[BigSister]

Pitch Perfect 3
Good for a third movie but think they should stop after this one. Liked the plot though as I wasn't sure where they could have gone after the 2nd one
9/10

[ethanjames]

darkest hour
eh,,,, 5/10

[Tom4784]

Coco

It's the best Pixar film in a long while. it's heartfelt, it's funny, It's beautiful to behold and it'll wreak emotional havoc upon you. I just really loved it.

10/10

[Tom4784]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Amazing, I can't really think of anything I disliked about this film. All the performances were good and the characters were layered and extremely well acted and the story was very timely. I would not be mad if this swept the Oscars at all. I'd highly recommend it.

10 out of ****ing 10

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by King Gizzard

Three Billboards

Insanely good

I don’t have to watch anything else to know that Best Actress, best Supporting Actor and best picture should be nailed on

Cinematrophy really good as well. Reminded me of where I stayed in September

9.5/10

My brother just told me he watched this and thought it was s**t, like one of the worst films he's ever seen ...........what is the truth?

I'm going to need to watch it

[MTVN]

I saw it the other day and loved it as well, full of great characters

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I saw it the other day and loved it as well, full of great characters

Yeah I mean from what I've heard, it's supposed to be brilliant but his opinion was so far off what I've heard everyone else say (though tbf Freddie Got Fingered is one of his favourite films so.......... )

[LeatherTrumpet]

Sicario

The Radio Times gave it 5 stars but its a 3.5 tops. Last hour very good but Emily Blunt spent the whole film with the same look on her face, she was miscast in my eyes.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Sicario

The Radio Times gave it 5 stars but its a 3.5 tops. Last hour very good but Emily Blunt spent the whole film with the same look on her face, she was miscast in my eyes.

Yeah agree with that, it was good but not great

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

My brother just told me he watched this and thought it was s**t, like one of the worst films he's ever seen ...........what is the truth?

I'm going to need to watch it

All I’ve seen is the racism controversy as to why people didn’t like it/thought it was terrible not the film itself

Haven’t seen anyone say it’s terrible though. It’s a dialogue based drama/dark comedy with amazing characters/acting performances, not a fast paced action cop film with a definitive end if that is what he was expecting

[LeatherTrumpet]

omg just back from 3 billboards




i was an emotional wreck

[LeatherTrumpet]

best film iv seen in an age

[LeatherTrumpet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfQdL4V9Fo

sums it up perfectly

[Shaun]

Lady Bird

Loved it. Pretty much the perfect 'coming of age' movie and idk if I'm just wheezy atm from all the flu stuff but I was pretty much swaying like a loved-up teenager just watching it. Great characterisation, incredibly lovable ones too (Julie <3333 Larry <3333 Marion <333)

Spoiler:

I didn't really understand the direction they took the Father from the school though... he seemed to be a bit of a joke figure to the kids and yet was clearly going through a lot of emotional pain, and there wasn't really any closure to his character the film is littered with a lot of characters with a lot of pathos - Danny's struggles with his sexuality, Julie's general uncoolness, Kyle's father with cancer - that seemed very... sparingly used? Idk I guess I could've just delved into that universe a lot more than a feature film's length

I'd give it a 9/10... hell maybe a 10.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

My brother just told me he watched this and thought it was s**t, like one of the worst films he's ever seen ...........what is the truth?

I'm going to need to watch it

In all seriousness your brother was

1. lying

2. drunk

3. lying and drunk

(no disrespect meant, of course, to your stranger from the truth alcoholic brother )

there is NO way anyone could watch that film and not be made to laugh, cry and come away thoroughly entertained. And that is not up for debate.

That is an LT cast iron guarantee

go see it neem, you will love it.

Youtube video

(and even when you have watched this clip, its not that movie you are now thinking about, its something else )

[y.winter]

Spent the weekend watching these two...

Call Me By Your Name - was good but for me it felt like we didn't see the "full picture" of that love story. Elio falling in love wasn't as blatant/clear as it should've been, there was little to no emotions up to the very last moment before they kissed. It's like something was missing in this love story. The last shot is great

The Edge of Seventeen - Another lovely coming-of-age film. Believe the hype - totally worth it. Hailee Steinfeld is a S-T-A-R. Nothing surprising or extraordinary in the plot, because this is the genre, but it's being done so well so it doesn't even matter if it's all quite predictable. Great soundtrack as well

[-Sue-]

Hidden Figures <3 that film superb

[Benzient-XXVII]

Hoodwinked (2005)
10/10 > Better on the second viewing haven't seen it since 2005, I loved how all the stories wove in together & it was very funny throughout, underrated

Now You See Me 2 (2016)
9/10 > the first one was amazing so this one was not quite as good mainly Isla Fisher's character was completely ignored that bugged me but I loved when they were stealing the chip on the back of the playing card and they were throwing it to one another I thought the whole scene was intense

Spectre (2015)
7/10 > overlong and not much happens I thought it was no way near as good as Skyfall or Quantum Of Solace

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012)
7/10 > once he was in jail it got a bit dull until the shootout

The Switch (2010)
6/10 > another re watch, I forgot how amusing it was but had to deduct my orginal score of 9/10 (what was I thinking) to 6/10

[Niamh.]

Maze Runner - The death Cure : Meh it was alright 5/10

Murder on the orient Express - Kind of like Watching an episode of Sherlock, it wasn't fantastic but I enjoyed it 6/10

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Maze Runner - The death Cure : Meh it was alright 5/10

I really enjoyed the first Maze Runner, even though 90% of the acting (...everyone except Jojen Reed and the guy who played the "villain" kid) was pretty awful, the concept was fun enough. But the second one was pretty much crap. Is this one even worse?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I really enjoyed the first Maze Runner, even though 90% of the acting (...everyone except Jojen Reed and the guy who played the "villain" kid) was pretty awful, the concept was fun enough. But the second one was pretty much crap. Is this one even worse?

Yeah definitely worse. All these teen dystopian trilogies that popped out of nowhere seem to suffer the exact same fate, The Hunger Games and especially Divergent were the same, started off with a really interesting idea but had no idea where to go with it (THGs for me did the best job out of the 3 though)

[Nicky91]

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 9.5/10

love love loved this movie, i love the resident evil franchise, Milla is a fab female action hero

Iain Glen (Jorah from GoT) also playing really well in this movie

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah definitely worse. All these teen dystopian trilogies that popped out of nowhere seem to suffer the exact same fate, The Hunger Games and especially Divergent were the same, started off with a really interesting idea but had no idea where to go with it (THGs for me did the best job out of the 3 though)

I found Divergent the same as the first Maze Runner: interesting enough film, but just bad acting. The sequels just didn't seem to know where to go and I find it kind of hilarious that they're not even getting greenlit to make the final part . I don't think I've EVER heard of a multi-movie franchise making 3 films and then not getting a conclusion .

Actually, come to think of it, a lot of the acting in Hunger Games is sort of dodgy too ... but they have some great established actors in the mix to balance that out and it managed to carry itself well enough (...ish, the first one was still the best one).

I think a big part of the issue with these franchises is that it always feels like the world only exists for the purposes of that specific story? Like it's a cardboard cut-out backdrop of a world. It hasn't been fully fleshed out and given a history of it's own in any meaningful way, so the plots start to jump around and become confusing. If you compare it to other big multi-part franchises like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter... even things like Terminator or The Matrix... they have these huge expansive universes built around them that go way beyond the scope of the actual stories themselves, so the stories feel like they're set in a real, living world. This "new breed" of dystopian story, it just doesn't feel like that. The world is a bit hollow, we don't know what's going on beyond what's shown, but more than that, I don't think the AUTHOR really knows or has given it much thought (this is where I have to give JK Rowling a lot of credit - I don't particularly rate her writing in terms of linguistic skill, but the amount of world and character-building that went into the HP idea before she wrote the story is impressive, and that's why the success is deserved).

It works fine in the first instalment of all of these because it just feels like a "mystery out there" (especially Maze Runner, it worked particularly well) but then they try to expand into that non-existent world it becomes really obvious that they only thought through that initial concept, and are making the rest up as they go along.

...I now feel like I've given these films too much thought .

[Niamh.]

Yeah totally agree with all that, again i think THGs world made most sense. I found with Maze Runner and Divergent, the whole explanation for what they were doing in their world and why they were treating the people the way they were made zero sense. I did read the Divergent books, the last one was so badly written (did you read them), the ending was stupid, actually when I watched the last divergent film, i didn't realise that it wasn't the last one and I thought they'd changed the ending and I was thinking, oh that's a much better ending Anyway, even if they did make the last one I wouldn't watch it

Oh and the 2nd HGs film was my favourite

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah totally agree with all that, again i think THGs world made most sense. I found with Maze Runner and Divergent, the whole explanation for what they were doing in their world and why they were treating the people the way they were made zero sense. I did read the Divergent books, the last one was so badly written (did you read them), the ending was stupid, actually when I watched the last divergent film, i didn't realise that it wasn't the last one and I thought they'd changed the ending and I was thinking, oh that's a much better ending Anyway, even if they did make the last one I wouldn't watch it

Oh and the 2nd HGs film was my favourite

I just struggle with the concept of the second hunger games . Like there's the hunger games themselves, sort of makes sense. I mean not REALLY but you can suspend disbelief and get on board with the concept. And then part three (in terms of books) it makes sense that it moves on to the overall uprising, outside of the games. But for the second one it's like "Yes you're supposed to only do one hunger games and then you get to be famous and safe forever but... NO! We also have the EVEN HUNGRIER games muahahaha". I mean story wise they could literally have skipped from the first Hunger Games to the rebellion in the third and it would be exactly the same .