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Post by skalpadda on May 4, 2024 16:15:40 GMT
Yeah, the books are pretty funny in their depictions of Europeans, mocking their stereotypical national characteristics in a way that's very common in European (including British, obvs) comedy. But I don't think I'd ever read any of the books that contain African characters, so... ah. Full-on Tintin levels of "holy shit". I agree that, in the few I've seen, they've never nailed the "right" VA for Asterix and Obelix, but in general the voice acting was ropey across the board here, not just because Asterix for some reason sounds like an American Joe Pasquale. I read all of them a couple of years ago and the "golliwog" factor is uncomfortably high at times, but I the national/ethnic stereotyping didn't stand out as any worse than for other groups.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 4, 2024 17:15:54 GMT
After not hearing it in any of the trailers, I’d assumed they had given it a swerve because it’s all about objectifying women and being annoyed they won’t bang you.
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Post by Whizzo on May 4, 2024 17:24:29 GMT
It was always fairly tongue in cheek in that Lee Majors was singing a song that referenced his own failed marriage (him and Farrah weren't divorced when the show started but they'd split up years before).
It's not him singing it in the film though.
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Post by retro74 on May 4, 2024 22:58:24 GMT
Strays (SKY)
I’m a big fan of low brow comedy and thought this would be right up my alley. It wasn’t
The joke wore thin after about 20 minutes and it was pretty much downhill from there
Shite
3 out of 10
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 4, 2024 23:31:09 GMT
I rewatched House (on Blu-ray)
Sorry, I mean HOUSE. It's a notorious Japanese movie about a house what has got witches and assorted haunted things in it. A group of schoolgirls go there to visit one girl's aunt, and everything turns out ok.
It feels like it was made by a 12-year-old, and that's because it kind of was. The director's daughter contributed several scary ideas to it, and the result is probably the most aggressively nonsensical horror movie you'll ever see. (this is not a complaint)
9 haunted light fixtures/10
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Post by Saul1138 on May 5, 2024 2:18:33 GMT
The Phantom Menace - 8/10 - 2D Cinema screening.
As the best of the prequels it was nice to see this getting another outing at the cinema. It is flawed, but I love the Maul vs. Obi Wan and Qui Gon duel, the pod racing and John Williams score. What made this showing better was a young couple with their daughter who laughed riotously at Jar Jar.
Just for the record, the last film I watched before this was also TPM in a cinema. Twice in one weekend, this is the May.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 5, 2024 3:29:31 GMT
Hmm. I wonder if I should take the youngest to watch TPM in the cinema when it comes out next weeks. I'm not a fan of the prequels, and they were bad enough to put the eldest off Star Wars entirely, but there's something to be said for seeing them on the big screen and you can't really go wrong with lightsaber fights and john williams music.
[edit] just checked and it's all sold out, while all the other current movies like Kong X Godzilla have loads of spaces. I guess the SW Fan/nerd factor is still high. I wish they'd re-release the other ones.
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Post by britesparc on May 5, 2024 8:01:47 GMT
Miss Congeniality (2000): *** Watched this with the kids; haven't seen it for probably twenty years. There's a lot that holds up and is genuinely funny (Michael Caine as the lightly-camp stylist; Sandra Bullock channelling all her comic energy in the lead). Much of the central conceit feels dated - oh look, here's a woman acting "gross" and "masculine" - and there are some egregious scenes (the all-male FBI team judging the female agents to see which one is sexy enough to go undercover at a beauty pageant). It's fine, rather dated, rarely hilarious, but gets by on stratospheric star power. (Netflix)
Jurassic Park (1993): ***** Now this is more like it. Again, watched with the kids; disappointed that neither of them seemed particularly freaked out by it, but they did enjoy it. The slow-build tension still works (it feels a bit like the early stages of a disaster movie); the lead performances remain as iconic as ever; and the majesty of what was achieved still works. The whole film still works; as a tense monster blockbuster it remains a masterpiece. It's interesting nowadays to look back at the ever-so-slightly dated effects and realise that there are probably only a dozen CG shots in the film, and most of the time the dinos were animatronic. Anyway, it's excellent, but as everyone has seen it, they probably already know. (UHD Blu-ray)
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Post by simple on May 5, 2024 8:28:54 GMT
Seems a bit of a low score for JP there
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Post by Gruf on May 5, 2024 8:55:27 GMT
Godzilla minus one 7/10 Good fun, if a little melodramatic at times. CGI oscillated between quality modern stuff and Ray Harryhausen. Overall it was a old school big dumb enjoyable monster movie.
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Post by dfunked on May 5, 2024 9:04:00 GMT
Saint Maud - 7/10 Solid performance by the lead and has a decent undercurrent of creeping dread.
Humane - 5/10 A decent premise, but just feels a bit all over the place after a solid opening. Colantoni absolutely hams it up and feels like he belongs in a different film.
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Post by dmukgr on May 5, 2024 9:55:57 GMT
Godzilla minus one 7/10 Good fun, if a little melodramatic at times. CGI oscillated between quality modern stuff and Ray Harryhausen. Overall it was an old school big dumb enjoyable monster movie. I watched this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. Going to watch the original soon having been inspired to track it down now.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 5, 2024 10:06:24 GMT
This might sound like I'm stretching, but I think the CG in Godzilla Minus One is meant to look a little ropey. It's meant to be a little awkward and unnatural, because it's a throwback to the "guy in rubber suit" days. Ditto for the melodrama.
And that really, really worked for me.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 5, 2024 10:11:09 GMT
I think you're stretching. In an incorrect way that will lead to injury.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 5, 2024 10:11:42 GMT
Anyway Eastern Promises (Tubi) Cronenberg does a gangster with Viggo, and Naomi Watts is there too. It's a solid little movie, and the nude fight scene is absolutely brutal. 8/10
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Post by dmukgr on May 5, 2024 10:38:13 GMT
This might sound like I'm stretching, but I think the CG in Godzilla Minus One is meant to look a little ropey. It's meant to be a little awkward and unnatural, because it's a throwback to the "guy in rubber suit" days. Ditto for the melodrama. And that really, really worked for me. Yeah that was my take too
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 5, 2024 10:46:22 GMT
Took the youngest to watch what was effectively an NHK documentary about dinosaurs on the big screen. Think 'walking with dinosaurs'.
It's pretty amazing that they can do really good cgi donosaurs on a budget these days, though if I had to pick one I'd still say OG Jurassic Park dinos look better (though that's largely due to clever 'jaws-style' limited viewing of them).
These were proper feathered dinos though, and some were well weird. Good meteor strike as well.
Funniest bit was the end credits when they showed the 4 Japanese blokes all miming the dinos by waving their arms around and making clawing actions, compared to the finished CGI scenes. CGI oscillated between quality modern stuff and Ray Harryhausen. I'm unsure which of those is supposed to be better, but I'm leaning towards the second one.
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Post by Whizzo on May 5, 2024 10:55:29 GMT
The director is a visual effects supervisor, the film was done on a budget of $15M and with an effects team of 35 people.
I think Godzilla Minus One thoroughly deserved its Oscar win.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on May 5, 2024 10:58:33 GMT
The Cabin in the Woods
Watched it for the first time in years and it's still an absolute blast. I may even have enjoyed it more.
I hope whoever cast Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford got an immediate pay rise.
9/10
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Post by Whizzo on May 5, 2024 11:07:09 GMT
Mad Max Fury Road - at a mate's house when he didn't have a clue about Furiosa when the ad came on during the footie.
I'd been thinking about a rewatch before Furiosa comes out, even if as that's a prequel it doesn't really matter, but did so again for the above reason.
Anyway while I enjoyed it again I still think it's probably one of the most overrated films in recent cinema history. It's a fun film with some very good action, far too much noticeable undercranking (a Mad Max staple of course) and a Max that's playing second fiddle to Furiosa.
Mad Max 2 continues to be the best film in the series for me.
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Post by simple on May 5, 2024 11:08:18 GMT
My son refuses to watch Walking With Dinosaurs but will still watch loads of Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures which is the exact same footage with a kids tv presenter greenscreened into it.
Considering he works at a museum he really doesn’t make the most of his time travelling powers. All he does is uses real prehistoric items he sources from the past to replace the modern day models he’s broken during his day job at the museum without telling anyone.
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Post by Chopsen on May 5, 2024 12:46:02 GMT
If he goes back in time and collects the artefact, it's no longer where it would have been to be found for it to end up in a museum. Not only is it a standard time paradox, but the initial discovery would never have happened which is the only reason the item is famous. Plus it wouldn't have aged appropriately and would to all purposes have looked like a modern replica rather than the original thing.
Totally unrealistic. Can't believe you watch this trash.
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Post by mcgeeza on May 5, 2024 13:08:32 GMT
Mad Max Fury Road - at a mate's house when he didn't have a clue about Furiosa when the ad came on during the footie. I'd been thinking about a rewatch before Furiosa comes out, even if as that's a prequel it doesn't really matter, but did so again for the above reason. Anyway while I enjoyed it again I still think it's probably one of the most overrated films in recent cinema history. It's a fun film with some very good action, far too much noticeable undercranking (a Mad Max staple of course) and a Max that's playing second fiddle to Furiosa. Mad Max 2 continues to be the best film in the series for me. Yeah agreed. Although I very much enjoy Fury Road it comes in behind MM2 for me. I might even like MM1 more too. Not for the plot or acting but mainly for the desaturated bleakness of it all compared to Fury Road. We’ll just skip over Thunderdome and pretend it never happened (although ‘We don’t need another hero’ gets a pass for being a banger).
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Post by clemfandango on May 5, 2024 13:21:48 GMT
Thunderdome is ace
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 5, 2024 13:24:57 GMT
I probably like Fury Road the best out of all of them, but they're all various kinds of masterpiece to me.
Thunderdome is definitely the weakest of them, but it's great until (ironically) they get beyond Thunderdome.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 5, 2024 13:31:24 GMT
Anyway, I watched Wild At Heart (on Tubi)
I don't know if it's good or not. It's like a regular road movie about settling down got invaded by weirdo David Lynch cartoon characters.
Bobby Peru is great, though. And Harry Dean Stanton in his regular "nice dude that wandered off the set of a normal movie into this one" role that he often plays for Lynch. And Nic Cage is actually perfect for this kind of movie.
You know what, I've talked myself into thinking it was good. It's a huge mess, but a fun one.
7/10
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Post by simple on May 5, 2024 13:38:48 GMT
I think the first is probably my least favourite Mad Max film but then I’d been introduced to what Mad Max was via 2 and Thunderdome and 1 isn’t really that kind of film so my tweenage expectations weren’t managed particularly well.
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Post by Vandelay on May 5, 2024 14:03:04 GMT
Came here and saw all this Mad Max talk literally right after ordering the Mad Max 4k boxset off Amazon.
Saw 1 and 2 ages ago and can't really remember much about them, other than 1 felt like a completely different film than what I knew of the franchise. Saw Fury Road when it came out in the cinema and thought it was a blast, although I agree it did feel a tad overrated. Never actually seen Thunderdome.
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Post by Whizzo on May 5, 2024 14:07:46 GMT
There's a lot of good stuff in Thunderdome but there's some also some very silly bits too.
It's a shame the game is only 30 FPS on PS5, I completed it on PC but thought about a replay on console but it'd wouldn't feel as nice.
Max would have had more luck at the start of Fury Road with my fully pimped ride from the game.
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Post by rawshark on May 5, 2024 14:08:09 GMT
I’m someone who has Fury Road up there as one of the greatest action films made, but I haven’t got particularly high hopes for Furiosa. Fury Road already has a prequel. And it’s called Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
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