Movie recommendations

[ballinaman]

Room 8/10.

Harrowing stuff, quality acting. Gripping 2 hours.

[blewuporstuffed]

I watched Ex Machina over the weekend and thought it was pretty good.
7/10

[Main Street]

I found one  version of the (made for tv) 1958 German film It Happened in Broad Daylight being seeded on KAT (with eng subs).
The author who wrote the screen play for the 1958 film, angrily rejected the changes in plot that were imposed.
In response he wrote a book called The Pledge where he outlined his version of the screenplay, his story.
The Pledge 2001 dir Sean Penn was based on this book.

Both films were top heavy with the best actors of their day and very well made.
You might remember the increasingly obsessed Jack Nicholson's last hope to trap the serial killer was foiled by happenstance and he ended up truly deranged, not knowing he was right along.
The german film is different, the original 1958 B&W film is an out and out gripping, classic thriller and imo an improved story..

[Walter Cronc]

Saw Concussion with Will Smith. 7.5/10 for me. Very enjoyable.

[The Iceman]

Watched the Revenant in the Cinema and definitely enjoyed it but didn't think it was a masterpiece by any means. I'd give it 7/10
It felt at times like they tried to make an epic film by stealing epic scenes form other films?
Using gunpowder to seal a wound (rambo III)
Falling off a cliff through evergreen tree (Rambo I)
climbing inside the carcass of an animal to shelter form the cold (star wars episode V)
the lost love drifting in and out of dreams and wandering through the trees (braveheart)
escaping down a river from the pursuit of an enemy (too many movies to list)

It was well done. The CGI was fantastic, the bear scene was great but it was still Leo. I thought Hardy did a much better job

[Tony Baloney]

Spotlight v. good bit not great. Dunno what Mark Ruffalo did to merit an Oscar nomination over his co-stars.

[gallsman]

Watched the Revenant in the Cinema and definitely enjoyed it but didn't think it was a masterpiece by any means. I'd give it 7/10
It felt at times like they tried to make an epic film by stealing epic scenes form other films?
Using gunpowder to seal a wound (rambo III)
Falling off a cliff through evergreen tree (Rambo I)
climbing inside the carcass of an animal to shelter form the cold (star wars episode V)
the lost love drifting in and out of dreams and wandering through the trees (braveheart)
escaping down a river from the pursuit of an enemy (too many movies to list)

It was well done. The CGI was fantastic, the bear scene was great but it was still Leo. I thought Hardy did a much better job

Was the bear not the only CGI in the thing?

[The Iceman]

Watched the Revenant in the Cinema and definitely enjoyed it but didn't think it was a masterpiece by any means. I'd give it 7/10
It felt at times like they tried to make an epic film by stealing epic scenes form other films?
Using gunpowder to seal a wound (rambo III)
Falling off a cliff through evergreen tree (Rambo I)
climbing inside the carcass of an animal to shelter form the cold (star wars episode V)
the lost love drifting in and out of dreams and wandering through the trees (braveheart)
escaping down a river from the pursuit of an enemy (too many movies to list)

It was well done. The CGI was fantastic, the bear scene was great but it was still Leo. I thought Hardy did a much better job

Was the bear not the only CGI in the thing?

the buffalo and the wolves, the horse coming off the cliff, the crow by the river - I thought that was all CGI?

[gallsman]

You must be right I guess, they obviously can't be butchering animals but I thought I'd read that the bear scene was the only CGI in the thing. You're right though, that scene was spectacular. And horrifying.

[Main Street]

Spotlight ends up winning an Oscar for best film.
ironically written by one of  the sleaziest, most unscrupulous reporters ever to hit our screen, the liar from The Wire, Scott Templeton. 
I thought of it more as a docu drama rather than a film, as it managed to accurately depict most of  the whole picture in regard to the catholic clergy abuse of children and the equally immoral crime of the cover-up (aka pedophile enabling), via the plot line account of the Boston newspaper's investigation.

All the oscar nominated  foreign films and documentaries look to be worthwhile viewing .
I'll be starting  with Cartel Land
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/06/cartel-land-review-alarming-account-mexican-drug-vigilantes

[johnneycool]

Watched the Revenant in the Cinema and definitely enjoyed it but didn't think it was a masterpiece by any means. I'd give it 7/10
It felt at times like they tried to make an epic film by stealing epic scenes form other films?
Using gunpowder to seal a wound (rambo III)
Falling off a cliff through evergreen tree (Rambo I)
climbing inside the carcass of an animal to shelter form the cold (star wars episode V)
the lost love drifting in and out of dreams and wandering through the trees (braveheart)
escaping down a river from the pursuit of an enemy (too many movies to list)

It was well done. The CGI was fantastic, the bear scene was great but it was still Leo. I thought Hardy did a much better job

Was the bear not the only CGI in the thing?

the buffalo and the wolves, the horse coming off the cliff, the crow by the river - I thought that was all CGI?

Sat through the revenant the other night and it was a bit meh. Yeah the bear scene was very good, but you'd hardly say Leo got his oscar for the dialogue in the film.

[Hound]

ironically written by one of  the sleaziest, most unscrupulous reporters ever to hit our screen, the liar from The Wire, Scott Templeton. 

I'm obviously missing something here. Scott Templeton was a character in the Wire - fictional surely?

[blewuporstuffed]

ironically written by one of  the sleaziest, most unscrupulous reporters ever to hit our screen, the liar from The Wire, Scott Templeton. 

I'm obviously missing something here. Scott Templeton was a character in the Wire - fictional surely?

Spotlight was written and directed by the guy that played Scott Templeton in The Wire.

[general_lee]

Watched Dirty Grandpa. American Pie-esque but really quite funny if that type of crude comedy is your thing.

[Main Street]

Cartel Land  as a documentary is almost unequaled in making a documentary film out of direct live coverage of  real political events. Almost,  I would rank with the documentary that covered live  the attempted coup  against Chavez in Venezuela. Part of this documentary happens north of the border, that part is pretend mall cop stuff,  compared to the coverage of the armed people's  movement south of the border in Mexico, to free the province from the shakles  of the all powerful drug cartels. This documentary is so good it doesn't feel like a documentary.
That being said , there is no happy ending here.