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Post by Reviewer on Mar 3, 2024 9:46:03 GMT
Transformers the last knight 1/10
Didn’t think it would be possible to be significantly worse than any of the others but this is really awful, suffering from the worst problem of being really boring even when there are loads of explosions. Anything Hopkins is terrible and still the best person in it.
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 3, 2024 10:32:15 GMT
Transformers the last knight 1/10 Didn’t think it would be possible to be significantly worse than any of the others but this is really awful, suffering from the worst problem of being really boring even when there are loads of explosions. Anything Hopkins is terrible and still the best person in it. Is that the one set in England near the beginning with them racing outside a castle? I had to turn it off it was that awful… |
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Post by Dougs on Mar 3, 2024 11:04:32 GMT
Yeah if there’s one thing Ben Affleck has proven it’s that he’s probably more talented off camera than on. I really like most of his directed movies. He bothers me a bit in front of camera. |
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Post by Duffman5 on Mar 3, 2024 11:08:15 GMT
Latest Mission Impossible...shat, I gave up around the 75 min mark, missus watched until the end I think and gave it 6/10. I think they have been getting worse and worse this continues the trend. Would much rather have a new Bourne film, but even then I think the trouble might be that the actors playing these roles are just too old or getting too old. Cruise does kind of look good for his age but othertimes he really does not, even with all the surgery and hair dye.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 3, 2024 11:09:37 GMT
Transformers the last knight 1/10 Didn’t think it would be possible to be significantly worse than any of the others but this is really awful, suffering from the worst problem of being really boring even when there are loads of explosions. Anything Hopkins is terrible and still the best person in it. Is that the one set in England near the beginning with them racing outside a castle? I had to turn it off it was that awful… Yes the one that both has the transformers fighting on WW2 while also being around for err King Arthur??? |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 3, 2024 11:10:36 GMT
Latest Mission Impossible...shat, I gave up around the 75 min mark, missus watched until the end I think and gave it 6/10. I think they have been getting worse and worse this continues the trend. Would much rather have a new Bourne film, but even then I think the trouble might be that the actors playing these roles are just too old or getting too old. Cruise does kind of look good for his age but othertimes he really does not, even with all the surgery and hair dye. Ahh yes the AI that looked like the PS2 start-up menu. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 3, 2024 11:18:03 GMT
It was Blenheim Palace, I saw them filming it a few years ago.
I say ‘saw’, I saw the bits of the grounds they blocked off to keep prying eyes away and heard loud noises.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2024 11:22:58 GMT
Yeah if there’s one thing Ben Affleck has proven it’s that he’s probably more talented off camera than on. I really like most of his directed movies. He bothers me a bit in front of camera. |
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Post by Dougs on Mar 3, 2024 11:24:12 GMT
Crikey.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 3, 2024 11:26:20 GMT
That is very weird.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 3, 2024 12:42:45 GMT
Transformers the last knight 1/10 Didn’t think it would be possible to be significantly worse than any of the others but this is really awful, suffering from the worst problem of being really boring even when there are loads of explosions. Anything Hopkins is terrible and still the best person in it. I'm glad I've never tried that one. I can't imagine how it can be any worse than the preceding ones. |
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Post by clemfandango on Mar 3, 2024 13:56:07 GMT
Transformers the last knight 1/10 Didn’t think it would be possible to be significantly worse than any of the others but this is really awful, suffering from the worst problem of being really boring even when there are loads of explosions. Anything Hopkins is terrible and still the best person in it. I'm glad I've never tried that one. I can't imagine how it can be any worse than the preceding ones. It really is somehow… |
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Post by Reviewer on Mar 3, 2024 15:11:56 GMT
Halfway through I started to miss Shia Laboef and his parents.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 3, 2024 15:55:48 GMT
Halfway through I started to miss Shia Laboef and his parents. That's when you know it's REALLY bad. |
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Post by Gruf on Mar 3, 2024 21:47:16 GMT
The Holdovers 7/10 Enjoyed it, but didn't live up the hype for me, good performances all round though.
The Covenant 6/10 Guy Ritchie will have you know he directed it. I was looking for a "brain off" film this filled my need for the disposable.
First 30 mins or so are really good, set it up well, but then it dragged on for far too long and it got evermore fantastical, not in a good way.
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Post by Tomo on Mar 3, 2024 23:22:36 GMT
Priscilla - Mubi - 6/10
Love me some Sofia Coppola, but this was disappointing. Very competently made. Looks the business. The leads are good but it was all a bit flat. Lots of plot happens off-screen which leaves lots of shots of Priscilla moping around in beautiful outfits.
Interesting reading up afterwards about Priscilla's and Lisa's differing reactions to the film. Lisa wasn't happy with the depiction of Elvis saying it portrayed him terribly unfairly. I agree, Elvis comes across as a nasty piece of work, but then it's literally an adaptation of Priscilla's memoir, so very much her story to tell.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 3, 2024 23:56:59 GMT
But the dress made out of flip flops was good.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 4, 2024 2:05:36 GMT
But the dress made out of flip flops was good. Priscilla, the Holdovers or Transformers? |
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Post by smoothpete on Mar 4, 2024 8:40:55 GMT
Is it just my local cinemas or is Dune 2 really only out for one week? I was going to see it this Friday but all of the three local cinemas stop showing it on Thursday
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 4, 2024 9:02:55 GMT
Maybe but I'd be surprised if its run was that short. It seems to be tracking well. That said, my local didn't show Godzilla Minus One so who knows?
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Post by smoothpete on Mar 4, 2024 9:14:33 GMT
There are no showings past thursday in Vue, Showcase, or the little indie one. Most baffling.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 4, 2024 9:19:37 GMT
Could just be they haven't released next week's times yet. My local Vue doesn't give a complete list for the following week until the Wednesday.
I would be very surprised if they all decided not to continue showing it next week; it has had a $170+ mil opening weekend globally. Looking like it is going to be a massive hit.
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Post by Gruf on Mar 4, 2024 9:22:39 GMT
But the dress made out of flip flops was good. Priscilla, the Holdovers or Transformers? There were no flip flop dresses in Holdovers I can report, cannot vouch for the other two films  |
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Post by Gruf on Mar 4, 2024 9:24:15 GMT
There are no showings past thursday in Vue, Showcase, or the little indie one. Most baffling. Early move to Netflix? The other one appeared on that platform surprisingly early. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Mar 4, 2024 9:32:21 GMT
Heroes of the East (Mubi)
A 1978 Shaw Brothers romantic comedy/martial arts thing, about a Chinese dude who has a Japanese wife. She gets mad that he's better at martial arts than her, she runs back to Japan, and in winning her back he somehow ends up insulting the entire Japanese martial arts world. And then they come over and he has to fight a judo guy, a samurai guy, a ninja etc etc.
This is actually kind of notable for not actually being super racist towards Japanese people. In these movies you often have Japanese as villains, and not actually played by Japanese people. But here they're not villains, they're played by Japanese actors, and they're treated with a kind of... respect? Obviously the Chinese martial arts still reign supreme, and the only time the main guy is in danger of losing is because of sneaky ninja tricks. But it's pretty progressive by the standards of these movies.
It's still really fucking sexist, mind, but that's the unfortunate price of admission to most of these movies. You come for the fights, and the fights are great.
8/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Mar 4, 2024 9:36:20 GMT
Also, can I just say how much I appreciate how these movies end? The hero beats the bad guy, the hero says "hooray!" and then there's a freeze frame and immediate credits. No epilogue, no nothing, just "OK MOVIE'S OVER BYYYYYYEEEE". It's really quite refreshing, like the producers know exactly what you're here for.
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Post by Binky on Mar 4, 2024 9:39:54 GMT
Poor Things
A bizarre and brilliant movie, with 2 fantastic leads, and 1 slightly shonky accent from Defoe.
Loved the way this movie looked, and the score leaned into the weirdness of the world wonderfully.
There’s a bit of Frankenstein in there, a dash of Baz Luhrmann, tonnes of furious jumping… I thought it was great.
10/10
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Post by Binky on Mar 4, 2024 9:41:29 GMT
Is it just my local cinemas or is Dune 2 really only out for one week? I was going to see it this Friday but all of the three local cinemas stop showing it on Thursday Don't cinemas tend to just run a Thursday to Thursday schedule? It'll still be on, but you'll have to wait until Thursday to book the tickets I think. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 4, 2024 9:48:06 GMT
Also, can I just say how much I appreciate how these movies end? The hero beats the bad guy, the hero says "hooray!" and then there's a freeze frame and immediate credits. No epilogue, no nothing, just "OK MOVIE'S OVER BYYYYYYEEEE". It's really quite refreshing, like the producers know exactly what you're here for. Ah, the Karate Kid ending. Or Rocky, I guess. Watching some 80s movies with the kids recently, it's been noticeable that quite a few of them end pretty suddenly. In the case of Karate kid it's far too suddenly and feels really jarring and somewhat unsatisfactory. |
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Post by bindipper3d on Mar 4, 2024 9:48:25 GMT
Napoleon (AppleTV+)
A faintly interesting study of a character and period of history I am ashamed to have very little knowledge of - and this is unlikely to spark a personal deep-dive into French history and politics.
The leads were all fine but I found the whole thing a little muted, even the battles which were somehow diluted in drama to the point where I can barely remember them now.
6/10
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