Films you've watched recently.

[MK Shrimper]

Mary Poppins - excellent of course, but a little bit dated and overlong IMHO. Sometimes they really should have subtitled Dick Van Dyke.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Mary Poppins - excellent of course, but a little bit dated and overlong IMHO. Sometimes they really should have subtitled Dick Van Dyke.

Mary Poppins is beyond criticism - DVD's accent apart. And only a year or two younger than me! One of the best films ever. The remake has an awful lot to live up to.

 

[manor15]

Paddington 2 - 9/10. Better than the first one. Hugh Grant brilliant.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Paddington 2 - 9/10. Better than the first one. Hugh Grant brilliant.

Great film indeed. Grant is laugh out loud funny!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Maudie - Sally Hawkins plays disabled Canadian "folk" artist Maud Lewis. It's all right, screams Oscar bait but it's a very bleak film. 6/10

 

[* ORM *]

The Man with the Iron Heart

WW2 based on the true story of the assassination of a high ranking SS officer. The brutality isn't for everybody (though it is not gratuitous).A little over 2 hours long but it didn't seem like that. I've just read some of the reviews and sometimes I just don't understand critics. I thought this was excellent. Well worthy of an 8 out of ten.

And nobody can EVER, EVER slander Mary Poppins!

 

[* ORM *]

Murder on The Orient Express ,10/10 .

Nowhere near as exciting as Orient on the Relegation Express

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Justice League. Pretty good, a lot of unnecessary hate around what is a very enjoyable, fun, superhero movie. Some great action, I still like Affleck as Batman, I liked Cyborg more than I thought I would, Momoa as Aquaman was badass but kind of thin, the Flash is the heart of the movie and really funny. Not as good as the Wonder Woman movie but it's still an up curve for the DCEU. 8.5/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Murder on the Orient Express earlier.Throughly enjoyed it.Not often a remake is much better than the original but this certainly was.

 

[Southminster Shrimper]

Geostorm - 5/10 Crap. Kingsman: The Golden Circle 8/10 I loved the first one and was impressed with the second. Not sure it beats the first one but still great!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Detroit - an excellent film that made me so angry. Brilliant. 10/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Detroit - an excellent film that made me so angry. Brilliant. 10/10

It is indeed an excellent film.:thumbsup:

 

[Jam_Man]

Dunkirk 5/10

All the big names and was expecting a lot from it, but its poor.

Watch this film and you get the story of how 300 soldiers got rescued by about 20 boats.

How Nolan fails to capture the scale of it with the CGI available I have no idea.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Dunkirk 5/10

All the big names and was expecting a lot from it, but its poor.

Watch this film and you get the story of how 300 soldiers got rescued by about 20 boats.

How Nolan fails to capture the scale of it with the CGI available I have no idea.

Agreed. Thought it was quite poor.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Dunkirk 5/10

All the big names and was expecting a lot from it, but its poor.

Watch this film and you get the story of how 300 soldiers got rescued by about 20 boats.

How Nolan fails to capture the scale of it with the CGI available I have no idea.

Yes, although 5/10 is possibly fair if not watched in a big screen situ; the spitfire scenes are great to watch. It is ridiculously loud though but very little plot cohesion or depth of characters plus time span of sequences is all over the place.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Fritz Lang's wonderful film noir The Big Heat again earler.Don't think I've ever seen Glen Ford (or indeed Lee Marvin ) in anything better.

 

[Southminster Shrimper]

Detroit 8/10 Enjoyable film. Something I really know fairly little about so it was interesting for me. Will Poulter and a few other actors were excellent in it.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Dunkirk 5/10

All the big names and was expecting a lot from it, but its poor.

Watch this film and you get the story of how 300 soldiers got rescued by about 20 boats.

How Nolan fails to capture the scale of it with the CGI available I have no idea.

I still haven't seen it but haven't heard great things, just a few "yeah it was okay" probably due to the subject matter, no one wishes to be overly critical - thanks for honest assessment.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

George Clooney's Suburbicon from a Cohen brothers script.Didn't work for me I'm afraid.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Mother!

What the actual ****? Entertaining actual ****iness, but....what the ****?