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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2024 20:59:51 GMT
Ultraman:Rising
The animation is amazing and is worth a watch just for that. Kept my 5yr old daughter engaged throughout the 2hr runtime.
7/10
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Post by simple on Jun 28, 2024 12:16:28 GMT
The End That We Start From (netflix)
Jodie Comer and her baby are trapped and trying to survive in a post-flood Britain. Its very slow paced with lots of long shots and Mansell-lite score. It also mostly looks like television more than film. This could easily be a two or three part ITV or Channel 4 drama and you wouldn’t need to change a thing about it since it already looks like, and has the cast of, one.
Its fine. Although, presumably for budget reason, it never quite manages to get across the scale of the flooding. At times its a refugee story, at others its post-apocalyptic, and at others there are glimpses that maybe society is recovering more or less ok. There are emotional stakes in that she’s doing all this to protect her baby but I never felt quite sure just how bleak and at risk she really was to warrant how she was going about it.
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Post by britesparc on Jun 28, 2024 13:03:32 GMT
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) ****
The Bad Boys films are dumb but fun, and this might be both the dumbest and possibly the funnest? The chemistry between Smith and Lawrence is palpable and believable; they’re the heart and soul. But the supporting cast built up in the previous film give this a nice team dynamic, and the action is wild; Adil & Bilall deserve all the props. It's also, I can’t stress this enough, galactically stupid and doesn’t hold up to the slightest scrutiny. Remove at least one star if you like your films to have some passing association with reality.
(Cinema)
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 28, 2024 14:44:27 GMT
The Lord of the Rings (1978, dir. Bakshi) I barely remember now, but I was quite impressed by the animation back then. I might have seen it before ever reading the books to be honest.
When I tried going back to it recently I wasn't that taken with much of it, even though the Nazgul are still great. Similar story with Willow.
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Post by brokenkey on Jun 28, 2024 16:03:26 GMT
A Quiet Place: Day 1. 6/10 and 8/10.It's a short film, at 90 minutes excluding credits, but it could easily have shaved another 15 minutes off, dropped the very repetitive running-away action sequences and kept it purely as a character movie, and then it would have been better.
edit: looking back at the trailer, there's quite a few scenes in there which either aren't in the film, or got changed. So maybe the studio thought it was already too long, and cut it back. Should have cut it back further.
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Post by Tomo on Jun 28, 2024 16:11:33 GMT
Kinds of Kindness - 7/10
Yorgos Lanthimos' new one. An anthology of three loosely connected films all starring the same cast. It's quite funny seeing them pop up in each one, their character's tones and attitudes switched with what came in the last one.
It's dark and dark humoured. There is an Aryton Senna joke... The cast are all great. Nice to see Plemons not being constantly terrifying, instead having various different kinds of mental breakdown.
It's decent but quite a slog tbh. The way the plots reveal themselves in each of the films is very similar, deliberately so, but ennui sets in a bit. I wonder if it was ever pitched as a 3-parter to the streaming platforms. It's definitely very self indulgent.
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Post by Vandelay on Jun 28, 2024 16:50:36 GMT
The End That We Start From (netflix) Jodie Comer and her baby are trapped and trying to survive in a post-flood Britain. Its very slow paced with lots of long shots and Mansell-lite score. It also mostly looks like television more than film. This could easily be a two or three part ITV or Channel 4 drama and you wouldn’t need to change a thing about it since it already looks like, and has the cast of, one. Its fine. Although, presumably for budget reason, it never quite manages to get across the scale of the flooding. At times its a refugee story, at others its post-apocalyptic, and at others there are glimpses that maybe society is recovering more or less ok. There are emotional stakes in that she’s doing all this to protect her baby but I never felt quite sure just how bleak and at risk she really was to warrant how she was going about it. Saw this when it came out at the cinema and would say it looked great on the big screen, so wouldn't agree with it looking more televisual than cinematic. Definitely a bit of a slow burn, but I liked it a lot.
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Post by malek86 on Jun 28, 2024 17:57:34 GMT
The Hobbit (1977)
So I went and watched it again just for kicks, since it had been a while. It's really quite short - maybe it would have benefitted from an extra 15 minutes sprinkled here and there to better flesh out the characters, at least the dwarves, who seem to only exist to be deadweights for Gandalf and Bilbo. Granted that's not much different from the book. The Arkenstone plot has been cut out entirely, but admittedly, Thorin's greed is justified enough with the hoarded gold (though at no point he sits down and starts singing about it... oh wait, he does in the first scene).
The Gollum scene is still great, and his voice actor very convincing, even to someone who's used to Andy Serkis at this point. It's a slightly different approach to the character, but one that works very well.
It may be a bit too rushed at points, but still manages to be mostly faithful to the book, and it's worth it for the songs and animation. With the epic movies affecting almost all Middle Earth works since, the more kiddish visual and sound design actually comes off as a bit of fresh air today.
7.5/10
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jun 29, 2024 8:00:33 GMT
Furiosa
I don't really pay attention to the usual discourse and will prefer to see for myself. Glad I did cos I really enjoyed this.
There were loads of bits where you could see CGI work even for some really mundane stuff like people walking down some steps in the back of a shot but that aside I remained interested to the end.
Chris Hemsworth was great and got whackier and more 'Dementus' throughout with a fucked up ending for him. It's made me want to watch Fury Road again so that's on the cards today at some point.
8/10
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Post by brokenkey on Jun 29, 2024 8:03:42 GMT
Must be something to do with the colouring, but this shirt of CGI complaint (valid) is a lot less noticeable at the cinema.
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Post by Lizard on Jun 29, 2024 8:28:58 GMT
Must be something to do with the colouring, but this shirt of CGI complaint (valid) is a lot less noticeable at the cinema. Well, I couldn't tell any of the shirts were CGI.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 29, 2024 8:46:30 GMT
Yeah, the CGI was more or less perfect at the cinema. The only thing I noticed was some obvious copy/paste motorbikes during a wide shot.
Shirts looked pretty real tbh.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 29, 2024 9:04:55 GMT
Very few people were even wearing shirts.
I didn't notice any obvious cgi, except some of the wide shots of massed motorbikes, and a few of the end car.
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Post by technoish on Jun 29, 2024 9:27:13 GMT
The Creator - Disney+ - 7.5/10
Some really good stuff in this. Great CGI generally, and a strong cast.
I will forgive some of the weaker story points / action stuff. Like, is there no New Asia gvt?! Most of the weapons are just stupid. And like, if EMP weapons exist, why not just deploy those and avoid any destruction or human deaths.
One of the most jarring was the varying scale and size of the Nomad. In some places it is far out in orbit and huge, but then it's flying lowish over the ground and much smaller.
Best part though was the music. Especially at the end it was really epic! And then it flashes up at end, Hans Zimmer. Job well done, Hans!
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Post by rawshark on Jun 29, 2024 21:11:51 GMT
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Spectacularly misses the point of the games and fucking boring to boot.
3/10
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Post by retro74 on Jun 29, 2024 21:34:28 GMT
22 Jump Street (Amazon Prime)
I’ve seen it so many times but it’s never not funny. Greatest credits ever too
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Post by britesparc on Jul 2, 2024 22:06:00 GMT
My epic "watch every Fox Marvel movie ever" experiment is nearing its end.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2017) **
After the triumph of Days of Future Past, this isn’t so much a damp squib as a wet fart. Forgetting everything that made that film hang together, this is a mess. Dull, bloated, with a dreadful central villain whose motives are foggy, it suffers from a weak arc, poor character development, and some really ropey effects. Shoehorns in characters and references that make little sense divorced of context. It’s not even really that it’s bad, or boring; it’s just a terrible, terrible mess.
(Disney+)
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) ***
Another film less than the sum of its parts, and another one that’s messy and ill-defined. We just haven’t spent enough time with these new X-Men to really feel the weight the film asks of us, and the knots it ties itself in to rush through this epic story makes it simultaneously tedious and way too fast. It’s not dreadful – the train sequence is great, and there are very strong performances – but it’s a bit of a confused slog. A very, very low three.
(Disney+)
Only New Mutants (which I've never seen!) and Logan (which is a masterpiece!) left to go. Phew!
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Post by britesparc on Jul 2, 2024 22:41:22 GMT
Just realised I missed one!
Fantastic Four (2015) ** Obviously much-maligned and considered something of a nadir for Fox (and maybe destroyed its director's career). But it's... not dreadful? Yes, the super-serious, Nolan-esque take on the FF is weird and totally out of character, but if you roll with it the first half is pretty decent as the team Do Science whilst navigating egos and angst; and once they get all spaced out, there's a nice body horror treatment to their powers. But the second half is ropey as heck; character and personality devolves in order to service the plot; there's weird tonally-inconsistent stuff that feels like studio notes; and the visual effects vary wildly from the pretty decent (the Thing, Mr Fantastic) to the frankly shoddy (pretty much all the compositing). Also - and I don't want to blame Toby Kebbell here - but Doom is doghsit. Why is he seemingly so hard to get right on screen? Anyway: no it is not good, but it's not the apocalyptic bin fire that I'd been promised. (Disney+)
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Post by simple on Jul 2, 2024 23:48:38 GMT
I think one of the problems both film versions of him have is that they seem to lack the confidence to actually do Doom. Its as if they think a magic using, armour wearing Eastern European head of state is too silly for their stretchy man film.
Although the MCU has long since normalised just doing comic characters as big and colourful as they are on the page so maybe next time.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 2, 2024 23:50:59 GMT
They just need the right actor for him. Chris Pratt. Tom Hardy.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 3, 2024 5:31:13 GMT
I’d say Pedro Pascal if he weren’t already Reed Richards.
Should have kept John Krasinski.
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Post by britesparc on Jul 3, 2024 5:34:58 GMT
Cast his Mandalorian double, it's not as if we ever see his face.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 3, 2024 10:48:05 GMT
You could basically just reimpose Tom Hardy’s Bane in the film. Give him a cgi hood and replace every instance of “Gotham” with “that cursed Richards” and no one would really care.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 3, 2024 17:52:11 GMT
Mmmfpfff ffmmppff mmmfffmmm RICHARDS!!!
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Post by hicksy on Jul 3, 2024 19:53:29 GMT
A Quiet Place: Day One
Schnitzel and Nico were cativating in their purrfect reprisals of Frodo the cat. 10 dreamies/10
Overall another great creature feature leaning heavily into the original films riffs with biggest budget and flashier set pieces. Adds nothing to the key films story arc but still a good character study of likeable well acted leads and if you suspend your belief in places a fun and jumpy ride for the most part.
7.5/10
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Post by britesparc on Jul 5, 2024 13:03:20 GMT
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) **** The first (and maybe second) BHC movie is a masterpiece, a true superstar showcase of Eddie Murphy's talent and comedy. Stylish, iconic, a decent action-cop-thriller, and just hilarious. This fourth outing, forty years later, isn't as good; but that's okay! The third film - itself thirty years old - was fucking dreadful, a fact this film actually acknowledges. What this is, then, is just a damn good time; a nostalgic throwback to the sorts of lighthearted comedy-action films of yesteryear. Tonally reminiscent of the later Bad Boys movies, actually, although not as action-packed. Murphy isn't quite the lightspeed firecracker of the first two films, but he has so much more spark and energy than he did in BHC 3; the addition of an estranged daughter gives him nuance and development but doesn't overburden the film with angst. It just makes me happy, basically. And the fact it isn't shit is a miracle. (Netflix)
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Post by Vortex on Jul 5, 2024 13:11:28 GMT
Wow. I am surprised. I had totally dismissed the new film as not being even worth a go. I will maybe give it a watch some time if there's nothing else on telly.
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Post by mrpon on Jul 5, 2024 13:17:46 GMT
Play BHC Bingo as you watch it to dabb off scenes/dialog/music from the first movie.
It was almost a carbon copy!
6/10
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Post by britesparc on Jul 5, 2024 13:18:04 GMT
YMMV but I do think most people who loved the original will enjoy it. MASSIVELY better than Coming 2 America.
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Post by Vandelay on Jul 5, 2024 15:38:16 GMT
Back from A Quiet Place: Day One. Enjoyable. The New York setting and new protagonist makes it all feel more unique than Part Two, a film that I pretty much forget everything about as soon as I left the screening. That alone makes me rate this slightly higher. Plus, I liked that the terminal condition of the protagonist gave her a good excuse to act in ways that would normally be classic horror film stupid fashion.
Plus, this Frodo was way cuter than Elijah Wood.
Not a patch on the first film and not really anything special, but perfectly fine.
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