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Scream 6
Apparently you can get stabbed multiple times in the stomach and be completely fine after five minutes. This must be a recent medical discovery as I'm pretty confident that in the past this wasn't true.
Anyway, this film taught me that they've completely run out of ideas for Scream movies and they just need to stop making them. The meta schtick was fun for five movies but now it's done.
I felt that there was potentially a great ending when Sam was staring at the mask in her bag, and I thought they were going to reveal that everything that happened in the museum at the end was all in her head, and she had actually killed everyone. But, no. She just looks at it for a few seconds and drops it on the floor, whilst walking away with her sister (who has a massive gaping wound in her gut), after seeing her friend (who has an even bigger hole in her gut) being able to run down the road and jump into an ambulance to help her brother Chad (who, fecking hell, doesn't have a gut at this point).
Stupid as feck.
Apparently you can get stabbed multiple times in the stomach and be completely fine after five minutes. This must be a recent medical discovery as I'm pretty confident that in the past this wasn't true.
Anyway, this film taught me that they've completely run out of ideas for Scream movies and they just need to stop making them. The meta schtick was fun for five movies but now it's done.
I felt that there was potentially a great ending when Sam was staring at the mask in her bag, and I thought they were going to reveal that everything that happened in the museum at the end was all in her head, and she had actually killed everyone. But, no. She just looks at it for a few seconds and drops it on the floor, whilst walking away with her sister (who has a massive gaping wound in her gut), after seeing her friend (who has an even bigger hole in her gut) being able to run down the road and jump into an ambulance to help her brother Chad (who, fecking hell, doesn't have a gut at this point).
Stupid as feck.
Noooooooooooooooo
It'll be delayed - writers striker.
CODA
Really enjoyed this movie about a girl who has a deaf family and struggles between helping their fishing business and pursuing her dream of being a singer. Heartfelt movie and loved how they portrayed the difficulties deaf people go through, just hoped the music segments didn't feel so clichéd and Hallmark. Overall, a very good movie 7.5/10
Really enjoyed this movie about a girl who has a deaf family and struggles between helping their fishing business and pursuing her dream of being a singer. Heartfelt movie and loved how they portrayed the difficulties deaf people go through, just hoped the music segments didn't feel so clichéd and Hallmark. Overall, a very good movie 7.5/10
Bound
Lesbian thriller directed by the Wachowskis. Starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon.
Cool crime film which kept the tension throughout. Fun performances from everyone with Gershon as a beautiful butch lesbian Brando from The Wild One, Jennifer Tilly as a closeted Betty Boop and great support role from Joe Pantoliano(plus his wig)
Worth watching on its own right but also fun to see the Wachowskis develop their style before the Matrix.
8/10
Heat
Rewatched it for the millionth time after reading on here that some don’t rate it. Anyways it’s perfect.
10/10
Lesbian thriller directed by the Wachowskis. Starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon.
Cool crime film which kept the tension throughout. Fun performances from everyone with Gershon as a beautiful butch lesbian Brando from The Wild One, Jennifer Tilly as a closeted Betty Boop and great support role from Joe Pantoliano(plus his wig)
Worth watching on its own right but also fun to see the Wachowskis develop their style before the Matrix.
8/10
Heat
Rewatched it for the millionth time after reading on here that some don’t rate it. Anyways it’s perfect.
10/10
It is. Also saddest ending ever. Well, not really, but anyway, damn you Moby.
Freddy Got Fingered - Haven't laughed this much in ages, bit of a masterpiece, deeply in need of a critical revaluation. Being the least favourite film of Roger Midbert is a seal of approval.
Nobody listens to techno.
This post should be punished
Absolutely agree.
Have you heard the unused final score by Eliot Goldenthal ? Not as good as Moby but still very impressive
Bound
Lesbian thriller directed by the Wachowskis. Starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon.
Cool crime film which kept the tension throughout. Fun performances from everyone with Gershon as a beautiful butch lesbian Brando from The Wild One, Jennifer Tilly as a closeted Betty Boop and great support role from Joe Pantoliano(plus his wig)
Worth watching on its own right but also fun to see the Wachowskis develop their style before the Matrix.
8/10
Love Bound. I re-watched it a few months ago and really reminded me how much I love some of the 90s noir. I wish the Wachowskis got back to making some movies like this more recently instead of things like that latest Matrix sequel.
I think I heard that before, but I couldn't it remember at all. In any case, I'm not as impressed by this one. I mean, it's fine, nothing bad about it, but it's a fairly generic 'heavy emotions!!!' tune with obligatory build-up. Again, nothing wrong with it, and I'm sure it would work great as film music; but I feel Moby's tune (while quite similar actually) is a bit less on the nose and adds a touch of melancholy that makes it hit much harder.
Detective Pikachu - A surprisingly good videogame movie. I enjoyed all the parts without Ryan Reynolds.
I put John Wick 2 on in the background this week. I figured it wouldn't be my thing, but I was vaguely curious - to no point. I probably would have thought this was cool in my 10s and 20s, but somehow I don't think so anymore. No matter how well a film is made and how artistic it may be (and I can acknowledge this isn't bad at all), the ballet of never-ending violence and death puts me off to no end. Wikipedia actually led me to this opinion piece of a film critic, and he captures my thoughts pretty much exactly: John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornography | Film | The Guardian. (I just don't think films like these desensitize people to violence in real life.)
no idea/5
no idea/5
How to Blow Up a Pipeline - taut, timely, makes me want to read the book.
8 / 10
8 / 10
The Whale
Fraser was excellent. The daughter was abysmal. The overall themes were heavy handed. I'm probably not gonna eat pizza for a while 6/10
Fraser was excellent. The daughter was abysmal. The overall themes were heavy handed. I'm probably not gonna eat pizza for a while 6/10
I have not seen any of them, I have been meaning to, reviews put me off TBH.
First one is a very good movie, they descend into varying levels of horseshit the further one goes in the series.
As a horror fan, at least the senseless killing shouldn't put you off.
Although there is zero suspense or gore, so hm.#1 was ok but dumb and predictable. #2 was terrible and I have avoided since. Stylised and fetishised violence porn, more or less.
There's a moment at the start of #2 where Wick suddenly turns his car, smashing into someone who is launched away, in turn smashing at high speed straight into a metal pillar that he bounces of off (presumably to his death).
It's the ballet of violence thing that I mentioned: impressive in a way, but am I really supposed to appreciate something like that?!
I went back and watched the first one about 2 months ago. It's very much a B movie that got over hyped.
In terms of Villeneuve movies, I'd put it on a par with Prisoners and a level below Arrival and BR2049.
Not sure what happened there, thought you were discussing Dune for some reasonDid you quote the wrong post
I agree with you on Wick 1. That said, I appear to have enjoyed 2 more than most, though that may have something to do with the bottle of Captain Morgan a friend and I shared in the cinema.
Sadie Sink is proper shit. She's 21 now, so it's not like beating up on a child, but she was so stiff and forced in Stranger Things and she's no better here.
Yep the Moby tune really is perfect for that scene.
It’s the sort of film that doesn’t really get made more as the film industry becomes more stretched(Leaving us only with small indies and giant blockbusters).
Even the sex scenes which are great and actually sexy is something incredibly rare in modern movies.
Agree. The original Matrix is a near perfect film but it’s popularity allowed the Wachowskis to indulge in their inner nerd. Which for me at least didn’t produce many interesting works.
Also they are victims to the era of dog shit CGI. Speed racer is fun in parts but I can never get past the fact it looks like a GameCube video game.
The Matrix is still a complex, amazing film. Bound was a basic noir story with a female lead instead of the standard greasy dude drifter. Bound had some really creative camera moves and setups, it's a really well-directed film, even if the story is by the numbers. Everything after Matrix by these two has been unwatchable.
Tbh I’m the only person to ever argue this so it might be worth ignoring but…..Atomic Blonde is easily the best Wick style film. It takes the cold clinical and cool looking violence of the modern action movie and shows the audiences the grim reality.
By pure accident(David Leitch next film Bullet Train was shite)it’s a very clever and great action film.
They did the script for V For Vendetta which I love(It’s a bizarre mix of mid 2000’s Micheal Moore liberalism and Leninism)but yeah overall its mostly been downhill.
Atomic Blonde is a solid flick.
Alan Moore disavowed what they did to his V For Vendetta story, for whatever reason. I didn't like the film, among other things, I thought it was badly miscast. Stephen Fry and Natalie Portman just didn't work. It was also just uninteresting.
But the Wachowskis, holy hell. The first 2 sequels to the Matrix were so unrewarding and so undercooked. Just hitting the same good beats from the first film while muffing the world-building, boring VFX, bad casting, zero stakes, stupid endings. I did not see the recent one.
Speed Racer is one of the worst movies ever made. It was so bad it was almost psychedelic. There's no way a team of humans could make something this fecking bad on accident. Like, maybe it was a conspiracy to bankrupt the film company or to destroy the careers of Emile Hirsh and John Goodman. fecking hell it was bad.
Jupiter Ascending was an astoundingly stupid film and a colossal waste of money.
Sense 8 was cheesy. I didn't even get through it all, and there were only like 8 episodes.
If anything, she's worse here because she's next to someone that's showing her up more
True. Pretty much everyone in Stranger Things except David Harbour needed to go back to Acting 101. Winona was spaced out, the high school couple where the dude looks 40 because all the drugs he’s doing, the gang except Dustin, Max, Mathew Modine, just all of it. And that’s just season 1. Max’s brother in season 3. Billy? I can’t even remember, it was like a bad dream.
If you couldn't enjoy Stranger Things for the 80s nostalgia alone then not sure why you bothered watching it. The show was great, really fun, as were the characters. Alot of cheesyness but it was great.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
A group of orphans try to escape a drug cartel whilst also being haunted by a supernatural force. I quite enjoyed this Spanish film that blends fantasy with horror in a cool way. Whilst it had a few issues, the story was quite touching and it felt original, which is refreshing to see these days 7/10
A group of orphans try to escape a drug cartel whilst also being haunted by a supernatural force. I quite enjoyed this Spanish film that blends fantasy with horror in a cool way. Whilst it had a few issues, the story was quite touching and it felt original, which is refreshing to see these days 7/10
Strays
Funny enough. Ticks off the full gamut of toilet humour if that's your thing.
Tusk
Finally got round to watching this. Was enjoying it right up until the point that Johnny Depp showed up and clearly decided to do one of his 'whacky' improvised characters for shits and gigs. The scene where he and Michael Park are obviously just riffing trying to out-twat each other was cringe inducing. Worth watching though just to see Justin Long screaming in a skin stitched walrus suit.
The Nun 2
Nearly fell asleep on this one. Boring, not scary at all; these films have been churned out ad nauseum now and it shows.
Funny enough. Ticks off the full gamut of toilet humour if that's your thing.
Tusk
Finally got round to watching this. Was enjoying it right up until the point that Johnny Depp showed up and clearly decided to do one of his 'whacky' improvised characters for shits and gigs. The scene where he and Michael Park are obviously just riffing trying to out-twat each other was cringe inducing. Worth watching though just to see Justin Long screaming in a skin stitched walrus suit.
The Nun 2
Nearly fell asleep on this one. Boring, not scary at all; these films have been churned out ad nauseum now and it shows.
I've seen this movie and don't remember this scene at all
Shame about Nun 2. I wanted to watch that. Maybe I'll skip it as I fell asleep watching the first one in the cinema.