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Post by Variable-Silence on Apr 10, 2016 19:33:21 GMT
I'm certainly finding em this gem is on Netflixs, again filmed in a static environment proper budget stuff , Loads of people in a room what could possibly go wrong. Zzzzzzzz
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Post by joshfishkins on Apr 11, 2016 9:29:24 GMT
Batman v Superman.
Terrible really, even though Affleck is excellent as Mr Bat. Far too long, far too many dream sequences, a plot that doesn't make much sense when you think about it for more than a nano-second, a CGI mess of a finale that is just pathetic and zero surprises throughout.
All in all, I consider myself done, and my ticket was free.
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Post by Variable-Silence on Apr 16, 2016 17:03:55 GMT
Took my daughter to see the Jungle book, we enjoyed it. Good cast of voice actors, look out for King Louie who's voiced by Christopher Walken I swear they used his unmistakable eyes. Another great actor Ben Kingsley fits so well with his character the panther, while Bill Murray also does so with the bear. Idris Elba plays the bad guy tiger.
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Post by flur on Apr 23, 2016 12:31:03 GMT
Way of the Dragon
An absolute classic martial arts film.Bruce against Chuck in the Colliseum,plus twin nunchakus.
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Post by flur on Apr 23, 2016 15:10:16 GMT
Night of the Living Dead.
The most genre defining film of all.
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Post by flur on Apr 23, 2016 20:25:44 GMT
Star Wars 7.
Shite.I was happy when it was over.Shakespeare was on BBC 2.
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Post by Pigmagnet on Apr 24, 2016 10:23:22 GMT
Most fun I've had with a SW fillum in decades, I thought. Sure it's no masterpiece, but neither is any of them. It's certainly the best acted of the lot, which admittedly isn't saying an awful lot. Thumbs up in the Magnet household!
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Post by Variable-Silence on May 4, 2016 10:02:52 GMT
The hateful eight, heard a lot of positive things about this maybe too much as my expectations were high. It was ok, kept me watching but nothing amazing, typical Tarantino dialogue.
Just started watching Peaky Blinders just into the second episode, quite good so far.
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Post by joshfishkins on May 6, 2016 13:17:40 GMT
The hateful eight, heard a lot of positive things about this maybe too much as my expectations were high. It was ok, kept me watching but nothing amazing, typical Tarantino dialogue. Just started watching Peaky Blinders just into the second episode, quite good so far. Peaky Blinders is a slow burner - stick with it. Season two is great. Number three started last night, but I'm going to record a lot of them before starting to watch. With Daredevil and GoT I've got plenty to watch anyway. Last film for me: Fantastic Four (the latest version). It somehow manages to make being a superhero really boring. I got it for free, and had low expectations and still came away disappointed. Just heard they are remaking The Magnificent Seven. WTF, Hollywood? Are there no original ideas over the pond or what? I could rant for hours about this, and I haven't even been drinking. (yet)
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Post by flur on May 6, 2016 18:36:03 GMT
You are right Josh.There are no new ideas.Just reboot/remake/regurgitate the past.
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Post by flur on May 6, 2016 18:38:00 GMT
Latest Star Wars film a perfect example.Which the original Star Wars had already done.
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Post by Pigmagnet on May 7, 2016 9:12:02 GMT
Just heard they are remaking The Magnificent Seven. WTF, Hollywood? Are there no original ideas over the pond or what? I could rant for hours about this, and I haven't even been drinking. (yet) Well to be fair, The Magnificent Seven was already a blatant remake of a Japanese film barely five years old at the time - The Seven Samurai, which if you don't already know it, is the best film ever made. And it's not only Hollywood that does it - there's a Japanese version of Unforgiven, for one. I don't have a problem with a remake of a remake that's over 50 years old anyway. The reason the new one probably won't be much good, however, is that it looks more like the A-Team Goes West (I've seen a trailer) and it's from a hack director who's done nothing of note.
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Post by Pigmagnet on May 10, 2016 10:11:44 GMT
Special Correspondents.
Ricky Gervais and Eric Banana pretend to be broadcasting from war-torn Ecuador, when they're really hiding out in a coffee shop round the corner from their office. There's comic potential there, and since the trailer was in my face every time I went near Netflix I thought I'd give it a go. It didn't look very good, and it just goes to show how trailers can deceive. It's not bad - it's ten times worse. I don't say this very often, but I can say this is the worst piece of shit I've sat through in aeons. And it's all Gervais's fault, because he wrote it, directed it, and hogs the camera in it. It was so bad that I looked upon getting to the end of it as one of the great challenges of my life. I managed it in six 15-minute chunks, though I almost buckled on the last lap. I honestly felt like holding my head in my hands and crying 'has it really come to this'. It's witless, jokeless, half-hearted and just all-round embarrassingly dreadful. The comedy 'highlight' is Gervais tripping out on coke and launching into the least convincing action climax on film. I wanted to climb into a hole and pull the earth over me. I wished I'd been watching with someone else so I could have asked them 'is it just me?'. In all fairness I must mention one positive, which is the performance of Vera Farmiga. She's very good, and it must have taken real talent to have done that with a script typed on a turd.
Not so long back I watched a 2.5 hour, black and white arthouse Hungarian film. It was a nihilistic drama set mainly in a remote one-room house. It consisted of a man and his daughter boiling a potato, eating it, staring out of the window for a while, then going to bed, all at a snail's pace. The next day they did the same thing. And the day after that. One day there's a bit of action when she walks out of the house to get water from the well, and it's a bit windy. That was it, for over two and a half hours. And it's honestly funnier than Special Correspondents. If anyone's feeling adventurous it's called The Turin Horse.
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Post by Pigmagnet on May 11, 2016 23:44:35 GMT
The Hateful Eight. Tarantino finally disappears up his own arse. Tons of pointless dialogue, nearly three hours of it. Easily his worst.
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Post by Pigmagnet on May 29, 2016 12:10:21 GMT
The Limey - just watched it on Netflix. Terence Stamp as the dodgy old codger trundling round LA explaining his rhyming slang to various bemused colonials. Worth it just for this terrific line from Bill Duke (look him up, you'll recognise him from Predator) after one of the cock-knee's speeches: 'There's just one thing I don't understand. And the thing I don't understand is, everything motherfucking thing you just said'.
Oh my sides ached.
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