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Author:  markg [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 0:42 ]
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devilman wrote:
'Killer App' was added to Netflix today. I managed 8 minutes before turning it off.

I don't even have any idea what that's about so I'm completely out on a limb but I'm guessing that they started with the title and just went from there.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 1:41 ]
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I've not seen the movie of The Girl With All The Gifts, but the book was okay.

I remember thinking there was no way in hell I wouldn't have shot the girl right at the start, though.

Author:  devilman [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 9:54 ]
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markg wrote:
devilman wrote:
'Killer App' was added to Netflix today. I managed 8 minutes before turning it off.

I don't even have any idea what that's about so I'm completely out on a limb but I'm guessing that they started with the title and just went from there.


Pretty much.

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A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late


It seems like a cross between Circle, I.T. and maybe a little Black Mirror, but you're watching the actors reading the script for the first time.

Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:30 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I've not seen the movie of The Girl With All The Gifts, but the book was okay.

I remember thinking there was no way in hell I wouldn't have shot the girl right at the start, though.


I enjoyed the book; the writer has done a lot of cool stuff over the years, like the Felix Castor series about an exorcist, and a load of Marvel comics and suchlike.

There’s a sequel out now, I think, or at least due very soon.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:33 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
There’s a sequel out now, I think, or at least due very soon.

What Do You Get For Christmas For The Girl Who Had All The Gifts Last Year

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:48 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
the writer has done a lot of cool stuff over the years...a load of Marvel comics and suchlike


Most notably the original run of Lucifer (the Sandman spin-off that was made into a TV series recently) which was brilliant stuff.

Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 13:56 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
There’s a sequel out now, I think, or at least due very soon.

What Do You Get For Christmas For The Girl Who Had All The Gifts Last Year


*applause GIF*

Author:  myp [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 14:43 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
There’s a sequel out now, I think, or at least due very soon.

What Do You Get For Christmas For The Girl Who Had All The Gifts Last Year


*applause GIF*

:this:

Author:  Pundabaya [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 15:03 ]
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How can you fuck up Poirot's facial hair so badly?

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 15:16 ]
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The Orient Express was / is in St Pancras today.

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Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Nov 02, 2017 18:10 ]
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Pundabaya wrote:
How can you fuck up Poirot's facial hair so badly?


A blunt razor and a blind barber?

Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:00 ]
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Absolutely loved Thor: Ragnarok. Hilarious.

Author:  MaliA [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 14:37 ]
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Grim... wrote:
The Orient Express was / is in St Pancras today.

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Doesn't the Orient express run to Torquay or something?

Author:  Kern [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 14:40 ]
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Close. Venice.

But that's not the proper one, according to Seat61.

Author:  MaliA [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 14:45 ]
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Ah. Hohum.

Author:  Mimi [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 15:00 ]
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Kern wrote:
Close. Venice.

But that's not the proper one, according to Seat61.

I was trying to work that out earlier, but googling it just brought up loads of ‘experience days’ sellers, so I gave up.

Author:  Kern [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 15:15 ]
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If I become an eccentric millionaire, I'll definitely organise BeexTrain on the Venice one just so we can play Mafia on the Orient Express.

Author:  Pundabaya [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 19:38 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Absolutely loved Thor: Ragnarok. Hilarious.


It really is

I want a Korg and Miek... Thing. (I don't think a film would work, and a series would be too expensive). Maybe an animated series but PG-13 rated.? Yeah, that'd do.

Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 21:26 ]
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If anyone didn’t know, Korg is voiced by the guy who directed the movie. He’s awesome.

Author:  MrChris [ Fri Nov 03, 2017 22:51 ]
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Kern wrote:
If I become an eccentric millionaire, I'll definitely organise BeexTrain on the Venice one just so we can play Mafia on the Orient Express.

Oh my god we should do this.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Mon Nov 06, 2017 20:43 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
Actually Amazon also has Your Name (which is hands down the best film I've seen this year) on Blu-Ray on 7 November. So, pick them up, init.

It's the 6th, and it did arrive today.

S'not bad at all. It is rather different watching a filim not knowing that you're pretty much guaranteed a happy ending.

Although I imagine the amount of untranslated written text might have annoyed me if i coulcn't read it. :p

Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 07, 2017 22:59 ]
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Wotsits.
Shaping up to be a so so 5.5/10 film, but ohmywordAgentLaureline.

Author:  Cras [ Tue Nov 07, 2017 23:05 ]
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Call for Bamba. Paging Bamba to the courtesy rage phone.

Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 07, 2017 23:14 ]
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Was Bamba in the film?

Author:  MrChris [ Tue Nov 07, 2017 23:56 ]
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I got one hour in and gave up. Holy shit it's a bad film. What happened, Luc? What happened?

Author:  Bamba [ Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:25 ]
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MrChris wrote:
I got one hour in and gave up. Holy shit it's a bad film. What happened, Luc? What happened?


This is the correct opinion. Well done.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Nov 09, 2017 20:00 ]
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Steven Soderbergh:

Author:  RuySan [ Thu Nov 09, 2017 20:33 ]
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From the context i thought it was luc besson, and then everything would make more sense. Speaking of Soderberg, i have to watch S2 of "The Girlfriend Experience". The first season was brilliant.

Author:  JBR [ Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:20 ]
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I also enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok. Culturally a different experience-first time I've been asked to stand to 'respect the national flag' which was then pictured on screen (actually, all citizens were asked to stand, so maybe they'd have let me off). And no great prohibition on taking phone calls, though the takers were quiet and quick. Perhaps less worried about because the film is in English with no subtitles, so some people are there for the action. A simple line like Odin's 'oh shit' got a decent laugh. Princely price of £1.97 for your 3d ticket. £2.86 including crisps and pepsi. Decent audience, but presumably low ticket prices prevent places like Myanmar contributing much to a film's gross take, even if they pull people in.

Author:  RuySan [ Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:49 ]
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JBR wrote:
I also enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok. Culturally a different experience-first time I've been asked to stand to 'respect the national flag' which was then pictured on screen (actually, all citizens were asked to stand, so maybe they'd have let me off). And no great prohibition on taking phone calls, though the takers were quiet and quick. Perhaps less worried about because the film is in English with no subtitles, so some people are there for the action. A simple line like Odin's 'oh shit' got a decent laugh. Princely price of £1.97 for your 3d ticket. £2.86 including crisps and pepsi. Decent audience, but presumably low ticket prices prevent places like Myanmar contributing much to a film's gross take, even if they pull people in.


Every time i travel i try to go at least to a concert to feel the local culture. I should add going to the movies. Seems like an interesting prospect.

Author:  JBR [ Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:49 ]
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It can be. Not always, mind-can just be similar only annoying (an interval in Iceland, during which teens jump from seat to seat). Concerts sound more likely to have a cultural thing.

Author:  RuySan [ Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:50 ]
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JBR wrote:
It can be. Not always, mind-can just be similar only annoying (an interval in Iceland, during which teens jump from seat to seat). Concerts sound more likely to have a cultural thing.


I avoid cinemas without intervals, so that's fine for me.

Author:  Hearthly [ Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:20 ]
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Ha! So I watched Baby Driver last night, in which Kevin Spacey plays a major role, and he basically portrays a bullying, intimidating, thoroughly unpleasant crime lord type who forces a young man with issues to do things he really doesn't want to for a couple of hours, and is quite happy to threaten to put the young man's girlfriend in a wheelchair by chopping her legs off, or something, if the young man doesn't do what he wants to.

If we try to disassociate that side of things from the proceedings (which quite frankly I was unable to do, and I found myself wondering who on the set he'd try to shag, as well as how much playing the role was actually an artistic stretch for him), it's not a bad film but nothing special either.

The action sequences are great and the car chases are good, but I don't think it was all as clever as it thought it was, and tonally it was a bit of a mess as well, the story wasn't up to much and whilst I get pretty much everyone apart from Baby and his girl is supposed to be a slimeball who deserves to get killed, I didn't find myself massively rooting for them either - well apart from his foster dad dude who unlike Baby hadn't turned to a life of crime.

I didn't think the soundtrack was that amazing either, there was some good stuff on it, but they couldn't find room for Jethro Tull track, eh? Bank heist with an improvised flute solo, now that'd be something.

Absolutely defines what a 7/10 film is for me. But that might be Kevin Spacey's fault, I don't know, he's in it so much it's hard to be sure.

As such, 700/1000.

Author:  Cras [ Sun Nov 12, 2017 16:17 ]
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The Hitman's Bodyguard is basically two hours of Jackson and Reynolds shouting at each other. It's highly entertaining.

Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:31 ]
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What We Do In the Shadows. Fucking amazing. Loved it.

Baby Driver. It was pretty good. It felt like it wanted to be more stylish than it was.

Author:  Satsuma [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:14 ]
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I watched The Expendibles 2 last night. It’s bloody marvelleous and terrible in equal proportions. Man alive though, that cast! The cast was amazing and made my little jollies retract inside myself. What a shame they weren’t in a better movie.

Pros:
AA-12 (with a drum magazine no less) wielding Arnie is my favourite thing ever.

Cons:
Stallone runs like Barry from the Goldbergs. It’s fucking hilarious how badly his “action acting” is. And his makeup made him look like a transvestite with a silly moustache.

Author:  Cras [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:45 ]
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It's called a Scrake Cannon.

Author:  Grim... [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 15:30 ]
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And Chuck Norris made a Chuck Norris joke.

Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 15:40 ]
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Grim... wrote:
And Chuck Norris made a Chuck Norris joke.

Giphy "paradox":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/ubZZIF7BjJihO/giphy-loop.mp4

Author:  RuySan [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 16:20 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
Ha! So I watched Baby Driver last night, in which Kevin Spacey plays a major role, and he basically portrays a bullying, intimidating, thoroughly unpleasant crime lord type who forces a young man with issues to do things he really doesn't want to for a couple of hours, and is quite happy to threaten to put the young man's girlfriend in a wheelchair by chopping her legs off, or something, if the young man doesn't do what he wants to.

If we try to disassociate that side of things from the proceedings (which quite frankly I was unable to do, and I found myself wondering who on the set he'd try to shag, as well as how much playing the role was actually an artistic stretch for him), it's not a bad film but nothing special either.

The action sequences are great and the car chases are good, but I don't think it was all as clever as it thought it was, and tonally it was a bit of a mess as well, the story wasn't up to much and whilst I get pretty much everyone apart from Baby and his girl is supposed to be a slimeball who deserves to get killed, I didn't find myself massively rooting for them either - well apart from his foster dad dude who unlike Baby hadn't turned to a life of crime.

I didn't think the soundtrack was that amazing either, there was some good stuff on it, but they couldn't find room for Jethro Tull track, eh? Bank heist with an improvised flute solo, now that'd be something.

Absolutely defines what a 7/10 film is for me. But that might be Kevin Spacey's fault, I don't know, he's in it so much it's hard to be sure.

As such, 700/1000.


My brother in law is a video editor and he idolises Edgar Wright. Apparently his directing is full of little amazing details filled with flair that us mere cinema watchers don't appreciate as much. Anyway, i also like his movies and will try to check this one.

Author:  LewieP [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 16:25 ]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag

Author:  RuySan [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 16:39 ]
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LewieP wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag


This is a great youtube channel that i've seen some videos but haven't seen this one before. There's one about the over-editing in modern actions movies that is specially poignant. Also like the video about "Bayhem":)

Author:  LewieP [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 16:41 ]
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Sadly not making any new videos though.

Author:  RuySan [ Tue Nov 14, 2017 16:58 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Sadly not making any new videos though.


Yes, this deserved a lot more videos. The one about action scenes that i was referring to, it's the one about Jackie Chan. Just watched it all over again. Great video.

Author:  TheVision [ Wed Nov 15, 2017 23:33 ]
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LewieP wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag


That was brilliant!

Author:  LewieP [ Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:28 ]
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Looks like Daredevil is still somehow Affleck's most critically acclaimed superhero movie.

Burn it down and start again.

Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:44 ]
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I watched THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD last night.

It's 30 minutes too long and is moderately entertaining. Seriously, who fucking edits films these days, is two hours the 'target running time' or something?

Not as good as BABY DRIVER, which wasn't great either.

In fact, if ever a film were a straight 6/10, THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD is it.

As such, 601/1000, it gets an extra point for having a Ford Focus C-Max in a car chase.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:08 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
I watched THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD last night.

It's 30 minutes too long and is moderately entertaining. Seriously, who fucking edits films these days, is two hours the 'target running time' or something?
This is the correct opinion. It was a 2/5 movie for me at one point, but redeemed itself a bit in the last section (which was also where most of the trailer was cut from, non-coincidentally.) It badly wanted to be The Bourne Identity mashed up with Die Hard 3, but it was barely a cover band for most of it, and without the easy charisma of the leads I might have turned it off.

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Not as good as BABY DRIVER, which wasn't great either.
This is nonsense and you're a terrible person for writing it.

Author:  Cras [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:25 ]
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I feel you both wanted more out of Hitman's Bodyguard than it ever promised. It was always from the start going to be exactly what it was, a Jackson/Reynolds enemies-turned-friends buddy movie and it delivered exactly that. Did it need a bit of a trim? Probably. Still great though.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:36 ]
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I wanted more funny lines and less long stretches where nothing happened and it didn't make me so much as chuckle. Doesn't seem too much to ask.

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