Film Club

The new jurrasic Park... 3/10. Awful considering how good the previous few are.

Quoted from lukeo

The new jurrasic Park... 3/10. Awful considering how good the previous few are.

That’s a shame!

We’ve just started the series with our 2 kids and we’re due to watch the second tonight. I’d forgotten just how good the first film was. I can remember being blown away by the special effects as a kid, in the cinema. To be fair they would have been groundbreaking then but, still look good today considering the riches we are spoilt with now.

Quoted from Sandford1981

That’s a shame!

We’ve just started the series with our 2 kids and we’re due to watch the second tonight. I’d forgotten just how good the first film was. I can remember being blown away by the special effects as a kid, in the cinema. To be fair they would have been groundbreaking then but, still look good today considering the riches we are spoilt with now.

Id give the first one 8/10 an the last two previous to this new one 9/10. So keep going, my son loved the latest one. I just felt it lacked enough dinosaur action bizarelly

Quoted from lukeo

Id give the first one 8/10 an the last two previous to this new one 9/10. So keep going, my son loved the latest one. I just felt it lacked enough dinosaur action bizarelly

I’ve seen them all barring Dominion and I enjoy them for what I see them as, which is turn your mind off popcorn entertainment.

Honour
5.5/10

An urban thriller set in West London starring Paddy Considine and rising star Aiysha Hart. Mona is a young British Muslim girl on the on the run from her family after they find out about her plans to run away with her Punjabi boyfriend. In a desperate bid to save face and their family honour; her mother and older brother enlist the help of a bounty hunter to track her down.

I watched this just to halt the constant flicking through the different options on the various platforms I’ve got access to. The Mrs is ill in bed with covid again so I had only myself to please and plumped for it because of Paddy Considine.
Some decent performances and 75% of an entertaining enough film that is let down by the final act.

300 (released 2006).

Quite enjoyed this. I note from further reading it attained quite a big fan base as well. Although mostly fictionalised albeit with some parts true  it's about 300 Spartans who face insurmountable odds  but keep battling  to the bitter end.

6.5 out of 10.

The Forgiven
6.5/10

The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the local Muslims, and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.

I watched this purely on the basis of Fiennes and Chastain. They were supported by a really good cast. I like the director John Michael McDonagh too and I watched the whole thing. However, I still don’t know if I liked it or not. The characters by design aren’t likeable and the pay off not nearly big enough for enduring them. I guess it’s what I would call a grown up film but it could have been so much better in my humble opinion.

The Gray Man
7/10

When the CIA's most skilled operative-whose true identity is known to none-accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.

I watched this at silly o’clock this morning. You’ve Seen it all before, it’s needlessly long and it’s utter bulllshit but it’s ‘turn your mind off’ entertaining.

Vice
8.5/10

The story of male private Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Darkly comic in places and yet totally disturbing, shocking and bewildering too.
It’s often said we get the governments and elected officials we deserve and this is a great example. Adams and Bale performed as you’d expect but they deserve a mention nonetheless. An excellent film’

I've just watched Vice on BBC iplayer and its disturbing what corrupt people with power can get away with.

Where America leads, we follow.