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Post by Dougs on Mar 9, 2024 12:17:01 GMT
Yup, very reminiscent of Dead Poet's Society I thought. It was funnier than I expected too.
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Post by simple on Mar 9, 2024 13:42:40 GMT
Is Poor Things worthwhile for a Saturday night watch with the wife or will I get severely judged for it so should stick to watching alone on a work from home day?
She’s not a scifi/fantasy/horror person.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 9, 2024 13:47:43 GMT
Are you guys watching Poor Things on Disney plus because it's only available here in Andorra next Thursday?
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Post by loto on Mar 9, 2024 13:51:22 GMT
It’s not a Saturday night with the Mrs sort of film. It’s dark, creepy, visceral and unsettling. There’s humour, but it’s not my kind. There’s elements of sci-fi and a good dose of horror.
Other viewpoints are valid, but I didn’t enjoy it
@jambo - yes, Disney
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 9, 2024 13:56:27 GMT
Interesting. It must be a regional thing as to why it's delayed here.
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Post by AccidentProne on Mar 9, 2024 15:14:04 GMT
I absolutely loved Poor Things, think it might be Lanthimos's best film. I found it hilarious throughout and can definitely see myself watching it again. Can see it becoming a bit of a cult classic too, so many quotable lines.
9/10.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 9, 2024 15:15:21 GMT
Is Poor Things worthwhile for a Saturday night watch with the wife or will I get severely judged for it so should stick to watching alone on a work from home day? She’s not a scifi/fantasy/horror person. Although it isn't strictly any of those things, it does borrow heavily from each. It is basically a twisted version of Frankenstein, so sci-fi, fantasy and horror are all there. It is also unsettling in many ways, with a lot of sex and nudity (or furious jumping). All consensual stuff and Emma Stone's Bella is shown as in control the whole time (or quickly asserts her control, when she isn't), but I can understand why some would find its depiction of sex as troubling. Personally thought it was absolutely fantastic. Very funny and often uplifting, in its own way. It's not for everyone though. |
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Post by Kay on Mar 9, 2024 15:20:09 GMT
Fool's Paradise
Charlie Day is a funny and talented guy, which makes it all the more surprising how dull and flat his directorial/writing debut is. He plays a mute that looks exactly like an A-list actor, and so Hollywood takes advantage of this and inexplicably turns him into some sort of superstar. Except it's just too ridiculous to make any sense, and doesn't even work as satire as everyone is overracting and it doesn't do or say anything that hasn't already been done far better before (Bowfinger being an example with a similar premise).
Even worse, despite some good physical comedy from Day, it's just not funny. Almost feels like the success of It's Always Sunny (a lot of the core cast have cameos in the film) might have gone to his head a bit.
3/10
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 9, 2024 17:23:06 GMT
I watched it due to the Half in the Bag review and yeah it was really something alright. Something not good that is. It had a sense of snugness to it that I really can't stand when actors get their famous friends on board for their pet project and it just permeated throughout the whole movie. It felt like it was trying to say something clever but rang incredibly hollow when you take into account the people involved are not plucky underdogs but all very much part and parcel of the industry.
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Post by mikeck on Mar 9, 2024 21:04:35 GMT
Wicked Little Letters (cinema)
Absolutely loved this gem of a movie. Coleman was great as usual, but Buckley was sublime, truly brilliant performance. The supporting cast were also very good. The tale is as expected from the trailer but it was masterfully told and was a joy to watch, exceptionally funny in places too.
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Post by Tomo on Mar 9, 2024 22:05:04 GMT
Dune: Part 1 - 10/10
Rewatch before going to Part 2 soon. Hard 10. It's so good. Absolutely whips along. Incredible visuals, thundering soundtrack. The dialogue is sparse – no rote 5 minute narrative dumps between a bunch of characters - and the acting is excellent. Rebecca Ferguson is particularly good, much better than I remember. Chalamet is great too. Can't wait to watch Part 2 now.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 10, 2024 1:25:33 GMT
Saw the first half of Poor Things.
Ooh, well I say not sure how I feel about that/10 so far
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Mar 10, 2024 1:47:21 GMT
Guilty erection?
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 10, 2024 2:15:29 GMT
Damsel (Netflix)
Not nearly as bad as the more hysterical reviews have claimed. (The Torygraph reviewer seems to have been frothing at the mouth at the concept of a young independent woman destroying an inbred monarchy.)
Might be a bit scary for younger kids. It does have a fair few moments of predictability you can see coming a mile off. Shades of the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot game when the heroine is unceremoniously forced to tend to their wounds before getting on with their quest, mixed with the third act of 2008's Outlander.
Visually, it's an absolute feast. One of the best dragons I've seen yet, with Shohreh Aghdashloo elevating the cast of the film far above where Millie Bobbie Brown's accent choice would otherwise have left it. Angela Bassett was underused.
If you don't like slow, quiet covers of famous songs, switch off the second the end credits start rolling.
6.5 out of 10, as 7 feels like too much and 6 too low?
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 10, 2024 4:57:08 GMT
The Fly (1958 iirc). I'm visiting family at the moment so evenings sometimes feature my mum's DVD collection. This was last night's choice. I've seen it before, but not in probably about twenty years or more. It's aged very well I'd say, particularly compared to some horror/sci-fi of the decade, in that it doesn't feel *too* cheesy or farcical. It's definitely very silly in places by modern standards (- the wife and kid not really being all that phased by the mercy killing of their husband/dad, for example -), but I can imagine at the time its impact on the audience would have been pretty effective. It does leave you with lots of questions though, about how he has a fly head with his human brain still, and whether the fly still has the fly brain in the human head, and if so, how is he saying HELP MEEEE at the end. I think the answer is, back then it didn't matter and it's best not to think too much. 7 out of 10 Have you seen the 1986 one with Jeff Goldblum?
I haven't seen it in decades, but I remember it being really good. Seems to have been a bit forgotten in recent years...
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 10, 2024 5:01:10 GMT
Damsel (Netflix)
Not nearly as bad as the more hysterical reviews have claimed. (The Torygraph reviewer seems to have been frothing at the mouth at the concept of.... It's not even that novel of a concept these days.
Someone should really do a movie version of Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower. It'd work as an animated movie, or live action. Kinda surprised it hasn't been done already tbh, or another one with a very similar concept. (Basically, rapunzel gets fed up of waiting to be rescued and decides to fight her way down)
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Post by Binky on Mar 10, 2024 8:48:31 GMT
American Fiction
A lot of fun, with a really decent dramatic arc. Great performances from all but especially Wright.
8/10 (Prime)
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Post by Binky on Mar 10, 2024 8:56:04 GMT
Joy Ride
We laughed out loud a couple of times, and that's always a win when watching a comedy. Better than most modern movies of this type (but still full of all the usual tropes and beats that you'd expect).
7/10 (Prime AND 90 mins. Woo!)
Dashcam
Not nearly as awful as IMDB reviews would have you believe (read: I've seen far worse).
Shaky "found footage" style horror with Amar Chadha-Patel (who ends up in Dreamland, Margate where, oddly, I stood next to him at a QOTSA gig last year). Anyway, the shakiness of this movie is a bit overkill and the POV of the camera never quite makes sense. Worst of all is the most unlikeable main character I've seen in years (ever?).
It's all a bit all over the place, but at least I wasn't bored.
5/10
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Post by loto on Mar 10, 2024 9:01:01 GMT
Yes,really enjoyed American Fiction It was a bit more family drama than I was expecting, but never maudlin. Some proper lol moments and very well written and acted race & social satire.
Highly recommended- it’s on Amazon Prime.
(I won’t pay to remove adverts, but had 1 min of ads at the start of the film and nothing after. Which was nice)
I’ll give it a 8.5/10
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Post by apollo on Mar 10, 2024 9:17:25 GMT
Expendables 4
I really like the first film but some how missed this film got a cinema release as it looks like a direct to streaming. When Jason Statham is one of the best actors in your film, you sort of fucked up as rest of the cast are really bad like megan fox and 50 cent are so bad its worse than high school play.
Also the cgi, its so bad, at the start they green screen of stallone going into Statham house and it looks so fake, also the boat scene at the end is so laughable, the film had a budget of something like $100 million (only stallone and Statham would get a higher pay cheque
even the action scenes are shit and not even 15 rating can save this. it got killed at the box office it seems
2/10
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Post by geefe on Mar 10, 2024 13:19:04 GMT
End of Watch probably the last good found footage film. Basically Training Day but from the POV of a cop car. It also mixes the found footage with normal stuff, which also makes it waaaay more believable.
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Post by Zomoniac on Mar 10, 2024 16:46:41 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. I remember seeing one of his films in the cinema over a decade ago, can’t remember what it was called but it was set in prohibition with KKK presence, he was running a speakeasy with a Cuban woman. He was the lead actor, director, producer, executive producer, etc, the first five minutes of the credits was just his name. It was the cinematic equivalent of when Marc Jacobs got carried away. Couldn’t really take Affleck or his enormous ego seriously after that.  |
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Post by simple on Mar 10, 2024 19:16:23 GMT
Car refit by Xzibit
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Post by geefe on Mar 10, 2024 19:19:11 GMT
Bring back Pimp My Ride
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Post by Dougs on Mar 10, 2024 20:34:04 GMT
@zom I know the film. Live by Night or some such. I read the book a while before the film came out (I enjoyed Gone Baby Gone by the same author and Batfleck). But it was pretty dreadful so never actually watched the film. I have a pretty low bar for that genre so was spectacularly shit.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 10, 2024 20:36:33 GMT
Still weird seeing people discussing films that are now streaming when it only seems like I saw them at the cinema about five minutes ago with American Fiction and Poor Things.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 10, 2024 21:11:08 GMT
Yeah, it feels like the gap between cinema and streaming is far too short these days. Why bother if it'll just be available in a couple of months.
Japanese films seem to be the exception.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2024 21:20:34 GMT
Still think cinema is a great experience and will always prefer to go and see a film at the cinema over waiting for streaming.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 10, 2024 21:36:52 GMT
Yeah, it feels like the gap between cinema and streaming is far too short these days. Why bother if it'll just be available in a couple of months. Japanese films seem to be the exception. made feel even shorter considering I saw both those films earlier than their release date through Cineworld too. As for Japanese films if it's still playing nearby everyone should see Godzilla Minus One at the cinema as it would certainly benefit from the big screen over a telly. |
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Post by Dougs on Mar 10, 2024 23:11:18 GMT
It's a godsend for those of us who can't get to the cinema much though. It's a proper treat these days, especially to go to Cineworld for the full experience. Our local independent is cracking but it's a bit rough around the edges. And life just gets in the way.
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