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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 23, 2015 21:32:25 GMT
Worry not, Jem is coming for you.
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Post by legios on Oct 23, 2015 21:42:14 GMT
1. Paddington
2. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
3. Big Hero 6
4. Shaun the Sheep
5. Inside Out:
6. The Terminator (re-release)
7 Sicario
8. Mad Max:Fury Road
9. Ant-Man
10. The Martian - feels like a fairly small, intimate, story which suddenly found itself with a huge budget to spend. But in a fairly good way. I like it's sense of humour, and the general sense of "work the problem, one step at a time". It never really develops a bite to it's sense of isolation unfortunately though. Decent, and a rare attempt to smuggle hard(ish) SF onto the cinema screens.
11. Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation
12. Fast and Furious 7
13. Kingsman
14. Avengers: Age of Ultron
15. Terminator:Genisys
16. John Wick
17. The Gunman
18. The Hobbit
19. Jurassic World
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 24, 2015 19:58:16 GMT
Worry not, Jem is coming for you. Distressingly, Andu continually rejects my offer of a free ticket to see this motion picture. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 24, 2015 20:10:22 GMT
Worry not, Jem is coming for you. Distressingly, Andu continually rejects my offer of a free ticket to see this motion picture. -Ralph If you buy him a ticket he'll be guilt-tripped into accepting it and going. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 24, 2015 20:17:23 GMT
I will be busy when it comes out. I will be doing...stuff!
Andy
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 24, 2015 21:02:53 GMT
Then we must treat you to the Bluray so you can enjoy it time and time again!
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Post by blueshift on Oct 24, 2015 22:20:25 GMT
I will be busy when it comes out. I will be doing...stuff! Andy Truly outrageous!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 25, 2015 9:42:08 GMT
Distressingly, Andu continually rejects my offer of a free ticket to see this motion picture. -Ralph If you buy him a ticket he'll be guilt-tripped into accepting it and going. , I have a free Cineworld ticket for him to use! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 25, 2015 22:34:18 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 27, 2015 7:47:38 GMT
1. Ant-Man
2. Avengers / Captain America Triple Bill
3. Spectre (utterly implausible from start to finish, just as Bond should be)
4. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
5. Spooks: The Greater Good
6. Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation
7. Terminator: Genisys
8. Hitman: Agent 47
9. The Transporter Refueled
10. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
11. Fantastic Four
12. Fast and Furious 7
13. Kingsman: The Secret Service
14. Taken 3
15. Jurassic World
16. Exodus: Gods and Kings
Martin
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Post by browny87 on Oct 27, 2015 17:40:55 GMT
going next week to see Bond, hope itll b good!
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Post by blueshift on Oct 27, 2015 18:06:13 GMT
going next week to see Bond, hope itll b good! Sorry browny, I've just had a call from the cinema. They made a mistake and they're just showing Jem instead  |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 27, 2015 20:30:17 GMT
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Post by browny87 on Oct 28, 2015 8:59:19 GMT
Lol how in this day and age can people make a movie that bad?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2015 9:22:29 GMT
There is rarely any correlation between box office and whether a film is 'good'. It just shows what is popular (which is not necessarily the same thing). I'm sure we have all seen films which bombed that we really liked as well as huge hits which we thought were rubbish!
Can't give an opinion about the Jem film until I see it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2015 9:29:05 GMT
Certainly not a cinema trip for me, but if it has an eighties revival feel to it I'm in for a rental watch. Going to the cinema costs too much these days to be a casual trip. I am fully appreciative of the benefit of seeing films on a big screen, I studied film at university, but when it costs upwards of £25 for a couple to see a two hour film now it has to be something special or important.
Speaking of which, might go and see Spectre today.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2015 12:30:54 GMT
Yes the cost of film going is rather high. If I didn't have access to a Cineworld to use their Unlimited card service I wouldn't be able to afford to go as often or to see as wide a variety of films.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2015 17:31:03 GMT
Well you certainly make use of it! I'm in awe.
I did go to see Spectre today. Most enjoyable. I liked the way it managed to feel like a Craig era Bond as well as an old fashioned one, and drew together all his films so far very neatly. Evil villain secret lair hidden in a desert crater! Brilliant!
I think what they're doing with this series now is very clever. I'm still not quite sure that Craig is the Bond I see in my mind's eye when reading the Fleming books, but he's exactly right for these films.
That's set me up nicely to launch into Trigger Mortis now.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 28, 2015 18:08:35 GMT
There is rarely any correlation between box office and whether a film is 'good'. It just shows what is popular (which is not necessarily the same thing). I'm sure we have all seen films which bombed that we really liked as well as huge hits which we thought were rubbish! Can't give an opinion about the Jem film until I see it. -Ralph By all accounts the Jem film isn't terrible and has some decent stuff, but the problem is it's in no way shape or form a Jem film, so the nostalgia crowd will be turned away, and the young teen crowd who it is aimed at are turned away as it is (apparently) based on a nostalgia property they have never heard of. Instant and obvious recipe for a bomb. It's like if they made a Transformers film where Optimus Prime was the elderly manager of a gardening supply store, who was in love with Soundwave, who is the young pizza delivery girl. It might be the best film of all time but no-one's going to watch it. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 28, 2015 18:38:02 GMT
I did go to see Spectre today. Most enjoyable. I liked the way it managed to feel like a Craig era Bond as well as an old fashioned one, and drew together all his films so far very neatly. Evil villain secret lair hidden in a desert crater! Brilliant! I agree. I don't care for either 'Casino Royale' or 'Quantum of Solace' as Bond films partly because of the re-boot but also because they seemed to be trying too hard not to cross the line into implausibility, which is where James Bond belongs. With the last two films, however, they've rediscovered the joy of not caring whether it could actually happen. Unlike 'Skyfall', 'Spectre' isn't up there in my top half dozen Bond films. But it is a Bond film, and a good one at that. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2015 19:54:25 GMT
I haven't been that bored by a Bond film since Licence To Kill.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 29, 2015 20:25:15 GMT
Aww... Really? Come on... It wasn't Skyfall but it pressed all the right buttons. Maybe religiously so at times, but it was an entertaining film.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2015 21:30:58 GMT
1: Shaun the Sheep Movie.
2: The Old Vic’s ‘The Crucible’.
3: Whiplash.
4: Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus.
5: The Terminator (re-release).
6: Inside Out.
7: The Theory of Everything.
8: Big Hero 6.
9: Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD (UK Premiere).
10: The Lego Movie (BAFTA re-release).
11: Globe on Screen: Comedy of Errors.
12: Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi.
13: The Lord of the Rings (1978, re-release).
14: Sicario.
15: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water.
16: The Sound of Music (re-release).
17: Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar.
18: The Age of Adaline.
19: Globe on Screen: Anthony and Cleopatra.
20: American Sniper.
21: A Most Violent Year.
22: Mad Max: Fury Road.
23: Maggie.
24: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (IMAX).
25: The Lobster.
26: Ant-Man.
27: The Gambler (2014).
28: Selma.
29: Kill The Messenger.
30: Fast and Furious 7 (IMAX).
31: The Walk.
32: Suffragette.
33: The Water Diviner.
34: Wild Card.
35: Run All Night.
36: The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya (subbed).
37: Cinderella (2015).
38: True Story.
39: Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.
40: Kingsman: The Secret Service (IMAX).
41: Avengers: Age of Ultron.
42: Hitman: Agent 47.
43: Child 44.
44: Good Kill.
45: Project Almanac.
46: Man Up.
47: The Martian.
48: It Follows.
49: The Salvation.
50: Unbroken.
51: Spooks: The Greater Good.
52: Unfriended.
53: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (IMAX).
54: Spy.
55: NT Live Encore: Coriolanus.
56: Mr Holmes.
57: The Connection.
58: No Escape.
59: Son of a Gun.
60: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.
61: Taken 3 (IMAX).
62: Solace.
63: The New Girlfriend.
64: Seventh Son.
65: Foxcatcher.
66: A Walk in the Woods.
67: Bill.
68: Minions.
69: Everest.
70: Spectre (IMAX): Not entirely without merit. It is very nicely shot (you can tell it shares a director with Skyfall) and has a strong opening. I can see what it's going for: an attempt to marry the more 'real world' asthetic of the Daniel Craig series with the more outlandish bonkersness that Bond films traditionally had prior to them. But it just doesn't work. I was surprised by how bored and disinterested I felt for long stretches of the film. I came out of Skyfall thinking that the series had been reinvigorated and had proven its worth in modern culture and could run another 50 years. I came out of Spectre thinking it was a tired old series after all and maybe should be put to bed. Time to call Martin Campbell again.
71: A Little Chaos.
72: Ex Machina.
73: Legend.
74: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
75: Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (IMAX).
76: The Transporter Refuelled.
77: Macbeth (2015).
78: Regression.
79: The Program: Workmanlike depiction of Lance Armstrong's fall from grace. It doesn't really dramatise the story in a way that brings anything to it that a documentary could but it does however have a very strong central performance which is uncannily like how Armstrong comes across in public appearances.
80: American Ultra.
81: The Legend of Barney Thomson.
82: The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
83: Far From The Madding Crowd (2015).
84: Crimson Peak.
85: Mississippi Grind.
86: Hot Pursuit.
87: Terminator: Genisys.
88: San Andreas.
89: Southpaw.
90: Self/Less.
91: John Wick.
92: The Gunman.
93: Chappie.
94: Blackhat.
95: Into The Woods.
96: Pixels.
97: Big Game.
98: The Falling.
99: Jurassic World.
100: The Last Witch Hunter.
101: Fantastic Four (2015).
102: Survivor.
103: Jupiter Ascending.
104: Pitch Perfect 2.
105: Trainwreck.
106: Pan.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 2, 2015 21:38:33 GMT
1: Shaun the Sheep Movie.
2: The Old Vic’s ‘The Crucible’.
3: Whiplash.
4: Globe on Screen: Titus Andronicus.
5: The Terminator (re-release).
6: Inside Out.
7: The Theory of Everything.
8: Big Hero 6.
9: Future Shock: The Story of 2000AD (UK Premiere).
10: The Lego Movie (BAFTA re-release).
11: Globe on Screen: Comedy of Errors.
12: Globe on Screen: The Duchess of Malfi.
13: The Lord of the Rings (1978, re-release).
14: Sicario.
15: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water.
16: The Sound of Music (re-release).
17: Globe on Screen: Julius Caesar.
18: The Age of Adaline.
19: Globe on Screen: Anthony and Cleopatra.
20: American Sniper.
21: A Most Violent Year.
22: Mad Max: Fury Road.
23: Maggie.
24: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (IMAX).
25: The Lobster.
26: Ant-Man.
27: The Gambler (2014).
28: Selma.
29: Kill The Messenger.
30: Fast and Furious 7 (IMAX).
31: The Walk.
32: Suffragette.
33: The Water Diviner.
34: Wild Card.
35: Run All Night.
36: The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya (subbed).
37: Cinderella (2015).
38: True Story.
39: Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.
40: Kingsman: The Secret Service (IMAX).
41: Avengers: Age of Ultron.
42: Hitman: Agent 47.
43: Child 44.
44: Good Kill.
45: Project Almanac.
46: Man Up.
47: The Martian.
48: It Follows.
49: The Salvation.
50: Unbroken.
51: Spooks: The Greater Good.
52: Unfriended.
53: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (IMAX).
54: Spy.
55: NT Live Encore: Coriolanus.
56: Mr Holmes.
57: The Connection.
58: No Escape.
59: Son of a Gun.
60: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.
61: Taken 3 (IMAX).
62: Solace.
63: The New Girlfriend.
64: Seventh Son.
65: Foxcatcher.
66: A Walk in the Woods.
67: Bill.
68: Minions.
69: Everest.
70: Spectre (IMAX).
71: A Little Chaos.
72: Ex Machina.
73: Legend.
74: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
75: He Named Me Malala: Decent documentary. I can't quite put my finger on why it didn't completely click with me but the subject matter is strong and it's very well put together with some effective sequences where animation is put to voiceovers.
76: Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (IMAX).
77: The Transporter Refuelled.
78: Macbeth (2015).
79: Regression.
80: Hotel Transylvania 2: Now I am not the target audience for this but it was surprisingly passable for what it is. Avoids many of the traps these type of films fall into. I doubt it will stick in my memory but it has some good gags and the monster characters are fun.
81: The Program.
82: American Ultra.
83: The Legend of Barney Thomson.
84: The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
85: Far From The Madding Crowd (2015).
86: Crimson Peak.
87: Mississippi Grind.
88: Hot Pursuit.
89: Terminator: Genisys.
90: San Andreas.
91: Southpaw.
92: Self/Less.
93: John Wick.
94: The Gunman.
95: Chappie.
96: Blackhat.
97: Into The Woods.
98: Pixels.
99: Big Game.
100: The Falling.
101: Jurassic World.
102: The Last Witch Hunter.
103: Fantastic Four (2015).
104: Survivor.
105: Jupiter Ascending.
106: Pitch Perfect 2.
107: Trainwreck.
108: Pan.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 3, 2015 17:58:55 GMT
My previous record in a year was 107. I have now passed it but have been challenged to reach 125. Mmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 3, 2015 17:59:37 GMT
My previous record in a year was 107. I have now passed it but have been challenged to reach 125. Mmmm. -Ralph Well to be fair I didn't challenge you, so much as speculate whether you could hit that mighty figure. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 3, 2015 18:04:32 GMT
You knew it was a challenge as soon as the words hit the air! It's on now!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 3, 2015 18:23:36 GMT
Only 125?
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Post by blueshift on Nov 3, 2015 19:58:03 GMT
I know! Ralph's so lazy!! I think he should lock himself in the Jem showing and rack up a good dozen or so on that alone. |
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 3, 2015 20:12:54 GMT
122 would be nicely significant - one film every three days for an entire year. That is mightily impressive.
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