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Post by clemfandango on Jan 12, 2024 19:13:27 GMT
Marvel used the northern quarter in Manchester to film world war 2 era New York for captain America, we went down when they set it up. I Think they used Albert dock in Liverpool too. That’s some serious money saving and the results were good.
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Post by simple on Jan 12, 2024 19:26:04 GMT
That Nazi castle at the start of the newest Indiana Jones is near me. Its in the Fassbender grimdark Macbeth too.
Newcastle has been generic continental Europe in a bunch of big Hollywood movies recently too
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Post by Dougs on Jan 12, 2024 19:29:21 GMT
There was a period in the mid 00s where it felt everything was shot in Vancouver. Fantastic Four (the first one) was probably the most Vancouver film ever. That or Blade Trinity. Tax breaks innit.
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Post by lordofthedunce on Jan 12, 2024 19:53:17 GMT
Rebel Moon I'm still trying to process what I watched. The weird fake fishbowl lens effect, the surprisingly bad CGI l, a film that is also mystifyingly bloodless but leans into that idea of rape with no issue. It really does feel like a videogame where the lead has to do a mission to gain the trust of a recruit so they'll join the team. Things just happen here, nothing is earned, people just meet and "hey I'm joining your team for some reason to fight this evil empire but we never had a conversation even referencing this" it's honestly embarrassing. It feels like the first draft of a script from a scriptwriter who's just starting out and likes sci-fi films and thought it would be cool to put all the things they like in fantasy and sci-fi films together but without understanding what made those films actually good. I feel as this is also symptomatic of Netflix as a whole where I don't believe there's any quality control going on like what you would get in a proper studio with it's experience and structure and people saying "No. Go back and look at this again", because it's genuinely one of the worst films I've seen in a while. There's nothing there, no substance, I don't know who these characters are, even despite it's absolute contempt for the rule of "show don't tell". God, I'm so angry that I devoted 2hrs of my life to this. 2hrs I'll never get back. 1/5 It's shit. Such a massive miss. The baddie is utterly crap, like Vinnie Jones and Bros had a baby and sent it to public boarding school. The script is utter garbage. The storyline is bollocks. The art style and lighting is dogshit. What a waste of money. The robot was mildly interesting.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Jan 12, 2024 20:03:07 GMT
The baddie is utterly crap, like Vinnie Jones and Bros had a baby and sent it to public boarding school. Ha, I want to watch this now.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 12, 2024 20:43:25 GMT
You really don't
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Post by simple on Jan 12, 2024 20:47:13 GMT
The Honest Trailer video for Rebel Moon is a good one and the plot was a lot clearer than in the actual film.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 12, 2024 20:49:27 GMT
The Pitch Meeting is great.
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Post by Zomoniac on Jan 12, 2024 21:21:34 GMT
Poor Things
That was one of the strangest films I’ve seen. It was great, in a what in the everloving fuck is going on sort of way. Willem Defoe was occasionally Scottish. Emma Stone was mostly naked. Steampunk level ranged from lightly hinted at to inconceivable. Mark Ruffalo did excellent swearing. Many animals had different species on the back and front.
Empirically 9/10.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 12, 2024 22:42:53 GMT
The Pitch Meeting is great. Pitch Meeting is really underrated. I know it’s super popular but it’s actually really clever criticism, too, not just nitpicky bullshit like cinema sins.
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Post by malek86 on Jan 12, 2024 22:44:00 GMT
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Generally boring. The best bit was the Patrick Stewart scene at the end.
5/10
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Post by Dougs on Jan 13, 2024 7:31:27 GMT
Are you there God, it's me, Margaret? 7/10. Really lovely adaptation of Judy Blume's coming of age novel. It handles some tricky things really nicely and was perfect to show my 11 year old. Recommended if you have a tween in your midst imo.
Edit: the boy refused to watch it, which is a shame as I think all.boys would benefit from watching it. But I understand why je didn't want to.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 13, 2024 8:09:42 GMT
The Stranger 7/10
Cracking performances from the leads. Harris in particular is just so unsettling throughout. Some of the editing felt a bit iffy, like he was trying to make an edgier film when it would've benefitted from just playing it safe and telling the story. It's a fascinating if grim subject matter which unravels at a fairly glacial pace, but that's not necessarily a complaint.
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Post by rawshark on Jan 13, 2024 14:53:17 GMT
Robin Hood: Men in Tights Generally boring. The best bit was the Patrick Stewart scene at the end. 5/10 Yeah I’m pretty sure Mel Brooks stopped giving a shit by that stage.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Jan 13, 2024 15:06:50 GMT
Lots of people really seem to love Men in Tights, but I never liked it half as much as his other big movies. Anyway... Amazing SpidermanWe started this at new year as it was on telly, but had to stop for lunch. Watched the rest of it today and it's.. er.. ok. You can tell it's trying too hard to differentiate itself from the Toby McGuire movies. It sometimes works, and sometimes falls on its face. It takes ages to get going. It's about 1hr in before he starts doing proper spiderman stuff. That'd be ok if it was the first origin story, but given everyone had already seen the TM ones, it really could have done with getting to the point faster. I think the MCU ones made a good choice to skip straight to spiderman. The sfx are good, but it's pretty slow paced, and a lot of the action scenes don't have the flair of the raimi movies. It's all just a bit dull. After the really slow buildup, the end section is rushed and there are a number of sudden jumps that feel like something was cut out. Then the ending is all Return of the King with about 6 ending scenes that drag thing out way too much. Emma stone is good, even if she looks way too old. Garfield is good at the emotional stuff, but his cocky spiderman comes off as a bit of a twat sometimes. Kids enjoyed it, but it's not very memorable imho.
Recorded Amazing SPiderman 2 off tv, so I guess we'll watch that soon. Never seen that one. Hope it's a bit shorter.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 13, 2024 16:28:58 GMT
If it helps Paul Giamatti is fantastic as Rhino and not wasted.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 13, 2024 17:22:48 GMT
Jamie Foxx not so much...
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Post by rawshark on Jan 13, 2024 17:59:03 GMT
If you thought the first was forgettable, then prepare to forget HARDER.
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Post by 😎 on Jan 13, 2024 18:21:28 GMT
I have a friend who thinks the shot at the end of ASM2 of the web line reaching out like a hand is one of the best shots in cinema and it’s like what the fuck are you talking about, it’s awful
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Post by rawshark on Jan 13, 2024 20:21:49 GMT
I have a friend who thinks the shot at the end of ASM2 of the web line reaching out like a hand is one of the best shots in cinema and it’s like what the fuck are you talking about, it’s awful That’s definitely the first time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest that.
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Post by retro74 on Jan 13, 2024 21:43:26 GMT
Saltburn
It was good, the type of movie that you remember and continue to think about long after you watch it
The only thing that spoiled it was that I’d realised what was going on long before the denouement
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Post by Youthist on Jan 13, 2024 21:45:04 GMT
It was good for two thirds. Last third was shit.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 13, 2024 21:48:11 GMT
Airplane 2 7/10
But too much that’s a retread of the first and many of the jokes take a similar approach in the words sounding like something else throughout. Offensive but still funny.
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Post by simple on Jan 13, 2024 22:33:02 GMT
MorbiusITS MORBING TIME This is a very dumb and bad film. But I can’t say I wasn’t entertained. Every individual aspect of the film is rubbish but it clips along briskly and is under two hours long. What stands out most is that its very dated feeling in the exact same way that Venom did. If it had come out sometime around the Blade sequels or Daredevil or Ghost Rider or when the Underworld franchise was starting this would probably seem like a significantly better film than it does now. Its just the sort of stupid nonsense people expected of comic book movies for mall goths back in the early 00s. Just stick a Disturbed song over the trailer and it makes perfect sense. Edit: this is exactly what the film should be youtu.be/XuVZRqglY8E
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jan 13, 2024 22:37:59 GMT
Airplane 2 7/10 But too much that’s a retread of the first and many of the jokes take a similar approach in the words sounding like something else throughout. Offensive but still funny. The voice activated doors and following Shatner scene are some top Airplane.
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Post by kingbambino on Jan 14, 2024 8:25:27 GMT
Godzilla minus one- 9/10
Thanks for the hype on here otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it. Strangely reminded me of Jaws in a ww2 era setting. Brilliant
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Post by rawshark on Jan 14, 2024 9:01:05 GMT
Jumanji: The Next Level
One of those, it’s on and I’m too tired to change the channel films.
Much like the first film, it’s a chuckleathon that succeeds based on great chemistry between the cast. Not quite as essential as the first, with quite a bit of the same ground being tread. And while Dwayne Johnson is a lot of good things, he’s not a particularly convincing Danny Devito (and having Awkwafina do a much better attempt later in the film only serves to drill this in more).
It’s fun, it’s a romp, it probably didn’t need to be made but I’m glad it did. Probably wouldn’t work a third time.
7/10
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Post by retro74 on Jan 14, 2024 11:50:12 GMT
I always go into movies blind, no trailers / reviews etc, and the read the reviews after
Watched Saltburn yesterday, read some reviews this morning
One particularly scathing review talks about the shocking continuity errors such as the family watching Superbad on TV - despite it not being out in theatres at the time! Like that actually matters to the quality of a movie anyway, but
If I as a scruff had access to movies before they were released on cinemas do you not think the mega rich had the same?
There’s another very funny one talking about the point at which they walked out
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 14, 2024 13:34:14 GMT
I have a friend who thinks the shot at the end of ASM2 of the web line reaching out like a hand is one of the best shots in cinema and it’s like what the fuck are you talking about, it’s awful That’s definitely the first time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest that. Reddit says hello.
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 14, 2024 14:50:34 GMT
Hello Reddit.
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