I will be rewatching it again soon as missus wants to see it after I showed her Ari Asters other horror, Midsommar the other day, a film i've now seen 3 times and enjoy more each time. As you mentioned for Hereditary, mountains of detail that becomes apparent on a rewatch.
What film did you watch last night?
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I will be rewatching it again soon as missus wants to see it after I showed her Ari Asters other horror, Midsommar the other day, a film i've now seen 3 times and enjoy more each time. As you mentioned for Hereditary, mountains of detail that becomes apparent on a rewatch.
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AVA (2020) - 3/10
An unoriginal female hitman movie made slightly less unoriginal by focusing on her messed up life, family and struggle to cope with addiction instead of the exotic locales, interesting villains and exciting action scenes.
Good acting from the cast, but they don’t have much to work with and are mostly wasted in this slow and dull movie.
The fight scenes are ok, if few and far between and a bit stiff, the locations are underused and apart from the intro, there’s no style to it at all.
An unoriginal female hitman movie made slightly less unoriginal by focusing on her messed up life, family and struggle to cope with addiction instead of the exotic locales, interesting villains and exciting action scenes.
Good acting from the cast, but they don’t have much to work with and are mostly wasted in this slow and dull movie.
The fight scenes are ok, if few and far between and a bit stiff, the locations are underused and apart from the intro, there’s no style to it at all.
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I've not seen 'Us', but if you didn't get the overt racial commentary in Get Out, what were you even watching?!
It's just his usual lazy daily poke at wokeness, SJW, etc...i've learnt to tune out his cry baby ranting.
Just seen Drive/2011 - Ryan Gosling - must be his chez d'ouevre, a bit reminiscent of the magnificent Leon,
haven't yet bothered to watch BR2049 to its completion but this, in comparison, is gripping and atmospheric,
soundtrack I'll be loading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B007EU12SI
haven't yet bothered to watch BR2049 to its completion but this, in comparison, is gripping and atmospheric,
soundtrack I'll be loading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B007EU12SI
I feel like Drive could be an absolute classic if they'd either cast someone else or made it clear Goslings character has some kind of mental issue. I find him excruciatingly painful to watch on screen during that movie, it's hard to tell if it's bad acting or direction. I love everything else about it though and the music is excellent.
I think his performance makes the movie what it is. That and the soundtrack. The guy is most likely a psychopath. Who else goes from snogging his girl to stomping face in 5 seconds flat? All with no emotion. That's the point...
Nah, I just think he's an average actor, he's like that in a lot of films. Especially anything he's in by Nicolas 'pretentious' Refn.
Rest of the film I like a lot though.
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I concur. Love Drive and it wouldn’t have been the film it was without him being that way.
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Army of One. It just goes to show you can’t always believe the rating and reviews on IMDb. This has to be one of the worst films I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen the trailer for Cats.
Beats - on Sky Cinema:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7524414/
Watched it when it originally came out last year - a film about the illegal rave scene back in the early 90s, centred around two Scottish lads whose lives are about to take very different directions.
I really enjoyed this film, and if you are of a similar age to me (40) and have a penchant for early rave/dance music it's definitely worth a watch.
It's all filmed in black and white, but does not in any way detract from the film, if anything it adds to the grit.
Cracking soundtrack as well.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7524414/
Watched it when it originally came out last year - a film about the illegal rave scene back in the early 90s, centred around two Scottish lads whose lives are about to take very different directions.
I really enjoyed this film, and if you are of a similar age to me (40) and have a penchant for early rave/dance music it's definitely worth a watch.
It's all filmed in black and white, but does not in any way detract from the film, if anything it adds to the grit.
Cracking soundtrack as well.
Just up my street, thanks!
No probs! You'll have to let me know what you think once watched!
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Watched another Pam Grier movie last night: Coffy.
Was similar to Foxy Brown really, woman on a bloody revenge mission to take out criminals. Good, though, I enjoyed it.
Went straight in and started another of hers: the Big Bird Cage. Seems fun enough so far. I'm beginning to think Grier's huge boobs casually falling out of her loose fitting clothes was almost an entire genre in the 70s. No complaints.
Was similar to Foxy Brown really, woman on a bloody revenge mission to take out criminals. Good, though, I enjoyed it.
Went straight in and started another of hers: the Big Bird Cage. Seems fun enough so far. I'm beginning to think Grier's huge boobs casually falling out of her loose fitting clothes was almost an entire genre in the 70s. No complaints.
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"The Midnight Sky" on Netflix. Visual beautiful, slow, rather dull and a complete downer.
There are several points which had me utterly WTF-ing. The one on the ice is the worst example. Why is it suddenly sinking? I felt like I'd dozed off for a minute between the previous scene and this one. How do you swim in Arctic waters and then just shrug it off, before surviving a storm with zero gear?
The behaviour of 2 male characters at the end was ridiculous. These are trained astronauts and they just throw their lives away.
But the biggest WTF moment came at the end when I was left utterly speechless at the incompetence of the casting agent. Did they really think that random guy looked ANYTHING like George?! No wonder my wife and I were going "who the hell is that guy?" throughout.
The behaviour of 2 male characters at the end was ridiculous. These are trained astronauts and they just throw their lives away.
But the biggest WTF moment came at the end when I was left utterly speechless at the incompetence of the casting agent. Did they really think that random guy looked ANYTHING like George?! No wonder my wife and I were going "who the hell is that guy?" throughout.