Films Recently Watched

he never died- henry rollins as an angel/vampire/immortal? recluse who hates humans but has to eat them,with an estranged daughter and dumb local gangsters on his case.also trevor from gtav is in it,but his acting makes rollins seem like de niro,it was pretty decent tho,-7/10

Shot Caller

Jamie Lannister from Game Of Thrones kills his best friend in a car accident, ends up in prison where he has to quickly toughen up + impress Dodd from Fargo & Shane from The Walking Dead. Couple of ropey acting moments in the first half an hour or so, but gets better as it goes on. Quite bleak, things going from bad to worse type of film. In a similar vein to Felon (Val Kilmer) & An Innocent Man (Tom Selleck).

Certain Women

Wendy and Lucy

Both very good

Reminded me of Paris Texas quite a bit

dunkirk: meh

coming from a nolan fan

  On 8/12/2017 at 6:59 AM, very honest said:

meh: dunkirk

 

a from nolan fan coming

Fixed. Just trying to be optimistic, seeing it in a couple of days

right. if you're a nolan fan then you have bad taste and if you aren't a nolan fan then you would like dunkirk because its a pretty good movie

Valerian

The main character just made me want to shout "APEX PREDATOR!" and then I realised it could be applied to both of the main characters. Spy Kids for the millenials. Badly needs some more Korben Dallas and anti smoking propaganda.

Givetheentrymoneytothehomelessinstead/10 

Well, at least Memento was pretty good

  On 8/12/2017 at 10:29 AM, AJW said:

Well, at least Memento was pretty good

It gets worse every time you rewatch it, just like every Nolan movie. At least Inception and Interstellar were bad from the beginning.

Insomnia was good. That's about as much Nolan as I can take anymore

Spectre

This was a great one. Christopher Waltz plays a dentist. Ralph Fiennes has turned up for his audition for Dunkirk and Daniel Craig has detached himself so far from his normal self that he seems calculatingly disinterested and blasé.

NeedsMoreSimonCowell/10

For me speaking in batman terms. I can't see anyone surpassing the work of tdk trilogy, not in my lifetime anyway. Especially the second instalment, maybe I was more impressionable back then. I am also comparing it to all the batman movies before Nolan's take - I just thoroughly enjoyed those movies, his style of putting a film together really suited the superhero, zimmer's work on tdk was tremendous, also.

the only batman that matters is the animated series

I've always thought TDK and TDKR were an overloaded chaotic mess, story-wise. I liked BB though. he got a good bit of the Batman world right in other respects.

  On 8/13/2017 at 4:32 AM, zaphod said:

the only batman that matters is the animated series

The Colony - tv choices were slim pickings last night, so... pretty much The Thing mixed with something like Snowpiercer.  Humanity wiped out by a virus, global ice age drives people underground, if you sneeze or cough you get the choice of wandering out and freezing to death, or a quick bullet to the head.  Bill Paxton was so great, he could bring his charm and humor to anything, even this morose tale.

Buttwad / 10

That’s got a Super Cheap Canadian SyFy Original vibe to it. Not a good film.

  On 8/13/2017 at 1:56 PM, doublename said:

That’s got a Super Cheap Canadian SyFy Original vibe to it. Not a good film.

It wasn't necessarily good, it was just on when I was bored. lol

APEX PREDATOR! 

The term killed that film for me. 

Watched King Arthur - Legend of the Sword.

Got to say, way better than I expected.  Critics panned it, and it wasn't a masterpiece or anything.  But I enjoyed it for what it is, some good clean fun.  Fight scenes were awesome.  And some of the movie was reminiscent of LOTR, which of course I loved.  I'd suggest it if you have nothing else to watch.

The VVitch

A real kick in the balls, pretty terrifying at times. Amazing setting, the use of period vocabulary was beautiful.

Was the VVitch set in the States? You get the idea that they are some of the earliest white settlers. The paranoia and delusions about the black goat love the naivety.

It's set in New England (MA I think) and shot in Canada.

I saw most of Hell Or High Water yesterday. It was decent for what it was but utterly unsurprising or interesting. Some decent moments acting, and some nice shots and such, but all around not sure why it got as much attention as it seemed to last year. Maybe good marketing or just 'artsy' enough without boring the normies? I dunno I'm being dumb mostly but it was okay.

I'll take this opportunity to mention that Jeff Bridges seems like a caricature instead of a real person lately (any time I've seen him interviewed or whatever). He's turned into Sam Elliot's Big Lebowski character on screen and in real life. Strange.

  On 8/14/2017 at 12:34 AM, lyst said:

Watched King Arthur - Legend of the Sword.

 

Got to say, way better than I expected.  Critics panned it, and it wasn't a masterpiece or anything.  But I enjoyed it for what it is, some good clean fun.  Fight scenes were awesome.  And some of the movie was reminiscent of LOTR, which of course I loved.  I'd suggest it if you have nothing else to watch.

yeah i want to see this. i always liked ritchie's eye for action and don't expect much from it other than that. i remember watching the cannon scene from sherlock over and over when i was a projectionist when that first opened