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Post by kal on Dec 24, 2023 9:24:03 GMT
VandelayPeeping Tom did it a full 14 years before Black Christmas did, let alone Halloween.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 24, 2023 9:26:05 GMT
A proper good ol' "Akshully". Merry Christmas everyone!
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 24, 2023 9:52:06 GMT
....I have a pet theory about this. This applies to a lot fantasy/scifi these days, especially if originating on streaming media, I found. You'd often watch entire episodes rolling by where barely fuck all actually happens. In ye olde days of broadcast media, each episode had to work on its on and both keep and attract attention cos wtf is tuning in next week unless there's something that makes an impact. Some bullshit streaming the background while you're playing on your phone....let it roll In the ‘content’ age someone seems to have an idea for a 90 minute movie and they take that and stretch it out over 8-10 episodes for streaming. It’s why absolutely fuck all ever happens except for the five or ten minutes at the end where they hide the plot and the cliffhanger for the next episode. Like Obi-Wan. You could get an ok film out of that if you edited out all the twatting about he does for 90% of the running time. Nobody seems to want to make TV shows anymore. It’s all eight hour movies which is actually pretty tiresome.
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Post by Reviewer on Dec 24, 2023 9:57:24 GMT
I agree on streaming shows, not Rebel Moon. It’s just shit.
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Post by captbirdseye on Dec 24, 2023 10:58:32 GMT
I am surprised Gamesworkshop haven't called in the lawyers on Rebel Moon.
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Post by Vandelay on Dec 24, 2023 10:59:30 GMT
VandelayPeeping Tom did it a full 14 years before Black Christmas did, let alone Halloween. Ah yeah, of course it did. Not sure why I had it in my head that Halloween was the first to do that.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Dec 24, 2023 14:15:11 GMT
The Bad Guys
This was fun little Dreamworks cgi caper. I like the artstyle, which is a little more painterly than regular 3d (though not as much as something like turtles/spiderverse). The heist movie references are fun, and the opening car chase is cool. After the first 10 minutes I thought it was going to be great. But, like a lot of Dreamworks 3d movies, it's just kinda predictable and missing something. It has a lot of twists, and later chases, but you know it's all going to work out so none of it really matters.
Having watched 2 Dreamworks 3d movies recently (This and Teenage Kraken) they were both ok, but Zootopia (recent rewatch) just had so much more heart.
I watched Ghostbusters 2 at the cinema as a kid, would have been 7 or 8 I think, and still vaguely recall the trip. I also had the tie in picture book that was made with stills from the film. It's entirely based on nostalgia, but it holds a special place for me because of that, and whilst I can see how the first film is objectively better I simply can't feel as warmly towards it. I'm the opposite. I watched Ghostbusters 2 at the cinema with my parents as a kid, and was so crushingly disappointed. I'd loved the first one on tv (or vhs or however i'd seen it, no idea) and been so excited to go and see number 2. And then it wasn't funny or exciting.
I guess there's a possibility I'd like it more now that I'm grown up and not so hyped about it, but it doesn't sound likely.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Dec 24, 2023 14:22:05 GMT
Black Christmas - really great proto-Slasher film, in which a killer terrorises a sorority house in the lead-up to Christmas. I was expecting this to be a lot cheesier than it was, but it actually ended up being fairly nasty little film. It uses a lot of the killer's POV, which I have to admit I thought originally came from Halloween, but this was doing it 4 years earlier. It works really well here, just as it does with Carpenter's film. Also used to great effect is the telephone call motif, which sees regular disturbing and vulgar calls being made to the women. The almost animalistic sounds and bursts of violent, sexually explicit language is really unsettling. The closing moments are genuinely chilling as well, leaving it all on a slightly ambiguous note. Well worth a watch for a festive scare. And free to watch on youtube by the looks, might give it a whirl over the next day or so.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 24, 2023 16:35:15 GMT
What a thread
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 24, 2023 16:38:29 GMT
The poster for Ferris Bueller is truly something else.
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Post by kal on Dec 24, 2023 17:00:14 GMT
I remember that from the very early days of the internet.
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Post by harrypalmer on Dec 24, 2023 18:12:35 GMT
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Dec 24, 2023 23:00:46 GMT
Die Hard 2 is a lot better than I remember. Just power through Colm Meaney’s accenf.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Dec 24, 2023 23:01:09 GMT
I actually found Rebel Moon quite entertaining.
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Post by geefe on Dec 24, 2023 23:04:12 GMT
Die Hard 2 has some spectacular cameos and bit parts - John Leguizamo, Don Harvey and fucking Robert Patrick with one solid gold line.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 24, 2023 23:06:50 GMT
John Wick 4
I really enjoyed it. I can understand why it has detractors and much of the criticism I've heard is valid, but ultimately it's a well choreographed action film, and a couple of sequences stood out as feeling quite inventive.
It's not the best film in the series, but it's stylish and whilst I was wary of the running time I was surprised that it didn't outstay it's welcome, at least for me - that said it could easily be edited to run shorter without losing much.
8/10
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Post by Lukus on Dec 24, 2023 23:25:14 GMT
Die Hard 2 has some spectacular cameos and bit parts - John Leguizamo, Don Harvey and fucking Robert Patrick with one solid gold line. You forgot about George Costanza.
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Post by nazo on Dec 24, 2023 23:29:05 GMT
Genie
Melissa McCarthy is very watchable and almost redeems this otherwise substandard Christmas effort. Apparently it's a remake of a Lenny Henry / Rowan Atkinson film, which is also on Sky but I don't think I can put myself through any more this year.
5/10
12 Days of Christmas Eve
Passable mashup of Groundhog Day and a Christmas Carol, starring Kelsey Grammer as a business man who must mend his ways and discover the true meaning of Christmas within 12 attempts.
6/10
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Post by rawshark on Dec 24, 2023 23:43:52 GMT
It was a BBC Xmas special from 1991 called Bernard & the Genie. It was a strange one to remake… I don’t even think it got repeated on TV outside of that one Christmas. Def not on Sky.
Edit: fact checked that. It got repeated once in 1993. Was on VHS and apparently BritBox had it available to stream. Is BritBox still a thing?
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Post by geefe on Dec 24, 2023 23:44:53 GMT
Britbox is still desperately hanging on. I see ITV have essentially tried to roll it into their streaming service.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Dec 25, 2023 1:26:59 GMT
Silent Night
John Woo's latest.
It was ok. To be honest if you hadn't told me it was a Woo film I'm not sure I would have been able to tell, it's just another in a long line of John Wick clones to be honest, one or two flourishes aside.
5/10
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Post by ignatiusjreilly on Dec 25, 2023 1:35:10 GMT
Hang em High
*stil 20 mins to go on this watch
10/10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 25, 2023 5:58:00 GMT
Krampus
Watched it with my nephews, hoping that it would be scary enough to enjoy without scarring them for life.
It was scarier than I remembered it being (particularly the evil toys and the dark elves), but the nephews were basically fine. It had a good moral too, about what will happen to you if you stop believing in Santa.
So yeah, do recommend.
8/10
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Post by elstoof on Dec 25, 2023 6:04:41 GMT
Your Christmas Or Mine 2, just as bad/good as the first one
6/10
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Post by nazo on Dec 25, 2023 10:56:48 GMT
It was a BBC Xmas special from 1991 called Bernard & the Genie. It was a strange one to remake… I don’t even think it got repeated on TV outside of that one Christmas. Def not on Sky. Edit: fact checked that. It got repeated once in 1993. Was on VHS and apparently BritBox had it available to stream. Is BritBox still a thing? Fact check fail, it definitely is on Sky, available through Sky Cinema. I found out about it when it showed up on my 'Because you watched...' rail.
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Post by geefe on Dec 25, 2023 12:08:48 GMT
Cool Runnings
Warm hearted fun. I forget the early 90s really had a whole African/ Carribbean culture thing in certain movies. They used the same font and everything.
6/10
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Post by rawshark on Dec 25, 2023 13:02:53 GMT
It was a BBC Xmas special from 1991 called Bernard & the Genie. It was a strange one to remake… I don’t even think it got repeated on TV outside of that one Christmas. Def not on Sky. Edit: fact checked that. It got repeated once in 1993. Was on VHS and apparently BritBox had it available to stream. Is BritBox still a thing? Fact check fail, it definitely is on Sky, available through Sky Cinema. I found out about it when it showed up on my 'Because you watched...' rail. Ah, right you are. Happy to be proved wrong.
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Post by Youthist on Dec 25, 2023 14:01:51 GMT
Saltburn. Nowhere near as good as it thinks it is. I really enjoyed the first half. It completely falls apart at a certain key point, totally shark jumps, and then doesn’t know how to end and goes on forever.
Final scene was laughably awful.
6/10
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Post by rawshark on Dec 25, 2023 14:39:00 GMT
Saltburn. Nowhere near as good as it thinks it is. I really enjoyed the first half. It completely falls apart at a certain key point, totally shark jumps, and then doesn’t know how to end and goes on forever. Final scene was laughably awful. 6/10 What was awful about it? Was it the big swinging cock? [\spoiler]
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Post by Bill the kidding on Dec 25, 2023 15:24:48 GMT
Transformers - Age of Extinction.
Good grief.
I swore off the Transformers movies after the first one was awful, and the second one melted my brain.
But Bumblebee was good, and I have a transformers obsessed kid, and Rise of the Beasts wasn't awful... so the kid got to pick Age of Extinction to watch on xmas morning. Big Robots. Big Robot Dinosaurs. How can you go wrong?
Good god, what a convoluted unfunny boring mess. Ten times as many characters as needed, makes it overly complex for a movie where nothing much really happens. About an hour in and there's been almost no robot action, and it's mainly Mark Wahlberg bickering with the 22 year old who's banging his 17 year old daughter and who actually has the state Romeo & Juliet law printed on a card so he can't get arrested for it. WTF? Don't worry, they buddy up before the end.
All the robots manage to be fucking annoying stereotypes who do nothing but bicker incessantly. The bad humans are all dumb, and it's basically the same plot they've used 5 times before. The action manages to blowup hundreds of cars and robots while still being boring as hell. But yeah, the worst thing is any attempt at 'humour'.
2hrs in we still had 37 minutes left and dinner was ready, and the dinobots *still* hadn't shown up, and even the transformers obsessed kid was confused, kinda bored, and decided to finish it tomorrow.
*shudder*
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