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I was expecting to like the Babadook as I'd heard it was a bit more orginal but I found it really uninspiring. Same old cliched creaking doors and flickering lights as every other horror film, and it wasn't scary at all.

Arrival - 8/10

A great movie, hard to say anything about it without giving bits away.

more heat than light wrote:I was expecting to like the Babadook as I'd heard it was a bit more orginal but I found it really uninspiring. Same old cliched creaking doors and flickering lights as every other horror film, and it wasn't scary at all.

What would you say is the best horror film made in the last 5 years?

Death's Head wrote:

more heat than light wrote:I was expecting to like the Babadook as I'd heard it was a bit more orginal but I found it really uninspiring. Same old cliched creaking doors and flickering lights as every other horror film, and it wasn't scary at all.

What would you say is the best horror film made in the last 5 years?

It Follows was alright.

I'm a big horror fan too so thought I'd recommend one that I saw. It's called Carnage Park and it's on sky movies. I'd never heard of it and I'm pretty clued up with films that'll appeal to me but this one slipped through the net.

It's nothing original but it's very well done with some particularly nasty bits. I won't spoil it by saying anything about it but just watch it, it's pretty good.

Thought Extraterrestrial was a decent flick too, one of the better alien abduction movies I've seen. Some annoying characters but genuinely creepy and unsettling at times. Just leave your brain soaking in the bath

Not a horror but it was the last film I watched, Don't Breathe. Very silly but very watchable film. Worth the price alone purely for the scene. Get that down you son

The Trust.

Average heist type film. When was the last time a Nicholas Cage film was good?

5

Joe was a pretty good film and the best I've seen Nicolas Cage in a while. Certainly worth a watch.

Primer - no clue/10

Really hard to rate a film like this, it's such a complex and opaque experience. Having said that, it was well acted and you wouldn't think it was made on a $7,000 budget. Despite having read the synopsis a couple of times before finally watching the film, I still struggled to follow it or take in what they were talking about 100% of the time.

It's clearly an incredibly well thought out idea and a great example of a serious time travel film, it'll just need a few repeat viewings before I can hand-on-heart say I know what's going on

Preezy wrote:Primer - no clue/10

Really hard to rate a film like this, it's such a complex and opaque experience. Having said that, it was well acted and you wouldn't think it was made on a $7,000 budget. Despite having read the synopsis a couple of times before finally watching the film, I still struggled to follow it or take in what they were talking about 100% of the time.

It's clearly an incredibly well thought out idea and a great example of a serious time travel film, it'll just need a few repeat viewings before I can hand-on-heart say I know what's going on :lol:

Surely having complete understanding of the plot of the film isn't necessary to rate it out of 10. Sure it might change on repeat viewings, it seems like you liked it if you've already committed to watching it again?

London has fallen. Absolutely ridiculous and 100 percent daft as a brush at every corner but utterly compelling to watch

Damm you Hollywood

72.49/87

Bring on Earth has fallen

The great escape - they had multiple opportunities to over power their guards and take their weapons. They didn't do it, therefore 1/10.

T2 Trainspotting 7/10 Nostalgia done right.

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I wish I could travel back in time to before Cyberdyne Systems made you and cut their funding.

Predestination. Not exactly what I was expecting. Almost a story about nothing, but still enjoyable.

7

Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:T2 Trainspotting 7/10 Nostalgia done right.

Just saw this on Wednesday. Probably because I'm the target audience but I'd give it a slightly higher 8/10. It's not as good as Trainspotting, not as genre defining maybe but it revels in the utter bastardry of the main characters and is a very good postscript to the original.

I'm tempted to give it a 9/10 just for the scene in the Orange Lodge. If you think it's too ludicrous to be realistic, trust me - it is not.

Preezy wrote:Primer - no clue/10

Really hard to rate a film like this, it's such a complex and opaque experience. Having said that, it was well acted and you wouldn't think it was made on a $7,000 budget. Despite having read the synopsis a couple of times before finally watching the film, I still struggled to follow it or take in what they were talking about 100% of the time.

It's clearly an incredibly well thought out idea and a great example of a serious time travel film, it'll just need a few repeat viewings before I can hand-on-heart say I know what's going on

I haven't seen it but was intruiged enough to google it as I hadn't heard of it before. There's diagrams online that might help you, although look at them alone made my head hurt

Tomous wrote:

Preezy wrote:Primer - no clue/10

Really hard to rate a film like this, it's such a complex and opaque experience. Having said that, it was well acted and you wouldn't think it was made on a $7,000 budget. Despite having read the synopsis a couple of times before finally watching the film, I still struggled to follow it or take in what they were talking about 100% of the time.

It's clearly an incredibly well thought out idea and a great example of a serious time travel film, it'll just need a few repeat viewings before I can hand-on-heart say I know what's going on

I haven't seen it but was intruiged enough to google it as I hadn't heard of it before. There's diagrams online that might help you, although look at them alone made my head hurt

Don't listen to him Preezy, Tomous was made by Cyberdyne Systems as well.

Brerlappin wrote:I hated the kid in the babadook with a burning passion. I actually think he ruined that film. So strawberry floating whiny

Well, given that his learning difficulties and his grief for his father, and the way his mother dealt with them (or the way she didn't), were pretty much the whole point of the film, I'd say he needed to be annoying.

Corazon de Leon wrote:

Fruits Punch Samurai wrote:T2 Trainspotting 7/10 Nostalgia done right.

Just saw this on Wednesday. Probably because I'm the target audience but I'd give it a slightly higher 8/10. It's not as good as Trainspotting, not as genre defining maybe but it revels in the utter bastardry of the main characters and is a very good postscript to the original.

I'm tempted to give it a 9/10 just for the scene in the Orange Lodge. If you think it's too ludicrous to be realistic, trust me - it is not.

I'm the same. Probably an 8.5 for me. Saw it on Saturday.

It just nailed pretty much everything, for me. I was worried it would all totally depress me (it was my 38th birthday treat) but it was done beautifully. I had a tear in my eye with Renton's wee dance to Iggy Pop at the end there.

The Lego Batman Movie 8/10

Yeah, DC have finally done it and made a good Batman movie in this modern era. They have such a winning formula with their humour & feel good factor with the Lego series now and that final song beats Everything is Awesome. Still singing it now