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

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Some movies I've recently seen:

Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Excellent movie about a 12 year Russian boy who is a scout on the front line in WWII. Not much action, but tense and artfully shot. Compared to Tarkovsky's other movies the pacing is quite brisk and plot more straightforward. One of the better anti-war movies. 8/10

SPL: Kill Zone (2005)
- Entertaining police action/thriller from Hong Kong. A dying police inspector tries to take out a crime boss at any cost before he retires. A bit over the top in some aspects but entertaining overall. Good fight scenes. 7/10

Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia (1974)
- Not sure what to think of this. Some good scenes throughout, but it's slow at times and most the characters have little redeeming features. Not bad but I was expecting better. 6/10

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) -
Odd sci-fi/drama about a man who becomes unstuck in time, uncontrollably moving in time from his birth to his death. Strange story but an interesting film, quite funny at times and certainly never dull. Goes from scenes of WWII to scenes of life on a faraway planet. Hard to categorize but I liked this. 7.5/10

Drag Me to Hell (2006)
- Decent horror movie. Funny at times, kinda ridiculous plot but doesn't really matter. Not the best horror movie ever, but had a great ending. 6/10
 

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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) - Odd sci-fi/drama about a man who becomes unstuck in time, uncontrollably moving in time from his birth to his death. Strange story but an interesting film, quite funny at times and certainly never dull. Goes from scenes of WWII to scenes of life on a faraway planet. Hard to categorize but I liked this. 7.5/10
I was shocked when I found out this book had been adapted; all things considered, they did a wonderful job. It's a pretty wild story.
 

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Some movies I've recently seen: Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Excellent movie about a 12 year Russian boy who is a scout on the front line in WWII. Not much action, but tense and artfully shot. Compared to Tarkovsky's other movies the pacing is quite brisk and plot more straightforward. One of the better anti-war movies. 8/10
Gave The Ascent (1977) another watch the other day. There are some brilliant Soviet war films out there.
 

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The Big Sick - I find it a little amusing that this is being touted as a romcom, pretty much a straight up drama with a few funny lines. I was pleasantly surprised by how serious it got while remaining heartfelt, quality stuff. Was nice to see Ray Romano in this kind of role too. 8/10

The Equalizer - Had a few drinks and felt like something kinda trashy were I didn't have to think much. Turns out it was trashier and I had to think less than I had even hoped. Premise as cliche as it was ridiculous, but entertaining enough if you feel like seeing Denzel **** up some bad dudes. Pacing was decent. 5/10
 
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I saw it when it first came out and this was the first re-watch. I was already a fan of Michael Mann after Last of the Mohicans.

Did Pacino and De Niro not have any shared scenes in Godfather II ? Time for a re-watch!
Nope. I'm a wog, it's mandatory that I know these things.
 

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The Founder. About how Ray Kroc took the McDonald brothers business plan and took it to the world while screwing them over something shocking and showing himself to be an absolute asshole.
Great performance by Michael Keaton.
Yep. A real prick. Treatment of his wife was horrendous too, if his portrayal is accurate.
 

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The Big Sick - I find it a little amusing that this is being touted as a romcom, pretty much a straight up drama with a few funny lines. I was pleasantly surprised by how serious it got while remaining heartfelt, quality stuff. Was nice to see Ray Romano in this kind of role too. 8/10
Quality?
I thought it was average, a fairly forgettable flick.
 

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - I had heard bad things about this film and the trailers left me a bit cold so I was surprised when I finally seen it how good it was. A sci fi/fantasy based on an interesting premise, and I thought it worked despite its flaws. Maybe it won't go down in movie history as one of the greats, I don't know, but for what it was I found it an entertaining film. The film is simultaneously bonkers and gorgeous, and while confusing at times, it has enough energy/intelligence to get it over the line. 6/10
 

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Taxi Driver

A masterpiece by Scorcese. DeNiro plays Travis, an ex-Vietnam vet, who is socially awkward and takes up driving because he can't sleep at night. He has unsatisfactory liaisons with Betsy - played by Sybil Shepherd, a presidential nomination worker - and Iris, a 12 year old prostitute, played by Jodie Foster. There is a smooth descent into madness by Travis, with violent ends.

The movie is over 40 years old now but still feels relevant depicting how a loner might develop crazy, murderous ideas on how to put the world right.

10/10.
 

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Wonder.

I really wonder what Julia Roberts was thinking being in this crap. It reminded me of Gilmore Girls type acting along with the shitty script.

Honestly at some of the most "serious" moments of the film I was laughing. Just some of the lines omg- its like I could have pulled a better script out of my ass. It was just a shocker. 3/10.

I however give the sweet cinema air con 10/10 and the popcorn and frozen coke a 8/10.


Can someone please explain the storyline between the daughter and her best friend? I had some serious "lesbian" vibes going on- like i thought she had a thing for the friend, hence why she got upset when she saw her with her boyfriend. But then it... idk wth that was tbh
 

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Free Fire - The idea behind this movie, and others like it, is great. Minimal plot, and just 90 minutes of pure shoot em' up. For it to really work though they need to be visually spectacular, and aside from a few stomach churning moments, nothing really stood out. Ending didn't really feel earned or satisfying either. Cillian Murphy is eminently watchable however. 6/10

Super Dark Times - I'm going to stan for this flick, even though the last 25 mins took a strange turn. Friends just caught up in the hormonal angst of their teenage lives, gets thrown into something that upends everything. It gets a lot of shit right about being a kid at that age, and even when that 'something' happens it's like how do you deal with that and reciprocate your feelings to a girl.

Really good for the most part, but then it lost me - albeit still well shot - with a character decision. The final scene seemed completely out of place too. Still, the good far outweighed the bad, just wish it stayed the course with it's reflection and contemplation ala a film like Hide Your Smiling Faces. 8/10
 

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The Circle.

This is the worst film I've seen this year, and possibly ever. There are no redeeming features here; the script, the dialogue, directing, the plot the acting was dog shit. Emma Watson could possibly be the worst actress of all time. Her face tells us absolutely nothing about what her character is thinking. She was preachy. She was shocking. She was woeful in this, as were Karen Gillan and Ellar Coltrane. The character development was non-existent, they never learned anything, nothing about them evolved and their decisions were inconsistent or they simply did things that were completely out of character.

I believe it was based on a book, but differed quite a lot from the original text. It's quite an interesting premise; the rise of social media and how far it would dominate our lives. Issues like surveillance, citizen policing, power, living our lives on a public stage etc. are probably worthy film topics, but The Circle simply covered one issue for ten minutes, then moved on to the next one. It was just so lazy. And incredibly preachy. And the ending was stupidly ambiguous. They built up this conclusion and then never told us what happened. The director was a massive smart arse. Several interesting storylines were just simply abandoned.

Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt are good actors, but they were really bit players in all this and were under-used.

This is from Reddit;

"Ordinarily I'd assume that the end had been left open for a sequel, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, they just got bored telling the story so rolled the credits."

That's exactly how I felt.

Thankfully, I watched Wakefield after it, which was brilliant.
Lazy, is the perfect way to describe this movie. Had some good themes and ideas but ... it’s a mess.
 

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Concussion and Steve Jobs. Nothing too much to say about them individually they are both ok I guess, Jobs is a bit messy at times but given both of them are biographies or sorts my main thoughts where do these people really need movies made about them? More in particular Concussion which was clearly only made to win oscars. Smith dissappeared into the character which was good but while definitely not scraping the bottom of the barrel for true stories it feels like we arent getting anything truly worthy and only exist for the purpose of winning awards as opposed to making a great movie. I know people will disagree on Jobs even after the movie I didn't find him that interesting and only thing I learned was that he was a bit of a dick sometimes.
 

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Columbus - 7/10. Bit of a Lost in Translation, Before Sunrise Trilogy film.

Jin meets a girl called Cassandra upon his visit to Columbus where his architecture scholar & ill father is currently at. They develop a friendship, explore the town and it's architectural elements while discussing life and what's the future.

 
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Justice League - cliched? Yes. More character development required? Yes. Still found it epic, entertaining and fun, though.

Logan Lucky - a clever and original gem about a motorway heist that flew under the radar this year.

Murder on the Orient Express - a movie elevated by its cast and likeable eccentric detective.
 
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