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[Anubis]

John Carpenter’s Vampires. 8/10. A guilty pleasure. Looking back on it you realise it’s quite misogynistic to Sheryl Lee’s character. The positive elements come from Carpenter’s decision to make it a violent western where the guns for hire are vampire hunters and the bandits vampires, rather than a straight horror film. James Woods is great value, while Ian Thomas Griffiths makes for a decent pantomime villain, and Maximilian Schell gets to twirl his moustache much more than he did in The Black Hole. Not a classic, but good popcorn entertainment.

[Brownie]

Zombieland Double Tap - 8/10.

 

Really enjoyed it, just a lot of fun and easy to watch.

[Mendoza]

The Informer- decent enough crime drama let down by a crap ending- 5.5/10

[Numero Veinticinco]

3 minutes ago, Mendoza said:

The Informer- decent enough crime drama let a licky boom boom down by a crap ending- 5.5/10

Fixed

[skend04]

17 hours ago, Elite said:

Knives Out - 7/10

 

Good fun and Daniel Craig was very good as the deep south P.I, a role which I'd have never envisioned him playing.

Agreed, a really fun, funny and enjoyable whodunit.

 

Kind of begs the question though, what the fuck happened to Rian Johnson that he absolutely dropped the ball with TLJ when he can direct films like this and Looper. Madness.

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Fixed

As it's Christmas, here is some Snow.

 

 

[Tj hooker]

As its Christmas we watched National Lampoons Christmas vacation, still found it funny got some great lines and characters in it even with the usual American schmaltzy ending it gets a 8/10 

[Anubis]

Zombieland: Double Tap. 7.5/10. Much the same as the first, but I think they’ve taken it as far as they can now.

[Scott_M]

On 23/12/2019 at 00:14, niallers said:

Ad astra! Absolute fucking garbage. Worse than Solaris. Slow,went nowhere and didn't make any sense.

Avoid

I didn’t think it was that bad but I was disappointed by it.

[Scott_M]

17 hours ago, Pistonbroke said:

Public Enemies (Netflix)

 

Gangster/Crime biography of John Dillinger, Baby face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and the Feds bringing them down. Not Michael Mann's best work but a very solid film and worth a watch. Packed with big names and some decent performances. 7/10. 

I think this film is massively underrated. It’s a good story, great cast & performances and I love the score almost as much as I love Marion Cotillard. 
 

I think it’s really, really good. 

[Anubis]

Guardians Of The Tomb (aka 7 Guardians, aka Nest 3D). 0/10.

 

So you have Christmas Eve off, and you have the misfortune to click on the Horror channel just as this starts. And you slowly get drawn in and become fascinated to see just how bad this will get, especially as the Chinese and Australian film commissions have thrown shitloads of money at it. The answer is worse than you ever thought. To shorten it - rescue team enter an ancient Chinese emperor’s tomb to rescue missing archaeologists and encounter an army of genetically-manipulated-by-breeding man-eating funnel web spiders. I could go on at length dissecting this, but will simply tell you that the protagonists are able to casually evade the advancing CGI horde by simply slowly walking ahead of them, and as they exit each room a small dog-sized General spider turns up to wave it’s mandibles in frustration and direct it’s smaller cohorts to better efforts. And the said CGI waving of mandibles is the best acting on show - almost Oscar worthy compared to the actors efforts. Swerve.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 23/12/2019 at 12:52, Stouffer said:

It must be really shit then because Solaris is one of the worst films ever (re)made.

I assume you are talking about the Solaris remake and not the Russian original,which was a superb film?

[Stouffer]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I assume you are talking about the Solaris remake and not the Russian original,which was a superb film?

Aye, never seen the original but the remake sucks camel dick.

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, Stouffer said:

Aye, never seen the original but the remake sucks camel dick.

Ad Astra is a lot better than Solaris. I've watched it twice and enjoyed it both times. No doubt there is not a lot going on but what there is, is very well done and also very restrained where many films tend to try and make things larger for dramatic effect. 

[Sugar Ape]

18 hours ago, Anubis said:

John Carpenter’s Vampires. 8/10. A guilty pleasure. Looking back on it you realise it’s quite misogynistic to Sheryl Lee’s character. The positive elements come from Carpenter’s decision to make it a violent western where the guns for hire are vampire hunters and the bandits vampires, rather than a straight horror film. James Woods is great value, while Ian Thomas Griffiths makes for a decent pantomime villain, and Maximilian Schell gets to twirl his moustache much more than he did in The Black Hole. Not a classic, but good popcorn entertainment.

Vampires is a great film. One of my favourite vampire films. I love the scene on the motel at the beginning. 
 

The book it’s based on is very good as well if you haven’t read it, quite different from the film but still a good read. It’s quite expensive for some reason in paperback so I picked up a second hand one a while back. 
 

Vampires https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0451462262/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AYNaEb6FK2182

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Stouffer said:

Aye, never seen the original but the remake sucks camel dick.

Get it watched. Its a great film,especially as it was made around 1971 or 72.

[SasaS]

Marriage Story 8/10.

 

My boy Noah Baumbach finally on the verge of making it big with some Golden Globe and hopefully other nominations. A less schmaltzy Kramer vs. Kramer type drama. There's supposed to be some big conversation on the net about this film, but I have not been looking in to it nor do I intend to, I can sort of guess what it's about.

 

Anyway, one of the best films of 2019. Which wasn't such a great year. But this one is good. Made for Netflix.  

[Dougie Do'ins]

Scrooge - A Christmas Carol.

 

The one with Alistair Sims. 10/10

[Dr Nowt]

2 hours ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Scrooge - A Christmas Carol.

 

The one with Alistair Sims. 10/10

Was watching that earlier as well.

 

What an actor.

[Dr Nowt]

Funny Cow: 7/10.

 

The Irishman. 2nd time because my old dear wanted to see it and I didn’t have the heart to tell her I already had.
 

So much better this time, which surprised me. Revised my opinion from 6-7/10 up to 8-9/10, though nostalgia may be playing some part in the highest end of that.
 

Basically I think on second watch it benefitted from its obvious predecessors, whereas on first watch it suffered due to them.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Wolf of Wall Street. Liked this. 8/10

[Special K]

A family Christmas double bill of John Wick 3 and thre first Inbetweeners film.

 

10/10. Everything is great. Merry Christmas everyone

[Red74]

6 underground.

 

fuck me this is dreadful. How do they still get away with making shit like this. 
 

turned it off after 10 minutes. 
 

Ryan Reynolds really fluked it with that deadpool and is milking the shit out of that characters humour now. 
 

0/10. Avoid

[General Dryness]

On 24/12/2019 at 05:16, Jennings said:

Fight Club - 6.5/10 

I'm taking issue with this.

 

Consider yourself taken issue with.

[Shitty Arse]

The Keeper. Bert Trautmann biopic. Very entertaining enjoyable film. Watched late on Christmas night after getting access to the telly!

7 out of 10