Athena Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Yesterday we rewatched Bender's Big Score, a Futurama film. I love this film and it was great to see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) The Muppets Most Wanted. Very thin plot stretched out over what felt like four hours .. though I'm sure it was probably only a couple at most. Some funny bits but mostly padding. Ironic title. Probably okay if you sit down every day to watch movies, I have to be persuaded if not downright coerced into it so to be so poorly rewarded was annoying. I probably did put it on the rental list though so deserved to suffer Edited February 15, 2015 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Top Gun!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I watched three movies today: Bicentennial Man, The Hangover and Gridiron Gang. All good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Top Gun!!!!!!! Haven't seen that film in ages!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Haven't seen that film in ages!!! I hadn't either but still love it! Still mkes me cry! I think that and Cocktail are the only two Tom Cruise films I have ever really liked.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 I watched three movies today: Bicentennial Man, The Hangover and Gridiron Gang. All good. I haven't seen the last two but I loved Bicentennial Man . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Apollo 13 It's been a while since I last saw this and some of the special effects are starting to look anything other than special, but it's still a jolly good film. Disturbing to realise it is 20 years old this year, though . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Apollo 13 It's been a while since I last saw this and some of the special effects are starting to look anything other than special, but it's still a jolly good film. Disturbing to realise it is 20 years old this year, though . . . I remember watching that film at the cinema. It was on a Saturday afternoon, and we were doing a marathon of three films in a day, and this was the middle one (although I can't remember what the other two were now). It was packed out, and we had to sit on one of the side areas on the aisle, quite close to the front as it was the only place with two spaces left. Thought it would spoil the film for me, but it was so completely captivating, I don't think I even thought about it while the film was on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Athena Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yesterday we rewatched X-men. I had forgot a lot for some reason (and I don't recollect what some of the other X-men films in our boxset were about), but it was enjoyable. I did find though that the last 40 mins were too much action, but overall I did enjoy re-watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Blade Runner Looks very pretty on Blu-ray. Still one of my favourite films, and probably Harrison Ford's best performances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Blade Runner Looks very pretty on Blu-ray. Still one of my favourite films, and probably Harrison Ford's best performances. Excellent film! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 We went to see Shaun The Sheep Movie this afternoon … absolutely brilliant, and as it's half term, the cinema was packed with kids, and apart from the odd comment from the younger ones, they were captivated and didn't hear a peep out of them. As usual with an Aardman film, spent the entire time spotting familiar Bristol buildings and streets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 We went to see Shaun The Sheep Movie this afternoon … absolutely brilliant, and as it's half term, the cinema was packed with kids, and apart from the odd comment from the younger ones, they were captivated and didn't hear a peep out of them. As usual with an Aardman film, spent the entire time spotting familiar Bristol buildings and streets You can't go wrong with Aardman I read Mark Kermode's review and he loved it too .. though I'd rather take your word for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Tron Legacy A worthy update/sequel of/to the original. Whether we will ever see where the story was supposed to go from here who knows, but I wouldn't mind a sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I watched Misery a few days ago. Managed to keep looking during the 'hobbling' scene. Bit shocked to realise that film is 23 years old now. 23 years old!! I'm now watching JFK. I haven't seen it in years....given that it's over 3 hours long I will probably watch it in stages. I rarely have the patience to watch films in one sitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolf woolf Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) Yesterday evening I watched The Help, by Tate Taylor. Set in 1963 in a town in the state of Mississipi, United States, depicts the local black minority's struggle in a community where coloured people are explored by their white employers and have to fear for their lives everyday. The protagonists are Eugenia Phelan, a white young woman who aspires to become a journalist and writer, and Aibileen Clark, a black maid with a lifetime of servitude. As Eugenia's interested in what black people have to say, she decides to write a book based on their stories and interviews and seeks help from Aibileen in both knowing her story and convincing other black maids to tell theirs. However, there are many white people in Mississipi uninterested in the growing civil movement that aspires to give the people of colour their deserved equality and civil rights. It's a good film altogether, although the characters seemed one-dimensional and the story generic. The film is based in Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name. Edited February 21, 2015 by Sousa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Has anyone watched Gone Girl. I see where it is now on cable and was thinking of possibly watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolf woolf Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Has anyone watched Gone Girl. I see where it is now on cable and was thinking of possibly watching it. It's good, if it's on you should watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Has anyone watched Gone Girl. I see where it is now on cable and was thinking of possibly watching it. Did you end up watching it? I thought it was ok, but I kept constantly comparing it to the book. I wish there had been more time between reading the book and watching the movie, so I could distance the two of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I watched Captain Phillips yesterday and was pretty entertained by it. I remembered a fair bit of the story from when it actually happened but despite this I still felt the tension in the closing scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Yesterday we re-watched Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs which is our least favourite Futurama film. It was more enjoyable than I remembered, though, and I enjoyed watching it (even if I don't like it as much as the other ones). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 The Day The Earth Caught Fire In glorious Blu-ray! (the BFI re-mastered print looks excellent!). A very good film, with the main strength being the writing (the dialogue between the characters is very good indeed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Ooh, sounds good, Raven! That's one of my favourite sci-fi movies. Very underrated, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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