Call Me By Your Name will make you want to give everything up to become an attractive uphill gardener in Northern Italy. It's basically impossible not to like Timothée Chalamet, the guy is superb. Very vivid, raw homoerotic classic. I've only watched about half an hour of Guadagnino's previous film 'A Bigger Splash' but this blows it out of the water, far less brash and irritating. A must see.
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I can't think of many films that have nailed an opening and closing song better than Call Me By Your Name. Impeccable mood setting.
Black Panther
Nice visuals, some awesome action set pieces, good acting, a kick-ass soundtrack and an awesome villain who had great motivations and should have had more screen time. However, I couldn't give a crap about the protagonist, which is a big problem in the movie... I'm sat there completely rooting for the bad guy. It was decent but not game-changing as people are claiming. Not a touch on Ragnarok, Logan etc 6.5/10
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. I remember enjoying this when I first saw it but not as much this time around. It's more a courtroom drama than horror and only really has one or two scary bits. Plus, now that I know the actress playing Emily Rose as Deb from Dexter, it was really hard to buy into the story. At least it was trying something different so props for that 5.5/10
Hellraiser: Judgment
Detectives Sean and David Carter are on the case to find a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the city. Joining forces with Detective Christine Egerton, they dig deeper into a spiraling maze of horror that may not be of this world. I watch a lot of shit and usually find something silly to enjoy in them. Not this one. This is one of those rare films that I struggled with so much that I stopped before the end. Pointless gorefest with zero production value. Awful 1/10
Wind Chill
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there. Saw this many years ago and gave it another watch, mainly because I really like Emily Blunt. It starts well enough and sets up the mystery well but it's a little too slow and the pay off is quite predictable and doesn't really live up to the set up. Still, a decent watch 5/10
Nice visuals, some awesome action set pieces, good acting, a kick-ass soundtrack and an awesome villain who had great motivations and should have had more screen time. However, I couldn't give a crap about the protagonist, which is a big problem in the movie... I'm sat there completely rooting for the bad guy. It was decent but not game-changing as people are claiming. Not a touch on Ragnarok, Logan etc 6.5/10
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. I remember enjoying this when I first saw it but not as much this time around. It's more a courtroom drama than horror and only really has one or two scary bits. Plus, now that I know the actress playing Emily Rose as Deb from Dexter, it was really hard to buy into the story. At least it was trying something different so props for that 5.5/10
Hellraiser: Judgment
Detectives Sean and David Carter are on the case to find a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the city. Joining forces with Detective Christine Egerton, they dig deeper into a spiraling maze of horror that may not be of this world. I watch a lot of shit and usually find something silly to enjoy in them. Not this one. This is one of those rare films that I struggled with so much that I stopped before the end. Pointless gorefest with zero production value. Awful 1/10
Wind Chill
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there. Saw this many years ago and gave it another watch, mainly because I really like Emily Blunt. It starts well enough and sets up the mystery well but it's a little too slow and the pay off is quite predictable and doesn't really live up to the set up. Still, a decent watch 5/10
Black Panther - As others have said before me, the villain was fantastic and deserved more screen time. In fact, the movie is pretty average up until Killmonger is properly introduced.
Some great visuals and overall solid directing. Nothing groundbreaking but certainly a solid addition to the Marvel Universe, better than Thor Ragnarok in my opinion.
Some great visuals and overall solid directing. Nothing groundbreaking but certainly a solid addition to the Marvel Universe, better than Thor Ragnarok in my opinion.
I didnt get the Ragnorak love at all. Seemed a standard marvel movie to me.
Why does it stand out to so many people?
Why does it stand out to so many people?
Because it takes itself far less seriously than any other similar movie and superhero movies are inherently ludicrous to begin with so it doesn't suit them to be all po-faced.
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I heard pengabdi setan is quite a scarry horror movie you might want to check it out
It's going on to the list... Can't find on IMDb... Is it translated Satan's slaves?
Boom! I'm on it!
Yes, exactly my point!
Also helps that - unlike the other ones you mention - it’s made by someone who has a great sense of humour.
I guess I just didnt really 'get it' then
Some laughs here and there but no more than the others really
Some laughs here and there but no more than the others really
Can't seem to find this film anywhere or on any of them dodgy sites. Can someone PM me a link so that I can check it's quality and report to the authorities right away?!
Exactly. Assume you've seen what we do in the shadows and Hunt for the wilderpeople? Both hilarious. As soon as I found out Taikka was making Thor I knew it'd be great fun.
Except that What we do in the Shadows is actually funny
Yeah, like Ragnorak.
I thought Thor Ragnarok was hilarious. Especially Korg. The 'pamphlets' line still makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Korg was great. I didn't realise how much I needed Kiwi rock aliens until he came along.
Yeah, big fan of his. Seen both those movies. Wasn’t sure how it would translate to a superhero flick but he managed to put his mark all over it.
Ragnarok is a straight-up comedy first, and an action film second.
And yeah, it's very funny - the very beginning where he's constantly turning around on the chair is the sort of slapstick that does things for me.
And yeah, it's very funny - the very beginning where he's constantly turning around on the chair is the sort of slapstick that does things for me.
Similar opinion to you. It's a very interesting monster story premise but as soon as she fecks it I totally dropped all my investment in the film. I mean wtf.
Cool.
The Shape of Water
Don't understand why this is receiving so much acclaim and awards. Looks beautiful (as you'd expect from Del Toro) and that combined with the excellent score does make it reasonably enjoyable. My major issue is that the romance between Sally Hawkins' character and the creature is underdeveloped and they get down to business out of nowhere. The rest of the characters are one dimensional stereotypes as well.
Great concept but doesn't deliver on it.
Don't understand why this is receiving so much acclaim and awards. Looks beautiful (as you'd expect from Del Toro) and that combined with the excellent score does make it reasonably enjoyable. My major issue is that the romance between Sally Hawkins' character and the creature is underdeveloped and they get down to business out of nowhere. The rest of the characters are one dimensional stereotypes as well.
Great concept but doesn't deliver on it.
Three Billboards
Sublime, just a great film with a great script and great actors and a great director and great cinematography that you could maybe find flaws in if you really tried, but what's the point cause it was such a damn good watch. 9/10
The Disaster Artist
Enjoyable fluff. Franco totally nails Wiseau and as someone who has seen The Room I did get a lot of nostalgic laughs, but largely it's a pretty unremarkable movie, yet still a good laugh. 7/10
Sublime, just a great film with a great script and great actors and a great director and great cinematography that you could maybe find flaws in if you really tried, but what's the point cause it was such a damn good watch. 9/10
The Disaster Artist
Enjoyable fluff. Franco totally nails Wiseau and as someone who has seen The Room I did get a lot of nostalgic laughs, but largely it's a pretty unremarkable movie, yet still a good laugh. 7/10
Cloverfield paradox - great comedy.
Black Panther.
7/10.
7/10.
The Square - Ruben Ostlund pokes fun at the art world, the Swedish upper class, modern social interactions and everyday hypocrisy. Like Force Majeure, it's an incredibly powerful and uncomfortable viewing experience and there's a lot going on. It's funny and disturbing and I really enjoyed Claes Bang's lead performance as a callow, successful curator. It's definitely overstuffed and there's a couple of supporting characters the film didn't need but it's still clever, heady entertainment.
Mute - this is a terrible, terrible film. From the opening scenes, the acting, the dialogue, the pacing, the narrative are all different shades of shit, and I don't know if it's just my HDTV but the digital cinematography is so ugly and everything looks cheap. Paul Rudd, who is really the main character, is so miscast. Another stinker from Jones; he should go back to directing other people's screenplays. Awful.
Mute - this is a terrible, terrible film. From the opening scenes, the acting, the dialogue, the pacing, the narrative are all different shades of shit, and I don't know if it's just my HDTV but the digital cinematography is so ugly and everything looks cheap. Paul Rudd, who is really the main character, is so miscast. Another stinker from Jones; he should go back to directing other people's screenplays. Awful.
Yeah, the immigrant kid thing dragged out way too long, should have ended with the press conference.
Bang's Marcello Mastroianni-esque peformance was definitely one of my favourite ones last year, though I found it unrealistic that everyone he came across seemed to perfectly understand his Danish, I would have been lost without the subtitles.
Wait he was speaking a different language?
He sounded like he was from the UK when he spoke English.
Yeah, he and his assistant were both speaking Danish.
A lot of Scandinavian actors have learned to speak English with a British accent, just listen to Alicia Vikander.
True but she studied ballet in London as a youngling.
I see a lot of parallels between Östlund, Zvyagintsev and Haneke, in terms of their reflective and often accusatory analysis of the kinds of people who watch their films and their countrymen generally. Östlund certainly has the lightest touch.
Game Night
Surprisingly funny. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are hilarious together. The movie also provides just enough twists to keep you guessing, but not so much that it feels forced. A few scenes really had me in tears with laughter. Kyle Chandler still always makes me think of Tour of Duty.
8/10
Surprisingly funny. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams are hilarious together. The movie also provides just enough twists to keep you guessing, but not so much that it feels forced. A few scenes really had me in tears with laughter. Kyle Chandler still always makes me think of Tour of Duty.
8/10
Yeah, there's traces of Haneke's Code Unknown in almost every film Östlund has made so far. I think he even named it his favourite film of all time.
He's really good at creating brilliant individual scenes but not quite up there among the greatest when it comes to making it come together as a coherent piece.
Geostorm
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. You've seen better versions of this 100 times already in Hollywood and in those, you don't have to buy Gerard Butler as a scientist or the piss poor "effects". Avoid 2/10
The Vatican Tapes
A priest and two Vatican exorcists must do battle with an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman. Whilst I didn't mind the actual exorcism in the film's climax or the ending, the characters held no weight so I couldn't care less what happens to any of them, making it hard to root for this film at all 3/10
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. You've seen better versions of this 100 times already in Hollywood and in those, you don't have to buy Gerard Butler as a scientist or the piss poor "effects". Avoid 2/10
The Vatican Tapes
A priest and two Vatican exorcists must do battle with an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman. Whilst I didn't mind the actual exorcism in the film's climax or the ending, the characters held no weight so I couldn't care less what happens to any of them, making it hard to root for this film at all 3/10
Black Panther:
A pretty standard Marvel movie, which by now is really disappointing (why I've stopped regularly going to watch Marvel movies). Standard CGI and plot but what was better for this compared to other Marvel movies was the hand to hand combat action, which is always better than the CGI crap other movies throw, and the African themed soundtrack.
One thing I always credit DC movies, no matter how flawed they are, is that they try something different from the formulaic Marvel movies.
Overall: Meh
7/10
A pretty standard Marvel movie, which by now is really disappointing (why I've stopped regularly going to watch Marvel movies). Standard CGI and plot but what was better for this compared to other Marvel movies was the hand to hand combat action, which is always better than the CGI crap other movies throw, and the African themed soundtrack.
One thing I always credit DC movies, no matter how flawed they are, is that they try something different from the formulaic Marvel movies.
Overall: Meh
7/10
Baal - Garbo talks? Bah, how about Fassbinder sings!
Calvary 2014
I came to this as a big fan of Director John McDonagh's previous film "The guard" and it contains elements of the same dark humour, but this is a more serious film.
Brendan Gleeson plays a good priest who is threatened by a hidden confessor that he will be killled the following week, as payment for the sexual abuse the confessor suffered at the hands of another priest.
Gleeson is staggering in this film; present in nearly every scene and providing humour, empathy, sadness and love to a group of people that contains his would be murderer.
Chris O'Dowd is good too and Kelly Reilly is excellent as his daughter. She is the emotional golden thread of the film and her beauty is only matched by that of the glorious Sligo landscape that acts as backdrop for the action.
The scenery is wonderous and the supporting cast are largely very good. My only criticism would be a couple seem to be a bit hammy, trying maybe to raise their character to be more of a suspect in this "whowilldoit"
The final scene had me in floods of tears and was both surprising, silent and heartfelt.
The film touches on the grimmest aspects of how the church behaved in Ireland so prepare yourself for that, but it remains a hopeful and positive film in the end, in ways you might not expect.
McDonagh's films are not for the feint-hearted but offer a fresh worldview.
I came to this as a big fan of Director John McDonagh's previous film "The guard" and it contains elements of the same dark humour, but this is a more serious film.
Brendan Gleeson plays a good priest who is threatened by a hidden confessor that he will be killled the following week, as payment for the sexual abuse the confessor suffered at the hands of another priest.
Gleeson is staggering in this film; present in nearly every scene and providing humour, empathy, sadness and love to a group of people that contains his would be murderer.
Chris O'Dowd is good too and Kelly Reilly is excellent as his daughter. She is the emotional golden thread of the film and her beauty is only matched by that of the glorious Sligo landscape that acts as backdrop for the action.
The scenery is wonderous and the supporting cast are largely very good. My only criticism would be a couple seem to be a bit hammy, trying maybe to raise their character to be more of a suspect in this "whowilldoit"
The final scene had me in floods of tears and was both surprising, silent and heartfelt.
The film touches on the grimmest aspects of how the church behaved in Ireland so prepare yourself for that, but it remains a hopeful and positive film in the end, in ways you might not expect.
McDonagh's films are not for the feint-hearted but offer a fresh worldview.
Yeah I was really looking forward to this film but it's just not good...it's all over the place and the acting was sub-oar.