an hour shorter. 6/10

072 -- Moonlight (#42 in the A24 series) The fact that La-La-Land was very briefly the Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards is made all the more ridiculous by how good Moonlight is. It's an extraordinarily good film with note-perfect performances throughout, an amazing score, and such an emotional experience. You watch it and for a moment or two, you feel a better person having seen it. 10/10

073 -- Supersonic (#43 in the A24 series) Two arsehole brothers start a band and as the band becomes bigger, they become bigger arseholes, until being massive arseholes is more important to them than being in the band. I like Oasis's music well enough, but I've never really fallen for the mystique of the Gallagher brothers, or agreed for a moment with their own sentiment that they were the biggest band in the world, so this insight into their lives and careers and one drug-fuelled fight after another became a little tiresome, but there were many cool moments, some light-hearted fun at a drummer's expense, and footage from rare performances so the attention isn't allowed to wander too far. 6/10

From where do you source your A24 movies?

[MSU]

So far the vast majority of them have been on Amazon Prime Video. I think I had to rent one of the earlier ones from Apple.

[BFTD]

Thor: Love & Thunder (cinema) - Thor Thors it up against another bad guy with another Thor and some of his regular chums.

It was OK. Probably the second-best Thor film. I just felt very underwhelmed by the whole thing; this cycle of Marvel films doesn't seem to be building to anything important, and it feels like they're treading water. It also felt to me like Taika Waititi was more concerned with continuing the stylised wackiness and glib dialogue of Ragnarok than building an engaging tale; even the much-spoilered introduction of Lady Thor felt like it needed more work at an early stage. Disappointing, although Christian Bale did very well with what he was given.

The wean loved it though, so what do I know.

Edit: this film literally plays half of Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses, along with posters, t-shirts, and other direct mentions. Very, very weird for a film to basically turn into an advertisement for a rock band - I liked them thirty years ago, but it got pretty irritating by the end. Also, I'm not a big fan of Dio, but playing Rainbow in the Dark during the credits was a bad idea as it pissed all over GnR  

Edited July 7, 2022 by BFTD