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I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.
Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.1 -
Just waiting for the year he picks up all the major awards. Phenomenal talent.king addick said:I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.
Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.2 -
It will happenstoneroses19 said:
Just waiting for the year he picks up all the major awards. Phenomenal talent.king addick said:I personally really enjoyed Sinners. The KKK were prominent so vampires or not, at least its accurate for the time.
Jack O'Connell is really coming on leaps and bounds. Sinners and 28 years later shows how good he is.
Next on my list is "I Swear" glowing reviews all over so be silly not to give it a look.0 -
The Bride. It’s a mess but a fun mess with a few Easter eggs including one for Young Frankenstein, and a not particularly subtle but not unwelcome feminist, #metoo, overtone.0
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How to make a killing - a modern, strangely dull remaking of one of the all time great films in “Of Kind Hearts and Coronets”.Glenn Powell is mediocre and Margaret Queeley’s performance starts on a high before progressively tailing off into something unconvincing. Even a small twist at the end does little to shock or recover any credit because the performances are all so flat and the plot so repetitively turgid that you don’t care for any character.Generously I’d call it watchable but very uninspiring.1
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Thought it was fantastic. Thoroughly absorbing, and found it historically interesting and at the same time griping. I'd happily give it 8.5 out of 10. Said earlier a lot of us are fascinated by this period, and this was great. If I was going to pick holes, I thought some of the speech felt more like 2025 than 1945. As a balance, Russel Crowe was immense.Carter said:I too have recently watched Nuremberg
Russel Crowe was brilliant, Remi Malek less so and I couldn't help but think his flouncing was unnecessarily overly dramatic. Leo Woodall was class, good actor that kid
Like a lot of blokes in their 40s I've got an unhealthy interest in the second world war and the events of the Nuremberg trials and the behaviour of Göering in particular.
My missus lost interest about halfway in, I was there at the end. Solid 7/102 -
Not seen Nuremberg, yet, good to hear some reviews.0
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Peaky Blinders film - albeit on Netflix.Ok but underwhelming for me. It’s run its course now for storylines I think.0
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Thought it was very disappointing and a bit contrived. Without a lot of the best characters it was just a bit lost.valleynick66 said:Peaky Blinders film - albeit on Netflix.Ok but underwhelming for me. It’s run its course now for storylines I think.
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I just watched I Swear on Netflix.
What a fabulous film.5 -
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A great film.Covered End said:I just watched I Swear on Netflix.
What a fabulous film.0 -
War Machine on Netflix. The sort of film where you can take your brain out for 100 minutes of pure popcorn hokum.2
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I thought it was terrible.AllHailTheHen said:War Machine on Netflix. The sort of film where you can take your brain out for 100 minutes of pure popcorn hokum.0 -
Seen the first 10 minutes of Mercy, seems good0
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Project Hail Mary (at cinemas now).0
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I gave it a 9.9 rating.0
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I watched Mercy and while the script isn't bad at all - with a decent murder mystery angle and interesting reversal of expectation on the AI thing - it's from Timur Bekmambetov, the guy who produced the abysmal War Of The Worlds for Amazon, and visually it's just as stupid with all the social media/ iPhone bullshit.
I recently discovered it's called 'screenlife' storytelling, and Bekmambetov seems to be cornering the market in this stuff (this is his fifth screenlife movie, and I feel like a moron for calling it that). You can see the attraction for the actors as these one-location things allow the likes of Pratt and Ferguson to minimise their time on set (Ferguson couldn't have spent more than a week recording her part) while lower-budget actors do all the running around.
It's not awful, in fact it's entirely watchable. But it is fucking lazy and the visuals are like watching a kids' TV show. I like Pratt and I'm comfortable watching him do his thing, so I watched it to the end. And the end is the silliest part lol
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Project Hail Mary is superb. 2001 A Space Odyssey meets ET (for adults) with a bit of Cold War and light religious overtones thrown in for good measure. Being tipped for next year’s Oscars already but they may have got the timing wrong on that!1
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Just back from Project Hail Mary and loved it. Ryan Gosling was immense and had not read a preview before going in so really enjoyed how it played out, particularly ‘Rocky’s’ role and relationship with Grace.2
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Yep, Project Hail Mary was great.1
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Finally watched Sinners. Massively overrated in my opinion.
Dusk till Dawn with a weaker plot and drawn out musical pieces to cover over it.Was expecting something great from the reviews but was average.2 -
Finally saw Crime 101 after it came straight to streaming on Amazon. An amazing cast and a stellar crime thriller. One of the best of its genre I’ve seen in years. Tight script and I think hugely underrated.Project Hail Mary - jeez that was a slog. Overlong and the cheesy teenage Marvel humour I should have guessed from the trailer is torturous across the whole runtime. This is a teenagers film as the attempted comic turns suck the film dry of suspense, drama and emotion. Found it incredibly dull and don’t even know what it was trying to achieve. Arrival, Gravity, Moon, Interstellar, take your pick from a plethora of great modern space films, this one is a massive hype job.1
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Loved Crime 101 - saw it at the cinema. Really good watch.Making_all_the_noise said:Finally saw Crime 101 after it came straight to streaming on Amazon. An amazing cast and a stellar crime thriller. One of the best of its genre I’ve seen in years. Tight script and I think hugely underrated.Project Hail Mary - jeez that was a slog. Overlong and the cheesy teenage Marvel humour I should have guessed from the trailer is torturous across the whole runtime. This is a teenagers film as the attempted comic turns suck the film dry of suspense, drama and emotion. Found it incredibly dull and don’t even know what it was trying to achieve. Arrival, Gravity, Moon, Interstellar, take your pick from a plethora of great modern space films, this one is a massive hype job.
Just seen Project Hail Mary - thought it was awful. The film really dragged and it was really dull. Very overrated...0 -
Mr Nobody against Putin won the Oscar for best documentary, and it is quietly sitting on iPlayer, in the usually overlooked Storyville series.It may be worth reading up a little on the story behind it before viewing. It really is extraordinary, but for the first 40 minutes or so you may think that it is a very ordinary doc by a very ordinary bloke who just happens to live in a weird town ina weird country. It’s only afterwards that the enormity of what he did may sink in. And he is just an ordinary bloke, who was quite happy with his ordinary life in what we’d regard as a shithole. That’s what’s so amazing about it.2
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Everything you say is true, but the film itself is a rather dull, nothing, experience which lacks focus and drive and impact, despite his bravery.PragueAddick said:Mr Nobody against Putin won the Oscar for best documentary, and it is quietly sitting on iPlayer, in the usually overlooked Storyville series.It may be worth reading up a little on the story behind it before viewing. It really is extraordinary, but for the first 40 minutes or so you may think that it is a very ordinary doc by a very ordinary bloke who just happens to live in a weird town ina weird country. It’s only afterwards that the enormity of what he did may sink in. And he is just an ordinary bloke, who was quite happy with his ordinary life in what we’d regard as a shithole. That’s what’s so amazing about it.0 -
Thought Project Hail Mary was really fun myself, and reflected the tone of the book quite well. Not sure if you've read it but the film reflected it pretty closely. Though overall I did enjoy the book slightly more as it dived more deeply into the sci-fi element of it all.1
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Got round to watching the Ballad of Wallis Island. Absolutely phenomenal.
One of the best things I’ve seen in ages.3 -
I thought it decent.ValleyGary said:Got round to watching the Ballad of Wallis Island. Absolutely phenomenal.
One of the best things I’ve seen in ages.
I saw it a month ago and have already forgotten most of it.
I can't even visualize 2 of the 3 main actors.0 -
Thought Crime 101 was decent, but what was the point of the bloke in the boot at the beginning?hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
Loved Crime 101 - saw it at the cinema. Really good watch.Making_all_the_noise said:Finally saw Crime 101 after it came straight to streaming on Amazon. An amazing cast and a stellar crime thriller. One of the best of its genre I’ve seen in years. Tight script and I think hugely underrated.Project Hail Mary - jeez that was a slog. Overlong and the cheesy teenage Marvel humour I should have guessed from the trailer is torturous across the whole runtime. This is a teenagers film as the attempted comic turns suck the film dry of suspense, drama and emotion. Found it incredibly dull and don’t even know what it was trying to achieve. Arrival, Gravity, Moon, Interstellar, take your pick from a plethora of great modern space films, this one is a massive hype job.
Just seen Project Hail Mary - thought it was awful. The film really dragged and it was really dull. Very overrated...0
