What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Slacker]

Darkest Hour. A little dull at parts but overall I enjoyed it, great performance from Oldman. 7/10. 

[Gianfranco]

Watched "Time Lapse" on Amazon Prime.  Basically it about three people who come across a camera that takes a photograph of tomorrow.  Interesting premise.  Very entertaining.

Goosebumps did it first back in the day on the episode that Ryan Gosling was in. I think it was say cheese and die. Might give that film a swatch.

[stanton]

First Blood , the first and the best film in the franchise . One of Stallone's best performances   8/10 

[paul-r-cfc]

Goosebumps did it first back in the day on the episode that Ryan Gosling was in. I think it was say cheese and die. Might give that film a swatch.

Read the book in primary. A classic of the genre. Can remember the front cover. They were always great.

Followed up with "Say cheese and die, again".

[Slacker]

You Were Never Really Here. I might need to give this another shot as it gets great reviews and I'm really tired, but just finished watching this and I thought it was total pish.

[Shandon Par]

Kermode and Mayo’s film programme now on tv (BBC4). First episode was on Friday.

Terminator is such a good horror film, not just sci-fi. I’m another poster who saw Robocop too young. The early chemical factory scene where Murphy runs into bother is horrific. 

[tongue_tied_danny]

The Terror of the Tongs

1961 Hammer effort about gang warfare in colonial Hong Kong at the beginning of the 20th century. Supposedly this was the film that inspired the "Tongs ya bas" Glasgow gang. 

There's plenty of hammy acting by European actors made up to look vaguely Chinese. The violence is pretty tame and unrealistic. Enjoyable enough even though it is badly dated.

5/10

[glassnahalf]

Alien Resurrection. I first saw this at the pictures and thought it was ok, maybe because I dragged the missus to it I was feeling a bit guilty cause I wouldn't go and see her rom com films. It is still only ok.

[glassnahalf]

14 hours ago, Shandon Par said:

 The early chemical factory scene where Murphy runs into bother is horrific. 

Those scenes, the systematic dismemberment of Murphy are blood curdling.

[jimmy boo]

1 hour ago, tongue_tied_danny said:

The Terror of the Tongs

1961 Hammer effort about gang warfare in colonial Hong Kong at the beginning of the 20th century. Supposedly this was the film that inspired the "Tongs ya bas" Glasgow gang. 

There's plenty of hammy acting by European actors made up to look vaguely Chinese. The violence is pretty tame and unrealistic. Enjoyable enough even though it is badly dated.

5/10

Every day is a schoolday.

[YER SISTERS YER MAW]

Dances With Wolves

Can't believe it's taken me this long to watch this. What a beautiful movie. It took me two ale fuelled nights, the longest movie I've ever watched but worth every frame.
8.5/10

[Hard Graft]

Eddie The Eagle    8/10

Have had this sitting on the planner for a while and watched it last night. Decent enough to pass the time but he must have had a death wish to do the 90 metre jump.

[Dosser-fae-the-shire]

Watched Robocop when I was around 10. The scene where Murphy gets shot up then the toxic waste scene haunted me for years.

[DA Baracus]

Brian Banks

8/10

This is on Netflix. It's the film of a true story. At age 16, Brian Banks get convicted for a crime he didn't commit. He sees his life taken away from him and is exposed to the dreadful farce that is the American legal system. Injustices heap themselves atop one another and he suffers for it. He struggles through and refuses to let it destroy him, even as the hits keep coming, even once he's out of jail.

Eventually he does manage to clear his name and his conviction overturned, with the help of the California Innocence Project.

A very good film that I'm definitely under selling.

 

He wrote a book about it too that I've just finished reading. It too is excellent, although he does share some absolutely insane religious views that are thankfully cut from the film.

[welshbairn]

On 11/05/2020 at 10:20, killiepiemuncher said:

Upload (Amazon prime) 9/10

Binge watched this yesterday, absolutely brilliant very funny and 5 hours flew past.

Set in 2033 where when you die there is a VR heaven for you to live for eternity (if you can pay) and wait for your loved ones.

The main dead (uploaded) character is in a love triangle with his rich spoiled girlfriend and Technical Support Angel.

Throw in plenty of jokes and a murder mystery and clever special effects, what’s not to like.... anyway check it out.

Cheers for that, really enjoying it, total daftness. Deranged sci fi VR dystopia.

Edited May 19, 2020 by welshbairn

[Bully Wee Villa]

On 11/05/2020 at 10:20, killiepiemuncher said:

Upload (Amazon prime) 9/10

Binge watched this yesterday, absolutely brilliant very funny and 5 hours flew past.

Set in 2033 where when you die there is a VR heaven for you to live for eternity (if you can pay) and wait for your loved ones.

The main dead (uploaded) character is in a love triangle with his rich spoiled girlfriend and Technical Support Angel.

Throw in plenty of jokes and a murder mystery and clever special effects, what’s not to like.... anyway check it out.

Really enjoyed this series, thanks for the recommendation.

Even if you did put it in the wrong thread 

[Stellaboz]

The Wrong Missy, on Netflix 6/10

Story about how a guy is trying to get over a break-up with his ex-fiance (played by the absolutely milfed aged well Sarah Chalke from Scrubs) by going on a blind date. Ends up meeting a bit of a nutter. Side note- Roman Reigns makes a short cameo during the date. 

Ends up meeting what seems to be his perfect match at the airport before an inevitable flight parts them of their future for the time being. 

Both ladies called Missy, invites the wrong one to a company get away with a few funny scenes and ends up really digging the nutter. Vanilla Ice also makes a cameo late on.

I quite enjoyed it. Silly sh*t in which both main characters should have died from horrendous falls. The missus absolutely hated it and thought it was the worst film she'd ever seen. 

[BFTD]

Regarding Robocop, it was one of the films that the papers briefly latched on to for one of their Helen Lovejoy pieces about movie violence, with plenty of pictures and lascivious descriptions of what happens, naturally. Supposedly the original cut submitted to Orion featured a longer version of the early scene where ED-209 minces an OCP board member. The guy got shot for almost two solid minutes. I'm guessing Verhoeven wanted to point out America's weird relationship with violence by showing what would actually happen in your typical action movie. Either that, or he's a sadistic f**k.

Interesting that film was so popular with kids that they brought out a line of toys for the younger viewers  

[Brother Blades]

The Wrong Missy, on Netflix 6/10
Story about how a guy is trying to get over a break-up with his ex-fiance (played by the absolutely milfed aged well Sarah Chalke from Scrubs) by going on a blind date. Ends up meeting a bit of a nutter. Side note- Roman Reigns makes a short cameo during the date. 
Ends up meeting what seems to be his perfect match at the airport before an inevitable flight parts them of their future for the time being. 
Both ladies called Missy, invites the wrong one to a company get away with a few funny scenes and ends up really digging the nutter. Vanilla Ice also makes a cameo late on.
I quite enjoyed it. Silly sh*t in which both main characters should have died from horrendous falls. The missus absolutely hated it and thought it was the worst film she'd ever seen. 

I’m with your missus on this, absolute dugshite.

[BFTD]

Going through some old DVDs to send to my mum while she's in solitary...

Night of the Living Dead - after being attacked by a zombie when visiting her mother's grave, a woman holes up in a farmhouse with a group of strangers.

Not George Romero's classic original, which kickstarted an entire genre, but the Romero-produced remake directed by Tom Savini in 1990. There's no denying the original's status, but I prefer this one as part of a trilogy with Romero's; it tonally fits nicely into the area between Dawn's grim action slapstick and Day's oppressive, gruesome pondering. Patricia Tallman puts in a striking performance in a role that would infuriate any MRA fans of the original, and Tony Todd displays why he's beloved by genre fans. Bill Moseley also appears in a small role at the start of his horror career.

Occasionally there's a touch of TV movie, but a good film nonetheless. Savini, one of horror's top FX men, was keen to move into directing and it's a shame he wasn't given more opportunities, going by this. Couldn't persuade BigFatTabbyBoy that a remake of a black-and-white film from the '50s would be worthy of his time. 

Paranormal Activity 2 - ghostly shenanigans at the house of the lassie from the first film's sister.

Liked the first one. The second is better. Really well done, although it never quite gets away from the fact that a well-off family installs an expensive surveillance system in their home and hardly ever checks the recordings, even when weird shit be going down. Builds nicely on the established story without disappearing off into bollocks territory, as the later films did. BigFatTabbyBoy swore blind he'd seen the first film and obviously hadn't, as I had to explain what was going on. Still enjoyed it though, receiving the monosyllabic rating of "Good".

Oh, I think this must have been the first time I'd ever seen this with the sound turned up, as I'd never noticed the low droning noise whenever something spooky is about to happen. Not sure that warning the first-time viewer is a great idea. I'd say they were trying to invoke the unease brought on by low-frequency noise, but that doesn't need to be audible for humans in order to work.

Hardcore - late '70s Paul Schrader film starring George C. Scott. The daughter of a small-town Calvinist goes missing on a church trip to California, and he struggles to track her down after discovering her downcast appearance in a cheap porn reel.

Like the Schrader-scripted Taxi Driver, this is part of the genre of films pandering to middle-American panic over the hives of depravity springing up on its coasts. It plays like a possible inspiration for the Nicolas Cage film 8MM, albeit less sensationalist and, thus, less pruriently entertaining from a modern viewpoint. It's a decent film and definitely worth a watch, although the tone occasionally veers a bit lighter than you might expect from the material. Anything with George C. Scott is worth giving your attention anyway. BigFatTabbyBoy wasn't invited to this one although, in passing, he did point out that it does indeed contain tits.