Lovely review mate!
Despite it being quite possibly my favourite Sci Fi film in donkeys years, I can't really say that I disagree with anything you wrote... It's all in where you're standing I guess.
What film did you watch last night?
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Lovely review mate!
Despite it being quite possibly my favourite Sci Fi film in donkeys years, I can't really say that I disagree with anything you wrote... It's all in where you're standing I guess.
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I watched it as well yesterday evening. Thought it was ok with decent action and not bad acting and story... Except one particular major plot point that just didn't make sense whatsoever.
6.5/10 from me mainly because of what I mentioned above..
May have deserved an extra point for the naked Mexican cop beatdown scene, WOW Mackenzie Davis has an incredible athletic physique and amazing rear! 
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6.5/10 from me mainly because of what I mentioned above..May have deserved an extra point for the naked Mexican cop beatdown scene, WOW Mackenzie Davis has an incredible athletic physique and amazing rear!
I'd be surprised if that was her, usually have a stand in for those scenes.
Kill the Irishman. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1416801/
Seen it before but settled on watching it again as I struggle these days to find something that interests me. Well worth viewing if you like crime dramas.
Seen it before but settled on watching it again as I struggle these days to find something that interests me. Well worth viewing if you like crime dramas.
Two Netflix horrors:
In the Tallgrass - 1/10. Just annoying. Gave up.
Eli - 5/10. Some fun spooky scenes but all characters apart from Eli, the actor being pretty good for a kid, are annoying/2D. Point added for a very sudden and amusing death towards the end
point deducted for the out of nowhere conclusion.
Really not very good...
In the Tallgrass - 1/10. Just annoying. Gave up.
Eli - 5/10. Some fun spooky scenes but all characters apart from Eli, the actor being pretty good for a kid, are annoying/2D. Point added for a very sudden and amusing death towards the end
point deducted for the out of nowhere conclusion.Really not very good...
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Yeah, I never thought of that... Although, I am pretty sure that she did the scene herself naked as a recent interview she talked about her grueling fittness regime, being naked on set etc.
The Circle. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4287320/
Pretty good for one-off viewing but it's not something I'd watch again. It initially hooked my interest due to Hanks being in it.
Pretty good for one-off viewing but it's not something I'd watch again. It initially hooked my interest due to Hanks being in it.
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ZombieLand 2 - 6/10 - Whilst it's good to catch up to the gang a decade later this sequel is just missing "something", like all the jokes are still funny and the story is OK but there's a spark missing which the first one had. It's still OK and made me laugh a lot but it just didn't hit all the right notes for me. The Credits scene however is awesome!
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Yep to sum up it's boring as watching paint dry
I didn't feel like 2049 even explored the world of the original. The futuristic city feeling replaced with baron wasteland that was more Ghosts of Mars than Blade Runner. It's good to try new things in sequels but that seemed like a budget cut decision to me.
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Cold Pursuit 7/10
Not your typical Liam Neeson movie with a fair bit of dark humour
Not your typical Liam Neeson movie with a fair bit of dark humour
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Joker in local Cineworld. The room was full, terribly calibrated, unsharp projector running at less than 50%, bleak and dim on the screen too narrow for the format and the whole lot was not centred properly, even the title at the beginning was cut on one side. That's my last ever visit to that venue.
Superbly acted, grittily scripted, harshly filmed origin story nobody ever asked for. It has Oscar laurels written all over it and repeat watchability of an Oscar winner - be it Chicago or Les Miserables, you get the picture. I appreciated the acting, the format, the take on the story and found the idea of superhero universe meets Se7en-like-grunge refreshing but now that it's done - I hope no one makes another one - one was enough and I'll never watch it again. 8/10 first viewing, 5/10 if I had to see it again.
Superbly acted, grittily scripted, harshly filmed origin story nobody ever asked for. It has Oscar laurels written all over it and repeat watchability of an Oscar winner - be it Chicago or Les Miserables, you get the picture. I appreciated the acting, the format, the take on the story and found the idea of superhero universe meets Se7en-like-grunge refreshing but now that it's done - I hope no one makes another one - one was enough and I'll never watch it again. 8/10 first viewing, 5/10 if I had to see it again.
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Aliens - 9.5/10
Still one of the all time great sci-fi/action movies. Hard to believe it's now 33 years old although especially on big screen TV one or two of the SFX are starting to look dated.
Packed with one liners delivered with great panache by the ensemble cast - "Breakfast in bed", "Game over man", "They mostly come at night, mostly..."
The only downer is that the advent of the AvP movies and the two Alien prequels have retconned things a little bit. Weyland Yutani actually knew all about the Xenomorph thanks to their involvement with the Predators and it is inconceivable they had no telemetry from the ships in Prometheus and Covenant. You also start to see the great big plot holes, mainly what sort of operation would not have left a second squad on the ship in orbit (which itself would have been piloted by space-naval crew) or committed all the ground forces in one push when they found the colonist PDT's. You begin to think the "Company" requested the most dysfunctional platoon with an inexperienced Lt. (Gorman) just so it would all go wrong. Cameron forgot one of the most basic rules of combat engagement - no plan survives first contact with the enemy!
Just how did the Queen manage to lay two eggs on the Sulaco and surely to god, Ripley would have searched the ship from bow to stern for any contamination before going into hypersleep and the subsequent events of Alien 3 which completely undid all the efforts of Aliens?
Still a great guilty pleasure movie, kicked back on the recliner with a beer or two.
Still one of the all time great sci-fi/action movies. Hard to believe it's now 33 years old although especially on big screen TV one or two of the SFX are starting to look dated.
Packed with one liners delivered with great panache by the ensemble cast - "Breakfast in bed", "Game over man", "They mostly come at night, mostly..."
The only downer is that the advent of the AvP movies and the two Alien prequels have retconned things a little bit. Weyland Yutani actually knew all about the Xenomorph thanks to their involvement with the Predators and it is inconceivable they had no telemetry from the ships in Prometheus and Covenant. You also start to see the great big plot holes, mainly what sort of operation would not have left a second squad on the ship in orbit (which itself would have been piloted by space-naval crew) or committed all the ground forces in one push when they found the colonist PDT's. You begin to think the "Company" requested the most dysfunctional platoon with an inexperienced Lt. (Gorman) just so it would all go wrong. Cameron forgot one of the most basic rules of combat engagement - no plan survives first contact with the enemy!
Just how did the Queen manage to lay two eggs on the Sulaco and surely to god, Ripley would have searched the ship from bow to stern for any contamination before going into hypersleep and the subsequent events of Alien 3 which completely undid all the efforts of Aliens?
Still a great guilty pleasure movie, kicked back on the recliner with a beer or two.
The Man with the Iron Heart. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3296908/
Watched it over a couple of evenings. Enjoyed it rather a lot, in fact, it seemed to get better as it went on. Jack O'Connell is one of my favourite actors in recent years.
Watched it over a couple of evenings. Enjoyed it rather a lot, in fact, it seemed to get better as it went on. Jack O'Connell is one of my favourite actors in recent years.
The Jackal. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119395/
Saw this on BBC3 so gave it a go and was quite entertained. I don't know if it's the age of the movie but I found one or two of the disguises Willis wore to be quite amusing.
Quite impressed by Gere's Irish accent (though I am English so what would I know).
Saw this on BBC3 so gave it a go and was quite entertained. I don't know if it's the age of the movie but I found one or two of the disguises Willis wore to be quite amusing.
Quite impressed by Gere's Irish accent (though I am English so what would I know).
