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Post by mrpon on Aug 15, 2024 11:01:26 GMT
It's all Greek to me.
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Post by brokenkey on Aug 15, 2024 11:31:00 GMT
Telegraph review title: alien Romulus: Tense, terrifying and icky enough to put you off sex for life.
No harm in taking the Mrs to watch it then.
(I'm joking of couse, she hates horror films)
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 15, 2024 11:40:24 GMT
Cineworld made a good decision in separating horror films with Secret Screamings was handy for you then?
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 15, 2024 14:01:02 GMT
I don't know a roman god beginning with Z!
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Post by apollo on Aug 15, 2024 14:55:09 GMT
it seems The Substance is not out till 20th Sept in the UK, it looks really good
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Post by robthehermit on Aug 15, 2024 14:58:29 GMT
I don't know a roman god beginning with Z! There aren't any. Vulcan is the last alphabetically.
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Post by Gruf on Aug 15, 2024 15:03:43 GMT
Zappo the one with the lightening bolts
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 15, 2024 22:00:28 GMT
The Munsters: A Rob Zombie joint. I actually quite enjoyed it. It’s got Hurley off Lost in it.
It’s one of those movies that isn’t really a movie. It’s just a series of vaguely interconnected skits, stuff just happens, people play more than one character… it’s really odd. And day glow. Really, it’s shot like a feature length pilot than a movie.
But it’s the right kind of dumb and pretty funny (the gag is Herman Munster got the brain of a stand up comic rather than his genius brother).
6/10
The flagship movie on the of the river of shite on Tubi, if people didn’t know it had launched here now. It’s also got that Winnie The Pooh horror movie on it.
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Post by Zomoniac on Aug 15, 2024 22:14:39 GMT
Coraline 3D (cinema)
As the only person in the world who still actually likes 3D cinema, this was always my favourite tech demo. 15 years later and it still is. Also Keith David is a cat.
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Post by simple on Aug 16, 2024 6:05:20 GMT
Kermode says Romulus is fun, tense, gooey, nonsense that’s never boring and is like a greatest hits of callbacks to previous films. Best of the midtier films in the franchise (which are otherwise both underrated).
AngryJoe has gone with a surprisingly measured 8/10. Probably because its something he’s actually invested in rather than screaming at the camera for clicks.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 16, 2024 6:41:08 GMT
I'd rather have a cinema re-release of Aliens then.
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Post by zisssou on Aug 16, 2024 6:42:33 GMT
I think it will depend on how much it annoys me the callback to previous films, because it’s getting quite tiresome having every franchise I like, just constantly throw in… they might as well get Cilla Black in… and here’s X SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!!!
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 16, 2024 6:44:24 GMT
Did they mention if it's more connected to the new ones, or the old ones? Cos I can't remember don't care enough to understand or remember anything that happened in the ones with Magneto in.
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Post by zisssou on Aug 16, 2024 6:49:52 GMT
Romulus has every cast member from all the Alien films, but as CGI. Even the voice acting is AI.
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Post by Binky on Aug 16, 2024 8:07:38 GMT
Terminator Dark Fate (Rewatch, but only for the second time.)
Such a mixed bag of a movie. The action is exciting, the set pieces are fun. Generally speaking though, the movie is completely flat until Arnie shows up.
The Rev-9 terminator concept is cool, but the guy playing him just isn’t terrifying enough. He looks like PeeWee Herman trying to copy Robert Patrick’s mannerisms and that blows any chance of tension.
Killing off John only for them to run the same play with someone else was pretty meh. So you’re just left with another chase film where you don’t really care who lives or dies - except perhaps the hulking T-800, but then we’ve already seem him go already so… where are the stakes?
Then there’s the way it looks. Some of it looks gritty and half decent but for the most part Dark Fate looks like a TV movie of the week, or even cheap American TV. It looks so cheap. I’m not sure if this is a lighting thing, a frame rate thing or what. I actually had to check my TV hadn’t slipped out of cinema mode and into sports mode.
And yet… I still kinda like it. I think it’s the Schwarzenegger effect. I just really like him.
6/10
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Post by Dougs on Aug 16, 2024 8:12:22 GMT
The Fundamentals of Caring. 7/10. Schmaltzy but good fun. Paul Rudd and Craig Roberts bants their way across the US as carer and patient respectively. It's a bit saccharin but has a lot of heart too. Worth a watch if you want some funnies that will hit you in the feels too.
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 16, 2024 8:13:56 GMT
I haven't rewatched it, but I remember thinking that the Arnie/Linda bit was the weakest part of the movie. Which was a shame as that was the bit I was looking forward to.
I thought the bad guy was ok, though he was basically doing Robert Patrick, and I liked the misdirect near the beginning. I also thought the future defender lady (whose name I've now forgotten) was pretty cool, and it's a shame we never got the planned follow ups to find out more about her.
I don't remember the cheapness, but maybe I'd notice on a rewatch.
It does run into the problem of not really having much new to do, which pretty much every terminator movie after 2 has had (and arguably even 2 was just a re-run of 1).
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Post by Binky on Aug 16, 2024 8:27:49 GMT
The Fundamentals of Caring. 7/10. Schmaltzy but good fun. Paul Rudd and Craig Roberts bants their way across the US as carer and patient respectively. It's a bit saccharin but has a lot of heart too. Worth a watch if you want some funnies that will hit you in the feels too. Is that the one with Selena Gomez? If so I really enjoyed that one despite feeling like a bad man for really liking Selena Gomez in it.
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Post by Dougs on Aug 16, 2024 8:29:59 GMT
Yeah, a very young Selena Gomez at that. My niece couldn't work out why she recognised her voice!
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Post by Binky on Aug 16, 2024 8:39:46 GMT
Yeah, a very young Selena Gomez at that. My niece couldn't work out why she recognised her voice! I just checked. She was 24. Phew.
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Post by britesparc on Aug 16, 2024 8:51:03 GMT
I've said it before on here, but my Terminator hot take is that whilst Genysis is a very badly executed film, the central tenet - going back in time and creating a splinter timeline, altering the events of the first film - is actually pretty good, and probably the best way you could tackle Terminator nowadays. It worked for Star Trek, after all.
Meanwhile Dark Fate I found to just be a really boring retread of Terminator 2, which got off on the wrong foot by Alien 3-ing the character the "previous" film (continuity-wise) made you care about.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Aug 16, 2024 8:57:50 GMT
Also, casting two charisma vacuums as your two leads was possibly not the best path for Genisys to take.
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Post by Duffking on Aug 16, 2024 9:16:32 GMT
I think it will depend on how much it annoys me the callback to previous films, because it’s getting quite tiresome having every franchise I like, just constantly throw in… they might as well get Cilla Black in… and here’s X SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!!! There's a lot of the callbacks. An unnecessary amount, I swear in the second half it was like every 5 minutes my brain was going "I know that shot".
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Post by Bill the kidding on Aug 16, 2024 9:19:30 GMT
I've said it before on here, but my Terminator hot take is that whilst Genysis is a very badly executed film, the central tenet - going back in time and creating a splinter timeline, altering the events of the first film - is actually pretty good, and probably the best way you could tackle Terminator nowadays. It worked for Star Trek, after all. Meanwhile Dark Fate I found to just be a really boring retread of Terminator 2, which got off on the wrong foot by Alien 3-ing the character the "previous" film (continuity-wise) made you care about. This really annoyed me in Alien3, and probably would have really annoyed me in Dark Fate if it wasn't 20 years later. My investment in current day Edward Furlong is a lot less than it was back in 1991. Couldn't you argue that Dark Fate essentially creates a splinter timeline, away from everything that happens in T3+, and what we'd been expecting from T1 and T2, by virtue of the Alien3-ing. We no-longer have skynet, etc.. I still maintain that Sarah Connors Chronicles was the most interesting of the post T2 stuff... even though it never really got to go where it was going.
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Post by rawshark on Aug 16, 2024 9:21:28 GMT
I heard someone tried to make Salvation watchable, but he got yelled at.
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Post by zisssou on Aug 16, 2024 9:32:36 GMT
I think it will depend on how much it annoys me the callback to previous films, because it’s getting quite tiresome having every franchise I like, just constantly throw in… they might as well get Cilla Black in… and here’s X SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!!! There's a lot of the callbacks. An unnecessary amount, I swear in the second half it was like every 5 minutes my brain was going "I know that shot". It's almost as if they can't do a franchise film without some nod to the past. Are they worried about the backlash of fans, that this isn't Alien? Sure, Alien should always have a certain look, that's not really debatable. But, nodding back to previous characters.. or resurrecting them. Again I'm mostly ranting based on Kermode. And I'm sure the film is a good popcorn flick.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 16, 2024 12:19:06 GMT
Alien : Romulus in a cinema
The house lights go down, the title card comes up, I'm still surprised Natasha Kaplinski (yes that one) is the BBFC President, the house lights come back up, problem with the film, screening cancelled.
Can't recommend that film at the moment.
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Post by Binky on Aug 16, 2024 12:29:35 GMT
Alien : Romulus in a cinema The house lights go down, the title card comes up, I'm still surprised Natasha Kaplinski (yes that one) is the BBFC President, the house lights come back up, problem with the film, screening cancelled. Can't recommend that film at the moment. Oh that's frustrating!
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 16, 2024 12:31:43 GMT
It's not ideal.
One of the most annoying cinema failures was watching the first Avengers and the film suddenly crashed about 15 minutes from the end, fortunately that was solved after about 15 minutes or so. I guess they had to redownload the film.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 16, 2024 12:35:18 GMT
Alien : Romulus in a cinema The house lights go down, the title card comes up, I'm still surprised Natasha Kaplinski (yes that one) is the BBFC President, the house lights come back up, problem with the film, screening cancelled. Can't recommend that film at the moment. Wut? Natasha Kaplinski?! Wut?
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