Rate The Last Movie You Saw

That's one movie I actually didn't mind to watch. It was silly, but I had a few laughs.

"I hate black keys on the piano!"

Catch Me If You Can:

The Spielberg debate has inspired me. I don't know if its his best of the 2000s, but this and Munich are the only good ones that I can't call too sentimental. The protagonist is a bad person, which is extremely rare for Spiel. Acting and score are great, but really, Christopher Walken was the big awards player from this? I thought DiCaprio and Amy Adams both gave much better performances.

I had the rental disc waiting on the shelf for weeks dreading it as I thought it was going to be a complete and utter bore so kept putting it off... but wish I had watched it straight away now, loved every minute of it and really don't get why it didn't do well in cinemas/critics. Such an adventure. Granted, not a lot of 'Tomorrowland' actually in it but still, loved it.

London Has Fallen: 6/10

The plot starts and ends off very clichéd. I also thought it was a bit overdone with the explosions and the CGI looks very cheap. Plus Gerald Butler is not the best action superhero. The fast paced action makes for a good adrenaline rush escapism though.

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Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2016)

Why all the hate around here? Really, I thought this was a brilliant film from start to finish. A real delight, I'm tempted to go higher, and I can see this becoming a real favourite in the future. Really well written, funny script with lots of hilarious moments and surprising scenes. I had a smile on my face through most of this, loved all the movie within a movie scenes, the dark turns towards the end. All the performances,even the small ones, were great, especially Channing Tatum. Maybe people expected the huge cast to be used more, and that's why they were disappointed. As everyone has said though, Alden Ehrenreich is the real star of the show, every scene he is in is gold, I wish that he had more of an ending, another scene or two with Carlotta.

8/10

By far, the best Bond film of the Craig series and probably of the last 20 years.
I didn't like Craig when I saw him on Casino Royale, thought he was good in Quantum (despite the movie being horrible) but here he totally convinced me. I would even say that he only has Sean Connery ahead of him as the best Bond (Pierce Brosnan was the Bond when I was growing up so I have a soft spot for him. I have to check his films again).
About the film, the action is impressive, the plotline is clever and straightforward, Bardem is a terrific villain, it's visually really beautiful and the pacing is quite good. I loved all the references to classic Bond films (almost inexistent in Quantum) and I liked the soundtrack too (though I hate Adele).
It wasn't very well written which made it lose some points but it was a very entertaining movie that completely served its purpose. It even made me want to start watching the Bond films all over again from the beggining. Maybe I will...

Well I liked Hail, Caesar! but certainly not anywhere near as much as you. I'd say that it was a film of great moments rather than a great film. My main problem wasn't to do with how the cast were utilised but instead with the film's actual story. The film didn't really seem to actually have a great degree of interest in its central kidnapping plot, while to echo your thoughts on Ehrenreich's character, most of the subplots don't really go anywhere or have anything resembling a satisfying conclusion. It was all just rather flimsy and frivolous, seemingly an excuse for the Coens to just have fun with Hollywood of the 1950s and to try and recreate as many of the big genres of the time as possible

As I said though I did find a good deal to enjoy and certainly liked it more than a lot of the Coens' work since the turn of the century. I found it more entertaining and engaging than the likes of Burn After Reading, Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man etc.

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I don't think plot always matters too much, like The Big Lebowski I think is one of the greatest comedies ever but it's plot is almost irrelevant, it just serves as an excuse for us to enjoy some great comedic moments, and the same can be said here. Also similar to something like Inherent Vice, also with Brolin. But in this case I think the film could have been 45 minutes longer, because what it had worked. I'm not sure I'd use words like frivolous, because in most films the plot only really exists to give us cinematic moments, I really enjoyed the story, especially when...



But my idea for the ending would have been something more dramatic like:



But I don't think the plots necessarily had to be all wrapped up, especially not Eddie's. I think that was kind of what they were going for too, similar to a lot of their films where the lifestyles of the characters, especially violence related, are an endless loop. Like Marge in Fargo, or even the mobius loop that Llewyn Davis lives through. It was just like Llewyn Davis actually, starting and ending at the same place (the confessions), Eddie can't escape the life, and actually kind of enjoys it, the film only covers 27 hours I think, for him it's just another day.

Agree with you that it was better than Burn After Reading (okay) and The Ladykillers (poor), but really loved Inside Llewyn Davis too. Not seen the other two actually even though I own them

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Great film. It was nice seeing some vaguely connected stories come together to make the film; i enjoyed all of them. Even though i've seen The Manchurian Candidate it was still pretty odd to see Frank Sinatra in a movie, not sure if his performance was Oscar worthy but i did really like his character. I enjoyed his story with Ernest Borgnine and his final scene was pretty powerful but the thing i like most about him is his voice his speaking voice as well as his singing voice, loved his delivery throughout.

Now the best performance here for me was easily Montgomery Clift which i was not expecting as i said after i watched Red River he was probably my biggest problem with the film, i didn't think he was very good and he had nothing with his love interest . So as you can imagine it came as a big shock to me that i thought he had immense chemistry with Donna Reed as well as Frank Sinatra.

I thought Burt Lancaster, Phillip Ober and Deborah Kerr were very good but the love triangle story was probably the one i had the least interest in, Interesting that the iconic beach kissing scene quickly turns sour not that it was a bad thing was just unexpected, i actually felt it made that scene and their chemistry all the more realistic and effective. I don't want to ruin anything or use spoiler tags but i will say that the last 10 or 15 minutes were fantastic.

Anyway i thoroughly enjoyed this it will be a strong contender for my 50s list. Hope everyone else checks it out.

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Ant-Man (2015) -
Ant-Man was a big suprise for me i didnt except it to be that good, i went in very sceptical about it at first. The story is good but not great, but many good scenes made up for it. The acting was good, Micheal Douglas did really great, i missed something in Paul Rudd tho. Go ahead and watch it but dont expect too much for it ...

Psycho (1998) -

Yeesh.

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Fair enough, I can see where you're coming from. I do think it highlights a bit of a double standard that exists though for people like the Coens and P.T. Anderson. If for example Marvel were to release a film full of under developed and unresolved subplots, I think some of the people praising the Coens would be tearing the Marvel film to shreds.

At first I wasn't sure about that. It just seemed so stupid and flimsy as a conclusion to that particular thread. Then however I saw it as a rather fun satire of McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare debacle, presenting their worst fears and showing them for how ludicrous they were.

Yeah I thought I remembered you loving Inside Llewyn Davis. I should probably give it another watch someday as it's the type of film that I think I can hate if I'm not in the right mood. And I'm often not in the right mood or frame of mind. However I found it a real slog. Thought it was a drab, lifeless bore of a film. Story never engaged me, the character was about the least symapthetic individual I can imagine, the aesthetic of the film (while I understand its reasoning) I found very grubby and ugly; there was just nothing I could grasp onto to engage me. It was also one of those films were I felt I could have turned it off after about 15 minutes and I'd have had the same experience as I did watching the whole thing. I got what the story was and what it was trying to say, and I understood his character in that time. And then I didn't feel it really went anywhere, or gave me any reason that made it worth sticking around for.

I seem to remember actually enjoying Intolerable Cruelty for the first half of it, and was wondering why people were hating on it so much. Up until that point it had sort of been like Hail, Caesar! actually. It was very silly and fun as it paraded a series of excessive characters. Then it started to focus on the actual story and the relationship between the characters played by George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. At that point I felt it started to die a slow death and I was very happy when the end credits rolled. I do remember it having a great death scene involving an asthma inhaler though.

As for A Serious Man, perhaps I shouldn't have included that actually as I'm not entirely sure what I think of that one. As I was watching through it it was doing absolutely nothing for me, I was hating it. When it was over however it stuck in my head for the next day or so and I began to think about what certain characters and aspects of the film could represent and I began to find it more interesting. I definitely need to give it another watch at some point with those notions in mind and see how it goes

The Jungle Book (2016) 7.7/10

Dodsworth -10/10


First viewing! Walter Huston is great in any movie I see. Great movie about relationships, and how selfish one can be, but how the other, the oppressed one only sticks around because "you get comfortable with habits after twenty years" - the writing is great. I can't believe I've never heard of this movie!



It's also rare to see his son turned out to be a great writer, and one of the greatest directors. Unfortunately, it's usually nepotism.

I loved it personally.

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Jungle Book (2016) -

Really fun film and by far the best of 2016, although I haven't seen Midnight Special or Green Room. Some of the way the story unfolds is sloppy, but overall it's a great ride.

Never Let Me Go (2010) -

Much like the Jungle Book, the way the story is laid out is kind of predictable and boring, but the character moments make it worth while.

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