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Post by MartinT on Apr 13, 2021 14:58:54 GMT
Dennis Villeneuve is the new Ridley Scott.
I can't wait for Dune.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 13, 2021 15:16:34 GMT
Dennis Villeneuve is the new Ridley Scott. I can't wait for Dune. David Lynch was/is a genius, and I couldn't wait for the last one. Freddie Francis in charge of cinematography, Toto (and Brian Eno) providing the music, an absolutely stellar cast, what could possibly go wrong?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 13, 2021 15:24:25 GMT
It actually was better than it was given credit for. Some of the steampunk ideas were inspired, the look of it was great. What let it down were a few decidedly wooden actors, poor SFX and a very rushed ending.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 13, 2021 15:27:58 GMT
Don't tell anyone, but I rather enjoyed it.
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Post by John on Apr 13, 2021 17:05:43 GMT
I liked the film score so Toto perform some of it live
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Post by naim1425 on May 21, 2021 22:18:59 GMT
Very good film score if you like zombies 🧟♀️ Not bad acting for dead people Army of the dead 💀
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Post by julesd68 on May 22, 2021 14:41:12 GMT
We had a family viewing of Sharknado 2: The Second One the other day. It's a proper old-fashioned 'B movie' with a budget of only around $2 million. Difficult to make any movie for that nowadays. Fabulously cheesy script and dodgy SFX that look like they were done by a 12 year old. Lots of silly guest star appearances like Kelly Osbourne as an air hostess ... Tongue firmly in cheek, it really is a lot of fun ...
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Post by MartinT on May 22, 2021 18:11:20 GMT
I cannot imagine any universe in which I would find that film 'fun'
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Post by rfan8312 on Aug 21, 2021 22:07:39 GMT
Have been to theater 3 nights in a row now.
Don't Breathe 2 - Awesome Thriller, possibly better than the 1st one. If you like "ass kicking time" then he will MAKE time for kicking ass, apparently.
The Night House - Very good. Good Director (The Ritual) + Rebecca Hall for a potent mix.
Old - Awful. Walked out. Anyone find M. Night's output bizarre?
After seeing 'The Happening' I can't guage his films objectively anymore I guess. He had a few good ones there and then fell off of a cliff imo. With this one I was just looking at the screen perplexed, every moment feels like a device used to remind the audience of what the premise is. And I don't blame the actors.
'Old', moreso than with other trainwrecks of his, seems like he fell in love with the premise he's dreamt up, and then uses every scene to repeatedly reinforce what it is. After the 37th scene used to remind me that people are indeed getting older at an accelerated rate and how mind-blowing that is, I'd decided I'd gotten the gist, even if I'd missed something important at the end.
Wonderfully imaginative name for the film too. A film about accelerated aging, call it 'Old'.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 21, 2021 22:36:56 GMT
Old - Awful. Walked out. Anyone find M. Night's output bizarre? Now, if you had gone to see Old Boy, you would have been well entertained!
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Post by rfan8312 on Aug 21, 2021 22:46:54 GMT
Ahh yes, I'd forgotten about that one. I think I've read that the Josh Brolin version is a remake, though very good.
I started 'The Jacket' yesterday got halfway, it's quite gripping. Will finish that tonight and see if I can find 'Old Boy'.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 23, 2021 20:20:16 GMT
I really want to see Don't Breathe 2 but doesn't seem to be streaming here yet.
I watched a stinker last night on TV - "Wind River" with Jeremy Renner. Starts off quite well - a local wildlife officer on an Indian reservation volunteers to help the FBI track down the killer of a local girl. Some superbly bleak, snowy locations in Wyoming. But that's as good as it gets. Ends up being a pretty nasty, voyeuristic and exploitative revenge movie with some utterly ludicrous dialogue. How it gets really good scores on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes is worrying.
Avoid please.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 5, 2021 9:17:46 GMT
Infinite
Avoid at all costs. Waste of time. The book may well be good but the film is not Mark Wahlberg as the lead is a clue, he is often in not so good stuff
Mish mash of storyline, special effects, car chases and all the sort of action packed that seems to be mandatory.
IMDB has a good review A disappointing mess.. Infinite had an interesting premise however the way it has been executed is far from satisfactory. The idea of how there are two contrasting lives fluctuating the universe could have been turned into an exciting film but director Antoine Fuqua ruins it all with a tepid execution .He focuses on gloss with substance taking a complete back seat! It becomes so hard to endure this film after a point . Mark Wahlberg is decent but there is a reason why this was dumped on Paramount plus! Disappointing!
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Post by MartinT on Oct 5, 2021 21:13:20 GMT
5.5 on IMDB is not promising. Mind you, I have liked some low scoring films.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 6, 2021 9:07:47 GMT
I usually have 5 as minimum standard Must read IMDB before committing to starting as so often the boss wants to see the end
Think we have enjoyed IMDB ratings of 4
Started an Indian series with 8 on IMDB Horrid
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Post by julesd68 on Dec 6, 2021 17:41:48 GMT
OK chaps, here’s my assessment of No Time to Die - no specific plot spoilers included.
This is such a lazy film in so many ways and is Bond ‘by numbers’. It is essentially a remake of OHMSS. The director, Cary Fukunaga, is on record as being very impressed by many elements of that film. But what we have in the new film is much more than a few ’nods’ to OHMSS. We have 007 trying to find love and a new life with Madeleine, as he once did with Tracy. Just to hammer this home they bring back the ‘We have all the time in the World’ theme and the old Aston Martin. They even have the nerve to update the old global germ warfare plot and the ending of the film is effectively the same too. You could sum up the basic plot of this film on the back of a postage stamp, it is so simplistic. Imagine writing a check list of all the elements that traditionally make up a Bond film - it’s as though they have tried to tick off every element one by one - you know what they are, I don’t need to list them.
Without doubt they got the wrong director and wrong script - what on earth Phoebe Wallabridgida contributed to the creaking dialogue I don’t know. If she improved it, I dread to think what it was like before. There are a number of very awkward moments in the script and nothing is memorable in any way; the director manages to make wonderful actors look very ordinary on more than one occasion. The direction is very efficient in terms of the action, sweeping panoramic vistas and glamour shots - the film starts out reasonably well for me with some really neat action sequences in a great location, but quickly becomes hampered by the script and lack of original ideas. Crucially there are a few scenes where Daniel Craig’s performance is quite different from the previous films and it just doesn’t sit well with me. Bond seems to be often more ‘effusive’ in this film and is much less reserved - maybe this is deliberate to reflect this part of Bond’s journey but I really missed the attention to detail in the performances as a whole that Sam Mendes brought to his series of films, no doubt partly due to his time spent in the theatre.
So what is new and innovative with this exercise in blunt nostalgia? Well, much was made about Lashana Lynch’s casting in this film as a double O agent. What a let down! She could have been great, but her character is so weakly fleshed out and there isn’t much of a dynamic or tension between her and Bond; we end up knowing next to nothing about her. Q, M and Moneypenny are also hampered by the script, and don’t feel as involved as in previous films - it’s much less of an ensemble effort. Q gives Bond an Omega watch that has a gadget in it for another throwback moment, wow, really? Rami Malek’s maniacal super villain feels so rooted in the 1960’s as does his disfigured henchman. A very lazy performance from him with no depth at all, and nothing to recommend it. He even has a hidden base on an island! However did they think of that.
What they need to do next is to have a complete re-think about where Bond can go from here and actually try and come up with some original ideas whilst keeping some continuity and spirit of what makes James Bond. This is what Sam Mendes did. Not easy by any stretch but with a new Bond required, now is the time to really think about it and get it right.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 6, 2021 19:58:29 GMT
Oh dear, I'm definitely not wasting a cinema visit on it then.
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Post by rfan8312 on Dec 6, 2021 21:09:31 GMT
Definitely a Bond casual here, I enjoyed the film quite a bit for some reason it just felt laid back. Though I've only seen maybe 2 other Bond's including Casino Royale.
The one thing that irked me was when an explosive was tossed at him in what looked like an elevator shaft and there was no shock wave or force to the explosion.
Just a sound and a flash. He jumped away luckily and avoided being hit by any sound.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 12, 2022 0:28:43 GMT
Crimes Of The Future. Terrible. I'm surprised they even made it.
But Kristen Stewart was on another level here. Her presence on screen and her acting were better than I've seen from her yet.
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 12, 2022 13:08:38 GMT
I watched 21 Bridges last night featuring the late Chadwick Boseman. It's a police thriller and he is excellent in it, no probs with the rest of the cast and the direction is taut and efficient. Moves along at a pace. Just one problem - once you realise how shallow and flimsy the plot is you feel properly short changed. You could write it on the back of a postage stamp - unremarkable it is
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