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

[Shell]

Turn ya ****ing phone off why dont you, ya moron

/kidding.

 

[Plugger35]

Turn ya ****ing phone off why dont you, ya moron

/kidding.

I wished I had rather than just put it on mute but the on off button on my iphone is really fiddly to use, you need like a pen or something to press it.

 

[Neese]

One More Time with Feeling about the recording of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 16th album.
Was very hard to watch. I enjoyed it though

 

[Schraderbrau]

Snowtown - Not as detailed as I thought it would be but still quite chilling.

snowtown is brilliant - acting amazing and just very dark and depressing but so well done. Bet aussie film i've seen for ages imo

 

[Schraderbrau]

Wind River

Thoroughly enjoyable and well structured, yet ultimately forgettable.
Amazes me just how readily people hand out 9 or 10 stars to a movie.
Don't get me wrong, this is good but not 'perfection' or 'classic' good. 6.5 / 10

Yeah I thought it was pretty well done but it just wasn't compelling and the end was pretty anticlimactic. Just felt like not much happened the entire film. I'd give it 6/10 as well.

I agree with the person above about Renner though, don't normally go for him but he was very good this time.

 

[Schraderbrau]

A Ghost Story (2017) - Haunting movie. I liked it in the end but the first 30 minutes were way too slow and quite a chore to sit through. After that though the pace picks up and you're rewarded in the end. Not for everyone but arthouse fans should check this one out. 7/10

It was ok but i hate sitting down and watching a movie and getting to the end and wondering what was the point of all that.

 

[Schraderbrau]

Everyone has their own rating system and even our own system can change upon many variables, but 9 is edging towards perfection.
I can't speak for everyone but if Wind River is 9, then Hell or High Water may be a 10. Sicario? 11 maybe?

Just kidding as Wind River may be some peoples favourite movie of all time.
It's thoroughly enjoyable albeit just a little obvious and derivative.........say I.

Rotten tomatoes seems to give everything 90% as well these days - anything under 90% is basically unwatchable imo (98% if its a foreign film). There needs to be some kind of law on overly generous ratings imo.

 

[rocker_oz33]

snowtown is brilliant - acting amazing and just very dark and depressing but so well done. Bet aussie film i've seen for ages imo

Yeah.

But if you didn't know the story before had I see it could be hard to watch.

 

[Gasometer]

St Elmo's Fire - 4/10. Way too much over the top drama.

Brilliant in 1986 as a 17 yr old.

 

[Sketi]

The last film I saw at the cinema was Dunkirk which I thought was OK but not as great as it was made out to be, Mark Rylance was the best thing about it.

The worst thing about it was my phone making this embarrassing loud beeping noise during one of the tensest scenes in the film, I switched my phone to mute so it wouldn't ring and normally it just vibrates if I get a text or call on mute but for some reason which it's never done before it started beeping.

I couldn't take it out of my pocket to see what the hell was going on as the noise would've been louder so I just kept it in my pocket to muffle the noise.

This beeping went on for longer than a ringtone too, it went on for a good few minutes which seemed like hours, even muffled other people could hear it.

Eventually to my relief it finally stopped but it ruined that scene for me and probably everyone else within earshot, totally took me out of 1940 Dunkirk.

It wasn't until I got out of the cinema I worked out what had happened, I must have somehow accidentally pocket dialed the Vodafone recharge number and the call got cut off so they tried to ring me back to see if I still wanted to recharge and being a Vodafone call it somehow overrode the mute function and started making this loud beeping noise which like I said has never happened before but of course happened for the only time when I was in a cinema.

I just thought I'd post that story to make Shell feel better about having a coughing fit in the cinema.

Airplane mode is your friend.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Oldboy (2003)

An amazing movie in concept and storytelling. I love discovering great movies that I have missed along the way. Thanks to HARKER for the tip in the rating thread.

Have to rate it 10/10 on the scale I proposed, though unlikely to watch it again anytime soon.

 

[Shell]

snowtown is brilliant - acting amazing and just very dark and depressing but so well done. Bet aussie film i've seen for ages imo

It was a great, but I found it a tad hard to keep up with all the characters (on screen and the ones being talked about)- had to read up on the story after I watched it, in the cinema

 

[Marlowe]

Rotten tomatoes seems to give everything 90% as well these days - anything under 90% is basically unwatchable imo (98% if its a foreign film). There needs to be some kind of law on overly generous ratings imo.

RT scores aren't strictly ratings though, they're just a combination of broad yes/now recommendations. A 90% can have a lower rating than an 80%.

I don't understand why people treat Rotten Tomatoes as anything other than a mild curiosity. There's nothing consistent about those scores that suggests you should be using the site for recommendations.

 

[Schraderbrau]

RT scores aren't strictly ratings though, they're just a combination of broad yes/now recommendations. A 90% can have a lower rating than an 80%.

I don't understand why people treat Rotten Tomatoes as anything other than a mild curiosity. There's nothing consistent about those scores that suggests you should be using the site for recommendations.

Yeah I know but there seems to me that there are a lot more dodgy critics counted in the aggregate now (i.e. random stuff like the new jersey evangelical times) and they just hand out good reviews for everything. RT definitely seems to be much more generous than it was a few years ago imo but i see your point. For me it's was always the easiest way for me to check if something was watchable.

Its useful for the collection of review summaries and links to reviews of major critics though.

 

[Neese]

snowtown is brilliant - acting amazing and just very dark and depressing but so well done. Bet aussie film i've seen for ages imo

Bleak is the word I'd use to describe it. He had no chance at life.

 

[HARKER]

Blade Runner 2049

Just a wonderful movie, but not without flaws and gaps.
That didn't matter too much but my biggest regret was seeing it in 3D.....never again. 8/10

 

[Kong]

For those talking about rating sites, check out Metacritic.

It gives an average rating, using all critic reviews. Far more balanced, and personally I find it much closer to my own ratings.

 

[edgie]

Death Wish 3

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This is surely one of the greatest films ever made.

10/10

 

[edgie]

Kingsman: The Golden Circle​

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Loved the first, went in to this with trepidation, especially since a similar sort of movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, had a sequel that felt pretty flat compared to the first. Well I need not had worried. It was great, fun experience, much closer keeping in line with the first. It was by no means a let down. There isn't much more to say... if you love the first you should really like this and if you only liked the first you should still like this. A minor gripe being it gets hard to follow who the baddie is, in the end there's three antagonists going at once so it kinda dilutes things. The other, a difference from part one, being the first movie is a little more self aware, with the James Bond references and homages and the like. This plays a little straighter off the bat. In that, it's a true sequel, there's plenty of nods and in jokes about events big and small from the first, so it will probably help to make sure you see that beforehand to understand much of the dialogue and humour.

8.5/10

 

[phantom13]

A couple from over the weekend

CHiPS - very loose film update of an 80's (70's maybe?) TV show about bike cops in Cali. I can't seem to find a single person anywhere who actually watched the TV show but Erik Estrada became a household name from it. Anyway written and directed by Dax Sheppard (Kristen Bells husband) and starting Dax, Michael Pena, Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Vincent D'Onofrio and Aussie Jess McNamee this was... Honestly just bizarre. A crazy ass mix of r rated gross out and crass humour and pretty over the top violence that didn't really seem to make any sense at all. Having said all of that if you can switch off and not think too hard (read: at all) this was pretty fun 6.5/10

Berlin Syndrome - Teresa Palmer and a German dude playing a German dude... Palmer plays an Aussie photographer backpacking in Germany who hooks up with said German dude, he locks her in his house and... Not a lot else really happens to be honest. I'm not spoiling that cause it's on the IMDb summary and to be brutally honest I'm saving you the trouble. Palmer is alright I guess and there's nothing wrong with the film, there's just not a lot right with it either. You can suspend the disbelief enough to stay with her not escaping for a while and even start to get the characters a little bit it's just a pretty dull film and Palmer seems more and more to me the sort of female Keanu Reeves, just a very bland, fairly plain if very attractive nothing sort of actor. 6/10

 

[MatthewB]

A couple from over the weekend

CHiPS - very loose film update of an 80's (70's maybe?) TV show about bike cops in Cali. I can't seem to find a single person anywhere who actually watched the TV show

I loved this show as a kid, still watch an occasional episode every now and then



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[Jatz]

St Elmo's Fire - 4/10. Way too much over the top drama.

Really love that film. Not even 100% sure why really. Everything certainly seems way over the top but just found it quite enjoyable haha.

 

[Neese]

I used to enjoy CHiPs too, was just good fun, formulaic and lots of action. You knew what you were getting and cheered on the good guys.
Not touching that movie.

 

[Neese]

Really love that film. Not even 100% sure why really. Everything certainly seems way over the top but just found it quite enjoyable haha.

That's the 80s for you. Nothing else like it

 

[Plugger35]

I used to enjoy CHiPs too, was just good fun, formulaic and lots of action. You knew what you were getting and cheered on the good guys.
Not touching that movie.

It was one of my favourite tv shows as a kid but like a lot of tv shows from that era it looks laughably cheesy now, I've steered clear of the movie too.