Rate the last film with your terrible opinions

I mean technically they did just adapt all of Ian Fleming's work. 

The Substance - wow, that really was quite something. Did I like what I just watched? I'm not really sure, but it certainly was... a film. Absolutely disgusting throughout and I'm glad that the Foley artist got a prominent credit, as they really add to the gross out nature of it.

Felt very like a very extreme episode of Black Mirror, which is good, but also perhaps suggests why these things might be best with shorter run times, as I really started questioning motivations of both characters. Mainly I had no idea why Elisbeth would continue doing this. Unless there is some shared consciousness thing going on, it doesn't seem to give her any benefit, beyond a nice long nap. I guess we are just meant to accept it is the effect of the drug her inability to quit, but it didn't really do much to explain the appeal beyond that initial desire to be young again. Sue is also just a little empty and fairly standard young woman after fame stereotype.

Also wasn't sure what the people who are giving out The Substance get from it. Can't recall there being money exchanged.

It is obviously intended as fable though, so the broad brush strokes mostly work. And that ending really is quite something. It echoes lots of classic tales, such as King Kong or Frankenstein, but certainly can't accuse it of not being unique.

It would of been so easy to add a line about a setting up a payment and just a quick idea -  Elizabeth gets a little younger by a month everytime she swaps with Sue also never got the impression they were the same person or "they were one". As someone else said best not to think about it but its a shame someone didn't see these weak elements of the script.

Most horror films don't really make a lot of sense when you think about them in the case of The Substance it could quite possibly be a beta test of a product that would then be made available after more development but it's just easy to call it handwavium and "enjoy" the ride.

Agree with all that. I don't think those plot elements I mentioned are necessarily the problem I had, but the length is really the issue. I tighter runtime likely would have not given time to worry about that sort of thing. There was quite a lot of time spent ogling at Sue (not that that didn't serve purpose) and some of that could certainly have been trimmed.

Definitely well worth watching though and I thought it was generally excellent. I probably liked Heretic a little more, but this stands out and is more unique.

The thing that annoyed me the most about the Substance was that I read several critical reviews who all included a variation of "it's a case of style... OVER SUBSTANCE" and I wanted to reach through the screen and punch them.

Yeah, I genuinely don't know how you could look at Skyfall and say it's wank. But I was never a huge fan of classic Bond, so maybe that's why?

I’ve said this on EG/FG before. I thought it was wank, cliched rubbish almost all the way through despite a promising start

Then towards the end the baddies are after M, she and her escort decide to shine flashlights at the enemies so they can track them in the pitch black. Then when they get where they are going, was it a church? She just sits there whilst he looks for some candles, at that point I thought they were just taking the piss

I was just annoyed at how wank it was overall by that point so it will always be remembered as wank. Only seen it once though so might watch it again

Gaia (all4)

South African horror film about a woman who gets trapped in the forest. Its got a very strong influence of Last of Us and a similar vibe to parts of Annihilation.

Manages to maintain a creepy vibe with some dreamy atmospheric stuff and scratchy body horror for what was obviously a limited budget.

Decent enough.

I liked the end of it. But I did have a thought in the back of my head, about why MI6 couldn't have sent maybe a couple of guys to help out. You know exactly where they are going to be, exactly the time they are going to be there, and you can't send a helicopter?

CINEMASINS

I watched the seasonally appropriate V for Vendetta.

It's great. Better than I remembered actually.
I think when I watched it back in the day I was mainly there for the action, but now I appreciate some of the performances and details.
There are some really good lines and quotes in there too.

Though watching a scarily prescient film about the rise of High Chancellor Adam Sutler right after recent events in america was probably a bad idea, as now I'm depressed.

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