What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Yes! Brilliant!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

How does a movie series go from bad to good when the rule is generally that franchises start out good, then they gradually degrade in quality with each new entry?

[nightscape94 965]

We call that the Mad Max Model.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Great score!

[Quintus 5,399]

2 hours ago, nightscape94 said:

I too am guilty of having a weird unexplainable desire to binge the Fast/Furious movies.  I was going to wait until they were done, but who knows when that'll be.

 

2 hours ago, Stefancos said:

I feel I wanna see all the Resident Evil movies for some reason.

 

2 hours ago, Jay said:

 

 

Ditto to both of these, kind of want to binge all the Underworlds too

 

Hmm, I don't have these urges.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Not even Resident Evil? Anderson makes good pulp cinema 

[publicist 4,643]

I still haven't seen any 'F&F'. I am interested in 5 or 6 (judging by reactions).

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

But will you understand the story without the first four?

[publicist 4,643]

I could cheat and pm Godzilla.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

Those things have stories!? 

[Quintus 5,399]

28 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

Not even Resident Evil? Anderson makes good pulp cinema 

 

Really? Aside from Event Horizon (enjoyable schlock) and AvP (guilty pleasure), I think his output has been risible. Movies for people who own the Blade boxset on blu-ray.

[publicist 4,643]

Love this movie. Michael Caine and Julie Walters are a match made in heaven.

 

 

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

Watched the first Fast And Furious at the time of release, found it mediocre and have never bothered with any of the others. I don't feel like I'm missing much, to be honest. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Yeah, it's one mega franchise I'm pretty ok with knowing nothing about.  You gotta have at least a couple that you just ignore.

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

Rogue One

This movie makes no sense.

 

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Thanks to all of its sequels, prequels and spin-offs, neither does this one.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Don't worry: everything will be explained in Episode VIII!

[Quintus 5,399]

Re: Interstellar

Did anyone else observe that another of the problems it has is the not small amount of unintentional humour it has going on? The comical gorilla movement of the AI assistant, Matt Damon, Matt and Matt rolling around on a bleak faraway planet as framed by a big panning helicopter shot... I couldn't help but chuckle to myself at those absurd sights. It was supposed to be the future of mankind at stake, but lol take a look at that epic wide shot of monkey machine bounding along before the wave hits, ha ha!

 

Joking aside, it is deeply problematic for a film such as this.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I should warn you that too much criticism of Interstellar will get The Grey Pilgrim riled up. He might start calling you a c*nt!

[A24 4,339]

Oh no, just like he dismisses everyone who doesn't love Zimmer? Whatever happened to live and let live?

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

4 hours ago, Quintus said:

Did anyone else observe that another of the problems it has is the not small amount of unintentional humour it has going on? The comical gorilla movement of the AI assistant, Matt Damon, Matt and Matt rolling around on a bleak faraway planet as framed by a big panning helicopter shot... I couldn't help but chuckle to myself at those absurd sights. It was supposed to be the future of mankind at stake, but lol take a look at that epic wide shot of monkey machine bounding along before the wave hits, ha ha!

 

Actually no, I didn't find any of that funny?

[Quintus 5,399]

Yeah okay you didn't need to reply Marion. Re-read it - the post was asking if anyone else did find it funny. 

 

My guess based on your reply though was that you were too enraptured by the desperate plight of these people to notice anything potentially funny about how some of it was shot. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I find the robot design both ingenious and unintentionally hilarious. I mean it is quite an interesting design, that actually looks like something that's plausible in a real world science and engineering sort of way. But yeah the running does looks odd.

[Quintus 5,399]

The reveal that more than just being a mobile AI onboard assistant, it is also capable of doubling as an agile super heroic athlete on the fly, was just too brilliantly daft to let go by without inducing a slight guffaw from me.

 

4 hours ago, Stefancos said:

I should warn you that too much criticism of Interstellar will get The Grey Pilgrim riled up. He might start calling you a c*nt!

 

That'd be uncalled for; in the end I think Interstellar is a good 3 stars out of 5 film, I enjoyed it. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Thats pretty much my rating as wel. Maybe 3.5 out of 5.

 

Matt Damon was unusually awkward though.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Fast Five

 

Yeahhh! This has been the best one so far. No longer just gratuitous car porn, but an awesome action movie where the cars are more incidental rather than the focus.

 

The only bit I didn't like was when the team exploded a row of toilets in the men's room and you saw all the poo blow out. Ugh!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

There's no going back, now! 

[Quintus 5,399]

It's just something some people would never want to do. 

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

2 hours ago, Quintus said:

My guess based on your reply though was that you were too enraptured by the desperate plight of these people to notice anything potentially funny about how some of it was shot. 

 

And that's partly my point. Just that something unknown/futuristic seems odd or unexpected doesn't necessarily make it (intentially) humorous or (unintentionally) laughable, in my opinion. Or rather, I honestly don't see what it is about it that you find funny?

 

There are some things about Interstellar that are uneven or perhaps goofy (the love angle of the plot, for example, depending on how you view it, and it came off better the first time I watched it than the second), but not this, I'd think. (I also don't see what major issues some people have with the science, when the non-scifi stuff in the film is probably more accurate than that of most other films.)

2 hours ago, Stefancos said:

I find the robot design both ingenious and unintentionally hilarious. I mean it is quite an interesting design, that actually looks like something that's plausible in a real world science and engineering sort of way. But yeah the running does looks odd.

 

It certainly looks odd and perhaps absurd at first, but isn't the fact that it can move like this an argument *for* the design than against it? I mean, why make something that "walks" so oddly if you don't get any advantage in some other type of movement?

[nightscape94 965]

At the end of the day, functionality is more important than aesthetics.  The robot was one of the more interesting things in the movie for me as it seemed like something an actual science team would develop to double as a software interface and an exploratory machine.

 

[bollemanneke 3,349]

Indy and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

 

Uh, well... It was all right, I guess. Not as bad as Temple of Doom, but certainly not better than any of the others either. I really did not like Mutt though, got a problem with that? Always says obvious things. It was nice to see Marion again, but Mac was just a bit stupid and thank God Cate Capshaw didn't return. The plot as a whole became too supernatural for me to be believable as well. Oh, and if Irina is Russian, why exactly does she talk to the skull in English at the end? Aren't we supposed to revert to our native languages when we're under pressure?

 

The score had good moments. Mutt's theme is really nice and hearing the old themes again, especially the father-son theme, was great. I did think that the recording lacked some reverb, but overall the performance was great.

Overall, I think I shouldn't have watched all the films in a month, it all became a little too repetitive in the end. Nevertheless, my order of preference is: 3, 1, 4, 2.

[nightscape94 965]

Not as bad as TOD?

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

He must hate adventure movies.

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

I watched The Good Dinosaur, working my way through a stack of recent Disney and Pixar films I've missed in theatres. It's nothing new, and the character design doesn't really do it any favours. The dinosaurs look goofy and a bit expressionless, and their lack of hands makes the idea of an agricultural dino civilisation funny but hardly believable. And yet, it works, because it has a lot of heart. After a rather uneven beginning which made me question these points rather than commit to the film, it did win me over. Not least thanks to the Dannas wonderful score, I suspect.

 

Also, the character design of the apatosaurs is goofy, but most other characters are well designed - Spot most of all (and I suspect the idea of treating the human character as a dog/pet was enough to make this memorable for the animators). And the scenery is nothing short of amazing.

[publicist 4,643]

 

Visually arresting, though the Bard's flowery prose could have been cut in half. The mud and soil aesthetics á la 'Braveheart' do not really lend themselves to so much rambling (it works fine in Fassbender's voice overs). The troupe (next to Fassbender Cotillard, Thewlis, Paddy Considine) is very good and the scottish scenery a marvel. The savage Polanski version of 1970 is still the best incarnation but for modern audiences the polished style of this one might be the best starting point. The director's brother did the score - he's now on 'Alien: Covenant' - and there are some fleeting moments of gripping interaction with the drama but 90% is just mood mongering with long-held chords of a monotonous string ensemble that hardly move anywhere - the sad modern status quo of film music that isn't so much a vital part of storytelling but a subservient technical effect. God knows this could have taken loads of real score. Still, there is lots of talent on display. Recommended.

[bollemanneke 3,349]

I hate bad adventure movies.

[Quintus 5,399]

Presumably you're okay with bad movies in other genres then.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Furious 6

 

Oh man, these really do get better as they progress. The Rock does a lot of awesome shit, and Vin Diesel's leather jacket is something you just should he wearing while you're driving. That bridge chase, and the car/plane chase were gripping.

 

That concludes my marathon for now since Foxtel seems to have put a moratorium on Furious 7 and it isn't available on Netflix. Why do I even pay for Netflix anyway?

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

"The Rock", and "awesome": two words one doesn't normally read in the same sentence.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 minute ago, Richard said:

"The Rock", and "awesome": two words one doesn't normally read in the same sentence.

 

Wrong!

 

 

[Quintus 5,399]

Never seen it. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Bollocks!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Good old rock. Nothing beats that.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

1 hour ago, Stefancos said:

 

Wrong!

 

 

 

Nice!

[A24 4,339]

#Horror

 

 

This is the weirdest movie I've seen in years. Perhaps it's more a social commentary than a true Thriller/Horror movie.That's why it scores so low on IMDb.  7/10

 

 

Alex

[publicist 4,643]

#they don't make 'em like this anymore

 

 

 

 

 

[crocodile 8,017]

Frank Darabont's The Mist in black and white.

 

Karol

[bollemanneke 3,349]

The grand budapest hotel. Pretty good!

[Sir Hilary Bray 235]

Wrath of Khan: Director's Edition on Blu-Ray

 

one of the recent crop of films I brought for blu ray (my first foray into it) and TWOK was a must. One perk was a new feature with Nick Meyer et al talking about the film but a feature with Horner talking about the score. "I was not a Star Trek watcher", well nobody's perfect.

 

Solid film regardless.

[bollemanneke 3,349]

The Forgotten.

 

It wasn't bad, certainly not as bad as Rotten Tomatoes claims it is. The only huge flaw came when Julianne Moore says to her sidekick: 'Do you think your daughter is still alive?' And then he goes, 'Maybe, yeah, I dunno,' in such a ridiculously uninterested manner that it was laughable. But the plot itself was quite interesting and I liked how they kept up the tension till the very end. Julianne Moore is great as usual, but, also as usual, tends to overplay the frantic part.

 

James Horner's score is effective and at times quite moving (the opening cue, for instance). I didn't really like the electric guitar, but the Inception-like dreamy sound effects at the end were quite interesting.