The movie thread

[Frosty]

Watched Greyhound tonight. Not bad, suspenseful at times.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922/

Just finished watching it now.

Hard to believe that 3200 ships were sunk and 72k souls lost forever.

[splat]

If you wanna see Daniel Radcliffe in a non Harry Potter role then Swiss army man is definitely worth a watch. It's not for everyone... But it hit the spot with me... And it's got the highly underrated Paul Dano

 

 

Now that was a different movie!

It made a bit more sense when I went online afterwards and saw that it was labelled as a 'Swedish-American surreal comedy-drama film ' 

[splat]

What a sh!t show of a situation!

 

[Hairy]

Watched Jar Head last night for the first time .... not a lot happening, but at the same time there is so much happening.

[Andymann]

What a **** show of a situation!

 

 

I watched that on the weekend.  I had forgotten that Scott Eastwood was in it until I heard him speak and suddenly realised I had heard that voice somewhere before......

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

 

I hate this song, but I love it. 

[Hairy]

 

I hate this song, but I love it. 

[forkie]

imagine being tied down and forced to listen to the full 10 hours of that video.

[Cois]

We tried to watch First Cow the past weekend. Saw like 4 minutes and work up with the credits rolling. So the sleep rating is a solid 10/10. See the rating is very good on IMDB, but heck it was a slow and boring start to a movie

 

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9231040/

Edited July 23, 2020 by Cois

[splat]

Watched Greyhound tonight. Not bad, suspenseful at times.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922/

 

I watched this last night and thought that it was interesting and well done. Tactics etc were great.

(it's really a tiny snippet of the whole war, so this could have been a huge saga)

 

Tom Hanks is as reliable as a pair of Gatorskins (dependable, but possibly a tad boring)

Elisabeth Shue has had quite a career dating back to Karate Kid!

Edited July 25, 2020 by splat

[Frosty]

Watched Ocean’s 8 last night.

 

Not as uniquely suspenseful as Ocean’s 11. But the opening scam was quite funny (can I get a refund, without a slip? Oh, then I’ll just keep it - can I get a bag please).

[Cois]

We watched The Outpost last night. Powerful movie that did not need a ear shattering sound effect to announce the enemy like Greyhound did the whole movie.

 

Tragic that a lot of kids lost it all because of some idiots making stupid choices.

 

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3833480/

[Frosty]

Saw this on Amazon Prime, and watched it over two sessions.

[Andymann]

imagine being tied down and forced to listen to the full 10 hours of that video.

 

I saw the other day while I was riding on Zwift someone posted a random "yaya dingdong" message.  I did have a little chuckle....

[Mojoman]

Saw this on Amazon Prime, and watched it over two sessions.

Any good?

[Frosty]

Any good?

Not bad, but I knew most of it from my history days in school. It did remind me of a few events I may have forgotten about. Didn’t go into too much detail, but touched on a lot of the different battles making up the war. I didn’t realize so many Poms lost their lives in relation to the Boers.

 

My daughter’s history books only mentions the Koi, then blank until 1994. Not sure if it changes in higher grades, so we used the video to explain what happened, in the documentary as well as what happened, (briefly) between 1652 and 1994.

 

I’m a 1st-Gen born in SA, my ancestors are from the “4 home nations”. The wife is pure bred Afrikaans, with her ancestors dating back to the French Hugenots. She explained to the girls that the Boer War was a fight between Daddy’s nation and Mamma’s nation, as well as some of the locals (Zulu’s).