The last movie I saw was...

[Bedders]

Peter Rabbit last Saturday. Absolutely beautiful animations and just stunningly gorgeous

[StevieM]

Well, changing the species of the group to woodland animals seems a bit more than a goof.

 

Hahahaha! Darn you, auto-correct! This is why I hardly ever post from my phone!

[LeMarchand]

Peter Rabbit last Saturday. Absolutely beautiful animations and just stunningly gorgeous

 

Rose Byrne certainly is a lovely lady, but I just find James Corden incredibly annoying.

[hardtailstar]

Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

Not a fan of the film, bit of action entwined with a bit of comedy.

 

If the comedy wasn't there I think I would have switch it off.

[StevieM]

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Italy) - A police chief murders his ‘mistress’, deliberately leaving a trail of clues pointing to his guilt. Despite being almost 50 years old, it is still a relevant exploration of power and corruption.

 

 

Seven Psychopaths - From the director of ‘In Bruge’ and (as I’ve only just discovered) ‘Three Billboards...’ - A writer, struggling to complete his screenplay, finds himself embroiled in the kidnapping of a gangster’s beloved shih-tzu.

 

 

Really good film with brilliant performances from Sam Rockwell and the legendary Christopher Walken, although Colin Farrell could easily have been replaced with a couple of eyebrows on sticks.

[LeMarchand]

Spiderman: Homecoming

 

So-so MCU entry. There's lots to like: the villain actually has a motivation beyond "being evil", Spidey is actually played as a teenager, there are cameos from other MCU characters and we don't have to sit through the blummin' origin story yet again. However I just couldn't get overly excited about the film.

[admars]

Peter Rabbit, the missus enjoyed it, I enjoyed and the kids enjoyed it, well i assume they did, I was too busy laughing to notice, but I didn't hear them crying

[mavhc]

Isle Of Dogs: brilliantly stop motion animated (without all the cgi you see in other stop motion films) story about the fear of the other, and how to profit from it. Or dogs sent to live on an island.

 

Pacific Rim 2: Big robots hitting each other, lots more Charlie Work

 

Ready Player One: In the future the real world is terrible, so everyone lives in a virtual world full of 80s movie references.

[LeMarchand]

Ready Player One

 

In 5 years time, maybe the CG would have been good enough for a film largely set in a virtual world. Entertaining enough, but very predictable and one of those films that has you questioning various plot points -Like no-one in 5 years tried to go (or accidentally went) backwards? If it's close to the novel, I'm struggling to understand the love for it.

[BKGarry]

Ready Player One

Yes another one that has seen it.

Just got back from it, I really enjoyed it, yes predictable in places but I did like it.

[mavhc]

Ready Player One

 

In 5 years time, maybe the CG would have been good enough for a film largely set in a virtual world. Entertaining enough, but very predictable and one of those films that has you questioning various plot points -Like no-one in 5 years tried to go (or accidentally went) backwards? If it's close to the novel, I'm struggling to understand the love for it.

 

I assumed the cgi wasn't supposed to be lifelike, so that wasn't much of a problem.

[LeMarchand]

I assumed the cgi wasn't supposed to be lifelike, so that wasn't much of a problem.

 

I meant more the scenes with lots of elements, like the races or battles, where stuff that the main focus was a "no time to render this properly"/"too expensive to render properly" blur.

[mavhc]

Didn't notice, but is blur faster to render? Seems like it would be slower

[LeMarchand]

Didn't notice, but is blur faster to render? Seems like it would be slower

 

I'd assume that lower res=faster to render.

 

Anyway...

 

Pacific Rim: Uprising

 

Giant robots duke it out with weird creatures, this time in daylight.

 

This is going to be heresy, but I preferred this to the first. You could see what was going on, and the Jaegers seemed more "individual". Not sure that the solution wouldn't have caused exactly what they were trying to prevent, but it was a fun ride.

[LeMarchand]

Room

 

Jack was born in, and has never left the room where his mother has been held captive since before his conception. Ma has constructed a reality for them in order to keep them both relatively healthy and sane, but when their captor reveals that he can barely afford to pay the bills she realises that she and Jack must escape.

 

From the reviews I was expecting this to be primarily set in "Room", and to deal with Ma's struggles to provide Jack with as good an environment as possible; so I was quite surprised that much of the film dealt with their subsequent integration into society. Undeniable powerful, but somewhat overrated.

[Dos_Box]

Ready Player One

 

I enjoyed it immensely, mainly for the trip down memory lane but the friend I went to see it with summed it up when leaving the cinema when they said 'Charley And The Chocolate Factory'.

Still, I grinned my way through most of the film and had a good time

[witch]

Isle of Dogs

Not that thrilled tbh

[LeMarchand]

Isle of Dogs

Not that thrilled tbh

 

The review I read made it sound like another entry in Hollywood's long line of Ailurophobic products. With the exception of The Aristocats, Puss in Boots/Shrek and Keanu (the film, not Reeves) cats always seem to be the villains/owned by the villains. I thought I was alone in this, but others have noticed:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/29/cats-in-hollywood

Is Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ Hollywood?s First Pro-Feline Film? | | Observer

 

Rise up my furry feline friends!!!

[mavhc]

The 2001 film Cats & Dogs definitively answered the question of which is better.

 

Isle of Dogs was great though, love the animation, plot was decently complex, funny, the main characters were good, supporting cast were a bit ill defined I guess.

Edited April 10, 2018 by mavhc

[brownium]

Ready Player One. I enjoyed it, having also enjoyed the book - they changed enough of the plot and removed some less likable parts of the main character to make it a bit less of a fan service. My - much less pop culture obsessed - wife really enojyed it too.

[smurfomatic]

Ready Player One. I enjoyed it, having also enjoyed the book - they changed enough of the plot and removed some less likable parts of the main character to make it a bit less of a fan service. My - much less pop culture obsessed - wife really enojyed it too.

 

Just got back from watching it too. One of those films you have to watch over and again just to get all the hidden references.

[smurfomatic]

A Quiet Place

 

An intriguing premise - aliens have invaded, and they hunt using sound, so anyone speaking tends to get caught. The film follows a family and their attempts to survive - they communicate for the vast majority of the film using sign language. While there's no dialogue it's not a silent film, great use of music and sound effects to build atmosphere.

 

A decent film but a few plot holes spoiled it for me.

[mole]

Goon: Last of The Enforcers.

 

Was very funny.

[LeMarchand]

The Hitman's Bodyguard

 

Disgraced bodyguard Ryan Reynolds is asked by his estranged ex- to get hitman Samuel L Jackson to the Hague to testify against a genocidal dictator.

 

I wasn't expecting this to be anywhere near as much fun as it was. Worth a look if you're in the mood for a bickering buddy action flick. Surprised they didn't recut the trailer for the UK to make it more obvious how much of the film takes place over here, though.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

How to Train Your Dragon 2

 

Great film in its own right and an excellent sequel, if a little sad at times.

 

The kids have been watching the various associated TV series on Netflix and it's great to see a studio commit to keeping continuity through TV series and Movies.

 

It certainly caught my kids (age 3 & 6) imaginations though as I spent the rest of the day dodging firebolts and children on invisible swooping dragons.

 

Definitely worth a watch.