Films you've watched recently.

[Mad Cyril]

The Gentlemen.

I lasted about 20 minutes - just awful.

Why is Guy Ritchie still allowed to make films?

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Innocents - Norwegian "horror". Kids with psychic powers. Not an easy watch but riveting nonetheless.

 

[Napster]

Batman - superb. Absolutely brilliant 9/10
Nightmare Alley - del Toro doesn't put a foot wrong. 8/10
Scream (2022) - average fare, better than Scream 3. 6/10
Licorice Pizza - the pick of the bunch. Wonderful, life-affirming stuff. 9.5/10
1408 - OK horror/thriller, the short story was better, but John Cusack's an excellent actor. Nice twists. 7/10

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

TopGun Maverick 10/10, but watch the original beforehand

 

[MK Shrimper]

Boiling Point - restaurant drama that like 1917 is done in one shot. Technically stunning but the story is very simple and virtually non existent. Worth a watch 7/10

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Batman - superb. Absolutely brilliant 9/10
Nightmare Alley - del Toro doesn't put a foot wrong. 8/10
Scream (2022) - average fare, better than Scream 3. 6/10
Licorice Pizza - the pick of the bunch. Wonderful, life-affirming stuff. 9.5/10
1408 - OK horror/thriller, the short story was better, but John Cusack's an excellent actor. Nice twists. 7/10

I liked it too.

 

[pottster]

The Gentlemen.

I lasted about 20 minutes - just awful.

Why is Guy Ritchie still allowed to make films?

Think I've tried three times to watch that, and after 20 mins gave up. It's just the same characters and story line as lock stock.

 

[The Big Dady]

TopGun Maverick 10/10, but watch the original beforehand

 

[Ricey]

Fast and Furious 9, love these films and this one is just as ridiculous as the others. But love the franchise and hope it continues with more stupidly unreal scenes.

 

[cerbera45]

Predator (1987)

 

[rigsby]

Predator (1987)

I remember seeing that on Holiday in the US in 1987….. The novelty of seeing a film several months before UK release had tempted me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Batman - unnecessarily long and dark but it's ok. The Nolan Batman's are far better. 6/10

 

[BALDY]

The Batman - unnecessarily long and dark but it's ok. The Nolan Batman's are far better. 6/10

Nolan's Batman films were great----"The Batman" was too long for me to go and see.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Nolan's Batman films were great----"The Batman" was too long for me to go and see.

Wasn't overly keen on the last one. The Batman isn't a bad film, it's just overly bleak.

 

[Napster]

Wasn't overly keen on the last one. The Batman isn't a bad film, it's just overly bleak.

The comics are bleak. This is the Gotham aesthetic.

 

[united we stand]

I remember seeing that on Holiday in the US in 1987….. The novelty of seeing a film several months before UK release had tempted me.

Reading this made

Predator (1987)

reading this made me realise that there are so many lines in the film that I know off by heart

I ain’t got time to bleed- have you got time to duck?
Billy you ain’t afraid of any man- it’s not a man
If it bleeds, we can kill it
Anytime….
Gonna have me some fun

And of course,- ‘get to the chopper’

I’m sure I have missed many more


Brilliant film

 

[cerbera45]

Reading this made

reading this made me realise that there are so many lines in the film that I know off by heart

I ain’t got time to bleed- have you got time to duck?
Billy you ain’t afraid of any man- it’s not a man
If it bleeds, we can kill it
Anytime….
Gonna have me some fun

And of course,- ‘get to the chopper’

I’m sure I have missed many more


Brilliant film

I love the helicopter ride into the jungle (with the music blaring out)

 

[Medway Blue]

The Batman - unnecessarily long and dark but it's ok. The Nolan Batman's are far better. 6/10

Nolan's Batman films were great----"The Batman" was too long for me to go and see.

Wasn't overly keen on the last one. The Batman isn't a bad film, it's just overly bleak.

The comics are bleak. This is the Gotham aesthetic.

Agree that it could have been cut short by 30 mins or so, but it didn't affect my enjoyment or rating of the film. It still had me gripped and I wasn't clock-watching towards the end like I have when watching other overly-long films.

I absolutely loved it. The source material is bleak, so the film was always going to be dark. I thought Nolan's Batman Trilogy was pretty dark too, although maybe not to this extent.

To be fair, why has it taken this long for a Batman film to portray Bruce Wayne as brooding, moody, ****ed up and in a dark place? He watched his parents get murdered in cold blood in front of his own eyes as a child. That should be more than enough to **** anybody up for life. It was a refreshing and realistic change from "playboy" Bruce Wayne.

Loved the fact that Bruce Wayne and the Batman alter ego almost swapped places, like Bruce was more comfortable as Batman with nobody knowing the identity than he was in his own skin.

Loved that they took emphasis off "Batman the superhero" and put it back on "Batman the detective". He is the world's greatest detective in the comic books, after all.

Loved his monologues. The one at the start was great - "Some say I lurk in the shadows. They're wrong. I AM the shadows." So cool. Then the sound of his footsteps and his first appearance out of the dark at the subway station and the "I am Vengeance". The end monologue was good too, portraying how self-aware he is becoming in acknowledging that he needs to park the rage and lust for vengeance if he's going to become the hero that the people of Gotham need and deserve.

Colin Farrell as Penguin - make-up and performance both unreal.

Loved the car chase scene with Penguin, and his second visit to the Iceberg Lounge was off the scale. The scene where he encounters bad guys in that pitch black corridor and proceeds to beat the living **** out of them and the only light illuminating the scene comes from the staccato gunfire. Very cool and artistic. Reminded me of the Darth Vader corridor scene in Rogue One where the only light came from his red lightsaber.

Enjoyed Paul Dano's take on Riddler. More grounded, unsettling and thought-provoking than Jim Carrey's version. Jigsaw rather than camp comic book-type.

So, yeah. Loved it. Would probably place it 2nd, between TDK and Batman Begins.

 

[Napster]

I’ve watched Suspicion and Angel Face both very good noirs and last night Lisa and the Devil which is bonkers

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

TopGun Maverick 10/10, but watch the original beforehand

Very generous scoring BB, and I do agree it is a cinema experience at it's flying and music sequence best. Hooray for Uncle Sam and apple pie.
Old style feel good movie. 8/10 from me.