Reply With QuoteThe Place Beyond The Pines
Pretty good actually, with a couple of good unexpected turns along the way. I also like how it's a film of two halves.
Watched a good oldie last night - Blue Steel.
Policewoman Jamie Lee Curtis being stalked by an infatuated freak.
Cheers,
Neil.
The Place Beyond The Pines
Pretty good actually, with a couple of good unexpected turns along the way. I also like how it's a film of two halves.
Watched Mad Max:Fury Road again last night.
It was as good as I remember it the first time round.
True story I think?Originally Posted by zelig
Indeed ... pretty intense on many accounts ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3622120
I saw The Martian today with my son ... both thought it was very good.
Black Mass, true story re Whitey Bulger.
Still can't get my head around the fact It's Johnny Depp!
Call Me Lucky
Starts out as regular documentary about standup comedian, takes unexpected turn in the middle. Be warned, not the lightest of subjects, but well worth the watch
Yes.
Intense, gritty - not at all Hollywood.
... & all the better for it.
z
Taxi Driver again last night.
Quality.
Cheers,
Neil.
I saw The Martian last night. It's not a bad film, but I found it merely OK, Entertaining for a couple of hours, but it doesn't ask any questions of the viewer. It's like someone watched Gravity, and was inspired to make a mash up of Apollo 13 and Armageddon, without the love interest. It should have been called The Montage-ian, or perhaps Space MacGyver.
Oh, and it has that miserable skinny ginger woman from Interstellar and Zero Dark Thirty in it, playing a miserable skinny ginger woman.
'Nightcrawler' - great concept, very solid script, excellent performances (especially Gyllenhall, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton) and a wonderful last line. Loved every minute.
I watched The Lavender Hill Mob this morning. It is one of those films that I have always known would be boring and predictable. How wrong I was! The film was great, the cast brilliant and I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish.
One of my favourite films of last year. May just have to watch it again this afternoon.
I was watching it too.
Brilliant.
Cheers,
Neil.
Just got back from Sicario - a CIA black ops vs. Mexican drug cartel flick with Emily Blunt (English bint), Josh Brolin and a scary Benicio del Toro. Quite harrowing in places, but well made with some very effective scenes.
Also saw Sicario and one of the best movies of the year for me!
Also thought the Martian was superb.
Into the Wild
directed by Sean Penn it is the true story of a young guy that heads off to Alaska to find himself and meets some people on the way, one IMDB's top 25 movies,
Whiplash - first film I've given 10/10 on IMDB for a hell of a long time. Absolutely amazing.
Magnum Force.
Proper '70's cop thriller with Clint Eastwood and his very long (.44 mag of the title) gun.
Cheers,
Neil.
'Tomorrowland', not bad, not great but pretty good.
I've just watched, and thoroughly enjoyed, Jurassic World
Watch Mad Max: Fury Road last night, enjoyed it, good fun.
LOVE that movie!!! In fact going to watch it again tonight!
Everest was superb .
Watched The Gunman last night, pretty good movie.
Just watched the Norwegian film Hodejegerne (Headhunters), based on the book by Jo Nesbo. Strangely dark and worth watching if for no other reason than the presence of the lovely Synnove Macody Lund.
Watched Jurrasic World the other day - really good. You could basically watch Jurrasic Park and that and forget the others.
Went to see SPECTRE lastnight too - really good. A few good twists in there. Probably on a par with Skyfall - still not quite as good as Casino Royale.
Beasts of no nation
Powerful stuff
z
Currently watching Spy Game. Surprisingly good, I had forgotten!
American Sniper
Good movie, even more amazing story it's based on.
It is a great film. Very talented musician.
Ditto that, brilliant film and one which was equal to the book on which it was based; which of course was based on actual real life events. Best film I have seen in ages.
Watched both Everest and The Martian recently and both great films.
The Martian I thought was the better of the 2, a very well thought out movie.
Love that film - I've had all 4 Dirty Harry movies on DVD for a couple of years, but never watched them (I've seen them all before, of course), but my wife's off on a jaunt for 10 days from Friday, so they will get watched then!
Is it Magnum Force or Dirty Harry where the .44 varies in barrel length from 6" to 8" in different scenes?
M
Mel Gibsons - Apocalypto, very different and quite stunning!
Watched Before Sunrise last night, this is a film I have heard a lot of hype about over the years but never (now its 20 years old!) got round to watching it. Very very good with a simple premise and extremely poignant. Certainly not an average chick flick.
Got round to watching Promethius today. Not bad, good Alien origin concept.
Yep great film took awhile for me to watch a film on jazz drumming but once I finally did really enjoyed it
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Watched John wick on Friday night enjoyed that
'Horns'. A strange little gem with Daniel Radcliffe on fine form.
Before sunset also good
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
If you enjoyed that watch the 1965 film The Naked Prey
Think you undersold this a lot for me. By far the best film of he year so far
Anyone who likes True Dectective check out the recently released Spainish film Marshland. Totally amazing
Watched Geoffrey Rush in a movie called Deception last night.
I enjoyed it
We obviously have similar taste - see post 2436.
I enjoyed that a lot on your recommendation, my thanks. I followed it up by re-watching "Tetris: From Russia with Love", the excellent and entertaining BBC documentary about the creation and subsequent wrangling over the rights to Tetris.
Ha good work sir; fear we are casting pearls to swine though
Mr. Holmes
Superb acting, and a genuinely new take on the whole Sherlock Holmes thing
I recommend Into The White. It's a true WW2 story with British and German pilots in Norway.
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