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1 hour ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I don't think modern "woke/cancel culture" is any different from the "PC gone mad" culture of the era in which this was made.  As I recall, a lot of the reviewers in the most pompously right-on media loved it as an allegory of US foreign policy.   ("I'm the bad guy?  How'd that happen?")

I was thinking more in terms of it as an un-PC comment on masculinity. The emasculated desk jockey and the frustration individual giving in to toxicity. 

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LA Confidential - 9/10

 

Lost a little of it's lustre for me, partly because I watched it so much when I was young, partly because so many shows and films influenced by it have done similar stories in a more realistic and detailed way. But it's still a great film, with so many great performances.

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I was reading something yesterday on Rose McGowan & realised I’d never seen Planet Terror.


And now I know why.

 

After the Machete trailer & McGowan pole dancing in the first 5 minutes, it’s incredibly average - nowhere near as funny or as clever as it thinks it is. 
 

Robert Rodriguez is pretty shit. Sin City & Dusk Till Dawn are good (DTD is good in a shit way) and Desperado is passable, but the rest of his CV is incredibly forgettable.

 

McGowan was a stone cold fox in her day though. Hot damn. Ugly cryer though. 

 

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25 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

I was reading something yesterday on Rose McGowan & realised I’d never seen Planet Terror.


And now I know why.

 

After the Machete trailer & McGowan pole dancing in the first 5 minutes, it’s incredibly average - nowhere near as funny or as clever as it thinks it is. 
 

Robert Rodriguez is pretty shit. Sin City & Dusk Till Dawn are good (DTD is good in a shit way) and Desperado is passable, but the rest of his CV is incredibly forgettable.

 

McGowan was a stone cold fox in her day though. Hot damn. Ugly cryer though. 

 

Dusk Till Dawn would have been great if they had an alternative ending that didn't involve vampires. It's still boss though. 

 

Desperado is better than 'passible'. 

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2 hours ago, Scott_M said:

I was reading something yesterday on Rose McGowan & realised I’d never seen Planet Terror.


And now I know why.

 

After the Machete trailer & McGowan pole dancing in the first 5 minutes, it’s incredibly average - nowhere near as funny or as clever as it thinks it is. 
 

Robert Rodriguez is pretty shit. Sin City & Dusk Till Dawn are good (DTD is good in a shit way) and Desperado is passable, but the rest of his CV is incredibly forgettable.

 

McGowan was a stone cold fox in her day though. Hot damn. Ugly cryer though. 

 

The third mariachi film is good. The first one is a great example of an amateur self-funded feature too. 

 

And the faculty, a teen ripoff of the Thing, but decent enough. I guess the experience saw him bounce back into being a one man band filmmaker though, which hasn't really helped him progress.

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7500 - Free on Amazon-Prime. Joseph Gordon-Levitt play a co-pilot whose plane gets hijacked between Berlin and Paris. 

 

I guess its worth it if you've got an hour and a half to kill. Thats about it. Pretty much all filmed inside the cockpit apart from a few minutes cctv at the start. One very very tense moment in it to be fair that sends your anxiety through the roof particularly if you aren't a fan of being in a tin can in the sky. 4/10 

 

 

Official Secrets - Keira Knightly, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith. True story about the girl who leaked the memo she saw in GCHQ proving that America were playing dirty to get the UN council to approve the invasion of Iraq.

 

Its actually pretty good, being a true-story they cant make over dramatise it but it tells the story well. Definitely worth a watch. 7.5/10 

 

 

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AVA - Netflix - Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich and Colin Farrell. 

 

Basically a Bourne film but instead of Jason Bourne its a good looking ginger female with a past alcohol/heroin problem and a dysfunctional family situation. Its definitely watchable but fuck me I honestly don't know if it was really good or utter shite. Definitely worth a watch for anyone who likes Ninja assassin/Spy films. Jessica Chastain is absolutely stunning. 7/10 

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14 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

AVA - Netflix - Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich and Colin Farrell. 

 

Basically a Bourne film but instead of Jason Bourne its a good looking ginger female with a past alcohol/heroin problem and a dysfunctional family situation. Its definitely watchable but fuck me I honestly don't know if it was really good or utter shite. Definitely worth a watch for anyone who likes Ninja assassin/Spy films. Jessica Chastain is absolutely stunning. 7/10 

Id never noticed her until this film.

 

She is boss like.

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20 minutes ago, Scott_M said:


Mollys Game got nowhere near the attention & acclaim it deserved.

Yeah, very good film that. I fully expect to be married to a woman who looks just like Jessica Chastain when I'm in my mid 40's. if not then none of its been worth it. She's just amazing. 

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Re-watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles for the first time in about 20 years last night. My memory of this film was that is an absolute cringe-fest from start to finish, humour wise. Also Steve Martin's character was ridiculously unlikeable and John Candy's was annoying as hell. 

 

I completely changed my viewpoint on watching the film last night. The script is brilliant, there literally isn't one moment that you feel could have been edited down. The cringe humour is nowhere near as bad as i recalled and the two leads are absolutely brilliant. The way SM's character becomes visibly less and less uptight (after the mid-film meltdown)  is a joy to behold. The meltdown itself is a glorious highlight, and i was in tears laughing at the scene where the car goes on fire and John Candy answers  the question "why on earth would i put my credit card in YOUR wallet?"  with "Kindness?" cueing maniacal laughter from Steve Martin. It even dealt with the schmaltzy ending in a brilliant way too, absolutely didn't linger on the loss and didn't overdo Candy's gratitude to be welcomed into the Page household either. 

 

I'd even go as far now as saying this is John Hughes best film.  9/10.

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11 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Re-watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles for the first time in about 20 years last night. My memory of this film was that is an absolute cringe-fest from start to finish, humour wise. Also Steve Martin's character was ridiculously unlikeable and John Candy's was annoying as hell. 

 

I completely changed my viewpoint on watching the film last night. The script is brilliant, there literally isn't one moment that you feel could have been edited down. The cringe humour is nowhere near as bad as i recalled and the two leads are absolutely brilliant. The way SM's character becomes visibly less and less uptight (after the mid-film meltdown)  is a joy to behold. The meltdown itself is a glorious highlight, and i was in tears laughing at the scene where the car goes on fire and John Candy answers  the question "why on earth would i put my credit card in YOUR wallet?"  with "Kindness?" cueing maniacal laughter from Steve Martin. It even dealt with the schmaltzy ending in a brilliant way too, absolutely didn't linger on the loss and didn't overdo Candy's gratitude to be welcomed into the Page household either. 

 

I'd even go as far now as saying this is John Hughes best film.  9/10.

It's superb. This scene .....  "..... and walk over a fucking RUNWAY" has me howling every-time

 

 

 

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On 09/12/2020 at 09:08, Bjornebye said:

Dusk Till Dawn would have been great if they had an alternative ending that didn't involve vampires. It's still boss though. 

First time I watched that I was enjoying a decent film, but then I took a phone call and when I came back everything had gone stupid.

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20 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

First time I watched that I was enjoying a decent film, but then I took a phone call and when I came back everything had gone stupid.

Haha I know mate. I'm not huge on vampires etc in films but leading up to it is great. 

 

Alternative ending should have involved Jacob getting bladdered and shagging one of the strippers, Geko goosing Hayek and the kids beating Seth into a bloody murdering rapist pulp then they all fuck off with shit loads of cash to Tijuana and live happily ever after. If Tarantino really needed special effects then a snapping pussy of sorts would have been fine. 

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Doolittle - Watched it out of a morbid curiosity to see if it was really that bad. It isn't, which was disappointing, it was just very, very safe and bland. Downey Jr.'s attempt at a Welsh accent was terrible though but what was weird was it seemed to have all been done in ADR and they hadn't matched it to the rest of the cast properly. So the end result was a bit like Bane in the Dark Knight Rises where it doesn't sound like it's actually him talking. I think it's because he does the accent in this hushed tone which would be impossible if you were actually walking and talking; also suspect that they had to the entire thing again because it sounded even worse before. Bit of an insult that Michael Sheen, an actual Welshman who can do all sorts of accents, is in the movie having to listen to it. 2 out of 10

 

Little Women - Greta Gerwig's version of the classic novel with a little more of a modern eye. By that I mean that the linear narrative of the book is altered and we get flashbacks from the moment Beth becomes ill. It works, although I'm not a huge fan of storytelling via flashback or, even worse and more prevalent these days, 'in media res' storytelling. Good cast and it tried it's best to do something fresher with the look and structure of the story, though Timothee Chalamet was just an irritating prick for most of the time. 8 out of 10

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The I watched Violent Playground yesterday, just watchable, trying to look out for shots of the city. 

The Mersey Tunnel, Overhead Railway and I'm sure it was the Legs of Man in the distance, I missed the first 40 minutes so I'll watch again, how things have changed. Pissed posted that a few days ago buasht night I watched the Hill and Harry Andrews does a good acting thi g, took me ages to write this 

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Lynn + Lucy - Small British drama about two close friends on a council estate and what happens when tragedy strikes. Not very long but you'll recognise the people, situations and reactions, and I found it's brand of social realism quite authentic. It's quite affecting and you might find yourself seething at the inevitable consequences following the tragedy. It's on BBC iPlayer for a few more days, it's really good. 8.5 out of 10

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