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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45
What films have you watched recently?
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Sci-fi/drama with Michelle Yeoh. I’ve heard very mixed reports about this so I didn’t know quite what to expect… but it was stranger and better than I guessed, and surprisingly compelling even though once or twice I did think “what *is* this all about?!”. The ‘message’ isn’t as heavy-handed as some of the negative reviews imply either. Jamie Lee Curtis clearly had an absolute blast as well
If you can get your head around it, brilliant - although afterwards, MrsICBM did say she wondered “why are we watching this?” more than once
9/10
(Streaming, whatever network they have on holiday)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Imagine a world where the ludicrous exploits in say the Fast and Furious films was normal.
In that world what would a film full of what they would consider ludicrous plots and technology look like?
Wonder no more as Gal Gadot shows us in Heart of Stone. Tech, amazing spies, stupid stunts, hackers, end of the world plots... its all there.
By the way, her character's name is Stone. Even a lazy title. The film was doomed from the start.
I'd been meaning to watch this for literally years. I'm very familiar with the music but not the plot beyond the very broad strokes. It almost feels like an "Irish Blues Brothers" and it's very nearly as good. Highly enjoyable and likely to become a comfort food movie for me going forward I think
And I just read that Andrew Strong (lead singer) was frickin 16 when it was filmed. That's astonishing!!
Must see again!
Accepting that *obviously* none can come close to the original... 2016 is turgid shite. Afterlife is pretty good
I was expecting great things after the reviews, but was massively disappointed. The pacing is sooo slow. Should have been an hour and a half rather than two. Too much fan service and just felt like a reboot of the original with the main characters replaced with kids and the charm completely removed. Still love Carrie Coon though which, for me, was the only saving grace
No hard feelings - amusing, JL is great, script not so funny. 6/10
A woman under the influence - gave up halfway, too long, script seems very much to be saying something but very subjectively.
The Handmaiden - clever, provoking 7/10
Psychological drama with Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand - which made me think it was going to be very good. It's based on real events concerning the abuse of women and girls in a closed religious community, but somehow it seemed contrived and stagey, despite the quality of the actors - I just couldn't get into it, I found it tedious and forced. The stark nearly-black-and-white photography doesn't help either, it detracts from rather than enhances the realism. I know it seems to have got a lot of critical praise, but I ended up giving up about halfway through with no particular desire to revisit.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Second time seeing this fantastic movie. Hugh Jackman (and neighbours) daughters go missing and he isn't satisfied with the police's (Jake Gyllenhaal) efforts to catch the person responsible. Superbly acted, especially by Gyllenhaal, always second guessing yourself, very very good. On Netflix currently.
Can we set a general principle not to use spoilers (without the tags*) less than 6mos after the film is released?
*I appreciate that some might not know how to do that, but basically in the post creation/editing box you highlight the text that you want to mask, then click the 'format' button (funny-looking backwards P I thingy), then choose 'Spoiler' from the list - the forum software will do the rest, e.g.:
cheers for the instructions, now done
I found this overrated too, it's obvious when you watch it that it's a play adapted directly for the screen without any changes, makes it quite leaden.
Film about how Ray Kroc took McDonalds from a small family run burger stand in San Bernardino to a multinational empire it is today.
I meant April. ~ Simon Weir
Bit of trading feedback here.
As a counter:
Murphy's War 1971 - Talking Pics
Generally a pretty terrible war film about Peter O'Toole trying to sink a U-boat that sank his own ship and machine gunned the crew in the water. It's slow, ponderous and very over-acted. But O'Toole genuinely had a quality on screen that made him fascinating, even with a terrible Irish accent and rolling his eyes like a parody drunk.
Approximately 35 years after the events of the first movie, the family of one of the original Ghostbusters inherit a run-down old house in rural Oklahoma.... where strange things are about to start happening.
Wow, that was... dull. After a first hour in which very little happens, a bunch of ghosts and characters from the original Ghostbusters are transported to the countryside for what's basically a re-run, only without the excitement or any of the laughs. The old characters look like they don't really want to be there, the new characters are mostly just boring... even Paul Rudd, who can usually lift a poor film, is given nothing to do here. The two youngest kids are quite likeable, but fade into the background at the end. The whole thing feels oddly like you're watching from a distance, there's nothing to draw you in.
Minor spoiler: There are, Marvel-style, two extra scenes in the closing credits, one of which is quite amusing, the other hints at a sequel I can't imagine anyone will want to see.