Recently Watched Films

3/5

OK, I hate superhero movies, but figured this would be OK because it takes the piss out of superhero movies. It does, but also takes itself too seriously. Loved the OTT comedy violence. Loved the stupid jokes. Loved Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (recognised the name instantly). Take it or leave it for pretty much everything else, which is why I don't watch superhero movies. The first third and final third were great, for the above reasons. The middle third, explaining how Deadpool became Deadpool sucked.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/

^I thought it was alright, although a bit on the long side for my tastes. Visually stunning...hell yeah...

Just saw the new Star Wars tonight, and I have very mixed thoughts. I don't necessarily think it's a rehash like VII was, so much as it felt like the director either had no clue what he wanted to do with it, or he had a vision but the studio interfered with it. Either way, it felt like an absolute muddled mess, one of the most tonally chaotic movies I've ever seen. It had parts I genuinely enjoyed, parts I enjoyed laughing at because they were so stupid, and parts I loathed. It was just all over the bloody place. I actually find it hard to believe some people are saying it's the best since Empire Strikes back, just like I also have a hard time seeing how people could call it the worst film of all time, because to me it's way too damn inconsistent to fall into either extreme. I definitely need to rewatch it at some point, to make a proper judgement. 

Edited by DippoMagoo - 11 Jan 2018 at 11:35pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/

Sisslith wrote: UMUR wrote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/ Did you like it? I watched it a few years ago, and I found it pretty good... and crazy

Yeah definitely more crazy than I had expected. I liked the odd humour in an otherwise pretty dark and violent film. Especially the big fight scene in the middel of the movie. "happy new yearrrrr" 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2911666/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425200/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

The Odessa File (1974)

Nazis hidden in plain sight, an plot to destroy Israel, and a nosy reporter. Good stuff. I remember a lot of 70s political thrillers and action movies from my childhood. I didn't realise I'd seen this before, but the somewhat harrowing concentration camp scenes (filmed in black and white to give a cold, documentary feel to them) brought it back. Why did my father let me watch stuff like this as a kid??? (it usually happened when he fell asleep in front of the TV. ) Unlike other post-war Nazi conspiracies (e.g. The Boys from Brazil) this one actually had a bit more of a link to reality. While the existence of ODESSA is debatable, the movie brought about the exposure of the real-life "Butcher of Riga", Eduard Roschmann.

Jon Voight as Peter Miller and Maximilian Schell as Roschmann put in good performances. Their final confrontation ends a little unconvincingly, but brings in a hinted but not telegraphed twist to the end of the story.

4.5/5

The Flatliners remake from last year