The Mock Turtle

cluefree wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:59 pm I just watched What We Do In The Shadows. I love Taika Waititi.

This is one of my favourite films.

My friend and I watched Pet Semetery on Wednesday. It was rubbish.

I really liked Shazam despite it being DC. It was fun.

I want to see Shazam, but the boys have been with their dad already. I have booked a Thursday evening showing of Endgame deliberately so he can't see it with them on Friday :shame:

Shazam! was indeed really fun. Great kid actors.

Tolkien - very, very well done. It has made me want to go and read the books with fresh eyes.

The boys' school was closed today (it's used as a polling station) so I took them to see the live action Aladdin. Which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would (the choices were pretty much that or Paw Patrol, so my expectations were low ) - Will Smith, while now Robin Williams, was really enjoyable as the Genie, and it was visually a delight.

I’ve just been to see Booksmart, to use up one of the tickets I get with my bank account before it expires. I’d definitely have paid for the privilege, it’s a really enjoyable sweet movie.

I drew a short straw today and took some 8 year olds to see Detective Pikachu. Hmmmm. The thing I enjoyed most about it was seeing where they'd filmed in the City of London and tried to make it look all "Blade Runner Japanese-y". Otherwise, it was a wasted opportunity for a nap

It was pretty much the worst film I think I’ve ever seen. Chunk kept poking me soo couldn’t nap.

Lily wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 8:52 am Tolkien - very, very well done. It has made me want to go and read the books with fresh eyes.

I really enjoyed this. I’ve not actually read any of his books and it’s made me want to.

I’m stuck on a plane waiting for a stand to pull into so I will tell you all the films I’ve seen recently. I’ve been on a few long flights and caught the beginning of the Seattle film festival so there are a few:

The Favourite - an age behind everyone else, but I loved it. I do like Yorgos Lanthimos films.
Peel - low budget indie about a sheltered man trying to reunite his family.
Crimes of Grindelwald - quite entertaining. Gutted to find out they’ve made it a bloody three parter. Fuxache.
Aquaman - silly, really. Some bits nice to look at
Firecrackers - Canadian coming of age film about two teenage girls on the wrong side of the tracks. I got a bit too emotionally invested in young girls making stupid decisions.
Invisibles - French film about a homeless women’s shelter in Paris.
Wild Rose - about an aspiring Scottish country singer. And Julie Walters
Cold Sweat - Iranian film about a female star futbol player. Probably couldn’t be as incisive as I’d have liked it to be but an interesting cultural insight.

I am going to see Yesterday later on if I ever get off this fucking plane and can stay awake long enough.

Booksmart - an absolute fucking delight. I haven’t laughed so much with a film for years and it gave me some vivid flash backs to being 18 and that invincible/terrified buzz.

H1ppychick wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 9:15 pm I’ve just been to see Booksmart, to use up one of the tickets I get with my bank account before it expires. I’d definitely have paid for the privilege, it’s a really enjoyable sweet movie.

Ahem.

H1ppychick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:57 am

H1ppychick wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 9:15 pm I’ve just been to see Booksmart, to use up one of the tickets I get with my bank account before it expires. I’d definitely have paid for the privilege, it’s a really enjoyable sweet movie.

Ahem.

It was brilliant, wasn’t it?

Spider-Man: Far From Home was brilliant. I kind of called the twist, but it was so well done. Squeak has a crush.

Spiderman has always been my favourite superhero and I just love Tom Holland playing him and really enjoyed Far From Home.

I saw Yesterday last week, which was a nice, feel good film.

Far from home was really good. Well plotted and lots of humour. Plus the post credit scenes were worth staying for, for once.

Yep. Particularly the final one. I saw the movie on Friday and thought it was excellent.

I also saw Rocketman last night, which I enjoyed more than I'd thought I would (and now I fancy Jamie Bell a little bit). It has confirmed me in my view that Elton John has written some cracking songs but that his vocal style, mimicked excellently by Taron Egerton, renders the lyrics incomprehensible at least 50% of the time, so I've never really felt the love for his work that it probably merits.

I liked Spiderman too. We made a stupid error though and left after the mid credits scene so missed the last one. You'd think we'd know by now.

We missed the last one too.