Rate The Last Film You've Seen With Marks Out Of Ten - Part Two

[Bargepole23 337]

Moneyball - 8/10, based on the life of the general manager of an American major league baseball team, and his adoption of statistical analysis to pick a team. Brad Pitt is good in the main role.

[hauxwell 243]

Deadly Illusions

 

It’s about a successful writer who employs a nanny to look after her children.  It turns out the nanny has a split personality.

 

I thought the film had a funny ending.

 

6/10

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

Skyline  - 5.5/10

&

Beyond Skyline - 5/10

 

Skyline was one of a spate of semi-cheap alien invasion movies that came out in the wake of Cloverfield. This one is about a group of people who wake up after a party to find huge spaceships have appeared and are abducting everyone with a hypnotic blue light and anyone who escapes that light is getting grabbed by flying drones.

 

The actors are mostly unknowns and the script is bad but the effects manage to drag the film up to 'so bad it's good' territory.

 

Beyond Skyline is a belated sequel with a slightly higher budget that got spent on hiring a few recognisable faces like Frank Grillo. It starts off in the same city and invasion as the first movie but for no other reason than that they needed an excuse to cast half the cast of The Raid they are suddenly in Laos and the unstoppable aliens of the first movie are now vulnerable to bullets, knives and getting kicked by martial arts experts.

 

 

There's another one of these movies but it's set in space and we're invading them and I think I need to be drunk before I attempt to watch it.

[Bargepole23 337]

Vice, about the political life of Dick Cheney, particularly when he was Vice president. Christian Bale, great as always as Dick Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld. Enjoyed it, 8/10 from me.

 

It's on Prime for those interested.

[Guest]

Zack Snyder's Justice League 8/10

 

The Snyder cut...and damn long at 4 hrs😑

 

But it is much better than the earlier cinematic released version and worth catching.

[Jericho1 0]

Hellraiser 1987. Awesome horror flick, never seen anything like it before. 8/10

[The Joker 10]

Godzilla v Kong (it might be Kong v Godzilla)

 

oh boy, I've been waiting for this since Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019.

 

Was it worth the wait?

 

Is it any good?

 

Well, the bad news is that the film is all over the place with its dialogue and script.

 

I can't tell if I'm supposed to be watching a comedy, a spy-kids movie, or a monster film.

 

Fortunately, the film is saved by the amazing fight scenes.

 

Unlike Godzilla 2014 or Godzilla KotM, where the fight scenes take place in the dark, or off-screen, or under the sea, or are obscured by smoke and debris, GvK (it might be KvG) has some breathtaking fight scences.

 

The fight scenes are loud, punchy, in your face, and highly destructive.

 

Much thought and care has gone into the fight choreography, with both Godzilla and Kong using their strengths tactically in a number of one-on-one fights, with both the US Naval forces and the citizens of Hong Kong used as the boxing ring.

 

If you're a fan of the DC Monsterverse, and you've been eagerly waiting to watch a giant monkey punch a giant lizard in the face, then I can categorically tell you the fight scenes have been worth the wait and they live up to the hype.

 

My rating:

5/10 for the film

11/10 for the fight scenes

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by The Joker

[Mister M 1,608]

For film buffs out there BBC4 have been doing an excellent series called 'Secrets of Cinema' presented by the knowledgeable Mark Kermode.

I'll pop a link here if anyone fancies watching the series:

BBC Four - Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

 

[The_DADDY 3,460]

A friend recommended Bullet to the head by Sly Stallone.

Lets just say we aren't friends anymore and the name of the film is also the urge you get when watching it. 

I'd struggle to even give it a 1/10.

Avoid.

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

8 hours ago, The Joker said:

Godzilla v Kong (it might be Kong v Godzilla)

 

My rating:

5/10 for the film

11/10 for the fight scenes

 

You are considerably more generous to this film than I am. I wouldn't give it more than a 3/10 and most of that is for the VFX guys making the CGI ape a better actor than 90% of the cast.

 

 

[The Joker 10]

8 hours ago, Funky_Gibbon said:

You are considerably more generous to this film than I am. I wouldn't give it more than a 3/10 . . .

 

 

I was in a good mood at the time; it's Spring 😁

 

8 hours ago, Funky_Gibbon said:

. . . and most of that is for the VFX guys making the CGI ape a better actor than 90% of the cast.

 

but what did you think of the fight scenes, when a giant monkey punched a giant lizard in the face, and they trashed Hong Kong ?

 

Hong Kong undoubtedly came off worse than New York did in The Avengers (2012) and that city almost got nuked

 

 

[wearysmith 140]

Some buddies and I spent the lockdown months coming up with lists. While I struggled with 100 favourite songs (I stopped at 485 and gave up. Too hard to whittle down), I found movies somewhat easier than expected! I just walked to the DVD shelves in the house and wandered. Not half as much stress as picking songs . If we've bought it, we love it.

The first three are the Big Three as far as I'm concerned. Dunno what this list says about me. They're all fairly 'obvious' movies I reckon. Big Richard Curtis fan, naturally. Like my ghost stories and Marvel movies (especially The Avengers franchise). Enjoy a fair few nostalgia/rom-com releases too. And 'music' related films of course. Submitted here for discussion, or not, if you don't want. All of these fall between the 8 to 10 scale of greatness. 

 

Sorry people. No place in my life for The Sound Of - bloody - Music.

 

 

 

1 - The Legend Of Bagger Vance

2 - Restless Natives

3 - Local Hero

 

 

4 - Field Of Dreams

5 - Scrooged

6 - Die Hard

7 - Truly Madly Deeply

8 - Avengers Assemble

9 - Avengers Age of Ultron

10 - Avengers Endgame

 

11 - Avengers Infinity Wars.

12 - The Magnificent 7 (The 7 Samurai can **** right off)

13 - Where Eagles Dare

14 - Guns Of Navarone

15 - When Harry Met Sally

16 - Rocketman

17 - Blinded By The Light

18 - Bohemian Rhapsody

19 - The Commitments

20 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

21 - Notting Hill

22 - 4 Weddings and A Funeral

23 - The Boat that Rocked

24 - Love, Actually

25 - About Time

26 - It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

27 - Blue Brothers

28 - Ghostbuster

29 - The Others

30 - The 6^th sense

 

31 - Star Wars

32 - Jaws

33 - Wonder Woman

34 - Justice League (the cinema cut, not the godawful recent 4-hour version. Beyond tedious)

35 - Aquaman

36 - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

37 - Goodbye Lenin!

38 - Beetlejuice

39 - Broadway Danny Rose

 

40 - Raiders Of The Lost Ark

41 - Before Sunrise (wasn't overly fussed over the two follow ups)

42 - Overboard

43 - Jumanji

44 - Casino Royale (David Niven version)

45 - You Only Live Twice

46 - Goldfinger

47 - Collateral 

48 - Castaway

49 - The Princess Bride

50 - The Terminal

 

51 - Grosse Pointe Blank

52 - Terminator

53 - It’s A Wonderful Life

54 - A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version)

55 - Clockwork

56 - Monty Python’s Holy Grail

57 - Life Of Brian

58 - Gregory’s Girl

59 - Kingsman

60 - Carry On Up The Khyber

 

61 - The Dambusters

62 - A Matter Of Life And Death

63 - The Italian Job

64 - Rock 'N' Rolla

65 - Shaun Of The Dead

66 - Hot Fuzz

67 - 84, Charing Cross Road

68 - Thor - Ragnarok

69 - Shakespeare In Love

70 - Made In Dagenham

 

71 - High Plains Drifter

72 - Serendipity

73 - Star Trek (2009 re-boot)

74 - Back To The Future

75 - Doc Hollywood

76 - The Thing (John Carpenter version)

77 - Beverly Hills Cop

78 - Airplane

79 - Blazing Saddles

80 - Young Frankenstein

 

 

81 - Smokey & The Bandit

82 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

83 - Strictly Ballroom

84 - Pulp Fiction

85 - Midnight Run

86 - Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty version)

87 - Dead Of Night

88 - Bottle Shock

89 - Yesterday

90 - RED (Retired: Extremely Dangerous for those unaware of the context)

 

91 - The Green Book

92 - The Rock

93 - The Bourne Identity

94 - About A Boy

95 - Telstar

96 - Sleepless In Seattle

97 - Grand Theft Parsons

98 - Four Rooms

99 - French Kiss

100 - Ant Man

 

Bubbling under: All That Jazz and Muriel's Wedding.