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Post by wunty on Apr 30, 2024 9:07:52 GMT
I tried to watch Old but it was so fucking awful I gave up around the 45 minute mark. Was actually quite stunned just how bad it was, as I was actually looking forward to it.
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Post by simple on Apr 30, 2024 10:13:33 GMT
The Batista one is probably his best “actually alright” one for a long while but I didn’t mind that Old was happy just to sit and do nothing but be weird for 80% of its screentime.
Old really did shit the bed with its ending though. I’ve not read the comic so no idea if that is MKS shitness or inherent in the text.
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Post by wunty on Apr 30, 2024 10:26:48 GMT
I always thought The Visit was his best after Sixth Sense personally. It managed to be nicely unsettling and the twist actually worked.
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Post by Binky on Apr 30, 2024 10:59:27 GMT
Surprised nobody has mentioned Signs yet. We watched that with the kids recently and it's still good fun. Still stands with The Exorcist and The Grudge for me as having one of the scariest things committed to film.
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Post by harrypalmer on Apr 30, 2024 11:13:10 GMT
Suzhou River (blu-ray/Mubi) - 5/5
Ephemeral mermaid-adjacent romantic neo-noir in the style of Chungking Express. Shot largely in first person on handheld. It's chaotic and beautiful and has lovely contrast between Shanghai's stark dystopian industrial river bank world and the blurry neon night-time scenes, all of which evoke Blade Runner. Zhou Xun is dreamy.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 30, 2024 11:28:48 GMT
Surprised nobody has mentioned Signs yet. We watched that with the kids recently and it's still good fun. Still stands with The Exorcist and The Grudge for me as having one of the scariest things committed to film. The cellar bit? I like Signs, count me in. I like Unbreakable and The Village too. I just stopped watching his stuff. when I saw reviews for The Lady in the Water.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Apr 30, 2024 11:30:16 GMT
I want to watch Old now if only to see the terrible reveal. I suppose it would be quicker to read up on it so if anyone fancies putting the plot (something about a beach aging people, right?) incuding the twist in spoiler tags, feel free.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 30, 2024 11:52:34 GMT
Signs was ok, but even then he was getting into "Seriously?! That's a really dumb twist!" ending territory.
Unbreakable was good, but suffered from being just after Sixth Sense.
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Post by britesparc on Apr 30, 2024 12:01:43 GMT
I think Signs would be thought of as genuinely excellent if the "twist" wasn't so stupid. It's really tense, has some incredible jump scares, and it's also very, very funny.
Conversely, I guess, if the rest of the film wasn't so good, the ending might have knocked it down into "a bit crap" territory, because it really is pretty dumb.
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Post by clemfandango on Apr 30, 2024 12:06:35 GMT
He's done quite a few good films and I feel he is a bit hard done by.
Sixth Sense Unbreakable Signs The Visit Split Glass Knock at the Cabin
All range somewhere from good to great
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 30, 2024 12:11:03 GMT
It never explicitly says they are alien, I don't think. You change those crop circles to crop pentagrams and it solves all the problems
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 30, 2024 12:11:59 GMT
Except rain
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 30, 2024 12:18:29 GMT
They don't like water in hell, bro
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 30, 2024 12:18:54 GMT
So I hear from that guy on the street corner who wears his pants on his head
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Post by britesparc on Apr 30, 2024 12:20:14 GMT
Yeah, my issue with the silliness of the twist is just down to them being allergic to water and how clumsy the whole predestination, "swing away", glasses everywhere, "his lungs were closed", etc was handled. The latter stuff I don't think is bad, I just think it felt like a resolution in search of a set up, if that makes sense.
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Post by rawshark on Apr 30, 2024 12:42:23 GMT
I think my opinion on Old was massively elevated by the fact that it was my first post-lockdown cinema trip. Haven’t attempted to revisit it since and maybe that’s for the best.
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Post by britesparc on Apr 30, 2024 13:09:13 GMT
The last film I watched before lockdown was Birds of Prey, and the first film I watched afterwards was Shang-Chi, because I am a massive superhero-loving stereotype.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 30, 2024 13:11:45 GMT
He's done quite a few good films and I feel he is a bit hard done by. Sixth Sense Unbreakable Signs The Visit Split Glass Knock at the Cabin All range somewhere from good to great I'd feel more sympathetic if he stopped inserting himself into his own films with his dead eye, straight to the camera acting.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 30, 2024 13:15:48 GMT
I stopped watching his movies after The Village, so I haven't seen the last 4. Are they all still trying to do 'clever' twist endings?
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Post by simple on Apr 30, 2024 13:44:53 GMT
Not really Psyche! Of course they are
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Post by Tuffty on Apr 30, 2024 14:23:24 GMT
City Hunter - 8/10
An adaptation of an 80's anime, the movie is around a private eye investigating the death of his late partner. This sounds like a gritty drama but is actually extremely light hearted throughout with over the top action scenes and comedic moments as the protaganist is exceptionally skilled but also an exceptional goofball. The action scenes are well shot and choreographed and is overall a pretty fun watch. Having watched it you can't help but feel that this is the cast and crew that should do a Cowboy Bebop adaptation.
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Post by otto on Apr 30, 2024 14:31:57 GMT
There’s not a lot of recency bias on all of those, CR is 20 years old now. Fuck off no it isn't
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Post by technoish on Apr 30, 2024 14:51:36 GMT
Yeah it's only 18 years young.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 30, 2024 15:10:44 GMT
Similarly, I discovered Thr Faculty was released in 1998. Which obviously was about 5 years ago.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 30, 2024 15:25:14 GMT
Commando in a cinema
Cineworld's action cinema season continued with a film that's quite important to me in my film watching life, not because of the film but what it was. Commando is the first 18 rated movie I ever saw at the cinema, helped by having an older brother and who would be his first wife (for about 5 minutes) I managed to see it three years before I was legally allowed.
The film is still a load of nonsense that is sending itself up a lot of the time, Cindy's comments during the fight in the motel especially, over the top action, daft one liners and Arnie in pretty much prime physical shape.
Everyone went on to make much better films (I hadn't realised Bill Paxton had a small role in it before) but for a cheesy action film that is 90 minutes it's still worth watching.
Also there's absolutely no way it'd be an 18 if it got re-rated, a 15 year old really should be able to watch it legally in the cinema.
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Post by britesparc on Apr 30, 2024 15:31:20 GMT
I actually thought it had been downgraded to a 15. Looking at the BBFC site, it was last rated in 2015, presumably for a Blu-ray release, and it still got an 18.
It's not that bad!
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Post by gamingdave on Apr 30, 2024 15:41:48 GMT
The Rock (1996) - 80/100 - Over the top explosive cheese from Bay/Simpson/Bruckheimer with some excellent set pieces, peak Cage, fun Connery and a solid performance from Ed Harris. Watched it with my 12 year old son and he loved it, as did I.
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Post by wunty on Apr 30, 2024 15:49:55 GMT
Similarly, I discovered Thr Faculty was released in 1998. Which obviously was about 5 years ago. That's insane. Also explains why I loved it so much. At 17 I was smack bang the target demographic for that film.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 30, 2024 15:58:54 GMT
I actually thought it had been downgraded to a 15. Looking at the BBFC site, it was last rated in 2015, presumably for a Blu-ray release, and it still got an 18. It's not that bad! No it's not, as it was so old and not a re-release it didn't even have a BBFC card before it came up, just a generic "this is an 18 rated film" instead. Compare it to anything that gets an 18 now, which is a pretty rare thing these days (Poor Things and Monkey Man are the most recent ones I've seen) and Commando is like a cartoon in comparison to the violence of most modern action films.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 30, 2024 16:03:54 GMT
Commando in a cinema Cineworld's action cinema season continued with a film that's quite important to me in my film watching life, not because of the film but what it was. Commando is the first 18 rated movie I ever saw at the cinema, helped by having an older brother and who would be his first wife (for about 5 minutes) I managed to see it three years before I was legally allowed. The film is still a load of nonsense that is sending itself up a lot of the time, Cindy's comments during the fight in the motel especially, over the top action, daft one liners and Arnie in pretty much prime physical shape. Everyone went on to make much better films (I hadn't realised Bill Paxton had a small role in it before) but for a cheesy action film that is 90 minutes it's still worth watching. Also there's absolutely no way it'd be an 18 if it got re-rated, a 15 year old really should be able to watch it legally in the cinema. I've always seen Commando as a video game. It's essentially split into levels, it even has section where the hero goes to a gunshop to select weapons and he goes to Bad Guy island and kills everyone. It's even got boss battles.
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