Stickied The Last Film You Saw Thread (& Discussion)

[Gilly?]

I'm not really a superhero fan but The Dark Knight is brilliant. Heath Ledger is absolutely superb.

 

[Don Tonberry]

Ex Machina

Very interesting film with some great performances from Gleeson, Issacs and Vikander. Will always have you wondering what's going to hapen and raises some interesting questions about humanity.

9/10

 

[Ginola14]

Just saw Whiplash.

That was pretty fucking intense, it was a bit like Full Metal Jacket meets Black Swan. Knew nothing about the movie beforehand but saw it had been well reviewed. J.K. Simmons gives an outstanding performance. 8.5/10

Just saw this and I gotta agree. Intense at times, moving at others. I also thought, at times, it was M&S does drumming....

 

[SUTSS]

Selma

A very good film but just lacked something that would have made it a great film. Feel there is a better film to be made about King.

7/10

 

[SALTIRE]

Tim's Vermeer [2013]

A film by Penn & Teller of their inventor friend Tim Jenison who has often wondered how artists like Vermeer and Caravaggio managed to make their paintings so life-like, and so sets about trying different camera obscura's (light boxes that artists used back then that reversed an image onto a darkened wall that they could then work with) and playing about with mirrors and other optics until he managed what he thought was the technique Vermeer apparently (though not proven) used. Once he did this he went about trying to reproduce stroke-for-stroke Vermeers 'The Music Lesson', and despite not being an artist at all, manages astonishingly to reproduce the great artist's work to a very high standard.

A lovely thoroughly enjoyable film of a really interesting polymath in Jenison, and it showed his passion, talent, dedication and perseverence in order to pull this off very well.

9/10


Here is the finished result with Jenisons version on the left and the original Vermeer on the right. (The image is a bit big to post directly here so I'll link it.)
https://eocathcart.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/vermeer-big.png?w=2080

 

[Stevencc]

RoboCop 2 (1990)

7/10

 

[Son of Cod]

The Dark Knight is massively overrated. I liked rhethe other two Nolan ones better, to be honest. Batman Returns is better than all three of them. I'm not into comic book films either, though.
Tried to watch V For Vendetta a while back as I'd heard good things about it. Terrible. Switched it off at around the 45 minute mark.
The best comic book film I've seen is still without a doubt American Splendor.

 

[Benito]

Dumbo (1941)

Seen numerous times when I was young, very nostalgic one of my very favorite Disney films brings the feels everytime.

8/10

 

[Stevencc]

Dem pink elephants!

 

[Benito]

When I see an Elephant fly.

 

[silvergull]

Tim's Vermeer [2013]

A film by Penn & Teller of their inventor friend Tim Jenison who has often wondered how artists like Vermeer and Caravaggio managed to make their paintings so life-like, and so sets about trying different camera obscura's (light boxes that artists used back then that reversed an image onto a darkened wall that they could then work with) and playing about with mirrors and other optics until he managed what he thought was the technique Vermeer apparently (though not proven) used. Once he did this he went about trying to reproduce stroke-for-stroke Vermeers 'The Music Lesson', and despite not being an artist at all, manages astonishingly to reproduce the great artist's work to a very high standard.

A lovely thoroughly enjoyable film of a really interesting polymath in Jenison, and it showed his passion, talent, dedication and perseverence in order to pull this off very well.

9/10


Here is the finished result with Jenisons version on the left and the original Vermeer on the right. (The image is a bit big to post directly here so I'll link it.)
https://eocathcart.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/vermeer-big.png?w=2080

A fantastic watch, and pretty enlightening too.

 

[Oaf]

Dem pink elephants!

When I see an Elephant fly.

Let's not forget the totally not racist blackbirds!

But yeah, Dumbo is great.

 

[SALTIRE]

When I see an Elephant fly.

I used to sing that at my sister as she got nicknamed Dumbo when she was young!

A fantastic watch, and pretty enlightening too.

Yeah it certainly was, glad you enjoyed it.

 

[SALTIRE]

Let's not forget the totally not racist blackbirds!

Thats probably how you never see it on the tv much if at all these days, just like The Dam Busters with Guy Gibson's racist name for his dug, despite it being a tremendous and rousing film.

 

[White Army]

50 shades of grey 3/10. Shite

 

[Craig]

The Colony (2013).
Atrocious. 1/10

 

[Richard Cranium]

Last Vegas 7/10
Welcome to the Junge 1/10. 2 hours of my life I will never get back.

 

[Gilly?]

Starship Troopers
It's got a terrible, terrible script, it's incredibly cheesy but it's great fun and it never gets old. Lost count of how many times I've seen this flick. 8/10.

 

[Mustard]

Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe's 'autobiography' of his experiences touring in the 70's as a young journalist. I really liked it, it's pretty stylish and has a good story, even if a little cheesy at times. Very good soundtrack but I guess that's to be expected. I'd probably give it an 8/10 but Kate Hudson is absolutely dreamy in this so I'll settle for 10/10.

 

[Megaclyde]

Jupiter Ascending- 8/10
Suprisingly decent, just full of a few too many cliches

 

[Smally]

Iron Man - 8/10. Basic story well told and a really good start to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Robert Downey Junior is perfect as Tony Stark

The Incredible Hulk - 6/10. I'm probably being generous, not a great film or story. Necessary, although I didn't like that Norton was able to control his Hulk more than being a raging monster

 

[Mr Bauer]

The Maze Runner.

8/10

 

[Cas]

Total Recall 9/10. Original of course.

 

[Stevencc]

Total Recall 9/10. Original of course.

 

[SALTIRE]

"You make wish I had three hands!"

 

[Cas]

"You make wish I had three hands!"

 

[SALTIRE]

 

[silkyman]

Had 'Welcome to the Jungle' on as background fluff as I was working this afternoon.

JCVD in an incredibly silly comedy about a group of business people who go full on Lord of the Flies after a team building event on a desert island goes wrong.

Very stupid, occasionally quite funny, film snobs would hate it.

 

[Ginola14]

Foxcatcher - Bennett Miller

Meh, twas alright. Nowt more. Two Olympic wrestling champions join a team sponsored by a local millionaire and things turn a bit south after a while. Great performances by Ruffalo, Tatum and Carell but the story, I felt, just dragged it's heels.

A Most Wanted Man - Anton Corbijn

I love Corbijn's "The Amercian" and I'd say this is up there too. An illegal Muslim immigrates to Hamburg and gets caught in a world of shit and the war on terror. Great storyline and some fine performances. Soundtrack is decent too.

 

[SALTIRE]

Laughter In Paradise [1951]

A rich practical joker dies and in his will his four beneficiaries must do silly tasks in order to claim their inheritance from him.

Old fashioned fun that was a decent watch. It slowed down unnecessarily due to a love story development midway, but the acting was spot on, particularly from the great Alistair Sim.

6/10