The Films You Watched Thread V: Dead Men Watch No Movies

[JazzFunk]

THE FORCE AWAKENS, first time I seen it since the flicks on my bday in Dec 2015. It's very crowd-pleasing, TOO crowd-pleasing. It's pretty bland, tbh. John Boyega is obvs a really nice geez but this film dicklesses him, he's pure relegated. Rey is actually...pretty badass. But a very bit beige. Poe's nowt much at all.

It's still consistent, I'd say it was still a decent film, it's just pretty underwhelming when you take it all as a whole.

I know peeps hate the dood but I think Kylo Ren is the best thing in the film. Watching it a second time, I really realised he actually wanted to snuff his dad and complete his mish, despite his fake emo histrionics. I love his Spidey 3-era emo, I love his lightsaber tantrums, I love his flaws, his awkwardness as he tries to be more evil and equal Vader in his evil.

He's great, serious! That bit where he slashes up that room with a saber in a temper tantrum and the Stormtroopers outside reverse...EPIC.

It's got LOADS of good has Force Awakens. But also mucho beige and Disney stench aplenty. I truly forgot how minimal Mark Hamill's part was, no wonder he was disgruntled!!!

Anyway, I was STILL entertained the second time round, dazzled by the wondrous imagery on offer, but I wouldn't wanna watch it again for at least fifteen years.

[Dogg Thang]

I watched Rise of Skywalker last night. Very stupid film with an awful stench of Star Trek Into Darkness about it. It doesn’t even give you time to enjoy the fun parts and full of wasted opportunities and discarded ideas. Like it was written by reddit for the medium of vines.

But the cast do a decent job with what they have and the art team did an amazing job. The design is great and the effects work, CG and practical effects alike, is all fantastic. And it has a few good moments.

[Team Andromeda]

Also might have to dig out that memory stick with THE NEW YORK RIPPER on...

Awesome film ,with some classic Make Up effects and Donald duck chants

[JazzFunk]

I have two words for it:

GRRRIMY GRRREAT

Wakwakwakwak

(that's my duck voice)

[vanpeebles]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, stunningly shot, thoughtful and entertaining. One of the finest British films just gets better and better on each watch.

[Team Andromeda]

I have two words for it:

GRRRIMY GRRREAT

Wakwakwakwak

(that's my duck voice)

The bullet through the cheek is such an awesome effect ..
Giannetto De Rossi is a true legend

[Dogg Thang]

I watched the Beastie Boys Story. It’s actually a recording of a live show by Mike D and Adrock about the history of the Beastie Boys and it’s superb. Really entertaining and full of great stories and the two guys tell it all really well. Amazing how much footage they have of their early years too, given the time period. The only thing with it is that, as I guess you would expect covering several decades in two hours, it jumps through the years without fully acknowledging how much time is passing. But they can’t cover everything. Definitely worth a watch for anyone remotely interested in the Beastie Boys.

[Atticus]

I watched The Invisible Man last night. As it should be it was just a really good b-movie. Excellent at getting maximum suspense out of what you can't see ... searching every single frame.

Had another viewing of Double Tap with the boys too. Yeah it's inferior to the first one but it was still a hoot

[Zaki]

I watched The Invisible Man last night.

Me too. It was infuriating.

->Open Spoiler<-

where are all the ****ing cameras?!

[QualityChimp]

I watched The Invisible Man last night. As it should be it was just a really good b-movie. Excellent at getting maximum suspense out of what you can't see ... searching every single frame.

Agreed, brilliant fun.
Elizabeth Moss was so good in this, but I agree, I'm unsure how she didn't get eye strain scanning the room like the viewer does!

There's a Blu-Ray disc coming, full of extras like a commentary track.

[JazzFunk]

THE DEPARTED. What tosh. I hated it. I hate to hate but hate I did and do...

TWIDDLE-A-TWEET-DE-DO...

But I digress. Any film featuring Ray Winstone with an American accent is on to a loser. What guff!

It was also overloaded with BIG Hollywood names. Fats Damon, Alex Baldquim, Marky Wankberg, Shidonado DiCrapricraparseio, Martin Sh*ts, etcetera etcetera...

And Jack Nicholson looking like a panto dame crossed with his 1989 Joker rendition. Hmmmm.

It was very unconvincing and irritating. Even Jack. Gah.

It was one big turd of stars trying to 'act'. It was RUBBISH.

VERY weird as I rewatched THE WOLF OF WALL STREET last week and it was the work of Martin Scorsese in God Mode, or not far off.

I switched off so much during this it's made me not even wanna bother with that DVD of INFERNAL AFFAIRS I've had sitting around for years.

It's like two different directors in one man? Surely not the guy who gave us TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, CASINO and GOODFELLAS???!!

It's RUBBISH.

[Atticus]

I bet Marty himself can't believe it's the one that won him the Best Director Oscar.

[CMcK]

Infernal Affairs is far better than the Hollywwod remake. Nicholson's role is unnecessarily beefed up from the equivalent in the original too. Shame really as The Departed had real potential with that cast and a decent director. Saying that I think Scorsesse has been off his game for years now. All his films are centred around fundamentally unlikeable characters and feature Noo Yoik as a leading character too.

[randombs]

Aladdin Live-Action

Not bad, I guess. I like that Genie was mingling among the humans, but I'm sure his being Will Smith had a lot to do with it.

Focus

I really liked this. B D Wong stole a particularly tense gambling scene.

The Big Short

Ryan Gosling's SNL-alicious wig aside, this was fantastic. I know Steve Carrell can act - I have Beautiful Boy and Foxcatcher in my watch list - but this is the first serious thing I've seen him in.

[fallenangle]

I was working on something else but I was a bit bored of my music collection (XBMC on an original Xbox) so put on an old DVD I think my mother had sent to me because it came free with Daily Telegraph and she wasn't interested. I found myself taking more interest in that than what I was actually meant to be doing.

The Shootist John Wayne's last film where plays an ageing notorious gunman at the turn of the century who turns up in a rapidly evolving mid-western town and stays at a boarding house (run by a widow played by Lauren Bacall) after having been diagnosed with cancer.

It is not a great western and has an almost made for TV film quality about it. Might seem strange to bring this up the one major criticism I'd have of it is the blood from bullet wounds which looks more like the result of a paintball fight than a real shoot out.

Where it shines is in JW's poignant performance aided by a well written script plus fine support from a young Ron Howard, the aforementioned Lauren Bacall and cameos from the likes of James Stewart, John Carradine, Richard Boone, Scatman Crothers, Harry Morgan and others.

I still think True Grit (1969) is John Wayne's best performance but The Shootist is notable not just as his last film but as proof that he had real range in his acting ability.