What was the last movie you saw?

My Marvel catch up continues.

Ant Man
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Iron Man 3
 
Chicken Run. ha, ha... they are plasticene and they are kept in a concentration camp-like enclosure... I identified immediately with the situation, and wish that I could... turn to plasticene and fly freeeee* )
 
Shockwave Darkside (aka Darkside) 2014 - This is a real stinker. Lo/no budget hard SF is hard to do but this was just pitiful. I had no idea what the hell was supposed to be going on for most of the first half of the movie. It was a confusing confused mess that threw explosions and HUDs and frenetic 'action' at the screen with no discernible characters and no idea what they were fighting for or why or even who they were fighting. (This is despite having had screeds of on-screen info dumping before hand - most of it irrelevant and thrown at you too fast to read.) It left me feeling like I was watching someone play a first person shooter set somewhere very very dark with them hitting the ESC button half way through the cut scenes.

Towards the end an interminable three way yakfest between the three surviving characters nailed some sort of story onto all the poor, pointless, and badly paced CGI. Apparently it was a Believers vs Atheists thing - after God was outlawed and the believers exiled to the moon, the Atheists totally f***ed up the Earth in less than a generation and were now doing the same on the Moon. Yeah. Right. We get shot of all the mad bastards who cling to stone age belief systems and indiscriminately kill anyone who doesn't agree with them just because they think God is telling them to, and then life on Earth becomes unmanageable because...? Stupid and insulting bollocks.
 
JunkMonkey said:
We get shot of all the mad bastards who cling to stone age belief systems and indiscriminately kill anyone who doesn't agree with them just because they think God is telling them to, and then life on Earth becomes unmanageable because...? Stupid and insulting bollocks.
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Being one of those mad bastards I'd drop names like Pol Pot, Mao & Stalin as people who didn't believe in anything but indiscriminately killed people who didn't agree with them :whistle:

The problem, as always, is people :sick:
 
Please don't misrepresent me. I said "mad bastards who cling to stone age belief systems and indiscriminately kill anyone who doesn't agree with them just because they think God is telling them to". If you are one of those then I suggest you turn yourself into your local law enforcement office.

I don't care what religious beliefs anyone has (as long as they don't voice them out loud anywhere I can hear them). Being presented with a movie that posits that the earth is destroyed because all the people with imaginary friends are kicked out is unable to survive for more than a decade because the magic glue of 'faith' is no longer holding society together is just risible nonsense.

FYI Pol Pot, Mao, & Stalin did believe. They had an irrational belief in themselves. Like most psychopaths they believed they were right and that other people were inconvenient and disposable. They were wrong too.
 
Satan's School for Girls (2000) - dull TV movie remake of a 1973 TV movie which people seem to remember fondly. Both starred Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels). If was a Wiccan I would be pissed off at the shoddy way the The Craft was portrayed. Meh. Another HVS tape dumped from the staggering pile of crap I have to watch before I throw it away.
 
This last week I have been having a relentless watch of the Huge Pile of VHS Tapes That Need to Be Watched Before I throw Them Out pile (For younger members of this forum who may want to go look up 'VHS' here is a handy link to wikipedia save you the trouble.) Personally I like VHS tapes. But then I like vinyl and have hundreds of the buggers of all sizes and a tin box full of jazz 78s - and the means to play them. But there comes a point where the hoarding has to stop. Okay, I'll keep the tapes of all those crappy horrors too dreadful to make it to DVD (or even laserdisc) but do I really need to keep copies of films which cost pennies (including postage) on eBay in a better format?

so in the last week:

[*]The Titchborne Claimant - A rather better than I was expecting piece of loosely based on historical events British drama.
[*]Harold and Maude - One of the Great American Films which left Number One Daughter and I totally emotionally wrung out at the end of it.
[*]The Italian Job - the original. Better than I remember but I'm not sure it deserves its iconic status. (on DVD)
[*]The Quick and the Dead - Sam Raimi doing his Spaggy Western thing with a brilliant piece of dutched rack focus during one of the shootouts.
[*]The Devil's Advocate - one of the better pre-Millennial Anti-Christ movies. I can see why Pacino went for this one he had a whale of a time and, as usual, the devil got all the best lines. A bit spoiled by a happy, tacked-on, twisty ending which it really didn't need.
[*]The Devils - I've avoided watching this one for years on the general principal that I reallyreallyreally dislike Ken Russell and most of his overblown hollow bombasts of movies. I was wrong. This is pretty damn terrific. A lot, I suspect, to do with Derek Jarman's extraordinary sets and some seriously wonderful costume. The fact that, for a lot of the time, the screen was full of naked women didn't dampen my appreciation either.

Abandoned:
Chasers (1994) - after 25 minutes of testosterone driven homophobia I gave up. Apparently it was supposed to be a comedy. It was directed by Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper. Comedy. Nope, can't see it.
Posse (1993) - frenetic anachronistic revisionist western which threw so much onto the screen so fast it became dull despite the overwhelmingly fwarr! eye-candy of Mario Van Peebles. 20 minutes.
Snatch - Like f**ing Only Fools an 'Orses but wiv more f**king swearin' wiv the bit of the gratuitous f**kin' violence, innit? F**king hated Only Fools an 'orses me. Fort it was sh*t. Fort this was sh*te too.
Out of the Blue - second Dennis Hopper movie in a week to hit the trash bin. I don't think this one was supposed to be funny.
 
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Hehe, heh... JM, !%!%! this !%!%!% piece of !%!..
I wartched Planes- Search and Rescue, a Disney followup to Cars, I guess. It was okay, as the little speedracer plane blows a gearbox and has to become a firefighter plane.
 
2DaveWixon said:
Pleased to hear your recommendation -- the previews I've seen did not attract me, but now I'll make a point of going...
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OK, I did manage to go. Alas, I did not get as much out of it as my friend @REBerg seems to have gotten.
Mostly, the point of the movie was "turnabout" (anyone out there remember that particular reference?). I applaud that. But that's almost all there was to applaud: most of the jokes/comedy were/was disappointing. The running gag of the mayor and his staff framing the new Ghostbusters for the first few episodes of haunting was not really very funny, and was never explained well enough to make it a serious plot line...it just sort of petered out.
Best part was the reversal of the "dumb blonde" stereotype (but I won't go into detail on that right now).
I expected cameos by the surviving original Ghostbusters, but it was clever to make them unbelievers...
 
JunkMonkey said:
FYI Pol Pot, Mao, & Stalin did believe. They had an irrational belief in themselves. Like most psychopaths they believed they were right and that other people were inconvenient and disposable. They were wrong too.
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I agree that the named murderers were indeed believers, but it was not only that they believed in themselves -- they all professed adherence to a cause (although of course it can always be argued that they were faking it...).
In the past, I've gotten involved in arguments over something like this, me taking the position that an "-ism," such as communism, can to all intents and purposes be considered a religion...of course, I learned to stop taking positions like that around people whose particular "-ism" involves a purported deity...
It's useless to argue with such people. :rolleyes:
 
Star Trek : Beyond.
I really liked this. I'm not a fan of the original Trek, so I'm not carrying those expectations, and everything that Trekkies have criticised about the reboots is in this movie as well, so if you're looking for a return to the Star Trek of old, I don't think you'll find it here. But I found it enjoyable, and probably my favourite of the reboots.
 
JunkMonkey said:
so in the last week:

[*]The Italian Job - the original. Better than I remember but I'm not sure it deserves its iconic status. (on DVD)
[*]The Quick and the Dead - Sam Raimi doing his Spaggy Western thing with a brilliant piece of dutched rack focus during one of the shootouts.
...
Abandoned:

Posse (1993) - frenetic anachronistic revisionist western which threw so much onto the screen so fast it became dull despite the overwhelmingly fwarr! eye-candy of Mario Van Peebles. 20 minutes.
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I don't think I ever thought of the first Italian Job as "iconic," but yes, it was good -- I still recall being amazed at the use of those itty-bitty cars (keep in mind that they were rare in the 1970's -- I'd never seen one -- to escape, across Roman rooftops, etc...
The Quick and the Dead: are you speaking of the film made from the Louis L'Amour western of that name, starring Sam Eliot? Could you explain to me what you mean by "ditched rack focus"?
Posse: the only one of your "abandoned" films that I saw; and I agree with you -- it was awful!
 
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