Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut

They are doing a live screening with full orchestra which should be amazing .

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets ... fault.aspx

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (3D).

6/10 for me. The only saving grace was a cameo from Nice Peter and EpicLloyd.

Interstellar (Sky HD Movies on Demand)

I'd read a good deal about this film prior to seeing it for the first time yesterday afternoon (don't you love Bank Holidays?). I still wasn't quite sure what to expect, but hoping for the best, in I plunged.

It didn't disappoint. I didn't struggle with the plot (as I'd feared), instead I found the whole thing quite engaging and interesting. I guess the film was more of a 'thought piece' than anything else, supplemented with some great visual effects work and solid performances throughout. Several themes (the survival of humanity in the face of an almost overwhelming existential threat, family, loss, time's arrow, etc) were all touched upon in a thematically ambitious plot.

All in all a thoughtful, ponderous film with some challenging themes.

7.5/10
Worth watching, especially if you're looking for something with a bit more depth.

Exodus - 6/10

It was alright but overly long and a a bit dull at times. Not as good as Kingdom of Heaven. Also Moses looked a lot like Bruce Wayne

gamerforever wrote:Hunger games 1 - wanted to see what the fuss was all about. Decent film, but nothing really spectacular with a weak story.

Interstellar is also a brilliant film - i haven't been let down by chris nolan once. Still have to see the film memento - any good? Inception is a little better than this imo, but still best film in a while.

Saw marigold hotel 2, which was a pretty good sequel. Sometimes you need to see light hearted films, they can't all be epics!

Memento is a bit backwards film.

Literally.

It's not one I would watch again and again, but you have to watch it.

Godzilla - 5/10
I was promised Brian Cranston and fighting monsters. It let me down on both fronts.

Fast & Furious 7 6/10 Fun set pieces, but everything else felt like nonsense.

Cabin in the Woods - 6/10

Heard a lot of good things about this, but it seemed pretty average to me. Wouldn't really call it a horror film either, but it held my interest at least.

Interstellar - 6.5/10
Not nearly as good as it should have been It was too long and had too much going on. And the less said about the ending the better. Also, what's the strawberry floating deal with the sound mixing? strawberry floating terrible. I lost count of the amount of times I had to turn it RIGHT UP to hear the mumbled dialogue but then turn it back down again when gooseberry fool kicked off. strawberry floating bullshit film. Also the aspect ratio kept changing. Was this a problem with my 'version' or do all versions keep switching aspect ratio?

It's got like an hour or so filmed with IMAX cameras, which fill the whole 16:9 screen. The regularly shot scenes are just in the super-widescreen. That's probably why the aspect ratio switches about.

Dark Knight Rises does the same and Tron Legacy and some others

It's strawberry floating distracting. I'm usually a fan of Nolan's films, but this was a mess of a film.

They have said sound issues people have is not a problem but how the film is supposed to be.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60211/so ... terstellar

I love the film but that's a bullshit excuse, at the IMAX the sound was perfect but it was terrible in the cinema and just about okay on Blu Ray. I like that the music over-powers things sometimes but it goes a little too far and they should have considered all formats

I saw it in Bradford imax and found the music over powering there, but I think it just might be a bad experience in general, I watched Avatar there in 3D and couldn't see a damn thing.

What We Do In The Shadows (via Sky Movies on Demand)

Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles - like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection - modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

This is a chortlesome movie - not so much laugh-out-loud as nicely-observed, slyly self-aware and often ridiculous. Three 'old-skool' vampires (one of them some 1000s of years old) struggle with immortality in modern-day Wellington, New Zealand. It's a gentle sort of fly-on-the-wall docu-comedy (ala The Office), but is punctuated (quite literally) with unexpected moments of genuine horror. Getting the balance between whimsy and horror can't have been easy, but here its done with aplomb: some sequences here segue from comical to chilling in mere seconds. The characterisations are spot-on, beautifully observed (wait till you meet the gang of werewolves - 'we're werewolves, mate, not swearwolves'), and the three or four central cast members are brilliantly absurd in different ways.

This is hugely recommended. Trust the Kiwis to get it right!

Part-funded by Peter Jackson's Wingnut Films.

7.5/10
A gentle, funny, sometimes chilling vampire docu-comedy.

Cal wrote:Trust the Kiwis to get it right!

Don't say that when Manny is around.

I really want to see that movie but am going to wait until it is on normal Sky Movies or on Netflix (I am too mean to pay Sky any extra for movies!).

Chef - Watched this recently on Netflix and really enjoyed it. The story is a bit hackneyed but fun and heartwarming. Kind of makes you want to jack in the job and do something you actually want to do. Nicely shot as well and a healthy dose of food porn. Even RDJ's cameo is relatively understated. All in all, I'd recommend it.

7.5/10

Rex Kramer wrote:Chef - Watched this recently on Netflix and really enjoyed it. The story is a bit hackneyed but fun and heartwarming. Kind of makes you want to jack in the job and do something you actually want to do. Nicely shot as well and a healthy dose of food porn. Even RDJ's cameo is relatively understated. All in all, I'd recommend it.

7.5/10

Yeah I liked it too.

That cheese toastie looked gooooood.

Fast and the Furious 7 - 7

Daft but actually quite entertaining. Got quite emosh at the end too.