Last Film You Watched

[Sharpattack]

Saw The Mastermind today. That wasn’t bad

 

[Rita_Poon]

So good you watched it twice it seems.

 

[COYBL25]

Every once in a blue moon, Netflix makes a film that is very good, this is one of them.

A House of Dynamite.

Produced by Katherine Bigalow, who won an Oscar for the Hurt Locker. ( this may win awards too )

A nuclear missile is launched at the US from an unknown source in the Pacific, detonating in Chicago.

The film follows the panic within the US administration as to whether to retaliate, start nuking everyone in response and start a nuclear war.

A stellar cast, watches very much like the Hurt Locker and with almost unbearable tension at times.

It’s truly frightening watching things unfold in real time and the decisions as to who to and how many to sacrifice are made.

Recommended.

* you won’t sleep well after it,

 

[Rita_Poon]

'Threads' then?

 

[verreauxi]

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Every once in a blue moon, Netflix makes a film that is very good, this is one of them.

A House of Dynamite.

Produced by Katherine Bigalow, who won an Oscar for the Hurt Locker. ( this may win awards too )

A nuclear missile is launched at the US from an unknown source in the Pacific, detonating in Chicago.

The film follows the panic within the US administration as to whether to retaliate, start nuking everyone in response and start a nuclear war.

A stellar cast, watches very much like the Hurt Locker and with almost unbearable tension at times.

It’s truly frightening watching things unfold in real time and the decisions as to who to and how many to sacrifice are made.

Recommended.

* you won’t sleep well after it,

Heard good things. Thanks for the reco!

 

[Goodison87]

Platoon, a masterpiece in my opinion with a soundtrack to boot. Adagio for strings..

 

[perth_blue]

Raging Bull, Oppenheimer, The Pianist, Titanic, Chopper, The last king of Scotland, The social network, City of god, The boy in the striped pyjamas, American gangster, Captain Phillips, The untouchables, A beautiful mind, Munich...The killing fields, Apocalypse now...

What's that recent one with Ruffalo about the church? And 'Philomena'.

Film can't just be virtuous and feel good happy ever afters. Butch and Sundance were robbers, they just had better banter and PR than belfort and co.

Yeah that's a fair point.
I retract my statement.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Yeah that's a fair point.
I retract my statement.

I get it, sordid nastiness done for kicks, it was sort of covered by wall street, did it need what we got? dope sick covered the first run of qualudes (70's) in the 2000's. Studies of corruption, we've seen, enjoyment of less so.

 

[Walken]

Rewatched gangs of new York, ultimately it's a misfire but it was close to being something great. As incredible as day Lewis, broadbent, gleeson and Neeson all are, the younger cast don't seem quite ready for this movie. Obviously di caprio and our own Stephen Graham have gone on to be titans, but the amount of bad Irish accents is hard to get past.

 

[Amw79]

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Every once in a blue moon, Netflix makes a film that is very good, this is one of them.

A House of Dynamite.

Produced by Katherine Bigalow, who won an Oscar for the Hurt Locker. ( this may win awards too )

A nuclear missile is launched at the US from an unknown source in the Pacific, detonating in Chicago.

The film follows the panic within the US administration as to whether to retaliate, start nuking everyone in response and start a nuclear war.

A stellar cast, watches very much like the Hurt Locker and with almost unbearable tension at times.

It’s truly frightening watching things unfold in real time and the decisions as to who to and how many to sacrifice are made.

Recommended.

* you won’t sleep well after it,

Yeah, watched this last night. Very good indeed. Was directed by Bigalow, not just a producer.

The shaky cam and snap zoom style was a bit distracting for me, and think the ending could be a bit divisive.

But yeah, the handling of tension building, and the way it’s kind of a procedural movie, of this high stakes scenario works really well.

Builds well to put you in Idris Elba’s shoes by the end, and leaves you with a lot to think about.

 

[COYBL25]

'Threads' then?

It’s the before, rather than the before and after.

Gives you a lot to think about.

 

[COYBL25]

Yeah, watched this last night. Very good indeed. Was directed by Bigalow, not just a producer.

The shaky cam and snap zoom style was a bit distracting for me, and think the ending could be a bit divisive.

But yeah, the handling of tension building, and the way it’s kind of a procedural movie, of this high stakes scenario works really well.

Builds well to put you in Idris Elba’s shoes by the end, and leaves you with a lot to think about.

It was the bit with Jared Harris right towards the end that really got to me, which really rammed home as to what was about to happen.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Rewatched gangs of new York, ultimately it's a misfire but it was close to being something great. As incredible as day Lewis, broadbent, gleeson and Neeson all are, the younger cast don't seem quite ready for this movie. Obviously di caprio and our own Stephen Graham have gone on to be titans, but the amount of bad Irish accents is hard to get past.

Hated it, really annoyed me, how did the same set of people go out and butcher one another and get put back together to do it all again a week later. This was a committee film, pieced together around a board room, there was no chemistry, no overarching vision, it was a production very much less than the sum of its parts. I've not seen it in ages, so the following is probably very unfair (which I'm happy about)... a bunch of street urchins tooled up and on the thieve without the songs or the heart. It's a version of Oliver, only Reed was a proper villain, and Fagin a nasty piece of work. Consigned to the blackhole of cinema alongside nic coppolas efforts. Awful.

 

[coollino]

Hated it, really annoyed me, how did the same set of people go out and butcher one another and get put back together to do it all again a week later. This was a committee film, pieced together around a board room, there was no chemistry, no overarching vision, it was a production very much less than the sum of its parts. I've not seen it in ages, so the following is probably very unfair (which I'm happy about)... a bunch of street urchins tooled up and on the thieve without the songs or the heart. It's a version of Oliver, only Reed was a proper villain, and Fagin a nasty piece of work. Consigned to the blackhole of cinema alongside nic coppolas efforts. Awful.

I think Shutter Island is by far the worst of his I have seen, I'm surprised Scorsese even bothered doing it

 

[marrowfatpeas]

Just watched La La Land

I love curling up on the sofa in my onesie and watching it.