Last Film You Saw

[SWP's back]

Are there such beings anymore?

If they read comic books then I’m going to go with ‘yes’.

 

[jimharri]

If they read comic books then I’m going to go with ‘yes’.

Fair point.

 

[Thorin Oakenshield]

Now if only we could get a proper Star Wars fan to do a Star Wars film

I am still stunned at how Rian Johnson portrayed Luke. He ignored everything Luke achieved in ESB and ROTJ. Luke had to struggle just to force pull his lightsabre in ESB. He had been practising the Force for 3 years up until that point. In the space of a week Rey masters quite a few abilities.

Him choosing death over killing his father was one of the bravest things he could do. Fast forward 20 years and with no immediate threat in sight, he sneaks into Ben's room, enters his mind ( which we know from TFA is not a nice feeling) and decides he needs to be put down. I keep hearing he did something similar in ROTJ when he attacks VAder but there was a very clear threat there. It was do or die. Sneaking into a Padawns sleeping chamber is just creepy.

I understand keeping Luke on Ach To. Dramatically it makes sense to save Luke's big moment for the finale. But the plot reasonings where awful. Upon hearing what Kylo has done Luke should have sprung into action. He can still have the mentality that the Jedi order needs to die but he would have cleaned up his own mess first before retiring.

Also Luke's big moment is so flat. I understand why he left it so late. Seeing Luke in action was always going to be the defining moment of this trilogy. It should have been a truimptant moment. But when it comes it is so weird. First time you see it you wonder how he got inside the base, why does he look so different? Why does he have the blue lightsabre? Why aren't him and Kylo fighting? Then we get the reveal, he is a Force projection. That is kinda cool , seeing him use a new force power, but then he dies for no obvious reason. We are supposed to feel okay he died because he is no longer the last Jedi. Yet the last time he saw Rey she was going to join forces with Kylo. It also shows a child like view of the force. Rian Johnson seems to think having the force is what makes you a Jedi. No having the force makes you a Jedi, choosing to use that power for a greater good is what makes you a Jedi. Luke himself says she went straight to the darkness earlier in the film, he saw her connection with Kylo yet we are supposed to believe this girl is a Jedi?!

For me Luke was a message to people. If you are good and honest and hard working you can be great. Rey seems to have all the attributes of Jedi yet she has not earned them. It feels hollow to me.

 

[quiet_riot]

Hostiles.

6/10.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Hostiles.

6/10.

Harsh,very harsh.

Its a brilliant film.

 

[BimboBob]

Literally just finished watching this and it’s pretty good I actually liked the time trilogy. The only thing that annoyed me was the use of music or lack of it. Was the same with the batman movies. He fails to get the full effect in the tense scenes in Dunkirk and the action ones in Batman.

The lack of music was quite refreshing for me. There's no need sometimes, just let the action speak for itself.

 

[Thorin Oakenshield]

The lack of music was quite refreshing for me. There's no need sometimes, just let the action speak for itself.

I must say the use of music in infinity war was amazing

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Literally just finished watching this and it’s pretty good I actually liked the time trilogy. The only thing that annoyed me was the use of music or lack of it. Was the same with the batman movies. He fails to get the full effect in the tense scenes in Dunkirk and the action ones in Batman.

The music was written by the incredible Hans Zimmerman although I do not think this score was in the same class as Gladiator.
Music encapsulate the audience breathing life into the average but imagine just for a moment what a fine musical score can do to an already brilliantly directed masterpiece like Ridleys Gladiator.And not just the music but the correct application of it.

 

[BimboBob]

I must say the use of music in infinity war was amazing

And I must say I agree with you.

 

[Saddleworth2]

A spare, propulsive, ever-intensifying combat thriller, Nolan's history lesson is both a rousing celebration of solidarity and the tensest beach-set film since Jaws.

Christopher Nolan's first history movie is bold, visceral, and powerful, with many moving sequences -- though some of his film making
choices can be challenging

Dunkirk makes for Christopher Nolan's most intense and nerve-wracking thriller yet, delivering a strikingly terse viewing experience
in the process.


Ok that's the lovies take on things and now for a Joe soap appraisal who sat down with the fam last night to absorb of this assumed masterclass of film making goodness.When we initially tuned in we had to combat the usual theft of a quarter of our telly screen with that ridiculous letter box format but that's a small nuance with many more nuances to follow which to be honest nibbled and chipped away at my overall watch-ability.
Nolan trying desperatly to be a luvvie of the film world by injecting his own characteristics and into this film noir like some mad head Woody Allenesque grafiti artist on crac. One of his most irritating traits as a director was to make a character wether a wounded soldier or the Captain on the pontoon look into the distance long and soul searchingly displaying every emotion humanly possible and then zoom in on their face and back out again.After 40 seconds or so we would all shout out "what the fook is he looking at" It happened loads of times and was more than a mild irritant.

Cinamatography was very good and some of the shots of the spitfire combat were superlative especially the views of Dunkirk as the spitfire prepared to crash land after running out of gas.

They could have made a lot more of the story line and made it slightly more harrowing and more focusable but I appreciate the target audience was for 12 and upwards.I'm not very good with faces faring better with voices.I found myself asking the other half who was that then and she would say that's the man who was just torpedoed.Well who was that then and she would retort thats the original soldier on the beach who has now grabbed another lift after being sunk twice.

The film was all over the place and I found it difficult to keep track.It was the peyton place of war movies and it didnt sit comfy with my expectations being filmed in a trilogy of daft time zones of an hour a day and a week.

It wasnt all doom and gloom and occasionally we were treated to a brilliant bout of stoical acting but overall it was bang average and nothing to write home about.The only time however that it raised my emotions was when the wonderful keneth brangah stood on the pontoon and refused his place on a ship.He was staying to help the frenchies and saluted and the haunting emossenial music and atmospherics made me want to get up and salute right back but I couldnt as we were on the recliner and the coffee table was in the way and I had also a had a scoop to celebrate our presentation and was unsteady so I saluted back in my chair.The man is a legend !

The dogfights were outstandingly excellent putting you right upthere inside the cockpit with man and machine fused as one in some madand twisted fight for survival

A nice cameo performance from Harry styles off one direction but sadly there was nothing much for him to sing about.
Don't get me wrong it was watchable so I scored it 7/10

Out of fuel over Dunkirk with beautiful cinermatography at the two minute eight second mark.

I've seen it twice and strangely, I liked it better on the second viewing on blu ray. I liked the soundtrack, I thought it added to the tension. The cinematography is pretty stunning and i liked Tom Hardys performance. Mark Rylance was miscast I thought and I'm usually a big fan. I think it will be a grower and seen as a classic of its genre in 10 years time.