Last Film You Watched

[Exeter_Gently]

Taxi Driver

Probably the best performance I've seen from De Niro. 7/10

Bit harsh 7/10....it's and absolute classic. Horses for courses I suppose.

 

[Sy-]

Stuck for films to watch...ive almost 'completed' netflix.

Anything with a spy theme or alternatively a gomorrah type film?

Guessing you've seen it, but 'A Most Wanted Man' nearly went off my radar...

 

[Exeter_Gently]

The Gentlemen, worth a watch but it was same old Guy Ritchie Cockney Geezer movie blended with a bit of Stormzy he did before with Lock Stock and Snatch.

6.5/10

Guy Ritchie knows how to flog a dead horse.

 

[tommytowne]

For a great spy film try and find "No way out."

Must be 25 years old, maybe more.

Lead is played by Kevin Costner, but don't let that dissuade you. It's decent.

And all the better for SeanYoung in scanties

 

[jaycee]

Guy Ritchie knows how to flog a dead horse.

Mick Quinn doesnt know how to feed a dead one though

 

[tommytowne]

Out of pure laziness went to Netflix last night and vowed I would watch the first film in the Action and Adventure section.
Firewall with Harrison Ford. I'm sure in 2006 it was all very high tec with regards computers and all that, but it hasn't aged well, and in truth massively boring.
Don't go near it.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Death of Stalin- Very, very funny but thought it kind of lost the plot in the resolution of the film. Still very enjoyable though.

I enjoyed the resolution. Of course it plays around with the timeline and all but Simon Russell Beale is tremendous all the way through, especially the emotional turnaround in those final scenes as Beria realises what's happening.

Out of pure laziness went to Netflix last night and vowed I would watch the first film in the Action and Adventure section.
Firewall with Harrison Ford. I'm sure in 2006 it was all very high tec with regards computers and all that, but it hasn't aged well, and in truth massively boring.
Don't go near it.

Never seen that one but I do remember that throughout the 90's and early 2000's Hollywood seemed to love nothing more than trying to make someone using a computer to breach a firewall seem cinematic. I can't say they ever succeeded as far as I know.

 

[Sy-]

If I’ve ever seen a film that was a 10/10 it’s taxi driver.

Today I’ve watched bourne supremacy and the death of Stalin.

Bourne supremacy- Brilliant, had to pause it and realised there was only 20 minutes left when it felt like I had only just put it on. It’s so sharp and tense in everything it does. Deffo a thinking mans James Bond.

Death of Stalin- Very, very funny but thought it kind of lost the plot in the resolution of the film. Still very enjoyable though.

Favorite film of all time. It's also the subtle bits that I always find hard to articulate; obviously the distinctive score, but also i.e. the grey palettes that help you really feel the grey winter-time Berlin / Moscow settings. There definitely a fine art to giving a movie that extra depth, but when you combine it with everything you mentioned plus the dialed back "action", it's into 10/10 territory for me.

I thought 'The International' did a lot of this well too, but doesn't get much love on IMDB.

 

[SuperTimCahill]

7/10

I probably enjoyed it less because I was dead tired when I started watching it after waking up early because of work. And don't misunderstand. 7/10 is a good rating.

 

[Tipp blue]

Sister act.

 

[BNJ1878]

Yep

Favorite film of all time. It's also the subtle bits that I always find hard to articulate; obviously the distinctive score, but also i.e. the grey palettes that help you really feel the grey winter-time Berlin / Moscow settings. There definitely a fine art to giving a movie that extra depth, but when you combine it with everything you mentioned plus the dialed back "action", it's into 10/10 territory for me.

I thought 'The International' did a lot of this well too, but doesn't get much love on IMDB.

Yep, definitely the best of the original 3. (though I sometimes view supremacy and ultimatum as 2 parts of the same film. Identity works fine as a standalone film)

 

[Zatara]

Guessing you've seen it, but 'A Most Wanted Man' nearly went off my radar...

The german one...yeah

 

[Toast]

The start to Raiders of the Lost Ark is still superb.

 

[Nymzee]

The start to Raiders of the Lost Ark is still superb.

Great Friday tea time film for the Beeb

 

[Walken]

The start to Raiders of the Lost Ark is still superb.

flawless cinema