Saw Dr Strange on the weekend. Loved it. Admittedly I am a Marvel fan but I think this would apply to non fans too. I was a bit unsure from the trailers but it was great, a fantastic cast with performances to match and the effects really do feel like you've dropped acid before going in to watch. 8/10
Went to see the arrival, not your usual America v aliens shoot 'em up, some will find it a bit dull if you're after a action movie, I found it compelling and wanted to know what was going to happen next.
7.5 out of 10
I thought it was well made and acted etc. but not really my cup of tea, films that play around with the chronological order of events are not my thing though I did like the idea as an idea, just not in execution.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent . I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11. This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him. The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent. The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer. Brent is Back. I loved this film.
Also seen War Dogs this week, decent. Not a comedy but couldn't help laugh every time Jonah Hill done that stupid laugh. Heavily fictionalised but still a good watch.
A glamorous, successful but unhappy gallery owner (Amy Adams), whose marriage is unravelling, receives, completely out of the blue, a draft manuscript of a novel from her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), the man she left nearly twenty years ago. Her reading of it stirs up all sorts of memories, regret and anguish and the film then switches between these and the story in the novel, a savage revenge thriller involving psychopathic rednecks.
Nocturnal Animals has been very well received critically and has garnered a number of five-star reviews. Personally, I found it pretentious, distasteful and over-stylised; despite the talented leads, a poor and self-indulgent film - 4/10.
Sounds very much like Ford's previous film A Single Man.
A Single Man was arguably self-indulgent, and veered towards being overly stylised, but I argue against it being either pretentious or poor, and cannot see anything distasteful about it.
Saw Sully this week. Absolutely loved it, but I've always been fascinated by that story anyway
Same here. How the fcuk he done it I'll never ever get my head around it. Hero.
Didn't really get Sully. They had to work so hard to invent conflict that didn't exist, and the ending made me laugh out loud! I'd have preferred to watch a documentary, but I suppose we'd never get that level of special effects and performance in the cockpit.
Nerve is about an unadventurous girl who decides to take part in an online game that involves completing challenges and dares to increase her popularity and add to her bank balance but as you would expect not everything goes to plan. Before I start to criticise this film too much it's true to say that I'm not the kind of person this is aimed at. What I mean is i'm probably 25 years too old to really enjoy something like this. It's incredibly dumb. The story is so far fetched and unrealistic that you just don't buy into what you are watching. It seams to be set in a neon lit world where everyone is 20 years old and where no internet connection is lost , nothing buffers and camera phones are conveniently aimed on every scene but the biggest problem with this is that it's not gritty enough. I wanted see a game like Jigsaw would play in the Saw films but instead we see a tepid watered down version and that just bored me. Unless you 18 years old give this a miss. The best thing about Nerve is the soundtrack .
Saw Sully this week. Absolutely loved it, but I've always been fascinated by that story anyway
Same here. How the fcuk he done it I'll never ever get my head around it. Hero.
Didn't really get Sully. They had to work so hard to invent conflict that didn't exist, and the ending made me laugh out loud! I'd have preferred to watch a documentary, but I suppose we'd never get that level of special effects and performance in the cockpit.
I prefer Air crash investigation rather than films on air incidents. there one on the BA flight where the captain got sucked out of the plane and the crew held onto his legs was amazing, especially as the Captain survived.
Ha yeah I've seen that one. Turned out some guy used the wrong nuts and bolts on the window. The pilots thought the guy was dead but couldn't let go in case he ended up in an engine and blew it up! Classic.
Saw Nocturnal Animals this week. A story within a story. Sadly, the inner story was OK but I didn't care about ANY of the characters in the outer story, so wasn't engaged at all. 4/10.
Ha yeah I've seen that one. Turned out some guy used the wrong nuts and bolts on the window. The pilots thought the guy was dead but couldn't let go in case he ended up in an engine and blew it up! Classic.
Yes, that was a BAC 1-11. I am just fascinated by commercial planes!
Watched David Brent last night, huge fan of the office and extras, but don't like him as a stand up. It has to be the most cringeworthy, but funniest thing I have seen this year, some real hide behind the sofa in embarrassment (for him) moments, my favourites being the tattoo and N word scenes, real lol moments.
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1) Arrival - Excellent 8/10
2) The light between the oceans - Excellent 8/10
3) Nocturnal whatever's - what a load of toilet 1/10
Love him or hate him Ricky Gervais has come a long way since the last time we saw David Brent .
I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring back such an iconic comic character but I needn't have been concerned. Brent is back and with the cringe factor turned up to 11.
This is set 12 years after The Office and Brent is working for a toiletries company but his dream is to go on the road with his band "Foregone Conclusion" and that's exactly what he does. The problem is that nobody in the band particularly likes him.
The first half hour of this film I was with the rest of the people around Brent in not liking him and thinking what an idiot he was but Gervais is superb in turning those feeling around, The longer the film went on , I stopped laughing at him and began laughing with him and even found myself really liking David Brent.
The music is hilarious but strangely catchy and in the end I became a fan of band but more so the lead singer.
Brent is Back. I loved this film.
9 out of 10
Not a comedy but couldn't help laugh every time Jonah Hill done that stupid laugh.
Heavily fictionalised but still a good watch.
It has to be the most cringeworthy, but funniest thing I have seen this year, some real hide behind the sofa in embarrassment (for him) moments, my favourites being the tattoo and N word scenes, real lol moments.
I've been so lapse compared to the lead up to force awakens!