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Post by Whizzo on Apr 30, 2024 16:08:50 GMT
It's a surprise Ocean didn't buy the rights, they were snapping up everything else.
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Post by Tomo on Apr 30, 2024 21:23:56 GMT
Challengers - 8/10
Saucy tennis love triangle. I find it hard to think of many films like this - it's kinda a romcom, kinda a thriller. Definitely a real ride of a film. It's got a pumping soundtrack and almost every scene edges up the tension. Zendaya is just great in basically everything she does and the two blokes in this are about equal to her. You like and hate all three at different points through the film; they're very well drawn characters. Didn't quiteee stick the landing for me, but it's not awful by any means. Highly enjoyable and some pretty hawttt scenes.
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Post by askew on Apr 30, 2024 21:38:47 GMT
Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist aren’t hawwwt
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Post by damagedinc on Apr 30, 2024 21:47:42 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. Arnie feeding deer ..... enough said
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Post by oddham on Apr 30, 2024 22:33:08 GMT
Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist aren’t hawwwt But they are very sweaty
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 1, 2024 1:55:28 GMT
You know, with the way previously banned or 18 rated movies are being re-rated as 12A it seems like Mary Whitehouse was right all along. It *was* a slippery slope!
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Post by FlexibleFeline on May 1, 2024 6:18:23 GMT
Knock at the Cabin
Well, this was more like it - silly, yes, flawed, yes, but absorbing, focused and intense and with some decent performances, Dave Bautista in particular (he really is good in everything I've seen him in).
Shyamalan fascinates me. I don't really get why he's so erratic and capable of such catastrophic misjudgements, but when you see something like this I feel like on balance I'm glad he's out there doing his high concept thing. I don't know if I'm ready for Old yet.
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Post by dmukgr on May 1, 2024 6:46:22 GMT
You know, with the way previously banned or 18 rated movies are being re-rated as 12A it seems like Mary Whitehouse was right all along. It *was* a slippery slope! The rot had set in when they let Moana flash ankles in a kids film. The filth of it.
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Post by clemfandango on May 1, 2024 7:32:23 GMT
Leviathan - 9/10
Another 80s classic I’ve never actually seen, which I can’t understand as I would have loved this and watched it repeatedly when I was young. Basically the thing, meets alien, meets the abyss. It’s big budget and the effects are by Stan Winston. I’m only knocking one point off due to its lack of originality.
Peter weller, Ernie Hudson and a terrific cast give it their all and it hits every beat perfectly. If you haven’t seen this you owe it to yourself to give it a watch.
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Post by Binky on May 1, 2024 8:58:27 GMT
Leviathan - 9/10 Another 80s classic I’ve never actually seen, which I can’t understand as I would have loved this and watched it repeatedly when I was young. Basically the thing, meets alien, meets the abyss. It’s big budget and the effects are by Stan Winston. I’m only knocking one point off due to its lack of originality. Peter weller, Ernie Hudson and a terrific cast give it their all and it hits every beat perfectly. If you haven’t seen this you owe it to yourself to give it a watch. Just checked out the trailer for this. Looks like it would have been right up my 15 year old self's alley. Can't believe I've not seen it (or it was instantly forgettable so has been purged?)
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 1, 2024 9:07:27 GMT
It's one of those ones I remember always seeing the VHS cover of when browsing in WHSmiths as a teen. Along with Hardware and a few other slightly low-budget / straight to video / derivative ones that looked intriguing but possibly rubbish.
Never actually watched most of them though, as I didn't have the disposable income at the time to risk them being awful.
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Post by paulyboy81 on May 1, 2024 9:53:46 GMT
Been ages since I've seen Leviathan.
Don't think there was a film with shit Sci-Fi cover art that I *didn't* rent back in the day!
Was trying to remember some of them recently but the 30 years that have passed have addled my brain. Came across The Dark Side of the Moon (1990) and Monolith (1993) recently, proper naff, although the latter is probably worth checking out for the Bill Paxton completionists amongst you.
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Post by britesparc on May 1, 2024 9:56:20 GMT
Someone should do a coffee table art book of 80s video covers. So evocative to kids who are supposed to be there renting Problem Child or Mac and Me!
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Post by rawshark on May 1, 2024 10:03:05 GMT
I remember how I’d used to go to Blockbuster and how there were VHS boxes of films that I knew I’d never see but they still stuck with me, either because the art was super creepy (Killer Clowns from Outer Space) or super racy (the soft porny videos that I’m convinced never got rented).
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 1, 2024 10:10:59 GMT
Everyone has that one cover that freaked them out. My brothers friend shat himself for years because this genuinely made him afraid of going to the toilet ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Ghoulies_Poster.jpg)
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Post by gamingdave on May 1, 2024 10:14:29 GMT
Someone should do a coffee table art book of 80s video covers. So evocative to kids who are supposed to be there renting Problem Child or Mac and Me! Someone did
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 1, 2024 10:25:51 GMT
For some reason I read that as 'someone should do a coffee table covered with 80s video covers' and I was imagining a cool coffee table where the surface was tiled cover art. I am now disappointed.
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Post by Gruf on May 1, 2024 10:33:26 GMT
Does this put he in a jollier mood? ![](https://preview.redd.it/tnimtrwymckz.jpg?auto=webp&s=b58710355082a13146dc7f208f14a2715d21214a)
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Post by Dougs on May 1, 2024 10:52:06 GMT
Someone should do a coffee table art book of 80s video covers. So evocative to kids who are supposed to be there renting Problem Child or Mac and Me! Someone didAmazing. That's a definite purchase for my wife at some point. She'll love that.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 1, 2024 11:24:50 GMT
Perfect Blue (on DVD)
Early Satoshi Kon, about an idol who quits to become an actress, and then weird shit starts happening. It was way way way more messed up than I remembered it being.
It's probably the most "adult" anime I can think of. Not in terms of boobs or violence (though there's definitely a bit of both), but in the sense that it's a proper psychological horror with an adult cast, and adult themes about obsession and exploitation. And the fact that it's animated gives it this weird otherworldly quality too, which really fits with the story.
Anyway, it's great. But Jesus Christ keep it away from the kids.
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Post by britesparc on May 1, 2024 11:28:25 GMT
Someone should do a coffee table art book of 80s video covers. So evocative to kids who are supposed to be there renting Problem Child or Mac and Me! Someone didAwesome!
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Post by rawshark on May 1, 2024 11:31:21 GMT
Perfect Blue (on DVD) Early Satoshi Kon, about an idol who quits to become an actress, and then weird shit starts happening. It was way way way more messed up than I remembered it being. It's probably the most "adult" anime I can think of. Not in terms of boobs or violence (though there's definitely a bit of both), but in the sense that it's a proper psychological horror with an adult cast, and adult themes about obsession and exploitation. And the fact that it's animated gives it this weird otherworldly quality too, which really fits with the story. Anyway, it's great. But Jesus Christ keep it away from the kids. 9/10 Yeah I’m a big fan of Perfect Blue too. It’s the closest anime ever got to Hitchcock.
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Post by Binky on May 1, 2024 12:36:51 GMT
I remember how I’d used to go to Blockbuster and how there were VHS boxes of films that I knew I’d never see but they still stuck with me, either because the art was super creepy (Killer Clowns from Outer Space) or super racy (the soft porny videos that I’m convinced never got rented). They did. *ahem*
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Post by FlexibleFeline on May 1, 2024 13:18:29 GMT
Leviathan - 9/10 Another 80s classic I’ve never actually seen, which I can’t understand as I would have loved this and watched it repeatedly when I was young. Basically the thing, meets alien, meets the abyss. It’s big budget and the effects are by Stan Winston. I’m only knocking one point off due to its lack of originality. Peter weller, Ernie Hudson and a terrific cast give it their all and it hits every beat perfectly. If you haven’t seen this you owe it to yourself to give it a watch. I can never remember what happens in Leviathan and what happens in Deep Star Six - it's one of those several-versions-of-X-genre coming out in the same year (give or take) you get in Hollywood; see also Volcano / Dante's Peak, Deep Impact / Armageddon etc. I think it was Deep Star Six rather than Leviathan where Miguel Ferrer's head memorably explodes as he fails to attend to the pressure differentials when escaping in a pod from the underwater base. I want to go back and watch them both now...
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 1, 2024 13:57:47 GMT
Perfect Blue (on DVD) Early Satoshi Kon, about an idol who quits to become an actress, and then weird shit starts happening. It was way way way more messed up than I remembered it being. It's probably the most "adult" anime I can think of. Not in terms of boobs or violence (though there's definitely a bit of both), but in the sense that it's a proper psychological horror with an adult cast, and adult themes about obsession and exploitation. And the fact that it's animated gives it this weird otherworldly quality too, which really fits with the story. Anyway, it's great. But Jesus Christ keep it away from the kids. 9/10 I think I saw it as a kid, probably about 14/15.
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Post by RumMonkey on May 1, 2024 14:49:58 GMT
Civil War
Like a good raodtrip genre mash up and love Garland so this hit the right notes. Pushed the cinema surround to the edge too, the gunshots were amazing.
8/10
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Post by Whizzo on May 1, 2024 14:51:09 GMT
I remember how I’d used to go to Blockbuster and how there were VHS boxes of films that I knew I’d never see but they still stuck with me, either because the art was super creepy (Killer Clowns from Outer Space) or super racy (the soft porny videos that I’m convinced never got rented). They did. *ahem* From my past video shop work experience I can also confirm this to be true.
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Post by Whizzo on May 1, 2024 14:52:58 GMT
Someone should do a coffee table art book of 80s video covers. So evocative to kids who are supposed to be there renting Problem Child or Mac and Me! Someone didThe book looks great, may have to partake in it being at a reduced price at the moment on Amazon.
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Post by elstoof on May 1, 2024 20:02:07 GMT
The Beekeeper, without any hyperbole, legitimately the best film I have ever seen, but Jason Statham is my favourite film genre so take from that what you will
6/10
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Post by elstoof on May 1, 2024 20:35:10 GMT
Also got through 2 hours of Oppenheimer, had to turn the subtitles on as the mix is unintelligible. I know that’s a conscious choice for Nolan but it’s an awful one, it sounds like a pirate dvd filmed on a camcorder
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