📽 Films I have seen

I watched Ex Machina and enjoyed it.

Wow, how much fun is Kingsman? (On our movie channel last night)

It even takes the piss out of itself forbeing a parody of early James Bond films, and Samuel L Jackson with a lisp… classic

In fact it probably is as close to what JB might have become IF Jason Bourne hadn’t turned up (and yes, loved that little call the dog JB joke as well) or possibly how an Austin Powers movie could have been if Mike Myers didn’t overact…

Very well worth watching over a TV dinner, and the Land of Hope & Glory scene has to be up there amongst movie tasteless bad joke cartoon comedy grossness classics.

“If you save the world you can *&^& my asshole” may not have been EXACTLY what the Swedish Princess said, but it has to go down as one of the best misheard lines in a movie.

Great old fashioned tosh that entertained for almost two hours.

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I watched Joy yesterday. Not my sort of movie but very well acted and put together.

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Fuck Sake DP, read back a couple of pages, Kingsmen has been done already, in fact you could have cribbed some of our comments line for line :lou_angry: :lou_wink: :lou_is_a_flirt:

Watched John Wick last night, dark and brooding Keanu Reeves does Matrix in real life with less dialogue to get in his way.

Cameo from Ian McShane made the film for me.

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Forgot to say in John Wick the chap who plays the weasly and pathetic Reek in GoT plays a character who is weasley and pathetic, talk about type cast.

Unusually for me, I have seen three movies in quite quick succession: The Revenant, Dad’s Army and Foxcatcher. The first one I saw by choice; the second and third I was sort of coerced into seeing. Anyway, FWIW, this is what I thought about them:

The Revenant: I see that this has got mixed reviews on here; the review that comes nearest to mine - indeed, almost identical to mine - is that of Bucks above … although I did think that the story line was a little contrived in places; for instance, how was it that the fort spared so many men to search for LdC’s son yet (conveniently) only 2 men to track down the bad guy? Also, there was a point where I found myself questioning why the bad guy didn’t just kill LdC when he had the chance. But, you get this sort of thing in most films, and it didn’t detract from what I thought was an excellent movie, and one that gripped me throughout.

Dad’s Army. I didn’t want to see this movie because I suspected that it would fall into the category of There Are Some Things That Need To Be Left Alone And Not Repeated. Having now seen it, I still feel that way; but I’m happy to concede that the casting department did a good job with some of the characters, and that the film had one or two mildly amusing moments, and that Catherine Zeta Jones is still nice to look at.

The Foxcatcher. This film is based on a true story apparently. It’s quite slow paced and probably wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea - for instance, I overheard the fella in front of me describe it as ‘tedious’ - but I found it to be an enthralling human and psychological drama and an interesting study of what can happen when individuals come under the control of wealthy patrons. It also contains some good acting performances, imo.

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Deadpool.

Hilarious from start to finish, great action, incredibly meta fourth wall breaking/references. Just go and see it, please.

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Deadpool’s the Valentine’s Day plan for my girlfriend and I (tickets booked and everything). And she’s more excited about it than I am.

I’m really quite keen on her.

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Pls don’t watch Deadpool, it only encourages them. It might be quite good film, I wouldn’t know, but if you watch Deadpool now, you’ll be watching Deadpool movies for the rest of your life, I guarantee it. You’ll be watching Deadpool 12 part 6: Stil Swimmin’ Still Dead, in 20 years time, starring RoboReynolds Unit #3.701a, and you’ll be bored out of your fucking skull. You’ll lean over to your bird, squeeze her arm, and say, “Remember when there were movies that weren’t capeshit?” and she’ll say, “No.”

I’m starting a movement. Join us! We’re called Justice League Squad Of Ppl Who Are Fed Up Back Teeth With Fucking Capeshit. It’s not a great acronym, but it’s all we’ve got so far. We’re a small gang of underdogs standing up against the overwhelming tyrany of capeshit. In many ways, we’re like superheroes.

One day they’ll make a movie about us, and it will be utter capeshit.

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When JLS were on the X-Factor, I insisted to my family that their name stood for “Justice League of Southampton”, despite them not coming from Southampton, and despite them stating quite explicitly that it stood for “Jack the Lad Swing”.

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Recently saw Dads Army and would agree with HS in that they have done a good job in casting and that there are a few chuckles in it, although I thought it would be funnier than it is. What you have is a warm homage to what was a classic TV sitcom and it is non the worse for that (get me, sounding all Barry Norman). A nice bit of nostalgia but not a must see.

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Didn’t Ryan Reynolds have a green ring? Is that why he died and came back all immortal??

What are they going to do when they have a Deadpool/Green Lantern crossover cape shite?

“The Big Short”… Watched it yesterday evening. Fantasic film, and the more horrific that it’s actually what certain US banks are doing.

Shudder in horror at the whole concept of synthetic CDO’s

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I don’t understand CDO’s either, but trust me its a really gripping movie

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So, I’m most likely going to get some shit for this, probably from pap…

But, yeah, I really do quite fancy seeing Deadpool.

I’m off to see this in the evening. I am encouraging the capeshit.

Originally posted by @pap

and despite them stating quite explicitly that it stood for “Jack the Lad Swing”.

This is news to me. I didn’t think I could hate them more. I was wrong.

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Fuck capeshit.

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Although that Jess Jones was alright.

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I love the comic book movies.

If you don’t I can only assume that you’ve a chromosone missing.