Drago
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Lincoln.
I started watching it at about 9pm last night. Its still going now...
I started watching it at about 9pm last night. Its still going now...
What film did you watch last night?
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AndyRM
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You should give Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a go instead.
Though I'm not sure you'd approve of the weapons drills.
gaz71
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I love this film.
TwickenhamCyclist
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Baby Driver
getting good reviews but I didn't rate it much.
Slightly different if unbelievable car chase scenes in a genera already done to death... terrible script... one dimensional characters... (what on earth is Kevin Spacey doing in this) the acting is pretty dire - possibly due to the dire script - the plot makes little if no sense at all... did I mention the terrible script?
The film is full of music, (the main character has tinnitus and listens to music to 'mask' it) and I guess this is what people are rating but its mainly overplayed clichés and dross - he's called Baby so, like you wouldn't ever guess, cue Carla Thomas... she's called Deborah and its T-Rex... its an excuse to play excruciatingly obvious overplayed tracks (with the notable exception of Neat Neat Neat by The Damned popping up early on)... I'd give it 2 out of 10 (1.9 points for The Damned)...
getting good reviews but I didn't rate it much.
Slightly different if unbelievable car chase scenes in a genera already done to death... terrible script... one dimensional characters... (what on earth is Kevin Spacey doing in this) the acting is pretty dire - possibly due to the dire script - the plot makes little if no sense at all... did I mention the terrible script?
The film is full of music, (the main character has tinnitus and listens to music to 'mask' it) and I guess this is what people are rating but its mainly overplayed clichés and dross - he's called Baby so, like you wouldn't ever guess, cue Carla Thomas... she's called Deborah and its T-Rex... its an excuse to play excruciatingly obvious overplayed tracks (with the notable exception of Neat Neat Neat by The Damned popping up early on)... I'd give it 2 out of 10 (1.9 points for The Damned)...
Drago
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Pacific Rim.
Watching a toilet rim for two hours would have been better. Poor plot, poor acting, ZX Spectrum standard CGI, overload.
1/10.
Watching a toilet rim for two hours would have been better. Poor plot, poor acting, ZX Spectrum standard CGI, overload.
1/10.
NorthernDave
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T2: Trainspotting
Loved the original which was a defining film of its time, and while I enjoyed most of the sequel I ended up feeling a bit....meh
Begbie has become even more of a caricature - albeit one with remarkable powers of self healing that I won't go into here in case you've not seen it yet. And he looks every single one of those ten years older than the rest of the cast he is now - he must have been held back a lot of years at primary school.
Lots of self referencing, matched almost by the number of holes in the 'plot'.
Was there any need to make this sequel? Probably not.
Should it have been a lot better? Oh yes.
6/10
Loved the original which was a defining film of its time, and while I enjoyed most of the sequel I ended up feeling a bit....meh
Begbie has become even more of a caricature - albeit one with remarkable powers of self healing that I won't go into here in case you've not seen it yet. And he looks every single one of those ten years older than the rest of the cast he is now - he must have been held back a lot of years at primary school.
Lots of self referencing, matched almost by the number of holes in the 'plot'.
Was there any need to make this sequel? Probably not.
Should it have been a lot better? Oh yes.
6/10
John the Monkey
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A couple of great choices there.
My viewing over the last week or so;
Only God Forgives (Prime)
Another Nick Winding Refn film, and possibly more obscure than The Neon Demon. One of two brothers, part of a Western gang dealing drugs in Thailand kills a young prostitute, and is in turn killed by the girl's father. This sets off a cycle of revenge, with Ryan Gosling (as the brother of the murdered gangster) as the reluctant instrument of it, his mother (a lady Macbeth like Kristen Scott-Thomas) pushing him into it and an enigmatic character known only as Chang exacting a sort of impartial, but hideously gory justice.
Beautifully photographed, with the deeply saturated, artificially lit interiors Refn is famous for tellingly contrasted with natural, gentle colouring in certain key scenes.
It's a difficult film to classify, and that's probably why it was marketed as a gangland revenge feature, but the themes explored are far deeper, and it subverts that narrative using the Chang character. Definitely not a film for everyone - the gore, and the indifferent attitude to quite hideous violence, not to mention the obscure meanings the film suggests, make it a difficult, but ultimately fairly rewarding watch - it's a film that has you still mulling over its message days later.
Spectral (Netflix)
Interesting action/horror film from Netflix. Some spectacular set pieces, but ultimately far too in love it's premise, and explaining it to the viewer to let the characters find their space in the story. Not terrible, but not great either. Maybe the weapons drills were good?
Hush (Netflix)
Efficient little thriller about a deaf woman terrorised by by a killer in a remote house in the woods. Well put together, and maintains the tension nicely, using the twist on a rather hackneyed premise pretty well.
Richard A Thackeray
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Wife & daughter watching 'Fantastic Four', as it's on TV at the moment
NorthernDave
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If you think Pacific Rim was poor, whatever you do don't watch the 'mockbuster' Atlantic Rim ...(it keeps cropping up on SyFy)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2740710/
Drago
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The 40 Year Old Virgin.
Moderately amusing.
4/10, if you must.
Moderately amusing.
4/10, if you must.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
Raiders! (Netflix)
The story of three friends, who made a shot for shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark during their school years (in the 1980s). They never filmed the plane scene, and the conceit here is that they all get together in 2014 to film that and complete the movie. It's pretty good, although it's not the hard scrabble, every credit card up to the max sort of stuff that some amateur film docs are. To give an idea of the level of privilege we're talking about here, their camera comes from one of their mothers, who is able to borrow a movie camera from her work - it's no "American Movie".
Lady Macbeth (Prime)
Beautifully filmed, atmospheric tale of a young woman purchased for marriage into a family of unthinkingly cruel men. Whether she learns that cruelty from their treatment, or had it in her all along is never quite clear, but she proves herself the equal of the men in her machinations, and willingness to trample others to survive in a world that is desperate and unkind. Wonderful, understated (for the most part) performances, beautiful cinematography and a great soundscape.
The story of three friends, who made a shot for shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark during their school years (in the 1980s). They never filmed the plane scene, and the conceit here is that they all get together in 2014 to film that and complete the movie. It's pretty good, although it's not the hard scrabble, every credit card up to the max sort of stuff that some amateur film docs are. To give an idea of the level of privilege we're talking about here, their camera comes from one of their mothers, who is able to borrow a movie camera from her work - it's no "American Movie".
Lady Macbeth (Prime)
Beautifully filmed, atmospheric tale of a young woman purchased for marriage into a family of unthinkingly cruel men. Whether she learns that cruelty from their treatment, or had it in her all along is never quite clear, but she proves herself the equal of the men in her machinations, and willingness to trample others to survive in a world that is desperate and unkind. Wonderful, understated (for the most part) performances, beautiful cinematography and a great soundscape.
