Watched this the last week, fully agree with your review.
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Fantastic Beasts
Visual diaroeah.
Visual diaroeah.
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Queen of Katwe
Girl from slum in Kampala becomes a chess champion in an unusual choice for a Disney movie. The locations, culture and poverty looked authentic to me, as one who lived in that city for several years. 7/10
Girl from slum in Kampala becomes a chess champion in an unusual choice for a Disney movie. The locations, culture and poverty looked authentic to me, as one who lived in that city for several years. 7/10
Agreed x2, together with Conjuring 2 the best horror of 2016 IMO.
Sling Blade (1995): 7.5/10
A heavy movie to watch but good drama nonetheless.
A heavy movie to watch but good drama nonetheless.
Moana
Fantastic. Really enjoyed it, and theres one scene where the Rock sings (kinda...)
Fantastic. Really enjoyed it, and theres one scene where the Rock sings (kinda...)
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If J K Rowling can't be bothered to formulate a plot I can't be arsed to use a spellcheck.
Sadly yes. Although I don't remember being given a choice.
cant argue with that.
Blood Rage
As kids, Todd is institutionalized for a murder whilst his twin goes free. 10 years later, on Thanksgiving, Todd escapes and a killing spree begins in his neighborhood.
Classic 80's slasher film , plenty of blood and needless killing .
Overall, the film is a nice slice of eighties slasher pie. It's not a great film by any means, but it's also not a bad one when pitted against the other 80's slasher films.
The ending is rather grim.
Definitely worth a look for slasher film lovers.
Would of given a higher score but for the ending.
4/10
As kids, Todd is institutionalized for a murder whilst his twin goes free. 10 years later, on Thanksgiving, Todd escapes and a killing spree begins in his neighborhood.
Classic 80's slasher film , plenty of blood and needless killing .
Overall, the film is a nice slice of eighties slasher pie. It's not a great film by any means, but it's also not a bad one when pitted against the other 80's slasher films.
The ending is rather grim.
Definitely worth a look for slasher film lovers.
Would of given a higher score but for the ending.
4/10
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Just watched that on Horror too. Extra mark for the electronica music. Pretty low rent and yep, not sure about the ending. So '80s in every way. Highlight was sex on the diving board- a rare spark of originality.3/10
EDIT: Not sure about Raze next. I need a shower.
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Wow Raze is a true nasty, unless watching women beat each other to death is your thing. Got a feeling I've seen this before.
15 minutes into Unforgiven but can't get into it. Should I continue?
Just watched Gran Torino - that was great.
Just watched Gran Torino - that was great.
I was going to watch it be decided not go , women fighting is not really my cup of tea.
3/10
EDIT: Not sure about Raze next. I need a shower.
Agree about the diving board
RazeI was going to watch it be decided not go , women fighting is not really my cup of tea.
Agree about the diving board
Dubious torture porn nasty. Women, imprisoned for reasons unknown, are forced to fight each other to the death to ensure the survival of their loved ones. Minimal character development or reasoning for the scenario, albeit it seems to be a new sport for a well-heeled crowd.
Daft ending on one level, but suitably bleak on another.
Hard to recommend this as a watch tbh, but it does have pretty violent fist fights between women, if that's your thing.
4/10
Road House: Not as good as I remembered it, but it's almost so bad that it's great. Sam Elliot is my hero, and the blonde girl really knows how to walk. Makes me want to learn some form of martial art. @The Black Pearl would fit right in in a remake.
X-Men: Apocalypse - I'm in the middle of watching this horror show right now...it's fecking laughable....I just can't it seriously.
Yeah it's extremely poor.
Lezzing?
No, just violence. Lezzing would've improved it.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Really good. Atmospheric, disturbing and just plain gorgeous looking.
Evil Dead II - What a load of old rubbish. Should have rewatched the much superior Hausu instead.
Evil Dead II - What a load of old rubbish. Should have rewatched the much superior Hausu instead.
Halloween - Zzzz, totally lame, can't think of many redeeming features. The soundtrack was familiar but kinda Goblin-lite.
I recognise the last 3 films Nilsson reviewed, this must be an all time record.
You're not going to go mainstream on us, are you?
You're not going to go mainstream on us, are you?
Evil Dead II is pure fun you miserable Swede
It's pure dated and flat slapstick trash.
It has dated badly tbf. Saw a bit the other month.
Slapstick trash is sort of the whole point. It is every bit as big a part of movie culture as your boring "man staring at still object" existential mute film dramas from Hungary that you movie buffs wax yourselves lyrical over.
There's good and there's bad slapstick, this was rather lacklustre.
Inferno
Utterly disappointing and a missed opportunity for greatness.
I've loved the previous 2 films about Tom Hank's Robert Langbourne and Inferno shows the same potential early on as the story line about the threat of global overpopulation of the planet by humans in explained.
But after a promising start it all goes wrong: very confusing way to explain the story line, relentless pace of events which make it impossible to absorb what is going on, some appalling acting from the support cast makes this film feel disjointed, rushed and badly edited.
But the worst is saved until the end and that's a change to the expected end of the movie versus what Dan Brown wrote in his book. And that leads to a lack of fulfilment or stimulation once the 2 hours are up.
Such a wasted opportunity. 3/10
Utterly disappointing and a missed opportunity for greatness.
I've loved the previous 2 films about Tom Hank's Robert Langbourne and Inferno shows the same potential early on as the story line about the threat of global overpopulation of the planet by humans in explained.
But after a promising start it all goes wrong: very confusing way to explain the story line, relentless pace of events which make it impossible to absorb what is going on, some appalling acting from the support cast makes this film feel disjointed, rushed and badly edited.
But the worst is saved until the end and that's a change to the expected end of the movie versus what Dan Brown wrote in his book. And that leads to a lack of fulfilment or stimulation once the 2 hours are up.
Such a wasted opportunity. 3/10
Evil Dead 2 is fantastic. I wish I saw it when it was first released.
Arrival (again, apologies if you're over it now):
I enjoyed the film. I liked the simplicity of the drama (barring the aliens/non-linear time conceit) and thought because we hadn't been saddled with layer upon layer of explanation of wild and wonderful devices and concepts, which brings down a lot of sci-fi for me, the film was free to explore Adams' character and make the film as much about her journey as it was about aliens.
I also thought the coldness of the ending worked very well. I liked the tragic concept of her knowing how the story ends (badly, with a prematurely dead daughter and estrangement in the relationship because of her gift) and having lived it many times before while the first time will be the only time for him. My girlfriend and I had a long chat on the way home about it: once you know how it ends to what extent would you try to change the relationship, or would the fleeting happiness you have up to the break-up/death be worth putting up with the eventual tragedy?
I also thought the coldness of the ending worked very well. I liked the tragic concept of her knowing how the story ends (badly, with a prematurely dead daughter and estrangement in the relationship because of her gift) and having lived it many times before while the first time will be the only time for him. My girlfriend and I had a long chat on the way home about it: once you know how it ends to what extent would you try to change the relationship, or would the fleeting happiness you have up to the break-up/death be worth putting up with the eventual tragedy?
I also liked the previous 2 films, gutted about this review.
Not read the book , so would not know about the ending.
The TV series ASH V's Evil Dead is a hoot, Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash from the movie. Love it.
Nicely put. As I've said before, didn't particularly like the film, though I do think the premise was promising.
This makes me wanna see Moonlight even more
This makes me wanna see Moonlight even more
Doesn't come out here until February
. Looks amazing though.The Founder - highly conventional, perfectly serviceable film about the founding of McDonald's with Michael Keaton and Nick Offerman. A solid three out of five picture.
It doesn't even have a release date in Sweden. I don't wanna watch a shitty screener but it's gonna be hard to resist.
Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting, two sparse proto-acid westerns shot back to back with the same cast, starring Jack Nicholson. They had some nice Kafka-lite ideas but were too slight in the end, weird but not weird enough, sort of worthwhile but a bit too economical.
Speaking of Kafka...The Trial - Nice surreal atmosphere but I thought it got way too stagnant in middle, oddly enough around the time Welles showed up I think and the very end was a bit lame.
Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting, two sparse proto-acid westerns shot back to back with the same cast, starring Jack Nicholson. They had some nice Kafka-lite ideas but were too slight in the end, weird but not weird enough, sort of worthwhile but a bit too economical.
Speaking of Kafka...The Trial - Nice surreal atmosphere but I thought it got way too stagnant in middle, oddly enough around the time Welles showed up I think and the very end was a bit lame.
Watership Down - My god, the Bright Eyes scene
Watership Down - My god, the Bright Eyes scene
Imagine what is was like for 9 year-old Grinner watching it in a dark cinema. Luckily my Mum took us all so I was comforted when needed.