Movie recommendations

[JimStynes]

Not a movie but any views on westworld??

Seems like a strange show. About halfway through the first series but still persisting.

I gave up on it. Found it extremely boring.

Best show of 2016 by a distance. How anyone could find an actor as great as Anthony Hopkins boring I'll never know.

It's was shite for 5 or 6 episodes and good for 3 or 4. It's a darling of the hype brigade though.

Aye, it seems to be one of those Tv shows where people get offended if you say you didn't like it, which I find a bit bizarre.

lol. That's actually true. I watched it and liked it but nowhere near an all time great which I imagined it was given the talk about it. Certain films are in that category too - it seems uncool to say that Anchorman is shit, which I thought it was.

Or game of thrones... but if someone really likes it then that's what it is, another persons view. Be pretty boring if we all liked the same things don't ya think??

Don't get the Game of Thrones hype either. Just couldn't get into it. People in work would near take the head off you if you said it was shite.

[Esmarelda]

I thought Game of Thrones was awful and Westworld was brilliant. What does that make me?

[Orior]

The David Brent movie was awful. Every joke he ever made was just recycled.

[Dinny Breen]

The David Brent movie was awful. Every joke he ever made was just recycled.

Never liked the Office. What does that make me?

[Boycey]

Watched Sully last night, entertaining enough wee 90 minutes....

I'm sure it was embellished for the film but I had no idea he was under investigation for not making it back to a runway..

[laoislad]

The David Brent movie was awful. Every joke he ever made was just recycled.

Never liked the Office. What does that make me?

I loved the Office. I'm so offended that you didn't.

[laoislad]

Watched Sully last night, entertaining enough wee 90 minutes....

I'm sure it was embellished for the film but I had no idea he was under investigation for not making it back to a runway..

Actually watched it last night myself. I enjoyed it.

[Dinny Breen]

The David Brent movie was awful. Every joke he ever made was just recycled.

Never liked the Office. What does that make me?

I loved the Office. I'm so offended that you didn't.

Snowflake!!

[HiMucker]

Watched zootropolis and deepwater horizon.  Both very good.  Kids loved zootropolis and it had plenty of adult themed humour.

[Jim Bob]

The David Brent movie was awful. Every joke he ever made was just recycled.

Never liked the Office. What does that make me?

I loved the Office. I'm so offended that you didn't.

Why are you offended?

[Eamonnca1]

Back to basics,
Stalingrad, german film 1993, no cgi just pure quality, subbed version only, leave well alone the dubbed version.

How does it compare to Enemy at the Gates?

[Main Street]

Back to basics,
Stalingrad, german film 1993, no cgi just pure quality, subbed version only, leave well alone the dubbed version.

How does it compare to Enemy at the Gates?

Enemy at the Gates is based upon a chapter in the book Life and Fate, is mostly fiction, inserts crude propaganda willy nilly and hardly has a tread of credibility. Once that's understood then just appreciate the film. Stalingrad (1993) is much wider in scope. There's no glory here, it's a relentless depiction of the ugly effects of war on soldiers and more importantly the people. The massive German eastern offensive had already died a year earlier in the Battle for Moscow, it was remorselessly buried a year later in the battle for Stalingrad.
You see how the soldiers react to  Hitlers' Stalingrad speech
The two battle scenes in Stalingrad (1993) are cinematic classics, the second one was part of a desperate attempt to break through to the surrounded 6th army, where ragged frozen soldiers ambushed T34 tanks and after all their efforts they had to drag their single artillery piece through the blizzard in a retreat on foot back to their base, they hadn't even got a horse.

[Eamonnca1]

Thanks. Always wondered about the accuracy of Enemy at the Gates. Stunning to look at though, I enjoyed it as a film.

[StGallsGAA]

I'd like to see someone make a film version version of book The Devil's Tinderbox. The story of how the USAF and RAF, knowing the war was already won, decided to flex their muscle to the Red Army and needlessly incinerate 750,000 innocent German refugees in the relatively untouched City of Dresden close to the Russian border. 

Taking advantage of the fact that the Luftwaffe had no fuel for their few remaining planes, in one night  they dropped 10,000 tonnes of high explosive and incendiary bombs on an undefended city of no strategic or military significance. 

Since Britain and the US have controlled the film industry since the end of WW2 it's unlikely we'll see the story of Dresden on the big screen any time soon!

[Dinny Breen]

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Not on my radar but saw it recommended further up, a perfect afternoon movie, well acted, funny and cynical. 8/10

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Similar to the above, not as sentimental as I thought it was going to be, strong performances and funny as well. 8/10

Everybody Wants Some!!

If you are a fan of high school/college movies then you will enjoy this, a very loose story line about a bunch of kids not knowing who or what they really are except they all play baseball. 7/10