Film 2021

[Ella77]

I loved that, and had been avoiding it for the same reasons as you.

[overthehill]

Chunk got me to watch Baby Driver and that was really good.

R is really difficult to choose films for, but Baby Driver was a hit for him too.

[Lily]

My friend and I saw A Quiet Place II tonight. Luce, you are right: seeing it in the cinema was a fantastic experience. I've missed it! I spilled popcorn all over my friend.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is one of my favourite films. I absolutely loved how it was done. Very clever, and the violence is almost cartoonish. You just come out wishing that's how it had happened. I'm a Baby Driver fan too - I got the soundtrack.

[H1ppychick]

Is anyone else looking forward to In The Heights? I might try and see it this weekend.

I also have a semi-guilty-pleasure yen for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.

[H1ppychick]

I just went to see The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and it was an entertaining way to spend a grey afternoon. The main thing I took away was that I recognised one of the filming locations from a trip to Croatia maybe 5 years ago (and it wasn’t a city location so it kind of startled me to notice it).

They played a Marvel mega-trailer before the movie and I honestly got kind of choked up. There was a set up part with a (might have been Stan Lee?) voiceover talking about common human experiences and illustrating them with snippets from past movies, then bam! bam! bam! bam! Little snippets of a few seconds each of the next series of movies all through to late 2023, there were around ten or so. As a regular cinema goer and a MCU fan it made me totes emosh to see them all lined up like that.

Cannot wait for Black Widow next month and I really hope to see Dune fairly soon.

[wendy james]

Was it this one?
https://youtu.be/QdpxoFcdORI

[Flora Poste]

Is anyone else looking forward to In The Heights? I might try and see it this weekend.

Did you see it! I really want to see it (we're currently listening to the Moana soundtrack on repeat as it's E's favourite) and have plans to go one evening this week!

[lazzbo]

I'm going to see it once I'm double jabbed, I loved it at the theatre!

[lazzbo]

I also loved Moana. No-one knooooooows how far it gooooooes. My niece and I did an excellent rendition of that at West Wittering.

[H1ppychick]

Was it this one?
https://youtu.be/QdpxoFcdORI

It was indeed! I misremembered, they didn’t have actual clips from all the upcoming releases, just the first two or three. Still loved it though!

I haven’t seen In The Heights yet, it was a toss-up today which to see and the timings just didn’t quite work. Maybe Sunday or next Monday afternoon!

Huh, Dune’s not out till 1 October, annoying! I have a lingering fondness for the David Lynch version which I saw as a teenager immediately after having read the book, it’ll be interesting (eventually) to see what Dennis Villeneuve makes of it.

[Pawpads]

I really enjoyed In The Heights but it made me miss my mum.

[Livilla]

We watched The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime, a Chris Pratt hero-aliens-timetravelling big budget film. Despite the fact that Pratt is nowhere near being the best Chris, we actually really enjoyed it.

One point that did amuse me though - the plot set up had a group of people gathered together to watch the final of the 2022 World Cup, which is being played between Brazil and ……. Scotland! Maybe they know more about the future than we think

[Hazey_Jane]

About 5 years ago when I lived in Brussels, my department director at work (who was also British) came rushing in one Monday morning and made a beeline for my desk asking “have you seen it yet?” by which she meant Bridget Jones’s Baby because she was clearly desperate to discuss it. I had to explain it wasn’t really my kind of thing and after she left I looked at one of my colleagues and said “Should I tell her I’ve spent all weekend watching The Walking Dead?”

Anyway I have now watched Bridget Jones’s Baby and actually rather enjoyed it, I even laughed a few times. Definitely not the kind of film I’d typically watch but good company while I was doing some ironing on a Monday night.

[H1ppychick]

Did the Ed Sheeran cameo make you wince more or less that his appearance in Game of Thrones?

[Hazey_Jane]

I’ve never seen GoT.

And I hate Ed Sheehan anyway so just muted the telly whenever he came on

[Hazey_Jane]

Black Widow- kapow! Crash bang wallop! Bosh! Argh! Panting! Talky bit with dodgy accents then kapow! Crash bang wallop! Bosh! Repeat for two hours.

It was a lot of fun!

[wendy james]

I laughed and smirked a lot through BW. Too subtle for the girls but I enjoyed that element. Florence Pugh was fab, and Lily Allen’s husband (sorry forgot his name) was good light relief.

[Chicky]

I’m just back from Black Widow, I thought it was very enjoyable and Mr C stayed awake throughout which is a sign of a good film.

[Luce]

We loved it too. All four of us going to a Marvel film was always the top of our 'what can't we wait to do when all this is over' chats last year. BUT! For all of us to go to the Everyman, with a burger each cost £110. I had to coach T days before to set his face straight

[wendy james]

Gosh, but that sounds fun! We didn’t go the cinema as I thought it was a 12 and we’d have no chance of sneaking Elvis in.