Stop trash talking my new favourite movie!
It doesn't run for 2 hours, it's about 90 minutes max.
What film did you watch last night?
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Stop trash talking my new favourite movie!
It doesn't run for 2 hours, it's about 90 minutes max.
Though id score it higher, I agree. Nothing happens for the majority of it, far too long.
Doctor Sleep - 7/10. Good sequel, not that it was actually needed. Some good references back to the first too.
It didn't build up the tension or fear as the first one did, but worth a watch.
Also found the baseball kid scene quite disturbing
Watch this a few months back now and reflecting on it, i'd be a bit more generous, give it an 8/8.5...let down for me is the over use of CGI in parts, however I don't think it could be avoided due to nature of the scenes.
It's going to be unpopular but I think it's almost as good as The Shining.
Agree that the scene with the kid was horrid viewing but really hammers home the evil nature of the group.
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The Old Guard - just awful in almost every way. Casting in particular was a disaster, especially the bad guy and the soldier girl - they killed this movie on their own, but there was a lot more wrong with it. 3/10 - wish i hadn't bothered.
Greyhound - 6.5/10
I really enjoyed it on the whole, but this is the rare case where the film actually needed to be longer! It was over in a flash and there was not enough time to build up the characters and even the man himself, Mr Hanks.
The CGI was on the dodgy side and the score whenever a submarine was present was just a bit ‘on the nose’ and overplayed.
Otherwise it was an enjoyable way to spend 88(!) minutes.
I really enjoyed it on the whole, but this is the rare case where the film actually needed to be longer! It was over in a flash and there was not enough time to build up the characters and even the man himself, Mr Hanks.
The CGI was on the dodgy side and the score whenever a submarine was present was just a bit ‘on the nose’ and overplayed.
Otherwise it was an enjoyable way to spend 88(!) minutes.
He was indeed. The chubby kid Harry lived with.
Fury.
Was ok in places, though seeing German AT teams unable to take out Sherman's travelling slowly in a straight line directly in front of them was somewhat derpy. The movie made a big deal about having an actual Tiger Tank in it, but then squandered it by putting it into a battle that made really no sense, for some unknown reason the Tiger stops firing altogether while "Fury" gets behind it (directly in line with the Tigers gun at points) and takes it out.
Just the standard Hollywood switch off your brain movie.
Was ok in places, though seeing German AT teams unable to take out Sherman's travelling slowly in a straight line directly in front of them was somewhat derpy. The movie made a big deal about having an actual Tiger Tank in it, but then squandered it by putting it into a battle that made really no sense, for some unknown reason the Tiger stops firing altogether while "Fury" gets behind it (directly in line with the Tigers gun at points) and takes it out.
Just the standard Hollywood switch off your brain movie.
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Agree with all of your points. I heard the director talk about the film before watching it and she said she had previously been forced to cast white leads by the studios she worked for so this was her chance to prove a point. Think she did a very good job, never allow directors to put agendas before their films.
The explosions in the water looked superimposed, the boats had a strange grit to them and it just didn’t look/feel realistic. CGI, CGI water and actual water never mix well.
The plane in the opening scene is another example. I could go on and I’m just a bit picky either way
State of Grace (1990) - Sean Penn, Garry Oldman, Ed Harris
Holy **** how have I never seen this film before! In doing some research it appears this film was released at the same time as Goodfellas, had some interference from the studio to cut scenes and sadly it got sidelined and was a box office flop.
It is hard to believe this film is not more well known, a lot of crime film tropes from the 90s are in this film but this predates nearly them all. The film isn’t perfect, but the performances are incredible and it has a style and swagger that makes it hard to believe this came out before anything from Tarantino etc.
A hidden gem if there ever was one.
After watching it, go and find the trailer on YouTube, you can see some snippets of the sadly deleted scenes which would have expanded the story further.
8/10
Holy **** how have I never seen this film before! In doing some research it appears this film was released at the same time as Goodfellas, had some interference from the studio to cut scenes and sadly it got sidelined and was a box office flop.
It is hard to believe this film is not more well known, a lot of crime film tropes from the 90s are in this film but this predates nearly them all. The film isn’t perfect, but the performances are incredible and it has a style and swagger that makes it hard to believe this came out before anything from Tarantino etc.
A hidden gem if there ever was one.
After watching it, go and find the trailer on YouTube, you can see some snippets of the sadly deleted scenes which would have expanded the story further.
8/10
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Joker
5.5/10
(.5 added as the acting for me was great)
I felt a bit bored tbh.
The ‘clever’ ending made me feel nothing.
If they dropped the Joker connection (which felt forced to say the least) I felt it would have been better as a psychological drama. That way it would have been free to follow its own story without the oh look here’s the future batman now back to the story.
5.5/10
(.5 added as the acting for me was great)
I felt a bit bored tbh.
The ‘clever’ ending made me feel nothing.
If they dropped the Joker connection (which felt forced to say the least) I felt it would have been better as a psychological drama. That way it would have been free to follow its own story without the oh look here’s the future batman now back to the story.
Parasite
I had a British Gas rewards thing for Sky Store so grabbed this. Very good. Didn't really know what to expect tbh but managed to grab me immediately (which was good because I do tend to lose concentration and get bored pretty quickly with films and start about 6 before finally settling on something. Or sack them all off and watch an episode of Taboo, which is really good...)
Where was I.. Ah yes, Parasite... An odd vibe about it that I liked and a weird relationship you have with the main family. You sort of like them, but...
Pretty eye raising sexy scene towards the end too, which is always welcome
8/10
Was on my hols last week in a narrowboat (first time, good fun. Didn't die or kill anyone. Nor break the boat) but no tv signal all week. Luckily it had a dvd player and I had grabbed my Shane Meadows box set at the last moment before we left so watched a few dvd's through the week.
24/7.
Only one I'd not seen before and was alright. Bob 'Oskins was pretty decent but the film was a bit 'meh'. 5.5/10
This Is England
Not as gritty as I remember when I first watched it but well acted by all involved. A little bit with the relationships between the 12 year old lad and the 17/18 year old lass. Deffo would not be allowed if it was the other way around.
8/10
Dead Mans Shoes.
Classic. Nuff said.
9/10
I had a British Gas rewards thing for Sky Store so grabbed this. Very good. Didn't really know what to expect tbh but managed to grab me immediately (which was good because I do tend to lose concentration and get bored pretty quickly with films and start about 6 before finally settling on something. Or sack them all off and watch an episode of Taboo, which is really good...)
Where was I.. Ah yes, Parasite... An odd vibe about it that I liked and a weird relationship you have with the main family. You sort of like them, but...
Pretty eye raising sexy scene towards the end too, which is always welcome
8/10
Was on my hols last week in a narrowboat (first time, good fun. Didn't die or kill anyone. Nor break the boat) but no tv signal all week. Luckily it had a dvd player and I had grabbed my Shane Meadows box set at the last moment before we left so watched a few dvd's through the week.
24/7.
Only one I'd not seen before and was alright. Bob 'Oskins was pretty decent but the film was a bit 'meh'. 5.5/10
This Is England
Not as gritty as I remember when I first watched it but well acted by all involved. A little bit
with the relationships between the 12 year old lad and the 17/18 year old lass. Deffo would not be allowed if it was the other way around.8/10
Dead Mans Shoes.
Classic. Nuff said.
9/10
The Watchmen (Directors Cut) - 9/10 - Easily one of my favourite films although a difficult score for some to agree with I know. When I saw this for the first time many moons ago I had no idea what it was about as I'd never heard of the comic before. All I knew was a very basic "its some alternate timeline superhero movie" and that it was made by Zack Snyder who'd made 300 which I also really enjoyed.
183 minutes later I realised I hadn't noticed that over 3 hours had just "vanished". I was utterly drawn in and fully immersed into the film, feeling every emotional beat, understanding all the small character nuances even though I'd never seen them before and transfixed by the storyline unfolding in front of me.
I know it's not everyones cup of tea and I think god awful marketing made it appear to be different sort of film when it hit the cinemas but for me, as I only saw it for the first time years later with no pre-conceived ideas, it was the first film I'd seen in over a decade which managed on first viewing to draw me in so much everything else just disappeared until it was over. I usually have a numb bum'o'meter rating for how much I enjoy a film where, if I notice that I've got a numb bum before 1 hour is up then the film isn't really drawing me in because I notice the physical discomfort, but anything over an hour is usually pretty good with films I consider excellent making it until they end, usually around 2 hours, before I notice anything - this made it the whole 3 hours and I still didn't feel a thing.
183 minutes later I realised I hadn't noticed that over 3 hours had just "vanished". I was utterly drawn in and fully immersed into the film, feeling every emotional beat, understanding all the small character nuances even though I'd never seen them before and transfixed by the storyline unfolding in front of me.
I know it's not everyones cup of tea and I think god awful marketing made it appear to be different sort of film when it hit the cinemas but for me, as I only saw it for the first time years later with no pre-conceived ideas, it was the first film I'd seen in over a decade which managed on first viewing to draw me in so much everything else just disappeared until it was over. I usually have a numb bum'o'meter rating for how much I enjoy a film where, if I notice that I've got a numb bum before 1 hour is up then the film isn't really drawing me in because I notice the physical discomfort, but anything over an hour is usually pretty good with films I consider excellent making it until they end, usually around 2 hours, before I notice anything - this made it the whole 3 hours and I still didn't feel a thing.
Finished off my run of the Star Wars prequels.
Attack of the Clones:
It’s just not particularly exciting and by far away the weakest (and by that I mean the least fun) of the three. Anakin is super creepy with his affections towards ‘Hot-Abs’ Portman. Also, the bit where he goes on the rampage, and more so his subsequent reaction to Hot-Abs is pretty darn dark and perhaps the darkest moment of the whole series.
Otherwise it’s really rather slow and unmemorable. Dooku is just sort of an empty villain. In this one they really ramp up the stupid Yoda dialogue with perhaps the most stupid line of all time “around the survivors, a perimeter, create” - wtf is that, stfu Yoda.
There is some pretty cool Warhammer 40k esque shots at the end but it’s hard to be invested beyond the spectacle.
Eh, it’s OK.
Revenge of the Sith
For all the shortcomings of this film, it really does pack a heavy punch of tragedy despite all the pantomime. It’s almost impossible not to feel a little heartbroken by Anakin’s turn to the dark side. The scenes with Anakin are up there as the best in the whole series and, being forgiving of its lowlights (stupid pantomime Palpatine, silly lava battle), it’s possibly one of my favourites. I am being rather forgiving I guess as it is somewhat long. Just that feeling of defeat and sadness is lingering and troubling. It’s sort of the most pivotal film in the whole Skywalker Saga in the sense of good vs evil etc. That yappy lizard can stfu though.
Overall:
I really don’t know which trilogy I like the best... ESB is clearly the best film by a mile, but the other two in the original trilogy are either a little tired feeling (ANH - especially after TFA) or just flat out not very good (ROTJ - that is really propped up by nostalgia and carried by the other two films). The prequels are mostly a lot of light fun and the sequel trilogy is comparatively laboured, brooding and serious.
I suppose I can just say that I enjoyed the prequel trilogy more than I thought and I appreciated the set-up for the downfall of the republic a lot more too. The only film of the 3 that felt a little ‘kiddy’ was The Phantom Menace (with the other two lacking the poop humour and having some really rather dark moments).
A new appreciation of the prequels, I have found.
Attack of the Clones:
It’s just not particularly exciting and by far away the weakest (and by that I mean the least fun) of the three. Anakin is super creepy with his affections towards ‘Hot-Abs’ Portman. Also, the bit where he goes on the rampage, and more so his subsequent reaction to Hot-Abs is pretty darn dark and perhaps the darkest moment of the whole series.
Otherwise it’s really rather slow and unmemorable. Dooku is just sort of an empty villain. In this one they really ramp up the stupid Yoda dialogue with perhaps the most stupid line of all time “around the survivors, a perimeter, create” - wtf is that, stfu Yoda.
There is some pretty cool Warhammer 40k esque shots at the end but it’s hard to be invested beyond the spectacle.
Eh, it’s OK.
Revenge of the Sith
For all the shortcomings of this film, it really does pack a heavy punch of tragedy despite all the pantomime. It’s almost impossible not to feel a little heartbroken by Anakin’s turn to the dark side. The scenes with Anakin are up there as the best in the whole series and, being forgiving of its lowlights (stupid pantomime Palpatine, silly lava battle), it’s possibly one of my favourites. I am being rather forgiving I guess as it is somewhat long. Just that feeling of defeat and sadness is lingering and troubling. It’s sort of the most pivotal film in the whole Skywalker Saga in the sense of good vs evil etc. That yappy lizard can stfu though.
Overall:
I really don’t know which trilogy I like the best... ESB is clearly the best film by a mile, but the other two in the original trilogy are either a little tired feeling (ANH - especially after TFA) or just flat out not very good (ROTJ - that is really propped up by nostalgia and carried by the other two films). The prequels are mostly a lot of light fun and the sequel trilogy is comparatively laboured, brooding and serious.
I suppose I can just say that I enjoyed the prequel trilogy more than I thought and I appreciated the set-up for the downfall of the republic a lot more too. The only film of the 3 that felt a little ‘kiddy’ was The Phantom Menace (with the other two lacking the poop humour and having some really rather dark moments).
A new appreciation of the prequels, I have found.
It's a very faithful adaptation of a seminal comic. The comic is pretty much the storyboard for the movie, as was the case with 300.
The superhero archetypes are deconstructed and put in a realistic setting. They have all the problems and foibles of real people, because that what they are under the masks. Only Dr Manhattan is what I'd call a true "superhero" (he changes the course of history as far as the Nixon-era setting goes), and his problem is the exact opposite. His power takes him emotionally further from humanity, to the point where he no longer sees himself as part of the human race. It's a great movie, and along with 300 shows what Snyder can do when given good source material. There's just so many good scenes, like Rorschach catching up with the child killer. What he does is horrible, but we tacitly approve and become complicit with Rorschach, because the system is broken and the crimes being punished are even worse. We understand Manhattan because he's fought back to his humanity, and then recedes away from us as he becomes ever more remote and superhuman. Laurie is caught between the ambitions of her mother, Jon becoming ever more remote as he becomes less human, and the new love who rescues her from that, not understanding that she's the last bridge between Manhatten and humanity. Ozymandius understanding and seeing all, working his plans within plans, finally revealing his ambitions like some mastermind, but twisting the trope at the last moment. What can you say about sociopathic, broken Rorsach, or the viscous psychopathic bully that is Comedian?
Snyder's later DC films have had moments of that brilliance, but studio interference and lack of good writing shows that you need more than visuals, you need to have some kind of connection or understanding of the characters. Watchmen is a brilliant, very underrated film, faithfully based on a brilliant comic.
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Blinded By The Light (2019)
Oh man..
Want to watch a terrible coming of age film? Poor acting, an uninspired script which lacks any kind of pulse, characters which have zero depth or follow through? But fancy something that is showered with Bruce Springsteen songs, yet fails to make any kind of meaningful or believable connections to his music and the main character? Watch this!
So much potential with the story, completely lost. I've not seen anything this bad for a while. Embarrassingly bad.
Oh man..
Want to watch a terrible coming of age film? Poor acting, an uninspired script which lacks any kind of pulse, characters which have zero depth or follow through? But fancy something that is showered with Bruce Springsteen songs, yet fails to make any kind of meaningful or believable connections to his music and the main character? Watch this!
So much potential with the story, completely lost. I've not seen anything this bad for a while. Embarrassingly bad.