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Pffft. Not even Mean Girls in that Top 5? Be ashamed of yourself.

Great game references, really enjoyed first half hour, next hour is about a completely made up game for the film. Was disappointment.

The Incredibles and Kung Fu Panda constantly fight for "best CGI film" in my brain.

Well, not constantly.

Kung Fu Panda 3 remains the most visually stunning movie I've ever seen. I saw it in 3d and in parts my jaw literally dropped

I’m about 40 minutes into the new Tomb Raider and my phone has been out for about 30 minutes. It’s a load of trite cliched shit.

It's not great for sure. I did manage to enjoy it but yeah, literally every part of its been done before and much better.

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I genuinely laughed out loud in actual real life at this. Congratulations.

I couldn’t even finish it to see whether Walton Goggins was a decent villain. What a load of old shit.

I watched OUT OF SIGHT last night, I have never seen it before even though it is quite old (1998).

It is directed by Steven Sodabread and has George Clooney, Ving Rhames and Jennifer Lopez in it.

I guess if you were giving it a genre you'd say it's a sort of crime-caper action film with some comedy and romance and suspense.

It's all very well done with a nice Sodabread slickness and efficiency, and it's beautifully shot, there's nothing about the film you could really criticise for being done 'wrong', but even so I wasn't blown away by it.

If you're after some very competent but ultimately lightweight fun, you could do a lot worse.

770/1000

We watched the new version of Stephen Kings 'IT' last night.

I've not seen the original mini-series and all I knew about the film was that it was about a scary clown.

It seems like the film carried the story across really well; all the characters were portrayed excellently and I understood the plot throughout.

I'd love to hear from one of you lot if the film matches up to the book and original series well?

Edit: I was attempting to put a funny rating of "balloon out of 10" but apparently the board doesn't want me to post a balloon emoji.

I've also read the word balloon too many times and it doesn't seem like a real word.

The first half of the mini-series is excellent (and covers the same period as the film).

The second half... not so much

All I could think when they were all cutting their hands and holding bloody hands was "well that's just unsanitary"

They do worse in the book. Penetration worse. Bom chicka wa wa. Intercourse, I'm talking about intercourse.

Okay, you really shouldn't read the book.

o/

So they have a weird gangbang?

Maybe I SHOULD read the book... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I googled it; nice.

It's deliberately awkward and gross as the kids are all supposed to be no older than 12 or 13

Out Of Sight is brilliant. Like you I wasn’t blown away on first viewing, but watch it again. Everything about it is brilliant. The cinematography, the acting, the script and the soundtrack.

Im calling it right now: this is going to be fucking dreadful.

Ultimate Predator my arse, it’ll be like the human/alien hybrid and make me audibly groan out loud.

Yeah I'm not getting my hopes up.

I really like Shane Black, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, but hmmmmmm.

It's going to be gash.

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Shane Black has like a 96% hit rate so I'm still confident.

I watched A Quiet Place. Essentially, if you haven’t seen it, it’s a post-apocalypse film about aliens.

Very good for the most part and I enjoyed 70% of the film without any complaints whatsoever.

Then it seemed like one daft calamity after another in short succession. And it then starts taking some slight liberties with the rules it established earlier in the film.

And the tone of the ending is all wrong.

AND I can’t believe that no one in the entire world did what they do at the end, prior to them at the ending doing what they do. That was obtuse enough to be spoiler free won’ it. It wasn’t enough to ruin the film but after the “calamities” I was less prepared to be generous. That last 30% of the film was probably as a consequence of studio heads getting involved: “We’ve got these Hollywood stars you must do stuff with them!” “You’ve got to have this kind of ending” “More action! It’s been too slow!”

Oh! And the CGI in the end scene was awful. Really took me out of the moment.

I’d compare this Hollywood Star horror film with magical horror “It Comes At Night”. The latter being superior because it’s uncompromising.

I still had a good time but it made me want to watch It Comes At Night again.

What Hollywood stars are in It Comes At Night?

Joel Edgerton is quite famous. Also, not a good film.

https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 25#p963825

These guys.

Joel played the Orc in Bright, people.

Seems you got upset that the film didn’t explain everything to you outside of the story it was trying to tell. It isn’t The Walking Dead, y’know.

So one of us liked the film, and one of us didn't, and we both have our reasons which we articulated in our previous posts.

Cool.

Yeah but if you both liked the Shawshank Redemption. ..

Finally finished slogging through the last 40 minutes of New Tomb Raider.

Cor that was just awful.

Characters, acting, dialogue, visuals (the CGI in that escape sequence looked worse than the video games) (and not even just the looks, it wasn’t as exciting as the video games either) (well, it wasn’t exciting at all, but you know what I mean), cinematography, the generic forgettable score, and the laughably shit ending.

Let’s be absolutely honest, the original Tomb Raider film was better than this. Long live Angelina Jolie as the OG Lara.

Tonight's film was 'You Were Never Really Here' starring The Phoenix Brother you can't spell the name of without Googling it first (Joaquin), and no one else you've heard of most likely.

It's only 90 minutes long but it's a pretty devastating, difficult watch.

(It's directed by the lady who also directed 'We Need To Talk About Kevin')

TBH it's a hard film to like, Joaquin mumbles most of the time and there are all sorts of flashbacks and semi-dream sequences occurring on a regular basis, along with jump cuts to things that don't appear contextually relevant.

Even the basic story synpopsis is pretty grim (here's my version):

Joaquin plays a traumatized veteran who tracks down young missing girls traded and sold for sex. When he catches the baddies he kills them ruthlessly with a hammer. Then he takes a job that gets him close to the great and the good, and what little world he has is threatened, whilst devastating memories from his own past repeatedly cause him nightmares, be he awake or asleep.

I'll let the Wikipedia review summary do the job here. I watched the film twice, as once I'd worked it all out I wanted to see it again with everything contextualised.

This isn't a particularly easy watch, but I'd say it's worth it.

860/1000

Last night we watched Hunt for The Wilderpeople, a 2016 New Zealand film by Taika Waititi of Thor: Ragnarok fame. It stars Sam Neill and the kid from Deadpool 2 and it was just majestical.

Very basic plot outline: A troubled young kid gets shipped out to a new home in the Kiwi bush and has adventures. I don't want to say any more than that, because it's much better to go in cold. Suffice to say, it's heartwarming, exciting in places and very, very funny. Excellent movie for Sunday evening.

874 Bananas.

Ant Man and The Wasp. Great, loved it. I was a little bit meh for the first 10-15 minutes, with no big action drawing me in (plus they forgot to lower the lights in the screen, and the film launched straight in in exactly the same way as the trailers had), but the characters are compelling (I think they've done a great job casting pretty much every character), the plot carries it through, and it's very funny. There's an interrogation scene that is just brilliantly done, and from then on, it's all good stuff.

And a really good in-credits scene, then a jokey one right after the credits (which is skippable if you need to get out of there).

Rampage.

It’s watchable, I guess, but it’s terrible and shouldn’t exist.

Mind you, it has an amazing line where The Rock gets shot in the gut, comes back and says “I think it missed all the vital organs but let’s not jinx it”. Then he fights a crocodile.

I went back to finish (start?) watching this. Surprisingly, it’s got a decent opening sequence and a good second act as the teenagers attempt to infiltrate WCKD.

But once again I was absolutely flabbergasted to see, one of my fave actors, Walton Goggins in a bizarre role where he has about 2 minutes of total screen time before he randomly goes on a suicide mission and just blows himself up. Why is he in so much shit these days? Has he racked up a load of debt IRL?

Littlefinger is in it again though. He just does his Littlefinger impression again though. Meh. You’ll see his death telegraphed 10 minutes before it happens.

Hilariously the rest of the last act just absolute garbage as people get shot, fall to their knees during an escape, get trapped, get rescued at the last minute etc etc in what must be the greatest amount of movie cliches that a single film has compiled in recent times. I wonder if all that crap was in the books.

Let’s just hope that Divergent 7: Mergent Detergent finally gets made to finish off this run of crap books being turned into movies. It’s what the fans want.

There will never be a final Divergent movie. Not with any of the original cast anyway. The books had a shitty Jesus-metaphor non-ending anyway.

Hitman's Bodyguard was good. Jackson plays Jackson but halfway through I found myself googling Reynolds's marital status. Weird.

Watched Sicario 2 at the weekend. Sicario is one of my favourite films ever; constant nerve-shredding tension and a great audience surrogate in the shape of Emily Blunt. Sicario 2 provides neither of these things and not a lot else either, there's no real reason for it to exist and it's mostly nonsense. Very disappointing.

I felt pretty similarly about Sicario 2 too.

The initial premise of using false flag operations to start a war between the cartels would've made for a worthwhile film, but what it almost instantly turns into is just balls.

Isn't this kind of how Clear And Present Danger starts?

I am very disappointed to hear this about Sicario 2.

I'm surprised by the negativity. I haven't seen it but Peter Bradshaw wrote about it very favourably and he's usually on the money for me.

Guardian review

I tweeted my thoughts at the time:

Didn't love Sicario 2. Just not as tense or well put together as the first. Feels like they moved on from the theme of "which side is good, which is bad?" But didn't really come up with anything else as compelling.

There's a few key set pieces where the stakes aren't even really established, and the action is kind of unclear, which I don't feel was true about the first movie.

Dunno if they didn't ask Emily Blunt back or if she didn't want back, and her character's story was (sort of) tied up, but you can really feel her absence in the sequel. Cinematography ain't bad in the new one, but it's no Villeneuve/Deakins combo.