Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

How the hell they got Gyllenhall involved I'll never know.

Also I'll be watching the new Road House

I have a very large soft spot for the original Road House, hugely rate Jake Gyllenhaal and thought the remake would be worth a watch.

Well it kinda was, until Connor McGregor shows up and stinks out the place with one of the worst performances committed to film. Fucking awfully comical (unintentionally) and totally fucks with the tone. It wasn't particularly good before that, but it was serviceable and had some decent moments.

The other big gripe was the editing for some of the fight sequences (and a moment of horrifically bad CGI) which just added to the weirdness of this mish-mash. It was almost as if two separate films were cobbled together in post.

There were some funny parts, there were also some fleeting moments of decent acting and story, but ultimately this was just a fucking mess. Need to rewatch the cheese of the first, because the remake had none of that charm.

I mean your first mistake was expecting something good from Connor McGregor.

I'd prefer to keep the dicks on tbh.

Doon 2 - 10/10

Lavish. Hundreds of millions of Hollywood dollars well spent.

Hard to fault, although having not read the novels, by the end it felt like there may have been a lot of absent explanation/lore from the books, which would have better explained some of the many characters' motivations come the finale. I could have done with another 30 minutes to be honest to let it breath a bit more. But equally, it absolutely whipped along.

IMAX was incredible too. My seat was literally shaking with the bass.

Also, I think McGregor is a dick in real life, but his character in the film is basically him, so it works.

Nah, McGregor's character is meant to be one of the big bads and he's fucking laughable. Not scary, not a threat, just a tone-deaf moron. I can enjoy an oafish goon in an action movie for sure, but this was not it. When he shut up and just had a scrap though it became enjoyable enough mind.

I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir, we get it fresh on Monday.

Watched Part 1 again a few weeks back and not sure I can recall a joke in that one either. It's definitely srz bznz.

Think the only humour in the first part was from Duncan Idaho, Stilgar was funny in the second but it was clearly veering into Life of Brian territory at times, whether that was deliberate or not.

Life of Brian is virtually quoted. I'm certain it must have been intentional.

The Flight of Dragons (1982) ****
Remember this very fondly from childhood and was pleased to say that it holds up very well. The production qualities aren't tremendous as it was made for TV back in the day (including fade-outs to ad breaks) but the overall design of the world and characters is good, and the voice acting is tremendous in places, especially James Earl Jones as the villain. It treats its subject and theme with utmost seriousness, and I do remember finding it full-on as a small child; indeed, it has quite a bit of death and violence for a cartoon aimed at nippers. If you come to it with an appreciation of how and when it was made, I think it's got a lot to recommend.

Drive-Away Dolls (2024) ****
Basically just a hangout movie with some likeable and funny characters. Despite the heroes being pursued across America there's very little sense of threat, and to be honest it does have a "minor Coen" vibe to the whole thing (as in, it's about as good as one of their mid-tier films, I'm not saying Ethan's the "minor Coen" or anything like that). The dialogue is sparky, the central couple are hilarious and adorable, and it has delightful veins of both weirdness and horniness. However, the looseness, the strangeness, and the archness of it all could be divisive; I loved it, but I can see why some people hate it.