Last movie watched...

[Tjm86]

Just so long as you don't get daft and start including the LOTR, Froggit and Harry Potter films in there.  Now that would just be silly!

[richerthanyou]

Deadpool. A bit behind the times since everyone on the planet has already seen it. It was great. Crude. Crass. Hilarious. Violent. Everything I wanted from a deadpool movie.

Can't wait for the sequel. 9/10

[Mattofthespurs]

Watched Goosebumps on Wednesday (5/10)
Watched Deadpool on Thursday (9/10). This was probably the most fun I have had at a cinema for a long, long time and that includes seeing Star Wars, SPECTRE, Bridge of Spies, Jurassic World. Laughed out loud all the way through it, as did most of the audience I saw it with.

[Mattofthespurs]

Jackie Brown is one of my favourite Tarantino films!

I'm with you on that. A brilliant film, based on a brilliant book and Tarantino showing that he can do (slightly) restrained.

[Jim_Campbell]

Watched Deadpool on Thursday (9/10). (18/2)

Fixed that for you. Sorry... a lot longer to wait for Christmas than you thought...

Cheers!

Jim

[ThryllSeekyr]

Finally got to see Future-Shock - A Story of 2000AD today. After it arrived in my mail box. I only ordered dvd from JB Hi-Fi earlier this week.

While I expected all the that rough talk from creators here after seeing the teasers and the trailer for this. It still really comes as a shock to me within the context of the full documentary. Even if it's essential to punk themes at the roots of this publication.

Naturally, I loved seeing a [spoiler]slightly animated Slaine hacking into one of those pre-flood critters with his Leyser-Sword and then later Mike MacMahon's famous picture of him vs the time-misplaced T-Rex.[/spoiler]

About the negative side of this  hinted at above. Well, the problem with me is that I do have a habit of assuming everything I read or watch on a big screen is related to me somehow. This may be a subconscious thing and in this situation it does come into effect.....

Which brings me back to something I wrote about wanting to improve upon that Slaine - the Horned God trailer. I merely wanted to see thing more atypical of northern lands and I also take heed that I only know stuff from what I have deciphered through the internet and not official somebody and only a fan. I know I should have kept this to myself, but I succumb to my fan boy weakness to set things right and want do this myself. I don't really want to contact any of the true creators until I'm absolutely sure I can do what I said I could. Otherwise, this is just a flight of fantasy for me and who ever else finds my plan interesting.

Now, after watching has increased my doubts and the new lease of sanity I got from moving house.
While I appreciated the encouragement, wether it was silent or given and the resentment that might be felt by a lot of you. I'm just foreign fan boy who's always admired from a far and never any closer.

Anyway, watching the animations...all of them really, got my creative juices flowing. Still not sure about my original plan, though. Yet, I now have the work space need.

[Professor Bear]

The Art Of The Deal - Johnny Depp stars as Donald Trump in a movie following the orange one's mid-80s pursuit of the real estate he needed to build his own version of the Taj Mahal ("the most beautiful thing ever made by a muslim"), only in casino form in Atlantic City.
It's made by Funny Or Die so hilarity rarely ensues, but Depp's Trump is a surprisingly watchable bigot and I'm a huge fan of artificial artifacts and false history stories, so with an intro by Ron Howard, a proprietary theme song by Kenny Loggins, and cameos from Alf, Dr Emmet Brown, and the surviving Fat Boys, this is like catnip to me, and is probably the best way to revisit the Worst Decade In History: briefly, and not really.

[sheridan]

The Art Of The Deal - Johnny Depp stars as Donald Trump in a movie following the orange one's mid-80s pursuit of the real estate he needed to build his own version of the Taj Mahal ("the most beautiful thing ever made by a muslim"), only in casino form in Atlantic City.
It's made by Funny Or Die so hilarity rarely ensues, but Depp's Trump is a surprisingly watchable bigot and I'm a huge fan of artificial artifacts and false history stories, so with an intro by Ron Howard, a proprietary theme song by Kenny Loggins, and cameos from Alf, Dr Emmet Brown, and the surviving Fat Boys, this is like catnip to me, and is probably the best way to revisit the Worst Decade In History: briefly, and not really.

As in Alien Life Form ALF?  I've never even heard of this film...

[I, Cosh]

Thought After Earth was a pretty entertaining matinee romp. Its full of bits cribbed from better films but it has a ridiculous but cool monster which can smell fear. Big Willy Smith does a good job playing against type as the hard-assed space hero dad with an absurd name. While Little Willy certainly doesn't have much of his dad's swagger yet, he does alright as the boy coming of age by confronting a fear-sniffing monster rather than a girl. Good, predictable fun.

A bit less predictable but a lot more fun was Repo Men. Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker play off each other really well as a couple of everyday workers carrying out repossession of organs for a medical insurance company. The first act rattles along with a very sub Dredd/Robocop type of black humour. The middle sags a bit as the needs of the plot force it into a chase and some shocking revelations but it all comes back together for the finale. Lovely, bloodstained stuff.

I'll go one better and do a star wars style ranking of Tarantino films INCLUDING star wars films...

ESB>PF>SW>ROTJ>RD>JB>HE>DU>TFA>>>>KB1>>>IB>KB2>ROTS>DP>TPM>>>AOTC

I like to keep my meat and veg separate, so QT only:
{TR}>RD>PF>KB1>DU>{NBK}>IB>KB2>H8>JB. Not seen DP or 4R

[CrazyFoxMachine]

The Revenant

A visually stunning and deeply human experience but it fails to live up to the breathtaking immediacy of its first moments. At around the half an hour mark it sadly becomes doggedly linear and it turns into more of a grueling experience than a revelatory one.

Certainly an unforgettable visual adventure but narratively quite a disappointment. Although it bucks the reality behind the story it would have been more engaging to [spoiler]pursue the mesmerizing Poulter and Hardy rather than spend hours with the struggling DiCaprio.[/spoiler]

[richerthanyou]

Paul

My expectations were too high. With Pegg and Frosts name on the cover I was expecting comedy gold. It was ok, but not brilliant. I think if you had replaced the main actors with unknowns the film would have been straight to dvd. There were a couple of funny moments. "They're gonna rape us and break our arms." "I don't want my arms broken!" heh.

6/10   

Would have been a 5 but I enjoy seeing then do their homoerotic things together.

[Professor Bear]

The Signal - sci-fi chin-stroker about some college kids who get banged up by Uncle Sam after a close encounter with an alien.  It's surprisingly well-made for something so stupid, but stupid it most definately is, with one twist being that [spoiler]a character doesn't look at his own legs for a week or so and thus doesn't notice that they're now clunky robot legs[/spoiler] - and I know that sounds ludicrous, but the makers have seeded a logical reason [spoiler]for him not to notice: in the earlier parts of the film the character has crutches for his Wonky Legs Syndrome so wouldn't necessarily be aware that half of him was from Cybertron now, not even when he goes to knock one out because he's just broken up with Olivia Cooke.[/spoiler]  Then near the end it turns into a Fantastic Four origin movie, because of course it does.
It's a really stupid film, but the only reason you don't see the twists coming is because it's a well-made film, and you just won't think a film that seems to take itself so seriously will go to the kinds of stupid places The Signal does, but it does, and all told, it is a pretty dumb movie that ends just as it finishes the story's second act.

[NapalmKev]

The World's End - I really don't understand the love this film gets. Simon Pegg was abominable and the whole thing is a laugh free zone. Utter Shit and Hot Fuzz is far better.

Viktor Frankenstein - the first hour was quite good but then the film went a bit Hollywood and lost all of the emotional drama it had been building on. On a plus note, the monster had a touch of Dredd about him (sans helmet)

Cheers

[Tiplodocus]

DEAD POOL which I thought pretty good.

MR HOLMES  - a great turn by Syrian McKellen as the titular 'tec. Not your typical sherlock affair; more like one of those Star Trek episodes where Spock or Data learns that logic isn't everything. And curiouslying, the second Holmes thing this month that involves him bee-keeping while retired and a trip to the Orient. (The other being a Neil Gaiman short story)

[Keef Monkey]

Deadpool - Loved it, great fun. I'd worried that the character would grate over the running time, but thankfully that wasn't the case. It's a movie where every single line has a joke of some sort, and while I can't say I chuckled at them all enough of them hit for it to keep me laughing throughout (there was one scene where the laughter in the cinema was so sustained that it felt like a stand-up gig, been a while since I saw a cinema lose it like that). Reynolds is fantastic in it and born for the role, the action is great and (didn't expect to be saying this) it's got a lot of heart and a great love story at its core.

Crimson Peak - Missed this in the cinema but being Del Toro I knew it'd be worth a purchase. Wasn't disappointed, it looks absolutely stunning. Have seen criticisms about it being too long and slow, but I think if anything I would have liked it to have been a bit longer and have taken more time over some elements. The romance and some of the reveals and shifts felt like they could have used more room to breathe and a bit more flesh on their bones, and the film was so nice to look at and sink into that I'd have been more than happy to watch it take more time over those. Definitely one I want to watch more of, have a feeling I'll get more out of it on further viewings. Forgot how grim the gore in a Del Toro movie can be as well, it's disturbingly graphic in places.