Last film you watched and your rating

Tomous wrote:One I haven't seen, which seems to be rated really highly is Fighting With My Family, directed by Stephen Merchant. Doesn't look like it's on any streaming services unfortunately.

It's a good film, but he's barely in it and he (literally) plays himself.

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Tomous wrote:Red Notice looks absolutely dreadful to me. The poster alone looks completely generic:

It screams Dwayne Johnson playing Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot looking hot and it not having much else about it. Maybe a being a bit harsh but nothing I've seen of it suggests it has any kind of personality beyond that.

Isn't that his whole career Also Skyscraper is one of his worst acted films doesnt help its a gooseberry fool Die Hard rip off He is just an actor i have at times taking seriously at times no matter how much effort he puts in a movie.

One of my favourite Dwayne Johnson performances is actually Pain & Gain, he is so brilliantly stupid in that one i can't help but laugh.

Jesus I hate that film, that is one of the stupid movies I've seen in my entire life.

It's a horrible film, turning a true story where people were tortured and killed into a comedy and making the killers the good guys is pretty disgusting.

Mark Kermode's review of it was memorable:

Memento Mori wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Rocsteady wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

floydfreak wrote:

Tomous wrote:Red Notice looks absolutely dreadful to me. The poster alone looks completely generic:

It screams Dwayne Johnson playing Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot looking hot and it not having much else about it. Maybe a being a bit harsh but nothing I've seen of it suggests it has any kind of personality beyond that.

Isn't that his whole career Also Skyscraper is one of his worst acted films doesnt help its a gooseberry fool Die Hard rip off He is just an actor i have at times taking seriously at times no matter how much effort he puts in a movie.

One of my favourite Dwayne Johnson performances is actually Pain & Gain, he is so brilliantly stupid in that one i can't help but laugh.

Jesus I hate that film, that is one of the stupid movies I've seen in my entire life.

It's a horrible film, turning a true story where people were tortured and killed into a comedy and making the killers the good guys is pretty disgusting.

Mark Kermode's review of it was memorable:

That was great.

I remember watching it pretty stoned and felt grotty afterwards. The only film I can think of where I had that response - just felt like something was off with it.

Pain and Gain was weird, I remember some of the other lads convinced the teacher to put it on at the end of the year in year 12 physics class.

Jungle Cruise (Disney+).

Loved it! Great family adventure film!
It hit all the top notes of Indy, The Mummy and The Pirates of the Carribbean. I never used to like The Rock, but you've got to hand it to him, he's a Hollywood master nowadays.

Tomous wrote:

Rocsteady wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

floydfreak wrote:

Tomous wrote:Red Notice looks absolutely dreadful to me. The poster alone looks completely generic:

It screams Dwayne Johnson playing Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot looking hot and it not having much else about it. Maybe a being a bit harsh but nothing I've seen of it suggests it has any kind of personality beyond that.

Isn't that his whole career Also Skyscraper is one of his worst acted films doesnt help its a gooseberry fool Die Hard rip off He is just an actor i have at times taking seriously at times no matter how much effort he puts in a movie.

One of my favourite Dwayne Johnson performances is actually Pain & Gain, he is so brilliantly stupid in that one i can't help but laugh.

Jesus I hate that film, that is one of the stupid movies I've seen in my entire life.

It's a horrible film, turning a true story where people were tortured and killed into a comedy and making the killers the good guys is pretty disgusting.

I know full well it's a film i shouldn't like, yet for some reason I do.

Last film at home Nightmare on Elm Street 2020 reboot. It's on Amazon Prime. 2/5

Hmmm. I just don't see the point of the remake. It's a classic horror idea, not being able to fall asleep and being stalked in your dreams. And Freddy is an iconic character, but I'm just not sure what this adds since it's more or less very similar to the original, just a bit less grimy.

I suppose there are a few tweaks here and there, and it's not actually a bad film only as far as schlocky horrors go. There are a few half decent jump scares here, though I'm don't think Krueger himself is as scary when not played by Robert Englund.

One of the big themes with this kind of film is that the kids see the danger first, aren't believed by the grown ups who themselves have dark secrets to hide, and then have to take matters into their own hands.

One of the weirdest things for me was that they messed that part up. There's a scene where a couple of the characters are running away through "their" school, except none of that rang true.

I looked up the main actors playing the supposed college students, and they're all in their mid 30's. It's like the Fonz all over again.

That aside, take it on its own merits and its ... still not very good. In fact, some unnecessary nastiness here too which makes me think 2/5 may be generous.

There was a 2020 Nightmare on Elm Street??

Thats crazy, I didn't even know they'd made Nightmare on Elm Street 10 to 2019

10 Elm Street 3 Nightmare films in 2020?

10 Elm Street 5 Furious.

Tomous wrote:His best role is comfortably in Moana, without a doubt but he's good fun in stuff like Jumanji and Central Intelligence.

One I haven't seen, which seems to be rated really highly is Fighting With My Family, directed by Stephen Merchant. Doesn't look like it's on any streaming services unfortunately.

More of a cameo role in that. Good film though!

The French Dispatch - 9.5 out of 10.
Fantastic movie with an immense cast. 3 short stories for inclusion in the French Dispatch are retold excellent.
The bird out of The girl with blue hair is in it and I'd gladly shag her shadow on a gravel path.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2, 5/10- My sister roped me into watching this, I remember seeing the first when I was younger. I like most of Lord and Miller's films but this one was pretty underwhelming.

Skarjo wrote:There was a 2020 Nightmare on Elm Street??

Errr, no. Turns out it was the 2010 remake instead.

You heard it here last.

Abacus wrote:

Skarjo wrote:There was a 2020 Nightmare on Elm Street??

Errr, no. Turns out it was the 2010 remake instead.

You heard it here last.

Oh yea that was guff. Real wasted opportunity.

Jungle Cruise - 6/10

It was okay, I enjoyed the first half much more than the second but it did drag a little and felt 30 minutes too long-I've no idea why every big release needs to hit 2 hours when it doesn't have the story for that. It had a nice vibrant look to it, but the CGI felt abit over done in places. The leads were all well cast, the Rock was the Rock which worked well, Emily Blunt was as wonderful as ever and Jack Whitehall provided quite a few laughs. I thought his coming out scene was well crafted but it's noticeable they never used the word gay and how it was never mentioned again after this. Easy to remove for international audiences. As ever, it feels like Disney wants the points for LGBT+ inclusion without fully committing. Also, I thought the German villain was pretty meh-I feel like they absolutely wasted Paul Giamatti as the rival boat cruise owner, and they'd have been far far better casting him as the main villain and asking him to ham it up.

Fun enough as a family adventure film, but far from an all time classic.

Can't find anyone to go watch Ghostbusters. Don't want to be a Billy no mates and go on my own

Rakoon, fancy a date?

LewisD wrote:Can't find anyone to go watch Ghostbusters. Don't want to be a Billy no mates and go on my own

Rakoon, fancy a date?

Id say go even if you have to go alone. I went into a 11.20 showing of it and absolutely loved it, I went with the misses and she really enjoyed it as well. It made me cry my eyes out which I really really didn't expect .....

…eh? Which bit?