Films

Chappie was odd, like a low budget student film with a big budget.

Just watched John Wick again... Incredible...

chappie was unwatchable. that bloke that made it seems to have been a one trick pony, and i suspect hollywood will stop throwing money at him very soon.

Just watched Seven Pounds again - still good.

Mad Max 3D ffffuuu

Shaun the sheep. Top lols. Impressive for what is essentially a silent movie extended from a 10 minute kids animation.

Fury - cliched propaganda, meh

I don't remember much about Fury being propagandistic, but it was a while ago. What I do recall was a pacing that was entirely broken. The main character went from accountant to cold-blooded murderer in 24 hours, as far as I can tell.

lets hope they do a better job than they did with 'art school confidential'

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/28/woody-harrelson-laura-dern-wilson-daniel-clowes

I don't remember much about Fury being propagandistic, but it was a while ago. What I do recall was a pacing that was entirely broken. The main character went from accountant to cold-blooded murderer in 24 hours, as far as I can tell.

yeah totally, fucking ridiculous that, didn't even want to hold a gun to 'die you fucking Nazi scum' - well maybe not propaganda, but standard wisecracking heroic dialogue, disfunctional crew blah blah, seen it all before many times....

But explosions and dead nazis.

There were a couple of scenes were I thought it could rise above Castle Wolfenstein ...but it didn't stay there. It was still better than Monuments Men!

Ex Machina was great and very tense, very smart. Oscar Isaac is the man. More Garland made sci-fi plz.

Monuments Men was a mindless pastiche of those 50s/60s all-star Hollywood WW2 movies... I enjoyed it for what it was...

The pace in Fury was all over the place, I enjoyed it but it wasn't anything to write home about...

#imho #obvs

Nightcrawler: I feel dirty...Gyllenhaal is superbly creepy and unnerving

Everything he is in currently turns to gold

Finally caught up, yup Mad Max is ace. Visceral.

^ This. Waterloo IMAX in 3D. Really amazing. The only thing that I thought let it down was the overly insistent emotional score at times, otherwise 10/10 would (will) watch again

Mad Max, very good action movie, no lack of pace, action keeps going and yes, strong female characters too. It's sad that has to be praised but there you go it's good to see :)
I liked the "bad guy" linked to Max change too.

But the plot was a bit thin, of course both to be expected. So, the only thing I remember is the women/bad guy part, the rest didn't really touch me for want of a better word. It's not that "deep". But, it's not that kind of movie I suppose.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's acting has improved since Transformers 3.

Mad Max:Fury Road - epic big screen fantasy film making at it's best, fantastic action sequences, beautiful to look at and awesome sound.
Films like this make going to the cinema worthwhile again

LFGSS film of the year contender?

I've not met one person yet who hasn't loved it. (internetz scaredy boys with "feminazi" fear excluded).

my better half really enjoyed it and she absolutely hates 'action'films

Garland as in Alex Garland the author?

Went to see Madmax in 3D at Beckenham Odean, concur with others, switch off brain and enjoy the show. Only detraction was the room temperature, it was fucking freezing, wish I'd complained (or got drunk).