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Post by retro74 on Feb 23, 2024 16:45:22 GMT
Also who said Wanderlust was good and tickles the same funny bone as Role Models?
It was not good at all, in fact it was complete garbage, not funny at all
I ended up buying it on DVD now, which I’m going to set on fire later
3 out of 10
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2024 16:52:46 GMT
Is it you that likes The Predator? If so your opinion is null and void.
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Post by retro74 on Feb 23, 2024 16:55:12 GMT
I don’t think it works like that, however Wanderlust makes The Predator look like The Godfather II
It was absolutely terrible. I even hate Paul Rudd now
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Post by simple on Feb 23, 2024 16:58:11 GMT
I thought Bottoms was a bit shit. Watched it because of all the praise on here and Mrs Hermit says she's never trusting your reviews again. You managed to sell your wife a teen lesbian fight club that middle aged men on a video game forum told you about?
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Post by robthehermit on Feb 23, 2024 17:00:56 GMT
Yep and I'm currently trying to sell her Sharknado 6 on the basis of it having time travel.
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 23, 2024 17:05:39 GMT
Is it you that likes The Predator? If so your opinion is null and void. I doubt even Shane Black has positive thoughts about that film.
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Post by britesparc on Feb 23, 2024 17:12:44 GMT
I watched UHF on Prime Video this week (it's leaving Prime pretty soon, so if you did wanna catch it, be quick).
It's a weird little curio. If you've not heard of it, it was Weird Al Yankovic's attempt at cracking into movies; it's essentially an Airplane!-style spoof, although most of its weird eccentricities and bouts of absurdity are contextualised by either being a strange TV show or occurring in Yankovic's head.
It's hit and miss, as these things often are; there are some genuinely great, Top Secret-level sight gags and a couple of really well-done movie parodies. But it does look and feel incredibly cheap and Yankovic doesn't quite cut it as a leading man, unfortunately, often resorting to weird gurning and shouting. Also loses points for the romantic interest being played by someone who went on to become a huge rabid Trumper.
Anyway, I'd give it three stars but YMMV.
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Post by retro74 on Feb 23, 2024 17:14:47 GMT
I watched UHF on Prime Video this week (it's leaving Prime pretty soon, so if you did wanna catch it, be quick). It's a weird little curio. If you've not heard of it, it was Weird Al Yankovic's attempt at cracking into movies; it's essentially an Airplane!-style spoof, although most of its weird eccentricities and bouts of absurdity are contextualised by either being a strange TV show or occurring in Yankovic's head. It's hit and miss, as these things often are; there are some genuinely great, Top Secret-level sight gags and a couple of really well-done movie parodies. But it does look and feel incredibly cheap and Yankovic doesn't quite cut it as a leading man, unfortunately, often resorting to weird gurning and shouting. Also loses points for the romantic interest being played by someone who went on to become a huge rabid Trumper. Anyway, I'd give it three stars but YMMV. Is that the one with the Spatula City commercial? I remember very little about it but I always remember that, still make me smile when I think about it
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Post by britesparc on Feb 23, 2024 17:15:51 GMT
Also who said Wanderlust was good and tickles the same funny bone as Role Models? It was not good at all, in fact it was complete garbage, not funny at all I ended up buying it on DVD now, which I’m going to set on fire later 3 out of 10 Just read this, and you setting the DVD on fire reminds of a couple of years ago. I bought my wife Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again because we both quite liked the first film. Except the sequel is so bad - so bad - that she refused to have the disc in the house anymore. I think I gave it to my mum, but I genuinely don't know where it ended up. A skip, hopefully. Edit: Oh, and yes to Spatula City! That was one of the funnier bits.
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Post by kal on Feb 23, 2024 17:25:59 GMT
I thought Bottoms was a bit shit. Watched it because of all the praise on here and Mrs Hermit says she's never trusting your reviews again. You just need to only trust the other people with shit taste.
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Post by clemfandango on Feb 23, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
I watched UHF on Prime Video this week (it's leaving Prime pretty soon, so if you did wanna catch it, be quick). It's a weird little curio. If you've not heard of it, it was Weird Al Yankovic's attempt at cracking into movies; it's essentially an Airplane!-style spoof, although most of its weird eccentricities and bouts of absurdity are contextualised by either being a strange TV show or occurring in Yankovic's head. It's hit and miss, as these things often are; there are some genuinely great, Top Secret-level sight gags and a couple of really well-done movie parodies. But it does look and feel incredibly cheap and Yankovic doesn't quite cut it as a leading man, unfortunately, often resorting to weird gurning and shouting. Also loses points for the romantic interest being played by someone who went on to become a huge rabid Trumper. Anyway, I'd give it three stars but YMMV. I nearly watched this a few nights ago as I spotted it was leaving. Might get on it later. That's a shame about Victoria Jackson, I had a proper crush on her (SNL days) in my late teens and she was a good comedian. I see the far right love in has helped her age like milk too.
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Post by Whizzo on Feb 23, 2024 18:03:36 GMT
Wheel of Fish should be a real game show.
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Post by robthehermit on Feb 23, 2024 18:44:57 GMT
I thought Bottoms was a bit shit. Watched it because of all the praise on here and Mrs Hermit says she's never trusting your reviews again. You just need to only trust the other people with shit taste. Ok, lets have some of your recommendations then 😀
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Post by dfunked on Feb 23, 2024 20:58:30 GMT
I wasn't a fan of Bodies Bodies Bodies, so just don't know who to trust any more...
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Post by rawshark on Feb 23, 2024 21:02:19 GMT
I’m trying to think of DVDs I bought and ended up openly resenting.
Nothing comes immediately to mind, but I remember a friend staying over, not being able to sleep so he put Final Fantasy Advent Children on. Came downstairs to a tired, grumpy friend telling me he thought less of me for owning it.
Still have it in the cabinet somewhere.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 23, 2024 21:04:53 GMT
C'mon who didn't buy some random shit from Virgin Megastore back in the day for their 2 for £10 deals. I bought loads of questionable shit.
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Post by rawshark on Feb 23, 2024 21:17:19 GMT
I was worse at Waterstones. Got some absolutely shocking third books in the buy 2 get 1 free.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 23, 2024 21:19:49 GMT
I must have lived at Virgin Megastore, Waterstones and Fopp back in uni.
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Post by harrypalmer on Feb 23, 2024 21:26:43 GMT
I’m trying to think of DVDs I bought and ended up openly resenting. Nothing comes immediately to mind, but I remember a friend staying over, not being able to sleep so he put Final Fantasy Advent Children on. Came downstairs to a tired, grumpy friend telling me he thought less of me for owning it. Still have it in the cabinet somewhere. I stupidly signed up for Brittanica dvds or something at uni, to this day I’m not exactly sure what the business model was but they’d send you films and you had to send them back else you had to pay. One time I got Lilo and Stitch and my girlfriend loved it so I never returned it and promptly forgot about the whole thing. Ended up with bailiffs knocking on my parents door and pursuing me for years, somehow ended up owing over 2 grand. So yeah kinda regret that one. Never paid, obviously.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Feb 23, 2024 21:29:55 GMT
What the hell?!
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Post by cubby on Feb 23, 2024 22:11:59 GMT
Brittanica don't fuck around.
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Post by askew on Feb 23, 2024 22:13:18 GMT
Aftersun: 9/10. It’s on iPlayer. I’ve been broken and cried ugly tears by two films this week.
Enys Men: 6/10. Boards of Canada as a film. Hoped it might have been scarier. Enjoyed the vibes though.
Babylon: 7/10. Maximalist. Touch too long but was entertained all the way through. First Man was a nice palate cleanser between this and La La Land.
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Post by rawshark on Feb 24, 2024 0:26:54 GMT
Purple Rain
Had to stop watching. Too sexy.
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Post by simple on Feb 24, 2024 1:21:48 GMT
I liked Enys Men a lot. Definitely more a vibe than anything else.
Tramps (netflix)
I enjoyed this a lot. Cute indie crime-drama that lots of websites misleadingly call a rom-com. It really reminded me of the feel of a European indie film from the mid-late 00s. Like an Edukators or something like that. If you told me it was an English language remake of a German, Spanish or maybe South American film I’d fully believe it.
I assume there was zero audience for it on Netflix and they didn’t run it at the art house cinemas it probably needed to be shown in. A shame if so, it deserves a watch.
The Florida Project (4OD - expires in 7 days)
Absolutely fantastic film. I loved Tangerine but this probably surpasses that. Everything about it is spot on, if Willem Defoe wasn’t the motel manager the other performances are so good you’d buy it was documentary. It looks great too, the man can shoot physical space and natural light like few others. Plus it pushes all kinds of emotional buttons and the kids are perfect.
For a New York film school type guy Sean Baker has an incredible eye for telling fringe outsider stories in a way that never feels like tourism. The people, places and stories feel so authentic. I’m not sure anyone else is doing anything like this but I suppose in a way its almost a more sophisticated heir to a similar spirit that something like Slacker had in the late 80s.
Got Red Rocket lined up for tomorrow night so hope his hot streak continues.
Orion and The Dark (netflix)
Made time for it after Kal’s reminder earlier. Its good, not too heavy on the Kaufmanisms but if you’re a fan you can see them knowing its one of his. I think thematically, tonally and structurally it feels more like a recentish Pixar film than a Dreamworks movie. Which is a good thing in my eyes. I’d probably say it’d be arguably upper midtable Pixar too. And there’s a song I used to listen to a lot but had kind of forgotten about near the middle so it was nice to hear that again.
The animation is fine, I like that they’ve not gone for their usually glossy, glassy-eyed visuals.
Worth watching but not essential.
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Post by Lizard on Feb 24, 2024 2:34:54 GMT
Zone of Interest - 8/10
Intensely meditative and languorous.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 24, 2024 3:41:42 GMT
Babylon: 5/10. Maximalist. Touch too long but was entertained all the way through. First Man was a nice palate cleanser between this and La La Land. Fixed that for you I’m trying to think of DVDs I bought and ended up openly resenting. Aliens - Special Edition
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 25, 2024 2:58:08 GMT
Lionheart / AWOL on shitty free streaming service #7
Been stuck in bed with only my tablet all weekend and so I'm limited to whatever's on freevee, YouTube or free streaming that works in a browser. Which turns out to be not much.
Lionheart (which i always knew as A.W.O.L) is a crappy Van Damme movie, but they didn't have much else mindless stuff. It was nicely shot on proper cameras, I'll give it that. Unlike some of the other straight to video stuff I tried. Or it's had a decent transfer/remaster. JCVD's bum looks very nice in the obligatory bum shot. Fights are ok i guess, but the entire thing suffers from a total lack of story, both inside the fights and out. He knows how to fight so you don't get the training bit. There isn't really a consistent enemy he's building up to. He's not even really going after the people who attacked his brother. It's just a bunch of standalone fights.
My investment might have been decreased a little by having the same ad every 10 minutes, but it wasn't really there to begin with.
Universal Soldier remains the best JCVD movie because i actually care about the characters.
5/10 for the camera and the repeated roundhouse kicks
Ps/ flooding in a fire tablet is a total nightmare.! Pps/ that should st "going on a fire tablet is a total nightmare" Ppss/ should say typing on...
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 25, 2024 9:05:20 GMT
The Patriot (1998?)
Steven Segal movie with almost no action or fighting, so what's the point? I kept waiting for it all to kick off and it never did. There's literally 2 fight scenes and each one is less than 20 seconds. Weird mix of politics too, what with the bad guys being right wing militia and Segal being against them and all mystical Indian while also being anti government and all pro Freedom!
At least it has more story than Lionheart, but why?
No reason to watch this/10
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Post by Reviewer on Feb 25, 2024 10:19:22 GMT
C'mon who didn't buy some random shit from Virgin Megastore back in the day for their 2 for £10 deals. I bought loads of questionable shit. This is the main way I used to watch anything. The local blockbuster used to have used VHS with about 5 for £10. A lot of them were pretty decent and they just had more stock than demand.
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Post by Reviewer on Feb 25, 2024 10:22:54 GMT
Transformers Dark of the Moon 3/10
Better than 2 but it is an excuse for 2 1/2 hours of explosions, some of which makes sense, all of it looks technically impressive if not a bit messy and too much happening.
The humans seem even less relevant this time than the last two. Might as well be a cgi film. I’d completely forgotten John Malkovich was in this one for completely unfashionable reasons (except lots of money, but still don’t know why).
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