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Kong Vs Godzilla - wow that was bad. You don't need a story for this film, just make cool shit happen and huge monsters beat the shit out of one another with splodes etc. Sadly someone thought we did, so most of the film centres around some poor actors running about verbal-vomiting utter nonsensical shite. The actual monster-fightiness is pretty damn cool but the exposition spaff crushed my wife and I's will to live, so we turned it off halfway through.
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Shite alright, made it about 20 minutes before turning it off.
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Dune
Finally got around to watching this at long last. While it didn't exactly blow my mind like it seems to have some people, it was very good. Like how it's taking it's time to world build and hopefully more will follow. Think I'd watch anything Denis Villeneuve makes now.
The visual style is exactly how I'd imagine an Iain M Banks Culture novel to appear I'd they ever adapted one.
Finally got around to watching this at long last. While it didn't exactly blow my mind like it seems to have some people, it was very good. Like how it's taking it's time to world build and hopefully more will follow. Think I'd watch anything Denis Villeneuve makes now.
The visual style is exactly how I'd imagine an Iain M Banks Culture novel to appear I'd they ever adapted one.
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We can dream.Animalmother wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:15 pmDune
The visual style is exactly how I'd imagine an Iain M Banks Culture novel to appear I'd they ever adapted one.
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Don't look up
Really enjoyed this one on Netflix but it is a strange one. An extinction-event sized comet is going to hit the earth and the people who spotted it are trying to get the world to sit up and take notice. The film is a black comedy, it juxtaposes a lot of the world of today and you sit there thinking "Yeah, this would probably happen". Great cast and very well done film, worth a watch.
Really enjoyed this one on Netflix but it is a strange one. An extinction-event sized comet is going to hit the earth and the people who spotted it are trying to get the world to sit up and take notice. The film is a black comedy, it juxtaposes a lot of the world of today and you sit there thinking "Yeah, this would probably happen". Great cast and very well done film, worth a watch.
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Ron's Gone Wrong (Disney+)
Watched this before the New Year celebrations with my 7 year old. Really enjoyed it, better than expected. Same beats as a Pixar movie, but without the happy ever after ending.
7/10
Watched this before the New Year celebrations with my 7 year old. Really enjoyed it, better than expected. Same beats as a Pixar movie, but without the happy ever after ending.
7/10
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Yeah, watched it with the kids a while back, we all thought it was great.
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Antlers
Saw this mentioned as one of the best horror films of 2021. A teacher in a small mining town thinks there's something odd about one of her students, then mutilated bodies start showing up. Pretty dull unfortunately but the practical effects were excellent when used, produced by Guillermo del Toro so was expecting a bit more. Not terrible just a bit meh.
Saw this mentioned as one of the best horror films of 2021. A teacher in a small mining town thinks there's something odd about one of her students, then mutilated bodies start showing up. Pretty dull unfortunately but the practical effects were excellent when used, produced by Guillermo del Toro so was expecting a bit more. Not terrible just a bit meh.
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Don't Look Up
This is so on-the-nose that it may be worth having some gauze handy. You'll laugh, but then quickly realise how painfully accurate it feels.
It's the funniest film I've seen in a year, a fact that results in existential dread.
This is so on-the-nose that it may be worth having some gauze handy. You'll laugh, but then quickly realise how painfully accurate it feels.
It's the funniest film I've seen in a year, a fact that results in existential dread.
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Blade Runner 2049
Having just watched Dune I thought I'd have another look at this. Yeah it's great, Villeneuve should now be offered first choice on everything. I forgot just how sad and alone practically everyone in this film is, it seems to be the underlying theme of it. Might get this and Dune on Blu-ray at some point.
The Revenant
How much worse can this guy's situation possibly get?
[2 minutes later...]
Oh, much much worse
[3 minutes later...]
Having just watched Dune I thought I'd have another look at this. Yeah it's great, Villeneuve should now be offered first choice on everything. I forgot just how sad and alone practically everyone in this film is, it seems to be the underlying theme of it. Might get this and Dune on Blu-ray at some point.
The Revenant
How much worse can this guy's situation possibly get?
[2 minutes later...]
Oh, much much worse
[3 minutes later...]
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Currently reading Cary Grant's biography, so watched a couple of his older films
The Bishop's Wife (Prime) - its funny seeing David Niven in another film about angels just after he did A Matter of Life and Death. Cary Grant plays an angel very well and it is charming. 7/10
Suspicion - This is an early Hitchcock film. Interesting premise of a wife convinced her husband wants to do her in. This time Grant plays a likeable cad. Daft ending. 5/10. Hitchcock learning the ropes with this one.
The Bishop's Wife (Prime) - its funny seeing David Niven in another film about angels just after he did A Matter of Life and Death. Cary Grant plays an angel very well and it is charming. 7/10
Suspicion - This is an early Hitchcock film. Interesting premise of a wife convinced her husband wants to do her in. This time Grant plays a likeable cad. Daft ending. 5/10. Hitchcock learning the ropes with this one.
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We just finished our Mae West run through and her Cary Grant films (I'm no Angel and She Done Him Wrong) might be her best ones. Really love I'm No Angel particularly. Also really like My Little Chickadee even thought I cant stand WC Fields!
Lets talk about her final two movies though and what a car crash they are!
1970 Myra Breckinridge
Guy goes to Europe to get a sex change, comes back as Raquel Welch because why not! Its such an incredible mess that its nigh on unwatchable. Its continually cutting in scenes from other movies that have nothing to do with what is happening on screen. It feels like if a modern movie cut in meme gifs continually - guy says something smug, Leo DiCaprio smug gif plays etc but a 1970's version, its insufferable. The few redeeming parts are with Mae as an... uhm... female Weinstein?
(Mae West) "How tall are you when you're off your horse, cowboy?"
(Young Man at "Interview") "Um, six feet, seven inches, ma'am."
(Mae West) "Well, never mind the six feet, and let's talk about the seven inches."
1978 Sextette
So this was her final movie, its star studded and its so so bad that its actually quite watchable! She plays the worlds biggest movie star (naturally) on her 6th marriage to Timothy Dalton, 50 odd years her junior. West was in her mid 80's at the time and sadly showing major signs of dementia. She had to be fed a lot of her lines via earpiece and even when they painted large marks on the floor for where she had to walk to she would often just wander off. Apparently they found a solution in getting one of the sexy young grips to go on all fours and crawl to where they wanted her to go and she would follow him bum there every time. It does mean most of her dialogue is very stilted, even more so since that was kind of her delivery style to begin with. Its an awful mess of a thing but I laughed and kind of had a good time watching it so
This was a decade before Daltons stint as Bond but it had a line... “Marlo listen. I've got something very important to tell you. Sir Michael (Dalton) is one of England's top secret agents. He's bigger than 007!”
Oh and the cast
Mae West
Timothy Dalton
Dom DeLuise
Tony Curtis
Ringo Starr
Keith Moon
George Hamilton
Alice Cooper
Lets talk about her final two movies though and what a car crash they are!
1970 Myra Breckinridge
Guy goes to Europe to get a sex change, comes back as Raquel Welch because why not! Its such an incredible mess that its nigh on unwatchable. Its continually cutting in scenes from other movies that have nothing to do with what is happening on screen. It feels like if a modern movie cut in meme gifs continually - guy says something smug, Leo DiCaprio smug gif plays etc but a 1970's version, its insufferable. The few redeeming parts are with Mae as an... uhm... female Weinstein?
(Mae West) "How tall are you when you're off your horse, cowboy?"
(Young Man at "Interview") "Um, six feet, seven inches, ma'am."
(Mae West) "Well, never mind the six feet, and let's talk about the seven inches."
1978 Sextette
So this was her final movie, its star studded and its so so bad that its actually quite watchable! She plays the worlds biggest movie star (naturally) on her 6th marriage to Timothy Dalton, 50 odd years her junior. West was in her mid 80's at the time and sadly showing major signs of dementia. She had to be fed a lot of her lines via earpiece and even when they painted large marks on the floor for where she had to walk to she would often just wander off. Apparently they found a solution in getting one of the sexy young grips to go on all fours and crawl to where they wanted her to go and she would follow him bum there every time. It does mean most of her dialogue is very stilted, even more so since that was kind of her delivery style to begin with. Its an awful mess of a thing but I laughed and kind of had a good time watching it so
This was a decade before Daltons stint as Bond but it had a line... “Marlo listen. I've got something very important to tell you. Sir Michael (Dalton) is one of England's top secret agents. He's bigger than 007!”
Oh and the cast
Mae West
Timothy Dalton
Dom DeLuise
Tony Curtis
Ringo Starr
Keith Moon
George Hamilton
Alice Cooper
A man who could tell more truth and eat fewer pies.
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No Time to Die
I've found the last few Bond films a total chore to watch but this I did enjoy and the length of almost 3 hours wasn't a problem. Some nice little references to previous films dotted about. Definitely worth watching.
I've found the last few Bond films a total chore to watch but this I did enjoy and the length of almost 3 hours wasn't a problem. Some nice little references to previous films dotted about. Definitely worth watching.
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Death to 2021
I needed that, the questionable IQ english lady specifically had me in pieces.
I needed that, the questionable IQ english lady specifically had me in pieces.
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Ghostbusters Afterlife
5/10
The first half comes across as an indie film, the second half comes across as a remix of the original film with zero originality (think The Force Awakens). Neither scary nor funny. A film that is just there to serve nostalgia. As a direct sequel to Ghostbusters it could just make the ticket but given Ghostbusters 2 is canon as well, its hard to think this film is in the same universe. The ending is just ridiculous. I was actually bored in the last 30 minutes. The best thing in the whole movie was the actress Mckenna Grace who played the main character Phoebe. The actress is very good, the character is unbelievable. The worst was the kid who played Podcast.
Still leagues better than the 2016 debacle.
5/10
The first half comes across as an indie film, the second half comes across as a remix of the original film with zero originality (think The Force Awakens). Neither scary nor funny. A film that is just there to serve nostalgia. As a direct sequel to Ghostbusters it could just make the ticket but given Ghostbusters 2 is canon as well, its hard to think this film is in the same universe. The ending is just ridiculous. I was actually bored in the last 30 minutes. The best thing in the whole movie was the actress Mckenna Grace who played the main character Phoebe. The actress is very good, the character is unbelievable. The worst was the kid who played Podcast.
Still leagues better than the 2016 debacle.
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