Rate the last film you watched (4)..

[Seagull]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody

Yeah,..I've rarely seen him in a bad film,
He tends to be a good bet for appearing in something very watchable intelligent and well written,
I'd also add to that list; Disclosure, The Sentinel and Fatal Attraction.

Indeed, I’d forgotten about Fatal Attraction. The Sentinel is one I’ve always avoided based on mediocre views; worth a watch?

[Tembo]

Originally Posted by Kooky Monster

The Post 4/10

Spielberg, Hanks and Streep and it was still a meh af film.

I watched this last night. I agree with you! A bit disappointing, and the subject matter wasn’t the most exciting in the world, for me anyway.
I did watch it all the way through though, and it got a bit more interesting towards the end.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by Seagull

Indeed, I’d forgotten about Fatal Attraction. The Sentinel is one I’ve always avoided based on mediocre views; worth a watch?

Yeah, definitely worth a watch,
Kiefer Sutherland is pretty good in it too,

It's a really good story/action thriller even without Michael Douglas etc.

Only slight detraction is Michael Douglas is clearly of an age, and to have him out-running and getting the better of younger agents takes a degree of imagination to believe.

[Seagull]

I’ll get in early this weekend:

D!! .

[Seagull]

^ and ^^

[Seagull]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody

Yeah, definitely worth a watch,
Kiefer Sutherland is pretty good in it too,

It's a really good story/action thriller even without Michael Douglas etc.

Only slight detraction is Michael Douglas is clearly of an age, and to have him out-running and getting the better of younger agents takes a degree of imagination to believe.

It hasn’t stopped Liam Neeson in his last 10 or so celluloid (or digital) outings. When you’ve got a ready supply of Just For Men ‘Unnatural Looking Jet Black’ hair dye age is just a number...

[Rocket Spud]

World War Z

Not gonna finish this. Crap.

[Pink*Lady]

Doctor Sleep 7/10

[edbander]

elysium - 7/10 I usually have time for decent special effects. the only problem is, special effects distance you from the subject of the film. and I reckon we're a lot closer to the subject of the film than the film suggests. special affects = this might happen in the future. I reckon some countries have already surpassed the level in the film. it's directed by the same guy who did district 9

standard storyline, nice effects

da vinci code - 7/10 I enjoyed it. some cozy hollywood fluff.
nicely made.

the new world - 7/10 this was cool. just some really artistic story.
gorgeously filmed

mona lisa smile - 6.5/10 interesting stuff. I enjoy it when a film exposes the **** beneath the surface of something that appears spotless. (stepford wives is like that, but more sci fi)
just an interesting sort of story

[Pink*Lady]

Deja vu 7/10
The Photograph 9/10 I also love the background music in this film.
Changeling 7/10

[Seagull]

The Page Turner - 6.735/10.

Love Crime (starring our own K S-Thomas) - 7.14/10

Two fantastic French thrillers. No one does thrillers like the French, and on a fraction of the budget of the vapid, Hollywood gravy train mush.

[kirbycrackle]

Riff raff - 6/10

A thinly disguised social commentary on working class deprivation etc. Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson are in it...it’s on YouTube

[Galatea]

The Waltons Christmas movie, The Homecoming on YT

at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEEnFtmV0I

runs for 1hr 38min

made in 1971, and the prelude to the tv series which I loved.

Would watch again; will add to my list of Christmas movie viewing.

[Mr. Nobody]

^

I was really looking forward to seeing Tenet, until Covid happened,

I'm hoping when cinemas do eventually open here they'll still be showing films that were affected by the Pandemic,
could be a huge let-down right enough if it's not up to his usual standards.

[Seagull]

Personally thought Inception was one of the worst films I’ve sat through and Tenet looks like more of the same - a self-indulgent meandering experience with zero pay-off.

Game of opinions I appreciate. I guess Nolan just doesn’t make films that ‘sing’ to me, but the noise made around Inception I found completely baffling and imho out of all proportion to the product.

[Mr. Nobody]

I think when I saw inception it was actually an SA meet,.

We all walked out afterwards and asked each other, " WTF was that all that about?"

visually, it was an odd kind of feast,. But as far as meaning went, I was totally lost,..it escaped me.

[Seagull]

^ 100% my experience of it Mr N!

[Jen.]

I downloaded Tenet too, but haven't seen it yet. Maybe this weekend. I've read that it's difficult to make out what anyone is saying in it, but I watch everything with subtitles on anyway and the file I got included subtitles, so this won't be a problem. I don't know why the trend for incomprehensible dialogue is continuing since people have been complaining about it happening for several years now. I assume I probably won't like Tenet anyway since people whose opinions I trust said that it isn't very good, but it's good to give these things a chance. I think I liked Memento, but I watched it so long ago that I can't really remember it. I didn't like Inception at all (it just seemed like very straightforward action film disguised as something intelligent) and I found Interstellar incredibly boring, but those are the only films I've seen of his. I watched Inception at the cinema twice because the first time the only seat left was on the front row against the wall and I couldn't actually see anything. I thought I didn't like it because of that, so I saw it again a few weeks later and after getting a good look of it I hated it even more than the first time

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally Posted by faceless crime

Tbh if you are one of the people who found Inception 'hard to follow'/incomprehensible then don't even attempt to watch Tenet, lol. I knew where I was with Inception.

There are several reasons why Inception worked and none of his other films have worked for me, but I think the key thing is that Inception did have an emotional core to it, and that emotional core rests squarely on Leonardo Dicaprio's shoulders. Nolan decided to cast a guy who is an atom bomb of emotional performance, and Leo took that watchmaker's script and bawled his little heart out all over it, and the result is just emotionally devastating. But even that's reliant on really communing with LD as an actor, which I do, and some people don't. Nolan's films are chess games, but Inception was like trying to play a game of chess but your deeply unstable opponent keeps sobbing and knocking all the chess pieces off the board all the time. There's this thread of raw anguish splitting that film apart, and it's ugly and wonderful and horrible.
There's more I could go into – Cillian's Murphy's amazing performance for example– but infodumping about Inception is something I have been told off for IRL before so like....

There really isn't a film that affects me in the precise way Inception does, and the character of Dom Cobb does. Definitely rewatching it at the weekend. God knows how many times I've watched it now. Not enough goddamn times!!!!

Wow!
I think you've definitely hooked into what Christopher Nolan has intended for his audience,.. I feel bad for missing what you're getting out of that, ..
I do really like most of Di-Caprio's work too,

I think when I saw Interstellar (that was an SA meet too), it really did blow me away, I loved that film and did manage to really get the whole idea, story, and feel of the film,.

Batman series with Christian Bale really kicked ass, and Heath Ledger was unbelievable, ..amazing series of films.

I do have a copy of Inception, so should really re-visit it for old times sake.

[Seagull]

^ Kill two birds and watch the 2009 film Interception instead, rated only 2.9/10 by IMDB, but at least you’re spared Nolan’s self-indulgence and it’s almost like watching Interstellar and Inception combined in one delightful viewing sitting. Make it so.

[Indigo_]

Inception is one of my favourite films, I would recommend multiple viewings if you're confused. I liked Tenet, definitely needed subtitles and had no idea what was going on 85% of the time but still thought it was clever. I love Christopher Nolan

[john smith]

Really liked Inception that and The Prestige. Missed it first screening in cinema but when I heard the theory that Cobb was the target of the Inception rethinking noticed all the possible signs. Very clever.

[john smith]

War with my Grampa (2020) 8/10

Surprisingly good comedy that I thought would be a mediocre Robert DeNiro film.

[john smith]

Saw Tenet at Cineworld before it shutdown again.

Wasn't a fan. To much heavy exposition, no real stand out action scenes and to me feels weirdly restricted in scale to Nolan's previous films. Pretty disappointed.

[Mellie]

Bird box 10/10

[Jen.]

I watched Host the other day and really enjoyed it. I wasn't expecting to since it basically looked like an Unfriended copy and it was made about and during lockdown, which I thought would be irritating (and the references to it were pretty irritating - though thankfully it doesn't dwell too much on it) but it's only 56 minutes long and once the action starts it keeps getting better and better. I read about how it was made afterwards and it's pretty impressive... the director didn't spend time with the actors and they all just filmed their parts on their own and did their own stunts and effects. It's amazing what they managed to achieve, some genuinely creepy parts. 9/10

[Rocket Spud]

Currently watching Backcountry. It's supposedly based on a true story: a couple go hiking into the wilderness, things go wrong, etc. I'm 45mins in and it's slowly burning away, pretty uneventfully. It's not been poor enough to stop and i'm too involved now... and hopefully it's gonna get better because the things that i don't like about it are becoming more obvious....

[Rocket Spud]

... It was woeful: 4/10

[Pink*Lady]

Series 2 of Harlots - love all the boobs in tight corsets on display....

[choirgirl]

^Got a bit of a soft spot for Die Hard, even though I'm not usually one for action films. It's so 80s. And Alan Rickman being a baddie.