What movies have you seen recently?

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Saw X. It was as good as I thought it would be.

Before Sunrise.

What a crock of s**t.
2 people meet while traveling and we're subjected to 90 minutes of trite, cheesy conversation and eyeballing.
I think it's supposed to be romantic, but it's just boring, pointless rubbish.
It actually made me feel angry for wasting an hour and a half of my life.
0 stars, don't bother.

The Untouchables (1987)

A Brian De Palma film which deals with the prohibition era Chicago gangster Al Capone and his eventual prosecution and conviction at the hands of federal agent Eliot Ness. I knew very little about this subject prior to watching the film, and even assumed that the term 'Untouchables' referred to the fact that the likes of Capone seemed to many to be beyond the reach of the law, whereas it actually has to do with the incorruptibility of the team assembled by Ness in an environment where numerous other public officials were on Capone's payroll.

The first half of the film is a bit dull, but it gathers pace from there, and builds to a very engrossing climax. I haven't bothered to find out the real-life details, but even so, I doubt very much whether the events portrayed in the movie, especially those revolving around the trial of Capone, have much relation to the actual historical facts.

Capone is portrayed by Robert De Niro, and features surprisingly seldom here, Sean Connery is the right-hand man of Eliot Ness, and meets a very bloody end at the hands of Capone's henchmen, and Ness himself is played by Kevin Costner.

Waterloo (1970) -- an epic war movie.

It makes one wonder why they would get dressed up so fashionably just to go and get killed. Also, why some soldiers would be assigned to play drums and bagpipes.

Errors Of The Human Body.

A scientist, whose infant son had died of a horrific genetic disease (or did he?), finds a conspiracy going on at the new facility he's hired at in Germany, where a mad scientist there infects him with the same illness.
Decent enough medical/horror film.

I'm about half way through Saw.

I'd probably give it 4/10, maybe less.

It's quite possibly the darkest comedy I've seen so far. I mean you've gotta really search for the laughs (that's why I scored it low) but they are there.

I almost gave up on it Within the first 15 minutes but I might as well see it through now.

I actually thought I'd seen Saw already many years ago but I couldn't remember any of it when I sat down to watch it.

My ADHD is quite bad just lately so to be honest I'm struggling to sit down and enjoy any movie. I did like the twist at the end but I was even struggling to concentrate for that.

I might try Saw 2 and see how I get on with that. I suppose the good thing is is it's quite an easy movie to follow even if I do keep forgetting to focus in on it.

And I did laugh out loud at it a few times so I thought it was meant to be funny.

Must be just me.