Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

[MrsEddieBetts]

The Last Jedi. Eh. It was okay. I checked the time once or twice so I was far from engrossed in it. 5/10.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Spoiler

How did this work? Didn't the yank chick kill him at the end of the first season?

Spoiler

As far as I can recall, S1 is not referred to at all in this.

So he either survived or this is a prequel, but I'm guessing he survived.

 

[gaskin]

Kingsman: The Secret Service- 8/10. I really enjoyed this and found it to be the right combination of comedy and drama. Not your typical spy film but that does not hurt it in the slightest. Samuel L. Jackson with a lisp as the bad guy was brilliant.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle- 6.5/10. A pretty decent effort for a sequel. Before watching it I saw a review that said up until a certain point about half way through it is okay then picks up a lot. I'd agree with that assessment. If the first half was as good as the second half then it could have rated as highly as the 1st film.

Dunkirk- 7/10. It was good but not as good as I was expecting. I think it was hurt by all the hype surrounding it which I didn't think it lived up to. I guess I was expecting a bit more action instead of it being so focused on the characters.

 

[Strange Cat]

Miss Sloane- brilliant political film with some good twist and turns and good insight into the nature of Lobyists in the USA.

Must watch

10/10

 

[Kong]

Jessica Chastain was deserving of an Oscar for "Miss Sloane".

She's comfortably one of the best actors/actresses of her generation.

 

[HARKER]

Thats a big call. I kinda want to re-watch his movies again but geez they are hard work but I dont mean that in a negatibe way though

Do you think so?

I found Eyes Wide Shut quite an easy view.
I also found it a fascinating one as it hit on topics of great interest to me.
Kubrick sure knew how to tell his stories hidden under stories. Was he really murdered?

 

[Strange Cat]

Do you think so?

I found Eyes Wide Shut quite an easy view.
I also found it a fascinating one as it hit on topics of great interest to me.
Kubrick sure knew how to tell his stories hidden under stories. Was he really murdered?

I regard 2001 to be his best work personally

 

[Strange Cat]

Jessica Chastain was deserving of an Oscar for "Miss Sloane".

She's comfortably one of the best actors/actresses of her generation.

I can’t believe how good it was

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

LOVING VINCENT

Movie about the final place where Vincent Van Gogh lived and how he died a year after the fact. All the animation is done as oil paintings in the style of his art and it's amazing. Bronn of the Blackwater rocks up in it too

I couldn't recommend this highly enough while it's still in cinemas.

9.5/10

 

[vast]

Do you think so?

I found Eyes Wide Shut quite an easy view.
I also found it a fascinating one as it hit on topics of great interest to me.
Kubrick sure knew how to tell his stories hidden under stories. Was he really murdered?

I find some of his movies tedious.
Ofcourse I never watched any of his movies twice so on first watch I could barely make sense of what was happening.

 

[eaglespremiers]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi - would struggle to watch this movie again. Bloated and very dull. Critics like it but like Johnson's other highly rated movie, Looper, this one does nothing for me. Artificial stakes and cringe worthy scenes. 2/10

 

[Strange Cat]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi - would struggle to watch this movie again. Bloated and very dull. Critics like it but like Johnson's other highly rated movie, Looper, this one does nothing for me. Artificial stakes and cringe worthy scenes. 2/10

 

[Shell]

The Florida Project.

After reading an absolute rave of a review of this movie in the paper, decided to catch it in the city this morning. Am regretting that- while the kid actors were great, that was pretty much the only positive. Movies with hardly any plot (and not to mention a shit af ending), well they shit me.
Did lol at this line from a review on imdb: The symbolism of the millionaires helicopters buzzing past the poor people... OK we get it. We got it the first 3 times. I thought the same thing pretty much.

So another one I've hated (along with Wonder) everyone else loved I guess. Except for Disaster Artist.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Miss Sloane - 8.5/10

Bright 3/10 - Just not a very good movie. Way too long as well.

 

[edgie]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi - would struggle to watch this movie again. Bloated and very dull. Critics like it but like Johnson's other highly rated movie, Looper, this one does nothing for me. Artificial stakes and cringe worthy scenes. 2/10

Apparently it's only cry babies in the Star Wars thread who don't like it...

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[Strange Cat]

Apparently it's only cry babies in the Star Wars thread who don't like it...

Sent from mTalk

Yeah and only the extremist fans that are pouring hate on it

But but the critics love it!!!...they are paid to love it and promote it.

 

[edgie]

Yeah and only the extremist fans that are pouring hate on it

But but the critics love it!!!...they are paid to love it and promote it.

They went to film school mate.

Style > Substance.

 

[Strange Cat]

They went to film school mate.

Style > Substance.

Imagine if the OT was filmed with that kind of visual style

Minds would be blowned and nothing would ever go near it.

 

[Schraderbrau]

Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and seriously think its one of the best movies I've watched this last decade.

 

[Financialpanther]

Star Wars - last Jedi. After 35 years of being on the Star Wars wagon, about halfway through this movie I decided to hop off. Really a meh movie for me, coupled with the comforting notion that they will spew out 1 of these a year for the next decade..pass.

5/10 - future movies will have me waiting until streamed rather than go to the flicks

 

[spinynorman]

LOVING VINCENT

Movie about the final place where Vincent Van Gogh lived and how he died a year after the fact. All the animation is done as oil paintings in the style of his art and it's amazing. Bronn of the Blackwater rocks up in it too

I couldn't recommend this highly enough while it's still in cinemas.

9.5/10

I thought it quite a visually beautiful film, of course. In that sense it was a really beautiful film.

Sadly I found the storyline meandering, which was astonishing given it was a relatively short film. I'd recommend the film, but purely for it being so visually spectacular. Although people above seem to be mocking the idea of something being nonetheless worthwhile, this is a case where the film's selling point is its style, not its substance.

I also saw The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

A more visceral movie than his preceding The Lobster and Dogtooth, but I'm not sure I enjoyed it as much. It just lacked the depth, its message seemed relatively shallow and obvious. Nonetheless, as with his earlier films, it did have some really amazing visuals, some great moments of horrific amusement and was pretty enjoyable (especially given how dark the plot is on paper).

The couple sitting next to me hated it though - I thought they might be in strife when the preview came on before the movie for The Shape of Water, which they said they thought looked weird and, therefore, bad. I thought to myself "Well Jeez, you're in for a ride!" And then at the end, yeah, they agreed they should've seen Murder on the Orient Express instead.

 

[Gralin]

Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and seriously think its one of the best movies I've watched this last decade.

Shit I keep forgetting to watch that

 

[Marlowe]

The Florida Project

Probably tied with Good Time for the best movie I've seen this year. Films about impoverished characters can have a tendency to feel exploitative, but this veers away from being the kind of misery pr0n those films typically embrace. It's not exactly joyous either, and if the focus wasn't on the children, this is probably much more depressing, but Baker doesn't linger on anything dangerous; it's mostly fields, sunsets, and beautifully decorated (if tacky) motel landscapes.

This also works as a meta commentary on the looming shadow Disney casts over the film industry (especially post-Fox merger). These are the kinds of characters and human beings the studio leaves behind, and these are the kinds of films in danger of disappearing over time.

Just beautiful. I look forward to Willem Dafoe's Oscar speech.

 

[Marlowe]

Rewatched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and seriously think its one of the best movies I've watched this last decade.

Will never get the due it so richly deserves because audiences find it too slow and it's not quite as cool for critics to swoon over. Sits in there somewhere in mild film purgatory, yet it's one of the most densely packed procedural dramas of our time and probably the best espionage movie of the century too.

 

[2006_Eagles]

Do you think so?

I found Eyes Wide Shut quite an easy view.
I also found it a fascinating one as it hit on topics of great interest to me.
Kubrick sure knew how to tell his stories hidden under stories. Was he really murdered?

Nah Eyes Wide Shut is hard work