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Mike Smalling said:
Definitely, and probably soon as well, so I have the first two relatively fresh in my memory. Thankfully the run-time is a bit more forgiving, but you still need a full evening to watch them. No matter how engaging it is, pushing a movie well beyond three hours is a bit of a risk.

Everywhere you look, people say Part III doesn't really maintain the same quality, but of course you'd want to know how Michael's story ends.
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Yeah most people dislike it and it definitely hasn't got the classic look/style of the first two films(Which tbf Coppola just took from Bernardo Bertolucci brilliant film - The Conformist).

I won't spoil anything but Part 3 is very much a 90's film although imo that's a strength.
 
i quite liked part 3. The criticism always seemed overblown to me. The comparison to all time classics like the first 2 is a tough act to follow but its still a good film imo.
 
caid said:
i quite liked part 3. The criticism always seemed overblown to me. The comparison to all time classics like the first 2 is a tough act to follow but it’s still a good film imo.
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Sweet Square said:
Yeah most people dislike it and it definitely hasn't got the classic look/style of the first two films(Which tbf Coppola just took from Bernardo Bertolucci brilliant film - The Conformist).

I won't spoil anything but Part 3 is very much a 90's film although imo that's a strength.
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It’s no Megalopolis.
 
The biggest problems with 3 were a) It wasn't as good as 1 or 2 and b) much of the plot felt a bit silly or contrived in comparison to the first two films - the first two felt like a real/authentic drama and the thrird felt like a thriller film plot for the vatican based stuff.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
The Last House

A family of four is suddenly sealed inside their house with no way out and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.
it was a decent watch, started a bit slow.
I went in knowing nothing about it and maybe that the way to do it.
There is defiantly questions that need answering, will they be answered , who knows.
Worth a watch, there is some decent acting.

7/10
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I watched last night and despite thinking it was largely terrible I’m pretty much everything it did I still enjoyed it and thought it was an entertaining enough watch.

You do have to suspend your disbelief though, so many weird things and things unexplained.
 
The Last House (2026)
In the style of The Eternaut, Bird Box, and A Quiet Place, another Netflix horror/monster movie with little to no explanation and very few answers. if those 3 movies worked for you then this will likely too. A bizarre storm sweeps in from the sea and traps everyone in their homes. A family is forced to adapt and survive while dodging the mysterious blobs that run around in the rain, as they struggle to figure out just what the feck is going on and how long they will be trapped. Answer:
Kraken-sea monsters-Cthulhu are mad and take back the earth, and 5 fecking years.

It’s surprisingly poor in the first half but gets progressively better. It’s really badly shot and directed until the midpoint. Director Leterrier has no idea where to put the camera and maroons Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Eventually those two outwit the director and the movie turns interesting. The first half is not a horror film at all, which is disappointing, and leans into family hijinks. The rain appears every so often but their doors and windows are sealed by magic. The glass won’t break, they can’t tear down the doors. In addition to magic rain there is a magic chimney. Then they begin slowly starving to death.

Felt like 150 but was only 112 minutes. The first half sucks and looks like it was directed by someone who was afraid to ask the actors to occasionally look in the general direction of the camera. The second half gets grim and then rushes to a conclusion that doesn’t add up in the slightest. I’m not sure what the family ‘s plan was but it started looking Home Alone-adjacent. Will probably be a huge hit for Netflix because audiences don’t seem to care anymore if shit makes sense. @pauldyson1uk @esmufc07
500/1000
 
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Watched Hokum last night which is the latest from Damian McCarthy and stars Adam Scott as a writer who takes a trip back to Ireland to scatter his parents ashes (and do something else which I won't spoil).

Along with Obsession this is probably my favourite horror of the year so far. Scott plays a good miserable arsehole and the setting is suitably claustrophobic in the standout final act. Excellent film.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Watched Hokum last night which is the latest from Damian McCarthy and stars Adam Scott as a writer who takes a trip back to Ireland to scatter his parents ashes (and do something else which I won't spoil).

Along with Obsession this is probably my favourite horror of the year so far. Scott plays a good miserable arsehole and the setting is suitably claustrophobic in the standout final act. Excellent film.
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Yeah I also liked this one. Maybe even more than Obsession, which I'm in the minority I'm sure.
 
Passenger
After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger won't stop until it claims them both. Wanted to watch this in the cinema but it came out around the same time as Hokum, Undertone, Obsession and Backrooms so had to miss it. The opening scene is fantastic and there are some great horror set-pieces, this director (he also made Troll Hunter) really knows how to direct interesting horror visuals, however, the story felt a bit generic and it relied too much on jump scares with a demon that just felt like a dude in make-up. There are moments that work but there's too many long slogs where it just felt like a generic, straight to streaming horror flick 6.5/10

Disclosure Day
I must be a dumb idiot because despite all the negative reactions to this film, I really enjoyed it! Spielberg really knows how to craft a blockbuster and is still excellent at shooting action set-pieces (the truck through the house scene was great). Sure, there are dumb moments, silly characters and the film is very cheesy / naive in its messaging, but it's still a fun action blockbuster that you can switch your brain off and enjoy. Emily Blunt was genuinely fantastic in this, probably one of the best actresses working at the moment. I had a great time until the last 15 or so minutes, where the film fumbles the ending. Also, I reckon this movie would have been better had it been set in the 90's because there's no way the ending would play out the way it does in this movie. With that said, I had a good time with this film 7.5/10

Marty Supreme
Finally saw this, and thankfully it's well after the hype has died down. It was an excellent movie with a fantastic performance by Timothy Chalamet. It felt like Uncut Gems but with less ADHD, which made it a far more enjoyable movie. It's quite long but paced well so you don't really feel the run time as you watch the lead character feck up one thing after another. It had good drama, funny moments and the stakes always felt big despite the small scale of what's really happening. Having now seen this, I'm surprised Micahel B. Jordan won the Academy Award for best actor ahead of Chalamet, not that I'm complaining 8/10
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Yeah I'd probably agree with that as well. I need to watch Caveat as that's the one of his I haven't seen yet.
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Definitely worth a watch. Not as polished as Oddity/Hokum but as a debut feature, it showed back then that this director was gonna go on to do good stuff!
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Yeah I also liked this one. Maybe even more than Obsession, which I'm in the minority I'm sure.
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I thought it was good enough to stand against and make it a matter of taste or mood. Both very good.
Thought passenger had a good premise and a creepy idea but just didn't go anywhere interesting and the execution was pretty weak throughout. The other two being so good and working as well as they did probably makes it seem worse than it is.
 
caid said:
i quite liked part 3. The criticism always seemed overblown to me. The comparison to all time classics like the first 2 is a tough act to follow but its still a good film imo.
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I liked godfather 3 too. It makes interesting commentary on the world, perhaps as well as the first two but is a good bit less engaging, but is still quite engaging imo.
 
esmufc07 said:
I watched last night and despite thinking it was largely terrible I’m pretty much everything it did I still enjoyed it and thought it was an entertaining enough watch.

You do have to suspend your disbelief though, so many weird things and things unexplained.
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I thought it was pretty bad, and a waste of two decent lead actors. For me it peaked in the first 10 minutes when they first get trapped in the house, and then it just gets increasingly ridiculous, and it has the dumbest ending to a film I’ve seen in a while.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
Yeah I also liked this one. Maybe even more than Obsession, which I'm in the minority I'm sure.
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I can see why. Hokum does the "standard" horror trope very well. Obsession however felt like something fresh in a way, which is why I prefer it. One of those movies that clearly doesn't have a ton in terms of horror, but that makes you uneasy almost the entire way through which is an accomplishment.
 
Wibble said:
The biggest problems with 3 were a) It wasn't as good as 1 or 2 and b) much of the plot felt a bit silly or contrived in comparison to the first two films - the first two felt like a real/authentic drama and the thrird felt like a thriller film plot for the vatican based stuff.
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Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola were what killed it. In retrospect it’s even worse because as bad as The Godfather III is, he never made a movie as good as it again. Someone should have taken the keys from him way back then.

1992Bram Stoker's DraculaColumbia Pictures
1996JackBuena Vista Pictures
1997The RainmakerParamount Pictures
2007Youth Without YouthSony Pictures Classics
2009TetroAmerican Zoetrope
2011Twixt20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
2024MegalopolisSweet Square Films
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola were what killed it. In retrospect it’s even worse because as bad as The Godfather III is, he never made a movie as good as it again. Someone should have taken the keys from him way back then.

1992Bram Stoker's DraculaColumbia Pictures
1996JackBuena Vista Pictures
1997The RainmakerParamount Pictures
2007Youth Without YouthSony Pictures Classics
2009TetroAmerican Zoetrope
2011Twixt20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
2024MegalopolisSweet Square Films
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It's over 20 years ago and i5s probably have to watch it again now - but in my memory, his Dracula is an amazing film.
 
The End of Oak Street

This can't be as shit as it looks from the trailer you might think. Correct. It's much worse. Atrocious bunch of clichéd characters doing incredibly dumb stuff ("We've got to get home" ..... Why?) and Ewan McGregor doing his God awful American accent again. I wanted every single character in it to die and you will too. Feel like it got made because someone wanted to present a more CGI accurate dinosaur than the ones from Jurassic Park. "We know they had feathers now!". feck off.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
The End of Oak Street

This can't be as shit as it looks from the trailer you might think. Correct. It's much worse. Atrocious bunch of clichéd characters doing incredibly dumb stuff ("We've got to get home" ..... Why?) and Ewan McGregor doing his God awful American accent again. I wanted every single character in it to die and you will too. Feel like it got made because someone wanted to present a more CGI accurate dinosaur than the ones from Jurassic Park. "We know they had feathers now!". feck off.
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:lol: :lol: but hey as a former amateur paleontologist it does make me happy they have more accurate dinos.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
The End of Oak Street

This can't be as shit as it looks from the trailer you might think. Correct. It's much worse. Atrocious bunch of clichéd characters doing incredibly dumb stuff ("We've got to get home" ..... Why?) and Ewan McGregor doing his God awful American accent again. I wanted every single character in it to die and you will too. Feel like it got made because someone wanted to present a more CGI accurate dinosaur than the ones from Jurassic Park. "We know they had feathers now!". feck off.
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#justice
 
The French Dispatch. In almost all ways a typical Wes Anderson film, from the characters to the attention to detail to the settings and their infinite symmetry. I've been trying to figure out why this one didn't really do it for me, and I can't really say. I've concluded that, with Anderson, the line between a film working or not working for me is just that thin. Maybe in this one, it's the series of short series that stops me from really getting engaged. Or the symmetry and reserved distance in the direction, dialogue, scenery, and everything is just a little too much here. I criticized The Odyssey for not really having any memorable or interesting shot composition, and I love how Anderson really cares about that, and how scenes can come together visually when a new character enters and takes their position; but everything being obsessively symmetric does get tiring after a while. Anyway, though - it's a fine film, for me just not a great or good one. 3/5

Also, interestingly, I found Murray, Del Toro, and Dafoe a real breath of fresh air in this. Most actors in Anderson films conform to the reservedness of it all, and play their roles as schematically as Anderson films. But these three someone don't do that (even in their looks), but introduce a certain looseness or wildness - and in their scenes, the film is much better for it.
 
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CassiusClaymore said:
The End of Oak Street

This can't be as shit as it looks from the trailer you might think. Correct. It's much worse. Atrocious bunch of clichéd characters doing incredibly dumb stuff ("We've got to get home" ..... Why?) and Ewan McGregor doing his God awful American accent again. I wanted every single character in it to die and you will too. Feel like it got made because someone wanted to present a more CGI accurate dinosaur than the ones from Jurassic Park. "We know they had feathers now!". feck off.
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Oh no... Maybe It Follow was a fluke. Yikes!
 
Steve. Cillian Murphy as a headteacher in charge of a school for boys with social and behavioural difficulties. It's grim and dark, and maybe piles the difficulties up a little too high in the second half; but especially in the first half, it's raw and real and has a lot to say about these kinds of kids, how they might find their place in the world, and how 'those in charge' undermine good work. Really captivating, I thought, and the cast is great in this. 4/5
 
Cheimoon said:
The Phoenician Scheme. In almost all ways a typical Wes Anderson film, from the characters to the attention to detail to the settings and their infinite symmetry. I've been trying to figure out why this one didn't really do it for me, and I can't really say. I've concluded that, with Anderson, the line between a film working or not working for me is just that thin. Maybe in this one, it's the series of short series that stops me from really getting engaged. Or the symmetry and reserved distance in the direction, dialogue, scenery, and everything is just a little too much here. I criticized The Odyssey for not really having any memorable or interesting shot composition, and I love how Anderson really cares about that, and how scenes can come together visually when a new character enters and takes their position; but everything being obsessively symmetric does get tiring after a while. Anyway, though - it's a fine film, for me just not a great or good one. 3/5

Also, interestingly, I found Murray, Del Toro, and Dafoe a real breath of fresh air in this. Most actors in Anderson films conform to the reservedness of it all, and play their roles as schematically as Anderson films. But these three someone don't do that (even in their looks), but introduce a certain looseness or wildness - and in their scenes, the film is much better for it.
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I liked this better than his last few.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
I liked this better than his last few.
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Wait, I wrote the title of the wrong film! :lol:

It's actually The French Dispatch that I watched. I haven't seen The Phoenician Scheme yet, but given it features Del Toro as a (the?) main character, I'm kinda looking forward to it.

Funnily, I suppose most of my text could actually apply to a lot of Anderson movies!
 
Cheimoon said:
Wait, I wrote the title of the wrong film! :lol:

It's actually The French Dispatch that I watched. I haven't seen The Phoenician Scheme yet, but given it features Del Toro as a (the?) main character, I'm kinda looking forward to it.

Funnily, I suppose most of my text could actually apply to a lot of Anderson movies!
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The Phoenician Scheme is much more coherent than The French Dispatch.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
Excellent. One of my favourite "people don't talk about this enough" films of the past few years.
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Andrew Garfield is in it? Sold. Going on the watchlist.

Just watched my film of the year (so far) yesterday. Will review it when I have more movies lined up... The Furious!
 
Lazareth (2024)
Ashley Judd and her 2 nieces in a post-plague apocalypse live in a cabin in the woods. A wounded young stud arrives and drives the younger girl wild. All is not what it seems, obviously. When it ends, after a brief yet dull 86 minutes, your only reaction is what, that’s it? There probably is a reason for some of the events of the film, but you are not going to learn those reasons watching it. This movie was dumb as feck. Basically a short story turned into a movie. There is no reason this movie needed to be made, unless someone was handing it in with their film school application.
211/1000
 
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CassiusClaymore said:
The End of Oak Street

This can't be as shit as it looks from the trailer you might think. Correct. It's much worse. Atrocious bunch of clichéd characters doing incredibly dumb stuff ("We've got to get home" ..... Why?) and Ewan McGregor doing his God awful American accent again. I wanted every single character in it to die and you will too. Feel like it got made because someone wanted to present a more CGI accurate dinosaur than the ones from Jurassic Park. "We know they had feathers now!". feck off.
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After seeing approximately 500 Ewan McGregor movies , I think it’s time to face facts that he’s not very good.
 
Wait, that was directed by Robert David Mitchell? :lol: That's a hell of a skid mark to add to your filmography.Apparently he wrote it as well. Good Lord.

Wing Attack Plan R said:
After seeing approximately 500 Ewan McGregor movies , I think it’s time to face facts that he’s not very good.
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I've long suspected this since he appeared in those awful Star Wars films. Trainspotting was his peak.
 
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