Review the last film you watched

[harrybarracuda]

Lucy - what could have been a great storyline was spoiled by crap,acting and implausibility at every turn - give it a miss.

There is a reason it's called Science "Fiction".

[Iceman123]

I thought you had to give believability/plausibility to a fictional plot - oh well you live and learn.

Next you will be telling me Harry Potter is made up as well!

[Looper]

Strange and esoteric on one level but contrived and sterile on another. Alien movie where Scarlett Johannson is an alien who picks up Scottish fellas in a van.

I did not find out until afterwards that all the fellas she picks up in the van are citizens and not actors and they are filmed with hidden cameras in the van.

I think it would have made it more interesting if I had known that beforehand. But even so I don't think the film has much to say really or makes any interesting observations on anything.

5/10

[harrybarracuda]

Strange and esoteric on one level but contrived and sterile on another. Alien movie where Scarlett Johannson is an alien who picks up Scottish fellas in a van.

I did not find out until afterwards that all the fellas she picks up in the van are citizens and not actors and they are filmed with hidden cameras in the van.

I think it would have made it more interesting if I had known that beforehand. But even so I don't think the film has much to say really or makes any interesting observations on anything.

5/10

Not entirely true, the deformed bloke auditioned.

Anyway it's a bizarre pile of crap and I was waiting for something exciting to happen, then she took all her kit off.

Which is about the only redeeming feature of this movie.

2/10 one for each thruppenny.

[Davis Knowlton]

"Gone Baby Gone" (2007). Detective looking for a missing kid on the gritty streets of Southie, Boston. Cops, druggies, some good plot twists. Highly recommended. Plus, Morgan Freeman.

[VocalNeal]

Lucy (2014)

I'm no Roger Ebert.

Slightly far fetched plot about drug smuggling and altered states. I wouldn't recommend it.

[Looper]

Intelligent thriller with entertaining ideas around artificial intelligence and human emotions. Manages to sustain a nice ambiguity about who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Johnny Depp is a good fit for the part.

Worth a watch.

8/10

[harrybarracuda]

8? Holy crap.

Maybe an 8 on my put-me-to-sleep-o-meter.

[Looper]

Wonderfully intelligent drama about German spooks trying to apprehend and manipulate Islamic terrorist assets with the Americans breathing down their necks.

Seymour Hoffman is a cinematic giant and a sad loss to the world.



10/10

[Looper]

Very nice movie about a boy growing up from about 10 years old to University. Filmed over 6 years so you see the actor actually growing up which is original. But even apart from that a very nice observational movie on the general trials of life. The 2.45 duration put me off for a while but you don't notice the time as the movie is quite absorbing.

8/10

[taxexile]

^^

"A Most Wanted Man" was a tour de force, totally gripping.

Today I watched "The Drop", starring James Gandolfini and the excellent Tom Hardy.
It is a simmering tension building thriller set in Brooklyn, about a local bar and the Chechen gangsters that control it. Gandolfini and Hardy are both superb.

It was written by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River.

10/10

[Humbert]

Fury - 2014

Crap war movie with some of the worst acting I've seen in years. Brad Pitt gives us the same hairy eyeball performance that he gave in The Assassination of Billy the Kid. Shia Labouf is even worse as a scripture quoting moron.

4/10

[Jesus Jones]

Fury - 2014

Crap war movie with some of the worst acting I've seen in years. Brad Pitt gives us the same hairy eyeball performance that he gave in The Assassination of Billy the Kid. Shia Labouf is even worse as a scripture quoting moron.

4/10

Agreed, total crock of shyte. What happened to the epic style war movies of the past? Budget goes on the actors I guess!

[Humbert]

Re: The Signal

You pair of Neanderthals!
That was a good film: 8 out of 10.

I liked it too. Director shows promise. Nice visual style.

[Humbert]

The Hundred Foot Journey

What is it with all these Indian themed movies lately? Too sweet for me and totally predictable but it do enjoy Helen Mirren.

6/10

[Looper]

John Jarratt puts in another pretty scary performance as the Aussie outback back-packer murderer.

In it's favour is that it still delivers on suspense without relying on gore quite as much as the original as far as I remember. I remember finding the original quite sickening in the gore and sadism department.

Some of the plotline is a bit patchy in the sequel but you are only really watching it for Jarratt's psycho performance.

7/10

[Looper]

Cleverly woven complex circular time-travel thriller with narrative elements of film noir and interesting themes of counter-terrorism and gender identity.

Ethan Hawke has made a couple of interesting movies recently.

Sarah Snook handles the emotionally complex role of Jane very well.

8/10

[Cujo]

Transformers 4.
Can't really tell you the plot because it was in Chinese but a good guess would be good transformers battle bad transformers and win.
It was most memorable because it was my 8 year old sons first trip to the real movies and he loved it. Big screen, surround sound, 3d transformers (lots of noise and action) with popcorn and a theatre full of other kids.
I hope he remembers it for life. I know I will.

[Neo]

Cleverly woven complex circular time-travel thriller with narrative elements of film noir and interesting themes of counter-terrorism and gender identity.

Ethan Hawke has made a couple of interesting movies recently.

Sarah Snook handles the emotionally complex role of Jane very well.

8/10

If you liked that I think you'd definitely like this

I Origins

A weird and wonderful film about serendipity, science and spirituality 7.5/10

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[can123]

The Interview.

It caused a lot of trouble one way or another. Personally, I would rather spend a week in a North Korean labour camp than have to watch any of it again. It would only appeal to the most stupid people on the planet and I urge others to avoid it at all costs. Truly awful in every way. I only watched it for about fifteen minutes and turned it off because life is just too short to watch rubbish like this.

[harrybarracuda]

Transformers 4.
Can't really tell you the plot because it was in Chinese but a good guess would be good transformers battle bad transformers and win.
It was most memorable because it was my 8 year old sons first trip to the real movies and he loved it. Big screen, surround sound, 3d transformers (lots of noise and action) with popcorn and a theatre full of other kids.
I hope he remembers it for life. I know I will.

Go and watch the other three, then try and remember which one you watched.

I reckon the director just put together 100+ hours of CGI and then sits down occasionally and assembles some of it into a film.

[Humbert]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) directed by Wes Anderson.

I haven't cared much for his other films but this one was great largely because of Ralph Fiennes in the lead role. Anderson has a quirky visual style that works beautifully for this story.
8/10

[Looper]

Genuinely creepy Australian movie about the psychological disintegration of a woman as her son becomes obsessed with the Babadook, a supernatural incarnation of a scary character from a mysterious pop-up children's book.

The movie has elements of The Shining, The Exorcist and The Evil Dead.

Wonderful performances from mother and child.

Do not watch alone!

8/10

[Looper]

This is Fellini's follow up to La Dolce Vita. It also stars Marcello Mastroianni. This one is a semi-autobiographical and surreal account of a film director struggling with creative block while casting a movie.

The movie is even less conventional than LDV. It merges dream sequences with real life and is quite difficult to follow from a narrative perspective. The scenes are beautifully created and are more about aesthetics than story I think.

8 1/2 out of 10 ?!

[Looper]

Ron Fricke's 3rd effort (after Koyaanisqatsi and Chronos) in the field of ambient film making where the movie is just scenes of planet earth and human life set to music with no narrative.

This one is much better than the 1st two (due to more human life scenes I think) and well worth a watch if you have never see it since it was made in 1992 (I have watched it many times but just found it again recently).

There is a follow up Samsara which I have also downloaded. I have also got the 2 other Qaatsi movies Powaqaatsi and Naqoyqaatsi which are not directed by Fricke I think.

8/10