What Films did You Watch Last Week (20/05 - 26/05) CLOSED

Welcome back to another week of the BEST & WORST edition of 'what movies did you see last week?' thread. For those who haven't been part of it before, basically your host (me) posts my weekly movies and you can comment on those and list your movie for the same time frame. I will get back to you on yours and you can talk to other users here about their films. It's a great place to talk about film.


FIRST TIME MOVIE VIEWING

Fighting with My Family (2019, Stephen Merchant)
This is based on the true story of a family of wrestlers from England who dream of their kids making it to the big time in the USA. It is a pretty formulaic underdog story but the kind that is easy to watch.
5.5-6/10

Rider on the Rain (1970, Rene Clement)
I was quite excited to see this one as I like the director, the star (Charles Bronson) and it is a pretty well reviewed film. It also is said to be a favourite of Jim Morrison's and was the inspiration for The Doors song 'Rider's on the Storm'. Unfortunately despite being well made and acted, the story does not hold together very well and its all a bit shambolic at times.
4/10

REPEAT MOVIE VIEWING

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, Tony Scott)
blu ray
Top notch sequel that does not quite match the heart of the original film but is a worthy sequel.
7/10

FIRST TIME DOCUMENTARY VIEWING

Remastered: The Lion's Share (2018, Rachel Lears)
Netflix
Pretty interesting documentary about the roots of a famous song and attempts at compensation for teh family of the poor African man who wrote it.
Recommended

FIRST TIME TV SERIES VIEWING

Game of Thrones (2019, Season Eight, HBO)
I did not much care for season seven which I felt was quite rushed and had lost the scale of the previous seasons. This season is more of the same but there are still some good episodes taken out of context of the whole. As far as the series finale, I don't mind where all the characters ended up but the journey to them was mismanaged. The magical elements were put to the side far too early and should have been more important right up to the finale. It is a shame it went out this way but at least it got a finale, some shows never do.
You May As Well Finish It

WEEKLY FILM AWARDS

BEST FILM: Beverly Hills Cop II
BEST ACTOR: Eddie Murphy - Beverly Hills Cop II
BEST ACTRESS: Marlene Jobert - Rider on the Rain
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Nick Frost - Fighting with my Family
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jill Ireland - Riders on the Rain
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andreas Winding - Riders on the Rain
BEST SCORE: Francis Lai - Riders on the Rain
BEST DIRECTOR: Tony Scott - Beverly Hills Cop II

10/10 - Perfection (or as close to it as possible)
09/10 - An Excellent film
08/10 - A VERY Good film
07/10 - A Good film
06/10 - A Solid film
05/10 - An Average film
04/10 - Below Average film
03/10 - A mostly bad film
02/10 - A mostly terrible film
01/10 - Awful through and through
00/10 - Not only awful but offensive too