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Yup.

That's a shame, thought it looked decent.

So did Ghost Dog. Jarmusch

Cuttooth wrote:Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Has there ever been as big a gulf in quality between a film's trailer and the actual film? Absolute shite.

I loved that film!

Ironhide wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:I think over the years people have conflated the idea that Starship Troopers was underrated at the time of release with people apparently not understanding it's a very obvious satire.

Robocop was similar with the satirical content going over some peoples heads.

I think it's the effect of the sequels. The original films are great satire, it's the sequels that miss the point entirely. Robocop basically becomes a superhero.

Corazon de Leon

Skarjo wrote:That's a shame, thought it looked decent.

I enjoyed it FWIW, was meandering and weird and very Jarmusch-y.

Speed 2: Cruise Control - 5/10

Watched this for the first time in years today, and i'm conflicted. On one hand i should hate it, as it was a terrible sequel to a classic movie. Then again, had it actually been a stand alone film rather than a sequel, then it would have been just another silly 90's action/disaster movie (like Volcano), and during this most recent viewing i found it to be a surprisingly fun one too (especially with Willem Dafoe hamming it up as a cackling rent-a-psycho). It's certainly nothing amazing, yet i have seen far better films which i have enjoyed much less.

Cuttooth wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Imrahil wrote:Hmm, have to say - everyone I knew back in the late 90s was well aware of its satirical intentions when I saw it at the cinema. Film reviews at the time were mentioning it too.

I guess there were some who took it at face value, but you always get a few who don't look deeper into things.

Yeah I can't really remember anybody taking it at face value, it wasn't very subtle about what it was doing.

I think over the years people have conflated the idea that Starship Troopers was underrated at the time of release with people apparently not understanding it's a very obvious satire.

Obviously none of you grew up in Blackpool.

Luca: i'd give it about a 9/10. not pixars best but still an all round good movie with characters i could relate to. not something i often do

Freaky.

Well this is absolutely decent of a film, a spin on “Freaky Friday” story where a 17 year old teenage girl swop bodies with a serial killer.

Vance Vaughan acting like a 17 year old girl better than most of horror trope girls. :lol:

It’s a surprising decent film

Also there’s a scene where her crush wanting to kiss her and it’s not all about looks… and she’s still looking like Vince. :slol:

The only gripe is that Vince Vaughan’s girl persona doesn’t really match the girl at the start. She’s supposed to be an outsider, quiet girl while Vince can’t shut up.

Worth a watch if you like slasher films.

7/10

Monster Hunter

You could probably cut it down into a good 2 minute trailer for a film that doesn't exist, if you were selective enough.

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A Quiet Place(seen it before but watched it again to put me in the mood for part 2).

Stupid kids are completely aware of the big bad monsters so they deserve to die. Stupid spunking idiot and leg opening spunk receiving idiot also deserve to die. I'm pretty sure they could easily have scavenged condoms,but no, they just decide to bring a screaming baby into the world. Idiots.

Apart from that, it's entertaining enough for a 7.5 put of 10.

Huh, I thought they were called Lee and Evelyn but I just checked IMDB and that is in fact their character names.

L'il Quinquin 10/10
L'il Quinquin and the Extra-Humans 9/10

I'd never heard of Bruno Dumont before but apparently he was, for the longest time, the French Lars Von Trier, whose films were black as death and focused on the grim realities of living the rural wastes of the French northern regions.

Then he decided to make a comedy.

This ended up being 2 TV shows which I can only describe as the French Twin Peaks: an Inspector Closeau-esque police captain is dispatched to solve a series of grizzly murders while dealing with the lives of the local farmers. And they are extraordinary.

Dumont apparently never uses professional actors, so the captain is played by a former gardener with a relentless facial tic. Dumont would apparently send the performers in front of the camera and feed them their lines via earpiece, and instead of the clusterfuck you'd expect from this what we get is a show/film that's half absurdist comedy and half rumination of the perils of insularity, racism and poverty.

The first is a masterpiece. Like, genuinely. Somehow the jet-black humour mixes perfectly with the social commentary and it had me bawling laughing one moment and shocked into silence the next. The second leans much more to the absurd, with the cast from the first set against an alien invasion of bodysnatchers, but is equally as poignant (the arrival and replacement of the locals mirroring a sub-plot about the community's reaction to the influx of migrants heading to the UK).

Some of the best TV/film I've seen in years.

(first trailer is NSFW)

Wonder Woman 84 - 2/10 - An even worse sequel than Godzilla KOTM. The quality of the first film must have been something of a fluke as this just a mess from start to finish. Pedro Pascal seemed to have fun though so I'm happy for him.

Candyman - 8/10 - What a great understated horror film. I wish I had given this the time of day years ago rather than assume it was just another 90s slasher. Really looking forward to what the modern day sequel can do.

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - 7/10

I'm not a big fan of Metallica but had heard this was good so gave it a go.

What a pair of arseholes Ulrich and Hetfield are. :lol:

I genuinely felt sorry for Hammett who seemed the only decent member of the 3 remaining band members.

It's a good documentary even if it did bring back my rage about Ulrich killing Napster.

Moggy wrote:Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - 7/10

I'm not a big fan of Metallica but had heard this was good so gave it a go.

What a pair of arseholes Ulrich and Hetfield are. I genuinely felt sorry for Hammett who seemed the only decent member of the 3 remaining band members.

It's a good documentary even if it did bring back my rage about Ulrich killing Napster.

I'd like to watch that but I can't be doing with hearing too much of their music as it's not for me. Would I be able tolerate it? Is the music kept to a minimum?

Rapidly-Greying wrote:
Moggy wrote:Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - 7/10

I'm not a big fan of Metallica but had heard this was good so gave it a go.

What a pair of arseholes Ulrich and Hetfield are. I genuinely felt sorry for Hammett who seemed the only decent member of the 3 remaining band members.

It's a good documentary even if it did bring back my rage about Ulrich killing Napster.

I'd like to watch that but I can't be doing with hearing too much of their music as it's not for me. Would I be able tolerate it? Is the music kept to a minimum?

There's lots of scenes of them coming up with new songs, but very few whole songs are played. Mostly just them trying to get something recorded before one of them storms off in a huff.

A Quiet Place 2. A decent sequel for sure. I was hoping for

and I'd heard that there

but I didn't see it.

7/10

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