What film did you watch last night?

Alita: Battle Angel

A weird mix of live action and CGI set in an utterly nonsensical and bonkers, dystopian future in which the lead character and half the cast are cyborgs. Some people have complained about the uncanny valley style of the visuals, and particularly the lead character, but I really liked it. It's distinct, interesting, and stylish, with the feel of the Magna that inspired it. The plot is serviceable enough, although the film feels annoyingly incomplete, more of a setup movie for a trilogy (that is unlikely to be made) than a complete story on its own. It also has a definite "young adult" feel at times, but overall I really enjoyed it.

Pretty and fun, if shallow and silly 8/10.
 
Free Guy 8.5/10

I'm not into the streamers and all, so maybe missed out a little in their cameos, but generally a fun movie for anyone that understands games.
 
Minusorange said:
Green Knight - 8/10 a visually stunning film, it's of a similar vein to 2001 a Space Odyssey, so you'll probably either love it or hate for it's artistic approach
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I'm in the hate it camp. Just didn't think it was a good film. I agree that it was visually good but i just didn't like the story line. Always like how opinions vary amongst people.
 
Green Knight 6/10. I usually like trippy, slow paced, otherworldy, fever dream, what's real and what does it all mean type movies, but The Green Knight didn't hit the mark for some reason. Perhaps it strayed just a little bit into pretentiousness? And the concluding mystery parts weren't that interesting. It started great and there were elements that were cool for sure - so worth a watch if you like things a little different and weird.
 
Bigpig said:
Free guy 4/10

Felt like a rip off of Ready Player One.

Actually kinda found it a real turn off.

It was throwing in so many of Hollywoods and social media buzz words.Toxic gamer fans, Patriarchy, pronouns and toxic masculinity.

Maybe I was a little bit tired and was missing the jokes but I turned it off.

Might give it a shot at a later date.
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Agreed. Pretty poor overall. Had a couple of fun moments but just badly written and acted throughout. Can't think of any stand out moments really, but plenty of rubbish in there...especially the Twitch streamer cameos. Uergh. Like they need their egos stroking any more.
 
Respect 7/10

The wife's choice. Biopic of Aretha Franklin, starring Jennifer Hudson. Pretty good movie and of course a banging soundtrack. Excellent performance from Hudson.
 
arc@css said:
Old. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954652/

I wasn't expecting too much from this as a majority of the reviews I've seen don't appear to rate it too highly, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Although there's nothing uncommon in movies or T.V. regarding the suspension of disbelief, this is indeed a bit contrived and predictable in places, though, in my biased opinion, it's well worth checking out at least once. :)
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Gave this a shot, if I was at the cinema I would've asked for my money back. I lasted about 40 mins before I had to turn it off, it was hands down the worst film I've seen for as long as I can remember. In fact I'd say it was spectacularly crap.


Free guy - 9/10, what an absolute riot of a film, loved ever moment of it.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - 8/10, was really expecting a blatant half-arsed cash grab but it was actually really good.
 
Free guy - 5/10. Bang average with unimaginative characters and trying to appeal to pop culture far too much. Could have been an interesting concept but the execution was poor.
 
Candyman (2021)

Added nothing of substance to the original story; if anything it weakened it. They should have kept Todd and Madsen as the antagonists and totally done away with the soul harvesting / transmogrification aspects. Lastly, at only 90 minutes, it simply wasn't long enough to establish any real depth to the characters, nor expand upon the legend of Candyman in any meaningful way.

5/10 - Three points for the cinematography, 2 for the (brief) inclusion of Todd.
 
TriedandTested said:
Agreed. Pretty poor overall. Had a couple of fun moments but just badly written and acted throughout. Can't think of any stand out moments really, but plenty of rubbish in there...especially the Twitch streamer cameos. Uergh. Like they need their egos stroking any more.
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Wut?!

Twich streamer cameos were rubbish? I guess you are of a different generation as my kids loved the streamers.

No stand out moments?!

Seeing Free City/GTA rip off.

Captain America's shield, then the Chris Evan cameo.

Hulk fist.

Light sabre and Star Wars music.

+ when the coders were chasing him through the city/tower blocks - very cool.[/spoilers]
 
TriedandTested said:
Agreed. Pretty poor overall. Had a couple of fun moments but just badly written and acted throughout. Can't think of any stand out moments really, but plenty of rubbish in there...especially the Twitch streamer cameos. Uergh. Like they need their egos stroking any more.
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You're the wrong generation for the movie. I agree it wasn't very good, show my nephew it and its getting a 9/10. Only not a 10/10 because it didn't have enough dinosaurs.
 
Begbie said:
You're the wrong generation for the movie. I agree it wasn't very good, show my nephew it and its getting a 9/10. Only not a 10/10 because it didn't have enough dinosaurs.
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I agree and I feel like its been the same for quite a few movies but I watch them because they get high praise in here or in the media so I assume they are "adult friendly".

Clearly a sign I am getting old but so many of the films are really lazy, derivative and completely lack any sort of subtlety. Style over substance and if they want to convey a concept or narrative device they figuratively slap you in the face with it.
 
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