The Martian
Pretty fecking horrible movie. The idea and plot is brilliant but the end product is just terrible.
3/10
Pretty fecking horrible movie. The idea and plot is brilliant but the end product is just terrible.
3/10
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Brawl In Cell Block 99: 3/10
Who the feck greenlighted this movie? Weak ass dialogues, slow as hell. And it's 2 hours!
Who the feck greenlighted this movie? Weak ass dialogues, slow as hell. And it's 2 hours!
Starship Troopers (1) is an underrated gem. I believe it was misunderstood by many when it was released. Brilliant satire on militaristic societies (ahem, USA among them) Good soundtrack too. Klendathu Drop is an awesome track.
7.5/10
7.5/10
Are you asking me?
If so I wasn't able to find a cinema still showing it.
I did run into a guy however in a funny hat who gave me a copy. I've never met him before but he kept calling me a "landlubber" it was most unpleasant.
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That's an unusual view. I thought the execution of the story was very effective. What could the movie have done better, apart from ditching the unnecessary epilogue?
One of my absolute favourites
Vaughn was doing that weirdly slow and vacant dialog schtick from True Detective. I swear the move could have been 30 minutes shorter if he just talked normally.
Was bored and watched this for pisstake. Cutting edge graphics, gripping storyline and edge of seat screenplay. Couldn't wait to jump out...and all Japanese people speak American English. Lasers, secret weapons, missiles, godzilla boxing, flying beasts...it has all the excitement. Would give Sharknado a run for it's money. I wonder how such movies gets financed!
3/10 - Good for drunk fun pisstake watch.
I enjoyed Logan Lucky which is a pretty straightforward heist film, with good performances all around (notably Daniel Craig who is pretty great), and works well as pure entertainment (but doesn't aim to be anything more). Highly recommended if you like that genre and have a couple of hours to kill.
Its good and I didn't see the twist coming till it happened although I think the movies should have ended about 2-3 minutes earlier than it did.
Wind River
Absolutely brilliant movie. Brilliantly acted, brilliantly shot, and with a very good and satisfying ending.
9/10
Absolutely brilliant movie. Brilliantly acted, brilliantly shot, and with a very good and satisfying ending.
I absolutely loved it when those fecks got what they deserved. The guy with the exploding lungs especially
9/10
I've seen it but maybe change it for spoilers sakes?
Agree though, great movie. One of the years best for me.
Fixed, edit your quote.
I assume this is the one originally titled Kimi No Na Wa? Watched it recently, very good. 7.5 or 8 is fair.
Ah, that makes sense. I might have to do the same. I don't expect it to get released here. "Landlubber"
Blade Runner 2049
Wowzers trouzers. Probably the best visual cinematic experience ever? I think it has enough thematic depth for it to still be remembered favourably another 30 years on like it's predecessor. Plenty to pick apart and think about. 8.5/9 out of 10. Perfect sequel I reckon.
Wowzers trouzers. Probably the best visual cinematic experience ever? I think it has enough thematic depth for it to still be remembered favourably another 30 years on like it's predecessor. Plenty to pick apart and think about. 8.5/9 out of 10. Perfect sequel I reckon.
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I think everything in the movie was made just too easy and kind of sugar-coated for big audience.
For starters the Chinese coming in to help out of the blue and then also some random student comes out with a calculation to catapult a space ship back to Mars and then people hooraying in the Times Square and then all the "funny" witty chit chat and then all the laughing and then the transmit shown live on tv without Matt Damon knowing saying the F word whoa that's crazy and then the lunging into space to grab a guy with a rope and all the seven hundred jokes about bad music taste and not enough anxiety and loneliness and I could go on and on. /rant
The only thing missing from the movie was an applauding scene where some random person starts slowly clapping by himself and the others joining in and the scene ending in people hooraying and carrying Matt Damon in to sun set and some confetti flying around.
TL;DR it was very corny and not gloomy enough for a movie about a man left alone in Mars.
Okay. They made a light crowd pleaser and you'd have preferred a darker, perhaps more realistic film.
But the movie was similar in tone to the popular book on which it was based. When they bought the book I'm sure the idea was to replicate its success rather than ditching it and making a completely different film. They spent a lot of money in the hope of transferring the popularity of the book to the screen.
I agree with all of this, I got slated earlier in this thread for not liking the movie. Kind of.
I watched this not knowing anything about it and like you one of the best of the year, maybe the best.
Yeah I didn't know much about it. I think I watched it after reading your review. As I did with A Dark Song.
The Limehouse Golem
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times - the mythical so-called Golem - must be responsible.
A very good whodunit set in the Victorian era, there is some horror in it , not anything to make you jump , but some pretty gruesome blood and guts.
Well acted and well written, well worth watching, with a twist that I did not see till you saw it on the screen.
7/10
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times - the mythical so-called Golem - must be responsible.
A very good whodunit set in the Victorian era, there is some horror in it , not anything to make you jump , but some pretty gruesome blood and guts.
Well acted and well written, well worth watching, with a twist that I did not see till you saw it on the screen.
7/10
I might have to give this a watch, just for that title alone.
Geo-Disaster
A family in Los Angeles finds themselves separated during a convergence of history's greatest disasters: a super volcano, a mega earthquake and a massive twister.
Its Asylum, so was not expecting much, but I was hoping it would be better than it was.
Bad acting , bad writing , dreadful CGI.
Nobody but me would watch this.
2.5/10
A family in Los Angeles finds themselves separated during a convergence of history's greatest disasters: a super volcano, a mega earthquake and a massive twister.
Its Asylum, so was not expecting much, but I was hoping it would be better than it was.
Bad acting , bad writing , dreadful CGI.
Nobody but me would watch this.
2.5/10
@pauldyson1uk where do you get most of your film recommendations from? I’m always intrigued by your reviews, often they’re of films I’ve never heard of!
I watched The Iceman from a few years ago. A dull hitman story about a dull hitman character made fairly captivating by the performances of Shannon and Ryder, and a strange ensemble of misfit goons. Worth a go.
They are normally on my download site, anything horror or Sci-Fi I will download.
They Look Like People. I thought this was a really well made film. A very creepy, unsettling psychological thriller. The premise may lack originality but its sensitive depiction of the situation (no spoilers), elevates it above many similarly themed films. The characters are beautifully drawn, not good or bad, sane or mad but complex and rounded. A no budget, super creative effort.
I found Wind River a horrible experience. It starts off as another mediocre outskirts-noir with the usual platitudinous dialogue and tiresome, generic allegory; the wilderness again serving as a manifestation of loss of faith, or declining way of life, or the Trump administration or maybe the bad shellfish you ate last week. The film later turns into Robocop. Then it shows us a horrible rape scene in graphic detail that seems designed to preemptively justify the ending's revenge catharsis. It's hysterical and stupid, Michael Winner with less dignity and honesty. A wretched regressive film wearing the dead, rotting skin of social consciousness. (The Ivan Sen films Mystery Road and Goldstone are two smart and sensitive takes on similar material.)
Chalk it up as another mauling for an almost universally praised something:
I found Wind River a horrible experience. It starts off as another mediocre outskirts-noir with the usual platitudinous dialogue and tiresome, generic allegory; the wilderness again serving as a manifestation of loss of faith, or declining way of life, or the Trump administration or maybe the bad shellfish you ate last week. The film later turns into Robocop. Then it shows us a horrible rape scene in graphic detail that seems designed to preemptively justify the ending's revenge catharsis. It's hysterical and stupid, Michael Winner with less dignity and honesty. A wretched regressive film wearing the dead, rotting skin of social consciousness. (The Ivan Sen films Mystery Road and Goldstone are two smart and sensitive takes on similar material.)
Chalk it up as another mauling for an almost universally praised something:
They Look Like People. I thought this was a really well made film. A very creepy, unsettling psychological thriller. The premise may lack originality but its sensitive depiction of the situation (no spoilers), elevates it above many similarly themed films. The characters are beautifully drawn, not good or bad, sane or mad but complex and rounded. A no budget, super creative effort.
I found Wind River a horrible experience. It starts off as another mediocre outskirts-noir with the usual platitudinous dialogue and tiresome, generic allegory; the wilderness again serving as a manifestation of loss of faith, or declining way of life, or the Trump administration or maybe the bad shellfish you ate last week. The film later turns into Robocop. Then it shows us a horrible rape scene in graphic detail that seems designed to preemptively justify the ending's revenge catharsis. It's hysterical and stupid, Michael Winner with less dignity and honesty. A wretched regressive film wearing the dead, rotting skin of social consciousness. (The Ivan Sen films Mystery Road and Goldstone are two smart and sensitive takes on similar material.)
Chalk it up as another mauling for an almost universally praised something:
I thought Mystery Road was excellent, watched it on the iPlayer a few years back, Goldstone I thought was good but not as good as the first movie. I thought Wind River was a bit so-so, nothing special at all. Anyone looking for a mystery/thriller type film set on an Native American reservation should check out Thunderheart, Graham Greene plays a tribal policeman in that also, it's based on a true story, the Wounded Knee Incident in 1973.
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Yes, I saw the original version with subs.
Jeepers Creepers 3
Doesn't deserve anything more than me saying it is fecking garbage.
Doesn't deserve anything more than me saying it is fecking garbage.
Miami Connection: A gang's hold on the Miami cocaine market is abrupted when one of it's members starts a feud with a local rock band. Little did they know that this hard core rock band was in fact a group of orphan friends that had been training all their lives in the art of tae-kwon doe and with the power of friendship on their side nothing will tear them apart!
If you like a good story with solid action and a great film score than this film is for you.
8.5/10
If you like a good story with solid action and a great film score than this film is for you.
8.5/10
I watched this the other night. The guy reminded me of Johnny Depp, thought he was pretty good. Story was enjoyable on the whole as well. I liked what they did with the murder reconstructions.
The novel is great too.
Good Time
Pretty good. 7/10
For those who liked it, check out the German movie Victoria. It's a very similar style, but done a bit better.
Pretty good. 7/10
For those who liked it, check out the German movie Victoria. It's a very similar style, but done a bit better.
Mayhem
A similar plot to "Belko Experiment" but so much better. The story, the acting and the whole execution of the idea is just great, and Steven Yeun is fecking great in this. Great action, great gore and just hugely entertaining, time flies when watching this. One of the most entertaining of the year for me.
7,5/10
A similar plot to "Belko Experiment" but so much better. The story, the acting and the whole execution of the idea is just great, and Steven Yeun is fecking great in this. Great action, great gore and just hugely entertaining, time flies when watching this. One of the most entertaining of the year for me.
7,5/10
@pauldyson1uk , @Dirty Schwein you two will love "Mayhem".
I have it , looks good.
Watched Jigsaw the other day.
Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It's nonsense, but entertaining nonsense. I'm a fan of the series, even though some of them are pretty terrible, so i suppose they would be my guilty pleasure movies.
The twist was quite good. I'm not too sure if it even made any sense, but i'm really not going to question the logic in a Saw movie tbh. I just found it a fairly entertaining way to spend 90 minutes.
7/10
Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It's nonsense, but entertaining nonsense. I'm a fan of the series, even though some of them are pretty terrible, so i suppose they would be my guilty pleasure movies.
The twist was quite good. I'm not too sure if it even made any sense, but i'm really not going to question the logic in a Saw movie tbh. I just found it a fairly entertaining way to spend 90 minutes.
7/10
Yeah my brother recommended it to me, I have it now. Gonna watch it some point this week. Will post my thoughts then.