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Post by britesparc on Oct 2, 2024 10:52:01 GMT
I say give it a whirl. You might hate it, but it is at the very least Interesting.
Edit: new page, who knows what I was talking about?! A film? An ice cream flavour? Pegging?!
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Post by mrpon on Oct 2, 2024 10:56:44 GMT
Is that me liking a film? An ice cream flavour? Pegging?!
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Post by mikeck on Oct 2, 2024 11:01:22 GMT
Femme - 8/10 (Netflix) Strong twist on the revenge thriller format. Drag queen gets assaulted by a hyper masculine bro, then befriends him to later covertly fuck him over, but finds himself getting absorbed into his toxic world. Pretty tense at times and the blurring between friendship groups is interesting. Had not heard of this, and watched purely because of your mention here. Very good film, tense as fuck, with very good portrayals of both sides of the story - lots going on here emotionally, definitely worth a watch. |
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Post by brokenkey on Oct 2, 2024 11:05:38 GMT
Who was the major supporting character who died off screen in Megaodongoplex? britesparc |
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Post by Vortex on Oct 2, 2024 11:07:07 GMT
Megalopolis (2024) ***It's a five-star two-star movie. Best review summation I've read here in ages.  |
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 2, 2024 11:08:33 GMT
Femme - 8/10 (Netflix) Strong twist on the revenge thriller format. Drag queen gets assaulted by a hyper masculine bro, then befriends him to later covertly fuck him over, but finds himself getting absorbed into his toxic world. Pretty tense at times and the blurring between friendship groups is interesting. Had not heard of this, and watched purely because of your mention here. Very good film, tense as fuck, with very good portrayals of both sides of the story - lots going on here emoitonally, definitely worth a watch. I watched it a month or so ago, forgot to review it. Its very good and a solid 8.5/10, tense and lets you sympathise with the villain somewhat, its just very well made. Its pretty hardcore with the x rated scenes though so just bear that in mind. |
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 2, 2024 11:11:08 GMT
Deadpool 3 - 10/10
Put me in the love it category, had a big stupid grin on my face from start to finish.
If you like Reynolds, meta, the multiverse and loads of characters it's just about perfect.
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Post by britesparc on Oct 2, 2024 11:22:11 GMT
Who was the major supporting character who died off screen in Megaodongoplex? britesparc Dustin Hoffman. He has that scene with the mayor where he says he'll kill Cesar, then nothing ever comes from it. Later someone (Shia LeBoeuf?) says that he died and there's a really quick shot of rubble falling on him, presumably from when the satellite hits the city. So I guess it's not technically off-screen as you do see it; but he leaves in one scene, his storyline of the assassination is never mentioned again, and you don't know he died until someone mentions it as an afterthought and we see it in flashback. Kinda weird, I thought. |
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Post by brokenkey on Oct 2, 2024 11:34:35 GMT
I missed that.
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Post by britesparc on Oct 2, 2024 11:42:01 GMT
Hah, yeah, it was pretty throwaway.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 2, 2024 12:16:20 GMT
Had not heard of this, and watched purely because of your mention here. Very good film, tense as fuck, with very good portrayals of both sides of the story - lots going on here emoitonally, definitely worth a watch. I watched it a month or so ago, forgot to review it. Its very good and a solid 8.5/10, tense and lets you sympathise with the villain somewhat, its just very well made. Its pretty hardcore with the x rated scenes though so just bear that in mind. Didn't really think so. There's nary a dong in sight. Perhaps unusual seeing mano e mano action so vigorously in a feature film, but plentiful films with women being drilled by men in cinema. |
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 2, 2024 16:23:08 GMT
I watched it a month or so ago, forgot to review it. Its very good and a solid 8.5/10, tense and lets you sympathise with the villain somewhat, its just very well made. Its pretty hardcore with the x rated scenes though so just bear that in mind. Didn't really think so. There's nary a dong in sight. Perhaps unusual seeing mano e mano action so vigorously in a feature film, but plentiful films with women being drilled by men in cinema. I think it was more the implied nastiness of it, George Mackays character was basically taking out all his homophobic aggression/inner turmoil on Nathan Jarretts character in each x rated scene. I found it difficult to watch in parts. |
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Post by skalpadda on Oct 2, 2024 17:38:02 GMT
Since I read (listened to) the books recently I decided to watch:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the 1954 Disney one. It holds up quite well; the story works, the sets they built for the Nautilus look fantastic and it's a good looking movie overall. James Mason is a great captain Nemo.
Compared to the book it shifts a lot of focus from professor Arronnax (Paul Lucas) to Ned Land (Kirk Douglas) as a more typical heroic movie lead. I suppose American movies need their American Manly Man (he's Québécois in the book) doing action stuff, but in the process it loses most of the wonder of science and discovery that the book has in spades. Hollywood dumbing it down for the cashuls isn't a new thing, it seems. I'm also not a fan of how they turned the stoic unflappable comedy of Conseil into mostly silly clownery.
But as old adventure movies go this is one of the best I've seen.
8/10
And then Journey to the Centre of the Earth, from 1959. This holds up a lot less well and has little in common with the book beyond the premise. Where 20,000 Leagues cuts much of the book's 19th century science and exploration in favour of action and adventure, this doesn't do either very well. All the characters are rather unlikeable to boot - apart from Gertrud the duck, of course. The adventures and mishaps feel like lesser versions of what Jules Verne wrote almost a hundred years before, and the spectacles are far less spectacular. We get no plesiosaurus, mastodons or antediluvian giants - instead we get to see some lizards with bits glued on playing dimetrodons.
As a Swede watching there was some added comedy in Arlene Dahl's character Carla Göteborg. Göteborg isn't a personal name at all but the name of the city I live in. It's like naming a British character Babette Scunthorpe or something. Apparently Icelandic and Swedish are mutually intelligible (they speak Danish in the book, which makes more sense), and Arlene Dahls pronunciation is *chef's kiss* - börk börk, løl.
I did enjoy it, but more as a curiosity than a good movie, and I liked all the silly cave sets and matte pantings.
5/10
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Post by simple on Oct 2, 2024 18:09:40 GMT
You’ll have to track down The Lost World and the 50s War of the Worlds next
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Post by Tomo on Oct 2, 2024 19:11:31 GMT
Didn't really think so. There's nary a dong in sight. Perhaps unusual seeing mano e mano action so vigorously in a feature film, but plentiful films with women being drilled by men in cinema. I think it was more the implied nastiness of it, George Mackays character was basically taking out all his homophobic aggression/inner turmoil on Nathan Jarretts character in each x rated scene. I found it difficult to watch in parts. Yeah, fair. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 3, 2024 1:10:21 GMT
Since I read (listened to) the books recently I decided to watch: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the 1954 Disney one. It holds up quite well; the story works, the sets they built for the Nautilus look fantastic and it's a good looking movie overall. James Mason is a great captain Nemo. Compared to the book it shifts a lot of focus from professor Arronnax (Paul Lucas) to Ned Land (Kirk Douglas) as a more typical heroic movie lead. I suppose American movies need their American Manly Man (he's Québécois in the book) doing action stuff, but in the process it loses most of the wonder of science and discovery that the book has in spades. Hollywood dumbing it down for the cashuls isn't a new thing, it seems. I'm also not a fan of how they turned the stoic unflappable comedy of Conseil into mostly silly clownery.
But as old adventure movies go this is one of the best I've seen. 8/10 The Disney Sea ride is pretty fun too. Good giant electrified squid. Though I don't know if it's available anywhere other than Tokyo. I didn't get to do the Journey to the Centre of the Earth ride as it was deemed too scary at the time.  |
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 4, 2024 10:39:08 GMT
Megalopolis in a cinema
I can't think of anything complimentary to say about this utterly pointless and pretentious mess that could have been a blog that no one could have read instead of watching it. If I'd had two wineries I'd rather have watched them for a couple of hours. The cinema was certainly not busy for my Thursday afternoon screening, it was me and one other bloke. He left at the auction part of proceedings, sensible chap.
Waste of time and money and FFC should have been told a Soyuz isn't a fucking Soviet satellite but I guess no one could be bothered to correct the great man's vision that looked like AI did most of the VFX work.
Complete dreck.
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Post by cubby on Oct 4, 2024 12:10:41 GMT
Should have been called Megalomania amirite
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 4, 2024 12:21:57 GMT
Climax
First time seeing this since at the cinema!
It's a Gaspar Noe joint about a troupe of very attractive and horny French dancers having a party. But someone spikes the sangria with LSD, and everything turns out FINE.
(lol no it doesn't, people go crazy and start accusing and attacking each other, and someone gets set on fire)
It's got some great dancing, fantastic music, and really long takes to capture everything. Apparently most of the people aren't professional actors, and were just improvising the dialogue. I really couldn't tell!
Anyway, it's relatively tame for a Noe movie, but it's still pretty wild. Worth a watch if you haven't already.
8.5/10
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Post by Tomo on Oct 4, 2024 14:01:17 GMT
I really like the first half-ish of Climax but thought it went a bit meh. That dance sequence though. Dayum.
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Post by peacemaker on Oct 4, 2024 14:12:51 GMT
Joker part 2.
Walked out with about 30 mins to go. So unbelievably boring and it’s a musical. I don’t even mind musicals but every song was mind numbing. There was only 30 mins to go but I really didn’t care and the film was going no where and it broke into another song. God knows how many films I’ve watched in the cinema in 25+ years but that’s the first time I walked out.
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Post by simple on Oct 4, 2024 14:44:10 GMT
Any more of them by massive paedos after the song in the first one?
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Post by britesparc on Oct 4, 2024 15:10:59 GMT
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (1986) **
It's basically a feature-length episode of an old 80s toy cartoon with some celebrity guest stars who were big in the 80s (Kojack! Lois Lane!). I actually think it's pretty enjoyable, the deficiencies mostly coming from budget (the animation is pretty cheap); personally I enjoyed it more than the two stars suggest. I actually saw this in the cinema when I was a kid, but the only thing I remembered about it was seeing the poster in the foyer. Anyway, if you're an animation completist, or a fan of competing toylines that were subsequently acquired by Hasbro and folded into the official Transformers universe, knock yourself out. Otherwise you'll probably find it a bit boring.
(Internet Archive)
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 4, 2024 15:23:45 GMT
Isn't there a scene in Big where the toy company execs are brainstorming new toy ideas and one of them is a rbot that transforms into a building or a rock. And Tom Hanks calls it out as boring?
I had some GoBot Rock Lord toys, and they were rather dull as far as transforming toys go. Sure, Starscream can transform into a Jet, but this guy can transform into a small brown blob.
Still had fun with them though.. back then we had to get enjoyment where we could find it.
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Post by britesparc on Oct 4, 2024 16:07:27 GMT
Yeah, it was a robot that turned into a skyscraper, which I always thought looked really cool when I was a kid. IIRC he instead suggests robots that turn into bugs, presumably inventing the Insecticons*.
*Haha not really because Big came out in 1988 and the Insecticons came out in 1985 lol
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 4, 2024 16:17:14 GMT
Nothing was more disappointing as a kid than asking Santa for a Transformer and getting a GoBot instead.
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Post by gamingdave on Oct 4, 2024 16:28:00 GMT
The Substance (2024) - 70/100 - Stellar performances from the leads, especially Moore, and some absolutely wonderful effects, but I found this more style over (the) substance. It shouldn't matter in a film like this, but so much didn't really make sense that it took me out of what should otherwise have been a rollercoaster of a ride. I also think it could have told the same story in much less time - I wasn't bored at any point, but it is quite long and a lot of it doesn't really amplify any of the story or message.
If you don't mind things not making sense then you can easily bump up the score. For me, it lessened the overall impact.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 4, 2024 18:28:24 GMT
A Different Man - 8.5/10
Not sure how to describe this! It's kind of a thriller, kind of an unsettling almost body horror chiller, and on top that a comedy. It stars Adam Pearson who you've probably seen as one of the people Scarlett Johansson picks up in Under the Skin. He has neurofibromatosis, which is central to the plot. Someone plays him(?) or someone very closely resembling him living a pretty bleak New York existence. A hotty playwright moves in next door and he undergoes treatment to become more 'normal'. She writes a play about him and he ends up taking the starring lead, unbeknownst to the hotty. Thennnn... a spitting image of our budding thespian appears and without spoiling too much it becomes very meta. Quite a bad comparison, but it sort of reminded me of Inception by way of Being John Malkovich.
Recommended. Strange and very funny at times.
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Post by rawshark on Oct 4, 2024 18:57:55 GMT
Did I ever share the story of how my Dad took me and my brother to watch the Go-Bot x Rock Lord film, and I got so into it that the second we got home I did a literal dive for the Argos catalogue… the force of the dive knocked a cabinet off the wall that landed on my head. Can still feel the dent it left.
That’s capitalism for you.
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Post by Lizard on Oct 4, 2024 20:19:13 GMT
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a cabinet landing on the head of a boy grasping for an Argos catalogue - forever.
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