Seen any good films lately? [3]

Watched Doom.
Never played the game but film was ok.
Seen it 4 times now

Seen it 4 times? That's a review in itself.

To me Legend always had this overwhelming sense of being shot entirely on sound stages, so I could never take it seriously. Hell just felt like a basement to me. The claustrophobia makes it feel like watching a school play.

Anyone seen Troll on netflix yet? 
The fossil dig site was filmed near here.

Watched Doom.
Never played the game but film was ok.- Chris

{{ That the one with the Rock in it as Sarge? If so its a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine even though its a pretty mediocre B movie style thing. Think I can just watch anything starring Karl Urban, well except the ST reboot films but hes best thing about them too.
As to how close to the game, it really isnt, its closest visually to Doom 3 and it has nods to the game, the fireball chucking imp demons, the BFG (Big Fucking Gun), the pinky demon are sort of there as nods or references, but the premise is very different. In the game the facility on Mars doesnt find some ancient civilisation and weird DNA, they open portals, and open one literally into hell. Why the film dumped the entire Hell and demons thing when its the whole point in the game Im not sure. The closest the film gets to the game is the first person view shoot out, which is probably also the best action sequence in the film. }}

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Watched Doom.
Never played the game but film was ok.- Chris

{{ That the one with the Rock in it as Sarge? If so its a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine even though its a pretty mediocre B movie style thing. Think I can just watch anything starring Karl Urban, well except the ST reboot films but hes best thing about them too.
As to how close to the game, it really isnt, its closest visually to Doom 3 and it has nods to the game, the fireball chucking imp demons, the BFG (Big Fucking Gun), the pinky demon are sort of there as nods or references, but the premise is very different. In the game the facility on Mars doesnt find some ancient civilisation and weird DNA, they open portals, and open one literally into hell. Why the film dumped the entire Hell and demons thing when its the whole point in the game Im not sure. The closest the film gets to the game is the first person view shoot out, which is probably also the best  action sequence in the film. }}

A bit of a guilty pleasure for me as well.

I saw it late at night while babysitting.

Just saw Babylon - the one with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.  Critics largely disliked it, probably because it would have done better cut into a consistent tone.  It's basically a comedy: brilliantly so in parts, over the edge of good taste in other parts; and then in the last 10 or 15 minutes it decides to go dark and eventually meaningful, which doesn't fit together.  But the brilliant parts are so brilliant I'm willing to forgive its loss of control to give it a thumbs up.   They could afford to lose about 45 minutes and add back a more comedically appropriate ending.

The Boston Strangler.

Don't usually go for these kind of films, but this was pretty good.

This animated adaptation from '79 is surprising in how much better it is as an adaptation than Walden Media's live action version.


I was giving it a bit of a watch last night. I like Fenris especially lol.
And the music isn't bad either.

Although, this digital rip of whatever original they had has rather poor sound quality.

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3 yesterday. If you like any of those MCU movies I wouldn't proclaim the franchise is back on form, but it is a lot better than most of the shit since the last Spiderman movie.

I just saw it. Lots of big effects, but to me something of a yawn fest because it has little of the cleverness that made the original such a gem. Gunn seems to be bringing things to a close with this one, and we get Rocket's back story which is nice....but the freshness ain't there.

I think writers should plan on writing scripts that can stand without any special effects that weren't available before 1980 or so. THEN we might get a script worth the hundred million dollars of CGI thrown at something like this.

Just watched 'Everything Everywhere' and it was really boring. The sound quality was crap, too many thick accents that I couldn't hear because the soundtrack seemed too loud and clunky. It was either frantic or slow and dull.

I mainly enjoyed watching the two lead actresses playing against type and nailing it. And there were two running character gags I liked (mousy husband is a superhero and wife ain't got time to be a superhero), but I wouldn't watch it again. I can do without the hotdog fingers.

Mrs Figg wrote:Just watched 'Everything Everywhere' and it was really boring. The sound quality was crap, too many thick accents that I couldn't hear because the soundtrack seemed too loud and clunky. It was either frantic or slow and dull.

Try watching it in the front row (stage right) in a massive cinema! It gave me a heck of a headache.

Saw Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.  The only memorable part was the music playing over the end credits.  Bundy by the now defunct Norwegian band Animal Alpha.  The video the band put together was more thought provoking than anything in the damn film.