Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)

[C5_Steve]

Leviathan

I'm sure someone on here suggested this but can't find the comment now or course, but I found this on YouTube ripped straight from the Bluray so perfect quality.

I think we discussed it when talking about The Thing as this is kind of like that, Alien and the Abyss all mixed together (with a bit of Event Horizon at times). Peter Weller stars with Ernie Hudson and a few other well-known faces (Meg Foster doing her best villain impression since Evil Lyn).

I found it a little slow to get going, with most of the film spent building up to the final act but not really creating the tension it aimed to. Possibly this is due to the fact that it doesn't really do anything new watching it today, not the films fault as I believe at the time it would have been pretty fresh but today the ideas have been recycled across everything so you know how the film is gonna end before you get there.

Two big things stood out, they happen near the end so I'll add spoilers...

I absolutely lol'd at the best line in the whole film and spat out my drink when Meg Foster's evil corporate bh is talking to Weller and Hudsons characters right at the end where everything has fallen apart, she says "I realise you must have gone through hell" and Hudson claps back "Gone? bh we still here!" I'm sure it was ad-libed because it was perfect timing. Second, right at the end after they've finally escaped after learning the company declared them all dead, lied about the storm and hung them out to dry they get to the rescue ship and Fosters character is walking to towards the last two survivors excaliming "I knew you'd be ok, I never gave up hope!". In my head I honestly thought "He needs to punch this woman in the face" and then BAM he actually does! A perfect moment in cinema and it played brilliantly.

Watch it if you like any of those films mentioned, it's not great but it's a nice bit of curiosity.

6/10

[smithyithy]

Heat

Third or fourth time seeing this, but first time at a cinema.

Such a good film, even with Pacino's sometimes over-the-top acting, it's thoroughly entertaining..

And yeah, that shootout scene was incredible on a proper sound system

[phazed]

T5GRF said:

Whisky Tango Foxtrot

Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, Kim discovers her true strength as she risks it all to find the next big story.

This was surprising good - Tina Fey, Martin Freeman, Margot Robbie, Alfred Molina and Billy Bob Thornton.

Thanks for that. Watched last night and enjoyed it. It even kept Mrs. phazed From playing scrabble on her iPad, most of the time!

[DKS]

Cotty said:

I had some time to kill so visited some of the locations from the film in London.
click thumbnails for bigger picture.

What's the second station please?

Love that the shutters on the 3rd place are still on the Schindler's after all those years! Also were is it? Might have a mooch around London this weekend as my partner lives there.

[C5_Steve]

DKS said:

What's the second station please?

Love that the shutters on the 3rd place are still on the Schindler's after all those years! Also were is it? Might have a mooch around London this weekend as my partner lives there.

I might be wrong but I believe all the station shots were inside or outside Liverpool Street, just different exits/entrances (it's massive).

The pub is The Anchor on Bankside (opposite Cannon Street station on the other side of the river).

[Cotty]

C5_Steve said:

DKS said:

What's the second station please?

Love that the shutters on the 3rd place are still on the Schindler's after all those years! Also were is it? Might have a mooch around London this weekend as my partner lives there.

I might be wrong but I believe all the station shots were inside or outside Liverpool Street, just different exits/entrances (it's massive).

The pub is The Anchor on Bankside (opposite Cannon Street station on the other side of the river).

The pictures are from one of the exits of Liverpool Street tube station on Old Broad Street opposite The Railway Tavern. The second are inside Liverpool Street mainline station, which is just across the road.

Also correct on the pub https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/a...

As you are passing Borough Market you could tick off locations used in Briget Jones Diary (Globe pub), Harry Potter (leaky Cauldron) and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (gangs hideout)

Edited by Cotty on Monday 17th June 12:14

[Nezquick]

phazed said:

Collateral one of my favourite Tom Cruise films. Well worth a watch if you missed it.

Agreed - one of my favourite films as well.

Dune Part II - watched this last night and really enjoyed it. I've been meaning to watch it for ages and finally got around to it.

8 / 10

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Abigail - a fun horror movie, but would have been more fun if the trailers and marketing didn't give away the twist

[Bullett]

Hitman (netflix)

A based on a real person story about the fact that hitmen are not real but the police run sting operations to catch people trying to get someone offed. Mild mannered prof gets to pretend to be a hitman, gets loads of convictions then meets a girl.

It's ok, passed a couple of hours. Relatively well written and coherent plot, good acting in the main and goes a few ways I wasn't really expecting.

However, the lead is the male equivalent of putting Gal Gadot in glasses and having her hair up and claiming she's ugly/weird. Suffice to say both leads were easy on the eye.

Also watched the new Roadhouse(amazon) with JG looking extremely buff. He's a MMA fighter this time needing to clean up a Roadhouse. Was fine.

And as apparently my wife had never seen it the original Roadhouse. This is a much darker offering, more violent and realistic. it's been years since I saw this and I never realised quite what a good villain the baddie was. Totally charming one minute, psychotic the next, emotionless and manipulative. Watch this one of these 3.

[biggbn]

The Holdovers...a nice, if somewhat predictable, film that I enjoyed but I felt I'd seen several times already over the years. Worth a watch nonetheless

[DKS]

Cotty said:

The pictures are from one of the exits of Liverpool Street tube station on Old Broad Street opposite The Railway Tavern. The second are inside Liverpool Street mainline station, which is just across the road.

Also correct on the pub https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/a...

As you are passing Borough Market you could tick off locations used in Briget Jones Diary (Globe pub), Harry Potter (leaky Cauldron) and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (gangs hideout)

Edited by Cotty on Monday 17th June 12:14

Thank you (and C5_Steve). I saw Liverpool Station on the outside, didn't realise it was so big inside.
Good shouts for the others, appreciate it!

[C5_Steve]

DKS said:

Thank you (and C5_Steve). I saw Liverpool Station on the outside, didn't realise it was so big inside.
Good shouts for the others, appreciate it!

Yeah it's massive, the bit where the payphones were is the exit out onto the A10 opposite Neal Street. You'll see the glass atrium at the top of the escalators.

I walked through there Saturday by coincidence, I must say I think the film makes it feel bigger than it is but then again there are always a lot more people in there than you see in the film so perhaps that's why it feels smaller.

[macron]

droopsnoot said:

We still kill the old way from a recording the other week. When an OAP tries to stop a gang of youths from raping a young woman in a dark alley, they turn on him and kick him to death. His brother (Ian Ogilvy) is a reformed gangster who has retired to Spain, so he comes back to London to help "investigate" along with a few old mates. Enjoyed it.

The sequel, we still steal the old way, like many of this low budget Brit gangsta films, has more money in it, and although has some similarities, of you liked the first one this is also an easy way to spend time.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

macron said:

droopsnoot said:

We still kill the old way from a recording the other week. When an OAP tries to stop a gang of youths from raping a young woman in a dark alley, they turn on him and kick him to death. His brother (Ian Ogilvy) is a reformed gangster who has retired to Spain, so he comes back to London to help "investigate" along with a few old mates. Enjoyed it.

The sequel, we still steal the old way, like many of this low budget Brit gangsta films, has more money in it, and although has some similarities, of you liked the first one this is also an easy way to spend time.

Ian Ogilvy? I bet he's no saint

[JagLover]

Rewatched Steve Jobs (the Fassbender one).

Great writer, good director, and great star performance even if he doesn't look much like Jobs. The way the story is told is also far more interesting than the conventional biopic, with its three act structure built around three product launches.

The events depicted mostly didn't happen of course, aside from the flashbacks, but were built around what actually happened and was said around that time, just not 30 minutes before a product launch. That helps to give the scenes their energy but it can only therefore give an impression of a life.

It doesn't sugar coat Jobs and you want to throttle him during some of his interactions with the young Lisa, who he is still denying is his daughter.

All in all very interesting and well worth a watch, but not flawless.

[droopsnoot]

macron said:

droopsnoot said:

We still kill the old way from a recording the other week. When an OAP tries to stop a gang of youths from raping a young woman in a dark alley, they turn on him and kick him to death. His brother (Ian Ogilvy) is a reformed gangster who has retired to Spain, so he comes back to London to help "investigate" along with a few old mates. Enjoyed it.

The sequel, we still steal the old way, like many of this low budget Brit gangsta films, has more money in it, and although has some similarities, of you liked the first one this is also an easy way to spend time.

Cheers, at the end of the one I watched there was some talk about a robbery and I noticed there's a follow-up film. The one I watched was on "Legend" so as they only seem to have about five films at a time, it may be some time before it appears. I'll keep a look out for it.

[RizzoTheRat]

Heart of Stone (Netflix) Gal Gadot as a super spy for an international organisation keeping the world safe with thier super computer capable of accessing any information blah blah blah generic action blah blah spies blah blah plot holes.

Meh/10

[Antony Moxey]

macron said:

droopsnoot said:

We still kill the old way from a recording the other week. When an OAP tries to stop a gang of youths from raping a young woman in a dark alley, they turn on him and kick him to death. His brother (Ian Ogilvy) is a reformed gangster who has retired to Spain, so he comes back to London to help "investigate" along with a few old mates. Enjoyed it.

The sequel, we still steal the old way, like many of this low budget Brit gangsta films, has more money in it, and although has some similarities, of you liked the first one this is also an easy way to spend time.

Very clunky ending to one of them, trying to shoehorn The Italian Job into it as though they were all mates back in the day. Like you say, easy watches, but that felt a bit cringe.

[C5_Steve]

JagLover said:

Rewatched Steve Jobs (the Fassbender one).

Great writer, good director, and great star performance even if he doesn't look much like Jobs. The way the story is told is also far more interesting than the conventional biopic, with its three act structure built around three product launches.

The events depicted mostly didn't happen of course, aside from the flashbacks, but were built around what actually happened and was said around that time, just not 30 minutes before a product launch. That helps to give the scenes their energy but it can only therefore give an impression of a life.

It doesn't sugar coat Jobs and you want to throttle him during some of his interactions with the young Lisa, who he is still denying is his daughter.

All in all very interesting and well worth a watch, but not flawless.

Great film, obvious liberties with the time lines to create tension aside I love that it doesn't shy away from who Jobs was and how he did things. I'm not an Apple fan at all but IMO the company has never been the same without him and the more you learn about him the more you understand why.

[Electronicpants]

C5_Steve said:

Electronicpants said:

Dinner In America

If you like Napoleon Dynamite, or quite like your low budget indie quirky films you'll love this.

Bad boy meets developmentally stunted girl, keep watching it as it's one of thee films where it just makes you happy, properly funny too, I loved it!

9 balaclavas out of 10 for me.

Where'd you find it?

Paid £3.50 rental on Prime.

Also I notice RLM did a video on it, watch the film first though.

https://youtu.be/y3ZLDfB2N3g?feature=shared

Edited by Electronicpants on Tuesday 18th June 09:59