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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 7, 2023 11:27:25 GMT
Is John Rhys-Davies the one who went full conspiracy nutjob over the lockdowns too? Yes, yes he was. By all accounts he's a deeply unpleasant person.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 7, 2023 11:59:14 GMT
I liked the episode of Documentary Now! he was on. But yeah, he doesn't sound particularly nice in real life.
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Post by gamingdave on Jun 7, 2023 17:58:58 GMT
The Killing (1956) - 90/100 - early Kubrick, his first feature length (85mins) film. A film noir centred around a heist at a racetrack which plays out for the most part through flashbacks leading up to the big moment, with each characters story getting us closer to the finale. Some of the editing is a bit quick and it could have benefited in the opening act with a few more lingering shots and time to breath, but the last 30 minutes builds up some fantastic tension. You can see the influence it must of had, especially on Reservoir Dogs.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - 75/100 - Fun but stupid and too long - sometimes less is more, I found some of the scenes just unnecessarily stretched out even if well executed - though the sequence shot from above was immense. It's utterly daft to the extent of being preposterous, but that allows you to just roll with it to an extent and not overly question it/physics/reality, the characters motivations, or how it all just plays out.
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) - 80/100 - Amazing performances, cracking story, beautifully shot and edited, a treat.
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (or Grandads falling out of the sky on skateboards) (2022) - 85/100 - Brilliant documentary on the life of Birdman. Of course, there are many stories which tell the evolution of skateboarding, and what it means to those who dedicate themselves (to sport or anything in general), but this one's up with the very best and delves emotionally into how obsession has it's positive and negative payoffs. Told through interviews (mainly of the other Bones Brigade members, but also Tony's siblings) and archival footage it lands perfectly (unlike Tony trying a 900 for the first, or last time). Cracking soundtrack too. Probably gets plus points from me just for the subject matter (and I could listen to Rodney Mullen talk all day long), but my parter loved it too and has no real connection to skating so would recommend to anyone.
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Post by Rubicon on Jun 8, 2023 21:30:45 GMT
Blonde Fist (1991 - Prime)
A woman from Liverpool tries to find her dad in New York.
This stars Margi Clarke who was in a romcom called Letter to Brezhnev a few years earlier and follows the similar theme of a working class woman escaping from her life. The main draw for me was that she plays a boxer (hence the title) and this might be the UK version of Rocky or Million Dollar Baby but it barely features. The film is all over the place and there is an argument about whether the acting is straight out of Brookside. However I didn't hate it and it does have a likeable quality about it despite everything but the film in my head was much better.
5/10
Pay the Ghost - Bland horror with Nic Cage. 2/10.
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Post by technoish on Jun 8, 2023 21:45:53 GMT
Probably should have posted here not Disney+ thread..
Anyway, Prey 10/10. Best thing I've seen since TG Maverick (maybe better for being less corny).
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jun 9, 2023 10:52:37 GMT
A couple of great threads on the making of Ghostbusters and Gremlins (it's a great account to follow)
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Post by geefe on Jun 9, 2023 10:58:53 GMT
Hang on Ghostbusters and Gremlins came out the same day?
I'll never understand Christmas movies getting released in summer.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 9, 2023 11:39:03 GMT
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 9, 2023 11:42:02 GMT
Christ that’s sobering.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 9, 2023 11:47:53 GMT
Yup, top link that. Amazing quality.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 9, 2023 11:49:49 GMT
Hang on Ghostbusters and Gremlins came out the same day? I'll never understand Christmas movies getting released in summer. Well they didn't in the UK, they came out in December but still on the same day! I'm not sure my pocket money went far enough to see them the same weekend but I certainly saw both close to release day.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 9, 2023 11:51:50 GMT
Being a cinema loving teenager in the eighties was great.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2023 11:53:17 GMT
There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 9, 2023 11:56:02 GMT
Top Secret! doesn't get the love it deserves, ZAZ on excellent form.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 9, 2023 11:58:29 GMT
I can’t believe revenge of the nerds was so big. I always thought it was quite a cult movie.
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Post by technoish on Jun 9, 2023 12:17:31 GMT
Wow so many great films in a year.
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Post by mrpon on Jun 9, 2023 12:45:59 GMT
Oof Jedi is low! But top when ordered by total gross!
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 9, 2023 12:49:15 GMT
It was still hanging on from 1983
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 9, 2023 13:06:33 GMT
Pretty decent for a film released in May '83, change the year to 83 and it reveals how well it did.
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Post by simple on Jun 9, 2023 13:28:07 GMT
I can’t believe revenge of the nerds was so big. I always thought it was quite a cult movie. The guy whose obsessed with it in American Splendor* has become my main association with it. *not streaming anywhere, annoyingly.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 9, 2023 13:43:02 GMT
Oof Jedi is low! But top when ordered by total gross! Because it came out the year before but was still playing in theatres presumably! Edit: I see we have done that. Must refresh
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Post by Dougs on Jun 9, 2023 13:44:56 GMT
Also impressive is how high up Beverly Hills Cop is given it was only released in the Dec...
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Post by mrpon on Jun 9, 2023 14:05:24 GMT
Highest theatre run innit!
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 9, 2023 23:25:54 GMT
FAST TEN (part 1)
It was a lot better than the Fast Saga, but by god it's an absolute mess. Sometimes a beautiful mess! But a mess all the same.
Good action, though. The big setpiece in Rome was ridiculous in a way that only this series can currently manage, and there's some decent hand to hand fighting. And Aquaman looks like he's having a great time.
Anyway, it's aaaaall over the shop. Weird humour, weirdly abrupt tonal shifts. Character arcs that go nowhere. Too many characters hopping from place to place.
Also, because nobody ever really dies, you have characters coming back from a movie or two ago that I think you're supposed to just recognise? God help you if you're coming into the series with this one, they don't explain much at all about who these people are. And that doesn't even count the new characters; Pete Davidson turns up for a scene, and I have no idea why it was in the movie.
But what can I say, I had fun. It's not the fastest, but I was not furious about it.
7.5/10
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Post by wunty on Jun 10, 2023 7:18:31 GMT
Tried to watch two films last night:
The Deep House
Two divers get lead to a remote part of a lake where there is a submerged house. Don’t know more than that because there was zero chemistry between the leads and they both annoyed me from the get go so it went off after 30 mins.
I then tried:
Old
Remember seeing trailers for this thinking it looked really cool and quite freaky. Fuck me. What a mess. A bigger pile of shite I have not seen for a long time. Got 2/3 through then off it went. Awful pacing, dialogue, acting, everything. Complete fucking toss.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 10, 2023 7:20:49 GMT
Under the Silver Lake - 4/5
I really liked this. It’s very weird and quite silly. Kind of an odd paranoid dreamy noir. Reminded me of Robert Altmans The Long Goodbye and Inherent Vice. You just drift through it along with the main character, played by Andrew Garfield as a bumbling, vapid psychopath.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 10, 2023 7:30:31 GMT
We watched Ant Man and The Wasp a week or so ago. It was fine. Good fun even, but it seemed weirdly disjointed in places, like it'd had a lot of stuff cut out of it. Lawrence Fishbourne and HJK as Ghost criminally underused (as usual with MCU bad guys) although I still thought her character was interesting. Evangeline Lily's haircut had improved since Ant Man one.
7.5/10 but a good time.
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Post by simple on Jun 10, 2023 8:00:06 GMT
Old Remember seeing trailers for this thinking it looked really cool and quite freaky. Fuck me. What a mess. A bigger pile of shite I have not seen for a long time. Got 2/3 through then off it went. Awful pacing, dialogue, acting, everything. Complete fucking toss. Oh man, if you thought that about the good bit you’ve got to google how it ends
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Post by askew on Jun 10, 2023 10:14:42 GMT
Jurassic Park was 30 yesterday.
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Post by simple on Jun 10, 2023 10:48:06 GMT
And it still has the best looking dinosaurs of the series
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