Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

Plopbusters.

The diminishing returns of Beasty.

Fair enough. It was better than;

Shadow In The Cloud: What if that one episode from the twilight zone that everyone knows but as a cheap stage play? Max Landis really is on a hot streak of shite. Also, why is Drazic off Heartbreak High suddenly in everything? 4/10

Rebuild of Evangelion 1
Rebuild of Evangelion 2
Rebuild of Evangelion 3
Rebuild of Evangelion 3+1 (naturally):

So, yeah, all of them dropped onto Amazon and they are really good. Properly what you used to think Anime was, crazy action, weird plot and incomprehensible story telling not just the interminable '17 year old High School student but a wizard/martial artist/exorcist/assassin/mental patient' slurry we get now.

Its big, its bold, its crazy its annoying, it tells a much better yet slightly worse story than the series (which you kind of need to see as it just drops terms completely unexplained like it assumes you already know what they are despite it supposedly being standalone) and it finally sticks the landing at the third attempt.

If nothing else, the advance of CG and whatnot mean everything looks absolutely spectacular. The sense of scale you get when the EVAs are on the move is incredible. With most things, when two giant things fight, it just ends up looking like two humans. These things look big and do absolutely comical amounts of collateral damage. At one point they go on a mission to save Paris and completely trash it during a fight.

Collectively, I think this up there with the series. Certainly the final chapter is far superior and there is much less Shinji being a fanny.

8/10 Overall (Part 3 is probably a 6. It spins its wheels a bit and is actually a bit boring)

Heh, that took up most of my mental bandwidth, too. It goes so heavy on the THIS IS A SONG FROM THE 90s, autofiring tunes in every five seconds that I spent most of the movie wondering if that particular song was actually from 1994

Garbage - I'm only happy... - 1995
White Zombie - More human... - 1995
Prodigy - Firestarter - 1996
White Town - Your woman - 1997

Reminiscence - can’t work out if it was shit or if I kind of liked it. Going for the former though, it was very much a “here’s a wild concept” with a half baked plot thrown in that really didn’t need either the memory gimmick or the weird Waterworld subplot that goes absolutely nowhere and adds absolutely nothing.

F9 - 2/10.

Absolutely shit. They go into space in a fucking car with scuba gear on! The 2 points go to Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and Nathalie Emmaunuel.

I watched Evangelion 3 without having seen any episodes or the previous films.

Unsurprisingly I had no idea what was going on 98% of the time.

Reminiscence

I'm half an hour in and fuck me this is dull. The premise is okay, even if it's just a mishmash of Strange Days and Blade Runner, but it's sooooo dull. It wants to be a classy SF noir but everyone is a walking one-note cliche with line-readings to match.

Apparently this has been a huge flop, I can see why.

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)

British comedy about a boy who dreams about kissing a girl in his class.

There is a fluffy innocence about the film that makes it likeable though not really funny. I can see why it has bit of a cult status. Was also shown on the second night of the Channel4 launch apparently.

7/10

Clockwise (1986)

John Cleese is a punctual headmaster who ends up late for a conference.

Cue all manner of mishaps as he tries to get there on time. It's billed as a comedy but raised only a smile a couple of times. I'm not sure if its one of those films that was funny at the time but dated now.

3/10

The following night, the wife went to bed early so I watched a film I knew she would hate. Sunshine.

Haven’t watched for 15 years but my thoughts on it haven’t changed. The first two thirds are amazing and it sets things up so well.

Bad decisions and human error cause a cascade of accidents which mean the crew can never make it home, and not all of them will survive to complete their mission. This creates some excellent tension and moral dilemmas. It’s all got a very bleak tone, with a beautiful soundtrack, and smart interesting characters.. It’s all perfect. Maybe my favourite sci-fi film ever.

Then the third act happens and it all goes to shit. Turns into a B-grade thriller. It manages to salvage things a little bit in the final scene.

First two thirds of the movie are 10/10
Last third 5/10
Last scene 8/10

If it had a couple of blimps in it too I wouldn't have been surprised to find out that Rodimus wrote the screenplay.
The drowned city/nocturnal living stuff was mildly interesting, but that's about all it had going for it and it really had no bearing on the actual plot.

@ clemfandango

Yeah, it was better than it had any right to be. Haven’t had so much watching a movie since the new Jumanji.

Its definitely a blend of other films like Indiana Jones, African Queen, PotC, the Mummy and maybe even a bit of Romancing the Stone.

There aren’t many adventure movies released like this anymore

Clockwise was rubbish.

A fish called Wanda was a bit meh as well.

Tbh I never understood Cleese's success. He plays the same person in everything: a loud arrogant privelidged Englishman who thinks he's better than everybody else. The amount of mileage he gets from that is astounding.

Definitely my least favourite Python.

Butterfly on a Wheel

Tight thriller, with a decent cast and engaging story. The reveal was a bit more mundane than I'd hoped, and there's a few false endings, but not enough to spoil it.

7/10