Can't remember if there was a specific film thread so here goes.

 

Anyone been/going to the cinema to see anything in particular?

 

I've been to see Inception and Toy Story 3 recently. Both were fantastic. Saw Toy Story in 3D but I'm not overly sure that it was necessary, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it was a great film. Fitting way to end the trilogy

It really is absolutely appalling how much stick John is taking for this.  My heart really goes out to him, it should have been one of the best nights of his life and now it will be a sore memory forever.

I'll say this though, Scotland has not been so united in their support for one of their citizens since Smeato  stopped that attack on Glasgow Airport. 

My mate worked with Smeato. He wasn’t a hero to his colleagues 

Always felt sorry for the guy who broke his foot volleying the terrorist in the baws, yet Smeato got all the glory 

14 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

My mate worked with Smeato. He wasn’t a hero to his colleagues 

Always felt sorry for the guy who broke his foot volleying the terrorist in the baws, yet Smeato got all the glory 

He is a hun 2bf 

Netflix : Munich The Edge of War.

Not too bad at all. 

Empire of the Sun, Spielberg film

What a bag of shite. 4/10.

Falling Down. Michael Douglas's finest hour. 

Robert Duvall his usual mercurial self and Barbara Hershey absolutely stunning. 

Top watch. 

I'm just back from the talkies, where I went to see the British comedy Mother's Pride.

It was good. A little bit cliched, but it was a fine escape from the awful situation unfolding at Pittodrie. Four stars out of five.

The Peaky Blinders Film

Never watched the TV series and after the film, won't be bothering.

We took out Netflix for Better Call Saul, but if it is the future of TV and Film, I'm sticking to books.

 

11 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

We took out Netflix for Better Call Saul, but if it is the future of TV and Film, I'm sticking to books.

 

Sadly this future started quite a while ago. I miss the days of watching things on set days, then chatting about them at work, and looking forward to 'next week'.

What an old man thing to say.

For me, Netflix is all about quantity - most of it is shite, some of it is pretty good. Very little of it sticks in your memory for more than about 2 days. It's just finding the right things. But we tend to spend more time looking for stuff to watch, so invariably give up and go back to council telly.

We also tend to rotate our subscriptons - Netflix for a few months, Apple for a few. They always throw offers at you to come back, and there is never a long term commitment so you can just cancel whenever.

Apple doesn't have masses of stuff, but they seem to have more quality things - at least we have found a lot more there that has some proper substance. We'll often take it when a freebie comes up for a month, keep it for three, blitz a load of stuff, then leave it for a year.

I could happily live without the streaming sevices. For the most part, you are better with a book - unless you fall in to the trap my wife fell into of just reading the crap that is churned out by Amazon for your kindle. 
Mrs Tattie: Oooh, 99p. How bad can it be
Me: Very - Like the last 40. Why don't you just buy a real book!

That's my issue with modern life (or one of many). We have too much choice, and 99% of it is pish. We are just told we need all these options and believe 'them'. Real music (including heavy metal - but not C&W or freeform jazz), four channels and some good books, thatll do me.

16 minutes ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Sadly this future started quite a while ago. I miss the days of watching things on set days, then chatting about them at work, and looking forward to 'next week'.

What an old man thing to say.

For me, Netflix is all about quantity - most of it is shite, some of it is pretty good. Very little of it sticks in your memory for more than about 2 days. It's just finding the right things. But we tend to spend more time looking for stuff to watch, so invariably give up and go back to council telly.

We also tend to rotate our subscriptons - Netflix for a few months, Apple for a few. They always throw offers at you to come back, and there is never a long term commitment so you can just cancel whenever.

Apple doesn't have masses of stuff, but they seem to have more quality things - at least we have found a lot more there that has some proper substance. We'll often take it when a freebie comes up for a month, keep it for three, blitz a load of stuff, then leave it for a year.

I could happily live without the streaming sevices. For the most part, you are better with a book - unless you fall in to the trap my wife fell into of just reading the crap that is churned out by Amazon for your kindle. 
Mrs Tattie: Oooh, 99p. How bad can it be
Me: Very - Like the last 40. Why don't you just buy a real book!

That's my issue with modern life (or one of many). We have too much choice, and 99% of it is pish. We are just told we need all these options and believe 'them'. Real music (including heavy metal - but not C&W or freeform jazz), four channels and some good books, thatll do me.

I'm relatively new to streaming (oh, and fuck Amazon), but last night, whilst on Netflix, Still Game was in their top 10 popular programmes, along with a couple of other BBC shows, which really is mental and shows how poor the overall quality of their programmes and films are.

The Wife is currently in the room next door finishing off Stranger Things, which really is utter, utter shyte.

I honestly can't see past the licence fee and the BBC, regardless how unfashionable it is now to do so. Worth it for the radio output alone, but love a deep dive into the iPlayer and just wish they would open up more of their archived programmes.

56 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I'm relatively new to streaming (oh, and fuck Amazon), but last night, whilst on Netflix, Still Game was in their top 10 popular programmes, along with a couple of other BBC shows, which really is mental and shows how poor the overall quality of their programmes and films are.

That top 10 is a bit of a con - it looks at your viewing history, and if you don't have one I reckon it is taking info from your IP (or something). My top 10 and most watched don't have any of that. There's an algorithm at play.

Finally watched The Unforgiven. Something that struck me about a movie written by Clint Eastwood, his own script was shockingly shite, whilst Gene Hackman's script was absolutely legendary. 

On a recent trip to convict land, aka oztraylya, watched crime 101 and project Hail Mary. Enjoyed both, first being about a jewellery thief who committed crimes along the 101 in LA. Decent watch which didn’t require any thought. Project Hail Mary was decent enough too, another that didn’t require thought and just an enjoyable watch and pretty much a solo performance from Ryan gosling.

55 minutes ago, manc_don said:

On a recent trip to convict land, aka oztraylya, watched crime 101 and project Hail Mary. Enjoyed both, first being about a jewellery thief who committed crimes along the 101 in LA. Decent watch which didn’t require any thought. Project Hail Mary was decent enough too, another that didn’t require thought and just an enjoyable watch and pretty much a solo performance from Ryan gosling.

I went to the cinema to see Crime 101. It was OK but i felt it was trying way to hard to be Heat. It was no where near as good as Heat.

Hail Mary is really good. Took me a while to get in to it but 2nd time around I thought it's a bit of a classic.

Watched Threads the other night. An old BBC production about a nuclear attack on the UK. Sheffield to be precise.

Very dated, unsurprisingly and obviously very bleak. Had the old 80's instructional video kinda vibe. Think the old early morning adverts telling you to check on the old biddie next door if she's got 16 bottles of milk going sour at her front door.

One thing for sure if there is a nuclear attack you'd be better off getting incinerated in the initial blast rather than having to scavenge your way through a nuclear winter.

I also went to the cinema to watch Digger. Walked out after half an hour.

I loved Project Hail Mary we had a big family outing to the cinema to see it as we had all read the book

Digger I thought looked pish from the trailers

The Incomer was v good and Pressure too

I once watched the first half hour of Threads in the middle of the night.

I didn't sleep well that night. I still haven't watched it all.

32 minutes ago, swaddon said:

I once watched the first half hour of Threads in the middle of the night.

I didn't sleep well that night. I still haven't watched it all.

It's pretty depressing, dismal stuff. Good enough film though i thought. I read it spiked a lot of peoples anxiety (including the cast) when it was aired.

58 minutes ago, Goldie03 said:

I loved Project Hail Mary we had a big family outing to the cinema to see it as we had all read the book

Digger I thought looked pish from the trailers

The Incomer was v good and Pressure too

I wanted to like The Incomer but it wasnt for me

14 hours ago, Mason89 said:

I wanted to like The Incomer but it wasnt for me

Was it the strange cackling sounds at the very beginning 😄

On 08/10/2026 at 22:05, Mason89 said:

I wanted to like The Incomer but it wasnt for me

Bigot.

55 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Bigot.

There just wasn’t a story there. Thats how everyone lives north of Milngavie

A couple films I fancy out at the moment (The Social Reckoning, The Uprising and Resident Evil) so I felt it was a good time to join Odeon Unlimited. Just back from The Social Reckoning and thought it was excellent. Not a big fan of Jeremy Strong but he played Zuckerberg perfectly. I'm sure I've read he's one of those method actors so I feel sorry for the cast having to work with him permanently being that awkward arsehole. The film keeps you interested from the first scene, just my cuppa tea.

My mate says The Uprising is pretty boring so not sure it's a cinema kind of film but I've got my unlimited pass now so I may as well pop along sometime.

I've been done by Odeon, they lured me in to join 'Unlimited' by putting out a few decent films this month. I joined up but it's a 3 month minimum term. Just checked and there doesn't seem to be anything worth watching out until Dune 3 in the middle of December.

I might have to go and watch the new Ali G film just to make use of the membership.

Heart of the Beast with Bradley Pitt and a canine cast member, really good. Loved the scenery and the shots of the small plane with the backdrop of the huge mountain ranges. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the dog is fine in the end, I had to make sure before I went to see it. As for Pitts character..... well that would be spoiling.

I rated the first few Resident Evil movies back in the day. The newest one was ok but seemed to run out of plot really quick and did that thing that so many sequels seem to do these days and tried to squeeze in too much laughs out of the audience. Make it a horror not a comedy. Pretty disapointing.

I too went to see 'Heart of the Beast' last week, at Braehead Odeon.

That was an interesting bus journey out to it.

Film was decent.

I usually find Brad Pitt films a decent enough watch and this one didn't disappoint.

Quite like the look of the 'I am Rocky' film.

I saw Wicker last night

Quite funny