Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

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Jason Bourne bit of a let down but was expecting much.First 2 movies in the series were good.

Dirty grandpa ok for a laugh.

Also been watching some of the Bond moives aswell.

Man with the golden gun and A view to kill.
Jason Bourne was just horrible. They somehow managed to leave out everything that made the franchise great. I'm praying the Bourne/Cross team up can finish the story on a high.
 

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Brimstone - this is the most god damn depressing thing on celluloid for a while but it was incredible done and Pearce and Fanning shine incredibly with amazing performances. Legit though, prep for it cause it's rough. 8.5/10

Fist Fight - needed some light relief after brimstone but this was garbage. Gets 1 for the actual fight scene which was pretty funny and 1 for the talent show. 2/10
 

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Mississippi Grind - not bad 7/10.

Ben Mendelson has done pretty well for himself and gives a good performance here as a gambling addict.

Rough Night. 6/10

A few decent laughs better than Bridesmaids I guess.
 

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Saw Wind River last night, my favourite movie of the year.

Was a very intense story line and for the most part was quite depressing. I haven't been the biggest fan of Renner in the past, but he was fantastic in this role. Would highly recommend seeing it.

8.5/10
 

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Spoor - a new Polish film which I found very unsettling at times, funny at others - overall the issues addressed, performances & countryside made it worthwhile - 7.5/10.
 
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Looking for something to watch i stumbled across this turd. I struggled to get passed the first 15 mins but i hung in there and i wasn't rewarded. It does have some cool sets and effects all made from cardboard but imho the movie is a pretentious pile of shit.

2.5/10
 

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The Big Sick: Really good dramedy with plenty of dry humour and good laughs. Long movie but didn't feel that way due to its consistency and interesting characters. Really good direction imo. 8.5/10
 

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The single positive element is its brevity. The movie is over before it begins and that act of mercy it shows for its audience is commendable. Other than that, utterly worthless. I feel bad for McConaughey - years of hard work to transform his reputation into one of respectability, only to trash it, repeatedly, immediately afterwards.
 

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The single positive element is its brevity. The movie is over before it begins and that act of mercy it shows for its audience is commendable. Other than that, utterly worthless. I feel bad for McConaughey - years of hard work to transform his reputation into one of respectability, only to trash it, repeatedly, immediately afterwards.
Sounds like they spent the budget on big stars and CGI..... leaving nothing for script.
 

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets..

If you like star wars at all, go and watch this!!!!

8/10..

falls a bit flat at the end for me, but it's what The Force Awakens was essentially missing.
 
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Wind River - an hour since I got out of the cinema and I still feel cold. The landscape is just immersive and beautifully filmed. The directorial debut of Taylor Sheridan, who was the screenwriter for Sicario and Hell or High Water (he also wrote this). While it mightn't quite be of the same quality as those two (excellent) films, it isn't too far behind. A tense thriller that tells a troubling story well. Perhaps a little bit too straightforward, it's so well crafted it's easy to forgive it.
 

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Helena is a young woman who has spent all her whole life on a space ship and is now alone, travelling from Earth to a distant planet where she will reunite with other space colonials.

Really nicely done sci-fi movie from Spain (with subtitles). Good story with a few surprises and mostly maintains quality to the end.

Don't read IMDB, it gives away the whole plot.
 

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Liked this a lot. Great pacing, music, amazing fight scenes and camera work, very entertaining. Minor annoyances would be the colour palette of the movie, very washed out, almost black and white in parts, and it goes for about 15 minutes longer than it needed to, which seriously over complicated the plot to a level that left nobody caring about it. Larger annoyances being that there's plenty of skin on show here but no gratuity, nude scenes are incidental more than anything else (yes, that's gutter talk but so am I when so many good looking actresses are taking their clothes off). The direction seems to do its best to avoid nudity without actually avoiding it. High points are a particular good single take fight sequence, followed by what looks like another single take car chase, the soundtrack as mentioned, and some very funny visual jokes.

Overall this continues the return of mainstream adult action very admirably.

8.5/10
 
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Three movies on the plane. All based on real events.

Lion: I'd heard great things and can see why now. A real tearjerker. 4 stars

The Founder: Wasn't expecting great things but thought it was really good. Keaton is a boss. I'm not surprised at all that his character was a total campaigner, that's how all the big shots seem to get big. 4 stars

Everest: Seen it already. Probably enjoyed it more on second viewing but
******* Doug still annoys me. What a selfish campaigner. I didn't have much love for the journo either. Very sad when Jason Clarke and Jakey G's characters perish. They were great and the acting down at base camp was really good too.
 

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The Accountant (2016)
Ben Affleck & Anna Kendrick

Didn't know what to expect but it had Anna Kendrick in it and I like her :). Ended up enjoying the film. With the ending such as it was, not surprised to see a sequel on the way.

Liked the action sequences, the potential for the will they won't they between Affleck and Kendrick. The "pencak silat" form of martial arts as also shown in The Raid (2011). Glad to see Affleck finishing off his prey with head shots. So sick of seeing films like The Magnificent Seven (2016) one shot and your dead - really XX is on go and no one injured on the 7 side!


 

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The Accountant (2016)
Ben Affleck & Anna Kendrick

Didn't know what to expect but it had Anna Kendrick in it and I like her :). Ended up enjoying the film. With the ending such as it was, not surprised to see a sequel on the way.

Liked the action sequences, the potential for the will they won't they between Affleck and Kendrick. The "pencak silat" form of martial arts as also shown in The Raid (2011). Glad to see Affleck finishing off his prey with head shots. So sick of seeing films like The Magnificent Seven (2016) one shot and your dead - really XX is on go and no one injured on the 7 side!

haha on watched Magnificent 7 last night.

I gave it a 6/10 you are right about the battle could be have so much better.
 

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Paterson (2016)

I don't think this film can be described in any interesting way: a bus driver who likes to read and write poetry in his spare time goes about his life, and we follow along for a week. It's a slow burn, and really only a couple of things of note happen throughout. But it quietly builds and builds as it goes, then finally all ties together nicely. I found it to be genuinely moving, almost overwhelmingly so.

Also, shout out to Method Man and the kids from Moonrise Kingdom (!!!) for their bit parts.
 

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Good Time - 9/10


Saw this a couple of weeks ago at the Arclight in Los Angeles, saw it in the morning by myself while waiting for a friend, and than the next night I was back with some friends who I told had to see this. Incredible work from the Safdie brothers and Robert Pattinson.


Daniel Lopatin did an amazing job with the OST as well. One of the best you'll ever hear IMO.


 
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