I love the first one. 2nd one is decent but not as good. the latest one 'A Quiet Place: Day one' is ok too but nothing special.
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What film did you watch last night?
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I love the first one. 2nd one is decent but not as good. the latest one 'A Quiet Place: Day one' is ok too but nothing special.
The Shawshank Redemption - 9/10
I read the book last week, thought I should watch the movie finally! No surprise to anyone, it's very good. A clever story, well told and well acted. Not sure if I'm letting its reputation influence my score though?
I read the book last week, thought I should watch the movie finally! No surprise to anyone, it's very good. A clever story, well told and well acted. Not sure if I'm letting its reputation influence my score though?
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The same reason he travelled so far for the work.
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Nah it's a bloody good movie.
Boy Kills World
An incredibly bloody and bizarre, often surrealist, revenge martial arts movie. There's some great bits but overall it doesn't add up, let down by mostly weak fight choreography.
5/10. Could have been something. Isn't.
An incredibly bloody and bizarre, often surrealist, revenge martial arts movie. There's some great bits but overall it doesn't add up, let down by mostly weak fight choreography.
5/10. Could have been something. Isn't.
Blackberry - 7.5/10
Really good drama about the rise and fall of the Blackberry phone.
Pinball : The man who saved the machine - 7.5/10
As above, an excellent comedy drama about the guy who overturned the 35 yr ban of pinball machines in New York (and other cities - who knew pinball was illegal! Nothing surprises me about the yanks anymore)
Watched pinball off the back of this, really good!
As much as a good film A Quiet Place is, for me it was more of a cinema experience. I saw this in a packed cinema and given the sound design of the film, people were scared to eat or drink their snacks incase they made a sound.
I've seen it subsequently at home and it's not quite the same.
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Flight Risk
Just don’t bother. I assume Walhberg just needed to pay some bills.
Just don’t bother. I assume Walhberg just needed to pay some bills.
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Conclave (2024)
Turned out to be far more interesting and engaging than I thought it would be, given the subject matter. But equally I don't think it's worthy of all the Academy Award nominations it's received, particularly Best Picture.
6/10
Turned out to be far more interesting and engaging than I thought it would be, given the subject matter. But equally I don't think it's worthy of all the Academy Award nominations it's received, particularly Best Picture.
6/10
It was incredibly predictable but I quite enjoyed it for the B movie quality 6/10
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Wednesday: The Blair Witch Project - Utter waste of an hour and twenty minutes, nothing happens and not scary at all
Thursday: Conclave - I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to and it kept my attention all the way through.
Friday: Nosferatu - I would have preferred it with the original choice of Anya Taylor Joy but Lily-Rose Depp did ok. I thought Skarsgard was good as Count Orlok and the atmosphere was suitably creepy.
Saturday: Oppenheimer - I've been putting off watching this for ages due to the long run time but it ended up not being an issue, I loved every minute and thought Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey jr. were incredible
Thursday: Conclave - I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to and it kept my attention all the way through.
Friday: Nosferatu - I would have preferred it with the original choice of Anya Taylor Joy but Lily-Rose Depp did ok. I thought Skarsgard was good as Count Orlok and the atmosphere was suitably creepy.
Saturday: Oppenheimer - I've been putting off watching this for ages due to the long run time but it ended up not being an issue, I loved every minute and thought Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey jr. were incredible
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I watched this again a couple of weeks back, yeah very decent film.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
To my slight shame I've never got round to watching this. I found it a slightly strange watch, bits of it have aged so incredibly well that it almost works against itself because you start judging it like a modern movie and then have to remember that it's not far off 60 years old. The good was very good, the audio is amazing, the sets are fantastic and still stand up. HAL, although my knowledge of them was entirely based on satirical references in other media completely lived up to the legend. All the scenes in space and on the station and craft are amazing. The bad...well the plot is very light, it's largely left for the viewer to make the plot up themselves because the film tells you almost nothing. I did some reading up afterwards and while what they're describing sound interesting...very little of that was actually in the movie. I've heard the book tells the story far better so maybe I'll try that at some point. There are also a couple of scenes that have not aged well/are so overly pretentious. The opening scene probably looked incredible in the 60's but now it's a bunch of guys in bad monkey suits with no dialogue for 25 mins
I actually thought I had the wrong movie for a bit. Also the 'drug trip' scene in the final chapter went on far, far too long. it was like 10+ mins of a kaleidoscope and some negative films of a landscape.
Basically start a little dull, end kind of unsatisfying, middle great.
Has made me want to read Rendezvous with Rama again though.
To my slight shame I've never got round to watching this. I found it a slightly strange watch, bits of it have aged so incredibly well that it almost works against itself because you start judging it like a modern movie and then have to remember that it's not far off 60 years old. The good was very good, the audio is amazing, the sets are fantastic and still stand up. HAL, although my knowledge of them was entirely based on satirical references in other media completely lived up to the legend. All the scenes in space and on the station and craft are amazing. The bad...well the plot is very light, it's largely left for the viewer to make the plot up themselves because the film tells you almost nothing. I did some reading up afterwards and while what they're describing sound interesting...very little of that was actually in the movie. I've heard the book tells the story far better so maybe I'll try that at some point. There are also a couple of scenes that have not aged well/are so overly pretentious. The opening scene probably looked incredible in the 60's but now it's a bunch of guys in bad monkey suits with no dialogue for 25 mins
I actually thought I had the wrong movie for a bit. Also the 'drug trip' scene in the final chapter went on far, far too long. it was like 10+ mins of a kaleidoscope and some negative films of a landscape.Basically start a little dull, end kind of unsatisfying, middle great.
Has made me want to read Rendezvous with Rama again though.
