Watched Hacksaw Ridge - enjoyed it, WW2 is my film genre, so I was always gonna enjoy it, I knew the story from years ago, excellent battle scenes, however a little far fetched in places, Hollywood just cant help themselves can they?? 6/10 Saw Live by Night (Ben Affleck) - 1920's gangster type, prohibition etc, was ok 5/10.
RE WW2 films, There is a independent British film company making a film about Pegasus Bridge, Ive been following the making on FB, its gonna be good, accurate and about us Brits in the war not the bloody Yanks. If you dont know the true story of the raid on Pegasus Bridge just before the start of D-Day, google will tell you. Should be out later this year. Also 'Dunkirk' is due for release in July, its got some cracking big names in it and will be a winner, I hope. More Brits in WW2....!
Dunkirk should be good as Christopher Nolan is directing and isnt a fan of CGi, the trailer I've seen doesnt look bad either.
Viewing figures will surely go in One Direction as well with Harry Styles in it.
Edit: Cheers for the heads up about the Pegasus Bridge film, like yourself WW2 is one of my favourite genres
Harry Styles is an actor now? so many strings to his bow. I thought he was a footballer? or is that a different one?
HaHa, well the names I am thinking of are Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh. BUT if Styles helps youngsters revisit the history of WW2, and understand it, then I'm all for it. Incidentally the PS4 game Battlefield 1 has opened the avenues for young people to look into the history of WW1, which is a good thing.
Just hope Nolan isn't stupid enough to have Styles killed in the film
Hoards of female fans went mental at Gabby Agbonlahor after he injured Tomlinson in a charity match a few years ago.
Watched Hacksaw Ridge - enjoyed it, WW2 is my film genre, so I was always gonna enjoy it, I knew the story from years ago, excellent battle scenes, however a little far fetched in places, Hollywood just cant help themselves can they?? 6/10 Saw Live by Night (Ben Affleck) - 1920's gangster type, prohibition etc, was ok 5/10.
RE WW2 films, There is a independent British film company making a film about Pegasus Bridge, Ive been following the making on FB, its gonna be good, accurate and about us Brits in the war not the bloody Yanks. If you dont know the true story of the raid on Pegasus Bridge just before the start of D-Day, google will tell you. Should be out later this year. Also 'Dunkirk' is due for release in July, its got some cracking big names in it and will be a winner, I hope. More Brits in WW2....!
Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan directing and Mark Rylance acting ...should be a winner.
Watched Battle For Sevastopol, wow, what an amazing story set in world war 2 about a female Ukrainian sniper who kills over over 300 soldiers, based on a true story, it does have subtitles for most of the film , but if you can get your head past that, it's very good.
Watched manchester by the sea last night. Very harrowing and depressing, but brilliantly done. Never rated either of the afflecks but casey affleck's performance is absolutely brilliant and well deserving of an oscar. Writing and direction is fantastic, but i agree with kermode's only criticism is that michelle williams needed to be in it more. All the performances were brilliantly real. Definitely recommend if you're looking for something really depressing and moving.
Okay, I admit it. As part of a terrible bit of negotiating on my part, and my wife's stroppy insistence that it wasn't worth getting a divorce over, I went to see
FIFTY SHADES DULLER
last night. To add insult to injury, we went early, so I was prevented from following the Oldham updates on the mobile, which would have been better. Baically, everything you may have heard to the detriment of this film is true. The plot line is wispy to the point of invisibility, there was no spark, no excitement, no sudden twists and no real reason to watch it. Even the couple of edgy moments including a helicopter crash, a loopy ex girlfriend weilding a gun, and another dodgy ex weilding bad manners and implausibilty were dulled down to keep the pulse sedate and the imagination comatose. It takes a real genius to make sex so dull. I'm guessing there is a type of middle aged ladies who might get some sort of kinky thrill out of the sex scenes. For me it was tiresome and repetetive, and Mrs Shabby's idea that it might act as a stimulant was wide of the mark - I needed a Magennis hattrick last night, not some teen sex drivel written by morons. At least Trainspotting 2 hasn't arrived in Spain yet, which would have been infuriating to miss in favor of this. There was little memorable, but I'll offer the following dialogue as being amusingly daft.
Him:- I never knew my biological mother. She was a crack addict, and she died when I was four years old.
Her:- That's terrible. Why didn't you tell me about it?
Just watched Nocturnal Animals. The film has some good reviews but it just wasn't for me. Pretentious nonsense
I pretty much agree. The inner story (the desert bit) was absorbing, but I didn't like any of the characters, so I didn't really care what happened to them, especially in the outer story. Seen so many better film lately id almost forgotten that one.
Not new by any means but I watched Upstream Color, from circa 2013......Critically acclaimed and shot for just $50.000...I had to read the plot in Wiki to understand it otherwise it would have been a 3/10 just for the photography. 4/10 with the aid of Wiki.
Also watched Blue Jay from 2016. Strange little love story really but worth watching for the atmospheric photography all in black and white 5/10
Scrolling back through here, I can't see any comments on Passengers. (Sorry if I missed your comments.) Any thoughts on this?
Ladyromford and I quite liked it. Yes, Jennifer Lawrence looks spectacularly and ridiculously good for someone living in virtual isolation in space, but I can live with that. I felt like it was a pretty good story and there are more questions and possibilities that they could have covered, but all in all it wasn't bad. Not the best film I've ever seen, but pretty good.
Watched Hacksaw Ridge - enjoyed it, WW2 is my film genre, so I was always gonna enjoy it, I knew the story from years ago, excellent battle scenes, however a little far fetched in places, Hollywood just cant help themselves can they?? 6/10 Saw Live by Night (Ben Affleck) - 1920's gangster type, prohibition etc, was ok 5/10.
RE WW2 films, There is a independent British film company making a film about Pegasus Bridge, Ive been following the making on FB, its gonna be good, accurate and about us Brits in the war not the bloody Yanks. If you dont know the true story of the raid on Pegasus Bridge just before the start of D-Day, google will tell you. Should be out later this year. Also 'Dunkirk' is due for release in July, its got some cracking big names in it and will be a winner, I hope. More Brits in WW2....!
@Greenie, we're singing from the same hymn sheet but I point you i the direction of U-571.
Watched Battle For Sevastopol, wow, what an amazing story set in world war 2 about a female Ukrainian sniper who kills over over 300 soldiers, based on a true story, it does have subtitles for most of the film , but if you can get your head past that, it's very good.
The Soviets weren't shy of putting women in combat roles. They had a fair few partisans, anti-aircraft gunners, and fighter pilots, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Litvyak.
Ms AA and I went to see Lion last night. The performances are good but the film as a whole is really no more than OK and we both found it more worthy than emotional.
Scrolling back through here, I can't see any comments on Passengers. (Sorry if I missed your comments.) Any thoughts on this?
Ladyromford and I quite liked it. Yes, Jennifer Lawrence looks spectacularly and ridiculously good for someone living in virtual isolation in space, but I can live with that. I felt like it was a pretty good story and there are more questions and possibilities that they could have covered, but all in all it wasn't bad. Not the best film I've ever seen, but pretty good.
I found Passengers to be an interesting insight into how Sony works. They looked at Interstellar/ The Martian etc. and decided space dramas are the current in thing, so they hired the two hottest actors to star in it and a director who'll do what the bosses tell him (it was Morten Tyldum's biggest job so far) hence lots of shots of Jennifer Lawrence looking sultry and Chris Pratt without a shirt.
The script had a good hook, but a weak resolution. So often the case with sci-fi 'what ifs'. Almost certainly designed by committee (or even an algorithm), It had the set ups but the pay offs were a bit lame (there was no conspiracy, just bad luck). That said, there were some strange inconsistencies or plot holes (where did the flora and fauna come from?).
I thought it was at its strongest when dealing with the "wake her up" stuff but the last act simply didn't come up with anything interesting.
Larry Fishburne was hilarious, as he always is when he cameos, and what the fuck Andy Garcia was doing in there I'll never know.
It's a 3 star movie - competently made, plenty of money on show, interesting at the start and weak at the finish. Watchable, but nothing to really think about after.
Watched Passengers a couple of nights ago. After some pretty poor reviews I was expecting the worst, but the film suprised me as it wasn't terrible by any means. Id give it a 6/10.
Quite enjoyed Passengers, nothing amazing but entertaining all the same. I was hoping there would be something more sinister behind it, but maybe that is just because I haven't seen a decent horror film in a while
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Hoards of female fans went mental at Gabby Agbonlahor after he injured Tomlinson in a charity match a few years ago.
Really good.
My first visit to the cinema since Four Weddings and Funeral.
FIFTY SHADES DULLER
last night. To add insult to injury, we went early, so I was prevented from following the Oldham updates on the mobile, which would have been better. Baically, everything you may have heard to the detriment of this film is true. The plot line is wispy to the point of invisibility, there was no spark, no excitement, no sudden twists and no real reason to watch it. Even the couple of edgy moments including a helicopter crash, a loopy ex girlfriend weilding a gun, and another dodgy ex weilding bad manners and implausibilty were dulled down to keep the pulse sedate and the imagination comatose. It takes a real genius to make sex so dull. I'm guessing there is a type of middle aged ladies who might get some sort of kinky thrill out of the sex scenes. For me it was tiresome and repetetive, and Mrs Shabby's idea that it might act as a stimulant was wide of the mark - I needed a Magennis hattrick last night, not some teen sex drivel written by morons. At least Trainspotting 2 hasn't arrived in Spain yet, which would have been infuriating to miss in favor of this. There was little memorable, but I'll offer the following dialogue as being amusingly daft.
Him:- I never knew my biological mother. She was a crack addict, and she died when I was four years old.
Her:- That's terrible. Why didn't you tell me about it?
Him:- I did. You were asleep.
saw Nocturnal Animals yesterday. Really enjoyed it. a smart way to approach the subject of revenge.
Seen so many better film lately id almost forgotten that one.
Really looking forward to Toni Erdmann.
Also watched Blue Jay from 2016. Strange little love story really but worth watching for the atmospheric photography all in black and white 5/10
Any thoughts on this?
Ladyromford and I quite liked it. Yes, Jennifer Lawrence looks spectacularly and ridiculously good for someone living in virtual isolation in space, but I can live with that.
I felt like it was a pretty good story and there are more questions and possibilities that they could have covered, but all in all it wasn't bad. Not the best film I've ever seen, but pretty good.
The script had a good hook, but a weak resolution. So often the case with sci-fi 'what ifs'. Almost certainly designed by committee (or even an algorithm), It had the set ups but the pay offs were a bit lame (there was no conspiracy, just bad luck). That said, there were some strange inconsistencies or plot holes (where did the flora and fauna come from?).
I thought it was at its strongest when dealing with the "wake her up" stuff but the last act simply didn't come up with anything interesting.
Larry Fishburne was hilarious, as he always is when he cameos, and what the fuck Andy Garcia was doing in there I'll never know.
It's a 3 star movie - competently made, plenty of money on show, interesting at the start and weak at the finish. Watchable, but nothing to really think about after.
Brilliant film. So well written and acted. Viola Davis deserves the Oscar.
So, so much better than La La Land.
Go and see it.