The Movie Review Thread

[pritch]

Blade Runner 2049

Social media comment that I've seen has varied between cautious approval and enthusiastic praise. The most recent commenter felt that in the current circumstances the distopia depicted is too optimistic. I guess he isn't a Trump fan.

I went to the 3D version, not because I'm a fan of 3D but it was in the only favourable timeslot. This isn't one of those 3D movies where they keep throwing things at the camera though. It's a long movie, I got a handy park, put three hours worth in the meter and was 10 minutes late geting back to the car. A parking ticket would have spoiled a good day because my admission to the movie was free this time.

Despite the length the movie didn't seem too long and it certainly wasn't boring. The Spectator reviewer didn't understand what was going on in the story, another commentator thought she must be thick and I'd have to agree with his assessment.

If you can remember the original movie - and it was a long time ago - you should have no difficulty following the plot.

7.5/10 but the next movie I watch will need to have some colour.

[FlangMasterJ]

Yep you have to see the original fairly recently to follow 2049.

"Need to have some colour"? Whatchu on about Willis?

[pritch]

"Need to have some colour"? Whatchu on about Willis?

The unremitting monotones used to depict the dire state of the environment in the movie. I’m thinking I need a fix of blue sky and green grass. Meanwhile I’m making do with the scenery in Narcos.

[FlangMasterJ]

The unremitting monotones used to depict the dire state of the environment in the movie. I’m thinking I need a fix of blue sky and green grass. Meanwhile I’m making do with the scenery in Narcos.

It is a dystopian future after all. I thought there was plenty of eye catching neon half naked sloots to keep the eyes occupied.

[ellipsis]

big call, big call.

...Bladerunner was undoubtably the movie of a lifetime for me...this one completes the nagging wish to know what happened when Deckard and Rachel drove off into the sunset, all those years ago...now I know and this one rates higher than 8.5 for me...

[pete376403]

I watched the directors cut DVD of Blade Runner on Saturday (prior to seeing the new one at the movies on Sunday). There was not happy drive off into the sunset in this one - it ended with Rachel leaving Deckards apartment and Deckard finding one of the origami animals on the floor. She goes to the stairs and the screen blacks out.

[OddDuck]

Saw Blade Runner 2049 last night.

Takes its time, thoughtful, gorgeously shot, says an awful lot along the way if the audience is listening, and a true sequel to the landmark original. An artistic triumph, not entirely fun to watch though. I won't rate it, it's not that easy with this one.

[Akzle]

SPIRAL
starts out as a semi-rom flick - extroverted girl meets aspie guy, the relationship develops. if you're paying attention, it gets dark quite early, which is easily dismissed as aspie-shit (and only really notable in hindsight). trundles along, then kicks your balls in the last 5-10 minutes.
is it worth watching? yes, i reckon. no shootouts or car chases, it ain't that kinda thing. pretty well delivered by all concerned.
why not 10/10? it takes overlong to tell the story, and without the last 10 minutes it would be a nothing. no soundtrack, and while she's pretty, she's not pretty enough to carry it. but then, it's not her story.
7.5/10


i'll start with the review, then get to the title. because the title is fucking stupid and should rightly put you off watching it. it's so fucking self evident it could have been titled by a 5 year old.

acting heavyies daniel kwag, harry ford, paul dano, olivia wilde (and others) come together like power rangers or some shit to be the metaphorical megazord, punching shit for two hours. It's a bit wiley wess, and it's a bit independence day, and on the whole is thoroughly watchable. neat but not overdone visuals. fair paced, not too ridiculous given the premise (listed as sci-fi, action, thriller - no comedy), everyone manages to keep a straight face (no real challeng for ford, it's his only expression.)
pretty typical story at the end of the day, but no less enjoyable for it.

8.5/10 - COWBOYS AND ALIENS

THE GREEN HORNET
featuring the comedic stylings of seth rogan, who is right up there on my list of unfunnies with the queen and rothschilds.
fairly well set in the marvel kindee universe, a modernised batmobile, goodies and baddies. pretty base story which could have been thrice as good if not for rogan. he just sucks the funny out of every scene, liek, an asian sidekick could be so hilarious, but instead is used to deliver what passes for rogan's punchlines, which are the same droll tropes he's always done.
christov waltz is typecast, and does it well. and the whole thing could almost passable. i just really dislike that cockballs rogan cunt.
6/10 - would be higher without cockballs.

DELTA FARCE
I really am torturing myself with shit. i stopped drinking so am basically smoking, skolling tea and watching movies to distract myself from the meaningless existence that is sobriety.

predictably this is unintelligent yank humour. somewhere about half an hour in they sing "this movie is far too long". it goes on for another hour.

perhaps i'm just too sour to enjoy this shit, but more likely that it's just crap.
3/10 i haven't slashed my wrists yet.

[Akzle]

Almost Famous

I should probably stop re-watching movies i enjoyed a long time ago.
i remember there being more music.
not an untold story, sex drugs rock n roll. doesn't play any of it too heavy, lead mop is a bit of a dweeb and possibly not actingly-mature enough for the role (i get that he's supposed to be young) but gets through it orright.
it feels like it was trying to be another movie which's name i've forgot.

still, 8/10.

[pritch]

Almost Famous

I should probably stop re-watching movies i enjoyed a long time ago.
i remember there being more music.
not an untold story, sex drugs rock n roll. doesn't play any of it too heavy, lead mop is a bit of a dweeb and possibly not actingly-mature enough for the role (i get that he's supposed to be young) but gets through it orright.
it feels like it was trying to be another movie which's name i've forgot.

still, 8/10.

I liked it when it first came on TV, but then I had been reading Rolling Stone through most of the 70s and early 80s so it was almost familiar territory, IYSWIM.

[Akzle]

I liked it when it first came on TV, but then I had been reading Rolling Stone through most of the 70s and early 80s so it was almost familiar territory, IYSWIM.

jah aparently it is semi-IRL, the writer/director of the film did actually write for RS while he was in high school.

[Akzle]

mostly rewatches:
requiem for a dream

another one that i really enjoyed when it came out.
and it's still masterful.
follows four druggies on their descent into addiction (which purportedly takes a whole year). well played by everyone, nifty camera work and visual effects, subtly and artfully soundtracked. very good film.

9/10

half baked (spot the theme here?)(hadn't seen this before)

has it's moments. not many.
listed as a comedy. featuring and probably written by dave chapelle, so if you enjoy his stylings, and stoner shit, then you could do well with this.

but not for me. 4.5/10

party monster

based on teh IRL book/story/news "disco bloodbath" - follows two vapid fruits around the 80's disco "scene" - i think seth green did well and enjoyed it, but it was hardly a stretch for caulkin as i'm pretty sure he's a homo anyway. also features maralyn manson as a tranny (again, no great stretch i'm sure)
well presented i guess, characters are all as they should be, told it's story.
but it wouldn't hold ya if you're squeamish of the subject matter.

8/10

ken park
what IS the point. i ask you.
is jin still here? deffo not suitable as there's full frontal and mild porn.
supposedly follows (more-fucked-up-than-average) "kids" (presumably all over the age of 18 at the time of filming) through their daily shitty lives in shitkickertown, usa.
I suppose it would be given props for being radical, and portraying the immense struggles of the youth. all feels a bit handi-cam and try-hard.
6/10
and speaking of "mores-fucked-up-than-average kids" and movies directed by larry clark:

kids
has to rank higher, it gets a bit less porn and a bit more.... not-porn onto the screen. but it's still not much of a flick. methinks clark may be trying to relive his youth, or just has a fetish for naked young people (boys and girls...) similar vein to the above. pretty boring to watch since it's pretty much "been there done that"

interesting that i'd seen it before (admittedly a long time ago, probably when it came out, which was 95 i think) but not really thought about it since... no real intrigue, or story. maybe it's to scare parents, about what their kids get up to... dunno.

6.5/10

spun

OTT with the "drugged" vfx. but who knows, maybe i just haven't had the goood shit.
does have a delicious if crack addled brittany murphy, and mickey rourke (as a meth cook :laugh: ), and (still hubba hubba) debbie harry! (as a grumpy dyke neighbour). and the soundtrack was taken care of by billy corgan (of smashing pumpkins fame) so it's got a lot of good shit going for it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSi9PTCL5wM

8.5/10

[mashman]

Thor Ragnarok. 9/10. Cartoony in enough places. Plenty light-hearted chitty chat and boomy bangy action. Bit of dodgy acting from some of the characters and I don't know what was going on in the head of the guy who selected some of the music, but yeah, 9/10. Will go see Blade Runner in a couple of days.

[<G>]

:niceone: 9/10 Thor:Ragnarok. An entertaining way to end the week. Enjoyed the Taika Waititi humour and seeing Kiwi actors in a mainstream movie.

[Akzle]

room

interesting wee film. indie canadian.

felt a bit unbalanced, (there was no resolution with captor once they got out, ie) but the focus was supposed to be on the mother and chlid. the lad did brilliantly. he's 11 or so now, (also in "before i wake") so fuck, he's either going to have serious mental issues, or has clear boundaries between acting and IRL.

irrelevant cameo from Bill Macy. (pretty sure he's the biggest name on the cast, and he had about 4 dialogue in 6 minutes of screen time)

No great surprises, but not boringly linear either. tells a shitty story in a no-BS manner.

good. 9/10


blood diamond

hahahahahahah. dicaprio fairly well manages to pull off "yarpie". pretty fucken good, for dicaprio.
also has *hawt* jenifer connelly. and some blacks.

sneakily portrays the plight of africa, child soldiers et al, but kinda washes over the seriousness with jewllywood bullshit. (guess who profits from both the diamond trade and you buying movies (hint, it starts with j and rhymes with "jews"))

and gets a bit BS. like an african kid can't walk two hours without getting puffed, or a soldier who does get puffed on a slow hike, and stumbles going up a hill... more than a few contrived scenes.
and a black dude, not only comfortable in a suit, but buttoning it like a white? puh-lease.

and fair warning, it's 2 and a bit hours long.

7.5/10 it should have quit while it was ahead.

[MD]

Thor Ragnarok. 9/10. Cartoony in enough places. Plenty light-hearted chitty chat and boomy bangy action. Bit of dodgy acting from some of the characters and I don't know what was going on in the head of the guy who selected some of the music, but yeah, 9/10. Will go see Blade Runner in a couple of days.

Certainly the funniest of the marvel franchise so far. There's always time for some Led. Led Zeppelin goes with any movie, from Love Story to Hostel. A bit too light hearted in places though. Jeff Goldblum's character was childish rubbish. Other than that I really liked it.

[mashman]

Certainly the funniest of the marvel franchise so far. There's always time for some Led. Led Zeppelin goes with any movie, from Love Story to Hostel. A bit too light hearted in places though. Jeff Goldblum's character was childish rubbish. Other than that I really liked it.

Aye... true on the Zeppelin. I kind of understood Goldblum's character given his age. But think there was a little bit of adlibing going on that sometimes didn't work. Could be wrong like. A mate had the kids for a couple of nights over the weekend and I demanded that he take my eldest daughter, and himself, to see it. They loved it.

[FlangMasterJ]

Jeff Goldblum's character was childish rubbish. Other than that I really liked it.

Goldblum's character is Del Toro's 'The Collector' characters brother from the Guardians series. Not sure what significance this has. I loved Ragnarok. Probably go see it again.

[Drew]

blood diamond

hahahahahahah. dicaprio fairly well manages to pull off "yarpie". pretty fucken good, for dicaprio.
also has *hawt* jenifer connelly. and some blacks.

sneakily portrays the plight of africa, child soldiers et al, but kinda washes over the seriousness with jewllywood bullshit. (guess who profits from both the diamond trade and you buying movies (hint, it starts with j and rhymes with "jews"))

and gets a bit BS. like an african kid can't walk two hours without getting puffed, or a soldier who does get puffed on a slow hike, and stumbles going up a hill... more than a few contrived scenes.
and a black dude, not only comfortable in a suit, but buttoning it like a white? puh-lease.

and fair warning, it's 2 and a bit hours long.

7.5/10 it should have quit while it was ahead.
Plot line that usually gets missed, Leo has the aids. The hooker says shes clean early on. "Yeah, heard that before".

[pritch]

room

blood diamond

7.5/10 it should have quit while it was ahead.

Was reading a book by a young recently qualified Brit army officer who took his girlfriend to see Blood Diamond. When it came to the scene where DiCaprio is dodging RPGs he told his girl that it was complete rubbish of course. A few weeks later he found himself doing exactly that in Afghanistan.

Must see the movie sometime.

[Akzle]

Plot line that usually gets missed, Leo has the aids. The hooker says shes clean early on. "Yeah, heard that before".

could be inferred. wether or not it's relevant.
the whole thing was so whiteashkenazi-washed it wouldnt matter.

[Akzle]

Was reading a book by a young recently qualified Brit army officer who took his girlfriend to see Blood Diamond. When it came to the scene where DiCaprio is dodging RPGs he told his girl that it was complete rubbish of course. A few weeks later he found himself doing exactly that in Afghanistan.

Must see the movie sometime.

yeah. i know which side of an RPG i'd rather be on, that's for sure.but it
doesn't matter anymore. drone strikes will fuck up your morning.

[Akzle]

can someone more technically inclined than me find the TV3 lady's review on the superhero movie tonight?

it ended up being described as "flacid and less stimulating than a slow drive through huntly" - brilliant

i would totally let her have penis.

[GazzaH]

Here you go mate (http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2017/11/review-justice-league-is-as-entertaining-as-a-slow-drive-through-huntly.html).

Perhaps she'd take it, one way or another.

[Black Knight]

Kate has to be the most honest and funny film reviewer ever-even better than Ax,and prettier.

[Akzle]

Kate has to be the most honest and funny film reviewer ever-even better than Ax,and prettier.

https://i.imgflip.com/16d8y3.jpg

[FlangMasterJ]

Logan Lucky - 7/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond

Behind the scenes footage of Jim Carrey embodying the late Andy Kaufman (to a borderline insane degree) when he played him in Man on the Moon.

This is a mind fuck. It shows how truly incredible Jim is. He never let's up.

9/10

[pritch]

Kate has to be the most honest and funny film reviewer ever-even better than Ax,and prettier.

She has been doing the job for years - and it shows. That review was cutting and funny.

[EJK]

I'm gonna say it. I didn't like the latest Star Wars: Last Jedi. There were bits of cool scenes but tried too hard to make it over-dramatic. Felt like story-line derailed by a light year.

There were some bullshit moments too. I don't understand. I really want to say it but I'll spoil it so..

4.5/10

[PrincessBandit]

Last Jedi was great. No annoying kid actors, no annoying Jar Jar Binks characters, plenty of lol moments. Having said that there were one or two scenes where I was like "reeeeeeallly?" but overall it was right up there with Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I love the Porgs almost as much as BB8.

Another good watch is Ex Machina with 'General Hux' as an ultimately naive and manipulated AI geek.

[AllanB]

Watched Baby Driver last night with my teenage lad. He enjoyed it. 8/10 for a 15 year old, somewhat less for me. After all the hype I was expecting more driving less background etc 6.5/10

Next on the list is John Wick 2 - I very much enjoyed the mindless violence of the first one and expect it to be ramped up for the second - turn off the work brain for two hours.

[Jin]

ken park
what IS the point. i ask you.
is jin still here? deffo not suitable as there's full frontal and mild porn.
supposedly follows (more-fucked-up-than-average) "kids" (presumably all over the age of 18 at the time of filming) through their daily shitty lives in shitkickertown, usa.
Brung back some fond memories for you did it?

[Akzle]

Brung back some fond memories for you did it?

yes .

[Jin]

yes .No doubt.

So what have I missed around here lately? Mods still give you an open leash? FJRIDER lost any weight? Cassina still being a stupid biddy troll?

[FlangMasterJ]

Next on the list is John Wick 2 - I very much enjoyed the mindless violence of the first one and expect it to be ramped up for the second - turn off the work brain for two hours.

Just as good as the first.

[R650R]

Good bye pork pie... the new version... 6/10

99c rental on iTunes this week... Was hyped up but failed to deliver compared to original. Not enough iconic locations included, really missed a chance to show off nz scenery.
Average acting....

[R650R]

Shot in the dark, Netflix reality series. 10/10 real life version of the Nightcrawler movie with Jake Gyllanhal (that's good too).
Hopefully another series is made. Good mix of characters and rivalry, doesn't seem to scripted or contrived but obviously an element of that in any series like this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDG93YC8-HQ

[R650R]

Long Shot - Netflix 8/10

Poor bugger racially profiled and wrongly charged with murder escapes thanks to good lawyer and some fortuitous tv camera footage, 45min doco


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxISykYRc4

[Swoop]

Next on the list is John Wick 2 - I very much enjoyed the mindless violence of the first one and expect it to be ramped up for the second - turn off the work brain for two hours.
There are some good vids on Ewechoob with Keanu shooting IPSC style matches. Most watchable 3-gun stuff!

Mods still give you an open leash? Cassina still being a stupid biddy troll?
We don't have mods anymore. They all left.

Miss cassina is an even bigger, retarded knob-jockey nowadays.

[AllanB]

Just as good as the first.

Agree - arguably better from a action/kick arse cool point of view. I very much enjoyed it. The lad agrees and rated it way above Baby Driver.

Tonight it's either Arrival, Split or Life. The daughter recommends Arrival.

[pritch]

Next on the list is John Wick 2 - I very much enjoyed the mindless violence of the first one and expect it to be ramped up for the second - turn off the work brain for two hours.


Thanks for that, I hadn't heard of him. Just checked the trailer for JW the first and it certainly looks action packed. Now to get some ice cream and kick it into gear.


Well having watched that it must go close to the highest ever body count. Probably even beats the 70s spaghetti western in which Lee Van Cleef mowed down most of the Mexican army.

[Voltaire]

The Darkest Hour, excellent.



Gary Oldman is very convincing as Churchill.

He may have had his faults but the world may well have been a different place if they had brokered a peace deal with Herr

Hitler. I for one would not be here as I'm sure the Germans would have occupied Ireland and the Japanese would probably

not felt the need to bomb Pearl Harbour.

There is a scene in the movie where they discuss in heated voices Gallipoli.


Enter stage left all the comments from the couch potato Winston experts.


Why can't retards go witout looking at their fucking phones for 90 minutes and turn them to silent too.

[george formby]

Watched District 9 again recently, a late night whim.

Really enjoyed it first time round but I enjoyed it more revisited. Worth dusting off for a second viewing.

[Akzle]

cube (trilogy)
(low budget slash/horror)
the first looks rather dated (1997) but did quite well for having only one set and a presumably low budget. Getting picked up by money for the second didn't actually improve it much, except the CGI. the third kindee finished the story, but on the whole there's not much continuity between them, beyond the theme.

Some good acting, lots of fluff in between.
7/10 for the vintage.

girl with the dragon tattoo, the
aw hell.
it has daniel kwag in it. and (presumably to appease the yanks) focuses too much on him, although i think this is deffo one of the better roles i've seen him in.
some tasteful nudity. and some decidedly less tasteful and more... rapey.
it's hard not to be captivated(?) by the actress, she's supremely comfortable in her own skin and just... delivers. Though generally reticent, i'm guessing that's a fair portrayal of the character and she has a subtlety that's very effective.
Bit much fuckery with finding photographs (the whole thing is 2.something hours long) but it is a hell of a story and that's my only real complaint of it.

9/10

argo
recounting of the IRL iranian embassy crisis (guess who... go on..the us! who'd'a thunk) brilliant lead (ben affleck).
managed to capture the age (early 80s) well - mostly portrayed with sweaters and rapist glasses.
it's 2 hours or so, and being grounded by facts, didn't have the opportunity for hollywood car chases or shootouts.
has lots of famous people in.

9/10

barely lethal
kingsman meets... some chick flick.
Blackass Jackson; Jessica Alba. has some reasonably intelligent quips in it, though with a PG13 rating is obviously not targeted at people. being a female protagonist, i'd say it's aimed at tweenage girls, though not unwatchable for elders.

7.5/10

great wall, the
this will appeal to all the marvel fans, i'm sure. quite enjoyed the creature, which is as well, cos there wasn't much else doing. i mean, obviously the costumes and weapons and shit. but mostly this is gook-legend, jazzed up with american CGI to appeal to yank audiences, despite the hand of a nip director. lead by matt damon and some slant-eyed sheila (totally would)

still good for 7.5/10

astronaut farmer, the
spare me. i'll spare you the review and skip to the conclusion: no.

3.5/10

[Crasherfromwayback]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

[FlangMasterJ]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

Sheeeeit! Gonna go this weekend. Amping.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sheeeeit! Gonna go this weekend. Amping.

Yeah, I was hanging out to see it. His best film since Pans I reckon.

[FlangMasterJ]

Yeah, I was hanging out to see it. His best film since Pans I reckon.

Did you enjoy Crimson Peak? Aesthetically I thought it was great but obviously didn't wow me because just had to look back to see what his last flick was.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Did you enjoy Crimson Peak? Aesthetically I thought it was great but obviously didn't wow me because just had to look back to see what his last flick was.

Haven't seen it actually.

[Akzle]

the purge: anarchy

couldn't really be bothered with it. seen the first and this didn't seem to want to add anything to it.

26:20

[FlangMasterJ]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Directed by the guy who did The Lobster also starring Colin Farrell. This film has a great feel. It's very unnerving. I loved it.

8.5/10

[Akzle]

sabotage
swazinigger. but, liek, post-govenator swazi (2014) - he's old, but still handles his B-I. infact probably better than his earlier typecast stuff.
pretty well put together, nothing too OTT, Pretty toit CQ and maneuvers.
nothing challenging, but a decent action flick which manages to feel some kind of original.

8/10

a million ways to die in the west
the comedic stylings of seth mcfarlane (á la family guy fame). - a bit hit and miss for me, some rofl moments, and some deadpan supposed-funnies, some shining wit, and some literal shit: exactly as you'd expect from farlane.
on the whole: more good than bad.
charlize theron's boobs, and some other famous people (liam neeson (gets a daisy put in his unconscious arse), neil patrick harris (has a moustache) and all the incidentals all put it on brilliantly. long for a comedy at 2 hours but hardly drags it's feet, and i suppose if you looked sideways and squinted you could call it a romance as well.

7.5/10

april rain
low budget, ignorant/racist, yank propaganda, and much WTF.
not great. really.
some scenes were good, some acting was good, but then there was the majority which was just... shitty.
it felt like it was trying to accomplish too much - too many sidelines, not enough cohesion, which wouldn't have worked in a big movie, let alone this (presumably TV release).
I mean - they put on a "chase" between two fucking vespas (a chase that has little relevance or particular outcome).
Special mention must go to luke goss, but that's about it. i don't know why anyone else consented to be in it, or allowed it to be produced.

great big :facepalm:
3/10

a scanner darkly
by the eponymous book. rather orwellian, thematically.
done in an animated-over-film style (which is cool) though would like to see the same movie without it as i can just picture those actors in those scenes IRL and it'd be funnier.

keenu is keenu. harrelson does the druggo thing (think hunger games, not zombieland) which works well with robert downey Jr as the paranoid, also druggo type. (think fear and loathing) which keenu wrecks frequently.
also has wynona rider boobs.

as a story - great. animation - great idea, not so good ofter an hour and a half.
but as an actual film i have to rate it low. i get what it was trying to do. and i suppose it did it. it just wasn't very enjoyable.
maybe if i was stoneder. or drunker. or not enduring substance withdrawls.

5.5/10

danny the dog
jet li and moogoo freeman.
jet stars as an philosophical old blind guy who fixes pianos, and moogoo is an indentured mob enforcer...

kidding. but you'd guess that if you've ever seen a movie before. both of them do exactly the thing they always do. plot isn't groundbreaking. neat kung fu shit. pretty silly mash of genre.

6.5/10


Seeing as you liked that, if you haven't seen it, make sure you watch *Eastern Promises*. Fucking brilliant film.

eastern promises
i'd stop shy of calling it "fucking brilliant" but it's pretty good.
viggo, armen and nomi all stand out, but everyone's pretty good. well put together, bit confused by why the guy needed a retarded son - wasn't pertinent to the plot, few other niggles like that.
felt like it could have a sequel which i'm not sure would be a good thing or not. and it's a shame (spoiler) [R RATED]that viggo is actually a "good guy" at the end.[/R RATED]

9/10

[FlangMasterJ]

eastern promises
i'd stop shy of calling it "fucking brilliant" but it's pretty good.
viggo, armen and nomi all stand out, but everyone's pretty good. well put together, bit confused by why the guy needed a retarded son - wasn't pertinent to the plot, few other niggles like that.
felt like it could have a sequel which i'm not sure would be a good thing or not. and it's a shame (spoiler) [R RATED]that viggo is actually a "good guy" at the end.[/R RATED]

9/10

What did you think of Viggo's dong in this film?

[Akzle]

What did you think of Viggo's dong in this film?

uhh. it's really of no consequence to me...

[AllanB]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

Not seen it yet.

BUT

From the previews the fish character looks like a rip-off of the fish character in Hell Boy.

And in Hell boy there was a flash back to the 50's scene (when they caught the fish dude) and the setting looks just the same.

Just saying ........... it ain't that new or special as a concept.

[FlangMasterJ]

Not seen it yet.

BUT

From the previews the fish character looks like a rip-off of the fish character in Hell Boy.

And in Hell boy there was a flash back to the 50's scene (when they caught the fish dude) and the setting looks just the same.

Just saying ........... it ain't that new or special as a concept.

Just making sure you know it's the same director yeah?

[R650R]

girl with the dragon tattoo, the
aw hell.
it has daniel kwag in it. and (presumably to appease the yanks) focuses too much on him, although i think this is deffo one of the better roles i've seen him in.
some tasteful nudity. and some decidedly less tasteful and more... rapey.
it's hard not to be captivated(?) by the actress, she's supremely comfortable in her own skin and just... delivers. Though generally reticent, i'm guessing that's a fair portrayal of the character and she has a subtlety that's very effective.
Bit much fuckery with finding photographs (the whole thing is 2.something hours long) but it is a hell of a story and that's my only real complaint of it.

9/10

[

The other two films in triology are good too, kicked hornets nest and something else similar.... Based on Seig Laarsons fiction books they are said to be based on real life stories where he cant name names without being finished off.... He also writes non fiction books exposing non heterosexuality and corruption in Swedish politicas but they are very dry, slow and dead boring to read in comparison....

[R650R]

Netflix....

Dirty money, excellent doco series on recent scandels, watched all but the last episode which of course is a predictable dump on Trump. 9/10 (be a 10 without the trump shite)
Episode one is awesome, reveals a lot more detail and scope about the VW emmisions scandal than what was ever in the news....
And not in order rest about... Big money buying up big pharma companies and racking up prices exponentially leads to corporate asswipe going to jail.... Scummy payday loan provider with nasty fine print who racks people into debt and buys his way into top level motorsport... also looking at jail time..... Oh the beauty is the detail on HSBC bank being the worlds biggest launderer of drug/terrorism money and when told to sort their shit out deliberately hire some loser with no idea (in his own words lol) to 'manage' the new oversight process lol.....

Bill Hicks Revelations and also Sane Man stand up comedy 7/10

Comedians in cars getting Coffee with Seinfeld... mostly shit but the one with Sarah Parker from sex and city in her stationwagon is cool....

The Polka King 7/10 nice guy immigrant slowly digs himself deeper into pyramid scheme ripping the elderly, true story.... about Polish Jan Lewan (played by jack black)

War Machine with Brad Pitt 8/10 ties into the dirty money story in afganistan and the general who lost his career over careless words action around media as a side story. Mostly good action/comedy

13 hours: Secret Story of Benghazi 9/10 Great action flick about the Embassy and staff left to burn by Hillary and co.... Santized a bit from the real truth but pretty damn good flick

Babylon Season one. Pretty cool modern uk cop drama about dept trying to improve its image 9/10

The Force 10/10 Epic fly on the wall doco about Oakland PD trying to lift their game and restore public faith. Features some gritty shootings of citizens, investigation process and even shows some of the officers involved. Ends with the time when the sex trafficking and rape by officers of a vulnerable teen girl, heads roll and mayor kicks soime ass to the kerb....

[R650R]

Gods of Egypt 8/10 Pretty cool action flick, good sounds.

More fantasy than reality based but ggod flick once you get past white people playing the roles of arabs with cultured English accents, some nice female bodies about in flick....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBnK2wNQSo

[Moi]

... Comedians in cars getting Coffee with Seinfeld... mostly shit but the one with Sarah Parker from sex and city in her stationwagon is cool...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-Q_zpuJGU

[Akzle]

moonrise kingdom

filmed in 2012, set in 196x. starring brucewillisman, ed norton, frances mcdormand, bill murray, tilda swinton, and the underage tits of kara hayward.

filmed with the heavy hand of wes anderson (being written and directed by: ), not dissimilarly assembled to "the grand budapest hotel" - the imagery is top notch. the vintage isn't used as excuse nor crutch.

it's quaint and melancholy and delightful and other wholesome-praises.

9.5/10

focus

is bill smith and some boobs. isn't overplayed, could be IRL, but not sure. not much rom, quiet comedies, a fairly toit, if predictable, story.

did enjoy.
8.5/10

[Berries]

7/10.

But take some kids with you or you get a few funny looks.

[Akzle]

the gambler

slow pacing makes the hour and a half feel longer. some neat visuals, some insight into addiction. pretty tight all the way through, epic soundtrack. everyone has their acting socks on.

solid 8.5/10


mercenaries

i mean... was this written by femists or something? the dialogue is just so shit. everything is explained to the point that even a blind guy could watch it. like they narrate the shit they're doing.
mossively unclever writing.

and who has a 4x32 scope on a fucking .338?? not to mention that the recoil would basically flip little miss bitchtits on her ass. and resting your very expensively free-floated barrel to get a shot off? just... fucking.. ridiculous.
and how much shit can you possibly strap to an MP5? i mean. i get that women can't handle the might of a 5.56 ( :rofl: ) (which i assume is what they were trying to make it look like) but rly?
going to fistycuffs when everyone is carrying firearms? wtf?

GMC trucks and shiney jeep wranglers in a third world country? tyres squealing on metal roads?

mad continuity errors. even the tits and liberal cheap gun SFX couldn't redeem this.
i'm guessing all the men got daily blowjobs because there's no other way you could be involved in this and keep your dignity.
i watched it to the end. mercy.
i mean, i get that making a movie requires a particular skillset, and not a little budget, but if you have neither, then why the fuck would you waste everyone's time trying?

2.5/10

[Akzle]

drive hard

STRAYA! FUK YEA!

must have been a limited release as i don't remember hearing much about it. bit of a shame cos it's quite good. not high art, but wry comedy. car chases and guns.

8/10

Love and Bullets (1979)

ahh, back in the golden age of cinema, when men were men and moustaches were moustaches. (featuring the moustache of charles bronson.)
high grade, given the era, probably high budget too, but i guess they had to justify a trip to switzerland somehow.
highly improbable macguyver-esque violence. seriously over-intense soundtrack, lots and lots of establishing shots and time-in-between-happenings.
but well filmed. a shame they weren't a bit more risqué and put some tits on.

still solid. 8.5/10

[Akzle]

death sentence
featuring the snout (kevin bacon.)
kindee skips over all the plot that might have made it sensical.
how is a suit even remotely matched to a gangster in CQ? his family all get killed off, and he still takes his sweet time getting to firearms. and just co-incidentally, gets to buying them illegally off the same guy as the gangs?
i mean it's cool. but doesn't give much... anything. typical hollywood action fare

6/10

the hills have eyes
classed as "horror"
should be classed "horrible"
featuring a bunch of no-name nobodies. paper thin plot, some deliverance-rape thrown in for ??? cliché camera devices, hackney everything.
and you mean to sell me a trained (american) cop is going to let off four shots at nothing, and not check the back seat?
ditz wife sees bino/scope reflection... and does nothing?
you have a firearm and walk in on two assailants... then run a fucking mile to check out the distraction?
fire extinguisher that lasts for liek, 5 minutes??
srsly. brain's day off when putting this together.

only redeeming feature was the makeups on the mutants. but they were only introduced incidentally, their story laid out in conveniently sighted newspaper articles.
and a pansy walking into a building with a baseball bat (and failing to clear his sectors), while kid has loaded gun and does...what?
and when pansy has a loaded shotgun, and advantage... and uses the blunt end?
i mean. this really is aaron stanford's (yeah i knw ryt. who??) flick. but.
just. so shit.
3/10

[AllanB]

the hills have eyes

3/10

Is that the one with the weird mutant titty sucking scene?

Agree with your rating.

There is a second movie too - have not seen it though.

[AllanB]

Watched Open Grave on the box last weekend.

Not bad for what is probably now a zombie movie (virus gets out, mutates most of the population....)

[Akzle]

Is that the one with the weird mutant titty sucking scene?

Agree with your rating.

There is a second movie too - have not seen it though.

dont know if it got to sucking. it started out with tongue.

unless they had a different director, editor, crew and producers, i would give the second one a miss. the younger of the actors could do well, given the chance...

[Akzle]

Watched Open Grave on the box last weekend.

Not bad for what is probably now a zombie movie (virus gets out, mutates most of the population....)

clive owen comes to mind...
if it's what i'm thinking of, then i thought it pretty poos.

[Akzle]

dark city

"sci fi" (not my thing)
a bit "truman show" a bit "blade runner" a bit "sin city" (chroma, cops... dunno) probably some others thrown in.

feels rather dated for mid-90s (think "dune" level sfx)

enjoyed it though. has j.connelly (hawt) and some other peoplethings. nothing outstanding. and for all they say they "took people from every era" it seems to be squarely 50s

going... ... ... 7.5/10

[pritch]

It may have been mentioned already but...

Netflix has "Guy Martin's Spitfire". OK, Guy Martin a very much a bit player in the restoration job, and he does show embarrassment when the description of his part in the process gets too vivid. Technically I don't see how it qualifies as a restoration because there was very little left of the original, it was primarily used as a pattern. Having said that, if you like aeroplanes, if yer a Guy Martin fan, or even if you've got an hour or so to spare, it's worth a look.

[Akzle]

kill command

all heil the robot overlords.
pretty simplistic depiction of adaptive AI (or SAR as they call it) and still plays on human-psych out of things with more eyes and legs than us (giant spider bot things)
neat robots, not cheap on the sfx. not unruly with the combats.
average fare shootey action war flick. didn't notice a lot of gore so probably pretty mild rating.

enjoyed though. 8/10

[AllanB]

I Technically I don't see how it qualifies as a restoration because there was very little left of the original, it was primarily used as a pattern.

I should add this to Friday rants - cocks who did up a 1922 Ford/whatever from a slime pit, reveling a rusted hulk and then 'restore' it by basically copying the serial numbers.

[pritch]

I should add this to Friday rants - cocks who did up a 1922 Ford/whatever from a slime pit, reveling a rusted hulk and then 'restore' it by basically copying the serial numbers.

Ah yes but you should watch the show first. They did a nice job.

[AllanB]

Ah yes but you should watch the show first. They did a nice job.

Years back I remember a USA magazine building a genuine 'Harley' out of after-market parts to prove a point - replica S&S engine or something, etc etc. Nice bike, but not a HD...................

.......... possibly better. Bawahahahahha

[pritch]

On Netflix last night I watched "Whisky Tango Foxtrot" basically just because the name appealed to me. Yeah I know I'm shallow. I use "WTF" on social media, actually a lot of people do now, it's the Trump effect.

The story concerns a US journalist who gets uprooted from her boring domestic reporting job to become a war corespondent. At first of course she is super naive, Hollywood always lays it on thick so that you can't possibly miss it. She adapts and makes a name for herself.

As I watched it I wondered where it was filmed because it was unlikely that it was actually filmed in Afghanistan. When the credits rolled I think it said the whole thing was filmed in New Mexico although I may be mistaken because the vinho tinto was kicking in by then.

Despite being filmed a long way from Afghanistan the locations are convincing enough, certainly convincing enough for me, never having been there and having no desire to go. The off-duty life style depicted seems over the top hedonistic but I guess there'd be an element of "eat drink and be merry".

Not much tits and bums and not *that* much action but I don't feel the movie was a waste of time.

Maybe 7.5, - worth a look.

[Akzle]

Hardwired

Featuring obama gooding jr, val kilmer and who cares else.

it's a shame this didn't have the budget to be better. it's also a shame that there was very littile subtlety in the plot, everything was made very obvious... leading me to believe their target was children or retards.

neat enough idea, the bits of in-world tech where the budget went were orright, and the sfx (both of them), too.

but overall let down. no-one can type qwerty that fast. and if hacking, you don't have to, but i guess watching someone write ten thousand lines of code and proof read it doesn't look good on screen.

had potential. didn't live up to it. I'm not angry, just disappointed.

5/10

[Drew]

Mute

This is quite weird in how it seems to gloss over some pretty dark shit.
Can't say fuck all without spoiling it.
Would watch again.
7/10

[R650R]

The Outsider - Netflix 8/10

https://youtu.be/QNNcl2mEHzQ

[Drew]

The Outsider - Netflix 8/10

https://youtu.be/QNNcl2mEHzQ

It's gonna need to be a fuck ton more interesting than that trailer.

[Akzle]

after life

liam neeson, christina ricci (all grown up and a bit nuddy) and some others.
simple concept. well done. kinda left you with questions all the way to the end, and after. bit cliché in places.
very good imagery throughout.

8.5/10

the big i am

yurp cunts doing yurp cunt shit. highrolling mobsters and whatnot. no great shakes but enjoyable.

7.5/10

[pete376403]

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" bit of a strange one. Starts of well, strong performances by actors but then sort of (IMHO) ends without going anywhere.

[Drew]

Blade runner 2049

Ummmm. I don't really know.

Yep, that about sums it up.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Has anyone seen ANNIHILATION yet?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Has anyone seen ANNIHILATION yet?

No, but I'm looking forward to it. Watched Bitter Moon again the other day (off work so have too much time on me hands), it's a tough watch, but a good film.

[pritch]

Blade runner 2049

Ummmm. I don't really know.

Yep, that about sums it up.

:yes:
I rated it a bit higher than that, even if I could only remember a little of the original. "Blade Runner" was a long time ago and it might've been better to watch that before seeing 2049.

[OddDuck]

The Death Of Stalin

Critic's Review: 8 / 10

General Ordinary Person Review, well mine anyway: 3 / 10 (and that's being nice)

Right, it's supposed to be a blackly comic look at some mental goings-on following Stalin's fatal stroke. Razor-sharp script, top shelf acting talent, very nicely dressed up and staged too.

There are quite a few scenes showing people getting rounded up, jailed, tortured, and summarily shot. People are being dragged away from their families by uniformed gun-toting goons. It's quite difficult to find anything funny while this stuff is happening, no matter how clever the script is. Beria's execution - although he has it coming big time - is just horrible.

For a supposed comedy, I've never been a theatre where so few people actually laughed... Zhukov was OK. That's about it really.

Fucking awful. Avoid.

[Swoop]

Layer Cake.

Still one of the finest British movies of gangland style genre. Made in that way which hollyweird totally fucks up but the Brits do so well (Lock,Stock & 2 smoking barrels - Snatch, etc).
Multiple threads of stories intertwining into one with some well known acting credentials involved.

8:10

[Crasherfromwayback]

Has anyone seen ANNIHILATION yet?

Seen it now. Liked it.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Seen it now. Liked it.

Yeah we had a look over the weekend. I thought it was excellent. One of my favourite movies in the last couple of years was MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and I reckon this is up there with it.

What I didnt know going in is that it is a trilogy of books so I will read those over winter.

[mada]

Binged on "Okkupert" aka "Occupied" this weekend, 2 seasons on Netflix. Highly recommend it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqRRHaFyJg

Subtitled (with English at times) Norwegian production from 2015 & 2017.

Relevant to the modern times with all the current political crap at the moment. The tv show is set in a future Norway which following climate change influenced natural disasters elects a Green Party to power who aim to phase out the use and supply of carbon fuels... unfortunately the EU heavily reliant on this energy and the other main supplier of energy to Europe - Russia have other ideas. Friendly Russia comes to help Norway restart its oil production and supply

The show poses a difficult question on what one would do if they had power and their country was occupied and how far? Demonstrating the complexity of balancing lives, party politics, public popularity, and stability in times of occupation/war, passing no judgement on collaboration, fighting, "terrorism", "counter-terrorism".

8/10 for strong character development, plot, and realism.

[FlangMasterJ]

Ready Player One- Loved it. Some serious nostalgia. 8/10

[FlangMasterJ]

A Quiet Place

I hadn't read or seen anything about this other than it was directed by John Krasinski (Jim from the US Office). Fucking really enjoyed it. It's a very basic premise but really well executed. 9/10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8

[Berries]

Not an expert but it felt more like a children's film to me.

James Corden is irritating to listen to but perhaps the finest work Sam Neill has done since The Hunt for Red October.

Save it for a rainy day if you cannot get in to Paddington 2.

3/10

[BuzzardNZ]

Very tame remake of a great original. Boring as hell, 2 / 10

http://www.movienewsletters.net/photos/NZL_249872R1.jpg

[george formby]

Not a movie but if you like twisted British drama you might enjoy this, End of the f***ing world (https://youtu.be/vbiiik_T3Bo) on Netflix.

Quirky does not do it justice, had me squirming uncomfortably and laughing in equal measure.

[AllanB]

Very tame remake of a great original. Boring as hell, 2 / 10




Charles Bronson in the original if I remember correctly and rather gritty.

[pritch]

Charles Bronson in the original if I remember correctly and rather gritty.

That's available on Youtube - or was, I watched it there a coupla months ago.

Just watched a review of the remake. "Stupendously awful."

[Laava]

Not a movie but if you like twisted British drama you might enjoy this, End of the f***ing world (https://youtu.be/vbiiik_T3Bo) on Netflix.

Quirky does not do it justice, had me squirming uncomfortably and laughing in equal measure.

Yep, agree, very quirky and interesting....

[pritch]

Yep, agree, very quirky and interesting....

On the basis of the recommendations here I went to watch it but bugga! I'd already seen it. Quirky is a good description. Worth a watch.

[pritch]

Short review. Received an email from Netflix advising me "Wild Card" was available. Starts out a bit different but soon becomes standard Statham fare. Which is not a bad thing, just dont expect great art.
Perfect for a rainy afternoon.

[Akzle]

Short review. Received an email from Netflix advising me "Wild Card" was available. Starts out a bit different but soon becomes standard Statham fare. Which is not a bad thing, just dont expect great art.
Perfect for a rainy afternoon.

pop quiz: has statham ever done anything non-statham-ly? i'm not sure i'd even watch it...

[Crasherfromwayback]

A Quiet Place

I hadn't read or seen anything about this other than it was directed by John Krasinski (Jim from the US Office). Fucking really enjoyed it. It's a very basic premise but really well executed. 9/10

]

Normally, you and I seem to have similar tastes. I was really looking forward to this, but was quite let down by it. Who the fuck gets preggers when monsters can hear your every sound? If ever there was an excuse for anal, this house was it.

[Akzle]

Normally, you and I seem to have similar tastes. I was really looking forward to this, but was quite let down by it. Who the fuck gets preggers when monsters can hear your every sound? If ever there was an excuse for anal, this house was it.

because... she's quieter when you put it in her bum??

[FlangMasterJ]

Normally, you and I seem to have similar tastes. I was really looking forward to this, but was quite let down by it. Who the fuck gets preggers when monsters can hear your every sound? If ever there was an excuse for anal, this house was it.

Bit of a head scratcher but maybe to help repopulate the Earth?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Bit of a head scratcher but maybe to help repopulate the Earth?

And who the fuck leaves a fucking four inch nail sticking out of the fucking stairs?! :innocent:

[FlangMasterJ]

And who the fuck leaves a fucking four inch nail sticking out of the fucking stairs?! :innocent:

Don't ruin it for me mate.

Best part was how quiet the theatre was.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Don't ruin it for me mate.

Best part was how quiet the theatre was.

Lol. Sorry mate! I watched it at home, so could fart at will.

[Akzle]

Lol. Sorry mate! I watched it at home, so could fart at will.

Who's Will? does he normally watch movies with you? purely platonic, i'm sure :bleh:

[FlangMasterJ]

You watched a cam RIP? Brah.....gotta experience it in HD.

[Crasherfromwayback]

.....gotta experience it in HD.

I did.... ...

[Crasherfromwayback]

Who's Will? does he normally watch movies with you? purely platonic, i'm sure :bleh:

He loves farty time!

[Black Knight]

The Last Motorcycle On Earth

Due for release December,trailer is on YouTube and looks a good u'n-Is this where JAG is getting her dumb ideas from?

[Paul in NZ]

Blade runner 2049

Ummmm. I don't really know.

Yep, that about sums it up.

Yeah I was a bit ho hum about it... Interesting in a nerdy scfi nerdy fashion but sigh... Seemed to go on a bit...

[Akzle]

wrong turn at tahoe

quiet dark little film. well put on. enough graphic violence to communicate the point without being too gruesome. ultimately no great shakes and a pretty cliché story.
characters all bounce off each other well. similar vibe (and a few actors) to 7 psychopaths.

7.5/10


apocalypto

if you're one of those people who reads up about films you'll probably note that [R RATED]it was written and directed by mel gibson[/R RATED].
if you can forgive it that, it's not toooo shit. almost like the american-society-for-the-representation-of-modern-survivng-mayans got all their budget and dropped it on this, otherwise i'm not sure where they found that many dark folk with big holes in their faces - oh, if you're into body mods, tatoos, piercings and scarification, then there's plenty to look at.

the story? not so much. i mean. it's there. and possibly has some basis in historical accuracy.
but fully half of the movie is one guy running through the bush with five others chasing him. I'm not sure if any of y'all have tried running through the bush all day, but even as fit as these guys are, it's just not a happening thing.


6.5/10

[mada]

Feel like absolute shit... my little dog was mauled in front of me and died in my arms yesterday. Up and down, anger, shock. Mrs is wrecked.

36 hours later still cannot sleep.

Please recommend some semi-reasonable comedies (no dogs) on Netflix to distract me for a couple hours before I pop some zopiclone.

[george formby]

Feel like absolute shit... my little dog was mauled in front of me and died in my arms yesterday. Up and down, anger, shock. Mrs is wrecked.

36 hours later still cannot sleep.

Please recommend some semi-reasonable comedies (no dogs) on Netflix to distract me for a couple hours before I pop some zopiclone.


Ouch, I love my dogs, that sucks.

The original National Lampoons Animal House, with John Belushi, is on. No guarantees on no dogs, it's been decades since I've seen it.

Black Books, Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey. UK comedy series set in a 2nd hand bookshop.

[mada]

Ouch, I love my dogs, that sucks.

The original National Lampoons Animal House, with John Belushi, is on. No guarantees on no dogs, it's been decades since I've seen it.

Black Books, Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey. UK comedy series set in a 2nd hand bookshop.

Thanks mate. Appreciate it.

[nerrrd]

Feel like absolute shit... my little dog was mauled in front of me and died in my arms yesterday. Up and down, anger, shock. Mrs is wrecked.

36 hours later still cannot sleep.

Please recommend some semi-reasonable comedies (no dogs) on Netflix to distract me for a couple hours before I pop some zopiclone.

Far out that would be devastating. I noticed they seem to have all the Monty Python films etc now if you’re into those.

[MikelH]

I've seen A Quiet Place the other day. It's actually pretty good. I'm not that into horror movies but this one isn't too scary. I'd say the story is the best part of it.

[R650R]

Deadpool 2 at cinema.... good but like all sequels slightly less than the original 7/10

[pritch]

This is not about a movie, nor is it a review, but this seems to be the least inappropriate thread.

Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G and Borat fame, has a new show starting 10.30PM Monday on SOHO "Who is America". Cohen has been interviewing various US "personalities" such as Judge Roy Moore, Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney, all unaware of who he was. Dick Cheney even autographed Cohen's "water boarding kit". Sometimes the cringe factor in Cohen's shows gets right up there, but he can be very funny.,

Anyhoo now you know. OK it's nearly wine o' clock. Enjoy your weekend.

[Drew]

This is not about a movie, nor is it a review, but this seems to be the least inappropriate thread.

Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G and Borat fame, has a new show starting 10.30PM Monday on SOHO "Who is America". Cohen has been interviewing various US "personalities" such as Judge Roy Moore, Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney, all unaware of who he was. Dick Cheney even autographed Cohen's "water boarding kit". Sometimes the cringe factor in Cohen's shows gets right up there, but he can be very funny.,

Anyhoo now you know. OK it's nearly wine o' clock. Enjoy your weekend.

I'm torn. He is a really clever bastard (let's not forget he is a queens council lawyer), but bullying is bullying. If he 'dead pans' his interviews (as the sadist in me would like), he could take the piss for hours without them realising.

On the other hand, some of these cunts are horrible people...and I hope I'm smart enough to see where they are being made the fool.

[Berries]

Incredibles 2
Nice arse. Decent cartoon bike scene as well but mainly nice arse.

IP Man 2
Not a bad martial arts film if you like that sort of thing.


Two sequels in one day. Would not bother looking out for the first one but would watch the original Ip Man if it was on. Think IP Man 3 is on Viceland next week.

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[Swoop]

Deadpool 2.

Oddly, after all the positive reviews I found it "underwhelming". The plot seemed too scattered-about with unnecessary characters who distracted from the storyline. DP1 was a lot more "focused" and a lot funnier.
6/10


The Hitman's Bodyguard.
This movie was great. Two full-noise loud mouth lead actors and a couple of great supporting actors who kept the movie rolling along happily. Even a bus full of penguins was entertaining...
8.5/10

[pritch]

Sacha Baron Cohen's TV show "Who is America" has given birth to its first law suit. Judge Roy Moore is sueing Cohen for US$95 million for calling him a paedophile. The skit showed Cohen as a former Mosad agent waving a "paedophile detector" which started to beep when it got close to Moore.

Moore apparently had a reputation for hanging around the local Mall trying to chat up school girls when he was a thirty five year old District Attorney.

Anyhoo, more sober legal minds say the action doesn't stand a chance.

Moore's other recent claim to fame was when he stood for election to the US Senate and on polling day turned up to vote on horseback. This gave thousands of grateful people a genuine opportunity to say, "Fuck you - and the horse you rode in on".

[Laava]

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix.
Great entertainment, a series of short stories all set in the old west, has Liam Neeson as the only "hollywood" name and he says nothing at all. Is a Cohen brothers production. Recommend!

[george formby]

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix.
Great entertainment, a series of short stories all set in the old west, has Liam Neeson as the only "hollywood" name and he says nothing at all. Is a Cohen brothers production. Recommend!

Eerie, I started watching this last night. Entertaining and surprising. Has a whiff of "Tales of the Unexpected" about it, with a better soundtrack.

[pete376403]

Eerie, I started watching this last night. Entertaining and surprising. Has a whiff of "Tales of the Unexpected" about it, with a better soundtrack.
Watched them all. Not what I was expecting, but good stories. Beautifully made.

[Laava]

Watched them all. Not what I was expecting, but good stories. Beautifully made.
I enjoyed the gold digger...

[Drew]

I enjoyed the gold digger...

Only happy ending of the film.

[Laava]

Only happy ending of the film.
Yep, just goes to show how we are all expecting a happy ending all the time tho eh?

[Voltaire]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. ( edited)
If you were brought up on a diet of black and white TV, trips to local cinemas to see Westerns and War movies plus like American cars and Neon signs this is for you. Attention to detail is excellent.


Spoiler Alert:
The VW beetle that they jump up on down on in the Manson Ranch is at least a 1968 or later and not an earlier rusty wreck as portrayed.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Uh, you mean ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, right? because ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is also an excellent movie but does not have Charlie Manson in it.

I have not seen OUATIH yet because the film festival is on here and I am seeing shit you... people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/

If you havent seen OUATITW you should, its excellent. Sergio Leone, Henry Fonda ... a few film festivals ago they had a newly restored 70mm print of it. It was fan fucking tastic.

I love Westerns too.

[OddDuck]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: yes saw it on the weekend. Very Tarantino, clever as hell, gets a bit psychotic at the end... no, it gets psychopathic, but then that's Tarantino for you.

[Hoonicorn]

The Purge meets Hide and Go Seek? Thoroughly recommended for fans of the genre, it's different, like Get Out or Us. Plus it's not a superhero movie.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYTwUxhAoI

[pritch]

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.


Did you actually see Bladerunner again, or was that just a little jaunt down memory lane?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Did you actually see Bladerunner again, or was that just a little jaunt down memory lane?

my head should be full of lor stuff like cases and legislation and shit. What its actually full of is song lyrics and movie quotes. I have young people around me to help with the lor stuff and everybody seems happy.

My current favourite movie of the film festival is ANIARA. Bleak as fuck Swedish science fiction. Also APOCALYPSE NOW FINAL CUT - which I may go and see again on the big screen.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7589524/

[OddDuck]

Just went and saw Ford vs Ferrari. Yeah it's a car movie but it's actually pretty well done. Very diverting, if you liked the McLaren biopic then this'd be your cuppa tea.

[pritch]

Mrs Lowry and Son

Timothy Spall playing the artist L S Lowry who lived with his manipulative, and very negative mother, played by Venessa Redgrave.

The movie portrays their relationship, but something else I saw recently on the Antiques Roadshow gives a glance at who Lowry was.

A bus driver was sitting at the end of his run waiting for the time to head back and a man out walking his dog stopped to chat. At one point in the conversation the driver said,
"I know who you are, you're Mr Lowry the artist."
"That's right'"
"My wife will never believe I was talking to you."
"We'd better do something about that. Got a piece of paper?"

Lowry scribbled a quick sketch of a man walking a dog, signed it, and gave it to the driver. The wife was unimpressed, but the driver put the little sketch in a frame and hung it on the wall

Years later, Lowry has died as has the bus driver, and the latter's son took the sketch to the Antiques Roadshow. The expert listened to the story and asked if she could remove the sketch from the frame. When she unfolded it, on the back was a memo from the bus company to staff. It was the right bus company and the date was good.

"You can take this home and tell your mum that her little sketch is worth about one hundred and thirty thousand pounds."

Unlike some artists Lowry did not die in penury, his art was making good money before he died, if not the millions it sometimes attracts now. Until his retirement he never gave up the part of his job in which he worked as a rent collector. "They are the people in my pictures."

You will know whether you might like a movie about the life of an artist or not. Your choice. If you are mildly curious there's quite a lot about L S Lowry on the 'Net.

[pete376403]

"The Irishman" on Netflix - good, quite slow. Lots of well known names (de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel, etc) Mostly about the relationship between Hoffa and Sheeran (the Irishman). Anna Paquin shows up. Pretty long 3 1/2 hrs

[F5 Dave]

I've just watched Harry Potter on Netflix. Probably the first one I guess. Well some of it - I went out and made kebab skewers 1/2 way.
I used chicken diced with yellow and red capsicum, chorizo and cherry tomatoes alternated, on wooden skewers with some rice bran oil drizzled and spices. Jammed in the oven with some baking paper. Late in the piece I sprinkled over chopped silverbeet and served with drizzle of Hoisin sauce and chipotle sauce.

So the acting was pretty bad and the CGI a little crude by today's standards. I don't think I'll watch the next one unless, again as in this instance, I don't have any choice. But my 10yr old son liked it so I'll give it a 6 out of 10.

[eelracing]

Mrs Lowry and Son

Timothy Spall playing the artist L S Lowry.

Good to know will check it out.

I've always liked Spall as an actor ever since he played Neville on Auf Weidersehen Pet riding an old Triumph.

If you like him playing artists then check out the film Mr Turner. A very good film and quite the old rascal... if also a bit of a bastard.

[Laava]

I've just watched Harry Potter on Netflix. Probably the first one I guess. Well some of it - I went out and made kebab skewers 1/2 way.
I used chicken diced with yellow and red capsicum, chorizo and cherry tomatoes alternated, on wooden skewers with some rice bran oil drizzled and spices. Jammed in the oven with some baking paper. Late in the piece I sprinkled over chopped silverbeet and served with drizzle of Hoisin sauce and chipotle sauce.

So the acting was pretty bad and the CGI a little crude by today's standards. I don't think I'll watch the next one unless, again as in this instance, I don't have any choice. But my 10yr old son liked it so I'll give it a 6 out of 10.
Did you soak the skewers for a bit first?

[F5 Dave]

Yes I did and they lasted ok. Was delicious for a Friday night easy.

Was accompanied with a Sawmill India Pale Ale, or several.

We've lost the homemade chunky peanut satay sauce the wife whipped up somewhere in the bowels of the freezer which was a pity but the store bought sauces were quite adequate.

[pritch]

Good to know will check it out.

I've always liked Spall as an actor ever since he played Neville on Auf Weidersehen Pet riding an old Triumph.



I too was a fan of AWP.

Was driving home in New Plymouth one afternoon and saw Spall walking along the street and did what must have been a very obvious double take, Billy Connolly said something to him and they both laughed. Ah well, I made somebody happy.

There's a podcast: Full Disclosure, with James O'Brien, in which he interviews Spall. In the September interview the actor was saying that he couldn't get work after AWP because everybody thought that he naturally spoke with that broad Birmingham accent. People still ask him what part of Birmingham he's from, but he had just adopted that accent for the role. He's actually from London.

[jasonu]

Good to know will check it out.

I've always liked Spall as an actor ever since he played Bbbbbarry Barry Taylor on Auf Weidersehen Pet riding an old Triumph.

If you like him playing artists then check out the film Mr Turner. A very good film and quite the old rascal... if also a bit of a bastard.

Fixed it for you. Awp is a classic!!!!!

[Laava]

Yes I did and they lasted ok. Was delicious for a Friday night easy.

Was accompanied with a Sawmill India Pale Ale, or several.

We've lost the homemade chunky peanut satay sauce the wife whipped up somewhere in the bowels of the freezer which was a pity but the store bought sauces were quite adequate.
I like your style! I had chicken nibbles chips and beer for tea and washed it all down with an enormous glass of cheaparse sav blanc.

[pritch]

I like your style! I had chicken nibbles chips and beer for tea and washed it all down with an enormous glass of cheaparse sav blanc.

Beer with savvy chasers? That's a new one.

[F5 Dave]

Well I'm sure all Christendom will be relieved that I found the satay. Even separated out two portions with baking paper. I've only rediscovered baking paper recently ish. Jeez it helps the clean up.

Tonight is another sort of quickly with smokey pork tacos, a suitable beer, probably something Hoppy like Something Hoppy by Behemoth. Then some Spy Valley saved wot my dear dad gave me yesterday. Very nice

[HenryDorsetCase]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/

KNIVES OUT. Rian Johnson is good (LOOPER, BRICK plus some Star Wars stuff I havent seen). Go for the whodunnit parlour mystery, stay for the scathing social commentary. Best last shot of a movie I have seen in ages.

went in thinking I would know how it ended.... got it sort of right but not really. 9/10

[F5 Dave]

Fuck that was actually really good. Was using elpaso Supermarket tacos but jeez you wouldn't have known.

The Spy Valley is lovely and quite intoxicating. After several beers

Well theres only a little left.

[pritch]

I've just watched Harry Potter on Netflix. Probably the first one I guess. Well some of it - I went out and made kebab skewers 1/2 way.
I used chicken diced with yellow and red capsicum, chorizo and cherry tomatoes alternated, on wooden skewers with some rice bran oil drizzled and spices. Jammed in the oven with some baking paper. Late in the piece I sprinkled over chopped silverbeet and served with drizzle of Hoisin sauce and chipotle sauce.


Lately I've had the cooking blahs. Nothing in the supermarket looks interesting. Social media has come to the rescue, somebody mentioned tacos - I had tacos. Somebody mentioned bangers and mash, so I had that. Then this. I had never used the grill in my oven in the eight years or so since I bought it. Previously if using skewers I'd have used charcoal. Following the above quoted post I had meatballs and veg on skewers. Yesterday I went to the port and bought some fish, last night was fish in butter and wine sauce. This weekend will be steak. The blahs will be back by about Monday.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Lately I've had the cooking blahs. Nothing in the supermarket looks interesting. Social media has come to the rescue, somebody mentioned tacos - I had tacos. Somebody mentioned bangers and mash, so I had that. Then this. I had never used the grill in my oven in the eight years or so since I bought it. Previously if using skewers I'd have used charcoal. Following the above quoted post I had meatballs and veg on skewers. Yesterday I went to the port and bought some fish, last night was fish in butter and wine sauce. This weekend will be steak. The blahs will be back by about Monday.

quinoa is the wonder ingredient here. Functional equivalency to couscous but way tastier and better for you.

https://www.happyveggiekitchen.com/vegetarian-shepherds-pie/

[F5 Dave]

Lately I've had the cooking blahs. Nothing in the supermarket looks interesting. Social media has come to the rescue, somebody mentioned tacos - I had tacos. Somebody mentioned bangers and mash, so I had that. Then this. I had never used the grill in my oven in the eight years or so since I bought it. Previously if using skewers I'd have used charcoal. Following the above quoted post I had meatballs and veg on skewers. Yesterday I went to the port and bought some fish, last night was fish in butter and wine sauce. This weekend will be steak. The blahs will be back by about Monday.

Yes but you'll eat well until then. Season (garlic powder mustard rubbed in and left a while in Worcestershire sauce)and sear the steak up, then add a good dash of white wine and cook in the juices with lid on pan for a while. Then make cuts to see how cooked and brown off at very end. Eye fillet if you can just small portions.

While you at at it mini roasters in oven. Cut potatoes into chunks or wedges or slices or any shape. Microwave for 5 min, drain any liquid. In a bowl cover in , I use rice bran, oil and sprinkle with seasoning. Master foods do Moroccan, but also Roast vegg, garlic and herb or lemon pepper
Throw on baking paper and mid to high temp in oven, say 200C fan. 30 min turn over 1/2 way and keep an eye on them. Must be a bit crispy.
You'll never want deep fried again.
Add salad..and a Nice Sav.
Go easy with Aoli dipping sauce. Still want those suspension settings you work on perfecting to be relevant.

Umm. I'm sitting here full from lunch yet salivating.

[pritch]

Yes but you'll eat well until then. Season (garlic powder mustard rubbed in and left a while in Worcestershire sauce)and sear the steak up, then add a good dash of white wine and cook in the juices with lid on pan for a while. Then make cuts to see how cooked and brown off at very end. Eye fillet if you can just small portions.

While you at at it mini roasters in oven. Cut potatoes into chunks or wedges or slices or any shape. Microwave for 5 min, drain any liquid. In a bowl cover in , I use rice bran, oil and sprinkle with seasoning. Master foods do Moroccan, but also Roast vegg, garlic and herb or lemon pepper
Throw on baking paper and mid to high temp in oven, say 200C fan. 30 min turn over 1/2 way and keep an eye on them. Must be a bit crispy.
You'll never want deep fried again.
Add salad..and a Nice Sav.
Go easy with Aoli dipping sauce. Still want those suspension settings you work on perfecting to be relevant.

Umm. I'm sitting here full from lunch yet salivating.

Excellent. I'll try that potato method too. I have a Portugese red to try tomorrow. And yes, you have to watch the suspension settings although a little extra weight just makes for a bit more comfort...

[pritch]

To anyone interested I can recommend Dave's potato recipe. I gave it an extra ten minutes 'cause I definitely wanted crunch. As a bonus the Portuguese vinho tinto was good too which is a plus, because I've got five more of them.

Meanwhile back on topic, I just may go and see 'Fisherman's Friends' next week, if sufficiently recovered from the cost of Monday's 'big' service on the bike

'Ford Vs Ferrari' might have got a look in but the blurb is offensive, "Carroll Shelby and his British driver, Ken Miles". There were four drivers involved, the other three were all Kiwis but apparently they aren't worthy of mention.

Somewhat similarly the OZ movie 'Danger Close', about the battle of Long Tan, portrayed Kiwi artillery forward observer Morrie Stanley as an Australian. Fuckem!

[F5 Dave]

So I bought some Silver Fern venison. Did it the same as steak but with cherry tomatoes and red onion. But then some sweetie capsicum.

I did some odd bunch beans and tossed in aoli.

But the the chips! Well I thought I had it down pat. So next level. Cut the potatoes and soak them in water for an hour. Removes starch. Drain and pat with paper towels. Microwave for 2 min and oil and season as before.

Just beterer. Wife was pretty impressed.

Also Barkers plum sauce on venison.

Not a cheap meal. But if I'd ordered Indian it would have been the same or more. This was way better.

Sawmill Pilsner time a few. Tuatara Hazy IPA, highly recommended. Then onto Sav. First Vicars Choice which is Saint Clairs budget brand but you wouldn't know it. Then a bottle of Mudhouse got opened.

[Kendog]

Cut Agria potatoes into quarters and boil in salted water with a teaspoon of baking sofa until almost falling apart.
Drain and leave to dry on a baking tray.
Add duck fat and bake in oven turning occasionally to coat in the duck fat.
Remove when crispy.
Eat.
Arrive in heaven.

————————
Looking forward to the final Star Wars movie.

[OddDuck]

Finally saw John Wick 3... yeah nah. They've messed with the formula. No muscle cars. No speeches. No slightly dicey nightclubs, le sigh, shame about that. Lots of faceless bad guys... really faceless and anonymous, even compared the first 2 movies, and thus lots of totally empty fight scenes. There's some interesting forays into stuff I haven't seen anywhere else (how do you win gunfights when the opposition are wearing head to toe bulletproof suits?) but the movie goes badly wrong when they leave New York and never really recovers. Good (excellent) stunts, incredible close quarters fight sequences, a couple of the guys from the Raid movies pop in, but that's about it really. If you're a fan of the first two then it's got to be done, sets up nicely for what's clearly going to be an all-in JW4, but still... for completists and hardboiled fans only.

Maybe I should do some cooking instead, some tasty stuff above.

[Laava]

lots of stuff nicely hardboiled
This is a good start!

[F5 Dave]

Well the wind has picked up, maybe a bit too much for a bbq. But I'm stubborn so might go ahead as its fairly sheltered. Actually I'm not stubborn. I just want to try these spare ribs I bought.

Crappy old bbq but have a rack with pumice below the grate above the flame. Fat drops and smokes. I use a roasting pan as a lid to help smoke. Clearly a grill plate provides not char or smoke.

Sweet corn lightly boiled, then rubbed with aoli or sour cream then smoked paprika. Then blacken on bbq. Mexican street corn. Yum.
On the Hazy IPA.

[Swoop]

... with a teaspoon of baking sofa...

This all sounds very comfortable and relaxing.

[pete376403]

Finally saw John Wick 3... yeah nah. They've messed with the formula. No muscle cars. No speeches. No slightly dicey nightclubs, le sigh, shame about that. Lots of faceless bad guys... really faceless and anonymous, even compared the first 2 movies, and thus lots of totally empty fight scenes. There's some interesting forays into stuff I haven't seen anywhere else (how do you win gunfights when the opposition are wearing head to toe bulletproof suits?) but the movie goes badly wrong when they leave New York and never really recovers. Good (excellent) stunts, incredible close quarters fight sequences, a couple of the guys from the Raid movies pop in, but that's about it really. If you're a fan of the first two then it's got to be done, sets up nicely for what's clearly going to be an all-in JW4, but still... for completists and hardboiled fans only.

Maybe I should do some cooking instead, some tasty stuff above.


If you think JW3 was mediocre, try 6 Underground. A Micheal Bay movie (we got Ryan Renolds, dont need to bother with a script that makes sense or anything. Throw in a few more explosions, that'll do it).

[OddDuck]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

[pritch]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

Sounds good. Generally I prefer the originals to the Hollywood remakes; 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' etc f'rinstance. Where did you see it?

[HenryDorsetCase]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

Agree absolutely. I take it you've seen the Tom Hardy "vehicle*" LOCKE?? Similar sort of territory and very well done.

*sorry

[OddDuck]

Saw The Guilty via... (deep breath) DVD rental from Wgtn public library*.

Yeah it's a pretty clunky method but a lot of the goodies from the festivals come back that way. Saw Locke, very similar movie, maybe I was tired on the night or something but somehow it just didn't work out.

*: I love my library and deeply miss Central's enormous stack of serendipitous goodness.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I am watching that "6 UNDERGROUND" on Netflix. Fucking dire. Ryan Reynolds is good, but hardly stretched, and not really given anything to do. Typical Michael Bay bullshit. Decent chase scene in the first few minutes but very reminiscent of the one in RONIN which was done better.

Insufficient nudity too. Just some hookers gyrating in their bras and pants. Avoid. 1/10

Now, see attached for my thoughts on THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[F5 Dave]

Stargate. The basic premise was travel through a portal, a wormhole to an ancient planet based on Egyptian culture. The team show up near an ancient building and encountered creepy as shit doghead mythical creatures. So far so good.

It then takes a dive to the omnidreadful. That's a word I just made up.

After a bit of screwing around the professor dude, who studied Egyptian hieroglyphics, could suddenly fluently speak the fucking language. Next the despotic ruler sun God Ra, turns out to be a super gay little kid.

Ok I'm glossing over some details as this was 25 years since I saw this pile of crap, but I'm still angry about it .

I was my $10 back, inflation adjusted against the pitance I was surviving on which would have been better channeled into Vodka or Adult themed magazines.

[husaberg]

Stargate. The basic premise was travel through a portal, a wormhole to an ancient planet based on Egyptian culture. The team show up near an ancient building and encountered creepy as shit doghead mythical creatures. So far so good.

It then takes a dive to the omnidreadful. That's a word I just made up.

After a bit of screwing around the professor dude, who studied Egyptian hieroglyphics, could suddenly fluently speak the fucking language. Next the despotic ruler sun God Ra, turns out to be a super gay little kid.

Ok I'm glossing over some details as this was 25 years since I saw this pile of crap, but I'm still angry about it .

I was my $10 back, inflation adjusted against the pitance I was surviving on which would have been better channeled into Vodka or Adult themed magazines.

IMO james Spader was better in movies when paired with Maggie Gyllenhaal.

[HenryDorsetCase]

IMO james Spader was better in movies when paired with Maggie Gyllenhaal.

SECRETARY.... mmmm hmmmmm

[pritch]

Just watched something called SAS on YouTube, just as well it was free. A star studded cast, most of whom number among the unemployed for the duration of the movie. I slept through about half of it. I did see enough to note that I'd seen much of it in a YouTube clip by an SAS guy as examples of things the SAS would never do.

I'd absolutely recommend this to anyone suffering from insomnia.

[F5 Dave]

Ohh yes that sounds like me,

[OddDuck]

The Happytime Murders. With Melissa McCarthy and a lot of puppets.

It's OK to actually alright. Probably best when a bit tired and in need of cheap laughs... it'd be interesting to see this back to back with Meet The Feebles, it's pretty similar territory.

[F5 Dave]

Oh now I must watch Meet the Feebles again.

Been awake , should have looked up that SAS clip dammit.

[pritch]

There have been free movies on YouTube for some time as y'all are probably aware. Quality was ummm variable(?) but the price was right.

Just lately there seem to be a lot more. I'm paying Netflix but mostly watching westerns and such on YouTube.

[F5 Dave]

Off to see star wars tonight. Don't get out to movies often and still excited by anything to do with star wars just because of the first one (IV) at an impressionable age. Obviously then came the clangers 1,2 & 3, but ya know. . .

[F5 Dave]

Well, after HDCs musings; I was surprised at the amount of nudity.

[OddDuck]

That Sugar Film.

Surprisingly entertaining doco, basically "Aussie bloke does 40 tsp sugar a day and goes walkabout".

Excellent music video parody at the end too.

[OddDuck]

Just been getting into The Boys, on Amazon Prime.

Think of it as being the Anti-Marvel. Filthy language, bad behaviour, nudity, profanity, perversion, graphic splatter violence, stupidity, celebrity superheroes with more than a bit of Justin Bieber or Real Housewives going on, and underneath it all a very serious discussion of what a world with superheroes might actually look like. Non-spoiler hint: that world is probably not perfect. Maybe quite a long way off perfect, in fact.

Lots of good acting (Karl Urban and the bloke playing The Homelander in particular), excellent settings and cinematography.

The whole thing is from a comic also called The Boys, by depraved genius Garth Ennis. He did Preacher earlier. Unlike the hit-and-miss attempt at Preacher, this one manages to capture the spirit of the original. I'm only up to Ep 4 but it's pretty good going so far... save the dolphins!

[pritch]

Since Sky let me have movies to make up for the loss of any sports coverage I've been playing catch up. Watched 'Missouri Breaks' with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, 'East of Eden' with James Dean, 'The Long Riders' with the brothers Carradine, Keach and Quaid, and 'Lawrence of Arabia' (again) with a cast of thousands.

Have recorded 'Gone With The Wind' and a number of others.

Also in case anyone is interested, on Twitter somebody asked recommendations for Cold War spy stories and received advice that the BBC series of the LeCarre novels: 'Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy' and 'Smiley's People' etc are available on You Tube. There are two series of Tinker Tailer one from the 1970s and one from 2011. Both have some distinguished actors.

Movies on Youtube can be of varying quality but all of this BBC content is supposed to be great.

[pete376403]

Love Le Carre stories. I have TTSS / Smileys People on DVD, both original BBC series and just great. Sir Alec Guinness is perfect as George Smiley. Other Le Carre stories worth another viewing - The Little Drummer Girl; The Night Manager

[Honest Andy]

Love Le Carre stories. I have TTSS / Smileys People on DVD, both original BBC series and just great. Sir Alec Guinness is perfect as George Smiley. Other Le Carre stories worth another viewing - The Little Drummer Girl; The Night Manager

+1
Also the Constant Gardener was very good.
Although all his stories have a lot going on so reading the book first helps...

[Berries]

Caught Bridge of Spies the other week which wasn't bad for a Tom Hanks fillum.

[OddDuck]

Caught Bridge of Spies the other week which wasn't bad for a Tom Hanks fillum.

There's a book by the same title (can't remember the author), the account of the U2 shootdown is amazing.

[pritch]

Love Le Carre stories. I have TTSS / Smileys People on DVD, both original BBC series and just great. Sir Alec Guinness is perfect as George Smiley.

I'm watching TTSS but am experiencing cognitive dissonances. I keep hearing Obi Wan Kenobi.

As long as George Smiley doesn't suddenly produce a light sabre I'll get used to it.

[OddDuck]

The Highwaymen.

Two retired Texas Rangers go on the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. America, Great Depression, 1934. Based on the true story (reasonably closely from what I could see on Wikipedia). Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson lead.

It's a quiet, slow drama and character study rather than a thriller. In fact it's pretty much the direct opposite of a Hollywood blockbuster despite the subject material. Great props, costumes, excellent acting, close attention to period-correct dialogue and realism, and they don't stint on the moral ambiguity of a necessary manhunt with no arrest likely at the end either. It's only going to end one way. Everyone knows that, it's just a question of how and when.

A solid 9 / 10.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Just been getting into The Boys, on Amazon Prime.

Think of it as being the Anti-Marvel. Filthy language, bad behaviour, nudity, profanity, perversion, graphic splatter violence, stupidity, celebrity superheroes with more than a bit of Justin Bieber or Real Housewives going on, and underneath it all a very serious discussion of what a world with superheroes might actually look like. Non-spoiler hint: that world is probably not perfect. Maybe quite a long way off perfect, in fact.

Lots of good acting (Karl Urban and the bloke playing The Homelander in particular), excellent settings and cinematography.

The whole thing is from a comic also called The Boys, by depraved genius Garth Ennis. He did Preacher earlier. Unlike the hit-and-miss attempt at Preacher, this one manages to capture the spirit of the original. I'm only up to Ep 4 but it's pretty good going so far... save the dolphins!

fun fact: Karl Urban and Ant Starr (Homelander) are both Kiwis.

Also: series 2 comes out in early September I think. Probably my favourite new show I watched this year. Yes, including Star Trek Picard

[Naki Rat]

Been watching two TV series, both of which will appeal if you enjoyed the Tv version of Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy.

First was Good Omens (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/) which is a biblically based story from Adam & Eve to the apocalypse. An angel and a demon (David Tennant) who are on good terms with each other against head office policy and a few screw-ups along the way which impacts on the end result.


https://youtu.be/ERM-OjqVpv0

The other is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4047038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) which is only very loosely based on the Douglas Adams books. Elijah Wood (Frodo) plays Dirks 'assistant' who is sucked into a very complex investigation which includes mind controlled thugs, supernatural events, time travel and a pretty respectable body count. It will have you scratching your head while trying to put all the pieces into their correct order.


https://youtu.be/5TNXaCBAjpo

[george formby]

Does it have a horse in the upstairs bathroom?

[Naki Rat]

Does it have a horse in the upstairs bathroom?No, but many of the animals are not what they seem.

[george formby]

No, but many of the animals are not what they seem.

Good enough for me.

If there is a couch jammed on the stairwell I shall be super happy. :banana:

[Naki Rat]

Good enough for me.

If there is a couch jammed on the stairwell I shall be super happy. :banana:About to start watching season 2. I'll keep a lookout for the couch and keep you posted.

[R650R]

Good rainy day viewing....


https://youtu.be/RFcREq7Fzhg

[R650R]

Short film done well


https://youtu.be/Q23gKyHWjjg

[MD]

Well I am a big Bond fan. Eagerly watched every release since a wide eyed kid. Watched many over and over again and always enjoyed them. Skyfall was a standout for me. There's not been one Bond movie that I didn't like. Sure some have dated but they were made 50+ years ago. Roger Moore was my favourite. Brosnan was surprisingly better than I expected then Daniel Craig re-ignited the franchise with his personal touch and I pronounced him my favourite.

So last night I was as eager as that child again to see the latest, delayed 2 years by bloody covid. DON'T BOTHER! LAME is the best word to describe it. No standout stunts, long boring periods, silly villian and even worse mad scientist who's character was a joke, should have been in some cheap comedy. From the start to the end was a boring period. Really disappointed in what they've done to the Bond legacy.

If they try and relaunch watch out the next Bond will be a woke lesbian of some minor ethnic group and drive an EV

[R650R]

Yep already seen multiple warnings not to watch it. Apparently there is already man hating feminist woke stuff in this one, perhaps you missed them while dozing during the “good” parts lol

Classic case of a virus infecting it’s host and self consuming... of people vote with their wallets it will help end this rubbish

[OddDuck]

Wheelman (Netflix)

One night, a North American city which might be Boston, and one man trying to stay ahead of an illegal job gone wrong. There's a lot of driving, a lot of voices on the phone, and a lot of high grade trouble to deal with.

It's like a rather more populated Locke, or The Guilty but out on the streets. Sometimes people get in or out of the car, sometimes there are several people in a scene, but most of it is one character in camera. Occasional and fairly gritty violence underscores what's being said over the hands-free setup.

It's a small but tight movie, knows its own limits, and achieves everything it sets out to do. I liked it. 8 / 10 general rating, 10 / 10 for the someone-on-a-phone genre.

[OddDuck]

Below Zero (Netflix)

A corrections guard doing an ordinary shift, a not too friendly partner, and a transfer of six prisoners on an armoured prison bus, on a freezing night through the countryside. They have to pass through an isolated forest. There's a radio dead spot. One of the prisoners is a hard-core Albanian gangster with a brother still on the outside...

It could have been awesome but some very bad choices are made along the way. The plot goes sideways into fizzle territory, the villain is badly miscast, and the implausibilities start adding up. A shame. If there's a remake then it might actually be worth seeing (particularly if they keep the basic setup but change the plot) but generally this is one of those missed chances that's best avoided. 4 / 10, only bother if you want to see a movie go wrong.

[MD]

Yep already seen multiple warnings not to watch it. Apparently there is already man hating feminist woke stuff in this one, perhaps you missed them while dozing during the “good” parts lol

Classic case of a virus infecting it’s host and self consuming... of people vote with their wallets it will help end this rubbish

Yeah I find today's media are busy telling us that to be born a male heterosexual is a crime and we should be ashamed of ourselves. Look at the two Trademe adds on lately. The dumb cultureless useless white bloke vs the smart charming woman seeking a job in an art gallery. Every scene promotes the bloke as an idiot and not worth employing over a woman . Same with their 'house for sale' add. The intelligent woman knows all the facts vs the dumb white bloke who is made to look stupid in every scene he's in and he says 'oh it's made of that wood stuff' If those roles were reversed and the add re-screened there would be an outpouring of sexist hate towards males for stereotyping woman poorly.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Yeah I find today's media are busy telling us that to be born a male heterosexual is a crime and we should be ashamed of ourselves. Look at the two Trademe adds on lately. The dumb cultureless useless white bloke vs the smart charming woman seeking a job in an art gallery. Every scene promotes the bloke as an idiot and not worth employing over a woman . Same with their 'house for sale' add. The intelligent woman knows all the facts vs the dumb white bloke who is made to look stupid in every scene he's in and he says 'oh it's made of that wood stuff' If those roles were reversed and the add re-screened there would be an outpouring of sexist hate towards males for stereotyping woman poorly.
OK Boomer.

Fucking hell, you need to chill brah.

[Kickaha]

Just went and saw Ford vs Ferrari. Yeah it's a car movie but it's actually pretty well done. Very diverting, if you liked the McLaren biopic then this'd be your cuppa tea.

I watched this a few nights ago, the race scenes were pretty shit, you don't just change gears and put your foot down and rocket past someone in real life

[Laava]

The Lighthouse.
If you're a depressed shit eating repressed homosexual alcoholic, then this may be the movie for you.

[HenryDorsetCase]

The Lighthouse.
If you're a depressed shit eating repressed homosexual alcoholic, then this may be the movie for you.

..................go on? I am intrigued.

[sugilite]

There are reports the next superman will be bi. So between boning Lois and giving the bloke next door his man o steel - how is the poor guy going to have time to save the world?

[TheDemonLord]

There are reports the next superman will be bi. So between boning Lois and giving the bloke next door his man o steel - how is the poor guy going to have time to save the world?

Not quite - it's the Son of Superman (Jon Kent) that is Bi, and it's not will be - it is under the Son of Kal-el Comic.

[sugilite]

I also like Bond movies, but haven't watched No Time To Die yet. Was going to do this tomorrow. Now I have doubts.

I've fallen asleep twice trying to watch it at home :yawn:
And I LIKE bond movies.

[mashman]

Don't Look Up! 9.5/10. Loses the half for being a little slow at times, but it kind of has to be that way to make so many subtle points. Bloody well done with layers upon layers upon layers that I Am gonna have to watch it again.

lol@the very excellent scene that sees the businessman react when called out for his decisions being business related. Nailed that puppy! Projection 101 (very well done and missed, totally missed, by the vast majority), including the conclusion: mice in tin foil pretending that they're knights in shining armour.

Goodun.

[pritch]

I liked how the actors acted.

And one of them was a homegirl.

[mashman]

Oh, I agree with you. I installed a proper VPN from this site (https://www.firesticktricks.com/install-surfshark-on-firestick.html) and finally have access to Netflix again. Don't Look Up! is one of the best movies I've ever watched. I liked how the actors acted, it felt natural somehow. Especially in the last scene where they converse, you can feel the fear and anxiety of what is about to come. If you ever experienced the fear of losing life, you would understand their feeling at that moment. Though I didn't say it is the best movie in the comedy genre I ever watched, it's one of the movies that had something that I like but can't explain what that was. But it was worth the watch.

I hope they do a prequel.

[R650R]

Well worth $14.50 to see at cinema.

First half is ok and you start thinking it’s ok for a sequel then second half is real good. Don’t want to plot spoil so can’t say too much but the effort put into filming real flight shows.


https://youtu.be/b1KJNW-iYlE

[MD]

sorry if this has been mentioned before. I'm not a big Netflix follower but stumbled on this excellent movie last night. I enjoy war movies and especially historically accurate ones based on true events, like this one is. It follows the lives of three people whose lives intersect at the closing days of the German occupation of Holland. You see the perspective from a British pilot, the daughter of a Dutch family and a German soldier who volunteered for the war but now regrets what his country is doing.

Most refreshing this is not a USA made movie and there is no mention of America single handedly winning the war. The battle was fought by the Canadians and for once they get the credit, not the yanks. I would say the Dutch made this movie out of gratitude and respect to the Canadians that liberated them.

Reminiscent of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan at times. Does leave you emotionally upset and drained as it reminds you of the horrors the Nazis inflicted. Something I feel at times younger generations need to be reminded of. Pertinent with what is happening in Ukraine right now, history repeats as they say.

A moving, suspenseful and well made film and nice that no 'big name' hero actors feature in it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGiR5ZiEWkM

[Berries]

I see James Caan has died.

Going to have to find a copy of Rollerball to show the kids. Great fillum.

The year is 2018 in a futuristic society.........................

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[george formby]

Watched The Gentlemen on teh Netflix last night.

Guy Ritchie movie in a similar vein to Lock, stock etc.

Took me a wee while to get into it then it was like catching my tie in a lathe. Chaotic, violent, twisted and quirky.

First movie that's held my attention to the end for a long time.

Great sound track, too.

[Berries]

And Hugh Grant popping the C bomb.

:love:

[george formby]

And Hugh Grant popping the C bomb.

:love:

Yup, carpet bombing is used a lot. Great cast, Hugh's role was refreshing, haven't seen him do anything other than rom coms.

The pig played an excellent part, too.

[R650R]

This film is loosely based on true events of 90’s where horrific robberies took place on the only land trans sport connection between China and Russia.
Mandarin with English subtitles but well worth a theatre ticket.
Characters are all interesting and well defined and lots of plot twist and double crossing.
Epic car chase between a Lada Niva and Toyota Previa 🤣😂😀😂🤣 Really though it’s up there with Ronin for the chase sequences
And lots of bike action too and the CGI stuff isn’t too bad. The shoot out scenes have great gunshots that were vibing the floor and seats.
Expand your horizons and go watch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjjqqQYkjvk&pp=ygUOTW9zY293IG1pc3Npb24%3D

[HenryDorsetCase]

POOR THINGS

I loved this. Emma Stone is a really great actress. She might get another Oscar for this. Incredible. Great supporting cast, too: Mark Ruffalo is great (and does comedy really well) and Willem Defoe is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbR5N6veqw

[F5 Dave]

Migration

Starring Kumail Nanjiani · and Tresi Gazal. Yeah, me neither. Nobody is going to get an Emmy for this, not even Danny DeVito.

It passed some time and the kids liked it, but it's certainly no Minions, despite them heavily playing on the connection.