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The Wolverine

 

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Transcendence (2014)

I really enjoyed this, a really good modern example of a really great Science Fiction film. Having a hard time understanding what all the fuss was from the naysayers and detractors. Go watch Transformers 4 instead then :lol

 

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Heat (1994)

It is great but have you seen the original version L.A. Takedown (Written and made by Mann). It was a TV movie but I actually prefer it to the remake. Both are great in their own way though.

 

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God's Pocket.

Pretty good, solid film but not brilliant. Phillip Symore Hoffman's 3rd or 2nd last film . Cast included Christina Hendricks she really didn't stand out that much - she is an exceptionally beautiful women, (not that has any bearing on how good her performance was though ) Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins and John Turturro .

 

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Far more enjoyable than I thought it would be.

 

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Captain America: Winter Soldier. It was surprisingly good.

Snap and agreed

 

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Firestarter [1984]

Classic. I used to have this on VHS years ago and watched it a great many times. Steven King on the writing duties and featuring a very young Drew Barrymore :yes

 

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Calvery (2014)

Brendan Gleeson stars in another film set in a small town in the Republic of Ireland. Brilliant stuff. It's much darker in tone than 'The Guard'.

 

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Guardians of the Galaxy.

Good but not as good as my fav. movie critic made out. It's maybe down to just how visually unoriginal it was. It wasn't bad.... it just wasn't great :|

 

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Ex Machina. Brilliant bit of Sci Fi, more like that please.

 

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Live By Night. Ben Affleck's new film. Far too long, jumps massively though the timeline at points and then goes way to slowly and navel gazes through other sections. Over all too long and too obvious at points.

 

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Split - not bad, defo the best M. Night Shyamalan film in a long time. Kinda interesting that he has just announced the completion of the script for 'Glass' the sequel to Unbreakable and Split - not holding my breath though.


Colossal - utter ****e, what did I just sit through? What was the moral of the story, WTF was the point?????

 

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Colossal - I liked this. It's a pretty fun film -- not a revelation by any means, but solid. I rented Nacho Vigalondo's three previous films (Timecrimes, Extraterrestrial and Open Windows) prior to going, and all of them fall into the totally inconsequential/marginally sucky range. Colossal is much better. Without revealing too much, Vigalondo mentioned in an interview that the film has aspects of his own life, and you can tell that he was an alcoholic himself or knew someone who was.

Pretty fun and solid. Really? The secondary characters actions make absolutely no sense, his actions are utterly without reason or explanation.

 

His actions as an adult have no conceivable explanation apart from line at the end that he hated himself. How? Why? No hint of a reason for him being revealed as a self hating ******* - what jealousy? This simply doesn't cut it as an explanation. His utter failing as a likeable character in the end is not explained.

His actions as a kid could be kind of passed off as being scumbag kid behaviour but again no real reason, history or explanation is given.

As for the alcoholic stuff about he director, the representation of the affliction must be that of a privileged, rich, white persons kid-on version of the addiction. The fact the central character bounced around without paying her way all the while having a massive empty house in the suburbs to fall back on when ever it suited her - is insane.
I can tell you through personal, along with family and friends experiences of alcoholism and addiction that as a premiss is utter bollocks.

Utterly ironic considering you shot down Arrival as a chickfilck but consider this as 'solid and fun' something other than what is - a lame, comic, sci-fi romcom.

I do wonder what your response would have been had I not already stated my opinion on this flick.... ach nah man, I don't really

 

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X (2022) 5/10. An ok modern attempt at a slasher flick. Nothing particularly clever or original if you've seen many other films of that type before.

 

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'The Batman' 7/10. Better than I expected it to be. Way too long though.

 

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) [Theater]
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Seen it many times, but never at the movies, it was somewhat surreal to see it this way, but nonetheless enjoyable. Classic high school comedy with great casting and pacing. Fantastic script with many memorable quotes, and plenty of 4th wall breaking. Will always be one of my favorites.

This easily in my top 5 movies that I've seen the most times in my life. But never on the big screen. I'm a bit jealous. Glad you got see to see it like that.

On a side not, I've noticed here at least, due to the down turn in folk going to the cinema, that they are showing a lot more old / classic films again in the cinema here. No bad thing in my book.

 

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The best part was possibly the post-credit scene where he says "it's over, go home" , and this time I would have to go home, haha. Seems like re-running classic movies is a world wide thing then They had Back To The Future and The Exorcist as future showings. Are you going to go to any?

I'd like to but my healths not great at the moment and sadly the covid numbers are going back up currently, they are predicting a big surge in numbers in the next month or so. Maybe later in the year.