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Started watching Uncut Gems a couple of weeks ago having heard a positive review from (normally very reliable) Mark Kermode. Had to turn it off after about half an hour - something about it just made it virtually unwatchable.
Prometheus
Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.
Agreed on Alien Covenant.
"Kingsman - Golden Circle" was a real crock of shite and only served to enhance my dislike of Elton John. Shame as I enjoyed the first one.
6 Underground was pretty awful too. The least said the better.
Knives Out whilst not being a terrible film was a real formulaic who-dunnit with the main suspect obviously exonerated near the start of the film. As I said, not the worst I've seen but really don't get the hype at all.
Moon – Sam Rockwell, is effing amazing. Comprehensibly chilling journey through a fascinating parable.
Agreed, a real gem of a film. Directed by David Bowie's son.
Sorry no Moon was boring af... I can do slow paced films quite happily, but just didn't like Moon at all.
Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.
Agreed. Nothing happens!
Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 2). Utter rubbish. this franchise started OK, but went downhill with every film. A waste of a seriously talented actress.
And Moon is one of the best sci-fi films ever made.
We re-watched The Stuff a few days ago.
Midnight Special. Kind of felt like it had some potential, but jeez the ending/reveal to it...
Can’t remember watching a decent film since The Departed.
Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.
Moon and Ex Machina are both really great proper sci-fi. Upgrade, whilst not in the same league, is worth a watch too.
Don’t get me started on Prometheus and Alien “You blow and I’ll do the fingering” terrible films.
Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.
Which just goes to show, i suppose, that one shouldn't go looking at 19th a-holes (Joseph Conrad) to be the source material for your film, guilty parties:Roeg, Coppola, Grey, Scott (all white middle aged film school grads) It's a shit book, it should come as no surprise that it's makes for a shit film...
Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.
Remake, whatever.. still one of my favourite films.
Remake, whatever.. still one of my favourite films.
The Departed or Infernal Affairs? 😉
It’s alright, but has Mark Wahlberg in it.
Prometheus
Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.
I as recall from reading trashy film sites at the time it went a bit like this:
Hollywood pitch meeting
'Alien and Aliens are very, very good, largely because of one of the best Baddies in film history, you think it would be impossible to screw up an Aliens film, but somehow pretty much every time we've tried, we've made a right royal mess of it, but reboots and sequels are the only films being funded at the moment, let's go right back to the start and ask Ridley Scott to make it.'
'Ridley hates sequels and the whole reboot thing, he wont do it'
'Ah, but he wants to make another film that doesn't stand a chance because it's not a sequel or super hero thing, tell him he can make that, if he makes Alien 5'
'Okay, I've spoken to him, he'll make a prequel not a sequel because he doesn't want to be tied by Aliens etc and he wants full artistic control'
'Sounds great'
First script draft meeting
'Erm, Ridley, are there any Aliens in this?
'Nope, it's a prequel about the Universe Alien exists and the planet they're first found, not the Alien'
'You didn't want to make an Alien film did you?'
'Nope, told you so'
What followed was a year old battle between the studio trying to cram in more Alien and Ridley trying to make another film and the end result was the mess we saw.
The real crime was Alien Covenant, again he still didn't want to make another Alien film, but sort of made half of one, and then because he *might* have another go at it, they shot down Neill Blomkamps Alien 5 film, but that might also have been because he's starting to look a bit like a one-hit-wonder.
Ah the pointless western remake of Infernal Affairs.
See, I've seen Infernal Affairs, just my opinion but everyone I've met in real life who say it's better, it lying to seem cool. 😉
I’m lying to wind people up. So not the same 😀
Not a fan of Scorsese though.
Not really Conrad's fault. Apocalypse Now is a superb film and so was 2001. Combining them was a feasible idea but obviously it needs a proper script, decent acting and good directing.
Sharknado - except for the last two minutes which are so hilariously bad that they are almost genius.
I tried Year One - switched off after 20 minutes. Utter tripe,
It’s alright, but has Mark Wahlberg in it.
His one and only perfect role 😊
Reminds me that Alien Covenant was on the other night. Holy shit they let them do it twice.
I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.
Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 2). Utter rubbish. this franchise started OK, but went downhill with every film.
Sounds exactly like the source material. Never wanted to punch a main character so hard, I must have been going through some sort of masochistic streak to read all of them.
I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.
6? What about AVP 1&2? Got to be 8.
Godzilla II: King of the Monsters, now I do like some brainless monster action but this is way too bad. My goal is to watch it before this corona thing is over and it has taken four days already.
2012.
Absolutely ridiculous. Was on channel 5 on Sunday, I turned it off but then went back to it on +1 to see if it really was that bad and to see how it ended. Why money gets given to make films like that I have no idea.
Battle of the bulge how can a film with so many great actors be that bad ?,overacting on an epic scale.
I watched all 6 alien films last weekend and enjoyed all of them.
Could rank them in order...
Aliens
Alien
the rest (all crap)
That last one (Covenant?) was hilarious. Was there a flute playing alien guy? Or did I dream that?? (must've).. Utter garbage.
Doom: Annihilation.
I loved Doom back in the day but this was utterly, utterly, utterly dire....
Straight to video was too good for it!
I think I’ve fallen for some clever trick, or like an arty 21st century joke... I watched “Bait”... 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Erm, the bits I managed to keep my eyes open through, were like some 6th form art project. Kid got his mates in to try to act. Got his 12 year old sister to edit it and presented it as some arthouse classic. Ha! You can’t fool me you sneaky bastards!
Moon was excellent. Prometheus sucked.
Suicide Squad. What a load of shite. I was staying with friends so no choice. I wanted to pull out a gun and shoot the TV every time Harley Quinn simpered in wearing her undies, and started squeaking like a five year old.
I sat through Prometheus too, had blocked that out, lasted about ten minutes of alien covenant.
And Moon is a great film! Try watching it again, sober this time!
Aquaman and Snowpiercer both watched on the same flight. I was just about ready to open the door and jump out.
I wanted to pull out a gun and shoot the TV every time Harley Quinn simpered in wearing her undies
I could only manage it once
That last one (Covenant?) was hilarious. Was there a flute playing alien guy? Or did I dream that?? (must’ve).. Utter garbage
No, he was a flute playing robot guy who just loved the aliens so much he wanted to wipe out people.
It was indeed a turd of a film.
I imagine the pitch went largely
studio "every other alien film bar the first two has been pretentious, or rubbish, or pretentious and rubbish, so what we want is a scene by scene remake of the first one, or the second one, at a push".
ridley "can I do the first one, but put dr frankenstein in it? I really like dr frankenstein"
studio "will the rest of it be exactly like the first one?"
ridley "I have this great idea. The first half will be exactly like the first one, and the second half will be exactly like the second one. But with dr frankenstein."
studio "will you put an alien in it"
ridley "yes"
studio "good"
We watched The Hunted last evening. I know films aren't supposed to be actually real, but Tommy Lee Cooper fighting, chasing people, tracking through cities, falling down waterfalls with terrible CGI...
Thought of this thread about 15 minutes in, and nothing about the rest of the film stopped me thinking about posting this, this morning....
We watched The Hunted last evening. I know films aren’t supposed to be actually real, but Tommy Lee Cooper fighting, chasing people, tracking through cities, falling down waterfalls with terrible CGI…
Sounds like you should have watched The Fugitive or US Marshals instead. ( I did like the Tommy Lee Cooper joke though 🙂 ).
Was he wearing denim jeans and a fez ? 😀
Taking liberties here as it wasn't the worst film I've seen , nor was it particularly recent , and I know others liked it , but certainly the biggest disappointment ever at the cinema for me given how it was hyped up was Dunkirk . Spectacularly over rated .
Well I have just gone through four pages or movies,most of which I haven't heard of. Iam glad to say that my 3 out of a 4 part series doesn't feature. I assume these must be better that the Hollywood Block Busters
Part 1 :
Part 2 :
Part 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcT3z9_Htxo&t=14s
Critical reviews expected but please watch all three before commenting. Part 4 to be filmed when the Home Delivery arrives
Yep agree with Dunkirk being terrible.
But then It had Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles as the main characters so it was never going to be much more than a film equivalent of the Next catalogue.
...and we have a new winner folks
Straight in at number 1 is Call of the Wild. Even Harrison Ford couldn't save this one. Disney comprehensively screws up my favourite childhood book good and proper.
I think I'm watching it right now. Punisher: War Zone on Film4. No Thomas Jayne, no style, no story, no script. Have made it to the first ad break but I think that's it for me.
Just to mention, Channel 4 10:55 ... Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Kate McKinnon and Demi Moore! In! Rough Night. It’s shit, see how far you can get through it! 😂
Hustle, turns out it’s a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels without any of the wit. And whilst we’re here can anyone explain Rebel Wilson to me.