Johnny Dangerously. You fargin' baskets.
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A bit earlier than what you mention, but Chinatown is brilliant.
Yeah having watched it last week I really don't understand the positive reaction to this film. 2/5 sounds about right.
Just saw Kingsman 2. Enjoyed the hell out of it. Waiting for the first of you snobs to come say it was overblown, boring, etc
2/5 for Wonder Woman is generous. It’s absolute garbage. Manages to combine being over-blown with exquisitely boring in a way that not even Transformers can match. One of the worst superhero movies ever. The positive reception is got is baffling.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of some on here for suggesting this, i think a lot of the positive critical reception the film received was due to the gender of the super hero in question.
Seemed to have dominated the conversation pre and post release.
Yea, Wonder Woman was shite, and I was so anxious to watch it after all the positive reviews and hype
I'm watching it now as well, just paused for some CL action. Amazons are very boring, but Wonder Woman herself is charming. Still an hour and a half movie left. Maybe others things will get better as well.
Couldn't even finish Wonder Woman, I mean what the feck even was that?
If I was a passenger on that plane, it couldn't be pedestrian enough for me.
A difficult subject to film though, when the lack of drama was the incident's defining characteristic. Not a single fatality. But I suppose people did get their socks wet.
I watched Legend (2015) today. Worth watching for Tom Hardy being great x2, but it's really not that interesting of a film.
Re: Wonder Woman. It's not being compared in a vacuum. It's up against the rubbish DCEU has put out. The faults are overlooked then.
Nah, haven't you heard they're campaigning for the movie to be nominated for an Oscar or some shit
I realized I wasn't part of the target demographic for Wonder Woman, but I thought, " it's gotten great reviews, so it should at least deliver some well-crafted fun."
Boy, was I wrong! The movie cost north of 150 million, so they might at least have sprung for sufficient film-making talent to give us something better than this naive, ho-hum, stuff.
The leading lady isn't much of an actress, but she fits the role perfectly, so that's not the problem. The problem is that the film has no creative impulses beyond telling a simple, linear story beginning at A and finishing at Z, with a predictable landing on every letter in between.
It's as if the last forty years hadn't happened. The first modern comic book adaptation was Christopher Reeve's Superman, and it was already more inventive in bringing a super-powered character to the screen.
You can see what the film's intentions are. It's aimed squarely at a female audience, with its sympathetic heroine and a strong emphasis on relationships. But why did it have to be so dull?
Boy, was I wrong! The movie cost north of 150 million, so they might at least have sprung for sufficient film-making talent to give us something better than this naive, ho-hum, stuff.
The leading lady isn't much of an actress, but she fits the role perfectly, so that's not the problem. The problem is that the film has no creative impulses beyond telling a simple, linear story beginning at A and finishing at Z, with a predictable landing on every letter in between.
It's as if the last forty years hadn't happened. The first modern comic book adaptation was Christopher Reeve's Superman, and it was already more inventive in bringing a super-powered character to the screen.
You can see what the film's intentions are. It's aimed squarely at a female audience, with its sympathetic heroine and a strong emphasis on relationships. But why did it have to be so dull?
The early meeting scenes in WW show our Amazon rendered literally speachless by the sight of the hunk's cock before going to mush when hunk complements her. Add WW's wide eyed naivity and constant nagging for the hunk (steve! Steve? Steve, Steve...Steve!!!) it all seemed very regressive to me and not in anyway mitigated by her kicking the crap out of everyone. Also the most self-made, accomplished woman in the film was a scheming, hideously disfigured, toxic not nazi freakshow - who was also weak to the hunky charms of the hunk.
I think Moana and WW are in many ways different renditions of the same film. Both depict sheltered islander's journeying to self discovery, womanhood and female heroism. The main difference is that one is a simplistic 2d cartoon for adhd children and stunted adults, and the other is Moana ho! ho! ho!
I think Moana and WW are in many ways different renditions of the same film. Both depict sheltered islander's journeying to self discovery, womanhood and female heroism. The main difference is that one is a simplistic 2d cartoon for adhd children and stunted adults, and the other is Moana ho! ho! ho!
Just watched the German/Swedish movie Mein Kampf/Den blodiga Tiden. The movie is made up entirely of stock footage, mostly from DDR archives and basically shows Hitler‘s rise to power, the historical background and reason for him being able to do so and shows the war itself and also the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto.
At points, the movie even shows fragments from Nazi Propaganda like the Wochenschau. The authentic footage is then contradicted, or set into historical context by a very calm narrator, who shows almost no emotion.
The movie doesn’t really show anything most people don‘t know already. We all know how the war started and developed and then finally ended. But the way these images and videos are put together is uniquely intense and haunting. The effect the movie had on the audience was palpable throughout the whole two hours.
This is the best documentary I‘ve seen about the third Reich yet and I think it‘s one of those movies you have to see if you ever have the chance to do so. I strongly recommend it. An almost magical piece of art and an incredible attempt to make sure what has happened may never be forgotten, so we can make sure it‘ll never happen again.
At points, the movie even shows fragments from Nazi Propaganda like the Wochenschau. The authentic footage is then contradicted, or set into historical context by a very calm narrator, who shows almost no emotion.
The movie doesn’t really show anything most people don‘t know already. We all know how the war started and developed and then finally ended. But the way these images and videos are put together is uniquely intense and haunting. The effect the movie had on the audience was palpable throughout the whole two hours.
This is the best documentary I‘ve seen about the third Reich yet and I think it‘s one of those movies you have to see if you ever have the chance to do so. I strongly recommend it. An almost magical piece of art and an incredible attempt to make sure what has happened may never be forgotten, so we can make sure it‘ll never happen again.
FOr which category though. I'll remind you that Pearl Harbor won an Oscar. Also, Suicide Squad.
This is exactly how Nazi Germany started. And ended.
More seriously, the description above kinda reminds me of this film:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler:_A_Film_from_Germany
The Bad Batch
It should be called The Bad Botch, because it's rubbish.
It should be called The Bad Botch, because it's rubbish.
Actually that's probably why it managed a 2 out of 5 for me because I at least liked Wonder Woman herself but everything around her was boring or bad. She's at least better than Superman but the movie still killed the last amount of interest I had in DC. Snyder and everyone he has hired really need to be ditched asap.
I really don't get who thought that this was going to be a good crime flick. You have the story of the Kray brothers which in itself is fantastic movie material and this is the end product? Crime movies today are so mediocre, the crime genre peaked in the 90s.
Does the narration work? There was a 9/11 long documentary that was just spliced live footage through the timeline. Brilliantly done, kind of like Senna, but can't remember it's name.
I tried to watch Triumph of the Will a while back, but my word it's heavy going.
Society (1989)
So I'm watching this movie on the Horror Channel last night. Billy Warlock (of Baywatch fame) plays a high school kid with a privileged family life and suitably glamourous girlfriend. The only problem is his family are nothing like him and appear very bland and unable to connect with him emotionally. How he's only just realised this after 16 or 17 years is a bit of a mystery but he's starting to ask questions. Still the paranoia only just intensifies when his sister's ex-boyfriend presents him with compelling evidence that all is not well within his family walls. Is he going crazy? Is he beginning to see things....surely bodies aren't supposed to bend in those ways??
For the first hour or so, you're thinking is this really a horror movie as all you're treated to is a car accident and slit throat. The film seems like just another 80s movie that they churned out by the bucketload with the obligatory mullets, blue eyeshadow and poor dress sense. The director does a good job in ramping up the sense of foreboding and threat as things are beginning to unravel.....that is until we get to the "shunting"!!
For the last 20 minutes or so the film takes a drastic turn for the worse, taking you down a road that you certainly weren't prepared for in what can only be described as a mindfeck! Without giving too much away, what the viewer is subjected to is some weird perverted orgy, where whilst 'feasting' on their hapless victim, the participants begin to meld into a slimy blobby mass. But the madness doesn't stop there as he stumbles across his parents and sister who have mutated into some weird shit that even the freak shows would be freaked out at and another guy coming to a sticky end.
This film is probably considered a cult classic and handled well by director Brian Yuzna who adds liberal amounts of black humour to the overall tone of the movie. Effects are handled by the appropriately named Screaming Mad George and while dated by today's standards do enough to create the surrealism that will leave you dazed, confused, speechless in the last 20 minutes. Yuzna deliberately plays it straight for the first hour to create that extra impact when the 'Society' finally reveals itself. An allegory on the way the top of the social elite feed off the less fortunate in society. The shunting was just a stark pointer to how fecked up these people had become. A slow burner but well worth hanging on in there for.
I'm giving this a 7/10.
So I'm watching this movie on the Horror Channel last night. Billy Warlock (of Baywatch fame) plays a high school kid with a privileged family life and suitably glamourous girlfriend. The only problem is his family are nothing like him and appear very bland and unable to connect with him emotionally. How he's only just realised this after 16 or 17 years is a bit of a mystery but he's starting to ask questions. Still the paranoia only just intensifies when his sister's ex-boyfriend presents him with compelling evidence that all is not well within his family walls. Is he going crazy? Is he beginning to see things....surely bodies aren't supposed to bend in those ways??
For the first hour or so, you're thinking is this really a horror movie as all you're treated to is a car accident and slit throat. The film seems like just another 80s movie that they churned out by the bucketload with the obligatory mullets, blue eyeshadow and poor dress sense. The director does a good job in ramping up the sense of foreboding and threat as things are beginning to unravel.....that is until we get to the "shunting"!!
For the last 20 minutes or so the film takes a drastic turn for the worse, taking you down a road that you certainly weren't prepared for in what can only be described as a mindfeck! Without giving too much away, what the viewer is subjected to is some weird perverted orgy, where whilst 'feasting' on their hapless victim, the participants begin to meld into a slimy blobby mass. But the madness doesn't stop there as he stumbles across his parents and sister who have mutated into some weird shit that even the freak shows would be freaked out at and another guy coming to a sticky end.
This film is probably considered a cult classic and handled well by director Brian Yuzna who adds liberal amounts of black humour to the overall tone of the movie. Effects are handled by the appropriately named Screaming Mad George and while dated by today's standards do enough to create the surrealism that will leave you dazed, confused, speechless in the last 20 minutes. Yuzna deliberately plays it straight for the first hour to create that extra impact when the 'Society' finally reveals itself. An allegory on the way the top of the social elite feed off the less fortunate in society. The shunting was just a stark pointer to how fecked up these people had become. A slow burner but well worth hanging on in there for.
I'm giving this a 7/10.
Yes, to great effect actually. It shifts the focus and attention to the pictures. There is no emotional escape.
Oi oi! Don’t drag Moana into this discussion. That’s actually a decent movie.
Re WW the earliest hint that this was an absolute cocking train wreck was when you realised that they’d hired an actress so incapable of actual acting that they gave every other Amazon a thick Israeli accent to hide her inability to pretend to be not Israeli. A new low for Hollywood, surely?
Cheers, sounds interesting. That documentary I referred to was 9/11: 102 Minutes that Changed America. Superb piece of film-making.
Sounds good. And it's on Youtube, so I might check it out soon. Thanks for the tipp.
It is fantastic and somewhat harrowing. feck me, can't believe how long ago it was now. The wife has always been pissed that that is how I remember her birthday, hers is 12th September.
Kingsman Golden Circle was a fun movie. The Merlin Country Roads scene was incredible.
I don't think she had that accent in the FF movies
I just watched Terminator 2 for the first time. An incredible film - easily one of my favourites of all time now. I loved the 1st (which I watched for the 1st time about a couple of weeks ago) but this was better.
If I had waited one more day then, going from the opening narration, I'd have seen it for the 1st time on the specific date mentioned which would've been cool as it'd have been completely unintentional.
If I had waited one more day then, going from the opening narration, I'd have seen it for the 1st time on the specific date mentioned which would've been cool as it'd have been completely unintentional.
I'm jealous you got to watch them for the first time. Just don't go watching any of the other ones. Awful films.
I'm pretty sure she did, you just don't notice because she only has about 5 lines.
Anyway, I agree with @Pogue Mahone , she's a pretty rubbish actress, that gets praised to hell and back because everyone's so desperate for a strong female lead comic book character... which we'd probably already have if they just did a Black Widow movie (and made sure it was made by an actual competent filmmaker, not Luc Besson)
Yeah, absolutely brilliant. Love that movie.
@pauldyson1uk I saw this and thought of you...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu4YvG4BytjMLQPIgJHsTiiFxuju6gkf_
Please watch and review one of 'Filthy McNasty' or 'Enter the Fat Dragon'...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu4YvG4BytjMLQPIgJHsTiiFxuju6gkf_
Please watch and review one of 'Filthy McNasty' or 'Enter the Fat Dragon'...
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By everyone I presume you mean the liberal, chattering classes. No one in my social circle is desperate for any such thing!
That's from Empire.
Also...
"This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we're pretending the other films were a bad dream."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fe...nce-unveils-a-terminator-21st-century-1043027
That's how you do it. Alien 3 in theaters in 2021.
I am desperate. But I am not in your social circle though.
To jump on the wonder woman bashing bandwagon, my god is it awful. I just finished it and really wished I hadn't wasted my time. I was expecting it to be the usual uninspiring DC fare but hoped it might provide a few fun parts but didn't even get that. The middle is all over the shop, the action scenes, bar some parts of the last one, look really clumsy and cheap and everyone apart from Chris Pine doesn't seem to have put any effort in. I'd say it's worse than Batman vs Superman.
I saw a film called Tesnota (Closeness) last night at the cinema. Quite an intense film but would absolutely recommend it. I haven't seen much Russian cinema and now I feel as if I've been missing out.