Rate The Last Film You Watched

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Last film: Hell or High Water
Starring: Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster

Overview:
It's a heist movie set in modern day Texas. Pine and Foster are brothers trying to collect enough money to pay the outstanding loan on their dead mothers ranch before the bank fore-closes. The kicker being they are only robbing the branches of the bank they are going to pay it back too. Bridges plays a near retirement Texas Ranger who thinks he has the brothers figured out but doesn't reckon that the locals own hate of the banks means they've not forth coming on helping him.

Excellent film, a nice change to a full on action film. 8.5 out of 10
 
Star Wars VII The Force Does Something I Think.

Let's make a new Star Wars film,
yeah but the last ones were crap
OK we'll do it as a sort of homage thing.
Storm Troopers aren't clones, you don't need careful training to be a Jedi or any of that metaphysical religion crap.
Old people can still rock the battlefield though they can't run anymore and sometimes their faces can't move much at all.
The ships all look the same though so that's cheaper.
Oh yeah and the baddy is some angst ridden Public School Boy - menacing!
And some other stuff happened like Han Solo being killed I think but I was making a cuppa and missed it.
Luke is now a tramp who looks like he's about to shout Millennium Shrimp..
The End
 
Jungle Book, needs no introduction.

You know you'll sing "Oh oobee doo" for days.

Idris Elba the stand out for me. I was waiting for King Louie to pull out Mowgli's Great Grandfathers wrist watch from his ass, bizarrely it's what instantly springs to mind every time I hear Christopher Walken's voice, I need help.

Great re-work that's well worth watching, Disney Classic 10/10
 
Kajaki

Bunch of ordinary squaddies in Afghanistan guarding a dam sit round kalling and laiking about.
3 of them go on patrol to get within range of a Taliban checkpoint and wander into a 20 year old unmarked Russian minefield.
Cue a snowballing clusterfuck. A harrowing yet rewarding film, ordinary British squaddies dealing with a nightmare like ordinary British squaddies would or in this case did.
A real incident adapted for film but not fictionalised, few if any of the standard 'War' movie tricks used, no politics, no 'message'.
A thoroughly recommended update to the Ealing type British War films, not heroes just lads taking care of their mates and doing their job as best they can.
 
Kajaki

Bunch of ordinary squaddies in Afghanistan guarding a dam sit round kalling and laiking about.
3 of them go on patrol to get within range of a Taliban checkpoint and wander into a 20 year old unmarked Russian minefield.
Cue a snowballing clusterfuck. A harrowing yet rewarding film, ordinary British squaddies dealing with a nightmare like ordinary British squaddies would or in this case did.
A real incident adapted for film but not fictionalised, few if any of the standard 'War' movie tricks used, no politics, no 'message'.
A thoroughly recommended update to the Ealing type British War films, not heroes just lads taking care of their mates and doing their job as best they can.
I like the sound of this. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for posting!
 
I watched "never say never again" again
bloke as old as me, if not older, plays at being a British secret agent, get's young birds to fall for him without him spiking their drinks, drives fast cars and rides a strange motorcycle, not once does he complain that his back hurts, or his knees are sore, and he is not even grumpy, I think it was fictional comedy, rubbish, back to watching "in the night garden" at least that seems more believable
 
The Infiltrator

Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad fame stars as a US Custom agent who goes undercover as a money launderer to infiltrate the South American drug cartels in connection to Pablo Escobar in this film based on true events.

Solid acting all round, great drama and fascinating story. Well worth the watch. 8/10
 
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