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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45
What films have you watched recently?
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Never heard of this film before but feel it's one that should get more recognition. It's one that another 20 minutes would have benefited, because the 'what happened next' scenarios are multitude.
A young boy blames a bus conductor for throwing him off the bus and the man is reprimanded. He's a war hero who has suffered because of the war and didn't declare it on his job application. Therefore he's concerned that he will lose his job and this then causes problems at home and with his work colleagues. In short, things start to 'snowball'.
I won't give the story away but for me it ends too soon. Nevertheless I really enjoyed it.
The always consistent George Cowley, sorry, Gordon Jackson is excellent, but the young boy (I sort of knew him, but couldn't picture him) is actually no other than Terry McCann, sorry, Dennis Waterman. He's very good, no surprises to anyone watching back then that he would go on to better things.
7.5/10 - but a missed opportunity for a classic.
The big final fight scene was a load of cack - I just kept thinking, no way (in a Marvel sort of way, accepting it's all "no way").
Night of the 12th - French crime movie, partly based on a real event. Good writing, pacing, acting, everything. 8/10
Dual - if you like Yorgos Lanthimos then see this, drily funny, dark and odd. 7/10
Blockers - good straight up American sex comedy, funny too. 7.5/10
Barbarian - Airbnb horror wirh twists. My BIL recommended this and it gets off to a good start but when massive plot holes start piling up one after the other I was waiting for it to end. 5/10
Ghost in the machine (live action remake) - looks great, decent casting but turns out to have an extremely predictable plot. Ghost in the shell 2: innocence, by contrast, is radically smarter and more edgy. This is a dumb movie for dumb teens 4/10
I actually thought the mockumentary aspect was pretty well done, but overall it was pretty boring with little pay off.
Black satire with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Mark Rylance. An imminent extinction-level comet impact is basically a stand-in for climate change.
I’d missed this at the time, but it seems possibly even more relevant now, given the current wildfire and ocean temperature situation.
Terrifyingly brilliant and perceptive. Streep and Blanchett in particular are outstanding, DiCaprio and Lawrence are excellent, Rylance is creepily good, the rest of the cast are note-perfect too, the plot and script are superbly sharp, the CGI space stuff is spot on and even the science isn’t far off the mark.
Up there with Dr. Strangelove. We’re probably doomed as a species.
10/10
(Netflix)
"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
Another M. Night Shyamalan excursion. There is a fairly simple premise underpinning this film as the title suggests (so I wont give anything away). I blow hot and cold over MNS's movies; some I really like (The Sixth Sense) and others I really hate (Unbreakable).
Old has a good cast (including Rufus Sewell) and it's well-acted. The setting makes you want to jump on the next flight there and the cinematography is good. But...
This is like a poor cousin of The Cabin In The Woods and the plot parallels are very obvious. However, whereas that film had its tongue firmly in its cheek, this took itself way too seriously. The plot therefore is faintly preposterous and I guessed what lay behind the 'mysterious' events way too quickly; the denouement became obvious soon afterwards.
The film isn't without merit as mentioned above. I watched it through to the end despite nothing coming as much of a surprise, and it jogged along at a reasonable pace give the confines of the premise.
However the basic plot and the lack of any real suspense is ultimately too large a burden for the film to bear. Whilst watchable, it's too flawed to be a success.
5/10
Agreed with 5/10. It was... ok.
I didn't have a frigging clue what was going on at any point in this film. We wanted a bit of light Saturday night entertainment and instead we got a Gordian knot of a movie. Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh drift in and out at various points as the plot meanders and drifts with an apparent life of of its' own.
That said, there are some great action sequences but unfortunately you have to view them in isolation rather than as integral parts of an overall plot.
This film is also 2.5 hours long, and at around the two-hour point I fell asleep. By that point I felt like I'd been watching it for 2 days. Mrs O told me later that I didn't miss anything and she got to the end in the same state of befuddlement as she started it.
3/10
Amazing fantasy films - Spirited away, Howl's moving castle, Ponyo, Laputa, Nausicaa, Mononike, Totoro, The cat returns.
Hat's off also to Sadie Sink (Max from Stranger things) who I would say is shaping up to be an excellent actress. Well, to be honest she's there already ...
For me 9/10
LOL "based on truly possible results"
Make sure you watch the post-credits scene though, it's very funny. (Actually both of them, but the first is better.)
"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
Netflix
I think the sequel is out which is probably why this doing the rounds (was also on Film 4 last night).
Not an obvious fillum for me to watch but seemed more in the spirit of the comics I read in my teens than most of the live action movies and TV shows that Marvel have churned out. Also, get to feed my John Mulaney habit.
Surprisingly enjoyable.
Ill only give it a 6/10 but i absolutely loved it. A bit of a marmite film and some wont like the ending or the graphic violence, which is as bad as ive seen. Budget was 100k and it shows in some of the acting, but the ending might explain some of that. Other than that, for the money, it is astonishingly good.
I was hooked all the way through, quite a unique film. Worth a go for 15 mins, see how you go. Understand some will think its a pile of toss.
Pretty decent thriller-horror. Young boy with creepy parents disturbed by noises coming from inside the bedroom walls...
Good performances from Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr make this flick quite enjoyable.
5.21/10
Yawn. Boring, boring, boring.
It's like a mish-mash of a load of other films. When Bond was on the run in a misty forest I thought Elliott and his mates would arrive on their BMX's to whisk him away past a full moon. But no, it went more in the Rambo direction with Bond setting traps for the National Guard enemy. Then at Dr Evil's Island there appeared to be Oompah-Looompahs all over the place before the tension cranked up a notch and it moved straight into Alien mode.
"They're closing in Bond, they're closing in."
Who was closing in? Predator? Orcs? Voldermort?
No, it was Freddie Mercury, who surprisingly doesn't go straight into 'We Are The Champions' but mistakenly allows Bond to give a Rocky 4 type speech about 'Everyone deserves a chance'.
It tries to play on the heartstrings, I almost expected Clare Balding to step in with a microphone and ask Bond how emotional he was, but nope, there was not enough chemistry between Bond and his very plain Bond girl to do that.
It pretty much ends with Bond storming through corridors like that old 90's Nintendo game Commando. I was urging him on to get to 10,000 points and a free life, and turns out he needed it. Or maybe he didn't.
The Guinness advert plays us out. Not sure what played us in, but it was boring.
1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. Spectre
4. Quantum Of Solace
5. Bohemian Rhapsody
In that order.
Well done Daniel Craig. The best Bond for me, but ultimately the Craig era ran out of ideas. Perhaps that's why they nicked everybody else's?
Mute (Netflix). It was SHIT.
The old test for a film was "Can you accurately relay the story in the film to someone who hasn't seen it?" I got to the end of this film thinking that a lot happened but the story was pretty vacuous.