I can definitely see how something interesting could spring from the premise (though the whole "influencing people for 48 hours" thing seemed like a massive contrivance tbf) but as you say, the lack of any breathing space or nuance just rendered all the decisions either nonsensical or outright hateful. I presume the characters in the manga aren't supposed to come across as completely unsympathetic sociopaths? Though even that could've plausibly been somewhat intriguing if treated properly, rather than as some bafflingly awful emo romance.
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I can definitely see how something interesting could spring from the premise (though the whole "influencing people for 48 hours" thing seemed like a massive contrivance tbf) but as you say, the lack of any breathing space or nuance just rendered all the decisions either nonsensical or outright hateful. I presume the characters in the manga aren't supposed to come across as completely unsympathetic sociopaths? Though even that could've plausibly been somewhat intriguing if treated properly, rather than as some bafflingly awful emo romance.
State of Grace (1990): 7/10
Very good and gritty crime drama with Gary Oldman, Sean Penn and Ed Harris.
Very good and gritty crime drama with Gary Oldman, Sean Penn and Ed Harris.
Wonder Woman was actually pretty entertaining. 7/Gal Gadot
Salem's Lot (1979)
Some of the acting makes Charles Bronson seem like Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.
4/10
Some of the acting makes Charles Bronson seem like Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.
4/10
Terminator 2 3D
Just came back from having seen this in the big London IMAX and yes its so fecking perfect.
10/10
Just came back from having seen this in the big London IMAX and yes its so fecking perfect.
10/10
Logan Lucky: A rather odd comedy heist caper from Soderbergh that is frequently amusing but never really can be quite described as hilarious despite maintaining a broadly comic approach throughout. A lot of what dictates how much you get out of this is largely down to how much you decide to just go with the humour which is often idiosyncratic, off beat and awkward(deliberately so). I guess the closest thing I can compare this to in terms of comedic tone is the work of the Coen brothers, particularly Fargo although sadly this steers clear of some of Fargo’s more blackly comic moments which is a shame as it could do with some occasional shifts in tone from the one of consistent levity throughout. It also would have been nice to have a tenser heist scene than the one on display here which again chooses to maintain an air of levity to it rather than introduce a shift in tone to perhaps one of at least mild peril. All in all a pretty decent watch, but I can't help but thinking that just about all the reviews I’ve seen so far which range somewhere around 4/5 stars or thereabouts are a gross overreaction more to Soderbergh’s return to film making than the actual product of his labors. Coen brother lite sums this one up, the same comedic tone as a lot of their work, but sorely lacking some of the interesting aspects and depth of their best work. Pleasant without being in any way memorable.
6/10
6/10
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I thought Logan Lucky was rubbish. Feels like the only reason it got good reviews was Soderbergh and the cast.
Should I go see American Made or Detroit tonight? What say the Caf?
Soderbergh films always feel half baked.
Watched this last night too (though not in IMAX), the film itself has aged really well (bar some of the T1000 effects where he is in the shape of Robert Patrick but silver) but I don't see why they put it in 3D, it seemed pointless since they didn't add have scenes that really popped out of the screen. Instead i got bleary eyed by the end.
My younger brother only recently turned 15 and had never being to the big imax screen in London, so it was bit of late birthday present, although it like about £20 just for my ticket, so not exactly cheap. We said the same about the 3D when we left the cinema that it was pretty pointless, it seemed only done to
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1696989/one-reason-terminator-2-needed-to-get-a-3d-release
The only part where I think people could said it has aged badly apart from some the effects(the bullet holes on the T1000 at times looked like tin foil)was the car scene with John trying to teaching the Terminator ''put downs'' although they are so cheesy and 90's that it's impossible to hate.
Also I forgot just have violent and graphic the movie is, it must be on the limit for what can be a 15 rated movie. Overall the most impressive thing about watching it again was just seeing how perfect the pacing is, the highlight for me being from the start of entering the Cyberdyne building to the final scenes feels almost like one giant action scene.
feck I wish Cameron would just stop with the avatar shite.
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It Comes at Night is a solid enough horror. Good performances and very tense. Not convinced it's any better than other thematically similar films, and I reckon it has far less to say than many of them. The trailer hinted at something more intriguing than it delivered. Certainly not as interesting or dazzling as Krisha.
Z for Zacgaria, Retreat, The Survivalist, The Road, Hidden, Time of the Wolf are perhaps less ballsy and less impressively executed films but they each attempt to expand a little more on the initial premise
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A lot of the same conclusions I had:
I don't remember it being so violent, the subsequent movies have been a lot more sanitised so some of the gorier deaths were surprising and Sarah's vision of judgement day is harrowing on the big screen!
Perfect pacing, I don't think there's a wasted scene (bar the put downs scene).
Avatar was fine on its own but I have no interest in seeing what happened after, seeing Cameron take on a new story or even taking on a Marvel or DC movie would be more interesting.
Sad story, especially Alex Hunter working as a concierge after the promising start in football.
Can someone help me? There's a movie, where a guy goes to jail. While in jail two really suspect looking guys come at him, but it turns out they've been hired to protect him. I've been thinking about it all day and just can not remember which movie it is.
Definitely got better reviews due to star power and the need to hail a comeback.
If you never read the manga, it probably goes like reading da vinci code and seeing the movie. The manga uses alot of naratives to actually tells us what's going on, something you can't translate well in movies.
Tbf i haven't seen the netflix movie. But having read the manga there is literally no way they can cramp all that in a 2 hour movie.
Ps: the manga is available online, perhaps you might want to report it to the authority
The Netflix version is pure shite. Willem Dafoe is fantastic but everything else is poorly executed.
Anyone seen the Love Witch?
Saw Lucky Logan. I expected it to be.... better? Maybe funnier. It was amusing at some points with regards to some dialogue and accents. Daniel Craig was good (if not OTT). But it was just... ok. It felt like it dragged in some places too. All the best parts were shown in the trailer too.
Los Angeles Plays Itself - Engrossing visual essay on Los Angeles and how it's been depicted in the movies. Super dry, personal and thorough, it's a sort of a precursor to all those youtube videos of people talking over movie clips.
This was good....runs a little long but interesting none the less.
Voices Through Time - I think I need to give a shout-out to Franco Piavoli, he's made some incredibly beautiful films, mostly quiet observations on nature and the humans that inhabit it as the four seasons passes. A good way to describe his style would either be Terrence Malick on valium or Andrei Tarkovsky on MDMA.
A Ghost Story - if you can get past the preposterous visual gag central to this film (Casey Affleck, playing a ghost by standing under a bed sheet with eye-holes cut out), this plays as a pretty affecting story of grief and memory. Full of long takes and shot in weird box-y format with rounded edges, it asks a lot of its audience, and has a sense of humour about it all. I have an aversion to Bon Iver-y falsetto folk and there's a song in this that's sort of important to the film that grated because of that. Other than that though, pretty damn good. A lot better than Ain't Them Bodies Saints, the only other David Lowery film I've seen.
There's a scene where Rooney Mara sits on the floor and eats an entire pie, for about six minutes. Binge eating isn't something you see in sad films but you should.
There's a scene where Rooney Mara sits on the floor and eats an entire pie, for about six minutes. Binge eating isn't something you see in sad films but you should.
I just can't get past the sheet thing. A rumination on grief isn't helped by something as intrinsically comic as that.
Yeah I didn't think so either and there's nothing I can write that will make it sound less ridiculous but it ends up working, at least it did for me.
Also Lowery made it for $100,000 which I find kind of astonishing.
Is that a recommendation or just a film that was made on the cheap?
I love the film but, I suspect, I'm seeing more layers of meaning in it than the makers intended.
Australians are a literal people.
I always read too much into things I like, mate; a big fault.
Yes..
The Square - Ruben Östlund does it again. Perhaps a bit overdrawn but a nice satire on middle class wokeness and the male ego with lots of trademark awkwardness. It wouldn't surprise me if Claes Bang starts to pop up in some American productions from now on.
@R.N7 did you catch that in the cinema or download perchance?
Watched that last year for first time since it was released and I thought it aged really badly.
I couldn't help but notice the film kept getting cut at crucial times which ruined the suspense for me.
Cinema. It started playing in Sweden last week.