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Post by Whizzo on Sept 28, 2024 16:22:23 GMT
Wolfs - Apple TV+
Or what Jon Watts wrote and directed after he stopped doing Spider-Man films. He doesn't seem to want to leave NYC so doesn't with this film about two fixers who are somehow given the same clean up job when they're lone wolfs (I'm sticking to the bad grammar of the title). Clooney and Pitt reunited and still have the great chemistry they have together despite their two characters being very much at odds with each other. It's not really a spoiler that this doesn't last the entire film.
It's a pretty fun time, the plot goes a little all over the place at times and it does somehow all get tied up at the end. It's possible there could be more but who knows.
As someone not that much younger than both of them I did appreciate both of them getting the glasses out to read the pager it did acknowledge they aren't half their age.
Enjoyable nonsense.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 28, 2024 19:45:47 GMT
I was really looking forward to Wolfs but I don't have Apple TV and they've scrapped the planned cinema release. Very annoying.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 28, 2024 20:39:34 GMT
12 Angry Men - 9/10
Not a bad start to my half arsed mission to watch some of the top rated IMDB films, that for whatever reason I've never gotten around to.
Absolutely riveting stuff throughout, and the relatively short runtime flew by. Quite interesting to see racial prejudice tackled head on in a film this old.
It's also taken the top spot from Predator 2 for the sweatiest film I've ever seen.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 28, 2024 20:46:03 GMT
One of my absolute favourites is 12 Angry Men, not watched it for a good few years though
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Post by cubby on Sept 28, 2024 20:59:49 GMT
Glass 10/10 a glassterpiece
James McAvoy is the greatest one man special effect
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Post by addyb on Sept 28, 2024 21:29:24 GMT
I watched Airplane fairly recently, and I've seen it a lot more than Spaceballs (which I reckon I'd not seen for close to 30 years). Airplane holds up really well, it's still absolutely inspired and hilarious. The only thing that's dated is some of the jokes are a bit dodgy nowadays. And yes: I loved it when I was six, but not as much as Spaceballs, because it wasn't really lampooning something that I was familiar with. I'd probably never seen a disaster movie before I watched Airplane. How strange i watched Airplane last night, I didn't think some of the jokes were that dodgy tbh, moreso because it didn't feel like it was punching down. Its just silly comedy and it goes for everyone and never feels mean. Have you ever seen a grown man naked? |
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Post by addyb on Sept 28, 2024 21:30:10 GMT
I love the tribal basketball scene. Always makes me piss my sides.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 28, 2024 21:53:05 GMT
Megalopolis - 3/10? Who knows... When you're a millionaire and you're bored of smelling your own farts, you make this. If it wasn't for Adam Driver, it would be 0/10 frankly. Veers from preachy nonsense from a senile pervert about the future of humanity to absolute incoherence to Shia Leboeuf in Roman drag who fucks his sister. I think 3 might be generous. Awesome I'm going to see this tomorrow based on Kermode's review |
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 28, 2024 21:57:36 GMT
Just watching Demi Moore on Graham Norton. She said that her character and Sue "share a conciseness".
Did anyone else get that from the film?
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 28, 2024 22:37:54 GMT
It's rather the whole point of the film, she was doing what she was doing to herself.
The guy on the phone constantly told her if she wanted the balance respected she had to respect the balance. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 28, 2024 22:47:05 GMT
The mechanics of the whole thing are a little bit fuzzy. Like why is Sue surprised to find a bunch of junk food around that Elisabeth ate? If they share a consciousness, shouldn't she have memory or awareness of what her counterpart is doing? But I don't really care, I don't need to know exactly how it works. It's the kind of movie where I can just handwave that sort of thing. |
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Post by myk on Sept 28, 2024 23:27:20 GMT
It's more an abstract "she is you" in terms of personality, traits. Neither knows what's going on while the other is out (other than hallucinations). Really both should have been better at leaving messages and Sue should have realised she was killing Elizabeth.
I think Severance did this concept better, because it's exploring split same personalities with a focus on the relationships they build, rather than one horrible person. Especially after the last episode of the season. |
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Post by peacemaker on Sept 28, 2024 23:29:58 GMT
I took it like they were the same but never respected it. I always say to the kids “do you want the rest of this ice cream or save it for tomorrow?” Then I’d say if you have it now you are stitching up the tomorrow you. They nearly always take the option to eat it now and make the tomorrow’s self miss out. Same as this movie.
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Post by Vortex on Sept 29, 2024 8:45:55 GMT
Ice cream is a terrible example, it melts, so of course you eat everything in your bowl.
Even if you freeze it, if it's been in contact with the spoon you're eating with you're just inoculating a good food source with oral bacteria, then eating it again the next day after they've been growing or producing toxins. Blech.
I'm with the kids choice!
Unless you're freezing the uneaten bit. In which case, tough shit kids, this bits relatively clean, so just eat yer damn alloted portion.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 29, 2024 8:49:14 GMT
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 29, 2024 9:43:20 GMT
The mechanics of the whole thing are a little bit fuzzy. Like why is Sue surprised to find a bunch of junk food around that Elisabeth ate? If they share a consciousness, shouldn't she have memory or awareness of what her counterpart is doing? . This is exactly my point - if they were sharing the same conciousness, then the choices Sue was making would be more meaningful. But the only thing that indicated they did share was the fact that Sue knew what to do with the substance. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 29, 2024 9:48:42 GMT
It didn't bother me that much, but sure.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 29, 2024 10:10:46 GMT
Trap
This was alright in a "don't think about how ridiculous this premise is, just go with it" kind of way, up until when the guy escapes from the trap. From that point on the events that unfold stretch believability beyond breaking point. Hartnett is clearly having fun but this was pretty, pretty bad.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 29, 2024 10:17:57 GMT
Morbius
Reminded me heavily of superhero films from the 90s where things just happen and those things are very unexciting. Some truly terrible CGI, Jared Harris looked embarrassed to be there while Matt Smith seems to be the only who got the memo and had a whale of a time.
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Post by sportâś… on Sept 29, 2024 10:41:32 GMT
oh no Jambo got Morbed /o\
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Post by Tomo on Sept 29, 2024 10:44:26 GMT
Femme - 8/10 (Netflix)
Strong twist on the revenge thriller format. Drag queen gets assaulted by a hyper masculine bro, then befriends him to later covertly fuck him over, but finds himself getting absorbed into his toxic world. Pretty tense at times and the blurring between friendship groups is interesting.
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Post by simple on Sept 29, 2024 18:19:05 GMT
Morbius Reminded me heavily of superhero films from the 90s where things just happen and those things are very unexciting. Some truly terrible CGI, Jared Harris looked embarrassed to be there while Matt Smith seems to be the only who got the memo and had a whale of a time. I think if everyone knew it was as camp as Matt Smith does it would be a decent piece of popcorn. Unfortunately Jared Leto doesn’t realise that he’s in a Daredevil/Underworld thing and it takes itself way to seriously. This is the movie it should have been / really is if only they’d admit it |
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Post by dfunked on Sept 29, 2024 19:16:48 GMT
Puss in Boots: TLW - 8/10
One of the more entertaining animated films I've seen in recent years. It absolutely oozes creativity when compared to something as by the numbers as Despicable Me 4.
Ridiculously stacked cast too.
We need a thread of recently abandoned films...
It ends with us
Utterly fucking dire! Blake Lively has the charisma of a half mouldy tangerine.
Twisters
More like shitsters.
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Post by zisssou on Sept 30, 2024 7:50:47 GMT
The Amityville Horror 1979
I finally got round to watching this and I can see why it is considered a classic horror film. There were plenty of unsettling not seeing anything moments, then suddenly you catch a glimpse of something. I got a bit of a Dario Argento vibe.
There were some plot holes, and the old... why don't they just leave. But, yeah I rank this quite highly on the shitting my pants scale.
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Post by Binky on Sept 30, 2024 8:24:20 GMT
Inside Out 2
Ooff this was a bit of a let down. The concept of Riley as a teen dealing with a whole host of new emotions sounded great on paper but I don’t think they really did enough to explore that. It would have been pretty funny and relatable to focus on her relationship with her family and friends rather than the hockey team.
There were a couple of big laughs at the start and the heart strings were definitely tugged early doors, but it drops that stuff quickly for the majority of the movie and settles in to a very average story. Disappointing.
5/10
The Ides of March
Ryan Gosling and George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. That’s all you need to know really. “An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.”
Somehow I hadn’t seen this one before, but thought it was a pretty good watch. Well worth 90 minutes of your time.
7/10
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Post by gamingdave on Sept 30, 2024 10:48:43 GMT
Megalopolis (2024)
Bonkers. They don't make films like that anymore, though not sure they ever did and there really isn't anything quite like this (if there is, I haven't seen it).
It's dripping with that 70s excess he and his cohort revelled in - there are shots/edits that made me think of DePalma (and it's got Lucas levels of dialogue at times). It's very indulgent, but I don't say that as a negative.
It reminded me of 12 Monkeys, Natural Born Killers, Mulholland Drive, and (it's hard to articulate why) Dick Tracey. Not that it's like any of those films - it's 100% it's own thing - but something somehow made me think of those (and more).
The storytelling is simple but works.
The visuals are wild. Costumes and sets are all great, and the vfx give it an otherworldly aesthetic. Reviews mention it looking incomplete, but I didn't find that at all. It's not realistic, but I don't think it's trying to be, it's more a vision than a clear picture.
Driver and Plaza give excellent performances, others are more erratic but it all just (at least for me) works.
In a time when Marvel are spending double the budget and upwards on churning out MCU titles, and Netflix are happy to spend the same amount of money on Outlaw King, and nearly double on Red Notice or The Grey Man, I think it's important films like this still get made.
Could it have been better? Most certainly.
Does it matter? I'm not sure.
I find it very hard to score. I need to see it again.
However, I highly recommend it for the experience and I think it's ambition should be applauded.
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Post by sportâś… on Sept 30, 2024 11:14:06 GMT
Nice one, Francis.
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Post by harrypalmer on Sept 30, 2024 11:39:40 GMT
Mighty Aphrodite (DVD) - 2.5/5
Woody Allen (63) is married to Helena Bonham Carter (29) and this is completely normal. She is mightily disappointed that he cant get it (his penis) up in bed one time and so has an affair with Robocop (48). They adopt a son, and Woody, ignoring the wishes of his wife, decides to find its mother, who turns out to be pornstar/prostitute Mira Sorvino (28). He mercilessly stalks her and inveigles his way into her favour. One thing leads to another and he shags he, while at no time mentioning that he now has legal custody of her son, who she has deep regrets about putting up for adoption.
Has aged poorly.
Blue Crush (DVD) - 4/5
REALLY GOOD.
The Glimmer Man (DVD) - 3/5
Hilarious.
Conspiracy Theory (DVD) - 2/5
Mel Gibson is a lunatic conspiracy nut who mercilessly stalks US Justice Dept attorney Julia Roberts, even spying on her through her window while she works out. This is not presented as being particularly creepy, he is simply in love with her. There is some plot justification for this behaviour towards the end of the film, but she accepts it has kind of adorable for the most part.
Directed by Richard Donner, surely his most bonkers film. Patrick Stewart is a good villain. Mel Gibson is surprisingly adept at spouting insane manic gibberish and harassing women.
Quite boring.
Freejack (DVD) - 2/5
Emilio Estevez is a racing car driver. He likes it when his girlfriend, Rene Russo, nibbles his ears in public. Unfortunately his perfect body is required to replace that of an ageing billionaire from the future who hires Mick Jagger to use time travel technology to pluck said body from the past at the exact moment Emilio's racing car explodes into a bridge. A futuristic chase ensures a bit like in The Running Man but not as good.
Terrible, but good.
The Princes Diaries (Disney +) - 2.5/5
I expected better.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 30, 2024 11:51:48 GMT
Megalopolis (2024) Bonkers. They don't make films like that anymore, though not sure they ever did and there really isn't anything quite like this (if there is, I haven't seen it). It's dripping with that 70s excess he and his cohort revelled in - there are shots/edits that made me think of DePalma (and it's got Lucas levels of dialogue at times). It's very indulgent, but I don't say that as a negative. It reminded me of 12 Monkeys, Natural Born Killers, Mulholland Drive, and (it's hard to articulate why) Dick Tracey. Not that it's like any of those films - it's 100% it's own thing - but something somehow made me think of those (and more) .The storytelling is simple but works. The visuals are wild. Costumes and sets are all great, and the vfx give it an otherworldly aesthetic. Reviews mention it looking incomplete, but I didn't find that at all. It's not realistic, but I don't think it's trying to be, it's more a vision than a clear picture. Driver and Plaza give excellent performances, others are more erratic but it all just (at least for me) works. In a time when Marvel are spending double the budget and upwards on churning out MCU titles, and Netflix are happy to spend the same amount of money on Outlaw King, and nearly double on Red Notice or The Grey Man, I think it's important films like this still get made. Could it have been better? Most certainly. Does it matter? I'm not sure. I find it very hard to score. I need to see it again. However, I highly recommend it for the experience and I think it's ambition should be applauded. Can't really agree with a lot of that. For me it was overwhelming proof that dream projects from directors that have been gestating in their brains for decades are generally never good, hubris is very much a thing, sometimes producers telling you no can be a good thing and Shia LaBouef is awful. |
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Post by clemfandango on Sept 30, 2024 12:01:51 GMT
Freejack (DVD) - 2/5
Emilio Estevez is a racing car driver. He likes it when his girlfriend, Rene Russo, nibbles his ears in public. Unfortunately his perfect body is required to replace that of an ageing billionaire from the future who hires Mick Jagger to use time travel technology to pluck said body from the past at the exact moment Emilio's racing car explodes into a bridge. A futuristic chase ensures a bit like in The Running Man but not as good. Terrible, but good. Wow I remember watching that when it came out, I had completely forgot it existed. Its going on the list  |
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