What's the best film you've seen lately?

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 6,439 Scope Online Community Coordinator
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Doesn't have to be a new release, just anything you happened to watch lately that you thought was good!

I watched 28 Years Later last night and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I'm not a huge fan of gore, but my partner liked the first film (28 Days Later), so we thought we'd give it a go!

But one film a friend recommended that I did really like was called Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. It's about Marcel, a shell… with shoes on 😁

It's a stop-motion mock-documentary about a little shell that lives in an Air B&B with his aging grandma, and the search for his lost family after they got separated. Sad at points, but very sweet. It sounds like a kids film but it's definitely got some more grown-up themes to it. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes something a bit quirky and different!

Anyone seen anything good lately that you'd recommend?

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,869 Championing

    Has to be champions

    Story of Bob champion cancer battle and then winning the grand national on aldaniti

    Seem. If before but it's a great feel. Good movie

  • tealhoneydew16
    tealhoneydew16 Scope Member Posts: 92 Contributor

    Blink Twice is a good film i it watched recently as I like phsycological thirillers anyways! Very good and there's a big twist towards the end, after realising how the movie played out I watched it again and I understood it then. I thought this was a good film great songs, very well made and I think they picked the right actors/actresses for the given roles of the film, some faces that you may recicogise from older films. I would recommend this it's also free to watch if your a prime Amazon you can watch for free. I loved the music too.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 6,439 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Ooh interesting @Amberpearl, I've not seen that one before, but it sounds like a good one!

    And that sounds good too @tealhoneydew16, I love a psychological thriller too, so that'll be on the list to watch over the next few days ☺️

  • Mijuka
    Mijuka Online Community Member Posts: 53 Connected

    Rosie.. i lately watched old films, like 50s, 60s. but european with INgrind Bergman, GIna LOlobrigita. I definitely would recommend Tess of d'Urbevilles with Justin Wadel.. unbelievable beauty

  • Kiki23
    Kiki23 Online Community Member Posts: 98 Empowering

    'Change in the Air" & "Foster"

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 2,196 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I recently rewatched Coyote Ugly for the first time in years and I had forgot what a great film it was! Also a great soundtrack!😄

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 3,359 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I watched "We Live in Time" yesterday on Netflix with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. Was really touching, a few giggles and a few tears.

  • Kiki23
    Kiki23 Online Community Member Posts: 98 Empowering

    Watched "Collateral Beauty" with Will Smith again last night

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,514 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I watched The Ballad of Wallace Island last weekend and loved it.

    ImdB score; 74

    Rotten Tomatoes; 97%

    It has a fairly stark backdrop, but the characters are really warm and lovely. A long hug on a cold night. Tim Key is a particularly hilarious character. Beautifully done.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi-e20yVNs
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,374 Championing

    I'm not a big lover of films so I haven't seen any lately.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,401 Championing
    edited July 12

    from this thread..

    Any good recent Netflix recommendations or tv

    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,213 ChampioningJune 20

    It has to be THE PIANO this week on tv. I loved it as much as I did at the cinema! The piano score is unforgettable.

    I rarely watch films on my small tv (or much of anything). But I was mesmerised all over again and had certainly forgotten the beginning of the film. On BBC so no interruptions for two delicious hours!

    The main character is nonspeaking. The piano is her language, her passion, her identity.

    Holly Hunter ❤️ Harvey Keitel 😎

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,401 Championing

    I don't know how to lose the shading when I copy and paste 🤨 but THE PIANO is high in my favourite ever films.

  • Wheeled_Weapon
    Wheeled_Weapon Online Community Member Posts: 559 Pioneering

    Definitely not the new Superman film. I'm glad I didn't pay to watch it.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,514 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1048093#Comment_1048093

    I watched it last night and I loved it! It felt like an 80s Superman film, but modernised a bit. A film of a comic, rather than a film based on a comic.

    The casting was really good and I think there was just enough James Gunn in there for it to be light hearted, without going into the realms of GotG. 😊

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,514 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    The Piano is always going to be a classic. 😁

  • Wheeled_Weapon
    Wheeled_Weapon Online Community Member Posts: 559 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1048155#Comment_1048155

    It had some 'okay' moments but I wouldn't watch it again. I streamed if through 'dubious' means.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,514 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Aww that's a shame @Wheeled_Weapon it's a really good looking film, well worth checking out when it comes to streaming in a few weeks. But I get it, not everyone's going to like the film and there's nowt wrong with that. 😊

    I need to see 28 years later of course. I'm not expecting amazing things from it, but it has to be done!

  • Wheeled_Weapon
    Wheeled_Weapon Online Community Member Posts: 559 Pioneering
    edited July 13
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1048162#Comment_1048162

    I did notice that especially in the later scenes, the new Superman actor looked a lot like Christopher Reeve.

    I found it wholly unbelievable that Lex Luthor calling out fighting moves via a microphone would be faster than Superman's reflexes. Superman is fast so in the time it took Lex to say "27 B", Superman could have punched the bad guy 100000 times. Seems when he was getting knocked around he completely forgot about his other powers.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,514 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Agreed, that bit was a tad silly. But I find it's always to have that suspension of disbelief with any sci fi style movie. 😆

  • Wheeled_Weapon
    Wheeled_Weapon Online Community Member Posts: 559 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1048168#Comment_1048168

    Suspension of disbelief is fine as long as it stays within the rules of that cinematic universe.

    At one point the bad guy had eye contact with Superman for 10 seconds before he laser beamed Superman's eyes. Did Superman just forget he also has laser eyes?

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