Marriage story was much more enjoyable than I expected it to be. The two leads are great, it's believable and it's absolutely hilarious at times too. 8/10 one of the year's best, for me.
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I really enjoyed it too. His best film, IMO.
6 Underground
Oh my feckin God. What an godawful movie. If I get my hands on Michael Bay, I'll choke him myself. If there ever was a threshold for bad movies, he blows it up. Calling it Spectacularly bad would be a compliment. Even an amoeba could make a better movie.
Every single scene, frame and sequence has a flaw that doesn't make sense. If there was a Guinness for stupid bloopers in a movie, we have a winner. Either MB was stoned and shot the movie during a acid trip or he expects audience to do the same before watching this.
First movie that actually made me physically nauseous.
Think of worst rating imaginable and then multiply it zillion times.
Oh my feckin God. What an godawful movie. If I get my hands on Michael Bay, I'll choke him myself. If there ever was a threshold for bad movies, he blows it up. Calling it Spectacularly bad would be a compliment. Even an amoeba could make a better movie.
Every single scene, frame and sequence has a flaw that doesn't make sense. If there was a Guinness for stupid bloopers in a movie, we have a winner. Either MB was stoned and shot the movie during a acid trip or he expects audience to do the same before watching this.
First movie that actually made me physically nauseous.
Think of worst rating imaginable and then multiply it zillion times.
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Day Shall Come - Chris Morris film about FBI trying to stitch up a bunch of muslim extremists who want to overthrow the white man but don't believe in guns, have a horn that summons the dinosaurs and are actually pretty harmless. It's solid enough I guess and it has it's moments but being a Chris Morris film and seeing his past work you can't help but feel dissapointed.
It's true. First twenty minutes literally gave me a headache.
What did you find messy about Joker plot? I found it pretty straightforward, no?
Klaus. A pretty wonderful Santa origin story. Delightful animation and character design. It has sacks of Christmas spirit and, surprisingly for an xmas flick, it's underpinned by a quite sophisticated application of moral Philosophy. Might be a Christmas classic.
Greenbook - my word, I can't believe that the actor who plays Aragon is in this! Makes it crazy to think that he was ~45 years of age when he played Aragon in Lord of the Rings.
In terms of the film, loved it. Really heart-warming. Wish I had watched it sooner.
In terms of the film, loved it. Really heart-warming. Wish I had watched it sooner.
6 underground.
Should be 6 feet underground.
Absolutely terrible pile of shite, but Florence looked nice. It Baygasms a load of bland car chases, close up deaths/injuries and explosions and lingering shots of the female form all over your face. The thing is, it's shot in such an over stylish and over the top way that it's completely soulless and made me feel numb to it all. Well, except for a couple of sequences where it was so stupid I thought I was watching a parody.
The jokes didn't land, the action didn't excite and the film jumped about too much with origin stories for shit characters that didn't really need them.
Don't bother with it.
Should be 6 feet underground.
Absolutely terrible pile of shite, but Florence looked nice. It Baygasms a load of bland car chases, close up deaths/injuries and explosions and lingering shots of the female form all over your face. The thing is, it's shot in such an over stylish and over the top way that it's completely soulless and made me feel numb to it all. Well, except for a couple of sequences where it was so stupid I thought I was watching a parody.
The jokes didn't land, the action didn't excite and the film jumped about too much with origin stories for shit characters that didn't really need them.
Don't bother with it.
They couldn't decide if he was a phyco or popular hero and the two didn't mesh at all. Felt very disconnected all the way through to me.
It was so so bad. Apart from Ryan Reynolds who seemed to be having fun, it felt so empty and pointless. It's also a very ugly film (no surprise there).
The Invisible Guest
A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defence. A Spanish thriller I came across on Netflix. Decent movie. Has tonnes of twists and turns, some of them were great, others predictable and a few completely absurd. I was all in and was entertained throughout 7.5/10
A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defence. A Spanish thriller I came across on Netflix. Decent movie. Has tonnes of twists and turns, some of them were great, others predictable and a few completely absurd. I was all in and was entertained throughout 7.5/10
Lowlights include Parkour guy, (because they just have to have a parkour guy) standing on the top of the duomo for no apparent reason.
I was laughing at the madness of the lady known as "two" standing in front of a rolls royce on a desert road, clad in a white gown in order to capture a bad guy.
Also, why replace a driver with a sniper? Makes no sense!
I was laughing at the madness of the lady known as "two" standing in front of a rolls royce on a desert road, clad in a white gown in order to capture a bad guy.
Also, why replace a driver with a sniper? Makes no sense!
Now I want to see it.....
Don't do it to yourself
Snake in the Eagles Shadow is pretty good. Hwang Jan Lee is a fantastic villain and his kicking is spectacular. Ninja in the Dragon's Den is another classic with him.
Wheels on Meals is a great Jackie Chan film, the fight at the end is one of his best. Also Who Am I is pretty damn good with another great fight at the end.
Code 8
Canadian low-budget sci-fi with a distinct X-Men feel to it. Pleasantly surprised by this, didn't expect too much. Story isn't super original, you've seen it before, but the execution considering the budget they had to work with was good. Decent action, special effects that do the job, tight direction and not too long. Nothing spectacular but enough to keep me entertained for 90 minutes. People that really like sci-fi action movies, even if it's not a blockbuster, should give this a shot.
7/10
Canadian low-budget sci-fi with a distinct X-Men feel to it. Pleasantly surprised by this, didn't expect too much. Story isn't super original, you've seen it before, but the execution considering the budget they had to work with was good. Decent action, special effects that do the job, tight direction and not too long. Nothing spectacular but enough to keep me entertained for 90 minutes. People that really like sci-fi action movies, even if it's not a blockbuster, should give this a shot.
7/10
The Haunted
Emily's arrives for her first night-shift as a care-giver, to an elderly dementia patient. In an isolated house her night turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit, and starts to uncover the house's dark secrets.
Poor effort, it could have been a whole lot better.
3/10
Emily's arrives for her first night-shift as a care-giver, to an elderly dementia patient. In an isolated house her night turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit, and starts to uncover the house's dark secrets.
Poor effort, it could have been a whole lot better.
3/10
The Devils Hour.
Two friends organise rigged but terrifying exorcisms of realism on a live stream that has become ultra-popular. One day, while the girlfriend of one of them plays the role of the exorcised, strange phenomena occur live, and everything suggests that a real and frightening demon lives in the young woman. Will the impostors know how to face this creature?
I was not expecting much, most possession films are crap, but this was OK , story line was decent enough, the ending was OK.
Has possession films go, it was better than most.
6.5/10
Two friends organise rigged but terrifying exorcisms of realism on a live stream that has become ultra-popular. One day, while the girlfriend of one of them plays the role of the exorcised, strange phenomena occur live, and everything suggests that a real and frightening demon lives in the young woman. Will the impostors know how to face this creature?
I was not expecting much, most possession films are crap, but this was OK , story line was decent enough, the ending was OK.
Has possession films go, it was better than most.
6.5/10
6 Underground was hilarious.
I had no idea it was Michael Bay directing it, until 5 minutes in, and it just had to be him. The man loves his explosions, even when explosions arent needed. Its so bad, that I found myself just wanting more explosions to see how many could be added.
The premise was good. Ryan Reynolds is always awesome. I didnt hate it like Transformers.
I had no idea it was Michael Bay directing it, until 5 minutes in, and it just had to be him. The man loves his explosions, even when explosions arent needed. Its so bad, that I found myself just wanting more explosions to see how many could be added.
The premise was good. Ryan Reynolds is always awesome. I didnt hate it like Transformers.
6 Underground
A typical Michael Bay film. Has all the explosions, stylish camera angles and shots that linger on female cleavage. None of it made any sense. I would have enjoyed it as a dumb action film if they took out all the back story stuff and made it 90 minutes 2/10
A typical Michael Bay film. Has all the explosions, stylish camera angles and shots that linger on female cleavage. None of it made any sense. I would have enjoyed it as a dumb action film if they took out all the back story stuff and made it 90 minutes 2/10
Uncut Gems - Another frantic, good time. Much talk has been about Sandler but the performance that caught my eye the most was Eric Bogosian's low-key intense loan shark. Before watching this I doubt I'd ever see an effective cinematic use of Gigi D'Agostino. But yeah, I probably still prefer Good Time over this one.
The Church
1980's Italian horror film with weird dubbing. I'd try and explain the story but I hadn't a clue what the feck was going on towards the end or at the start or in the middle. Some of it was frightening, some of it hilarious. It switches the protagonists along the way a couple of times and is generally a bit mental. A chick bangs a demon and CD Project Red clearly stole the design for one of the Crones from it.
I've no idea if it was good or bad, but it mostly kept me entertained.
5/10....?
1980's Italian horror film with weird dubbing. I'd try and explain the story but I hadn't a clue what the feck was going on towards the end or at the start or in the middle. Some of it was frightening, some of it hilarious. It switches the protagonists along the way a couple of times and is generally a bit mental. A chick bangs a demon and CD Project Red clearly stole the design for one of the Crones from it.
I've no idea if it was good or bad, but it mostly kept me entertained.
5/10....?
I remember seeing the trailer and having no idea what it was about. I've always liked Eric Bogosian though, Sandler not so much.
I saw Jumanji 3. It was okay, but two things bugged me:
The stupidity of spencer's grandpa to not understand it was a game - they just overdid it and it quickly got annoying
The slow talking old guy, I think his name was Milo - again they just overdid it.
The slow talking old guy, I think his name was Milo - again they just overdid it.
The death of Nicky Henson has reminded me of the fun horror film Psychomania. Check it out @pauldyson1uk I reckon you'd like it.
Polaroid
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the Polaroid camera she finds. It doesn't take long to discover that those who've their picture taken with it, soon die.
This was much better than I expected, nothing original about, haunted item, people die, they used the haunted item playbook to the letter, but it was very watchable, there was some good scary parts and a few good deaths, not the best haunted item film you will see but far from the worst.
6/10
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the Polaroid camera she finds. It doesn't take long to discover that those who've their picture taken with it, soon die.
This was much better than I expected, nothing original about, haunted item, people die, they used the haunted item playbook to the letter, but it was very watchable, there was some good scary parts and a few good deaths, not the best haunted item film you will see but far from the worst.
6/10
I will check it out, cheers.
Phew I thought one of the spoilers was that Karen Gillan wasn't smokin anymore.
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Didn't know this was out, I'll have to find it.
Nilssy did you watch 6 Underground? You'd love it, exactly the type of low key films you enjoy.
I've never liked Sandler's comedic roles, but when he does more serious stuff he's actually very good.
He's great in Airheads because he doesn't really say that much.
New restoration coming soon!
As a piece of drama The Joker doesn't work for me. The larger mechanics such as the look and the performance are good but the characters and world they inhabit feel completely hollow. You can make work a shallow story that survives on style and performance. However to invest in character emotions, pathos or any kind of dramatic seriousness I require a certain amount of substance. The construction of The Joker, with its lively mix of sound and visuals, in service to such vacuousness most closely resembles a John Lewis Christmas advert.
Fantasy sequences can be flippant, superficial, odd, surreal. But when even the film's most obviously real sequences consist of such unconvincing and unnatural elements (from the cardboard cutout characters to the rote dialogue) then the parameters cease to matter. For example the Bruce gate scene had to have been real right? But it is so narratively contrived yet utterly unrealistic and badly staged that it barely distinguishes itself from the internal logic of the early fantasy sequence, when Joker is singled out in the audience. All the dialogue is not good, sometimes irritatingly on the nose, sometimes noticeably in service to the plot, sometimes plain stupid. A knock on effect of this consistently weird, badly written character behaviour is that everything exists in this quantum state of real/not real until it becomes convenient to the plot for it to be one or the other. So the love interest didn't matter and the whole preceeding two hours may as well have been a dream/story told from within the room at the end.
A better script and direction could make it work because there are decent elements here.
It should be stated that I also found the much lauded The hangover similarly emotionally detatched, and furthermore laugh-free, so maybe I'm missing something.
Also you can't seriously hang issues surrounding mental health and care provision on something so flimsy.
Fantasy sequences can be flippant, superficial, odd, surreal. But when even the film's most obviously real sequences consist of such unconvincing and unnatural elements (from the cardboard cutout characters to the rote dialogue) then the parameters cease to matter. For example the Bruce gate scene had to have been real right? But it is so narratively contrived yet utterly unrealistic and badly staged that it barely distinguishes itself from the internal logic of the early fantasy sequence, when Joker is singled out in the audience. All the dialogue is not good, sometimes irritatingly on the nose, sometimes noticeably in service to the plot, sometimes plain stupid. A knock on effect of this consistently weird, badly written character behaviour is that everything exists in this quantum state of real/not real until it becomes convenient to the plot for it to be one or the other. So the love interest didn't matter and the whole preceeding two hours may as well have been a dream/story told from within the room at the end.
A better script and direction could make it work because there are decent elements here.
It should be stated that I also found the much lauded The hangover similarly emotionally detatched, and furthermore laugh-free, so maybe I'm missing something.
Also you can't seriously hang issues surrounding mental health and care provision on something so flimsy.
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Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Really quite disappointing. Was hoping they'd manage to go out on a high, but it didn't do it for me. Whole thing was moving too darn fast, and we've ended up with three movies pulling in different directions, rather than one cohesive trilogy. Such a shame. 2/5.
After reading some of the absolutely scathing Cats reviews, I kinda wanna see it now.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_2019
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_2019
300
Decided to rewatch this to see how it held up. It didn't. What a ridiculous movie. Gerard Buttler delivers all his lines as if he has a giant wooden pole up his bum. Lena Headey is scathing hot though. Also never realized Michael Fassbender is in this.
5.5/10
Decided to rewatch this to see how it held up. It didn't. What a ridiculous movie. Gerard Buttler delivers all his lines as if he has a giant wooden pole up his bum. Lena Headey is scathing hot though. Also never realized Michael Fassbender is in this.
5.5/10