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Arrival - 6/10

I thought this was alright. The pacing was a bit too slow. It was interesting trying to figure out where it was going.

Saw 'Run' last night.

Yea, it was fine. Nothing special, nothing terrible. For a thriller, I kinda thought the angle would be 'is it what you think or isn't it?' but it makes it abundantly clear very early on that, yes, it's exactly what is being implied which makes the journey towards the character actually realising it quite dull. There's an extra rug pull at the end but it comes so late and has so little impact that it's like 'right, fine'. Wasn't completely gooseberry fool though, Sarah Paulson is always good and does what Elisabeth Moss did in Invisible Man and elevate a pretty pedestrian script by being watchable as strawberry float, and Kiera Allen as the lead is really good. Both me and the missus commented that she looked 100% more at home in a wheelchair than most actors, and it turns out she isn't wheelchair bound but uses one for comfort due to MS which makes it quite a fabulous coincidence that she happens to be a pretty good actress as well as being one of probably 3 Hollywood actors who have the exact balance of physical disability to authentically represent a disabled character.

Mindless silliness if you're bored, but nothing worth seeking out.

Oh yea, also saw the remake of The Hitcher remake.

Swear to God, you can see Sean Bean dying behind his eyes as he begs everyone, anyone, to do some acting back. Every scene he's in is like 'look we're all getting paid here, any chance any of you strawberry floats want to actually do your job a bit?' I know the original isn't exactly regarded as a classic but I really like it, and it seems like every change they make makes it worse. It ups the gore for no particular reason, which means that the originals hardest hitting scenes which all happen off screen happen in shitty late noughties sfx on screen and have no impact.

Just guff.

Skarjo wrote:
Swear to God, you can see Sean Bean dying behind his eyes

It is what he's famous for.

Crimson Tide - 8

Good illogical 90s pseudo political submarine fun. Loses points for weird glossed over horse racism.

Rise of Skywalker - ***

Competent as a bog standard action adventure film, but a really disappointing follow up up Last Jedi. All the interesting plot points from that film seem to have been cast aside in favour of making this into an "epic" conclusion to the trilogy, that just lumps in a load of callbacks to the original trilogy, and tries to cram itself with big emotional payoffs, despite not putting in the planting that they needed.

The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury Edition) 6/10- So the plot wasn't what I expected it to be, and I thought that the premise was wasted a bit. I imagine it was much more enjoyable in the 60s but I think the whole genre has improved since then.

Mank 5/10: Probably about 30 minutes too long. I liked the flash back scenes, but begun to lose interest towards the end.

#Alive - Korean zombie film. Better than Peninsula. 7/10

Evil Dead (2013) - I've never seen the originals so had nothing to compare to. 6/10, it was fine. I would like to watch the original film series now though

Knoyleo wrote:Rise of Skywalker - ***

Competent as a bog standard action adventure film, but a really disappointing follow up up Last Jedi. All the interesting plot points from that film seem to have been cast aside in favour of making this into an "epic" conclusion to the trilogy, that just lumps in a load of callbacks to the original trilogy, and tries to cram itself with big emotional payoffs, despite not putting in the planting that they needed.

I'm watching The Last Jedi now. I really didn't like it the first time watching it, but am appreciating it more this time (I think 3rd or 4th viewing). I might even go so far as to say it's the best of this new trilogy, which imo is a pretty easy bar to clear. That said I think all of the problems of the trilogy are the fault of The Last Jedi. It straight up ignores anything setup in The Force Awakens and leaves nothing for Rise of Skywalker to build on. This ultimately led to RoS building an entire trilogies worth of plot and developments into one film, which is why it's so terrible.

I will qualify this by saying I plain don't like Rian Johnson. I don't like his dialogue, his humour is dumb and goofy and his stories have never particularly interested me.

Mudbound 8/10

By pure coincidence we've watched a few films recently where the focus has been on slave era racism. Its so depressing when you realise this really happend, and not that long ago, strawberry floating shameful. Really hard to watch in places.

Scoob- 3/10

Genuinely one of the worst films I've ever seen. It's such an unbelievably cynical film designed by committee to create a Hanna Barbera Cinematic Universe. There were four writers! What the hell were they doing?

The biggest fault is that this is not a Scooby Doo movie, there's no mystery, it's a Blue Falcon team-up film with some Scooby Doo characters. Blue Falcon has more screentime than Daphne, Fred and Velma combined.

I knew it was going to be bad when there was a inexplicable Simon Cowell cameo five minutes in. When was he last relevant?

I somewhat hat liked Scoob! as it kept my rowdy kids quiet for a while. :slol:

And it’s a lot better than that abortion of Tom and Jerry movie. The kids liked it but I was so bored after the first 20 minutes.

Ecno wrote:The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury Edition) 6/10- So the plot wasn't what I expected it to be, and I thought that the premise was wasted a bit. I imagine it was much more enjoyable in the 60s but I think the whole genre has improved since then.

I thought the plot was going to be they brainwashed Shaw, and then got him to run for the President and Frank Sinatra's character was going to realise that he'd been brainwashed and that he had to be stopped- which in my opinion is a much better film!

Mank 5/10: Probably about 30 minutes too long. I liked the flash back scenes, but begun to lose interest towards the end.

Have you seen the 2004 version? I really enjoyed that one, had some really dark bits and great performances from Washington, Streep and Schreiber.

Sound of Metal

9/10

Wow. Incredible use of sound and Riz Ahmed gave an outstanding performance. Everyone should get this watched. Brilliant.

Captain Kinopio wrote:Crimson Tide - 8

Good illogical 90s pseudo political submarine fun. Loses points for weird glossed over horse racism.

Thats what you get when you let Tarantino do your final draft of the script

But isn't that the whole point? As in, Hackman's character does have racist views and deliberately tries to provoke Denzel with them? Which Denzel expertly throws back at him.

I mean, I don't have a problem with any of that. The film itself isn't racist.

Bloody horses, coming over here, jumping our fences.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Bloody horses, coming over here, jumping our fences.

...and don't even get us started on their sugar cube habit.

I've never seen Crimson Tide and so have no idea if horse racism was a typo or whether there's a scene where a character rants about the merits of Shire horses over Shetland ponies.

Imrahil wrote:But isn't that the whole point? As in, Hackman's character does have racist views and deliberately tries to provoke Denzel with them? Which Denzel expertly throws back at him.

I mean, I don't have a problem with any of that. The film itself isn't racist.

This.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Bloody horses, coming over here, jumping our fences.

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