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Post by Reviewer on Nov 24, 2024 9:14:09 GMT
Both are about 6 years older, the timeline could have been changed a bit for them.
I’m not the biggest fan of Johnson but he seems alright at doing angry which could’ve been better.
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Post by askew on Nov 24, 2024 9:14:24 GMT
Hmm
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Nov 24, 2024 10:09:57 GMT
Crowe also got much cooler things to say in the first Gladiator. Perhaps not a particularly cool thing to admit but my friends and I obsessively shouted "are you not entertained?" and "on my word, unleash hell" at each other for weeks afterwards. It's really hard to imagine Gladiator without Crowe (though I'm fine with the Nick Cave version not coming to fruition...). Mescal is charismatic and a really fine actor (his performance in Aftersun is incredible) but no matter how much he beefs up it's hard to see him in the central role of a swords-and-sandals epic. Anyway, more later today on this as the family and I are watching it at 14.00. |
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Nov 24, 2024 10:23:43 GMT
Venom (1st one).
Actually ok. I enjoyed it. Preferred the first half but it was solid, if predictable slosh. I wasn’t bored by it. Tom Hardy obviously elevates it and probably worth a watch because of him alone.
3/5
Resident Evil (reboot from last year, on prime)
Again actually ok. A bit naff in places and the direction seemed a bit inconsistent - like it’s someone who hasn’t found a horror style yet but as Kermode says tab a goes into slot b and it just kinda of works. It’s a bit of a mash up of Resi 1 and 2 with all the nods you’d expect. Again does enough in the first half to comfortably set up the rest of the film.
3/5
I guess I found it too easy to put off watching average films but enjoyed both to some degree. Even they have redeeming qualities. Enjoyed both far more that Matrix Resurrections. Have been ill this weekend so maybe they’re just the tonics i need. Some light hearted fun.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 24, 2024 14:04:21 GMT
Crowe also got much cooler things to say in the first Gladiator. Perhaps not a particularly cool thing to admit but my friends and I obsessively shouted "are you not entertained?" and "on my word, unleash hell" at each other for weeks afterwards. It's really hard to imagine Gladiator without Crowe (though I'm fine with the Nick Cave version not coming to fruition...). Mescal is charismatic and a really fine actor (his performance in Aftersun is incredible) but no matter how much he beefs up it's hard to see him in the central role of a swords-and-sandals epic. Anyway, more later today on this as the family and I are watching it at 14.00. It could be that he was just miscast and not up to the role. Maybe the script was poor, maybe it was the truncated timeline of the film where he becomes a hero of Rome in the space of a week. But whatever the reason, there were multiple points throughout the film where it felt like he was saying something *intended* to be cool and rousing, that came across as a wet fart to me. |
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Post by clemfandango on Nov 24, 2024 15:38:38 GMT
Paddington 3 - 7/10
All very nice but as others have stated just missing that bit of magic the first 2 had.
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 24, 2024 15:40:57 GMT
Also Paddington 3 and also 7/10. It was good and probably great, if it weren't for the other two. It goes a bit Toy Story 3 at the ending, but doesn't do it quite as well, so loses out in that comparison as well.
But, if you like the other two then you will like this one as well.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 24, 2024 16:37:29 GMT
Paddington in Peru - in a cinema Because I'm lazy I'll just cut and paste what I posted on Bluesky a few days ago...
I'm not sure if this comparison has been used before but "Paddington in Peru" is "The Return of the Jedi" of the Paddington films.
Not as good as the first two, definitely not as good as the second but still a fun time at the cinema.
It also has a hell a lot more bears in a woody area too.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Nov 24, 2024 16:50:05 GMT
Perhaps not a particularly cool thing to admit but my friends and I obsessively shouted "are you not entertained?" and "on my word, unleash hell" at each other for weeks afterwards. It's really hard to imagine Gladiator without Crowe (though I'm fine with the Nick Cave version not coming to fruition...). Mescal is charismatic and a really fine actor (his performance in Aftersun is incredible) but no matter how much he beefs up it's hard to see him in the central role of a swords-and-sandals epic. Anyway, more later today on this as the family and I are watching it at 14.00. It could be that he was just miscast and not up to the role. Maybe the script was poor, maybe it was the truncated timeline of the film where he becomes a hero of Rome in the space of a week. But whatever the reason, there were multiple points throughout the film where it felt like he was saying something *intended* to be cool and rousing, that came across as a wet fart to me. Back and we all really enjoyed it. I do think Mescal is possibly the weakest of the primary cast members (miscast plus hammy script as you say, I think) but there was a lot more to enjoy here than I thought there'd be. No more comments for fear of spoilers but maybe 7.5/10. |
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Post by Chopsen on Nov 24, 2024 16:56:54 GMT
Longlegs
Heard so many good things about it but it has cardboard and stilted dialogue and its not scary or tense, its just grim but dull. Cage is just weird, not scary or malevolent. He could of gone "full cage" and that would of been something
pile of shit/10
It is literally monotonous. It hits eerie suspenseful creeping dread early on.....and then just sustains it for the entire duration. They very very final scene ups the ante a bit but fuck me the main experience I had from this was just boredom |
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Post by apollo on Nov 24, 2024 17:07:12 GMT
Recent films
Twisters - popcorn entertainment and its fun to watch
7/10
Land of bad - Liam hemsworth is a charisma vacuum, such a block of wood. He is part of special ops team and the mission goes wrong and Crowe is the drone pilot that has to give him info etc. Its ok action film with some beers (crowe needs to do some exercise or he is have a heart attack)
6/10
Spin me round - Alison brie and Aubrey Plaza make it worth watching although it could of been better as it had more potential. Plaza is her usual character of bit unhinged/weird and the supporting cast are decent. Tricia Helfer is in this and looks like she has stopped aging (shame she does not have a bigger part) 7/10
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 24, 2024 17:09:33 GMT
Spin me round - Alison brie and Aubrey Plaza make it worth watching although it could of been better as it had more potential. Plaza is her usual character of bit unhinged/weird and the supporting cast are decent. Tricia Helfer is in this and looks like she has stopped aging (shame she does not have a bigger part) 7/10
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Post by Tomo on Nov 24, 2024 17:27:27 GMT
Re: Mescal in G2. Thought he had an appalling script to work with, but also agree he wasn't very good. Thing is, he's so consistently monotonous throughout that I think it was intentional. There's no way a director sees that style of performance on set and doesn't correct it if they're not happy with it.
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Nov 24, 2024 18:23:54 GMT
Zero Dark Thirty. As we get further and further from 9/11 the extreme US shock at something finally happening to them seems increasingly disproportionate and wild, but Kathryn Bigelow is a seriously good director and (to be shallow for a second) there was a while there when I thought Jessica Chastain was the most beautiful woman in the world, so I gave it a rewatch. And… it’s ironically an accurate portrayal of the US actions in the Middle East, in that it is fiction dressed up with stats and name drops and plausibility. Plus it has every Hollywood supergrunt in it, only missing Jake Gyllenhal and Jeremy Renner who is essentially Plato’s supergrunt by now.
But it’s the US throwing its weight around that lingers, a dark advance warning about how the rules don’t apply to them that the film tries to simultaneously frown upon amd endorse for the results it got. All the US had was revenge, and so just like everything else they got out of the region in the last 25 years they dressed the result up as a victory and assumed their customary swagger. From the point of view of today it makes the ending feel undeserved,. Starting the film with audio recordings of 9/11 also feels like the audience is being exploited, given it’s all made up bar the op.
Still, it also has Baz Luhrmann’s Mercutio chatting to Kendall Roy so it gets an 8/10 on cast and craft.
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Nov 24, 2024 18:26:04 GMT
As an aside, what is going on with Jeremy Strong? He looks rinsed, I know it’s the ‘Method Acting’ getting to him (like some weird suffer-for-my-craft badge of pride) but he exclusively plays people sitting at conference tables so maybe he should try, like, any other role and avoid destroying himself.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 24, 2024 20:22:00 GMT
Jeremy Strong is fantastic in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn, he plays the utter cunt so well that towards the end of the film you actually feel a slight bit of sympathy towards him.
The real Cohn is, if it exists, hopefully rotting in Hell.
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