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Post by rawshark on Mar 22, 2024 13:24:14 GMT
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. The only funny thing I remember from part 1 was the weird sexual chemistry he had with his mum. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2024 13:30:10 GMT
Game of Dunes: Part 2 - 7/10 That said, I'm just not feeling the overall story. I've not read the books, or clued up on the lore, but to a filthy casual like myself, there's no getting around the fact the story is convoluted and unnecessarily difficult to follow I'm a Dune noob too not having read the books but found it easy to follow. Everything is explained well and shown without massive exposition dumps too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2024 13:31:06 GMT
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. The only funny thing I remember from part 1 was the weird sexual chemistry he had with his mum. Think that says more about you... Wrong'un. |
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Post by britesparc on Mar 22, 2024 13:35:04 GMT
The Flight of Dragons (1982) **** Yes! I remember this one well too. Where did you find it? After searching for ages for somewhere I could buy it, and not wanting to spend £25 on a potentially-dodgy DVD from eBay, I found it on the Internet Archive, archive.org. Not sure how dodgy THAT site is, but I'm classing the film as abandonware at this point... |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 22, 2024 14:25:36 GMT
Yes! I remember this one well too. Where did you find it? After searching for ages for somewhere I could buy it, and not wanting to spend £25 on a potentially-dodgy DVD from eBay, I found it on the Internet Archive, archive.org. Not sure how dodgy THAT site is, but I'm classing the film as abandonware at this point... Lol. I got it from there a year or so ago, after needing to do lots of research to work out what the movie I remembered actually was.
I think my mum rented the VHS for me when I was off school sick, and the combination of me being young, me being sick, and its unusual-for-a-kids-movie tone and messaging definitely made it stick with me.
Had a really bittersweet ending iirc.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 22, 2024 14:42:35 GMT
The only funny thing I remember from part 1 was the weird sexual chemistry he had with his mum. Think that says more about you... Wrong'un. That reminds me... *clears internet search history |
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Post by rawshark on Mar 22, 2024 14:45:06 GMT
I'm surprised Flight of Dragons is so hard to track down. Just about everything else from that era seems to be readily available on YouTube. StarChaser looks about as good as it ever did on there.
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Post by retro74 on Mar 22, 2024 15:38:02 GMT
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. Very professional post there. Lovely stars and the film title in bold It’s only missing where or on what you watched it **** |
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Post by quadfather on Mar 22, 2024 15:44:39 GMT
Wolf of Wall Street.
Didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I thought, but it was absolutely entertaining from start to finish.
92%
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Post by britesparc on Mar 22, 2024 18:05:20 GMT
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. Very professional post there. Lovely stars and the film title in bold It’s only missing where or on what you watched it ****CBA editing the original post but Dragons was found on the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) and Dolls was at my local Vue. |
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Post by Nanocrystal on Mar 22, 2024 21:21:05 GMT
I was absolutely obsessed by Flight of Dragons as a kid, had the book and soundtrack and everything, but watched it recently and cringed all the way through. Couldn't finish it. Might have been the realization of what a little nerd I was rather than the film itself.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 22, 2024 22:45:57 GMT
The first thing I remember is the theme music. But also a fair bit of dragon death.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 23, 2024 0:19:05 GMT
Poor Things. 7.5/10 (at the moment). What an absolutely bonkers film. Had me howling in places but also a bit uncomfortable. Which I guess was the intention. It was unsettling. Emma Stone was very good (although perhaps not Oscar good imo...but it's a role taken by an actor very sure of themselves, in itself impressive). Mark Ruffalo was probably the best thing in it imo. I found the style a little off putting, a bit Wes Anderson, which jars with me a bit. I enjoyed it though and may well give it a rewatch as I think it deserves it (and I watched it in 3 parts, bloody kids).
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Post by Binky on Mar 23, 2024 7:26:11 GMT
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
Loved it. Critics be damned.
As a fun this was a lot of fun. It follows on nicely from Afterlife and ticks along at a decent pace for the most part. Ackroyd is having a great time and clearly loves everything about this world he’s built. That said I think he’s forgotten who Ray was and now has merged the identity with his own.
Yeah there are loads of holes in this if you pick the surface, and mcguffin is way too mcguffiny (I think I’m using that right) but fuck it, its Ghostbusters on the big screen and I’m here for it.
8/10 as a fan
6/10 objectively if you don’t really care for the past movies
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Post by darkling on Mar 23, 2024 8:38:04 GMT
Have you watched Mark Kermode's review? Would you agree with his take in any way?
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Post by Binky on Mar 23, 2024 8:43:37 GMT
I haven’t heard his review, what were the takeaways?
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Post by darkling on Mar 23, 2024 8:49:04 GMT
Something happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... etc.
He absolutely hated it. It's quite an entertaining rant, I'd recommend it.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 23, 2024 8:53:59 GMT
I was just going to write BILL MURRAY.
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Post by monkman5000 on Mar 23, 2024 11:02:31 GMT
Poor Things. 7.5/10 (at the moment). What an absolutely bonkers film. Had me howling in places but also a bit uncomfortable. Which I guess was the intention. It was unsettling. Emma Stone was very good (although perhaps not Oscar good imo...but it's a role taken by an actor very sure of themselves, in itself impressive). Mark Ruffalo was probably the best thing in it imo. I found the style a little off putting, a bit Wes Anderson, which jars with me a bit. I enjoyed it though and may well give it a rewatch as I think it deserves it (and I watched it in 3 parts, bloody kids). I'm not surprised they needed breaks from it  |
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Post by Dougs on Mar 23, 2024 11:05:01 GMT
 Yeah, definitely not one to watch with them! Eldest kept trying though, the perve! |
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Post by Gruf on Mar 23, 2024 11:06:53 GMT
Something happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... etc. He absolutely hated it. It's quite an entertaining rant, I'd recommend it. Cool, deffo want to check it out if he hates it. Enjoyed the first one more than most. |
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Post by Binky on Mar 23, 2024 11:16:05 GMT
Something happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... BILL MURRAY!... Something unrelated happens... etc. He absolutely hated it. It's quite an entertaining rant, I'd recommend it. That’s odd… he’s hardly in it. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 23, 2024 11:20:38 GMT
That said I think he’s forgotten who Ray was and now has merged the identity with his own. He’s always been all in on it. His original ideas for Ghostbusters were crazy until he got reeled in to make something actually coherent. |
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 23, 2024 18:25:42 GMT
Perfect Days
What a lovely film, I really enjoyed that and whilst the dialogue is minimum the two hours really does seem to fly by as you sort of meditate around the protaganist's life.
I now want to revisit Tokyo too.
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Post by britesparc on Mar 23, 2024 18:29:42 GMT
That said I think he’s forgotten who Ray was and now has merged the identity with his own. He’s always been all in on it. His original ideas for Ghostbusters were crazy until he got reeled in to make something actually coherent. I would say as time's gone on Aykroyd has become more Ray-like, rather than the other way round. I remember watching him show off his Crystal Skull Vodka a few years ago and his patter was pretty much the Ghostbusters' "we're ready to believe you" TV advert. Haven't seen the new film yet tho. Maybe Ray's really into cigars and blues music all of a sudden. |
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 23, 2024 19:11:20 GMT
I'd agree with Binky's "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" review, I really enjoyed myself but if you're a not someone who like Ghostbusters (you're Walter Peck) you're not going to be converted and there's a lot that is there really just for the fans. One thing that is different from the original trailer and the film is it was clear that lots of completely innocent people were going to get frozen to death, no one in the Coney Island ferris wheel were getting out of that alive, however that is wisely not in the film and the body count is surprisingly low. Also the Death Chill wasn't people being scared to death it was physically being frozen, guess Ray got that wrong. Also if it wasn't for the actions of the Ghostbusters nothing would have happened, maybe Walter Peck really was right after all. |
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Post by lordofthedunce on Mar 23, 2024 21:48:09 GMT
Wolf of Wall Street. Didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I thought... 92% Is it just my brain melting reading that sentence?! Good film though 😁 |
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Post by Gruf on Mar 23, 2024 22:10:07 GMT
Yup, it's a synapse twister for sure.  |
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Post by rawshark on Mar 23, 2024 23:24:38 GMT
Like a mobius strip in a sentence…
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2024 0:23:09 GMT
Manhunter
10/10
Genuinely creepy in a way I don’t think Silence was at all. Haven’t seen Red Dragon to compare. Beautiful 80s cinematography, fantastic score.
Both leads are exceptional in this in my opinion.
Also did a great job in showing what being exposed to darkness in your job can do to you and those around you.
And the synths.
Other half pointed out a continuity error in a supermarket scene that was funny though. Watch what’s behind Graham as he talks to his son.
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Yeah, definitely not one to watch with them! Eldest kept trying though, the perve! 
