What movie did you watch last night? (14 Viewers)

[pete]

I saw the BFG on Sunday. Pretty good, although the Britishness is all very Hollywood. A wonderfully well established fart joke towards the end is probably Spielberg's finest work.

 

[Unicron]

Standard old 4:3 ratio

There's a thing in the AV club which said it was 1:1.33, which I suppose would be 3:4.

 

[pete]

1:33:1 square tv ratio or "academy" if you're mark kermode

 

[Anthony]

Saw Hail Ceaser! the other day.
HATED IT

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Captain Fantastic. Ok. Started off fine then descended into sentimental indie garbage. Viggo's good though. Wasn't expecting his mickey to make an appearance either.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Saw Hail Ceaser! the other day.
HATED IT

whaaaaaaaa??? deadly film

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I saw the BFG on Sunday. Pretty good, although the Britishness is all very Hollywood. A wonderfully well established fart joke towards the end is probably Spielberg's finest work.

yer man is good as the bfg, but all the queen shite at the end was boring

 

[chris d]

Watched the Grand Budapest Hotel on channel 4 at the weekend. Not his best, but it's fun. Ralph Fiennes kicked its ass.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Captain Fantastic. Ok. Started off fine then descended into sentimental indie garbage. Viggo's good though. Wasn't expecting his mickey to make an appearance either.

yeah, saw that recently, it really has the most predictable and safe of endings doesn't it?

Spoiler

"but then they moved to a massive big house in the country that they could afford because they were secretly rich white people only pretending to be poor and lived happily ever after"

 

[David Kronenbourg]

yeah, saw that recently, it really has the most predictable and safe of endings doesn't it?

Spoiler

"but then they moved to a massive big house in the country that they could afford because they were secretly rich white people only pretending to be poor and lived happily ever after"

Yeah I hate that shit. Stupid indie films about affluent white americans

 

[IFF]

American Honey. A bit long, could have used an edit. But enjoyable.

Yes I saw it last week, thought it was a good film

 

[Splunk]

Don' Breathe

Decent horror thriller about a trio of young housebreakers who make the mistake of breaking into a visually impaired army vets house. Tense and atmospheric.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Don' Breathe

Decent horror thriller about a trio of young housebreakers who make the mistake of breaking into a visually impaired army vets house. Tense and atmospheric.

Yeah I liked this one. Nothing new really but solidly made

 

[Unicron]

Werner Herzog's internet documentary. Very good.

I'd never seen one of his docs before, you can tell where his experience as a feature maker helps.

 

[Richie]

Young Offenders - the thing about 2 Cork teenagers making a cycling trip to try and retrieve a bag of cocaine on a get rich quick venture. Quite entertaining, bit of a made for TV feel about it which is forgivable given the small budget. There's a sort of Dumb & Dumber slapstick silliness to their trip to the coast which clashes with the grimness of how their home situations (and those they encounter) are depicted, I kind of wish they'd dropped the narration and overly jaunty music and let the comedy factor rest on the naturalistic back-and-forth between the 2 lads and the mother which was quite funny.

 

[chris d]

watched sin city 2 at the weekend, which wasn't much cop at all. haven't seen the first one in a long time, but the background cgi in this looked a lot cheaper, none of the stories were a patch on the clive owen one from the first. the lack of substance or subtlety was about on par with a tom and jerry cartoon, which makes sense as i enjoyed the second half a lot more watching it on monday morning with a coffee as opposed to the first half on sunday night. also eva green is topless for 70% of the film.

Monday night scary film choice was Kill-List. Really liked this. The use of

Spoiler: spoiler

snuff films

as a plot driver feels a bit tired at this stage, but then this film is 5 years old. Short, sharp film making.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Kill List is amazing. One of my favourite films in recent years. That final sequence is just incredible.

 

[Hector Grey]

Amanda Knox: the Netflix documentary. Good overview of the court case, I can definitely see how she was found guilty initially, she came across as an unremorseful oddball. That Daily Mail journalist, what a dick.

She doesn't have anything to be remorseful, though. She was shafted by the cops, particularly that catholic mentaller.

What was his name? Nick Pisa? Fuckin reprehensible cunt altogether.

 

[Hector Grey]

Kill List is amazing. One of my favourite films in recent years. That final sequence is just incredible.

I liked Kill List. Not convinced by his other stuff tho.

 

[Anthony]

We brought the lads to see "I, Daniel Blake". Rough stuff. They made it through it, fair play to them. Good chats afterwards.