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Post by rawshark on Mar 31, 2024 9:01:01 GMT
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (netflix) All the worst traits of a Dreamworks film in one movie with no real redeeming features like good characters or plot or emotional core. It’s wall-to-wall outdated pop culture references, dodgy celebrity casting and obvious obnoxious needle drops. My boy lost interest pretty quickly. Idiocracy (disney+) This has dated pretty horribly. Not that people aren’t getting dumber, more that everything in this feels like a very 1999-2001 kind of dumb that was kind of on the way out even when this was made a couple of years later. It’s all a bit too obvious and zany too. Feels like maybe Judge thought he was getting left behind by South Park taking a more directly satirical turn around this time and churned out this as a sub-Matt & Trey effort to play catch up with. There are occasional laughs here and there but its not sharp enough to be a knowing watch and not dumb enough to be a stupid laugh. Both things Matt & Trey delivered loads of back then. When I turned it off I caught a few minutes of Jackass Forever on Film4 and that was a lot funnier by just embracing being a totally dumb and revelling in it. I remember Idiocracy having a decent concept but that’s as memorable as it got. Mike Judge doesn’t do forgettable often so it’s a strange one, for sure. |
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Post by Zuluhero on Mar 31, 2024 9:14:57 GMT
It's a film of 2 halves, it starts off with a really valid bit of social commentary, but really doesn't know where to take it, which isn't enough to carry the whole thing.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Mar 31, 2024 9:32:32 GMT
I enjoyed Idiocracy but it's pretty throwaway and not a classic. And I certainly don't agree with the fans who think it's some sort of prophetic work of genius.
But as a dumb film with a high concept it's enjoyable enough.
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 31, 2024 9:36:16 GMT
I watched it the other week after enjoying office space. I was thinking what a great idea, and as it started I then thought it was really on point but yeah, that fizzled out quickly.
Extract I enjoyed which completed my session of his stuff
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Post by simple on Mar 31, 2024 9:56:41 GMT
It doesn’t help that outside of Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph and Terry Crewes every character in the future has exactly the same personality. It really limits the kinds of points that could be got across and makes it pretty one note.
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Post by Lizard on Mar 31, 2024 9:59:41 GMT
Idiocracy (disney+) This has dated pretty horribly. Not that people aren’t getting dumber, more that everything in this feels like a very 1999-2001 kind of dumb that was kind of on the way out even when this was made a couple of years later. Its all a bit too obvious and zany too. Feels like maybe Judge thought he was getting left behind by South Park taking a more directly satirical turn around this time and churned out this as a sub-Matt & Trey effort to play catch up with. There are occasional laughs here and there but its not sharp enough to be a knowing watch and not dumb enough to be a stupid laugh. Both things Matt & Trey delivered loads of back then. When I turned it off I caught a few minutes of Jackass Forever on Film4 and that was a lot funnier by just embracing being a totally dumb and revelling in it. The concept is far funnier than the execution, and the funniest elements are incidental, like the character's names (Beef Supreme). |
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 31, 2024 10:23:07 GMT
I like Idiocracy but it's no Office Space, I'd say it's his magnum opus and obviously everything is weaker than that.
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Post by simple on Mar 31, 2024 10:26:18 GMT
Beavis & Butthead Do America is still way way up there too obviously
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 31, 2024 10:29:15 GMT
B&B Do America is indeed great.
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Post by simple on Mar 31, 2024 10:41:39 GMT
Do The Universe is fun as well but never quite hits the same highs. The two reboot series that followed it are genuinely some of the funniest episodes they’ve ever done, if only they weren’t buried on Paramount+ so more people could watch them
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Post by Danno on Mar 31, 2024 11:29:27 GMT
Jeepers Creepers There is nothing good about this film. Nothing. Except the ad breaks. I seem to remember that started quite promisingly. Then it shat the bed after 30 mins. Yeah, which is why it made me angry |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 31, 2024 11:33:10 GMT
It also just...ended. It was like the script just stopped 3/4 of the way through the movie and they just ended the movie in a really awkward way.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 31, 2024 13:38:56 GMT
Mission Impossible 6 or 7 (or maybe 8?): Holy shit, this is long. Like every scene lingers on for five minutes longer than it should and balloons the run time up to an almost interminable, near three hours. But, despite that, it’s actually pretty good. It’s got a clearly defined plot, stakes and bad guy this time, Tom Cruise is excellent and they have the action machine down to a fine art. My only real gripe other than the running time is (very minor spoiler) they made Rebecca Fergusons character too competent so they had to do her very, very dirty to trade her in for a new model so that Tom could rescue the damsel every five minutes. It’s so obvious and so shallow, it’s hard to believe it made it through script revisions 7/10 |
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 31, 2024 14:18:36 GMT
Second horror film for this Easter weekend with Late Night with the Devil. Enjoyed this quite a bit. Good fun times and a clever hook of being found footage of an old 70's late night show that tried to do anything to improve its ratings on a Halloween night.
They could have gone heavy with the found footage angle though. As the opening narrator says, the film is both recovered footage of the broadcast and "behind the scenes footage". The behind the scenes footage though is just your fairly standard handheld, slightly shaky, camera stuff that it goes to during the intervals. These could have easily have stuck to the studio cameras, maybe with the odd sparingly used dramatic zoom. All the characters (bar a producer that pops up occasionally) are wearing mics, so it could easily be explained as them still being active. May seem minor, but it does break the illusion that they otherwise stick with really well.
Ignoring that though, very enjoyable. Saw it in the cinema, but it was a Shudder production, so I expect it will be streaming there soon.
Worth noting that I see a few people up in arms about it recently, as it has emerged that it uses AI images for some artwork.
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Post by Reviewer on Mar 31, 2024 16:37:57 GMT
All of us strangers 8/10
First half was really good and the very end was but the middle drops out from a 9 or 10. Scott is fantastic throughout and it’s his performance that elevates all of it, with a lesser actors they’d have struggled to get the impact across.
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Post by Reviewer on Mar 31, 2024 16:42:19 GMT
Mission Impossible 6 or 7 (or maybe 8?): Holy shit, this is long. Like every scene lingers on for five minutes longer than it should and balloons the run time up to an almost interminable, near three hours. But, despite that, it’s actually pretty good. It’s got a clearly defined plot, stakes and bad guy this time, Tom Cruise is excellent and they have the action machine down to a fine art. My only real gripe other than the running time is (very minor spoiler) they made Rebecca Fergusons character too competent so they had to do her very, very dirty to trade her in for a new model so that Tom could rescue the damsel every five minutes. It’s so obvious and so shallow, it’s hard to believe it made it through script revisions 7/10 From various interviews they don’t really have a plot or script as such so things like the spoiler probably don’t always get considered as much as they could have. It’s a shame there’s not really anyone else making these sorts of action films at the moment - the over the top, sort of smart but also a bit dumb with a lot of talent and budget involved. I got the entire original tv series off Apple this week as it was only £20 or so for the lot. I know it’s very different to the films but still great. |
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Post by kingbambino on Mar 31, 2024 17:00:12 GMT
Dune part 2 - 9/10
Thought it was epic . Only gripes were a a couple of jarring time jumps. One early on where I thought Paul was off for a walk in the desert and suddenly they’re all doing something else . Also his character and behaviour massively changing within 5 mins later on.
Amazing film though , proper escapism visually and can’t wait for the 3rd
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Post by apollo on Mar 31, 2024 19:06:53 GMT
Xmen
despite its nearly 24 years old now, it really holds up well (apart from 1 or 2 effects) but everyone is well cast (Halle berry is a bit wooden) Will be watching the 2nd film next weekend (3rd one can fuck off)
9/10
Heartbreakers
Another film from around 2001-ish, its about mother and daughter con team. The plot is noting special but its fun. Cast is great, Jason lee is a "proto ryan reynolds" type
8.5/10
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 31, 2024 19:11:21 GMT
2nd film was so damn good. We really could have had a 'perfect trilogy'
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2024 19:20:07 GMT
*shakes fist* Brett Ratner!!!
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 31, 2024 19:41:28 GMT
Screamed of him saying this script has too many big words in it and I saw this Juggernaut meme online.
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Post by apollo on Mar 31, 2024 19:44:02 GMT
Last stand was co-writen by Simon Kinberg, guess what that hack went on to write and direct ? Xmen Dark Phoenix  |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Mar 31, 2024 20:46:32 GMT
Tried to watch Hidden Strike, some film on Netflix starring Jackie Chan and John Cena.
I say tried, gave up after 30 minutes because it was just shit. John Cena acting like he's in an entirely different film to Jackie Chan. This is Chan in serious mode but he just doesn't do that well at all.
The first set piece went off on a Mad Max Fury Road tangent for no particular reason other than, I'm presuming, the producers and stakeholders wanting to have some shots with people in masks and dune buggies that can be used for algorithmic marketing purposes
Audio was muffled, and dialogue was clunky exposition. Not helped as half the dialogue was subbed (no issues with subs usually, but when it's all clunky exposition it becomes a bit tedious).
Maybe the Chinese dialogue (I don't know what actual dialect, so I'll stick with "Chinese") is actually amazing but somehow I doubt it.
Maybe there's amazing set pieces later in the film but the initial one was just crap.
The threshold a film needs to cross for me to find enjoyment in it is actually quite low. I can often find enjoyment in some objectively shit films. So for a film to be so shit I have to turn it off is quite remarkable.
Based on what I saw it's a 2/10 (it escapes a 1 as Cena still had some charisma shine through).
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Post by dfunked on Mar 31, 2024 20:52:19 GMT
The Holdovers - 8/10
Excellent performances all around. Picked it as we fancied a comedy, but ended up getting a lovely bittersweet bit of drama to boot.
Giamatti is just fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2024 21:00:12 GMT
Tried to watch Hidden Strike, some film on Netflix starring Jackie Chan and John Cena. I say tried, gave up after 30 minutes because it was just shit. Same. Gave up after 30 minutes. it’s terrible. I like both Jackie and Cena, but this was a turd. |
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Post by clemfandango on Apr 1, 2024 10:18:22 GMT
Another 48 hours - 8.5/10
Well this much derided sequel is actually great.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it before, it’s brutal, funny and has loads of great action scenes. Murphy and Nolte are on top form too.
I have no idea why this reviewed so low, it’s definitely top tier 90s action.
Beverly Hills cop 3 - 6/10
Oh dear, let’s set a 90s action movie (and top franchise) around a dodgy Disneyland rip off must have sounded shit on paper, never mind when they actually filmed it.
It gets a 6 because of the cast and some good set pieces but I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. The diminishing quality of each Beverly Hills cop sequel is quite something…
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Beverly Hills cop 3 is more like a 4/10 on reflection.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 1, 2024 15:54:44 GMT
Ghostbusters - Afterlife (iPlayer, along with all the others) I thought this was pretty good, although me having to pop out for 10 minutes in the middle to cook gyoza for dinner slightly took me out of it. Kids enjoyed it well enough, probably more than they enjoyed the first one. I'm reluctant to pass too much judgement, given that gap in the middle of my viewing, but... It seemed like it took a long time to get to any ghostbusting. It did make me chortle a few times, although it seemed less of a comedy than the originals. I liked the new cast. Some of the SFX didn't look much better than the original. I wonder if that was intentional.
I felt like the OGs turning up at the end probably landed a lot better for me than for kids who possibly haven't even seen the original movie. Not that they did a lot.
PS/ That mid credits scene was fun, though entirely pointless. She's aged much better than Murray!
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Post by clemfandango on Apr 1, 2024 17:19:14 GMT
Turbulence - 8/10
Passenger 57 meets Cape Fear with Ray Liotta chewing his way through every scene. Lauren Holly is alright, but she’s no leading lady. Great support cast, loads of action and quite a bit of horror in it too.
It follows all the 90s action, thriller tropes but always to a high standard, it’s another one where I can’t understand why it didn’t do better / review better at the time.
It’s worth watching just for Liotta alone and highly recommended.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Apr 1, 2024 18:21:07 GMT
The Kid Who Would Be King - 7/10
Nice little Harry Potter alternative for the kids, as Joe Cornish takes the Arthurian legend into a British school. As a result it feels a bit Attack The Block in places which is no bad thing of course, with some decent turns from Rebecca Ferguson and Sir Patrick of Stewart, and some surprisingly good acting from the kids especially the lad playing Merlin.
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Post by britesparc on Apr 1, 2024 22:24:20 GMT
Beverly Hills cop 3 - 6/10 Oh dear, let’s set a 90s action movie (and top franchise) around a dodgy Disneyland rip off must have sounded shit on paper, never mind when they actually filmed it. It gets a 6 because of the cast and some good set pieces but I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. The diminishing quality of each Beverly Hills cop sequel is quite something… Edit Beverly Hills cop 3 is more like a 4/10 on reflection. I rewatched this last year and it made me sad. There was little that was outright terrible, although it felt very cheap, but Murphy was phoning it in. Or, rather, he just wasn't playing Axel Foley; he was quite serious a lot of the time. It was more like a Bruce Willis movie where you have a really tough, action-first cop, who still has a sense of humour and a bit of charm. There was hardly any of the swagger or, frankly, silliness of Foley from the first two films. I don't think Landis did anything special with it (it almost looks like a TV movie) and the script is very dull, but just how disengaged Murphy is with doing the thing we all love and which he excels at is somewhat depressing. Fingers crossed for the new one this year though. |
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