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  • Saw it yesterday. Obviously no spoilers.

    As a single film I don’t think it matches the level of infinity war in terms of how it flows. Even though it’s over 3 hours certain parts do feel slightly rushed and lacking in emotion. The writing of one particular character annoyed me too.

    That being said, it’s an absolutely incredible film. I’ve never seen a movie theatre as reactive as it was last night. There are a lot of genuinely funny moments amongst some sadder ones. I can’t count on one hand the amount of people I heard crying during the movie.

    im jealous of anyone who gets to see that again for the first time. It’s almost perfect.
  • edited April 2019
    If there’s one word I wouldn’t use to describe any moment of that film it’s ‘rushed’! But if the character you’re talking about has bad hair, then I totally agree with you on that. 

    I thought it it was an incredible feat of filmmaking, I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it as intense as I’d hoped (although it’s also goofier than I expected for the middle section). 

    No film has ever paid off 20-odd previous episodes before so it’s a unique experience and I look forward to seeing it again. 
  • Wild Rose

    A story about an ex-con in Glasgow who wants to make it as a country singer and to get to Nashville. Jessie Buckley is excellent in the title role and she has a very good singing voice - she's one of the best British actresses to emerge in recent years. Julie Walters plays her mother and the two work well together.
    It's very watchable and quite sentimental - I really enjoyed it. 8/10
    Saw it last night. Initially dragged along as the GF is into country music, but actually really enjoyed it.

    Both Jessie and Julie are very good and Jessie's singing is excellent. Really interesting story and well performed.
  • edited April 2019
    Re. Wild Rose - I found her to be relentlessly annoying. I didn’t know why I should root for her. I liked how the events of the film gave her something. And the shunning of an obvious outcome was good. 

    I also found the the rich woman incredibly unconvincing. Both in performance and writing. 

    Still, it’s a solid little film. 
  • JiMMy 85 said:
    Re. Wild Rose - I found her to be relentlessly annoying. I didn’t know why I should root for her. I liked how the events of the film gave her something. And the shunning of an obvious outcome was good. 

    I also found the the rich woman incredibly unconvincing. Both in performance and writing. 

    Still, it’s a solid little film. 
    The rich woman was a really weak character - the actress who played her always seems to play this type of part. Detracted from the film.
  • Mid90s

    A skateboarding film about the attempts of a young boy to establish himself in a gang. Set in 90s LA it explores what it's like to be a teenage boy.
    Enjoyable to watch and I liked the soundtrack. The main actor Sunny Suljic is very good and its the debut film as director from Jonah Hill.  7/10
  • Mid90s

    A skateboarding film about the attempts of a young boy to establish himself in a gang. Set in 90s LA it explores what it's like to be a teenage boy.
    Enjoyable to watch and I liked the soundtrack. The main actor Sunny Suljic is very good and its the debut film as director from Jonah Hill.  7/10
    This did nothing for me . Jonah Hill should stick to acting . 
  • Mid90s

    A skateboarding film about the attempts of a young boy to establish himself in a gang. Set in 90s LA it explores what it's like to be a teenage boy.
    Enjoyable to watch and I liked the soundtrack. The main actor Sunny Suljic is very good and its the debut film as director from Jonah Hill.  7/10
    This did nothing for me . Jonah Hill should stick to acting . 
    I thought it was a promising debut and interesting film - surprised you got nothing from it.
  • Mid90s

    A skateboarding film about the attempts of a young boy to establish himself in a gang. Set in 90s LA it explores what it's like to be a teenage boy.
    Enjoyable to watch and I liked the soundtrack. The main actor Sunny Suljic is very good and its the debut film as director from Jonah Hill.  7/10

    Saw it yesteday, thought the ending was going to go into a final part but it it ended isntead. Was a decent film overall. The soundtrack songs were good but the music made for the film was abit jarring at times, the long jangly bass notes ect.
  • The Guilty. Throughout 90 mins, you're following a suspended police officer in a dispatch centre in real time. Very, very good.
    Tense.
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  • edited April 2019
    JiMMy 85 said:
    Anyone else doing Avengers tonight? 
    I hear it is 3 hours and 8 minutes long. Wow!
    There’re about twenty-five characters, each needing their five minutes, so that’s around two hours used up without any plot development.

    That said, I’m looking forward to it. 
  • Went to Screen25 in S Norwood to see Border. It’s by the same guy who did Let The Right One In and is also a love story about someone on the fringes of humanity. It’s quite hard work, but in a good way, with moments of sweetness.

    The venue is soulless and I can’t recommend it. 
  • Went to Screen25 in S Norwood to see Border. It’s by the same guy who did Let The Right One In and is also a love story about someone on the fringes of humanity. It’s quite hard work, but in a good way, with moments of sweetness.

    The venue is soulless and I can’t recommend it

    That describes the whole of S Norwood.
  • Avengers Endgame. Cheese. Cheese and even more Cheese. 

    I struggled to love this movie, it was likeable but something was missing.

    6/10

  • Dazzler21 said:
    Avengers Endgame. Cheese. Cheese and even more Cheese. 

    I struggled to love this movie, it was likeable but something was missing.

    6/10

    Yeah just seen it myself and despite loving these films in the MCU was left ever so slightly disappointed

    Breaking it down into hour segements I thought the first part was really good apart from one character with crazy hair who let themselves go a bit

    Second segment was just joke after joke and at one stage let out a sigh of exasperation because I was just tired of them... Yeah Disney like to add humourous moments to these films but huge overkill!!

    The final hour was the best part of the movie; great scenes and really lovely ending that had me struggling for composure, was certainly glad it was dark so no one could see me close to blubbering!!

    Infinity War was much better
  • Dazzler21 said:
    Avengers Endgame. Cheese. Cheese and even more Cheese. 

    I struggled to love this movie, it was likeable but something was missing.

    6/10

    Infinity War finished me off.


  • Dazzler21 said:
    Avengers Endgame. Cheese. Cheese and even more Cheese. 

    I struggled to love this movie, it was likeable but something was missing.

    6/10

    Yeah just seen it myself and despite loving these films in the MCU was left ever so slightly disappointed

    Breaking it down into hour segements I thought the first part was really good apart from one character with crazy hair who let themselves go a bit

    Second segment was just joke after joke and at one stage let out a sigh of exasperation because I was just tired of them... Yeah Disney like to add humourous moments to these films but huge overkill!!

    The final hour was the best part of the movie; great scenes and really lovely ending that had me struggling for composure, was certainly glad it was dark so no one could see me close to blubbering!!

    Infinity War was much better
    I agree with all that, I think the movie only worked for me because the final hour was a great payoff after Infinity War. The stuff about the middle segment is spot on too, you could feel everyone just getting bored of the jokes and waiting for some sort of progression.

    I still rate it highly, but a rewatch of End game on its own would probably change it from a 9/10 to a 7 or 8/10
  • I'm put off going to see it given its three hours long and will probably demand an encylopaedic knowledge of the characters to make sense of it. I struggled with Infinity War.
  • edited April 2019
    Watched Avengers, thought it was all right, will probably go and watch it a few times to see,if I missed anything / get a different perspective.

    I’ve loved the whole series, so really didn’t care what happened as such in this one, as opposed to trying to be clever and pick holes in plot lines etc.

    I couldn’t believe people were sobbing uncontrollably during the film, it’s not real life,  people!

    although I got a selfie in the foyer with a guy dressed in a Spider-Man costume, so I’m a bit of a hypocrite I guess, but I used to love reading Spider-Man comics when I was about 5.

    Certainly a ‘big screen movie’  but will probably also preorder it for when it comes out on 4K to watch at home.


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  • I also really hope the next star wars film is at least as good as the force awakens which I thought was brilliant and not the awful last jedi 

    Daisy Ridley is a great lead for that film


  • edited April 2019
    Carter said:
    Just back in from watching Avengers 

    Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest

    If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema 

    Anyway, the film 

    Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad. 

    I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me. 

    6/10 
    Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?

    Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?

    I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'.  I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
  • Carter said:
    Just back in from watching Avengers 

    Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest

    If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema 

    Anyway, the film 

    Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad. 

    I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me. 

    6/10 
    Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?

    Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?

    I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'.  I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
    You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span. 


  • Carter said:
    Just back in from watching Avengers 

    Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest

    If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema 

    Anyway, the film 

    Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad. 

    I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me. 

    6/10 
    Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?

    Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?

    I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'.  I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
    You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span. 


    I've been really spoilt over the years with press screenings, where people don't mess about (and there's no food/ trailers/ adverts). Since doing less of that I've had to get an Odeon card and try to hold back on seeing movies until they're 2-3 weeks old cos the general public are utter cretins. I did a couple of opening nights and Jesus H Christ, I have no idea how people put up with it. The cacophony of packets being opened and munched on, the talking, the phones...  

    I sat through the abysmal Aquaman film with a woman nearby playing with her phone. I told her to put it away, she said I should have stayed at home if I didn't want to deal with it. It's one thing to be oblivious, it's another to be her. Fortunately, telling her what I thought about her personality in colourful language, menacingly enough to keep her husband quiet, seemed to do the trick. 
  • Not a latest film but watched Kong Skull Island. Started off OK but lost its way and turned into an excuse to showcase a few monsters fighting each other.
  • JiMMy 85 said:
    Anyone else doing Avengers tonight? 
    I hear it is 3 hours and 8 minutes long. Wow!
    There’re about twenty-five characters, each needing their five minutes, so that’s around two hours used up without any plot development.

    That said, I’m looking forward to it.

    Won't be the same without David Janssen.
  • JiMMy 85 said:
    Carter said:
    Just back in from watching Avengers 

    Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest

    If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema 

    Anyway, the film 

    Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad. 

    I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me. 

    6/10 
    Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?

    Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?

    I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'.  I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
    You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span. 


    I've been really spoilt over the years with press screenings, where people don't mess about (and there's no food/ trailers/ adverts). Since doing less of that I've had to get an Odeon card and try to hold back on seeing movies until they're 2-3 weeks old cos the general public are utter cretins. I did a couple of opening nights and Jesus H Christ, I have no idea how people put up with it. The cacophony of packets being opened and munched on, the talking, the phones...  

    I sat through the abysmal Aquaman film with a woman nearby playing with her phone. I told her to put it away, she said I should have stayed at home if I didn't want to deal with it. It's one thing to be oblivious, it's another to be her. Fortunately, telling her what I thought about her personality in colourful language, menacingly enough to keep her husband quiet, seemed to do the trick. 
    It’s the reason I don’t bother going to the cinema anymore. The last film I saw at the cinema was Solo which was a freebie and people were recording it on their phones ffs. 
  • By no means a 'new film', there's a Kubrik classic on BBC4 tonight at 9.00, Barry Lyndon .. well worth recording
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