Last Film You Watched

Huyton Layne said:
Mate, did you watch Predator or have watched it recently? Thinking I might let my boys watch it. Don't want to watch it myself before I do with them as I cba watching the same film twice in a short span.
For reference they're almost 12 and we watched Terminator 1 minus the borderline pron sex scene.
Not thinking of anything that would make Predator worse than T1.
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I'd say the most graphic part of predator is either Hopper and crew skinned alive and hung upside down in the tree's, or the execution of one of the prisoners.
At least one of the militia actors is also in predator 2 as one of the columbians in the early part of the street shootout.

Neither T1 nor Predator are graphic horrors, they're more sci fi adventure pics. Alien and Aliens are more graphic and visceral, besides the chest burst the real horror in the first one is the corporate attitude to disposable lives, and their vessel of ensuring that. 2 is probably more tame?

I don't have kids, I don't have to answer to the boss (her that must be obeyed), you know your boys, it can't all be mickey mouse and harry potter forever. I'm still wildly scarred from watching Bambi as a kid, more so than anything I've seen before or since.

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Huyton Layne said:
Mate, did you watch Predator or have watched it recently? Thinking I might let my boys watch it. Don't want to watch it myself before I do with them as I cba watching the same film twice in a short span.
For reference they're almost 12 and we watched Terminator 1 minus the borderline pron sex scene.
Not thinking of anything that would make Predator worse than T1.
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When my eldest lad was a youngster, I knew he’d been looking at the likes of the Dark Knight online, as he was a massive Batman fan.

So I sat down with him and watched loads of films that other kids parents wouldn’t let them watch, due to the violence :

Alien / Aliens
Predator / Predator 2
The Dark Knight
Platoon / Jarhead.

Loads more too, but non with explicit sexual content.

It completely took away all the mystery and naughtiness out of watching these type of films and he’s retained his love for this genre of films into his adulthood.

I didn’t do horror films with him until he was about 12/13 and I may have gone a bit far with him when we watched Sinister, as he slept with the light on for about a month 😂
 
COYBL25 said:
Platoon

Loads more too, but non with explicit sexual content.
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Although we don't see it, there's an awful scene in Platoon. Brave of Stone to include it, he really wasn't impressed with the whole Vietnam nightmare, '4th of July' I watched again fairly recently but I've not seen 'Casualties of war' for over a decade. 'Casualties' is De Palma, I've mis-stepped 'heaven & earth'. Now I've read about it, it reminds me of 'The killing fields'. Harrowing viewing. Are we better for having moved past that historic part of cinema making and the reasons behind their realisation.
Suppose it's a generational cost, I'm glad I got the cinema I did compared to the superhero multiverse schlock we suffer through now.
Ramble over.
 
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Don't mind a B movie, a lot of john wick, a lot of tarantino, someone that idolised the classic westerns, bit of 'den of thieves/cop shop', there's a sub group of directors that have no originality in them, that was one. Fair, no pretentiousness.
 
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Ghosts Of The Ozarks

Oddity this one, with a firmer hand on the tiller and a bit more cash this might have been a really good flick.

As it is, it sadly misses the mark despite an interesting setup, an enjoyable first half with a very zippy script and cast and being generally well made, but it really loses its way.

Can't exactly recommend but one for the filmmaking scholars maybe.
 

'uncharted'.

oh dear. Bit of Indiana Jones, bit of Goonies, a fair bit of that Pirates of the Caribbean crap and maybe the rescuers?

So Mark Wahlberg plays Mark Wahlberg, Tom Holland plays spiderman some more, and Banderas is chronically underused. A shocker.

Basically a rerun of 'national treasure', with prize favourite waste of time nic you know who. Could have been worse, could have been away at elland road again.

People get expensive lavish lifestyles off the back of this rubbish. Awful.
 
Rita_Poon said:
'uncharted'.

oh dear. Bit of Indiana Jones, bit of Goonies, a fair bit of that Pirates of the Caribbean crap and maybe the rescuers?

So Mark Wahlberg plays Mark Wahlberg, Tom Holland plays spiderman some more, and Banderas is chronically underused. A shocker.

Basically a rerun of 'national treasure', with prize favourite waste of time nic you know who. Could have been worse, could have been away at elland road again.

People get expensive lavish lifestyles off the back of this rubbish. Awful.
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Video Game adaptation. Always a bad place to start from.
 

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