Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut

Deadpool

Jeez! It was so funny and gory which I enjoyed it. :lol:

captain red dog wrote:I saw Star Trek Beyond over the weekend. Not impressed. It felt like Pine and Quinto had absolutely no chemistry, which wasn't helped since they hardly had any screen time together. But there were other issues which surprised me given Pegg (a Star Trek fan) wrote it. None of the characters felt anything like their original counterparts. It wasn't even a re-imagining, these were like totally new characters with little to no link to the originals aside from their name.

Take Kirk, it felt like he had absolutely no authority and was reduced to almost a bumbling hero. Spock felt far too emotive, McCoy was somehow a gooseberry fool hot pilot, Sulu was utterly anonymous and Chekhov was an absolute cartoon. Pegg is utterly useless at Scott.

As a run of the mill summer blockbuster, it was ok I guess, but entirely forgettable. As a Star Trek film, it bore little resemblance to the tone and delivery of anything in the franchise. Probably the worst Trek for me since Insurrection.

The plus points were the Franklin kind of looked like the NX Enterprise so that was a nice nod and that the ugly ass Enterprise got destroyed. They also made the Enterprise D destruction in Generations look good in comparison though so it was a double edged sword!

Very disappointed given the reviews and the hype, not surprised to see the actual box office performance has been disappointing though. It's also falling into the trap of introducing movie only shite aliens when they have the Klingons and Romulans to pull from and could even pull from the Borg if they wanted to get experimental.

I also found it a rather poor Trek film but to be fair I also had the added downer of this being my first 4D experience and the constant action meant I was being thrown about in my seat constantly and blasted by air from the back of the seat.
I later went to see the new Bourne film in 4D and the implementation was vastly better with the seat motion and bumpers (in the back of the seat and legs) only kicking in during the fight or car chase scenes and the wind effects only being used for the car chases where he went into smoke or even better when he was attacked by a knife wielder and the air was blown at the right time to heighten the feeling of a knife just missing your head which was fantastic.

Star Trek, Beyond being all action was not how a good Star Trek film should be (even First Contact which is action packed had great segments of dialogue and character interaction) and the accent of Scotty was so overdone it really pissed me off he wasn't that Scottish in the last 2 films why did he suddenly decide after a few years in space to act like the most Scottish man in the entire universe.

I am however hugely confident the new series can take back Star Trek to the thoughtful highs of TNG and tell a bunch of good stories with some action thrown in now and again.

The new Trek films are just generic space action movies. Whilst the TNG movies were mostly wank, at least they tried to capture the more highbrow aspects of Star Trek. Maybe that was why they were mostly wank, maybe that kind of thing just doesn't translate well into a movie.

Preezy wrote:The new Trek films are just generic space action movies. Whilst the TNG movies were mostly wank, at least they tried to capture the more highbrow aspects of Star Trek. Maybe that was why they were mostly wank, maybe that kind of thing just doesn't translate well into a movie.

Really need to finish watching Startrek Beyond, gave up with it halfway through. (It is an odd numbered Trek film so it was always going to struggle) I would struggle to put the reboot 3 in a list with the other 10, mainly as they are so different and do not have the familiarity of the cast that the others did. Heck the worst 3 for me are 1, 5 and 9, and I think I would rather watch them than the reboots.

Ex Machina.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I kept guessing to myself what could happen at the end and was pleasingly wrong about most of it.

It also had my total concentration the whole time. Sometimes when I watch a film on TV in the evening, my attention wanders but not so with this.

I watched that recently too. I really hoped (and expected) that I'd love it, but I found the whole thing a little too clinical and joyless. Certainly executed well, but I think it's a film to be admired rather than adored. I'd give it a 7/10.

Also watched The Good Dinosaur, which is crud-tier Pixar but still a fairly enjoyable film. It's a 6/10 from me.

Doctor Strange - 7/10

A very solid film.

Strange is Ironman without the charm at the start of the film so his journey is an interesting one. The effects are fantastic and not just the inception stuff. There are some very good moments and some brilliant bits of camera work.

The supporting cast are all very good and Mads is good but underused. Should have been cast as Dr Doom as he was born for the role.

Ending is strong and the two post credit scenes are both very good and important.

It's not GOTG or Cap 2. But it's very enjoyable and really adds another dimension to Marvel's cinematic universe.

Doctor Strange (IMAX) - 8.5/10

Some of the effects were truly quite stunning. I'd put it on a level with Ant-Man and probably the first Iron Man, in common with those is that if it's lacking in anything its a truly compelling bad guy, having said that this might actually be a little better than those two cases.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - 7/10

A decent action/thriller movie, not amazing but a fair amount of fun.

Arachnophobia

Still the most memorable TV ad Ive seen for a film - "Godamn it where are you?!"

80s classic. (Although it was made in 90 and released in 91)

8/10

Dr. Strange 7/10 Another enjoyable Marvel action film. Would have liked more a bit more characterisation on some of the side characters, largely because it would have made certain parts of the final act have a little more emotional weight or tension to it all.

13 Sins. Not sure if this would be classed as a horror. Draws ideas from other films, but worth investigating. 7

Grimsby 3/10

Awful.

Race 6/10 - Not too much to say would have liked a bigger focus on the games itself.

Girl on the train 6/10 - I think the film just tries to be more clever than it is, leading to unsatisfying twists.

Charlie Wilson's War - 8/10

Really good performances from Hanks and Seymour-Hoffman, always like Cold-War films. Felt really short though, flew by.

Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2

I didn't know why it's taken me four films to realise this, but this is such a dull film franchise. The first part might well have been a Battle Royale rip-off, but at least it had a bit of colour, from then on it's just been one long drag. Characters are laughably one-dimensional, there's a scene where they're being picked off by some monsters and by the end I had no idea which ones had survived and which ones were dead. And frankly I didn't really care.

4/10.

Yeah Hunger Games is top tier weak sauce, load of gooseberry fool.

12 Angry Men - 12/10

I try and watch this at least once a year, and I'm more and more coming to the conclusion that this is the best film ever made. It's just absolutely without fault, genuinely perfect.

Preezy wrote:12 Angry Men - 12/10

I try and watch this at least once a year, and I'm more and more coming to the conclusion that this is the best film ever made. It's just absolutely without fault, genuinely perfect.

The Conjuring 2

I didn't realise it was a true story.

Independence Day Resurgence 4/10- The idea was promising, the return of the old characters is pretty neat though I'm not a big fan of the new ones. Probably as a stand alone movie deserves a 5/10 but a knocked a point off for ruining what could have been an amazing sequel.

I would however be interested in seeing the sequel if it gets made.

Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut

Who is online

Affiliates