What film did you watch last night?

Spiderman-No Way Home.

I give it 8 out of 10, a solid film, and some great acting. Script seemed quite polished, effects good and a well made film.

I was going to see Matrix 4, however...maybe I dodged a bullet and have cancelled my booking.
 
Andybtsn said:
Really? She looks to have loads of work to her face, in fact I wish Hollywood would stop choosing these type of actors as their ability to show any emotion through their face is none existent. As for the film, 6/10, typical cliché kind of film that was very predictable from the start.
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She looks old af in Unforgettable.
 
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) - 5/10

Light-hearted and fun family entertainment.

Pretty slow overall and the buddy road trip premise isn’t original or surprising, but it is a heartwarming tale and emotional at times.

Sonic looks good and Carey eventually shines as the mad scientist, but it all feels a bit too tame and the mildly funny pop culture jokes are lame.
 
Res Evil - Welcome to Raccoon City. 7/10 for nostalgia, 6/10 for the actual movie.

Pretty cool movie! The budget and effects just reminded me of the original ps1 game in a good way.

Leon - was a rookie in his first outing, but was more comedy relief here and yes, totally miscast.

Itchy tasty - cool.

Obligatory Infected truck driver crash.

Helicopter STARS sweep towards Spencer mansion and then into the mansion itself - cool!

Opening shot of rpd - cool

First zombie in mansion - cool!

Moonlight sonata!

Zippo

Lickers!

Card suit keys

Movie projector hints ie Ashford twins

Secret elevators, train, Sherri, Birkin monster (costume was laughable)

And how do you kill a res evil end of game bad guy? Rocket launcher!

Chris, Claire, Jill, Wesker and Ada - awesome. Chief Irons was good too.

Q - We saw Vickers get chomped, so no Brad? Or Jill sandwich? :(

I enjoyed it for what it was, a reminder back to the original series I played in my childhood.
 
Matrix 4 - 3/10 - For me it rates the same as Matrix 2. In effect this seems more like a "homage" reboot/sequel/re-imagining gone wrong and all it did was contrast just how phenomenal the first Matrix was in direct comparison to this guff. Even the things which made the first film sooooo good were done sooooo badly in this film so if you liked Neo doing bullet-time - tough, you get none - and if you liked long take wide shots of actors doing Kung-Fu - tough, you get 73 cuts per second of close-ups so you can't tell what happens - and if you liked ground breaking effects - tough, you get generic CGI - etc etc.

The themes were worth exploring and I enjoyed the time tiny amount of time that Neo and Trinity got to spend together just talking, but the rest of the film around that was just generic as the next 20 "Hollywood" films will be, which just shows how far the "talent" which brought us "The Matrix" has fallen in the past 22 years.
 
Army of Thieves (2021) - 6/10

It’s good, simple entertainment. A middle of the road bank job thriller elevated by the quirky, comical and loveable lead character.

The plot is too formulaic and the zombie references don’t really add anything, but the characters and style is ok, although nothing special.

There is something majestic about it and the Germanic lore is interestingly different, but it’s a shame it wasn’t anywhere near as complex or deep as the mechanisms within the safes themselves.
 
Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City. Feels like they are trying to stretch this franchise out. Plot was if in doubt, blow the **** out of everything. Not my cuppa tea.
 
Venom 2 - 5/10 - As per usual from Hollywood nowadays it was a fairly generic story with OK CGI which was inoffensive enough. The best bits were still the Eddie/Venom interactions which got a few laughs but, as they spent a chunk of the movie apart, the film suffered from it. The extremely short "Dan, Anne and Mrs Chen" stuff was surprisingly good too but the whole Shriek/Cletus stuff was very meh.
 
Churning through a number of films with the family this Christmas.

The Italian Job (original), Close Encounters of The Third Kind, Contact and Paddington 2. Quite enjoyed The Italian Job, Contact was just as good as I remember it. Paddington 2 was a bit silly but enjoyable enough. Think I was a little disappointed with Close Encounters though - it went on for a bit and the pay off wasn't that good.
 
Being the Ricardos. Not a bad autobiography film. Shows the struggles of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz going big in "I Love Lucy" and their emotion side of it.
 
Don't Look Up - Netflix film with DeCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Satire/Comedy about the end of the world. Was pretty good and while it was mostly just taking digs at both sides of the political spectrum, it pretty much sums up modern politics pretty well.
 
Don't Look Up - 3/10 - A bitingly dark satire/black comedy which sadly forgets to be funny whilst ridiculing Modern Celebrity/Political culture (on both sides). The script writing behind the ridiculing felt more "angry" than "funny" so it never comes across that it was written to make people laugh in humour but instead more like it was written to make people angry at the current "situation" instead.

I can see the idea behind the film, and I think it's a brave/clever choice to get so many "Hollywood" types to (maybe unknowingly) make themselves look stupid for starring in a film which openly despises Celebrity culture (not sure if they're self aware enough to "get it" and probably think "well it's just poking a little fun" etc) but it would've work better for me if that "anger" had been made into something more akin to Bill Burr style of angry humour instead.
 
The Box.

Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, Kevin Robertson, and Michele Durrett? I mean... OK sure, let's give it a shot.

So there's this young married couple called Arthur and Norma, and they need a lot of cash real fast because reasons. Frank Langella (who for some reason is calling himself 'Arlington Steward') turns up with a mysterious box with a button on top, and tells them that if they press the button they will receive $1 million cash (tax free) but at the same time, someone they do not know will die.

Here's the weird part: nobody notices that it's actually Frank Langella! :confused:

Anyway, Norma presses the button to progress the plot, and it works. What happens next will shock you!

The Box is adapted from a short story by Richard H. Matheson. It has the look and feel of a big budget X-Files episode, but in a good way. The plot has many strands, including—but not limited to—NASA, space travel, determinism, and existentialism. Yet somehow, all these elements are woven together coherently.

IMDB reviewers have not been kind to The Box, which currently languishes at a massively underrated and entirely undeserved 5.1. This is absolute ********.

I rate The Box at 24.97 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as an ambitious 7.5 on IMDB.
 
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