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Post by Whizzo on Sept 28, 2024 16:22:23 GMT
Wolfs - Apple TV+
Or what Jon Watts wrote and directed after he stopped doing Spider-Man films. He doesn't seem to want to leave NYC so doesn't with this film about two fixers who are somehow given the same clean up job when they're lone wolfs (I'm sticking to the bad grammar of the title). Clooney and Pitt reunited and still have the great chemistry they have together despite their two characters being very much at odds with each other. It's not really a spoiler that this doesn't last the entire film.
It's a pretty fun time, the plot goes a little all over the place at times and it does somehow all get tied up at the end. It's possible there could be more but who knows.
As someone not that much younger than both of them I did appreciate both of them getting the glasses out to read the pager it did acknowledge they aren't half their age.
Enjoyable nonsense.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 28, 2024 19:45:47 GMT
I was really looking forward to Wolfs but I don't have Apple TV and they've scrapped the planned cinema release. Very annoying.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 28, 2024 20:39:34 GMT
12 Angry Men - 9/10
Not a bad start to my half arsed mission to watch some of the top rated IMDB films, that for whatever reason I've never gotten around to. Absolutely riveting stuff throughout, and the relatively short runtime flew by. Quite interesting to see racial prejudice tackled head on in a film this old.
It's also taken the top spot from Predator 2 for the sweatiest film I've ever seen.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 28, 2024 20:46:03 GMT
One of my absolute favourites is 12 Angry Men, not watched it for a good few years though
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Post by cubby on Sept 28, 2024 20:59:49 GMT
Glass 10/10 a glassterpiece
James McAvoy is the greatest one man special effect
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Post by addyb on Sept 28, 2024 21:29:24 GMT
I watched Airplane fairly recently, and I've seen it a lot more than Spaceballs (which I reckon I'd not seen for close to 30 years). Airplane holds up really well, it's still absolutely inspired and hilarious. The only thing that's dated is some of the jokes are a bit dodgy nowadays. And yes: I loved it when I was six, but not as much as Spaceballs, because it wasn't really lampooning something that I was familiar with. I'd probably never seen a disaster movie before I watched Airplane. How strange i watched Airplane last night, I didn't think some of the jokes were that dodgy tbh, moreso because it didn't feel like it was punching down. Its just silly comedy and it goes for everyone and never feels mean. Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
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Post by addyb on Sept 28, 2024 21:30:10 GMT
I love the tribal basketball scene. Always makes me piss my sides.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 28, 2024 21:53:05 GMT
Megalopolis - 3/10? Who knows... When you're a millionaire and you're bored of smelling your own farts, you make this. If it wasn't for Adam Driver, it would be 0/10 frankly. Veers from preachy nonsense from a senile pervert about the future of humanity to absolute incoherence to Shia Leboeuf in Roman drag who fucks his sister. I think 3 might be generous. Awesome I'm going to see this tomorrow based on Kermode's review
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 28, 2024 21:57:36 GMT
Just watching Demi Moore on Graham Norton. She said that her character and Sue "share a conciseness".
Did anyone else get that from the film?
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 28, 2024 22:37:54 GMT
It's rather the whole point of the film, she was doing what she was doing to herself.
The guy on the phone constantly told her if she wanted the balance respected she had to respect the balance.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 28, 2024 22:47:05 GMT
The mechanics of the whole thing are a little bit fuzzy. Like why is Sue surprised to find a bunch of junk food around that Elisabeth ate? If they share a consciousness, shouldn't she have memory or awareness of what her counterpart is doing? But I don't really care, I don't need to know exactly how it works. It's the kind of movie where I can just handwave that sort of thing.
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Post by myk on Sept 28, 2024 23:27:20 GMT
It's more an abstract "she is you" in terms of personality, traits. Neither knows what's going on while the other is out (other than hallucinations). Really both should have been better at leaving messages and Sue should have realised she was killing Elizabeth.
I think Severance did this concept better, because it's exploring split same personalities with a focus on the relationships they build, rather than one horrible person. Especially after the last episode of the season.
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 28, 2024 23:29:58 GMT
I took it like they were the same but never respected it. I always say to the kids “do you want the rest of this ice cream or save it for tomorrow?” Then I’d say if you have it now you are stitching up the tomorrow you. They nearly always take the option to eat it now and make the tomorrow’s self miss out. Same as this movie.
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