The Green Knight
What a strange film. I rather enjoyed it, but don't go into it expecting something traditional. It's a fairy tail; simplistic, quite surreal, quite dark, but nicely shot, well acted, with some really nice cinematography.
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The Green Knight is well made but wasn't for me I found. I did like the fox though.
The Howling
For some unknown reason I decided to watch this 80's werewolf film and after watching it I'm still not sure why I did. 99% of werewolf films are shit for some reason and this is a very dull and drawn out affair. It's only highlight is the transformation scene which is pretty great but still doesn't compare to the one in American Werewolf in London.
The Howling
For some unknown reason I decided to watch this 80's werewolf film and after watching it I'm still not sure why I did. 99% of werewolf films are shit for some reason and this is a very dull and drawn out affair. It's only highlight is the transformation scene which is pretty great but still doesn't compare to the one in American Werewolf in London.
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What I like about the Green Knight is that it feels like a film from yesteryear. The combination of a slow thinking movie with good fantasy CGI worked really well. Reminded me of a Terry Gilliam film or Baron Prasil by Karel Zeman. Makes a nice change from all that spandex.
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Le Mans '66 (AKA Ford vs Ferrari)
What a great film! The true story of how British racing driver and engineer Ken Miles and racing car designer Carroll Shelby tried to turn Ford's failing business around by winning the Le Mans 24 hours race. It's lots of fun without being flippant and a quality production all around. Christian Bale has had some great roles over the years, but his eclectic performance as Ken Miles with his sardonic but upbeat Brummy mannerisms is my favourite of his by a country mile. It's going to be hard watching him as Batman after seeing him yell "come on yer poxy bastard!" at a misbehaving car door.
9/10
What a great film! The true story of how British racing driver and engineer Ken Miles and racing car designer Carroll Shelby tried to turn Ford's failing business around by winning the Le Mans 24 hours race. It's lots of fun without being flippant and a quality production all around. Christian Bale has had some great roles over the years, but his eclectic performance as Ken Miles with his sardonic but upbeat Brummy mannerisms is my favourite of his by a country mile. It's going to be hard watching him as Batman after seeing him yell "come on yer poxy bastard!" at a misbehaving car door.
9/10
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Yes I regret I did not see it on the big screen
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The Dissident - Prime
The biggest shock is that Jeff Bezos comes out well. Superb documentary. The level of spyware now is unbelievable. Your phone becomes your enemy.
8/10
The biggest shock is that Jeff Bezos comes out well. Superb documentary. The level of spyware now is unbelievable. Your phone becomes your enemy.
8/10
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This has the feel more of a big-budget TV adaptation rather than a film, but that's not really a bad thing in this genre. I'm not massively into crime drama, but this was definitely up there with the better ones I've seen. There are some... very uncomfortable scenes in it which are problematic, but they're at least not used in the context in which they were rightly vilified in decades past.
Every actor in this does an excellent job, although Daniel Craig's accent doesn't fit (I don't think there's anything mentioned that explains why he's the one character that sounds English), and the cinematography is good if not spectacular. I can't remember anything of the soundtrack (other than a Trent Reznor cover of Immigrant Song which I'm a big fan of), which probably means it did its job well.
This has the feel more of a big-budget TV adaptation rather than a film, but that's not really a bad thing in this genre. I'm not massively into crime drama, but this was definitely up there with the better ones I've seen. There are some... very uncomfortable scenes in it which are problematic, but they're at least not used in the context in which they were rightly vilified in decades past.
Every actor in this does an excellent job, although Daniel Craig's accent doesn't fit (I don't think there's anything mentioned that explains why he's the one character that sounds English), and the cinematography is good if not spectacular. I can't remember anything of the soundtrack (other than a Trent Reznor cover of Immigrant Song which I'm a big fan of), which probably means it did its job well.
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A Time To Kill - Netflix
A ham sandwich washed down with lashings of ham
5/10
A ham sandwich washed down with lashings of ham
5/10
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Good points. I've been told that the "uncomfortable scenes" in the book are 100x worse than the movie, so there's that. I'm also a fanboi of basically anything Daniel Craig does - not sure when that happened, to be honest, sometime soon after "Casino Royale" was watched the first time by my tender eyes, no doubt... Anyway, decent drama/crime flick, this one, seen it a couple times. Great bad guy! And the glimpse into the very odd world (from an American's point of view) of Sweden and its various cultures, sub-cultures, counter-cultures, etc is refreshing due to making me feel so completely out of place and out of touch. I expected anything to happen, and lots of that did indeed happen.Raid wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:40 amThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This has the feel more of a big-budget TV adaptation rather than a film, but that's not really a bad thing in this genre. I'm not massively into crime drama, but this was definitely up there with the better ones I've seen. There are some... very uncomfortable scenes in it which are problematic, but they're at least not used in the context in which they were rightly vilified in decades past.
Every actor in this does an excellent job, although Daniel Craig's accent doesn't fit (I don't think there's anything mentioned that explains why he's the one character that sounds English), and the cinematography is good if not spectacular. I can't remember anything of the soundtrack (other than a Trent Reznor cover of Immigrant Song which I'm a big fan of), which probably means it did its job well.
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It’s been a while since I watched them but I remember the Swedish versions being much better.
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Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey (the series) was a bit of a guilty pleasure. As someone getting increasingly socialist as I age, a show about the social machinations of the ridiculously privileged should have been a hard sell, but it's so well made, and most of the characters aren't fundamentally awful. This is... exactly the same as the series, in fact excepting a little more detail in the set lighting and maybe a few extra violins in the orchestra, you'd be forgiven for thinking it *was* the series. There are basically no stakes to speak of; there's one major crime that's averted by the halfway point, and then there's a bit about inheritance, and raving republican Tom accidentally speaks to a princess, and they bring in Mr Carson because the silverware isn't polished well enough. It's all thoroughly ridiculous, but it's a bit of silly escapism in lavish surroundings.
Downton Abbey (the series) was a bit of a guilty pleasure. As someone getting increasingly socialist as I age, a show about the social machinations of the ridiculously privileged should have been a hard sell, but it's so well made, and most of the characters aren't fundamentally awful. This is... exactly the same as the series, in fact excepting a little more detail in the set lighting and maybe a few extra violins in the orchestra, you'd be forgiven for thinking it *was* the series. There are basically no stakes to speak of; there's one major crime that's averted by the halfway point, and then there's a bit about inheritance, and raving republican Tom accidentally speaks to a princess, and they bring in Mr Carson because the silverware isn't polished well enough. It's all thoroughly ridiculous, but it's a bit of silly escapism in lavish surroundings.
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Baby Driver
I don't think I've ever watched an Edgar Wright film that I didn't love, and this wasn't a break with tradition. I try to watch a new film every week, so out of the 50 or so films I've seen this year I can safely say that this was one of the best films I've seen all year. It has an excellent soundtrack, an utterly likeable main character (which is unusual for me in an organised crime film), and it's just cool as hell. It has some of the best stunt driving I've seen in a film, and I love the way it syncs gunshots up to the soundtrack.
I don't think I've ever watched an Edgar Wright film that I didn't love, and this wasn't a break with tradition. I try to watch a new film every week, so out of the 50 or so films I've seen this year I can safely say that this was one of the best films I've seen all year. It has an excellent soundtrack, an utterly likeable main character (which is unusual for me in an organised crime film), and it's just cool as hell. It has some of the best stunt driving I've seen in a film, and I love the way it syncs gunshots up to the soundtrack.
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I'm not exactly sure why but I hated that film.
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The Hunger Games
I actually have fairly fond memories of this series, but it's a few years since I've seen any of them, and clearly that opinion wasn't based on the first film. It's rubbish. It's competently produced perhaps, but the concept is so fundamentally ridiculous that it's difficult to move past it. I know this is based on a young-adult novel, and teenagers do tend to think of themselves as the protagonists in their own stories, but it's just so detached from an adult reality that it doesn't even make sense.
There's no real explanation as to why the districts don't rebel against the ridiculous opulence of the Capitol. The living conditions appear to be appalling, and once a year all of the adults are forced to allow their children to enter a battle royale? This is taken as entirely normal and just accepted, rather than, y'know, the cause of riots. Presumably parents don't really love their children in District 12, as they dress them up for sunday morning church rather than a bloodbath. And why would they make the age bracket 12-18? What possible chance would a 12-year-old have against an actual adult? When they get to the capitol, where everything becomes an intense social media campaign and everyone else on your newsfeed is living their best life. And then The Hunger Games themselves are depicted as a diversion, sport for the citizens of the Capitol. Why then are the game runners so keen to manipulate the result? Were I a person in this society, I'd be sending angry letters in to Points of View rather than caking myself in white face makeup like Marie Fucking Antoinette.
It's painfully obvious and melodramatic. It's almost as if the teenage audience are wrapped up in their own issues and have no idea how the real world works.
I actually have fairly fond memories of this series, but it's a few years since I've seen any of them, and clearly that opinion wasn't based on the first film. It's rubbish. It's competently produced perhaps, but the concept is so fundamentally ridiculous that it's difficult to move past it. I know this is based on a young-adult novel, and teenagers do tend to think of themselves as the protagonists in their own stories, but it's just so detached from an adult reality that it doesn't even make sense.
There's no real explanation as to why the districts don't rebel against the ridiculous opulence of the Capitol. The living conditions appear to be appalling, and once a year all of the adults are forced to allow their children to enter a battle royale? This is taken as entirely normal and just accepted, rather than, y'know, the cause of riots. Presumably parents don't really love their children in District 12, as they dress them up for sunday morning church rather than a bloodbath. And why would they make the age bracket 12-18? What possible chance would a 12-year-old have against an actual adult? When they get to the capitol, where everything becomes an intense social media campaign and everyone else on your newsfeed is living their best life. And then The Hunger Games themselves are depicted as a diversion, sport for the citizens of the Capitol. Why then are the game runners so keen to manipulate the result? Were I a person in this society, I'd be sending angry letters in to Points of View rather than caking myself in white face makeup like Marie Fucking Antoinette.
It's painfully obvious and melodramatic. It's almost as if the teenage audience are wrapped up in their own issues and have no idea how the real world works.
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Spiderman No Way Home
Very good, probably the best Holland movie yet. Very nice to see so many familiar faces and surprisingly well executed given how easily it could have descended into utter stupidity.
Very good, probably the best Holland movie yet. Very nice to see so many familiar faces and surprisingly well executed given how easily it could have descended into utter stupidity.