Last movie watched...

[Keef Monkey]

Hush - Mick Garris had an interview with the director of this on a recent Post Mortem podcast (which is fantastic if you like horror!) and hearing him talk about his films got me interested enough to check them out. I thought this was really good, a nice twist on the home invasion slasher horror (the resident is deaf and mute, and that idea of someone creeping around your house when you can't hear them is pretty chilling) with some excellent tense moments and shocks. Will definitely be watching more of his films.

I thought Hush was pretty good too, well worth seeking out for genre fans.
Garris was the man behind the great but uneven 'Masters of Horror' TV series, featuring the most disturbing hour of TV ever broadcast- Imprint.

Yeah I'm really fond of Masters of Horror, there was a lot of genuinely great stuff came out of it (John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns was probably by my favourite, and Imprint was really intense) and even when the quality dipped it was always at least interesting and different to anything else that was on. Really enjoyed working through the boxsets and never being quite sure what you'd be seeing from episode to episode (and the extras were great)!

Garris is a great interviewer too and the calibre of guests he can get on is fantastic, really loving that podcast.

[shaolin_monkey]

The Hitman's Bodyguard - a nice bit of action comedy fluff for a Sunday evening.  Some of the rather OTT violence didn't sit well with the comedy at times, but there were definitely laugh out loud moments.  Ryan Reynolds was totally unlikeable, and Samuel L J stole the show as usual.

I won't be watching it more than once though, unless it comes on the telly and I'm too hungover to lift my head and look for the remote.

[TordelBack]

Z for Zachariah. Excellent cast and performances, especially the ludicrously young-seeming Robbie and some really nuanced emoting from Ejiofor, but badly let down by a needlessly contrived plot: the unlikeliness of the basic setup is the only contrivance required, when it starts piling coincidence and convenience on top the film takes on the feeling of a Lost-like/Hunger Games-ish otherworldly morality play, even though it isn't. If it had just followed its characters and how they dealt with their situation, with the examination of faith and morality coming from that rather than imposed by fiat, it could have been a classic adaptation.

[Professor Bear]

But who is to say that if O'Brien had survived to revise his novel before publication, he wouldn't have added Captain Kirk to it?

Adding a third character to a binary relationship that examines cynicism vs innocence is tone deaf enough, but this is also pretty much the exact kind of move for which people mock fanfiction: introducing a handsome new character with no discernible flaws that gets to do grown-up hugs with the female character.  This is the literal definition of cringe, and it surprises me not one jot to see modern journalists falling over themselves to call it a radical addition to the original text.
I suspect that like Starship Troopers before it, the ZfZ movie was half in the bag before someone pointed out similarities to an existing novel.

[von Boom]

The Hitman's Bodyguard - a nice bit of action comedy fluff for a Sunday evening.  Some of the rather OTT violence didn't sit well with the comedy at times, but there were definitely laugh out loud moments.  Ryan Reynolds was totally unlikeable, and Samuel L J stole the show as usual.

I won't be watching it more than once though, unless it comes on the telly and I'm too hungover to lift my head and look for the remote.

So a distinct possibility then.

[TordelBack]

But who is to say that if O'Brien had survived to revise his novel before publication, he wouldn't have added Captain Kirk to it?

I think the film could have survived adding a surprise extra bloke as a way of getting more visually explicit tension in there, and as always Chris Pine plays second-banana well: it was more the convoluted and improbable situations which arose: e.g. [spoiler]oh no, the ONLY source of suitable hydro-project wood in the valley is Daddy's church!  I almost starved last winter but the only shop is still full of million-calorie soft drinks and snacks, except the ones I like! While recovering (somehow) from radiation sickness in a cave the easiest way for me to get food was to sneak down to your farm and steal eggs - as opposed to the aforementioned shop! The starving teenager I killed looked exactlly like your brother! Every time we go out on our own together an opportunity for accidental homicide arises![/spoiler]

It's a pity, because the cast were great, and really could have handled a more sensible version. Ah well, we'll always have the Secret of NIMH.

[Mattofthespurs]

The Hitman's Bodyguard - a nice bit of action comedy fluff for a Sunday evening.  Some of the rather OTT violence didn't sit well with the comedy at times, but there were definitely laugh out loud moments.  Ryan Reynolds was totally unlikeable, and Samuel L J stole the show as usual.

I won't be watching it more than once though, unless it comes on the telly and I'm too hungover to lift my head and look for the remote.

Even if I was dead I would find a way to turn over the channel (or destroy the TV).
The worst film I have seen in decades.

[The Legendary Shark]

Salute of the Jugger. Rutger Hauer has made some piss-poor films in his time. This is not one of them.

[Tiplodocus]

AMERICAN ASSASSIN.

Actually, I only saw the trailer the other night with LOGAN LUCKY. But I might as well have seen the film because the trailer appeared to give away the whole plot and all of the big action beats. Almost a summary of the film narrative and in same order.

[Professor Bear]

That's to avoid it being spoilered for you on social media.

Go North - post-apocalyptic Bildungsroman starring one of the junior Schwarzeneggers, in which kids living in the aftermath of an unspecified catastrophe which kills all the adults set out to leave their oppressive commune and make for greener pastures.  For some reason their journey takes them along a route comprised entirely of abandoned buildings and country backroads which have in no way suffered the ravages of time or neglect, but maybe I just noticed that because I've seen so many Last Of Us and Fallout fan movies at this point - though to be perfectly honest, some of those were a lot more convincing than this was, with the Last Of Us fan-movies in particular plowing this storytelling furrow good and proper.

Flesh and Blood is undeniably a Paul Verhovan flick, but his visual style and the sweeping score make it feel like it comes from an earlier era than 1984.  It comes across as a successor to the Hammer style of garish period melodrama, complete with burning castle finale, big-tittied wenches wailing about the plague, and a king who's an utter bastard.  Rutgar Hauer is a highlight as the antagonist scumbag mercenary who only wants to better his position in life so that he can become a father and respectable landholder, but is held back by the social pressure of his peers to conform to the accepted norms of their status and also by the rapes and murders he does.
Good crack, but I would probably have enjoyed it more if I was drunker.

[Mattofthespurs]

AMERICAN ASSASSIN.

Actually, I only saw the trailer the other night with LOGAN LUCKY. But I might as well have seen the film because the trailer appeared to give away the whole plot and all of the big action beats. Almost a summary of the film narrative and in same order.

Know how you feel. I've seen that trailer 6 times now.
'Snowman' trailer starring Fassbender is even longer.

[Tjm86]

Salute of the Jugger. Rutger Hauer has made some piss-poor films in his time. This is not one of them.

Chort vozme!  Now that is going back a bit.  Early nineties wasn't it?  That era when a hell of a lot of cheese was being made that included some real gems.  Pretty much every sci-fi flick of the time was set in a post apocalyptic landscape (because it made the sets dirt cheap IIRC).  Trying to remember if it was him in that weird one set in a semi flooded London that got made a few years later.  Of course that could have been a really bad dream rather than a bizarre film that actually got made.

[Goaty]

What Happened To Monday as it on Netflix, enjoy it as interesting and it very familiar story but well done.

[Arkwright99]

Top Gun + Goodfellas + Lord of War = American Made. It's the sort of film that Tom Cruise can make in his sleep, so not particularly stretching his acting chops but I enjoyed it. Doug Liman brings the kind of directorial and editing flourishes, including splicing archive news footage and clips of older movies into the mix, that I quite like in a semi-fictionalised biopic.

[Smith]

Kong Skull Island I liked it.It kinda tries to go for Aliens and Apocalypse Now feels,but never quite gets there.But there are plenty of monster fights.So its a nice adventure/monster movie.