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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.

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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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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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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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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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My bro said Jumanji was brilliant.

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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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We loved it too. Ian is a great big :wrong: 'un! :P

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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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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. :shrug:


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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
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going by what was presented to us, the entire of the third act was unnecessary - they literally just had a helicopter and now needed to get to the top of a tall statue, yet decided to go through the whole final task sort of thing. If they'd put in a line about how it had run out of fuel or was damaged or something that'd be better.

That said, video games aren't shy of putting arbitrary bullshit restrictions on you like that, and it's riffing off video games, so whatever.


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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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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I really like School Of Rock. Just Jack Black being himself.


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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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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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I too enjoyed Jumanji and I can't stand Jack Black. He was OK in this.

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That is a great film, isn't it?

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That is a great film, isn't it?


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When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.

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Jack Black is amazing in films where all he has to play is Jack Black.


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When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.


Is the key Laudanum?

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Cras wrote:
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When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.


Is the key Laudanum?


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Film review! Swiss Army man:

I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant.


:this: very peculiar. I do like that Radcliffe's film choices since the end of the Potter films has been ... eclectic.


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https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY


This is promising. HBO + Michael Shannon + Good Book.

Can't go wrong there.


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I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible.

If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there.


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I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible.

If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there.


3 was pretty good and from memory 6 was quite clever and surprising in delivering a sort of social message about the health care industry in the USA, 4 and 5 I'm hard pushed to remember anything much positive about though.

1 and 2 are indeed the best.


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I like all the Saw films, but I'd be hard-pushed to tell you which one was which. I'd heard Jigsaw was bad though, so I'll just pretend that doesn't exist.

'No Good Dead' was added to Netflix the other day. Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson and just 1 hour 24 in length, so I was expecting a thriller that didn't hang about. However, the middle bit, which I'm guessing was supposed to build tension, bored the hell out of me. By the time the climax of film came around, I'd lost interest.

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I've seen couple of films recently.

First was All The Money In The World. It's a good movie and if you're unaware of the life of J Paul Getty, he doesn't come across as very pleasant. Christoper Plummer does a fantastic job. It's well acted, well written and quite dispiriting on the whole human nature front, largely. It's based on true events. In the 70s, Getty's grandson was kidnapped in Italy and held for ransom. Getty refused to pay. What is astonishing, is the length of time this whole debacle took to resolve.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
This is a very good film, with a cracking script and brilliant acting from all the cast. It's more a tragicomedy than the trailer suggests and is genuinely upsetting as well as laugh out loud funny. It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard, but this is a more measured film and expects you to pay for the laughs with some bitter reflection.

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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

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It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard


Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

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It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard


Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.


Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.

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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.


This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.


This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.


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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

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I saw Lady Macbeth. It was okay. 6/10.

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It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard


Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.


Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.


Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week.

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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

Quite. It seemed like they'd forgotten to add in the cgi for a lot of it.

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Thankfully the large epic shots which show up this flaw are pretty rare. I just remember the tension and claustrophobia of all the sequences in tight sinking boats and the agonies of the men, which is where the film really shows its brilliance.


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It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard


Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.


Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.


Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week.

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Thankfully the large epic shots which show up this flaw are pretty rare. I just remember the tension and claustrophobia of all the sequences in tight sinking boats and the agonies of the men, which is where the film really shows its brilliance.


I disagree - there were a lot of shots on the beach after the first 15 minutes where it looked empty, and almost every shot at sea had maybe 3 to 6 boats in view, even when panning back in the direction they'd come from (where there should have been a relatively decent number of boats in view) or actually at the beach. The only point this was remedied was right near the end.

There was nothing at all in the film to give the sense of the scale of 300,000 men being rescued.

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Great, great film. Underrated.

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Great, great film. Underrated.

I was fully on board right from the opening shot (in both senses of the word)


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Thankfully the large epic shots which show up this flaw are pretty rare. I just remember the tension and claustrophobia of all the sequences in tight sinking boats and the agonies of the men, which is where the film really shows its brilliance.


I disagree - there were a lot of shots on the beach after the first 15 minutes where it looked empty, and almost every shot at sea had maybe 3 to 6 boats in view, even when panning back in the direction they'd come from (where there should have been a relatively decent number of boats in view) or actually at the beach. The only point this was remedied was right near the end.

There was nothing at all in the film to give the sense of the scale of 300,000 men being rescued.

I think how it looked was probably fairly accurate, the evacuation lasted for over a week. So although hundreds of boats evacuated 300,000 men they didn't all do it at the same time.


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