Christ what a miserable thread, bunch of grumpy old men. Only one I agree with is the Happening, ironically named that one.

Harry Potter films – pick one.

All drivel.

Anything on Netflix. Trying to think of an exception…

Only watched Sicario one and two last week on Netflix. They were really good especially two.

I’ve scrolled through all of these and amazed no one mentioned “Downsizing” with Matt Damon. I’ve never watched a film to the end that was so bad. It was awful!

Film4 had some variation of the xxx franchise on last night, “xxx: warmed up corpse” probably.

I can only describe the plot as: 50 year old Joe Exotic’s husband tribute act rides a skateboard and everywhere he goes, girls at most half his age want to have sex with him.

The creepiness levels were off the chart. It was like something out of Prince Andrew’s Pornhub searches repackaged for an R rating.

Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.
Can’t remember watching a decent film since The Departed.Yes,grumpy old t—.

Watched a recording last night of the Bladerunner sequel and found it an indulgent,glacial borefest.

Theres a real lack of talking. Really important characters meet and have barely anything to say to each other. The sets and environments are lovely but you only really notice them so much because you’re bored of what the people in those environments are doing.

Moon. – Sam Rockwell is effing amazing in every film apart from this one. Incomprehensible

Absolutely no way. ‘Moon’ was one of the very few sci-fi films of the last two decades that didn’t suck big logs. And it was British 🇬🇧!

Can’t we do best films instead? Here’s a starter:

Moon – Sam Rockwell, is effing amazing. Comprehensibly chilling journey through a fascinating parable.

Watched Doolittle with the kids last night. Trying to be Pirates of the Caribbean but just ended up a total chaotic mess.

Also, had high hopes for Ad Astra and really wanted to like it but it was nonsense.

But the crown for the biggest disappointment in all my film watching days goes to Prometheus. Unbelievably bad in every way and I was willing to give it a metric tonne of doubt but what a wasted opportunity.

Edit: Totally agree about Moon – fantastic. Another one of the few recent  scifi films that doesn’t suck is Ex Machina.

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.

@nickc

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.