Last Film You Watched

[GwladysBlue]

40-Year-old virgin.

What a rubbish film. How on Earth does that have good reviews?!

 

[McBain]

Bullet?

I was getting into the back catalogue. Ive seen Bullet / Great Escape / Sand Pebbles / Le Mans / Papillon / The Hunter loads of times.

 

[Philw]

If you rate - Let The Right One In, read the book. It's way better than the either of the films ( the original is superb ).
Captures the loneliness and isolation of the little boy in a way that the film can't and it's beautifully written, really captures the tragedy of the relationship between them. The book is one of my all time favs mate.

The play is really good too. Trasnsposed (if that's the right word) to somewhere in Scotland.

But the Omen is genuinely scary. It still works. The Exorcism is just utterly stupid. I can't take it remotely serious when you've got a girl firing green slime everywhere.

Watched it at the cinema a few years ago and its a masterpiece. Shat my pants.

If you watch it from a modern perspective it is certainly so ridiculous as to be funny. I saw it too when it was re-released and there were lots of laughs in the cinema. But looking at it in the context it was made in you can appreciate its qualities.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

It has not aged well.

2 Championship Belts out of 5

Go Ninja, go Ninja, go!

 

[Roger Milla]

All The Way - A film about Lyndon B Johnson who inherited the Presidency after the JFK assassination and how he attempted to pass the Civil Rights Bill. Brilliant film and thought Bryan Cranston was immense.

 

[tsubaki]

The bad sleep well. 1960 Japanese Crime drama/thriller.

Was rather good.

High and Low and Stray Dog are fantastic as well - in some ways its a shame Kurosawa's samurai films are so boss because people tend to forget his modern films, made when he was doing his best work (which was probably the best work done anywhere at the time) are at least as good.

 

[Rugby Toffee]

I enjoyed this tbh..

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

High and Low and Stray Dog are fantastic as well - in some ways its a shame Kurosawa's samurai films are so boss because people tend to forget his modern films, made when he was doing his best work (which was probably the best work done anywhere at the time) are at least as good.

High and Low's the kidnapping one, innit? If so I've seen that many years ago.

Stray Dog I haven't seen. And I've never seen Ikiru from start to finish.

 

[tsubaki]

High and Low's the kidnapping one, innit? If so I've seen that many years ago.

Stray Dog I haven't seen. And I've never seen Ikiru from start to finish.

It is.

Ikiru is a film that everyone should watch at least once, ideally when they are still young and stupid.

 

[COYBL25]

I enjoyed this tbh..

What's the story, like the look of it ?

 

[Rugby Toffee]

What's the story, like the look of it ?

At the heart of this cleverly written story is a resentful social under-achiever who becomes a masked killer. And yet the way the story is delivered, with so many intricate embellishments, makes it far more than that.

Polish Joanna Ignaczewska is terrific as Kate Komisarczyk, mother of a disabled son, who reluctantly agrees to accompany possible boyfriend Nick (Duncan Pow) to a remote house in order rob allegedly wealthy Alan Keller (the monumental James Cosmo) who it seems might just be the notorious figure nick-named 'the wedlock killer', who has killed and then removed the victim's wedding ring finger.

Elsewhere, local radio station JAB Radio is about to record its last ever show featuring Laurie Wolf (Siwan Morris). To ensure the show reaches a memorable conclusion, a Medium is brought in. Carla Zaza (Cinzia Monreale) manages to arouse the spirit of Keller's dead daughter, and through her, the radio station somehow picks up snippets of Kate's plight.

These two strands are seemingly unconnected but for Kate's internet friendship with JAB technician Ben (Gareth David-Lloyd). As the story continues, a series of carefully placed revelations are unleashed that bring the two plots together in a very satisfying manner.

When the killer's identity is revealed, his motives are sketchy – other than he seems unable to win the affections of women, and that he removes, and makes trophies of, various fingers, tongues etc. On the internet, he believes, he can be anything, and this is how he lures his victims.

The heroine's actions are occasionally questionable, as if often the case with horror films. Hearing Nick has been attacked in Keller's house, she then makes her way to that very location, armed with glow-sticks to advertise her presence. Other than that, she shows admirable courage and resolve.

 

[tadao]

I enjoyed this tbh..

Got this on my list, keep putting off watching it but, might give it a go if you says its decent.

 

[tadao]

High and Low's the kidnapping one, innit? If so I've seen that many years ago.

Stray Dog I haven't seen. And I've never seen Ikiru from start to finish.

It is.

Ikiru is a film that everyone should watch at least once, ideally when they are still young and stupid.

Not seen that many Japanese films, so might look out for these.
One I liked was Woman In The Dunes (1964), it's worth a look.

 

[COYBL25]

Just watched this.

I'd heard good things about it and didn't think much of it tbh.

Didn't think it was in anyway frightening or suspenseful, just a load of horror cliches cobbled together in one film.

 

[silent bob]

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Just watched this.

I'd heard good things about it and didn't think much of it tbh.

Didn't think it was in anyway frightening or suspenseful, just a load of horror cliches cobbled together in one film.

I've recorded this and will watch it in the morning.

Also Odd Thomas which is on after it which ain't bad.

 

[tsubaki]

Also Odd Thomas which is on after it which ain't bad.

it is a bit too self-aware, but anything that has Gugu Mbatha-Raw in it cannot be bad