The last movie I saw was...

[Dos_Box]

I loved the first film, but the second was awful. Don't know if i can be bothered to waste my time on the third.

 

 

Begin AgainFrom the writer/director of "Once" and "Sing Street", another story about musicians and music. Well worth a look if you've enjoyed either of the others. It's similarly amusing and low-key, but does actually have a "proper" ending (wait for the credits for this!).

I love Begin Again It's a blokey chick flick.

[MkII]

Really liked Arrival. Wondered in places if I'd traveled back to the 70s with the slow action, but loved the smoke and mystery. Thought there must be some hidden meaning to some of it but sadly no lol.

 

Liked Dr Strange. Not my cup of tea usually. I tend to sleep through Marvel films nowadays but this grabbed me. Good casting, good subject.

 

Fantastic Beasts was a bit of a sore bum affair. Gets a thumbs up overall.

 

Ooh and Snowdon.. great casting there. Watched it twice in two days. Come on Obama pardon him!

Edited November 20, 2016 by MkII

[mavhc]

American History X, sadly it seemed like it was made yesterday. Great though.

 

Down to 90 unseen imdb top 250 films.

[CHR1S]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

My dad is a big fan but I had never watched it. Was on a bit late for me so I fell asleep 2/3 in. What I saw I enjoyed even if its a tad dated by today's standards.

[LeMarchand]

Late to the party with Arrival.

 

Yes it was fairly slow paced, but it was nice to see something in the genre that was a bit more serious. Not sure the bit with the Chinese chap makes sense, but otherwise I enjoyed it. I didn't feel the ending was a damp squib, but can see why some did.

[just_david]

Saw The legend of Tarzan on DVD

worst

plot

ever

Seriously, all the actors themselves were good, well cast, and acted well.

But the story, the plot just never got going.

[LeMarchand]

Saw The legend of Tarzan on DVD

worst

plot

ever

Seriously, all the actors themselves were good, well cast, and acted well.

But the story, the plot just never got going.

That's my favourite film of the year to date!

 

Didn't find the plot that bad: Tarzan goes to help out in the Congo and runs up against a bad guy raising money for the Belgians (based on a real-life person) and other enemies. Maybe I was so pleased by the closest Tarzan yet to the actual books that i wasn't that fussed.

[LeMarchand]

Pompeii

 

I'm one of the few people who will normally stick up for Paul WS Anderson, but this was fairly poor. The only element of surprise was in who survived at the end.

 

Wish upon A Christmas

 

Mme LeMarchand wanted to watch a Christmas movie and my vote for Krampus was overruled. Even by the standards of the genre, this was annoyingly unrealistic. If the hero had sold the mansion (which looked large enough to house every member of the staff at his struggling factory) he and his son lived in he could have financed a business plan that would've saved the workers without intervention from Santa. (cf. Foster - which is much better - where Ioan Gruffudd can't pay his staff but owns a fancy mews cottage in a quiet London side street opposite a park and can afford to go swanning off to Legoland).

[Sagima]

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

 

A triumph of marketing over substance there. Within 15 minutes I was quite looking forward to them all being killed off. What a bunch of whiny sh*ts.

If somehow you don't know the plot, it's about three people who go off to make a documentary in a forest, get lost, moan constantly about everything and probably die

Completely unrealistic - I mean three Americans going camping without a gun?!?!? Never going to happen.

I can remember all of the fuss this caused when I was at university - must have been simpler times.

 

 

When The Lights Went Out (2012)

 

Not too bad. It's apparently based on real events and the house has been investigated by the Most Haunted team so what more build up could one ask for in a ghost film?

It is actually one of the better films I've seen this year - if they hadn't bothered with the ghost bit at the end I'd probably thought it better

A northern family get a nicer council house which turns out to be haunted but the mother/wife character doesn't want to give up their nice new home so they just put up with it. Eventually the happenings escalate until she realises that this was a fairly daft plan.

 

 

Unfortunately neither meet the level of quality of Ghostwatch (1992) which is my yardstick for how good a horror film can be. Insidious is one of the better ones I've seen in the last few years though if that sort of thing is your bag

[mavhc]

A Separation, really good, Iranian film about two couples, both with a daughter, one middle class, one poor. All sides of the conflict were well written, everyone had good points. Examines class, religion, gender, law.

[LeMarchand]

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

 

A triumph of marketing over substance there. Within 15 minutes I was quite looking forward to them all being killed off. What a bunch of whiny sh*ts.

If somehow you don't know the plot, it's about three people who go off to make a documentary in a forest, get lost, moan constantly about everything and probably die

Completely unrealistic - I mean three Americans going camping without a gun?!?!? Never going to happen.

I can remember all of the fuss this caused when I was at university - must have been simpler times.

 

Yep, total bobbins and to add insult to injury just when it looks like something may actually happen, it ends.

 

When The Lights Went Out (2012)

 

Not too bad. It's apparently based on real events and the house has been investigated by the Most Haunted team so what more build up could one ask for in a ghost film?

 

Not sure that The Most Haunted team are a mark of quality. Clip not actually NSFW but passers by may get the wrong end of the stick...

 

[mavhc]

The Blair Witch Project is more believable than any idea that ghosts are real.

[MkII]

Insidious is one of the better ones I've seen in the last few years though if that sort of thing is your bag

 

Definitely! Well crafted jump-scare-fest.

 

Saw a trailer for #2 with my son who is, shall we say, easily separated from his seat. He must've jumped 10 times during the trailer. Being the caring father that I am, I thought - we must see this. We did. I now know that levitation is possible. #1 is great too.

Edited November 28, 2016 by MkII

[sparkeh]

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Argh. I hate this film so much it makes me froth at the mouth. No other film has ever moved me to such a passionate hatred. I mean, I have watched some bad films, indeed mrs_sparkeh and I are connoisseurs of bad movies, but this was the worst piece of I have ever has the misfortune to pay good money at the cinema for. A bunch of snot nose kids running around a forest whilst not much more happens than a bit jingling in the woods. Its perhaps the only horror film where I have ended up rooting for the evil to hurry up and kill off the characters so we can all go home and try and forgot the fetid turd of a movie we have just been subjected to. Just awful. Really awful. Offensively awful.

 

Last movie I watched was Louis Theroux's "My Scientology Movie".

Now, my problem with this film is that there is already a much much better film about Scientology, Alex Gibney’s "Going Clear". Usually I love Louis Theroux but I don't think that his style, or the way he played it, really matched the subject, especially in how he interacted with the main ex-thetan who was helping him. The slightly comedic edge just seemed out of place.

I don't think that we learn anything new in this movie, the threats, the intimidation, the brainwashing, the filming of people investigating the Scientologists is nothing new.

 

However, it did reinforce that Scientology is a terrifying cult.

[LeMarchand]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

 

Loved it! In particular I enjoyed the Art Deco stylings and the somewhat more grown up tone. Newt did strike me as basically Doctor Who: eccentric British guy with an aversion to killing, a unique dress sense and a box that's bigger on the inside than the outside. (Maybe JK could write an episode?) I'm wondering if he'll also have a different Muggle/NoMaj companion for each film. The only bum note was that, as cool as it looked, why weren't the Hogwarts kids teleporting everywhere too?

[pooley]

Finally got around to watching Suicide Squad (extended version) Really enjoyed it.

[just_david]

Saw fantastic beasts.

Awesome movie, great to see that universe and some actual decent magic happening.

 

actually made you think magic is awesome, rather than wait a mo, we can do this easier without magic

[Stone_Charli]

why weren't the Hogwarts kids teleporting everywhere too?

 

You can't Apparate ("teleport") until you're 17. Fred and George do it quite frequently in Order of the Phoenix, as they're of age. But that's why you don't see a lot of the other kids doing it.

[Garacesh]

You can't Apparate ("teleport") until you're 17. Fred and George do it quite frequently in Order of the Phoenix, as they're of age. But that's why you don't see a lot of the other kids doing it.

 

Well, you probably can, but you're told you're not allowed.

Kind of like the Wizard version of driving a car.

[Stone_Charli]

Well, you probably can, but you're told you're not allowed.

Kind of like the Wizard version of driving a car.

 

Very true - and you are required to pass a test and get an Apparition licence.

[LeMarchand]

You can't Apparate ("teleport") until you're 17. Fred and George do it quite frequently in Order of the Phoenix, as they're of age. But that's why you don't see a lot of the other kids doing it.

I knew someone would have been paying better attention than me! Still doesn't explain why it seems to be happening so much more in FB&WTFT.

[Stone_Charli]

I knew someone would have been paying better attention than me! Still doesn't explain why it seems to be happening so much more in FB&WTFT.

I think it's just because it looks cool.. there's a whole lot less Apparating going on in the books compared to the films in general.

[just_david]

I knew someone would have been paying better attention than me! Still doesn't explain why it seems to be happening so much more in FB&WTFT.

 

afaik kids weren't really allowed to use it. Its a bit like learning to drive, there's an age limit, and just because your above the limit doesn't mean you can do it well.

Ron lost a bit of his ear doing it as i recall

[Garacesh]

You can't Apparate ("teleport") until you're 17. Fred and George do it quite frequently in Order of the Phoenix, as they're of age. But that's why you don't see a lot of the other kids doing it.

I remember reading Molly Weasly shouting at them that just because they could now apparate doesn't mean they had to do it every time they needed to move

 

Very true - and you are required to pass a test and get an Apparition licence.

I wonder how many unregistered apparators exist? After all, we already know you need to register as an Animagus and Rita Skeeter didn't.

[witch]

Allied

Underwhelming at best