Starting with:
Army of the dead 8/10 ( Cinema and Netflix)
Enjoyable zombie film, from Zak Snyder. A group of people have to steal money from a Las Vegas casino, but Vegas is packed with the dead - Think oceans 11, but with zombies :lmfao:
The CGI is overdone, but the zombie tiger is worth it alone :taz::taz:
Scary stories to tell in the dark - 7/10. A good horror film, not quite blood and gore, as it was based on the books a bit like goosebumps but a bit older age range. Takes the premise of people’s fears and plays on them.
Diary of the dead - 7/10 - The zombie god, George Romero's reimagining of his 1968 black & white classic. It's basically what happened in dawn of the dead, but told in a modern persepctive, using the 'REC' type p.o.v filming. It was a little slow to begin with, but once it got going, the atmosphere simply drags you in.
Survival of the dead - 9/10 - Follow up to Diary, this is much more zombieriffic fun! A national guard team, finding an island filled with 2 warring irish families, one believing the zombies should be exterminated, the other thinking they can be trained, and im sure you can guess what happens next...Really good bloodbath, just how Z films should be.
Someone has been on a horror binge eh...
Well to continue the theme -
Fear Street, Part 1.
6/10.
Naff for at least the first hour, but sort of comes together at the end. Sort of. Still, decent enough for a lazy horror flick. Going to watch the next bit soon.
Quote from: Chaosphere;446054Someone has been on a horror binge eh...
Well to continue the theme -
Fear Street, Part 1.
6/10.
Naff for at least the first hour, but sort of comes together at the end. Sort of. Still, decent enough for a lazy horror flick. Going to watch the next bit soon.
Fear street part 2 was much better imo
Fear Street pt 1 and 2 are both a little average. 3 is a lot better.
I llike this thread idea. I watch a lot of films though :D
Quote from: Mikep1212;446057Fear Street pt 1 and 2 are both a little average. 3 is a lot better.
I llike this thread idea. I watch a lot of films though :D
Confirmed!
I enjoyed #2 quite a bit too, but #3 was definitely the best of the bunch. Overall the 3 came together nicely. Good story.
Probably give them both 8 out of 10s.. maybe a 7 for #2, but then I'd need to downgrade #1 to a 5. Numberwang!
black widow i give it 7/10
Enola Holmes (Netflix). Inoffensive fun film that zips along with a fair amount of japes and larks. More Robert Downey Jr than Jeremy Brett in style. Solid lead from Millie Bobby Brown the bald girl out of Stranger Things as Sherlock Holmes young sister..
Henry Cavill is even decent as a young-ish Sherlock Holmes.
A couple of hours of fun - 7/10
Your review is spot on smilo, imo. Enjoyable film but nothing terribly special.
Rattlesnake - interesting enough horror (?) / drama. Quote enjoyed it. Probably also a 7.
Seven Pounds - 7.5/10 (Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson)
An old Will Smith film from 2008 and not of his usual type, i.e. he has very few lines. I did not see it when it first same out, so this was a first viewing. Nice change of pace for Will Smith and I thought the story line was good, if a little predictable from early in the film, but still worth two hours of your time imho.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314
Yes I liked 7 pounds. I thought he acted well in it.
We watched Blood Red Sky last night.
What starts as a plane hijacking ends with vampires. Not the best, but perhaps better than it sounds from that description! Enjoyable enough that I'd watch it if you're bored and looking for some lazy fun for a couple of hours. 5-6/10
Does it have to be a film?
I watched the latest season commissioned by netflix for top boy then watched the original 2 series afterwards made by channel for. The one made my netflix was much more enjoyable but didn't carry it on from how channel 4's ended.
Layer Cake 6/10
There's a little too much taste of Guy Richie in this one to rate it higher. Too many Crazy Cockney Psyco's and Sociopathic Crime Bosses mark it down at bit. But it still manages to stay far enough away from Mr. Richie ridiculous versions of Gangland Britain to be worth a view. Daniel Craig (pre Bond) is very good and more than compensates for the use of a few too many generic nutty gangsters.
300 Rise of a Nation. 3/10 (8/10)
300 was a glorious film only for it's beautiful colour palette, visual scope and fantastic fight sequences. Everything else about the film was pretty dreadful.
The sequel is about as daft and the story about as confused but the visuals are right up there with the original. Eva Green as the main baddie Artemisia chews up the scenery and steals the film from a very weak Sullivan Stapleton who's character isn't a patch on Gerard Butler's Leonidas from the first movie.
As a film it's very underwhelming, as a series of visual set pieces it's a delight. Hence the two scores, it depends what you're looking for.
Blood Red Sky On Netflix, Don't watch it..'tis pants!
The Grinch - animated version by Illumination. At the insistence of my 3 year old it has been watched 7 times over the last 4 days. While I like it and think it's a good film, as a Christmas film watched repeatedly in the middle of a soggy August it starts to grate and it certainly doesn't stand up to such a repetitive introspection. 6.5 out of 10.
Black Widow - 6/10
For a non Marvil fan it was a decent Marvil filler. For the most part I enjoyed it
Although, I imagine for Marvil fans they would find it rather frustrating if you'd been waiting for a film to fill in some backstory for Natasha. There were some clues but it felt like there was a better story waiting to be told.
Boss level (Prime) 7/10 - enjoyable “Groundhog Day†type film, action-based with a lot of violence and some comedy.
wonder woman 1984 , was ok but i liked the first one better.
Free Guy - A really very decent film. Somewhere between Ground Hog Day, The Truman Show, Deadpool and Jumanji. But still really fresh and original. Fairly light and fun but still very well put together.
For regular people it's a solid 8/10
For those of us who wear Sunglasses it's a 9/10. So many subtle references to gaming I am sure I have missed many of them.
Once apon a time in Hollywood. Don't bother what a gaint waste of time. 2/3 random then a hint of something interesting. And its not in the clever way he started off with.
Quote from: BrotherTobious;446424Once apon a time in Hollywood. Don't bother what a gaint waste of time. 2/3 random then a hint of something interesting. And its not in the clever way he started off with.
Wow I am SHOCKED that you don't like this, I thought the [SPOILER=Spoiler of the film]alternate history of whether the neighbours were home during the Manson killings was absolutely GENIUS[/SPOILER]
I agree Sith, I really enjoyed that one.
For us last 2 film were Beckett and Molly's Game on netflix.
Beckett - Does a lot really well - the atmosphere and tone is spot on. However an awful lot of the film felt repetitive - man runs from police, waits a bit, and runs again. Overall I still enjoyed it, definitely worth a go. 7/10.
Molly's Game - really enjoyable start and end but let down a little by pacing in the middle. Some great performances throughout. Overall very enjoyable and not what I expected. Well worth a watch, 8/10.
Quote from: SithAfrikaan;446435Wow I am SHOCKED that you don't like this, I thought the [SPOILER=Spoiler of the film]alternate history of whether the neighbours were home during the Manson killings was absolutely GENIUS[/SPOILER]
Agreed I thought it was a very solid film. Really good performances from the two main leads and a fantastic take on events it took inspiration from. 8/10.
The new Cinderella - its rubbish, 2/10
Schumacher - on Netflix.
Pretty nice insight to the workings of the man, his personality and most important his drive and motivation. Through the words of friends and family. Certainly a different perspective to a much told bio of a great driver, father, husband and friend.
I felt the ending without any spoilers, was a little unnecessary when they talk about his accident. Why a family would want to go through that publically when they have gone to such lengths to keep their lives with their Dad private since 2013, strange to me.
6.5/10 and maybe more if you really like to see into the life of sportspeople.
Dredd ... guns and gratuitous death scenes aplenty, minimal dialogue, perhaps a vague hint of a desire for philosophical undertones that someone kind of gave up on ... fun, forgettable, don't expect much and it's just fine :flirty:
If you watch the trailer for The Green Knight, and like me get buzzed off your socks for a new EPIC film in the Arthurian Universe of quests and knights and sorcery... DONT
This film left me completely in the dark, and feeling actually quite violated. It features some incredible cinematography completely wasted on a very VERY weird story filled to the brim with no understanding and really like, really weird scenes that I wish I honestly had never seen...
Good luck if you try this film!
Quote from: suicidal_monkey;446547Dredd ... guns and gratuitous death scenes aplenty, minimal dialogue, perhaps a vague hint of a desire for philosophical undertones that someone kind of gave up on ... fun, forgettable, don't expect much and it's just fine :flirty:
This film also feels much more acomplished when you remember what a complete pigs breakfast Silvester Stallone made of the original film.
Zog and the Flying Doctors - unmissable sequel to the original Zog film, featuring a strong female lead and tackling some of the big issues of the day. 9/10 and raising hopes for a fantastic denouement in the as yet untitled Zog 3.
Spider-Man; no way home 9/10
Loved it, bringing in the enemies from the other spidey films was a great idea, as it’s opened up the multiverse in the marvel film series. Not writing anything more about it as it will be spoilers
The Power of the Dog - Netflix
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDPo0CHrko
I love a western....and I really enjoyed this, great twist, not your standard fair and a few subjects probably not appropriate for young 'uns, but watch....Loved it.
Watched Resident Evil: Welcome to raccoon city, quite enjoyed it was quite cool to place parts in the movie from the very first game way back when would love it to get a sequel anyone else seen it?
Killer piñata í ¾íº...- yes it’s a horror movie about a piñata that looks like horstacio from viva piñata! 6/10 as it’s not exactly high budget movie, think it’s about a £3000 budget, but it is done well
The Batman, the latest installment in the batman series which I watched last night, bit of a long film at 3 hours but I was thoroughly impressed with it, the music is great and the general grime/grunge feel of the city and how it's presented was great. Good story too, hopefully they will make more.
I have also been watching the halo tv series, is anyone else watching it?
Quote from: TheDvEight;448261I have also been watching the halo tv series, is anyone else watching it?
Yes, liking it so far, humanising the story of Master Chief.
Matrix: Resurrections - loved the first two hours as it went through it's "great action scenes while doing meta, self-referential slating Warner Bros and franchise reboots generally" routine - didn't like the big "zombie" finale last 30 mins. Ultimately was well worth the rental on *streaming service of choice* - 8/10