Last Film You Watched

[fish]

We'll probably have to wait for the DVD release in Oz, but it's certainly one I'll keep a lookout for.

[Ian]

Saw Gone Girl at the cinema today. Very good, I thought, very well acted and engrossing. It's a good thriller, but what surprised me most was what a brutal swipe it takes at the media and society, particularly the current general obsession with venerating women as perfect Goddesses who can do no wrong while demonizing men, male sexuality and male interests at every turn. There's some pretty seditious points made in here! I liked it.

[DMt.]

...the current general obsession with venerating women as perfect Goddesses who can do no wrong while demonizing men, male sexuality and male interests at every turn...

[From a recent email] Much is made of the nuclear family's exploitation of, and toxicity for, women; but very little is made of the daily sacrifice, for their families, of so many decent men. It is taken for granted, ignored, perhaps because of the urgency of sorting out proper power relations with the women; but it should be acknowledged, and it will be, in happier times. The woman devoured by the home, the man devoured by the job, who is better off here? No-one, that's who.

[fish]

Ok.
The dog's gone home.
I finally got around to watching We Are The Best.

Hmmmm.

The story was very good and had some real humour to it.
The girls played their roles very well.
The only downside to me was Klara.
Bobo and Hedvig were great characters.
Lots of good feelings towards them.
But Klara.
I kept wishing someone would hit her in the face with a pie or something.
Selfish little b**** she was.

Overall, a good film.
Didn't think it was Moodysson's best, (well durrrr), but good enough to watch again for sure.

[Ian]

Saw Oculus last night. A couple and their two young children move into a new home, buying an antique mirror to decorate the father's home office. Within a couple of weeks both parents are dead. Ten years later, the young son emerges from a psychiatric institution to find his obsessive sister has tracked down the thing she believes is responsible for their family tragedy - the mirror, which she is convinced harbours a malevolent supernatural force that drove their parents insane, and now she wants to expose it and destroy it. But does she really know what she's doing? Doctor Who's Karen Gillan stars in this genuinely unsettling and scary supernatural/psychological horror that grips from the very beginning. I really enjoyed that!

[Dahls]

I kept wishing someone would hit her in the face with a pie or something.
Selfish little b**** she was.
.

Kids can be that way sometimes.
She just need to grow up a bit I guess, and hopefully mature.

Glad you liked it anyway.

[fish]

...Kids can be that way sometimes...

Yeah, I should have been a bit more tolerant as well and realised, of course, that this was the role Lukas painted for her.
I'm sure it'll be even more enjoyable next time.

[Ian]

Rollercoaster. A madman is planting bombs and causing disasters in America's amusement parks, and he wants money or he'll keep on doing it - lots and lots of money. George Segal stars in this quality 70s thriller from the creators of Columbo. Also featuring an extremely young Helen Hunt! A very enjoyable thriller.

[Ian]

Terror Train. A sick college "prank" lands a student in a mental hospital. Several years later the students are off on winter vacation on a train - but there's an unexpected passenger, one who's out for bloody revenge.... Jamie Lee Curtis earns her "Scream Queen" title again in this entertaining late 70s slasher. Oddly slow paced at times, but well made and acted and builds to a decent climax with a genuinely surprising left-field twist. Fairly good really.

[Ian]

Saw A Walk Among The Tombstones at the cinema yesterday. Liam Neeson is an ex-cop turned "unlicensed" private eye hired to track down the kidnappers of a drug dealer's wife, who brutally murdered her even after he paid the ransom. Neeson finds it's part of a sick pattern, and when a young teenage girl looks like being the next victim, all bets are off. Unremarkable but solidly entertaining thriller.

[Ian]

Saw Collateral Damage last night. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fireman who loses his wife and kid in a terrorist attack and when the US government seems unwilling to do jack, sets out to bring him to justice himself. This was one of the very few Arnie movies, I've never gotten around to seeing, and I... can see why it took me so long. No wonder Arnie took a ten year hiatus if this is all he was getting offered by Hollywood in the early 00s! And, indeed, it is SO "early 00s action movie" in that it's just so incredibly flat, ordinary and bland. The climax is moderately exciting and I cackled at the bit where he did a Mike Tyson on the guy's ear, but that was about it. Arnie is fine, and Elias Koteas is reliably punchable as a dodgy CIA jerk, but the actual main villain - the terrorist - is as bland as the rest of the film, which also seems like a TV movie a lot of the time. "Bland" is not a word you associate with Arnie films in the 80s and 90s and even his comeback films in the last couple of years have all been way better than this.

[Ian]

Had a double bill last night, with the spy spoof/romantic comedy DEBS and the 80s classic horror Child's Play. Thoroughly enjoyed both of them. D.E.B.S is a lot of fun, a very silly but very amusing spy comedy mixed with a bad girl/good girl unlikely lesbian romantic comedy as well. I've always found it very amusing and likeable, and still do.
Child's Play is of course a classic! The original and the best Chucky movie, the effects are still amazing - no frickin' CGI here, people, just puppetry, animatronics and talent - and the film walks a lovely line between chills and absurdity without falling over the line like some of the sequels. The climax is brilliantly tense - that is one mean mother of a doll! - and the moment, exactly halfway through the picture, when we finally see Chucky come to life is just wonderfully deranged. "You stupid bitch! I'll teach you to **** with me!"
Absolute classic.

[Ian]

Saw John Wick at the cinema today. John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has just lost his wife, with all that's left of her being the little puppy she bought for him, when a gang of scuzzballs attack him in his home, steal his car and kill his little dog. They've just made a very big mistake however, because John Wick is a notorious former hit-man, and he's about to come out of retirement... Thoroughly enjoyable, uber-violent oldschool action flick. Excellent, as Bill and Ted might say.

[Santi]

I like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Stallone, Steven Seagal (my idol who broken bones).
Good specials effects, explosions, punching, broken bones.

Are films for no think and have fun
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Debs don't like me very much, is fun but I get tired.

[Ian]

Arnie is a legend.