Watched this tonight after seeing your review and I really liked it on the whole too. Rebecca Hall doesn’t get enough credit for her work, I don’t think. The cinematography and sound design were great!
What film did you watch last night?
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Just watched The Thin Blue Line, one of the original crime documentaries, about Randall Adams and his conviction for the murder of a police officer in Dallas, Texas in 1977.
Fascinating look at police/legal bodies and perhaps the fallacy of sunk costs.
Rated one of Indiewires top 100 movies of the 80's (I'm aiming to work through the ones I haven't seen in no particular order)
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Fascinating look at police/legal bodies and perhaps the fallacy of sunk costs.
Rated one of Indiewires top 100 movies of the 80's (I'm aiming to work through the ones I haven't seen in no particular order)
Indiewire’s The 100 Best Movies of the ’80s
A list of 100 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Do the Right Thing (1989), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), The Thing (1982), Paris, Texas (1984) and Shoah (1985).
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Would be interested to hear what you think of it!Blimey, high praise! Seeing this tomorrow, but I’m expecting it to be a fun popcorn horror. Something as silly as the antagonist being a ghost nun requires it IMO.
The first Nun film had its tongue firmly in cheek and it suited it well. I very much enjoyed that the climax reverted back to an ongoing joke the film had set up:
Something along the lines of…
“You will die, Frenchman….”
“….. I’m not French…. I’m French CANADIAN!!”
- the insult was enough for him to overcome the evil
Me neither! Just happened to see the trailer for it the other day when I went to see Cobweb.
Do it! I'm debating going to see it again as I've got an Odeon Limitless card now
Definitely worth seeing in iSense if you can!
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Watched this tonight too, really enjoyed it, quite a few laugh out loud momentsTotally agree. It was crude American humour but entertaining nevertheless. Bug stole the show imo.
War for the Planet of the Apes - Monkeys throwing their excrement/10
Hopefully the last in the series, this one had almost no redeeming qualities.
Film desperately wants us to empathise with some CGI humans covered in fur. They aren't apes, they're just furries, basically. There are other, furless humans but they're daft as all hell and Dr Evil evil. It's impossible to care about any of it. The CGI humans have enslaved CGI babies and... oooh, a flash!
Sorry - the thunderstorm outside is infinitely more interesting.
Hopefully the last in the series, this one had almost no redeeming qualities.
Film desperately wants us to empathise with some CGI humans covered in fur. They aren't apes, they're just furries, basically. There are other, furless humans but they're daft as all hell and Dr Evil evil. It's impossible to care about any of it. The CGI humans have enslaved CGI babies and... oooh, a flash!
Sorry - the thunderstorm outside is infinitely more interesting.
Man of Honour
The Flash (2023)
Tries too hard to be funny and isn't at all, the main character is too annoying to have a film of his own and the CGI was mostly terrible.
Michael Keaton and Danny Elfman's Batman theme saves it somewhat, but it's still another poor effort to add to the rest of the very average, at best, DCEU.
5/10
Tries too hard to be funny and isn't at all, the main character is too annoying to have a film of his own and the CGI was mostly terrible.
Michael Keaton and Danny Elfman's Batman theme saves it somewhat, but it's still another poor effort to add to the rest of the very average, at best, DCEU.
5/10
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I did enjoy the first nun but thought it was a bit of a shame that it leaned to her being more of comical villain. When she is intially introduced in the comjuring 2 she is kinda terrifying so i thougt they would make the films as scary as possible. Alas, going to see it tomorrow and looking forward to it.Blimey, high praise! Seeing this tomorrow, but I’m expecting it to be a fun popcorn horror. Something as silly as the antagonist being a ghost nun requires it IMO.
The first Nun film had its tongue firmly in cheek and it suited it well. I very much enjoyed that the climax reverted back to an ongoing joke the film had set up:
Something along the lines of…
“You will die, Frenchman….”
“….. I’m not French…. I’m French CANADIAN!!”
The Nun 2.
I regret to report that I preferred the first film by some margin. It’s not truly awful but left me wanting for a lot more. With tweaks it could be better but as it is, I was disappointed.
If you’re in the mood for the cinema and don’t mind a middling effort, give it a whirl, but I wouldn’t recommend going out of your way to watch it.
5/10
I regret to report that I preferred the first film by some margin. It’s not truly awful but left me wanting for a lot more. With tweaks it could be better but as it is, I was disappointed.
If you’re in the mood for the cinema and don’t mind a middling effort, give it a whirl, but I wouldn’t recommend going out of your way to watch it.
OK now I can rip the film to shreds in spoiler mode
I quite liked the two main leads in the first film but they really don’t bother with any character development at all here. I remember finding Maurice quite funny but here he’s stripped of quirkiness. They introduce a new sidekick nun and… they did nothing with her!
All the actors were likeable but feel really underused. If you have flat characters, you have no care for them.
The film generally lacked much needed levity - jokes in the dialogue etc. It’s played very straight and unfortunately that means you’re going to have to find your humour in the horror, totally devastating any chance of this giving you the chills. I was laughing, but it felt like this time I was laughing at it and not with it.
The meat of the horror is a sorry marathon of a character walking off into the dark by themselves whilst an incompetent demon takes its sweet time to do anything. Then when something does happen it’s often something very bombastic and CGI aided. It’s all really quite repetitive.
2/3 of the way in when the characters were asking “what does [the nun] want?!” I was already in wisecracking mode. “A 4090!”, I whispered to my wife.
I quite liked the two main leads in the first film but they really don’t bother with any character development at all here. I remember finding Maurice quite funny but here he’s stripped of quirkiness. They introduce a new sidekick nun and… they did nothing with her!
All the actors were likeable but feel really underused. If you have flat characters, you have no care for them.The film generally lacked much needed levity - jokes in the dialogue etc. It’s played very straight and unfortunately that means you’re going to have to find your humour in the horror, totally devastating any chance of this giving you the chills. I was laughing, but it felt like this time I was laughing at it and not with it.
The meat of the horror is a sorry marathon of a character walking off into the dark by themselves whilst an incompetent demon takes its sweet time to do anything. Then when something does happen it’s often something very bombastic and CGI aided. It’s all really quite repetitive.
2/3 of the way in when the characters were asking “what does [the nun] want?!” I was already in wisecracking mode. “A 4090!”, I whispered to my wife.
5/10
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Speak No Evil. Nonsense/10
Too stupid to even be that disturbing.
Too stupid to even be that disturbing.
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Stupid film...and crude for the sake of being crude...wife and I loved it!
I did a trilogy today.
Could have done Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Godfather, Trilogy of the Dead, Naked Gun, Die Hard, Alien, Evil Dead, Back to the Future, Mariachi trilogy, but...no...
I watched the Clerks trilogy.
I genuinely love all 3 of them. I've been at pretty much the perfect age for each of the Clerks films when they were released, I've grown up with the films as part of my world. I saw Clerks when I was 16/17 at a film festival and it just lodged in my brain. Since then. I've enjoyed most of the films Kev has made over the years *cough Jersey Girl cough* and I can't wait for Weinstein to croak so Kevin can get the rights to Dogma back for less than the $5mil that Harvey wants (Although there is a 4k AI upscale on YouTube that Kevin endorses)
But Clerks III is the weakest of the trilogy. Easily. But it still made me laugh and more surprisingly as I'm an empty husk of a human, made me feel genuinely sad. If that's the last we see of Clerks, then I'm more than happy with the series. Imagine a Kevin ******* Smith film making people feel emotional. When I saw it in the cinema, there were people crying
And Willam still hasn't seen the sailboat
Could have done Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Godfather, Trilogy of the Dead, Naked Gun, Die Hard, Alien, Evil Dead, Back to the Future, Mariachi trilogy, but...no...
I watched the Clerks trilogy.
I genuinely love all 3 of them. I've been at pretty much the perfect age for each of the Clerks films when they were released, I've grown up with the films as part of my world. I saw Clerks when I was 16/17 at a film festival and it just lodged in my brain. Since then. I've enjoyed most of the films Kev has made over the years *cough Jersey Girl cough* and I can't wait for Weinstein to croak so Kevin can get the rights to Dogma back for less than the $5mil that Harvey wants (Although there is a 4k AI upscale on YouTube that Kevin endorses)
But Clerks III is the weakest of the trilogy. Easily. But it still made me laugh and more surprisingly as I'm an empty husk of a human, made me feel genuinely sad. If that's the last we see of Clerks, then I'm more than happy with the series. Imagine a Kevin ******* Smith film making people feel emotional. When I saw it in the cinema, there were people crying
And Willam still hasn't seen the sailboat
The Nun 2 - 4.5/10
Haven't seen the first Nun but gave this a punt and it wasn't good.
Ready or Not - 6.5/10
A more enjoyable comedy horror. Silly premise but done well with just the right amount of irreverence by not taking itself too seriously.
Haven't seen the first Nun but gave this a punt and it wasn't good.
Ready or Not - 6.5/10
A more enjoyable comedy horror. Silly premise but done well with just the right amount of irreverence by not taking itself too seriously.
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Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Absolute classic - 8/10
Absolute classic - 8/10
Man of Honour
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Not as good as I remember, but the production design and acting is top notch. I think it's biggest problem is, it's neither scary nor action packed. So it feels like it falls short of being a great film.
6/10
Not as good as I remember, but the production design and acting is top notch. I think it's biggest problem is, it's neither scary nor action packed. So it feels like it falls short of being a great film.
6/10
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the equalizer, enjoyable action film with the great denzel washington, looking forward to 2 and 3 now
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The Evil Dead (1981)
Not quite Exorcist scary, but pretty good with over the top gore, scary eyes and excesses of tomato ketchup.
7.5/10
Not quite Exorcist scary, but pretty good with over the top gore, scary eyes and excesses of tomato ketchup.
7.5/10
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The Ruins (2008) - 6/10
Not really what I was expecting but still serviceable entertainment, if a bit too formulaic.
It has a different kind of horror which focuses on body gore and the psychology of the threat rather than monsters, true fear or creeping dread which makes it disturbing rather than scary.
There’s some pretty big plot holes and the ending was rather anticlimactic, but the acting was good and the differences kept me interested enough.
Not really what I was expecting but still serviceable entertainment, if a bit too formulaic.
It has a different kind of horror which focuses on body gore and the psychology of the threat rather than monsters, true fear or creeping dread which makes it disturbing rather than scary.
There’s some pretty big plot holes and the ending was rather anticlimactic, but the acting was good and the differences kept me interested enough.