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I doubt even Malia would like it.

Pitch Perfect was great, Pitch Perfect 2 was reasonably good, Pitch Perfect 3 is utter trash. I doubt even Malia would like it.

The child got to choose the movie last week. She skipped over plenty of great films for kids and chose 2005’s “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl”.

I thought it had a chance of being okay, since it was by Robert Rodriguez (indeed the very next film he made was Sin City).

It was not.

Still, it had a 12 year old Taylor Lautner pretending to be a shark. That was vaguely amusing.

Child loved it though.

The young uns have watched The Greatest Showman at least once a day for the last week solid, and have also requested the soundtrack be played in the car. Despite this, it's not become grating (...yet?).

It's a good film actually, visually stylish and with a warm heart. The musical numbers are delightful and the JackMan is, as usual, very watchable.

But don't you read about the plot of the films you're about to watch on Wikipedia?

Watched ‘Logan Lucky’ last night.

Wolverine remembers to retract his claws before wiping his arse.

I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before and a surprising amount of time goes by before they even bother explaining that's what's going on (which I mean as a compliment). Atmospheric as all shit and brilliant performances throughout, not least from the titular 'girl' who's fucking incredible despite being only about 12 when it was filmed. The rest of the main cast is Glenn Close, Paddy Considene and Gemma Arterton if you need that further hook. Very good stuff indeed.

Satsuma wrote:

Watched a film. It was called Upgrade.

Here’s the pitch: Man gets microchip in his neck and then does violent murders.

It’s great.

(Summary: It doesn’t break any new ground; nonoutstandig acting, simply serviceable; the kooky IT wizard is shit; it’s a bit daft; the cinematography is quite good though; the violence is groovy; i think it’s filmed on digital camera so it looks a bit cheap; it nicely tips over 90 minutes run-time which is just right.)

I watched this tonight and whilst I think you're selling it rather short in some regards, it is basically a superb B movie experience with some splendidly over the top violence.

I didn't get the 'cheap' looking side of things at all, they obviously didn't have a mega-budget to chuck at it but I don't think anything looked out of place or cheaped out on either.

This film comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as some great revenge movie thrills with sci-fi overtones and sentient computers can be bad and stuff.

A solid 8/10 but a bit better than that so 830/1000.

(Give BAD DAY FOR THE CUT a go, Mr Satsuma.)

The book said it was the bacteria in the soil that died, IIRC.

What else has he got to do with his time.

Hasn’t he been shitting for like 400 sols anyway?

I mean, if you go down that road then the wind on Mars would never get strong enough to blow the rocket over (it would need to be gusting at something silly like mach eight), so he would have got off the planet as planned.

If I went to Rekall and had memories of being an Olympic skier, would I actually have the ability of an Olympic skier?

The Rock is given a tablet at the start that controls the building's fire systems. The tablet can only be unlocked biometrically, using The Rock's face.

The Rock is robbed while on a boat shortly after, and has his bag stolen by baddies that were after the tablet so they could fuck about with the fire systems. The bag is thought to contain the tablet.

It then transpires that The Rock took the tablet and put it in his coat pocket for safe keeping, thus scuppering the baddies plan, so they need to attack The Rock to get the tablet back off them.

This they do, and then force The Rock to unlock the tablet using his face.

So what was their plan if the tablet *had* been in the bag?

When the fire first breaks out, the building's anti-fire systems succeed in stopping the fire spreading, but are seemingly incapable of extinguishing it, even though it's confined to just one floor. The fire rages for at least 10 minutes.

The anti-fire systems are disabled and the fire spreads upwards, engulfing basically the entire building from the initial floor up.

At the end, Mrs. Rock reboots the anti-fire systems, which turns them back on and magically the entire fire is extinguished literally within seconds.

the 2017 footage is hard to watch, as the thing is fucking real. We still have idiots that believe the KKK shit.

Author:	Satsuma [ Wed Aug 29, 2018 15:00 ]
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Nausicaa, Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies and When Marnie Was There, for me. I listen to Marnie’s OST semi-regularly.

Author:	Grim... [ Wed Aug 29, 2018 17:44 ]
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I saw Spirited Away at the cinema a couple of weeks ago. It was aces.

Author:	Malc [ Wed Aug 29, 2018 22:21 ]
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Some really good films I've seen recently on Netflix include "The Babysitter" and "I don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore". The first one is about a babysitter who has an amazing relationship with the 12 year old boy she looks after (the only person in his year who still has one). The boy is afraid of everything and bullied by everyone. However the sitter has a sinister side... The second one is about a woman who thinks everyone is a selfish arsehole when she gets robbed and the police are little help, so she enlists her neighbour (Elijah Wood) to help her set the world to rights.

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:02 ]
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I watched the Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) on TV the other day and thoroughly, thoroughly, enjoyed it. Possibly more than any other film I've seen for a long time. It's quite a sweet-natured film with characters that I cared about and wanted to succeed. It was funny, in a light hearted and charming way rather than a silly lol-fest. And it wasn't violent. OK, some of the adventures or clues were a touch far fetched but that didn't really detract from what, for me, was an engaging journey. It was a good looking film too. Looking at what I've written here seems like pretty feint praise but it was just a wonderful film for me.

Author:	Trooper [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 19:28 ]
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Pitch Perfect was great, Pitch Perfect 2 was reasonably good, Pitch Perfect 3 is utter trash. I doubt even Malia would like it.

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Author:	Findus Fop [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 19:30 ]
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Trooper wrote: I doubt even Malia would like it. Title

Author:	Grim... [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 19:54 ]
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Trooper wrote: Pitch Perfect was great, Pitch Perfect 2 was reasonably good, Pitch Perfect 3 is utter trash. I doubt even Malia would like it. Concur, although I'd give more props to PP2. 3 was dogshit. Why did Fat Amy become a fucking ninja all of a sudden? And why would you take the hottest Bella out of the film?!

Author:	Cras [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 20:05 ]
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Concur with the views on 3, but I loved 2.

Author:	Grim... [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 22:25 ]
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Yes. Pitch Perfect 3 is The Matrix 2.

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Aug 31, 2018 23:17 ]
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It doesn’t exist?

Author:	Curiosity [ Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:39 ]
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The child got to choose the movie last week. She skipped over plenty of great films for kids and chose 2005’s “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl”. I thought it had a chance of being okay, since it was by Robert Rodriguez (indeed the very next film he made was Sin City). It was not. Still, it had a 12 year old Taylor Lautner pretending to be a shark. That was vaguely amusing. Child loved it though.

Author:	Malc [ Sat Sep 01, 2018 17:16 ]
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Curiosity wrote: The child got to choose the movie last week. She skipped over plenty of great films for kids and chose 2005’s “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl”. I thought it had a chance of being okay, since it was by Robert Rodriguez (indeed the very next film he made was Sin City). It was not. Still, it had a 12 year old Taylor Lautner pretending to be a shark. That was vaguely amusing. Child loved it though. My daughter used to love it. And must have watched it about a dozen times a few years back. I don't think I ever sat through a whole viewing.

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Sep 01, 2018 17:53 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: It doesn’t exist? Giphy "yup": https://media2.giphy.com/media/l0MYwvNiMaWJhQZjy/giphy-loop.mp4

Author:	Curiosity [ Sun Sep 02, 2018 18:45 ]
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The Predator looks good.

Author:	Curiosity [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 10:49 ]
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Watched ‘Logan Lucky’ last night. It’s a heist caper starring Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig and Adam Driver, amongst others. Very funny, neatly plotted, definitely worth a watch.

Author:	Satsuma [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:30 ]
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I was watching The Martian on Film4 last night. Can someone answer me this cause it’s been doing my nut in: The door of the HAB explodes and his potatoes die. He fixes it with a big sheet of plastic and manages to repressurise the HAB. Now he’s going to stave cause he can’t make potatoes. Here’s the question: What’s stopping him from restarting his farm? He has all the equipment still (as far as I could tell) (or rather, they never say, ‘that was his last plinky plonk’) and I’m thinking the only thing he might not have is loads of shit left, but surely he’s been doing big shits every day and can use his own. Has his shit machine ran out of bags? Can’t he just do a dump on the floor? It’s not like he’ll attract any flies on Mars. So, yeah, any guesses?

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Sun Sep 02, 2018 23:57 ]
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The young uns have watched The Greatest Showman at least once a day for the last week solid, and have also requested the soundtrack be played in the car. Despite this, it's not become grating (...yet?). It's a good film actually, visually stylish and with a warm heart. The musical numbers are delightful and the JackMan is, as usual, very watchable.

Author:	agoldfish [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:21 ]
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Sir Taxalot wrote: The young uns have watched The Greatest Showman at least once a day for the last week solid, and have also requested the soundtrack be played in the car. Despite this, it's not become grating (...yet?). It's a good film actually, visually stylish and with a warm heart. The musical numbers are delightful and the JackMan is, as usual, very watchable. Week two and three have become tiresome.

Author:	Hearthly [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:11 ]
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My mum's over visiting and asked to watch a film last night so I put on UPGRADE for her which she very much enjoyed. She did that mum thing where she was asking who had done the bad deeds and trying to guess who the villain was and then asking me who the villain was so I told her to either be quiet and watch it or I would turn it off. And she guessed the villain wrong but then tried to twist it so that her guess was correct in a roundabout sort of way which I was having none of. (I thoroughly enjoyed it on a second watch, it's a fucking solid film UPGRADE, it really is.) The evening before she watched BAD DAY FOR THE CUT which she thought was good but 'didn't have a proper ending' which I pooh-poohed. I tried her with Breaking Bad a few years ago and before the end of the FIRST EPISODE OF THE FIRST SEASON she was asking how it finished, I don't mean that episode or that season, but the entire thing at the end of Season Five. I mean, really.

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:40 ]
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But don't you read about the plot of the films you're about to watch on Wikipedia?

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:45 ]
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Grim... wrote: But don't you read about the plot of the films you're about to watch on Wikipedia? Unexpected beex plot twist

Author:	TheVision [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:57 ]
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We watched Rampage last night. I enjoyed it as I wasn't in the mood for something heavy and thought provoking. It's a good old popcorn film.

Author:	TheVision [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:05 ]
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My neighbour has just told me about a film he watched last night called Tomboy. It sounded quite interesting but there's absolutely no need to watch it now as he told me everything that happened in it.

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:29 ]
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I hate that. Also trailers that are practically a speed run of the film.

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:30 ]
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Curiosity wrote: Watched ‘Logan Lucky’ last night. Wolverine remembers to retract his claws before wiping his arse.

Author:	Hearthly [ Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:56 ]
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Bamba wrote: I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before and a surprising amount of time goes by before they even bother explaining that's what's going on (which I mean as a compliment). Atmospheric as all shit and brilliant performances throughout, not least from the titular 'girl' who's fucking incredible despite being only about 12 when it was filmed. The rest of the main cast is Glenn Close, Paddy Considene and Gemma Arterton if you need that further hook. Very good stuff indeed. I watched this last night and I agree with Bamba - it's quite something to find a fresh slant on the zombie genre but they've managed it here with aplomb. The CGI isn't exactly top tier but it doesn't really distract from the film, and it being set in the UK/London makes a nice change as well. (Apart from, y'know, 28 Days Later and suchlike.) 895/100 - Paddy-tastic.

Author:	Trooper [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:09 ]
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Hearthly wrote: Satsuma wrote: Watched a film. It was called Upgrade. Here’s the pitch: Man gets microchip in his neck and then does violent murders. It’s great. (Summary: It doesn’t break any new ground; nonoutstandig acting, simply serviceable; the kooky IT wizard is shit; it’s a bit daft; the cinematography is quite good though; the violence is groovy; i think it’s filmed on digital camera so it looks a bit cheap; it nicely tips over 90 minutes run-time which is just right.) I watched this tonight and whilst I think you're selling it rather short in some regards, it is basically a superb B movie experience with some splendidly over the top violence. I didn't get the 'cheap' looking side of things at all, they obviously didn't have a mega-budget to chuck at it but I don't think anything looked out of place or cheaped out on either. This film comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as some great revenge movie thrills with sci-fi overtones and sentient computers can be bad and stuff. A solid 8/10 but a bit better than that so 830/1000. (Give BAD DAY FOR THE CUT a go, Mr Satsuma.) I watched this last night. I think you are being a bit generous and i'm fully snuggled up to Satsuma on this, with the proviso that it was merely good, not great. Nothing new in it, very derivative, reasonably well done action scenes, some terrible acting, some ok acting. Tesco Value Tom Hardy was ok, Definitely Not Elon Musk was terrible. Gaping plot holes when you think about it. The film had a nice "feel" about it though. 706 baked beans.

Author:	Trooper [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:33 ]
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Not enough potatoes to start again? The potatoes he has left are dead and won't grow if he plants them? Dunno really, I don't think it's made clear in the film either IIRC.

Author:	Satsuma [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:44 ]
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He has eating potatoes left and the ones he started with were vacuum sealed anyway so, I suppose my question is, can you kill a potatoe?

Author:	Zardoz [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:51 ]
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No, you can kill a potato or potatoes.

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:00 ]
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I think it's the temperature, not the vacuum. Potatoes won't sprout after freezing, water expansion smashes the cell structure up. They would have flash-frozen when the HAB door blew open. It's well below freezing on Mars almost everywhere and almost all the time.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:17 ]
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The book said it was the bacteria in the soil that died, IIRC.

Author:	Satsuma [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:22 ]
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Grim... wrote: The book said it was the bacteria in the soil that died, IIRC. Oh, that was it! They mention something very briefly, which made me think why can’t he just shit on the floor.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:36 ]
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I think he'd need to shit on the floor a lot.

Author:	Satsuma [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:50 ]
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What else has he got to do with his time. Hasn’t he been shitting for like 400 sols anyway?

Author:	Cras [ Thu Sep 06, 2018 13:01 ]
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The only thing you really need bacteria for in soil is nitrogen fixing, and that doesn't help when you don't have a nitrogen cycle and you're looking to get all the nitrates you need from shit, so that's a fluff explanation.