The more pertinent question would be "you actually watched Spring Breakers?"

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

How on earth did it remind you of Spring Breakers?

Haha! I asked the same myself when i wrote it! I guess the noir elements. Actually it reminded me of a host of movies like inherent vice, the limey, coffy etc! (and i am sure i am missing a few more!)

Big Willie wrote:

The more pertinent question would be "you actually watched Spring Breakers?"

I quite liked it! 

It reminded me of Spring Breakers because it was shit.

Saw 10 Cloverfield Lane and Green Room yesterday. Both were excellent.

10 Cloverfield Lane was great, yeah.

Looking forward to this one.

Watched the new Bourne last night, couple of really nice set pieces but overall a very bland, forgettable movie.

Watched X-Men: Apocalypse. First Class was great, Days of Future Past was decent, this was just bad. I really don't think Singer is a good director.

Lawless was worth a watch. I'll watch most things with Tom Hardy, and Guy Pearce is great as the hatable antagonist.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

It's good, you should watch it just for Christian Bale. Don't know why this is in the TV thread though.

I'm not that big a Bale fan, like Steven Carrell very much though. I'm mostly interested in the plot though

I like Carrell as well, and Brad Pitt is underrated nowadays. Even if you don't love it, I doubt you will be thinking that it wasn't worth a couple of your hours.

I'll try and watch it somewhen then, thanks.

I wasn't that bothered with Bale in it, seems a bit superfluous but I agree its a very good movie. Makes some very dry economics entertaining.

Still holds up. 

Triple 9. Awful and boring. Only watched it because a friend put it on.

Segway wrote:

Saw 10 Cloverfield Lane and Green Room yesterday. Both were excellent.

Green Room on for being my #1 film of the year atm, I looooved it!

Planning a double bill on Sunday, Anthropoid and either Hunt For The Wilderpeople (the trailer looked great) or Hell Or Highwater. 

Hunt For The Wilderpeople is very very good in my opinion, one of the best films of the year.

Great fusion of quirky culturally specific comedy (with a dash of Edgar Wright about it), and strangely haunting, epic moments that reminded me of 80s kids films.

Waititi is the reason that Thor: Ragnarok, even though the Thor movies are known as the worst of the MCU, may be the most anticipated of the upcoming ones.

The first Thor film is easily one of the best of the MCU, I've always maintained.

Solid light action comedy with Connecticut Yankee style time travel humour, charismatic lead performances and a fun supporting cast.

The second one's pretty patchy though, partly because the finale is such a typical MCU building-destroying CG clusterfuck. But the plot twists are still fun.

Yeah the first Thor is really good. Better than a lot of MCU films. Especially at the point it was released. I thought the second was terrible but I wouldn't say the Thor films are any worse than the Iron Man films.

I thought the first Thor was poor tbh.

The first Iron Man movie was the best of the lot (particularly given the subsequent impact it's had), followed by the Winter Soldier. The rest have ranged from mildly entertaining to boring.

The worst thing about the Thor movies is Portman's character, and she's not in the next one.

Watched Good Will Hunting for the first time yesterday afternoon and it was really good, recommended if you haven't seen it. Sat down to look for a movie on Netflix and saw it had been recently added and I somehow hadn't managed to see it yet.

Had a Bridges double and watched True Grit and RIPD last night.

True Grit holds up pretty well, the attention to detail in the dialogue is outstanding and the characters are very watchable.

RIPD is an absolute clusterfuck, I don't know how it got made. So much epic lame.

True Grit is such an underrated film. Can't wait to see Bridges in Hell or High Water.

Hmm, yeah, that looks interesting but I thought Sicario (writer Taylor Sheridan's previous film) was vastly overrated and had a crummy script.

Watching Snowden. Shitting my pants.

Have to say I was put off by the Snowden trailer, and it's oddly made me more critical of Snowden. Lot of contrasting reports to his character out there and while many don't care about who he is, I do find myself intrigued by that as I think it's central to his ability to be pardoned.

Don't think he should've made the film, it looks quite bad. The Snowden story should always have been about what was leaked not the man that did it.

Probably better off watching Citizenfour.

Burnwinter wrote:

Had a Bridges double and watched True Grit and RIPD last night.

True Grit holds up pretty well, the attention to detail in the dialogue is outstanding and the characters are very watchable.

Segway wrote:

True Grit is such an underrated film. Can't wait to see Bridges in Hell or High Water.

Another movie i could not complete. Maybe its just me, but i found going slow and dull. May give it another try someday. Still better than 3:10 to Yuma though. That was laughably bad IMO

Qwiss! wrote:

Mirth wrote:

I thought the first Thor was poor tbh.

The first Iron Man movie was the best of the lot (particularly given the subsequent impact it's had), followed by the Winter Soldier. The rest have ranged from mildly entertaining to boring.

I think the first Iron Man is decent and the other 2 are poor. Still think now I like Thor more than Iron Man.

Overall though I think the Marvel movies have improved as they've gone along. The recent ones are easily some of the best tent pole blockbusters of recent years.

Thor is definitely better in my opinion. 

Big fan of the Marvel movies myself, they're usually quite immersive. Guardians of the Galaxy was great. 

This is pretty great if you haven't seen it yet. Hemsworth has good comic timing.

Really liked Magnificent Seven. Another good Denzel Washington film.

I just watched a trailer for a new M Night Shyamalan film called Split; a down-to-earth drama where a car full of teenaged girls get kidnapped by a man with 23 personality disorders. It took less than a minute before someone shouted: "He can change his body chemistry with his thoughts!"

I mean you just want to punch him in the mouth.

Holy shit.

Shyamalan needs to don a hair shirt and spend a bit of time working as the junior creative partner of someone who can keep the reins of a premise and a story.

No country for old men was fantastic.

Next up Zodiac.

Klaus wrote:

I just watched a trailer for a new M Night Shyamalan film called Split; a down-to-earth drama where a car full of teenaged girls get kidnapped by a man with 23 personality disorders. It took less than a minute before someone shouted: "He can change his body chemistry with his thoughts!"

I mean you just want to punch him in the mouth.

That was the advert before most youtube videos about 2 months back. Looked good.

Watched Ghostbusters last night, childhood memories remain in tact. Other than that it was the sort of decent Hollywood comedy you'd expect from Paul Feig albeit with a bit more action. I thought Feig actually did really well incorporating the CGI stuff into the movie. Leslie Jones was disappointing but I thought the other 4 leads were all pretty funny.

Savz wrote:

No country for old men was fantastic.

Next up Zodiac.

Two great movies from one of the greatest ever years for film.

Just watched the magnificent seven. Quite a silly movie. I like such movies but this one was too long too.