What film did you watch last night?

Honey Don't! (2025) - 4/10

A series of unconnected events which are loosely connected by an investigation which does get resolved but doesn’t really go anywhere.

Good acting and use of its small-town setting, but slow and boring and not particularly funny or moving.
 
Menace 2 society (1993)
7/10 solid, I don't remember this being as emotional. Maybe it's my old age

Jaws
9.5/10
Forgot how good this was, classic. Sadly there were no decent cinema timings when kids were at school. So watched it with the surround sound cranked.
 
Mission impossible dead reckoning, now the 2nd part is out. Good film seemed rushed in parts probably where it’s been cut to **** to fit into the run time which is a shame. Hopefully Paris joins the team. Onto the 2nd part tomorrow.
 
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Velvet Buzzsaw - 6/10

Star-studded cast, and some great scenes but ultimately quite slow placed and the commentary on the art world stuff felt a bit heavy handed.
 
Kept seeing so much about Kpop Demon Hunters decided to watch it and was actually surprised how much I enjoyed it. I don't usually like musicals either but the songs were pretty good too.
 
The Usual Suspects 9 maybe 10/10

I remember seeing this when it came out in the 90's.
This doesn't require justification.
The entire film, we're made to believe Keaton is a rat ex cop, and he's betrayed everyone... Rewatch this straight after and study Spacey - whenever Sose is mentioned, they'll be looking at Spacey off camera and in true fear, despite us never clicking that he is Sose, then Spacey will portray genuine fear of the situation/Sose, depending on whether at that time he is pretending to know who Sose is/believe the stories - this truely is an exceptional 4th wall break easter egg, throughout. And that's without compliamenting the way he fakes being a cripple to change your perspective of him.

For example, when Kobayashi ends up with the upper hand in the sky scraper scene, when he looks at Keaton through the glass and nods, as a '**** you, I've won, back off', in reality he's actually nodding at Spacey, humbling him, that he's done what was asked - but the glass only purposely reflects Kobayashi and Keaton. These clever 4th wal break touches, make this a joy to rewatch!



The 'only' negative, if you can class it as one, that I can give this film is, when you rewatch it, you can tell Sose is Spacey's voice at the beginning on the boat scene when talking to Keaton, before killing him, but that's being anal, and I'd strongly doubt that anyone even noticed that. As Spacey portrays Verbal, so individually.

Spacey's 'Verbal' was undoubtedly, the influence for Edward Norton's special needs character in 'The Score' - which is still a good movie, don't get me wrong :)

Manbatius said:
Menace 2 society (1993)
7/10 solid, I don't remember this being as emotional. Maybe it's my old age

Jaws
9.5/10
Forgot how good this was, classic. Sadly there were no decent cinema timings when kids were at school. So watched it with the surround sound cranked.
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"I said with fries mother ******!"

"Not looking too good is it chief!"

Props to you, 2 of my favourite films, and what a varied choice to follow each other, I like your style!
 
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Watched In the Lost Lands, really dissapointing.
Poor acting, bland action and messy story, the visuals were ok but its definitely style over substance.
2.5/10
 
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

The wife wanted to watch it as she's a fan of the series. After reading reviews here I wasn't expecting much.

This is an absolute turd of a film. Almost every scene looks like exactly what it is, actors in front of a green screen. Non of the lighting matches the background and it makes it stand out a mile.

The story is just a stupid fetch quest that sees the least famous actors killed off first. Loads of scenes are either taken from other films or from the original Jurassic Park. Plus you've got Burke from Aliens.

You've got Ed Skrein doing some weird Ali G impression. Scarlet Johansson as a military expert looking like she can't handle a weapon. She's also using the Mark Walberg acting method of being out of breath in almost every scene. Or Mahershala Ali continuously shouting a characters name while they're being eaten, because that will save them won't it? Why did the doctor nerd character make the most annoying noises eating Altoids? I wanted him gone before he even stepped on the boat.

How can all of these massive dinosaurs sneak up on everyone? Except they aren't dinosaurs are they? More like they're designed with a random parts generator of creatures from other films. Particularly the main one, to me a cross between the Alien Resurrection alien and the Rancor from Return of the Jedi.

Why do all the dinosaurs hate boats? Why do they spend massive amounts of energy chasing and trying to eat what equates to a morsel of food? It's like doing a 5k run for two Skittles.

How can a dinosaur chewing on an inflatable boat, not make any holes in it? Why did a T Rex that had just eaten, fell asleep and still had loads of its kill left, then try to eat a boat and everyone in it.

Throw all that together with every ounce of movie stupid you can muster plus a ton of obvious product placement for Mars and you end up with one of the worst films I seen in recent years. How did it gross over $800 million dollars?

0/10
 
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Watched the Accountant 2. Was not expecting much having read some of the reviews on here but really enjoyed it although a very different film from the first.
 
Thursday Murder Club.. 6/10

Quite charming and humorous in parts.
Each of the four main characters were enjoyable. Although I'm not sure why Pierce Brosnan was cast, just seemed out of place.
 
Encanto!

Wasn't impressed. Singing was screechy and only one song was semi-memorable, but visuals were lovely.

Nowhere near as good as usual Disney standard, but was OK.
 
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barmyllama said:
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

The wife wanted to watch it as she's a fan of the series. After reading reviews here I wasn't expecting much.

This is an absolute turd of a film. Almost every scene looks like exactly what it is, actors in front of a green screen. Non of the lighting matches the background and it makes it stand out a mile.

The story is just a stupid fetch quest that sees the least famous actors killed off first. Loads of scenes are either taken from other films or from the original Jurassic Park. Plus you've got Burke from Aliens.

You've got Ed Skrein doing some weird Ali G impression. Scarlet Johansson as a military expert looking like she can't handle a weapon. She's also using the Mark Walberg acting method of being out of breath in almost every scene. Or Mahershala Ali continuously shouting a characters name while they're being eaten, because that will save them won't it? Why did the doctor nerd character make the most annoying noises eating Altoids? I wanted him gone before he even stepped on the boat.

How can all of these massive dinosaurs sneak up on everyone? Except they aren't dinosaurs are they? More like they're designed with a random parts generator of creatures from other films. Particularly the main one, to me a cross between the Alien Resurrection alien and the Rancor from Return of the Jedi.

Why do all the dinosaurs hate boats? Why do they spend massive amounts of energy chasing and trying to eat what equates to a morsel of food? It's like doing a 5k run for two Skittles.

How can a dinosaur chewing on an inflatable boat, not make any holes in it? Why did a T Rex that had just eaten, fell asleep and still had loads of its kill left, then try to eat a boat and everyone in it.

Throw all that together with every ounce of movie stupid you can muster plus a ton of obvious product placement for Mars and you end up with one of the worst films I seen in recent years. How did it gross over $800 million dollars?

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Are you aware a lot of this was shot on location?

It was dinosaurs eating people. Just a bit of light entertainment. I think a lot enjoyed it as thats all they wanted.
 
Efour said:
God damnit, gonna watch kpop demon hunters tonight...
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Efour said:
Nope I got 30s in and turned it off, then at work put it on again and turned it off after 5 mins, the first song I think.

Wtf is wrong with you guys it's awful.:p
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I’m usually open to giving pretty much any film a try, so watched the trailer and listened to the couple of tracks posted earlier in the thread and nah, I think I’ll pass…

For some reason, music seems to offend me much quicker than pretty much anything else in a film. I didn’t get on with Deadpool & Wolverine either, because of that awful soundtrack.
 
steve5424 said:
Are you aware a lot of this was shot on location?

It was dinosaurs eating people. Just a bit of light entertainment. I think a lot enjoyed it as thats all they wanted.
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Then there's no excuse for how crap and fake it looked. It was painfully obvious what was green screen and what was real. In fact it looked more like rear projection than green screen. Because the backgrounds looked dull washed out compared to the actors and the foreground. Which given the directors track record is just absurd. His debut film Monsters looked better than this and cost half a million dollars.

As for being light entertainment. For me, there was nothing that I haven't seen before and done better in every single way. If you thought it was entertaining then good for you. You're obviously far more easily entertained than I am.
 
barmyllama said:
Then there's no excuse for how crap and fake it looked. It was painfully obvious what was green screen and what was real. In fact it looked more like rear projection than green screen. Because the backgrounds looked dull washed out compared to the actors and the foreground. Which given the directors track record is just absurd. His debut film Monsters looked better than this and cost half a million dollars.

As for being light entertainment. For me, there was nothing that I haven't seen before and done better in every single way. If you thought it was entertaining then good for you. You're obviously far more easily entertained than I am.
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It was all worth it in the end though, to see those CGI dolphins next to the boat that probably wasn't even moving, that's probably not even in real water :cry: and the T-rex having a lil snooze after a hard day of trying to kill everything in sight :P
 
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