[Ammi]

...it’s a really excellent young female cast, especially... and January Jones as Carol/a diagnosed bi polar sufferer is also a wonderful casting...

[Ammi]

...Circle...

Spoiler:

...this is a really interesting concept and I’m glad that you chose it, Niamh ...because it’s just so completely different to anything else we’ve watched...we don’t really get to know any of the characters/to engage with them because that’s one of the main points of it...that these 50 ‘random strangers’ are chosen for 49 of them to be ‘eliminated’ by death...(...except that they’re not entirely random because some do have knowledge of each other...)...but we don’t really know how the selection works or what the aim is...to cull Earth population and only leave those who can beat the Circle/survive the Circle...?...it’s always interesting to watch human nature and human dynamics in a ‘survive’ situation, pack together and isolate etc..and interesting as well because of the times that we’re living in now and how ‘selection’ for the vaccine first is based on vulnerabilities but with this instant life or death, thing...the old/vulnerable were selected to go first at one point...and then that ‘old’ got less and less ‘old’ as self protection kicked in so the age would become younger and younger...I thought the ending of that 50 was quite predictable in that he was going to go against the pregnant lady and protect himself...but yeah, we purposefully don’t get to know much about these people because we’re seeing them through each other’s eyes plus the eyes of the alien ‘selector’....it was unusual, it was interesting and it was a good watch...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Circle

Spoiler:

It was OK, I knew that last guy was going to double cross them though. I was a bit confused by the ending, was that same guy going to be zoomed up again for another round? Was he a plant or were the aliens going to just keep beaming everyone up until there's no one left?

Who would you have saved Ammi? I think I'd have to go with the kid over the pregnant woman. Looks like there's no way she would have survived anyway because they counted her as 2 so she could never win.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Circle

Spoiler:

It was OK, I knew that last guy was going to double cross them though. I was a bit confused by the ending, was that same guy going to be zoomed up again for another round? Was he a plant or were the aliens going to just keep beaming everyone up until there's no one left?

Who would you have saved Ammi? I think I'd have to go with the kid over the pregnant woman. Looks like there's no way she would have survived anyway because they counted her as 2 so she could never win.

Spoiler:

...the little girl...always actual life over potential life which was what the unborn child was...there was no certainty that the unborn child would survive or that the mother would survive etc...(...also The Girl With All of the Gifts....children have a tremendous capacity for survival as well...)...


...I assumed yeah, that it would continue and continue until there was a stop to ‘the culling’....maybe they had a certain amount that they wanted to survive in having felt that they’re created ‘more superior/intelligent beings...the best of the best, type thing...

...I mean, it wasn’t a movie that you could attach to any of the characters particularly U.K. it was interesting because there was so little time to choose as well...as opposed to being locked in a room for hours and hours or days and days etc...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Spoiler:

Also she was really cute You'd have to be a special kind of **** to let her kill herself like that I think.

[Ammi]

Spoiler:

...yeah, he was definitely a special kind of **** for sure...I wonder if he would go on to become and expert manipulator and keep surviving circle after circle....hmmmmmm...

...I guess that you’ve seen Crazy Rich Asians..?..it’s on Netflix atm...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Yeah I've seen that, it's fine but not one I'd like to rewatch really

[Ammi]

....awwww, this has a really interesting write up but it’s the last day that it’s showing on Netflix...

Youtube video

[Ammi]

...oh no, sorry...the last day to watch is 30th March...I need to learn to read whole sentences ...

[Ammi]

...it’s described as a ‘disorienting drama’...interesting...?..

[ChristmasNeeve]

Oh yes, I like the look of that one, lets watch that then

[Ammi]

......


...there is another one..White Tiger...that has a good rating so we’ll check that as a future possibility as well, I’m loving that new ones are coming on so quickly now...

[ChristmasNeeve]

I've already seen White Tiger, I think I might have suggested it a while back but we went with a different film so I just watched that one myself

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I've already seen White Tiger, I think I might have suggested it a while back but we went with a different film so I just watched that one myself

...was it good, is it worth a watch on the ‘us pile’ to watch with my OH...?...

[Ammi]

...oh I also saw that you watched Molly’s Game...?...the only thing that I wasn’t sure with that is for some reason I thought it was sex games...but it seems t9 be gambling...?..i only recall it as one of the pics in pub quiz and she was tied to the bed...so, yeah...sex games, I thought...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...oh I also saw that you watched Molly’s Game...?...the only thing that I wasn’t sure with that is for some reason I thought it was sex games...but it seems t9 be gambling...?..i only recall it as one of the pics in pub quiz and she was tied to the bed...so, yeah...sex games, I thought...

No that's Gerald's game you're thinking of that was in Pub Quiz. Molly's game is really good, it's about Poker no sex games in sight

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No that's Gerald's game you're thinking of that was in Pub Quiz. Molly's game is really good, it's about Poker no sex games in sight

.....oh I thought that the actress looked different as well...she somehow stopped looking so much like Carla Gugino and Idris was randomly in there...do you think that I’ve spent too much time indoors...?...

...I so want to do pub quiz again now that I’ve been watching movies and TV series for a year....

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...was it good, is it worth a watch on the ‘us pile’ to watch with my OH...?...

Yeah definitely worth a watch

[ChristmasNeeve]

Also when I say it's about Poker, it's much more that and if you do watch it and are wondering who Player X is he's

Spoiler:

Tobey Maguire

[ChristmasNeeve]

Bottom of the World

Spoiler:

That was an odd film, it was good but very weird. So what I got from it was that the "Dream" Alex was in was Scarlett's? She had killed Alex and was now haunted by him and eventually kills herself but imagines Alex is killing her to even the score? I knew at the start when she told that worst thing you ever did story that there was truth in that somewhere. Maybe be she did have a neighbour called Alex too and her dream was confusing them for some reason? I don't know

Just googled and I think the consensus is that the film might be her dying dream after she'd over dosed

[Ammi]

oMG...ughhhh, I need to go and start watching before I’m tempted to look at that spoiler......

[ChristmasNeeve]

It's pretty short anyway, less than an hour and a half

[Ammi]

...we could rename it The Lunchtime Movie Club.....I’m just starting to watch now...that girl looks so much like a younger Nicole Kidman...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...we could rename it The Lunchtime Movie Club.....I’m just starting to watch now...that girl looks so much like a younger Nicole Kidman...

Yeah

I thought she looked like if Nicole Kidman and Kristen Stewart had a child

[Ammi]

...I’m pretty sure that’s one of the actresses in Sucker Punch...

...Bottom of the World...

Spoiler:

...it’s really difficult to say that it’s a good movie because it’s such a disturbing movie but it was totally engrossing...you always feel with that type of psychological thing that if you blink a bit too long, you’d miss some key points so I was completely drawn in...I think that it felt from the beginning that her story had truth and from when Alex took Alex into the desert ......it was obvious that it was him...(...only because his eyes were exactly the same...)....I thought that when he and Paige were making love, that might have been ‘the reality’ part with the dog...but in his dream, it was Paige, this incredibly beautiful partner...you know, his dreams being completely different to how he was entrapped in his paralysed state...and obviously the clue as well was those words that were repeated...that we needed to look inside, not outside...anyways, just a really (grim) storyline and depressing movie but so absorbing as well...but I still don’t quite understand, who was Alex../...to Scarlett, who was he...?...