The Last Film watched (CONTAINS STAR WARS SPOILERS!!)

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Quite enjoyed rec 3 although it's not really much to do with the first 2 films.

If it had been a standalone film, I think the critical response would have been better. For me it was really entertaining.

lfc91 wrote:X men: Days of future past. Loved it. Probably my favourite film in the franchise!

Must track that one down, heard a lot of good things about it. I kind of lose interest when the franchise gets to X-19: The Search for Wolverine's Claw, but if this last one is as good or better than the early ones then I'm in.

Watched 'In the Line of Fire' agian over the weekend. John Malkovich + Clint Eastwood = Classic.

COFFEY - tried watching the "blacksploitation classic" again but got bored very quickly, fast forwarded to Pam Grier's t!ts then deleted it from my hard-drive. Lesson learned.
Next up Fifty Shades of Grey...

incontinentia wrote:

lfc91 wrote:X men: Days of future past. Loved it. Probably my favourite film in the franchise!

Must track that one down, heard a lot of good things about it. I kind of lose interest when the franchise gets to X-19: The Search for Wolverine's Claw, but if this last one is as good or better than the early ones then I'm in.

Watched 'In the Line of Fire' agian over the weekend. John Malkovich + Clint Eastwood = Classic.

IMO it is well worth the watch. Very good story line, well acted (not surprising with some of the actors on show) and obviously very good visual effects to boot!

In the Line of Fire, that's a great film.

Fury.

Watched it while the missus cleaned the bathroom as she hates war films. She got the better deal by some distance.

I don't know if it's me but everything I've watched recently is total sh1te.

I watched Rope by Hitchcock last night. Lovely stuff. Do like Jimmy Stewart, was a fighter pilot in the second world war as well as an actor trivia fans.

Galted wrote:Fury.

Watched it while the missus cleaned the bathroom as she hates war films.  She got the better deal by some distance.

I don't know if it's me but everything I've watched recently is total sh1te.

Yes Galted, it's you, you miserable c*nt

Rowley wrote:I watched Rope by Hitchcock last night. Lovely stuff. Do like Jimmy Stewart, was a fighter pilot in the second world war as well as an actor trivia fans.

Jimmy Stewart, great in just about everything from light screwball comedies to dark, bitter, vengeful material. Best of all in Anthony Mann's five Western collaborations. In those five movies you learned quickly that Stewart was no mild mannered, stammering and awkward family man.

I watched the latest X Men (days of future past) yesterday, whilst bursing a bout of gastro induced evacuation.

Thought it was good but preferred First Class.

Azzy wrote:The latest X-Men film. Horrific. Watched it over four nights as we fell asleep the first three attempts to watch it. Turgid is an understatement.

This was my review of Days of Future Past

Watched 300: Rise of an Empire last night. I'd give it 8/10 despite Eva Green, who is not only one of the oddest looking people ever born but is also one of the very worst at acting.

SecretFly wrote:

Rowley wrote:I watched Rope by Hitchcock last night. Lovely stuff. Do like Jimmy Stewart, was a fighter pilot in the second world war as well as an actor trivia fans.

Jimmy Stewart, great in just about everything from light screwball comedies to dark, bitter, vengeful material.  Best of all in Anthony Mann's five Western collaborations.  In those five movies you learned quickly that Stewart was no mild mannered, stammering and awkward family man.

Shame, that's my best Jimmy Stewart impression. Also saw Bones from Star Trek on an episode of Bonanza last week. Immediately did my best "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor" impression for my wife...who then f*cking tells me she's never seen Star Trek. What a waste!!!!!!!!

Azzy wrote:

Azzy wrote:The latest X-Men film. Horrific. Watched it over four nights as we fell asleep the first three attempts to watch it. Turgid is an understatement.

This was my review of Days of Future Past

Watched 300: Rise of an Empire last night. I'd give it 8/10 despite Eva Green, who is not only one of the oddest looking people ever born but is also one of the very worst at acting.

 

Well, the acting bit - let's say nobody kinda worries about Shakespeare or Oscars in that particular film.  They just took the money and ran.  And who'd blame them?

On the looks......... yeah odd perhaps, unusual perhaps, but I find her absolutely stunning.  Now That - is a woman!   You guys can keep your conventionally good looking baby-girl types.

SecretFly wrote:

Azzy wrote:

Azzy wrote:The latest X-Men film. Horrific. Watched it over four nights as we fell asleep the first three attempts to watch it. Turgid is an understatement.

This was my review of Days of Future Past

Watched 300: Rise of an Empire last night. I'd give it 8/10 despite Eva Green, who is not only one of the oddest looking people ever born but is also one of the very worst at acting.

 

Well, the acting bit - let's say nobody kinda worries about Shakespeare or Oscars in that particular film.  They just took the money and ran.  And who'd blame them?

On the looks......... yeah odd perhaps, unusual perhaps, but I find her absolutely stunning.  Now That - is a woman!   You guys can keep your conventionally good looking baby-girl types.

Agree with Fly on this one.

Azzy, go and watch The Dreamers, see if that changes your mind on our beloved Eva (yes she's naked in that one too don't worry).

only really seen eva green in 300, penny dreadful and sin city 2 most of which are bleeding awful (seriously azzy slagging of xmen then giving rise of empires 8/10 )

may not particularly rate her acting but wouldn't mind a roll around with

Watch her seduce Bond on the train.... now if that isn't one of the best scenes in any Bond movie then I've lost my knowledge both of fine acting and great cinema moments.  A real film Noire smoothness and style.

unsurprisingly, and as in most things, I disagree with Azzy on this: Eva Green is definitely hot! Slightly worryingly that means I agree with SecretFly, but one can't have everything

Anyway, watched Edge of Tomorrow today. It's the one where Tom Cruise keeps dying only to find himself back at the start of the day he dies, as the humans try to fight off an Alien invasion. All in all, a good watch, maybe a bit slow to get going, but I think it finds a good balance between the action, and delving a bit into how you would feel to constantly watch your companions die over and over, while getting frustrated at not making any progress. The two leads deliver pretty good performances, and the romance is - rather pleasingly IMO - kept to a strict minimum.

Very watchable, fun flick 7.5/10

The Councelor.

Decent cast. Not a bad film either.

Watched interstellar last night....not a bad movie. Personally didn't think it was worth all the fuss about it at the time...but good movie non the less.

Nolan's films get a lot of rave reviews for messing with the viewers head. But is there a better director in the world right now?

I didn't like interstellar. It was far too long, far too up itself and lacked coherence of thought. An ambitious movie but for me it didn't work.

Saint, careful or galted may actually cut out your eyes or something. People should cut galted some slack though, if nothing else for seeing through the massive awfulness that is Drive.

Funny bits in Interstellar:

McConaughey's drawl.  Now I love me a laconic drawl but Matthew, sir, you're no Henry Fonda on a veranda perch, son.  I knew Henry Fonda sir, and you're no Henry Fonda

That Special Nasa site in the desert.  Now let me get this straight.... the boardroom?  Where the important intelligent people first met McConaughey and started laughing at him (a nice intro to be sure to be sure).  That boardroom looked like it was right next door - right next door! - to where the rocket was being prepped for launch????   So bye, bye monthly meeting minutes and all attendees when that thing eventually took off?

How to communicate with someone the other side of a bookcase in another dimension?  Try morse code, try braille, try Egyptian Hieroglyphics, try cooking up a sand storm to do some binary stuff on the floor - but don't never try to communicate the only thing worth communicating with any of those methods... "It's Me!  Your dad, caught in an extra dimension.  Help!"

McConaughey has been drawling in films ever since Dazed and Confused. Maybe it's kind of his thing?

Ittttt..........suuuuuuurreeee....... dooooooo.....take uppppppppp..... a bunch of scripttttttttt.......tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime, that's for sure.

Real drawlers must have a bundle of laughs at how he strings it out there. He gets his money worth.

Mike Selig wrote:I didn't like interstellar. It was far too long, far too up itself and lacked coherence of thought. An ambitious movie but for me it didn't work.

Saint, careful or galted may actually cut out your eyes or something. People should cut galted some slack though, if nothing else for seeing through the massive awfulness that is Drive.

Think I may have mentioned previously that the book by James Sallis is excellent yet the film is terribly disappointing.

It's one of those films that after reading the book you think, I wish they'd make this into a film then wish they hadn't.

There's any number of books I'd love/hate to see adapted for the cinema. Tim Willocks' "Green River Rising" being one along with "Pale Horse Coming" by Steven Hunter. Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger stuff (one was made into a terrible film starring Mark Wahlberg) is great and but the lead character is in his 60's (Scott Glenn would be perfect). Pale Horse Coming is about Swagger father, Earl....love it!!

Saw Avengers: Age of Ultron last night and thought it was fantastic. Must admit I'm a bit of a Marvel nerd, but Avengers 2 will take some beating.

I also saw Furious 7 last week, film was a little unrealistic at times, but the tribute to Paul Walker brought a tear to my eye.

Mike Selig wrote:

Saint, careful or galted may actually cut out your eyes or something. People should cut galted some slack though, if nothing else for seeing through the massive awfulness that is Drive.

You're right to warn him, Mike.  My vengeance when people are duped into liking rubbish is biblical, just ask my Sixth Sense-loving mate One-Legged Rob.

It is upsetting though that the last 3 films I watched were worse than Drive(l).

Oh dear me the sixth sense... A simply terrible terrible film, which relies on the famous "twist" (which everybody now knows, whether they've seen the film or not, and as a result of which now every single bl00dy film thinks it has to try to get you with a "clever" "surprise" towards the end of the film). And then when you watch it knowing the twist it is just a terrible terrible film WHICH MAKES NO SENSE. The whole things MAKES NO SENSE. And it's terrible. Did I mention how terrible it is? (*)

(*) It's not the worst film of all time to be fair. It's just very very bad.

Perfectly summed up. Incredibly though Now You See Me manages to better it for sheer stupidity of twists. Whereas Sixth Sense was just an embarrassing twist NYSM's actually provokes anger.

I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron last week.

It's a Marvel film. It is full of fantastic effects, big stunts, superheroes, special powers, explosions and amusing one-liners. However, being a Marvel film, it is based on a Comic Book story, and the storyline is a bit... dull and predictable.

I am not saying it's a bad film - far from it - it's just that Marvel films (with the exception of Guardians of the Galaxy, which I liked a LOT) nowadays are getting a bit "samey" - you know pretty much what's going to happen throughout the film: Success, problems, personal issues, something going wrong, heroes hiding secrets, heroes struggling how to fix it then all of a sudden through the explosions and CGI there's a breakthrough and everyone's back home in time for tea and the superheroes are everyone's favourite weirdos again.

I would love to say 10/10 but it's not good enough for that. 7/10

Watched a few films over the weekend. My least favourite was Eastern Promises. Despite Viggo Mortensen's performance, the film didn't hold my interest.

Also watched Boyhood. Although it didn't live up to the critics hype, it was pretty enjoyable. The strange think about the movie is the boy who the film is based around is the least interesting character in his family. His sister is more interesti, and is written more consistently throughout the 12 year period the film was based.

The best film I saw over the Bank holiday was Network. Absolute classic.

Mordeci or whatever it is called, the Johnny Depp film. Quite possibly the worst film I have seen in quite some time. The comedy does not work, there is not enough action for it to be considered an action film and it is all held together by one of those quirky performances from Johnny Depp that have not in any way got tired by now. Avoid like the plague.

Rowley wrote:Mordeci or whatever it is called, the Johnny Depp film. Quite possibly the worst film I have seen in quite some time. The comedy does not work, there is not enough action for it to be considered an action film and it is all held together by one of those quirky performances from Johnny Depp that have not in any way got tired by now. Avoid like the plague.

I walked out half way through the film at the cinema. Utter rubbish.

I saw Kingsman the following week which is still my favourite film of the year.

I also watched Kingsman this weekend Adam, agree that was much better, did not take itself too seriously and trapped along at a decent pace.

Rowley wrote:Mordeci or whatever it is called, the Johnny Depp film. Quite possibly the worst film I have seen in quite some time. The comedy does not work, there is not enough action for it to be considered an action film and it is all held together by one of those quirky performances from Johnny Depp that have not in any way got tired by now. Avoid like the plague.

Cheers, will delete from my hard drive before watching. Caught "Columbiana" on Film4 at the weekend. Young girl is present at the slaughter of her family and grows up to be an assassin who seeks revenge on the person who ordered it. Basically "Leon" but with an older female lead (although, almost unbelievably, with even smaller breasts than a 12yr old Natalie Portman!!!)

Depp........... the most overvalued, overrated, under-talented, over-confident, over-indulged (by dumb directors) actor of his era.
Jim Carrey does through his career all that Depp has attempted to do with infinitely more thought, texture, tonality, timing and talent; - quirky, comic, queasy, unsettling, menacing, theatrical, ambiguous, frightening, serious.  Carrey is who Depp would like to be but never had the range.

Only my fallible opinion of course

Depp is alright when he is not doing his "quirky" nonsense, is quite good in the likes of Blow and Donnie Brasco, but those quirky silly performances are proper tired.

I think he nails Ed Wood perfectly.

always liked Depp. Same goes for Carey who was sublime in both Man on the Moon and The Cable Guy

Rowley wrote:Depp is alright when he is not doing his "quirky" nonsense, is quite good in the likes of Blow and Donnie Brasco, but those quirky silly performances are proper tired.

Hey, I know you have a downer on the guy but let's not descend into chav-speak in order to express our displeasure

I am also proper tired today Dave, such things as making an effort on spelling or grammar are way off the agenda I'm afraid.

Rowley wrote:I am also proper tired today Dave, such things as making an effort on spelling or grammar are way off the agenda I'm afraid.

Feel nuff bad for you den, bruv.

Watching a Floyd Mayweather fight and complaining about the lack of action is like going to eat at Gordon Ramsey's restaurant and complaining that he doesn't have a pound saver menu

Good stuff Dave, there are plenty when you put your mind to it.

Deserves a thread all of it's own

Am looking forward to Black Mass though.........

DAVE667 wrote:
Watching a Floyd Mayweather fight and complaining about the lack of action is like going to eat at Gordon Ramsey's restaurant and complaining that he doesn't have a pound saver menu

My guess is that the pound saver would be heartier, tastier, and more genuinely popular.  But you go to posh restaurants to be 'seen' eating posh of course, not because you want real food.

SecretFly wrote:

DAVE667 wrote:
Watching a Floyd Mayweather fight and complaining about the lack of action is like going to eat at Gordon Ramsey's restaurant and complaining that he doesn't have a pound saver menu

My guess is that the pound saver would be heartier, tastier, and more genuinely popular.  But you go to posh restaurants to be 'seen' eating posh of course, not because you want real food.

Ramsey does make "real" food, it's just that it's over-priced w*nk that he probably doesn't even cook half the f*cking time.

I'd much prefer Jamie's "real" food. A toss of this, a few fingers of that, a drizzle of the other and a few leaves spluttered there to maybe make it look a bit better. It doesn't matter what he cooks, I always want to eat it. Can't really say that about any other 'celebrity' chef since my personal favourite Keith Floyd, who wasn't really a chef at all, just a lowly cook.

SecretFly wrote:I'd much prefer Jamie's "real" food.  A toss of this, a few fingers of that, a drizzle of the other and a few leaves spluttered there to maybe make it look a bit better.  It doesn't matter what he cooks, I always want to eat it.  Can't really say that about any other 'celebrity' chef since my personal favourite Keith Floyd, who wasn't really a chef at all, just a lowly cook.

F*ck Jamie Oliver the silly mockney cockney p!sstaking c*nt.

"A swoosh of that"," Just whop a dollop of this in there" "bung it in the oven until it's ready"

No, you f*cking ar$ewipe, tell me exactly what weights and amounts to use, what temperature to cook it at and for how long. Don't tell me to put a "handful" of something in there either, people's hands are different sizes you f*cking stupid sh!tburger!

SecretFly wrote:I'd much prefer Jamie's "real" food.  A toss of this, a few fingers of that, a drizzle of the other and a few leaves spluttered there to maybe make it look a bit better.  It doesn't matter what he cooks, I always want to eat it.  Can't really say that about any other 'celebrity' chef since my personal favourite Keith Floyd, who wasn't really a chef at all, just a lowly cook.

Keith Floyd is Casey Ryback??!!

Oh I do hate me the Measurement'n'Fuss cooks with their little silly glass bowls around them of perfectly weighed spring onions and salt grains

"three and a quarter salt grains for this recipe, guys..... if you can't find the right weighing scales in a shop you could try the Connoisseurs Bazar in Eastern Mongolia. They have a fine selection of Salt Weighing Scales for small amounts. You'd get one for three grand easily".