Ready player one - pleasantly surprised me. Hits all the right notes. 7.5/10
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Glass
Well, Shamalamadingdong blew it. Quell surprise.
This series really deserved a proper finale. Split, in particular, was a great movie IMO.
I really don't like lead actress, something about her face annoys me. Her lips don't move properly when she talks. James Macevoy was brilliant at least.
Anyway, it's a Netflix/stream movie. 5/10
Well, Shamalamadingdong blew it. Quell surprise.
This series really deserved a proper finale. Split, in particular, was a great movie IMO.
I really don't like lead actress, something about her face annoys me. Her lips don't move properly when she talks. James Macevoy was brilliant at least.
Anyway, it's a Netflix/stream movie. 5/10
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Oh no, he managed to squeeze himself in there.
After a great setup to the unbreakable trilogy, and looking like a comeback for the director, it's all gone to pieces. What a tweest
Just saw Glass. It was shit.
He did.
Hitchcock he is not.
Shitcock is more like it. I fecking knew he would ruin the entire franchise, I got my hopes up due to Split, but that cnut never fails to disappoint.
Mom and Dad
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
It was Cage at his crazy best , was not expecting much from this , but I thought it was great.
The bit where Cage was after his son and Henriksen was after Cage was hilarious.
Cage Hams it up with his wacko faces and obviously makes it easy looking like a crazed lunatic. Selma Blair is even creepier as you never know what she is going to do next.
7.5/10
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
It was Cage at his crazy best , was not expecting much from this , but I thought it was great.
The bit where Cage was after his son and Henriksen was after Cage was hilarious.
Cage Hams it up with his wacko faces and obviously makes it easy looking like a crazed lunatic. Selma Blair is even creepier as you never know what she is going to do next.
7.5/10
Lavalantula
Volcanic eruptions in Los Angeles unleash a swarm of gigantic, lava-breathing tarantulas.
What was there not to like , Steve Guttenburg , lave spitting spiders, volcano's and Nia Peeples is worth watching.
This is SyFy films at its best, it has plenty of references to other films, Sharkenado , Indiana Jones , Jurassic Park and a few other.
The is a second one and a 3rd planned.
For a normal film is is a 2 - 3/10 at the most, but for a SyFy film , no question.
10/10
Volcanic eruptions in Los Angeles unleash a swarm of gigantic, lava-breathing tarantulas.
What was there not to like , Steve Guttenburg , lave spitting spiders, volcano's and Nia Peeples is worth watching.
This is SyFy films at its best, it has plenty of references to other films, Sharkenado , Indiana Jones , Jurassic Park and a few other.
The is a second one and a 3rd planned.
For a normal film is is a 2 - 3/10 at the most, but for a SyFy film , no question.
10/10
Has anyway yet watched 'Polar' 2019, starring Mads Mikkelsen?
Hell Fest
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
A very average slasher film, weak plot , weak acting.
Nothing that you will not have seen before.
Very predictable ending ready for a squeal.
4/10
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
A very average slasher film, weak plot , weak acting.
Nothing that you will not have seen before.
Very predictable ending ready for a squeal.
4/10
Return of the Mouman
A very miserable man unleashes blood-curdling howls outside the haunted Lowry hotel until staff let him retrieve his Vuitton suitcase.
3 fingers/10
A very miserable man unleashes blood-curdling howls outside the haunted Lowry hotel until staff let him retrieve his Vuitton suitcase.
3 fingers/10
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The thing I remember about this film is: the world is going to shit, patents are killing their children, basically, everything is fecked. Whilst all this is happening, all Nice Cage wants to do is Donuts in a sports car with his face buried in a woman's tits
I can't even spell 'fingers'. You win, JoMo™.
Malena (2000)
Wow...I'm actually surprised Monica Bellucci took that role.
Wow...I'm actually surprised Monica Bellucci took that role.
Witness for the Prosecution 8/10
I really liked it, right until
I really liked it, right until
When the lawyer realizes he got fooled, it was pretty brilliant. Then the last two minutes of the movie were pure shit, and essentially made a 10/10 movie into an 8/10 for me. Not only that his German wife was played too, but then the pathetic instant killing with a knife.
Charles Laughton was magnificent in the movie though. I should watch more movies of him.
Charles Laughton was magnificent in the movie though. I should watch more movies of him.
Star Trek The Motion Picture:
The original Trek movie, it's like an extended episode. Better budget, higher stakes, but an episode nonetheless. I really like how Kirk is portrayed - he's been away from the job but is desperate to be back and stubborn about his skills, which fits with his character. The film is *slow* - I am sure the establishing shot of the ship lasted for about 5 continuous minutes of silence. The action is sparse. There is no explosive climax.
7.5/10, it reminded me of 2001 in a good way and I don't think a film like this will be made today. (They could have made it a bit faster though, there is only so much starting at Kirk/the ship that one can do).
Solo:
Junk. Multiple different plots and subplots, stupid characterisation, an awful ending.
Han always has a heart of gold? Why? Where is the arc? A thousand twists and betrayals. half of which could be removed. The reveal at the end, mostly unconnected to the film - wtf.
It felt like it was written by multiple people, bits shoehorned in by the studio.
3/10.
The original Trek movie, it's like an extended episode. Better budget, higher stakes, but an episode nonetheless. I really like how Kirk is portrayed - he's been away from the job but is desperate to be back and stubborn about his skills, which fits with his character. The film is *slow* - I am sure the establishing shot of the ship lasted for about 5 continuous minutes of silence. The action is sparse. There is no explosive climax.
7.5/10, it reminded me of 2001 in a good way and I don't think a film like this will be made today. (They could have made it a bit faster though, there is only so much starting at Kirk/the ship that one can do).
Solo:
Junk. Multiple different plots and subplots, stupid characterisation, an awful ending.
Han always has a heart of gold? Why? Where is the arc? A thousand twists and betrayals. half of which could be removed. The reveal at the end, mostly unconnected to the film - wtf.
It felt like it was written by multiple people, bits shoehorned in by the studio.
3/10.
What did you think of Burning? @Rooney in Paris
Yes I was going to post about it this morning. I adored it. I'm not even able to say exactly why, I went to the cinema after having slept 4 hours and being hungover, yet I was kept awake throughout, despite the slow rhythm and the lack of actual events. It's pretty much perfect, or as close to perfection as I've seen a film be for a while. The actress playing Hae-Mi is amazing, I thought her performance was very subtle and she's beautiful. The jazz scene was a thing of beauty too.
Good tension build up in the second part of the film but overall a great depiction of the divide between the modern Korea and the rural more traditional part of it.
I'm not sure which one I preferred between Cold War and Burning, for 2018 films. Maybe Burning just edges it.
Agree with this. I’m not a huge Star Wars fanboy that sees IV-VI as the holy grail and definitely not emotionally invested in these films.
That said I have enjoyed the recent films VII-VIII and Rogue One, but this was garbage. Didn’t connect with any of the characters and thought it was very bland! Story was all over the shop...
where the feck did Darth Maul come from-like you, I just found that link weird
Nice!
Yeah, the actress was great, hard to believe it was her debut role, the little throwaway pantomime stuff in the beginning was lovely. I would have liked to have seen the dance scene in a cinema, mesmerizing stuff.
Didn't know this. Agree with the pantomime part, so good, actually made me hungry
Didn't know the jazz piece was Ascenseur pour l'échaffaud which actually gives the whole scene an extra ominous dimension. God I want to see that scene again!
Oh well.
But yeah not quite the same as seeing it on a big screen for the first time. I was really gobsmacked watching it.
But yeah not quite the same as seeing it on a big screen for the first time. I was really gobsmacked watching it.
Not out yet here. 25th they say. It looks good the premise
Its not 'officially' out yet but I did see an available hdrip on one of those pesky torrent sites
Was just wondering if anyone had seen it because its not yet rated on imdb/RT.
Is Burning available on torrents yet?
would be a travesty so would like to know
would be a travesty so would like to know
Unfortunately, yes.
Excalibur - The good...great production design and a fine execution of the phantasmagorical sequences. The bad...well, the acting, oh dear, the acting, with a very respectable cast as well. I've no idea what Nicol Williamson was thinking with his performance as Merlin. Terrible dialogue delivered stiffly in silly voices, no camp value whatsoever, just plain bad. The fighting mostly consisted of awkward tin men bumping into each other and falling face down in the mud. Still, it was refreshing to watch a fantasy epic with nothing but practical effects.
I liked that film as a kid, but I'm sure it hasn't aged well.
Strangely, I can't think of an arthurian themed film that has been any better though.
I'd probably put Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Sword in Stone above it, but in terms of serious dramatic work it probably comes up on top, though the only other adaptation I've seen is the Clive Owen/Keira Knighley one so the competition ain't fierce...
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I can't remember much about the Clive Owen one, apart from it having something to do with Romans. There was First Knight with Sean Connery and Richard Gere as well, which was a bit naff. The recent Charlie Hunnam one was shit, but not quite as bad as some of the reviews suggested.
Monty Python was obviously excellent, but not really serious enough to count. Can't remember Sword In The Stone. Might have to rewatch it some day.
My most vivid recollection of King Arthur is a scantily clad Knightley strutting around with a giant bow, remember it as a fairly generic and incoherent film that barely had any resemblance to the Arthurian legend.
I forgot about Bresson's ingenious stripped down take, Lancelot du Lac. Might just be at the top for me.
The Favourite. Let me be lame and say it's like a cross between The Draughtsman's contract or Dangerous Liaisons and a moderately funny Channel 4 Comedy Lab. It's a light-grey comedy with a good sense of the absurd, some flat gags and a passable, if a somewhat generic, script. Well shot and elevated by committed performances.
Olivia Colman goes berserk, and what the role lacks in character depth she more than makes up for in performative grotesquery. Well worth seeing for her alone, and it's rare to see quite that level of naked, egoless dedication. The rest of the production feels a lot more familiar, run of the mill stuff. You don't get much new in the way of aristocratic debauched buffoonery, but to try and be less jaded about the whole thing for a second, it's probably no bad thing to have an accessible, lightly skewed costume drama with a few challenging bits and bobs thrown in.
Olivia Colman goes berserk, and what the role lacks in character depth she more than makes up for in performative grotesquery. Well worth seeing for her alone, and it's rare to see quite that level of naked, egoless dedication. The rest of the production feels a lot more familiar, run of the mill stuff. You don't get much new in the way of aristocratic debauched buffoonery, but to try and be less jaded about the whole thing for a second, it's probably no bad thing to have an accessible, lightly skewed costume drama with a few challenging bits and bobs thrown in.
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Bohemian Rhapsody. I know all the cool memes are against it and the guardian is outraged by its lack of pandering to centrist guardianistas, but I found it enjoyable. As a melodramatic fantasy biopic it's witty, energetic and has an interesting off kilter tone that gives it a little more than most popstar films. As a musical celebration of the band it worked for me and I can take or leave their music. If you liked the elaborate NWA biopic then give this a go, if however you prefer memes then go back to the internet and make fun of Trump's wall or something.
I dislike Lanthimos' previous work but I'm willing to give The Favourite a try seeing as he didn't write it himself.
I’ve never seen a Bohemian Rhapsody meme.
I've never seen a meme either, just people saying its quite a poor film that tries to pretend that it's dealing with the more serious aspects of Freddie Mercury's life while actually completely trivialising them but that it's somewhat held together by the music of Queen. But why let that get in the way of some boring Trumpian rant about how you like it despite what the snowflakes and the SJW's think when all they really think is that it's not that good.