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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 16:45 ] |
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Atomic Blonde - wanted to like it, but other than marvelling at John Goodman's weight loss, it was Bourne without the charm. That's damning with faint praise like. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 17:45 ] |
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BUT PEW PEW PEW |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 18:15 ] |
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Last night we watched London has fallen. I don't mind suspending my disbelief for a film but this was absolutely absurd. I'm not one to pick at plot holes but there was more holes than plots in this one. Still, quite enjoyable. |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 18:19 ] |
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MrChris wrote: Atomic Blonde - wanted to like it, but other than marvelling at John Goodman's weight loss, it was Bourne without the charm. That's damning with faint praise like. Yes, I was a little disappointed with this. It looked great on the trailer, but didn't really deliver as much fun as I hoped for. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu Dec 28, 2017 23:57 ] |
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Just watched another Netflix Original, The Foreigner. Pretty good revenge film, in the vein of 'Man on Fire' or 'Taken', although at a slower pace, considering its Jackie Chan in his sixties. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Fri Dec 29, 2017 0:18 ] |
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In Ireland, right? Odd choice, I thought |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:51 ] |
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I watched Bright last night and to be honest, I struggled with it. Orcs, Elves and Fairies have always been the stuff of children's books in my eyes so it took me most of the film to take it seriously. It didn't help when Mrs TheVision said the Orcs look like melons. Also, I would have liked to have seen more of the Centaur. Am I to believe that he managed to get in his police uniform without anyone helping him? Now that would have been an entertaining film. The Centaur police man who can only get around in a horse box. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:11 ] |
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Cras wrote: In Ireland, right? Odd choice, I thought Yeah. With it being based around the IRA and Pierce Brosnan's character being not-very-loosely based on Gerry Adams, it's actually Jackie Chan's character that seems out of place, but then the book the film was based on was called The Chinaman, so at least he wasn't shoehorned into the role. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:25 ] |
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I thought the basic conceit of Bright was pretty good. The whole elves/orcs/some unknown thing in the past schtick was pretty cool. I liked the fact it wasn't Basil Exposition "The Lord Jeffdy Jeff came down upon them with his mighty sword and the five races of the realm and blah blah blah" and was largely just "so yeah, there are elves and orcs, on with the story". The race relations bit was a bit overdone, but it was nice to see elves as the bad guys Peatchett style. I really liked some of the graffiti they had as scene setting - the "Selfie" one of an elf taking a selfie in front of an orc being beaten by a policeman made me grin. The story was a bit meh, and, as I said, largely carried by Smith. 6.5/10 I reckon. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:44 ] |
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I particularly enjoyed the dragon flying around in the distance of a cityscape shot. |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Mon Jan 01, 2018 14:00 ] |
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I am rewatching Speed Racer and it is exactly as good as I remember it being. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Jan 01, 2018 14:02 ] |
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LewieP wrote: I am rewatching Speed Racer and it is exactly as good as I remember it being. i.e. not very? |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Jan 01, 2018 14:52 ] |
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I watched two films (count em)! War Horse. It’s about a horse! And war! It was brilliant but someone started cutting onions near me towards the end. Honest. Cumberbatch out of 10. Lucky Logan was t’other. It’s a hillbilly Oceans Eleven and was also brilliant. Pretty funny too with some good performances especially from a certain Dawson’s Creek favourite of mine. Recommended. Katie out of 10. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 0:36 ] |
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I don’t know why I thought TV censors were a thing of the past. I’ve been watching Spectre on ITV - the violence has been heavily censored and it’s irritating the bloody piss out of me. Just. Show. The. Sodding. Movie. As far as I remember the violence wasn’t even that bad. Certainly nothing out of the ordinary just your usual neck snapping mcguffins that everyone wouldn’t offend granny. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 0:42 ] |
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I watched Pitch Perfect tonight, which means my night was better than yours. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:18 ] |
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Have you seen 3 yet? |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:28 ] |
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Satsuma wrote: I don’t know why I thought TV censors were a thing of the past. I’ve been watching Spectre on ITV - the violence has been heavily censored and it’s irritating the bloody piss out of me. Just. Show. The. Sodding. Movie. As far as I remember the violence wasn’t even that bad. Certainly nothing out of the ordinary just your usual neck snapping mcguffins that everyone wouldn’t offend granny. If only there were other ways to watch a movie than with bits cut out and lots of advert breaks. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:04 ] |
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Cras wrote: Have you seen 3 yet? Friday! |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:16 ] |
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LewieP wrote: Satsuma wrote: I don’t know why I thought TV censors were a thing of the past. I’ve been watching Spectre on ITV - the violence has been heavily censored and it’s irritating the bloody piss out of me. Just. Show. The. Sodding. Movie. As far as I remember the violence wasn’t even that bad. Certainly nothing out of the ordinary just your usual neck snapping mcguffins that everyone wouldn’t offend granny. If only there were other ways to watch a movie than with bits cut out and lots of advert breaks. I didn't know watching films on normal telly was still a thing that happened. Or normal telly, for that matter. Except for old people. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:07 ] |
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TheVision wrote: I watched Bright last night and to be honest, I struggled with it. I struggled with it too because it's absolute dog shit. |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:58 ] |
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Bamba wrote: I remembered something else interesting about Elle this morning. As I mentioned, the lead character is the head of a games studio. Weirdly though, in the film, they're not developing a fictional game; they were working on the new Styx game which releases today. It's an odd thing to do because (a) the game they're working on has no real impact on the narrative so could've easily just been made something generic for the sake of the film and (b) the film's narrative does not speak well of a few of the developer characters so it's not like it paints the real life studio in a positive light. Also, y'know, violent and twisted rape revenge story: not exactly your usual fluffy cross-promotion type of thing. I do really wonder why the real life Cyanide Studio went for this deal at all. I watched this yesterday and I thought this aspect was odd. I told Mrs Fop I thought Stix looked like it was based on a game that actually exists. I said I even had it on the PS4 as part of PS+. And then the tentacles came out. And now she thinks that's what I do with my time on the Playstation. Thanks Verhoeven, thanks a lot. |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 15:45 ] |
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| Author: | RuySan [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 17:30 ] |
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Elle. That was great stuff indeed. Don't know how much Styx benefited from being prominently featured on it, but the film felt definitely more authentic for having a real videogame, and not some bullshit made up stuff with mid-90's pre-rendered graphics and early 80's sound effects like usually we see in movies. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:41 ] |
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I’ve watched Jumanji. It’s utter trash. Jack Black was so bad I’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t being paid millions. Kevin Hart is a Poundland Chris Rock who should have been forced back to his backcatelog of straight-to-DVD movies. The Rock is serviceable. Karen Gillan is utterly beguiling but doesn’t have any good lines. The camera loves her behind. So do I. 2 out of 10, for each of Karen Gillan’s bum cheeks. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:47 ] |
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Satsuma wrote: I’ve watched Jumanji. It’s utter trash. Jack Black was so bad I’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t being paid millions. Kevin Hart is a Poundland Chris Rock who should have been forced back to his backcatelog of straight-to-DVD movies. The Rock is serviceable. Karen Gillan is utterly beguiling but doesn’t have any good lines. The camera loves her behind. So do I. 2 out of 10, for each of Karen Gillan’s bum cheeks. The trailer looked awesome |
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| Author: | Cras [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:53 ] |
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It has The Rock and an underdressed Karen Gillen. I don't see how it could be anything other than amazing. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:54 ] |
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Southland Tales. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:55 ] |
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Solid counter. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 0:56 ] |
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Ta. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:39 ] |
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My bro said Jumanji was brilliant. |
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| Author: | JBR [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:29 ] |
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I liked Jumanji! Thought Jack Black played his part well - not that it's subtle or anything, but good. Made me laugh. Only thing I found annoying was casting Kiwi Rhys Darby as an Englishman. He has a good stab at the accent, then the Kiwi I's snick through, yis they do. Pointless. |
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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:41 ] |
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We loved it too. Ian is a great big 'un!
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| Author: | MaliA [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 23:05 ] |
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Film review! Swiss Army man: I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 23:29 ] |
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Kevin Hart is fucking awful. That's not a comment on anything except Kevin Hart. And the morons that keep casting him in stuff. Every time he opens his stupid squeaky little mouth I want to find him and murder him. The rest of Jumanji was pretty awesome. Bearing in mind that anything which mixes the concepts of 'American' and 'comedy' is already on my shit list even conceptually. It worked; it just did. Talented cast and good script. 
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:41 ] |
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Yeah, I liked Jumanji 2. Kevin Hart was a bit annoying, but not as much as he usually is. It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Gillan was entertaining enough, and The Rock just smashed it as he always does. Particularly the smouldering intensity. My only nitpick is that ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! Watched the original Jumanji on Friday night. Have never seen it before. Man, some of the CGI/puppetry really doesn't age well - particularly the spiders, which were just fucking comical. Perhaps that was the point. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:45 ] |
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GazChap wrote: It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Go on then, what are the other two? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:47 ] |
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Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:15 ] |
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I really like School Of Rock. Just Jack Black being himself. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:24 ] |
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Looking at the stuff he's acted in, I've only seen Enemy of the State, Demolition Man, Anchorman and the X-Files episode and I don't remember him in any of them, so it's odd that I still find him annoying. Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:28 ] |
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Grim... wrote: GazChap wrote: It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Go on then, what are the other two? Tropic Thunder and Enemy of the State. I wasn't aware he was in Demolition Man. |
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| Author: | Jem [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:36 ] |
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I too enjoyed Jumanji and I can't stand Jack Black. He was OK in this. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:36 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you That is a great film, isn't it? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:37 ] |
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MrChris wrote: MaliA wrote: Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you That is a great film, isn't it? You are quite the enigma |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:39 ] |
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When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent. |
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| Author: | Pundabaya [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:03 ] |
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Jack Black is amazing in films where all he has to play is Jack Black. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:06 ] |
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MrChris wrote: When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent. Is the key Laudanum? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:52 ] |
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devilman wrote: Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff. /narrows eyes |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 17:55 ] |
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Cras wrote: MrChris wrote: When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent. Is the key Laudanum? B flat |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 13:36 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Film review! Swiss Army man: I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant.  very peculiar. I do like that Radcliffe's film choices since the end of the Potter films has been ... eclectic.
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| Author: | LewieP [ Fri Jan 12, 2018 13:08 ] |
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https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY |
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