Last film you watched and your rating

Halloween Kills 7/10
Boogie Nights 8/10

The Father
10/10 - Amazon Prime

Absolutely masterful performance from Hopkins, the way the film portrayed Alzheimer's was really something and absolutely puts the viewer in the same state as Hopkins.

The Mitchells Versus the Machines - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but it's a great romp and hilarious in parts. The Furby section had me in tears. Also looks gorgeous as it's by the spider-verse people. And always nice to have protagonists who are neuro-diverse and/or LGBT without that ever being drawn attention.

Encanto - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but I enjoyed the more low-key story without an explicit and obvious antagonist for once. Good songs that have been stuck in my head. Apparently "We don't talk about Bruno" has beaten "Let it Go" in the US charts which seems bizarre to me as the former seems like a very situational tune designed to move the plot along and not even the best one from the movie.

aayl1 wrote:The Mitchells Versus the Machines - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but it's a great romp and hilarious in parts. The Furby section had me in tears. Also looks gorgeous as it's by the spider-verse people. And always nice to have protagonists who are neuro-diverse and/or LGBT without that ever being drawn attention.

Encanto - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but I enjoyed the more low-key story without an explicit and obvious antagonist for once. Good songs that have been stuck in my head. Apparently "We don't talk about Bruno" has beaten "Let it Go" in the US charts which seems bizarre to me as the former seems like a very situational tune designed to move the plot along and not even the best one from the movie.

It's also the first Disney original song to be no. 1 in the UK charts.

Ghostbusters Afterlife- 4/10

Oh dear. The over-reliance on clumsy references to the original were irritating me but I still liked the film up until the beginning of act 3 or so which really soured me on the entire thing.

The exact same final act? Really? Jason Reitman couldn't think of literally anything else? The shameless grave-robbing of a 30 year old film was already unseemly and then they CGIed in a dead man. I think the movie studios and actors unions need to come to some agreement here because that seems really unethical.

Egon's actions while alive don't seem to make any sense whatsoever. Why exactly did he need to abandon his daughter? Why did he never tell Ray about a giant portal in Shandor's mine? Venkman might have ignored him, I can't see Ray doing so.

And spoiling Sigourney Weaver's cameo in the credits right before it happened was just completely amateur.

Nobody watch this film.

Rex Kramer wrote:
aayl1 wrote:The Mitchells Versus the Machines - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but it's a great romp and hilarious in parts. The Furby section had me in tears. Also looks gorgeous as it's by the spider-verse people. And always nice to have protagonists who are neuro-diverse and/or LGBT without that ever being drawn attention.

Encanto - 8/10. It's another one of those animated films where everyone learns a bit of empathy and that family is important, but I enjoyed the more low-key story without an explicit and obvious antagonist for once. Good songs that have been stuck in my head. Apparently "We don't talk about Bruno" has beaten "Let it Go" in the US charts which seems bizarre to me as the former seems like a very situational tune designed to move the plot along and not even the best one from the movie.

It's also the first Disney original song to be no. 1 in the UK charts.

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Did someone say Bruno?

Captain Phillips (2013, Netflix)

Incredibly intense and with superb acting, particularly by Barkhad Abdi and Tom Hanks. I couldn't look away from the film for the entire runtime. It's stunning to think that it was based on a real-life situation. [9]

Nomadland - 5

This is peak Hollywood wank.

The Terminal (2004 | now on Netflix)

Fun, easy-going entertainment with Tom Hanks in fine form. The idea of being forced to stay in the terminal was neat. I did wonder just how much some of the featured brands paid to have their logos featured so prominently, though - particularly in moments were the logos were shown between the faces of two people talking to each other. Anyhow, a decent watch. [6]

The Alpinist - 8/10

Documentary film on sky about a free climber who scales mountains without any ropes, on his own. Insane stuff, could hardly beleive what I was seeing.

Dune - 8/10

I knew nothing of the story and haven't read the book so wasn't entirely sure what to expect. Really good stuff though, the effects and scale of the thing is just breathtaking, and i think i'll enjoy it even more when i get around to a second viewing.

Roll on part 2.

Wait so I can rent the 4K version of Dune on Amazon but I can't buy a digital copy?

Ghostbusters Afterlife - 8/10 i thoroughly enjoyed that and a fine tribute too Harold Ramis

I kinda agree the backstory of them going their own ways could of been written better and their reasons for breaking up but even so i really enjoyed the film

Monster hunter. Awful, unwatchable, turned off/10

Onward - 4/10. I remember when I was a kid, Pixar movies were completely unmissable, golden films that you simply had to see. Nowadays they’re a complete coin toss. This was just rubbish.
I put on Ron’s Gone Wrong which was twice the film, 8/10.

Buffalo wrote:Onward - 4/10. I remember when I was a kid, Pixar movies were completely unmissable, golden films that you simply had to see. Nowadays they’re a complete coin toss. This was just rubbish.
I put on Ron’s Gone Wrong which was twice the film, 8/10.

Agreed, Onward was terrible, it's certainly my least favourite Pixar movie.

The Father - Brilliant, invemtive and ultimately heartbreaking.
I love the creative use of camerawork and set designs, and Hopkins performance is superb. 9/10

Ghostbusters Afterlife - Not 100% on this one, it's fun and all, pretty good looking too. Phoebe steals the show, but the rest of the cast just seem to exist and not much else. Mike from Stranger Things plays the same role again, and we get far too much nostalgia wrapped around a largely unrelated, bog standard kids movie. 7/10

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Don’t Look Up - 7.5/10

I really enjoyed this film for the most part, obviously it takes the piss a lot but thought it was quite accurate with everything going on with our government at the moment that they’ll do anything to deflect from a story until its no longer possible to. Almost kind of nice we didn’t get a happy ending either.

strawberry floats sale, how difficult is it to use spoiler tags?

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