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Post by dfunked on Jun 3, 2023 7:04:12 GMT
Spooky! Awesome tom have you back. Hope everything is OK with you mate.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2023 7:07:11 GMT
Things have been.. stable, is the most honest way to put it. No ups or downs! How’ve you been??
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Post by dfunked on Jun 3, 2023 7:08:57 GMT
Yeah, same here really. Nothing major, but nothing bad to report.
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Post by jimnastics on Jun 3, 2023 7:40:34 GMT
My daughter is 6 and loved the first Spider-Verse (at home, not in the cinema), is the sequel darker? We'd love to take her to the cinema to watch it but just wondering if it's too dark and at home would be safer if she gets scared/sad. (She is very good at watching films both in the cinema and at home and doesn't usually get fidgety or bored). Took my 7 and 10 year olds to see it yesterday, it's never scary, it's just slightly darker in tone because we've moved into moody teen spidey territory. I completely agree with the review above, the film was 30 mins (at least) too long and dragged pretty hard at times. My kids thought the same (and they liked the first one), I could tell even just 30 mins in that they were tipping into boredom mode. I'm not sure I'll be able to convince them to watch the pt 2. There just weren't any fun or joyful moments like you get in most other superhero movies, especially coming of the back off Guardians 3 which they both absolutely loved. Looked fucking amazing though!
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Post by Chopsen on Jun 3, 2023 8:26:30 GMT
Knock at the CabinIts another people trapped in a place mystery-thriller from M. Night Shyamalan. Although this time the drama between the characters doesn’t feel like it has enough substance to carry a hundred minute movie. Main high point is how good Batista is. He’s got to be the best actor of any of the wrestlers who’ve gone Hollywood. Someone like Amazon or Apple just needs to give Shyamalan an anthology series and force him to deliver 40-60 minute episodes to tighten the stories down. I think that kind of limitation would solve a lot of the issues people have with his films. 7/10 This would be an awesome idea. Shyamalan House of Mystery and Suspense. There's a lot about Knock... that I really like, but in a suprise to absolutely nobody o think the ending is just a bit shit.
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Post by kal on Jun 3, 2023 10:11:13 GMT
I haven’t seen his Apple TV series but it’s supposed to be great. Sitting on 91% on RT.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 3, 2023 10:18:29 GMT
I started it a month or so ago and, yeah, it is good. I think he exec produces and directs a few episode and another shymalan (wife/daughter?) writes some.
Probably the best thing on there other than slow horses and Data Entry Lost. Worth cashing your six months PS5 trial in for, anyway.
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Post by kal on Jun 3, 2023 10:21:32 GMT
Severance is really excellent too. Possibly my favourite thing I saw last year.
Didn’t love Slow Horses but I really struggle with anything British and crime based. I don’t know why it just always feels shit somehow. Too much Bill as a child perhaps.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 3, 2023 13:05:36 GMT
I’m a sucker for a spy caper and I thought the low-rent British shitness was a decent vibe.
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Post by kal on Jun 3, 2023 13:34:12 GMT
I enjoyed the books but the show triggered me. I think it’s irrational as everyone else seemed to like it.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 3, 2023 14:22:04 GMT
Loved Slow Horses and one thing it did very well, helped by Gary Oldman's performance, was you could almost smell Jackson Lamb while watching it, he managed to project the fags/stale booze/curry/BO atmosphere that he clearly radiated.
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Post by Rubicon on Jun 3, 2023 20:17:27 GMT
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Michael Caine returns for his fifth outing as Harry Palmer who is now a PI in Russia. This is basically made for TV drivel that has little to do with the original trilogy of films.
4/10
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2023 11:21:06 GMT
The Wraith (1986)
Never heard of this before. Bored. Charlie Sheen as a road racer who comes back from the dead, like Christine except he's not a '58 Plymouth Fury.
Fucking terrible, redeemed only by Clint Howard doing a mad mechanic bit, a young Randy Quaid in training for the annual Andrew Robinson Lookalike Competition, and Sherilyn Fenns right nork, the star of the show.
Sunday morning brings the dawn in / 10
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Post by kal on Jun 4, 2023 11:25:16 GMT
That film is famous for something but I can’t remember what it is. Someone died on set or something.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2023 11:31:58 GMT
That film is famous for something but I can’t remember what it is. Someone died on set or something. Yes, wiki says cameraman Bruce Ingram died filming a car chase, and another was seriously injured. Not sure the end product was worth it sadly. Not that dying filming Mad Max or similar would necessarily be better.
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Post by kal on Jun 4, 2023 11:34:18 GMT
Yeah that’s it. I think it was a bit of a watershed moment for safety in car chases and kind of killed them off a bit.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 4, 2023 11:49:00 GMT
The Suicide Squad
Yeah was pretty fun. Felt like it leaned into Gunn's Troma days a bit, and very much felt like one of his films. Characters were quite well acted and I like how little time it wasted in introducing characters.
8/10
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Post by Tomo on Jun 4, 2023 21:48:32 GMT
Old - 5/10 maybe?!
Absolutely dreadful dialogue; irritatingly so at times. And the plot has plenty of completely nonsensical moments. And the directing is often fucking weird. But... Something about it was entertaining. What a bizarre cast too. Real mix of excellent actors absolutely hamming it up.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Jun 4, 2023 22:55:48 GMT
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Absolutely phenomenal when it's firing on all cylinders, as in 'best film I've seen at the cinema for quite some time' levels of phenomenal.
It can't quite sustain that for the duration however. I actually think the first 45 minutes or so could do with some refinement and a bit of an edit to be honest. It takes far too long for the plot to really engage and start gaining momentum in my opinion, some of the Miles family stuff can definitely feel like it's retreading familiar ground from the first film for example.
The last 90 minutes is absurdly good though.
8.5/10
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Post by smoothpete on Jun 5, 2023 8:41:44 GMT
Sisu - 11/10
A nazi gets exploded by having a landmine thrown at his head. It's not even the most extravagant death either.
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Post by geefe on Jun 5, 2023 8:47:02 GMT
Men in Black (Prime)
25 ish years on and this still holds up. Tommy Lee is the ultimate straight man, lacking in self awareness and then there's THE pep talk speech on the bench, which should be a standard pep talk for anyone about to learn something.
Dialogue is still hilariously dry for a broad US comedy. "Congratulations, you're everything we've come to expect from years of government training"
CGI has 90s gloss but there's plenty of practical effects that work.
Kudos to Amazon not even recommending me the second one.
8/10
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Post by Dougs on Jun 5, 2023 11:31:56 GMT
Poltergeist - 8/10. Watched it with the 13 year old, he loved it as an entry level horror. It's a bit stilted in places but still holds up well imo. Despite not directing it, Spielberg's prints are all over it.
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Post by hedben on Jun 5, 2023 11:36:07 GMT
Old (Netflix) Stupid characters, plot holes the size of a bus, terrible acting- typical M Night Shyamalan stuff. I liked it I’m very able to suspend my disbelief for ridiculous concepts like “beach that makes you old, because of magnetic rocks or something? ”, and except for one bit that crossed a line into (slightly nonce-y?) farce, the twists were silly and fun. 7/10
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Post by geefe on Jun 5, 2023 11:53:16 GMT
Is Shyamalan's stuff more bad than good or more good than bad?
Think his first 4 range from good to passable, then he goes dreadful until Split and he's sort of turned a corner?
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Post by mrpon on Jun 5, 2023 12:07:18 GMT
I lolled at My Uncle Doesn't Like The Coral. Bit harsh, obviously prefers Cast.
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Post by cubby on Jun 5, 2023 12:16:37 GMT
Is Shyamalan's stuff more bad than good or more good than bad? Think his first 4 range from good to passable, then he goes dreadful until Split and he's sort of turned a corner? His first 4 includes Praying With Anger and Wide Awake, both of which are pretty terrible.
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Post by clemfandango on Jun 5, 2023 12:36:51 GMT
Poltergeist - 8/10. Watched it with the 13 year old, he loved it as an entry level horror. It's a bit stilted in places but still holds up well imo. Despite not directing it, Spielberg's prints are all over it. I've been thinking about watching this with my eldest. My wife has a massive hang up on it though as it terrorized her as a kid. I keep on telling her its not that bad, but she won't listen.
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Post by geefe on Jun 5, 2023 12:38:22 GMT
Is Shyamalan's stuff more bad than good or more good than bad? Think his first 4 range from good to passable, then he goes dreadful until Split and he's sort of turned a corner? His first 4 includes Praying With Anger and Wide Awake, both of which are pretty terrible. Huh, I thought he started with Sixth Sense, then did Unbreakable, Signs and the Village.
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Post by clemfandango on Jun 5, 2023 12:38:58 GMT
Is Shyamalan's stuff more bad than good or more good than bad? Think his first 4 range from good to passable, then he goes dreadful until Split and he's sort of turned a corner? The Visit is very good
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 5, 2023 12:39:40 GMT
I think it gets worse as you get older and then the 'adult fear' kicks in. Poltergeist 3 is definitely more of a scary horror* movie if youre making a night of it.
*and underrated
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