100% agree. Too much CGI stuff these days, and not enough actual cars blowing up with helicopters 4cm off the ground. Love it.
What film did you watch last night?
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Don
The Lost City - 5/10
Very tepid, humour falls flat, kinds of a wokish Jewel in the Nile, without the glamourous or extravengent scenes. Brad Pitt steals the scenes he's in and the rest of them are just their usual selfs, particularly Daniel Radcliff being not Harry Potter.
Very tepid, humour falls flat, kinds of a wokish Jewel in the Nile, without the glamourous or extravengent scenes. Brad Pitt steals the scenes he's in and the rest of them are just their usual selfs, particularly Daniel Radcliff being not Harry Potter.
Caporegime
Gaia.
Can the Boers make a half decent horror movie? It's complicated, and also no.
Gabi (played by Monique H. Rockman) is a forest service ranger on a routine data collection mission with her colleague Winston (played by Anthony W. W. J. Oseyemi). While travelling down a river, Gabi loses contact with the drone she is using to survey the terrain, and they stop at the river bank so she can retrieve it.
Gabi's foot is almost immediately mutilated by an unexpected spike trap, and Winston helpfully cripples his walkie talkie by dropping in the water, thereby ensuring they can no longer communicate. Gabi quickly becomes lost as she wanders deeper into the forest, while Winston—alarmed by her screams—blunders vaguely in what is probably the opposite direction (it's hard to tell) and completely loses his bearings.
Gabi eventually arrives at a small wooden hut, where she collapses with exhaustion. As night falls, Winston is pursued by strange bipedal creatures. Taking refuge at the base of a large tree, he is infected by weird type of fungus that begins to spread across his body.
Gabi is roused by the arrival of plant pathologist Gerand and his son Stefan, who have been living in the hut ever since Stefan was conceived there during Gerand's honeymoon with his wife (who died of cancer 13 years ago). Since Gerand refused to leave the forest after his wife died, Stefan has been raised there without any knowledge of the outside world
Gerand tells Gabi that there is a vast biological mass living beneath the ground which has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and is now the largest organism on the planet. It is somehow connected to the fungus, which infects humans and takes control of them (sort of? this is not well explained) allowing it to spread further
Gabi wants to escape the forest as soon as possible, yet Gerand—who is stark raving mad and worships the unnamed biological mass as a god—insists that she must remain with them.
There's only a few places the plot can go from here, and to be fair it chooses the most interesting option. But the slow trudge towards the film's resolution is an arduous one, with too many more questions raised than answers provided.
The message of Gaia is somewhat muddled by its presentation, and I'm not even sure that the director was entirely clear on the details. It's an interesting concept, but there's just not enough meat on the bones to make it stand out from the crowd of films already filling the popular and well established eco-existentialist/neo-fungphobic/body horror genre.
I rate Gaia at 16.65 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as 5/10 mildly competent Boers on IMDB.
Agreed, this was absolute rubbish.
Can the Boers make a half decent horror movie? It's complicated, and also no.
Gabi (played by Monique H. Rockman) is a forest service ranger on a routine data collection mission with her colleague Winston (played by Anthony W. W. J. Oseyemi). While travelling down a river, Gabi loses contact with the drone she is using to survey the terrain, and they stop at the river bank so she can retrieve it.
Gabi's foot is almost immediately mutilated by an unexpected spike trap, and Winston helpfully cripples his walkie talkie by dropping in the water, thereby ensuring they can no longer communicate. Gabi quickly becomes lost as she wanders deeper into the forest, while Winston—alarmed by her screams—blunders vaguely in what is probably the opposite direction (it's hard to tell) and completely loses his bearings.
Gabi eventually arrives at a small wooden hut, where she collapses with exhaustion. As night falls, Winston is pursued by strange bipedal creatures. Taking refuge at the base of a large tree, he is infected by weird type of fungus that begins to spread across his body.
Gabi is roused by the arrival of plant pathologist Gerand and his son Stefan, who have been living in the hut ever since Stefan was conceived there during Gerand's honeymoon with his wife (who died of cancer 13 years ago). Since Gerand refused to leave the forest after his wife died, Stefan has been raised there without any knowledge of the outside world
Gerand tells Gabi that there is a vast biological mass living beneath the ground which has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and is now the largest organism on the planet. It is somehow connected to the fungus, which infects humans and takes control of them (sort of? this is not well explained) allowing it to spread further
Gabi wants to escape the forest as soon as possible, yet Gerand—who is stark raving mad and worships the unnamed biological mass as a god—insists that she must remain with them.
There's only a few places the plot can go from here, and to be fair it chooses the most interesting option. But the slow trudge towards the film's resolution is an arduous one, with too many more questions raised than answers provided.
The message of Gaia is somewhat muddled by its presentation, and I'm not even sure that the director was entirely clear on the details. It's an interesting concept, but there's just not enough meat on the bones to make it stand out from the crowd of films already filling the popular and well established eco-existentialist/neo-fungphobic/body horror genre.
I rate Gaia at 16.65 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as 5/10 mildly competent Boers on IMDB.
Agreed, this was absolute rubbish.
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Don
Was on last night at Cineworld, was disappointed in it, couple of chuckles from nob jokes was the highlight of it.
Soldato
The cursed/eight for silver 6.7/10
Really good take on the werewolf genre, one of the better ones for sure. Quite gruesome at times, but well shot and decent story. Recommended if you like a good horror.
Really good take on the werewolf genre, one of the better ones for sure. Quite gruesome at times, but well shot and decent story. Recommended if you like a good horror.
Soldato
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I enjoyed it up to a point, but the third act was a disappointment. Great atmosphere and practical effects though.
Soldato
The third act did let it down slightly, but overall I thought it was pretty decent. Not full of wokery either. Better than most modern efforts
Soldato
Shyamalan's "Glass": 3/10 and all 3 of those are for Jame McAvoy's performance, which is what dragged me through about 4/5ths of the movie over three sittings. But I've just baled because cutting my toenails will probably have a sharper ending.
Soldato
Baby Driver.
Thought was pretty good, maybe 7/10.
Thought was pretty good, maybe 7/10.
Caporegime
Voyagers 1/10 absolutely abysmal
Soldato
Blazing Saddles - 9/10
Had no idea what to expect but bloody loved it.
Had no idea what to expect but bloody loved it.
Soldato
Looper - 3/10
I dunno why, but I found this movie a real grind to watch, maybe the way it is directed or what, I dunno....also movies with time travel.....yet to see one where they dont just use it as an excuse to make easy plot twists.
I dunno why, but I found this movie a real grind to watch, maybe the way it is directed or what, I dunno....also movies with time travel.....yet to see one where they dont just use it as an excuse to make easy plot twists.
Soldato
Got the Blu-ray of this in Poundland a few days ago, haven't watched it yet though.
Soldato
Death on the Nile - 7/10
I thought it was pretty good.
I thought it was pretty good.
The Dark Knight. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
'Tis the second time I've seen this now; it's very good though I don't quite rave about it as many seem to.
Heath Ledger was excellent.
'Tis the second time I've seen this now; it's very good though I don't quite rave about it as many seem to.
Heath Ledger was excellent.