What movie did you just watch, and how was it? (expect some spoilers but try not to post any!)

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#2911830 9-May-2022 12:32

The Crimson Rivers (private collection - Eng Sub) 8/10 though IMDB 6.9/10

In this movie Jean Reno (my most favourite French actor) is a murder detective/commissioner who must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college in the French alps.

Fantastic French scenery. A great plot with twists and turns. Though my partner guessed the murderer just before I did. The English could make a great version of this movie. Just hope that the Americans don't get hold of it as they will make a silly, gorified hash of it, where you will know the result in the first quarter.

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#2912155 10-May-2022 09:51

The Aviator 8.5/10 DVD

The story of Howard Hughes. The movie that should have given Di Caprio his Oscar. Great performance and a host of top class supporting performances.

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#2912432 10-May-2022 17:10

READY PLAYER ONE (2018) 8/10

This Steven Spielberg film has to be one of the best Home Cinema experiences that I have ever had. Stunning picture quality and reference Atmos surround sound really put the icing on the cake.

The film itself is a lot of fun, and will appeal to the gamers amongst us, as most of the action takes place in "The Oasis" a role playing video game world. Lots of references to older films from the 80's and some great music.

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GODZILLA vs KONG (2021) 6.5/10

A not so great film, but oh!,... the visuals and Atmos surround, really make it a great Home Cinema experience. I bought a new SVS subwoofer last week, and I thought that it was going to shake my house down 😁

The normal content for this sort of film. Lots of action, with thunderous low levels. Just the sort of movie to watch when you don't want to use your brain too much.

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#2912539 11-May-2022 08:41

Movieman:

READY PLAYER ONE (2018) 8/10

This Steven Spielberg film has to be one of the best Home Cinema experiences that I have ever had. Stunning picture quality and reference Atmos surround sound really put the icing on the cake.

The film itself is a lot of fun, and will appeal to the gamers amongst us, as most of the action takes place in "The Oasis" a role playing video game world. Lots of references to older films from the 80's and some great music.

James Halliday designs a virtual reality and hides the keys to his fortune in it for a worthy player to find after his death. Wade, a teenager, sets out on a quest to find the keys and the fortune.

I found the original book to be much better than the movie, but the movie was still fun.

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#2912591 11-May-2022 10:47

It depends on what and where you are watching a movie. If you are watching it at the cinema or a large TV screen with surround sound, its a much better experience than watching it on an iPhone for example.

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#2912599 11-May-2022 11:03

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It depends on what and where you are watching a movie. If you are watching it at the cinema or a large TV screen with surround sound, its a much better experience than watching it on an iPhone for example.

I agree with you that better picture and sound can make a huge difference to one's enjoyment of a movie (weirdly, many don't think good sound is important, something I don't understand!).

But that's not related one bit to the relative enjoyment of a movie vs the original source material (eg, a book), which is what MurrayM is discussing (I'm assuming that's what your post is responding to). TBH, it's a rare thing that I find I enjoy a movie more than its original book when I have read the book prior to watching the movie - I think there's something about having already built up mental images when reading the book, as well as the many compromises that must inevitably happen when trying to condense a book for the screen. (Unless you're Peter Jackson and have the clout to punish people by turning a short book into three long movies!)

I'm finding that with Pachinko - I'd just finished the book before we started watching the series, and while I know it has been well-received, the substantial changes they've made from the book make it not such an enjoyable experience for me.

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#2912603 11-May-2022 11:17

Watch a slightly earlier Spielberg last night - Duel (1972). Good stuff, with some typical 70s camera work 7.5/10.

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#2912678 11-May-2022 15:09

Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (private collection - Eng Sub) 7/10 though IMDB 5.9/10

Jean Reno reprises his role as murder detective/commissioner Pierre Niemans, (refer my above post for the first movie) this time he faces the threat of the apocalypse while investigating a series of ritual murders and he must follow religious clues to solve these murders.

Not quite as good as the first movie plus it is quite a bit more dark. But overall very good entertainment.

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#2915224 17-May-2022 16:13

Morbius via Apple iTunes

I had no idea about the source material and had only heard bad things about this movie.

I didn't realise until the end that it was in the Spiderman Universe.

I really enjoyed this. It was part horror, part Scifi, part action flick with a couple of minor plot twists and it was overall fairly well acted.

I liked it.

7/10

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#2915227 17-May-2022 16:23

As my partner and I are in seven day isolation and we can read only so many books so we have been hitting the streaming services.

Widows 6.5/10 (Netflix)

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

This is based on the 1983 English mini series written by Lynda La Plante which was a huge hit at the time.

Though it was an evenings entertainment it was not a scratch on the English series. Plus it has been Americanised.

The Outfit 8/10 (USA Apple)

An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night in his tailors shop.

This is superb. It is a slow pot boiler with lots of twists. Stay with it. It has been filmed as if it was a play and is set over one night in only three rooms.

Uncharted 6/10 (NZ Apple)

Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.

This is based on a video game. Lots of Indiana Jones & National Treasure themes. The actors 'stunt' their way through a very loose, simple & predictable plot with lots of improbables. Though I will say the galleons stunts are novel and that's why I gave it a 6/10.

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#2916519 20-May-2022 15:00

BLACKLIGHT (2022) 5/10

Another of Liam Neeson's endless unoriginal action films. Neeson is Travis Block, an FBI agent, who discovers a conspiracy in the Bureau. Its watchable enough, but its all been done before....and better.

How much longer Neeson can keep playing, what seems like the same character over and over again, is anybody's guess. Approaching his 70th birthday in June, I think maybe its time for him to put his feet up a little.

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#2916521 20-May-2022 15:09

Movieman:

How much longer Neeson can keep playing, what seems like the same character over and over again, is anybody's guess. Approaching his 70th birthday in June, I think maybe its time for him to put his feet up a little.

Tom Cruise does it all the time but with a nauseating cheesy smile.

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#2916525 20-May-2022 15:20

FineWine:

Movieman:

How much longer Neeson can keep playing, what seems like the same character over and over again, is anybody's guess. Approaching his 70th birthday in June, I think maybe its time for him to put his feet up a little.

Tom Cruise does it all the time but with a nauseating cheesy smile.

Talking of Tom Cruise only a few days until Top Gun: Maverick. I am unashamedly looking forward to this and it's getting some great reviews.

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#2917041 22-May-2022 12:16

Wasabi (private collection - Eng Sub) 7/10

In Japan for the funeral of his long-lost love, a tough French detective learns that he also has a teenage daughter and that her life is in danger from the Yakuza.

This is another of my Jean Reno collection. This is a wacky and delightfully silly movie. Have a glass of wine an enjoy.

Operation Mincemeat 7/10

In 1943, in the middle of WWII, a group of Allied intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to misdirect German high command and Hitler that Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Slightly disappointed in this latest rendition of this true story. Based on the book by Ben Mackintires and was first made into a movie in 1956 - The Man Who Never Was. The addition of a romantic subplot in this latest version was unnecessary and contributed nothing to the film but to highlight Colin Firth's usual characters of duplicity. The subtraction of this subplot would have shorten the movie by 15 minutes and tightened it up considerably. Shame really as they could have spent more time on the technical side of this deception just as they did in the first movie.

And Yes, Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame, was responsible for the original concept for this extraordinary intelligence master piece of wartime deception by the English Admiralty.

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#2917597 23-May-2022 12:10

Saw the Rebel Wilson vehicle Senior Year on Saturday night on Netflix.

It was as awful as you'd imagine it to be. 3/10

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