I've been binging cast interviews since seeing it yesterday, and in this one Delroy Lindo reveals that he's a Utd fan!Watched Sinners last night and really enjoyed it. The music was fantastic. As an Irishman, I couldn't help my feet tapping away when they were gathered outside the saw mill.
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Kiss the Girls (1997)
Quality production serial killer chase with laughably bad scripting. At times felt like young children were coming up with the storylines.
1.5/5
Quality production serial killer chase with laughably bad scripting. At times felt like young children were coming up with the storylines.
1.5/5
I've been rewatching some silly old movies on psychedelics lately
K-Pax - the opening score is really something, it starts off a bit forest gump, morphs into streets of rage and ends up like you're on hold to cancel your 3 contract
the movie itself was as sloppy and as comfortingly of it's age as I remember, but had nothing new to say
K-Pax - the opening score is really something, it starts off a bit forest gump, morphs into streets of rage and ends up like you're on hold to cancel your 3 contract
the movie itself was as sloppy and as comfortingly of it's age as I remember, but had nothing new to say
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Runaway Jury. A solid legal thriller, starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack, and Rachel Weisz. I like the genre twist, with people working the jury and both legal parties from within, as well as the ending (I like when fiction isn't made to be depressing). Not amazing, but solid. 7/10
I rewatched this recently. fun movie with a sorta dumb plot(but who cares?) it’s a proper 90s type thriller that they don’t make anymore. hackman is great. but I also love the supporting cast of actors like luiz guzman, cliff curtis, etc. you should watch enemy of the state next.
Wow, uncalled for (mostly)
Yeah, there are plenty of solid films with this sort of feel from the 90s and early 00s. I had actually seen this one before, many years ago, but couldn't remember much. Enemy of the State I've already seen, twice even I think. Also strong, yeah.
Warfare The tension and the action were great but for me the lack of any real plot made it all feel a bit pointless in the end. 7/10
Kinda like war itself.
I had the exact same reaction and couldn’t remember much either except it was set in NOLA
Yeah, I was shocked you rated them so low.
I didn't remember that - in fact, it took me a while to realize I had seen this. That's how much of an impression it made I guess!I had the exact same reaction and couldn’t remember much either except it was set in NOLA
Warfare
Really enjoyed it. Has to be seen in the cinema to do it justice. I think it did an excellent job of showing the horrors of war, and the intensity and danger was palpable. People have criticised it for a lack of a plot, but I think that's what happens most of the time when American soldiers are engaged: there's a firefight, then they extract their troops.
The bullets flying everywhere, the 'shows of force', the periods of calm before the action sequences... I think the sound direction was top notch.
8.5/10
Really enjoyed it. Has to be seen in the cinema to do it justice. I think it did an excellent job of showing the horrors of war, and the intensity and danger was palpable. People have criticised it for a lack of a plot, but I think that's what happens most of the time when American soldiers are engaged: there's a firefight, then they extract their troops.
The bullets flying everywhere, the 'shows of force', the periods of calm before the action sequences... I think the sound direction was top notch.
8.5/10
The Devil's Business
Two hitmen wait in their targets house but soon realize that they're the ones being hunted. Super low budget, mainly two actors in one location. I don't mind that but the characters were flat, sleep-inducing dialogue and just quite boring despite the short run time. The final act was okay but I was completely checked out by then 2/10
Two hitmen wait in their targets house but soon realize that they're the ones being hunted. Super low budget, mainly two actors in one location. I don't mind that but the characters were flat, sleep-inducing dialogue and just quite boring despite the short run time. The final act was okay but I was completely checked out by then 2/10
Snow White
Truly awful adaptation of the original, horrific acting all round, the CGI for the dwarves is pretty terrible and there aren’t any decent songs except for Hi Ho!
Gal Gadot is just laughable as the evil queen, her big song and dance routine was like a drunk drag queen.
1/10
The Beekeper
Statham doing Statham things but with even worse acting than usual. The story line is ridiculous as a machine like force of nature that no amount of men or bullets seem to be able to coordinate an attack against. I think this proves the Gorilla would win if Statham can.
3/10
William Tell
A cheap Robin Hood knock off but a reasonable watch if you have nothing else to do. I didn’t know anything about him except he shut the apple of someone’s head. It was a pretty good shot to be fair.
5/10
Death of a Unicorn
I’d not heard or read anything about this film and saw Paul Rudd was in it so thought I’d give it a go. It’s a pleasant surprise with a mix of Succession lite characters and Jurassic park level Velociraptor Unicorns. The story is an interesting one as far as it goes and I think I’d recommend it if you want an easy film with some laughter and some easy scare jumps. Plus Tea Leoni is in it which is always a win for me.
7/10
And how could I forget….The Minecraft Movie
I’d read how bad this was so wasn’t expecting much but I kind of enjoyed it. Jack Black was his usual self which I generally like and Jason Mamoa wasn’t as irritating as I thought he would be. The rest of the cast were ok. I used to play Minecraft when the kids were young so I got a few chuckles when some of the ‘characters’ appeared. I’d say it’s worth a watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon if you only have that or Misummer Murders to choose between.
6/10
Truly awful adaptation of the original, horrific acting all round, the CGI for the dwarves is pretty terrible and there aren’t any decent songs except for Hi Ho!
Gal Gadot is just laughable as the evil queen, her big song and dance routine was like a drunk drag queen.
1/10
The Beekeper
Statham doing Statham things but with even worse acting than usual. The story line is ridiculous as a machine like force of nature that no amount of men or bullets seem to be able to coordinate an attack against. I think this proves the Gorilla would win if Statham can.
3/10
William Tell
A cheap Robin Hood knock off but a reasonable watch if you have nothing else to do. I didn’t know anything about him except he shut the apple of someone’s head. It was a pretty good shot to be fair.
5/10
Death of a Unicorn
I’d not heard or read anything about this film and saw Paul Rudd was in it so thought I’d give it a go. It’s a pleasant surprise with a mix of Succession lite characters and Jurassic park level Velociraptor Unicorns. The story is an interesting one as far as it goes and I think I’d recommend it if you want an easy film with some laughter and some easy scare jumps. Plus Tea Leoni is in it which is always a win for me.
7/10
And how could I forget….The Minecraft Movie
I’d read how bad this was so wasn’t expecting much but I kind of enjoyed it. Jack Black was his usual self which I generally like and Jason Mamoa wasn’t as irritating as I thought he would be. The rest of the cast were ok. I used to play Minecraft when the kids were young so I got a few chuckles when some of the ‘characters’ appeared. I’d say it’s worth a watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon if you only have that or Misummer Murders to choose between.
6/10
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Some of these movies look shit from miles off. Can't believe some of you actually put the time & effort in to watch such drek.
Can’t help myself, need to see if they’re really that bad. Like watching Utd really.
Nosferatu
Iam not a huge vampire fan, but this has such rave reviews I had to watch it, TBH found it a disappointing.The filming , the setting the gothic stuff was all stunning, that i cant fault.
The acting was decent enough, but I just found it a bit meh and will not make me want to watch more vampire films.
6/10
That pretty much sums it up for me as well. I liked that
the entire film played out inside his shop as well. - but I've spoilered that, since I didn't know it before watching the film and it was fun to find out who it unfolded. I thought maybe the ending was a bit contrived (layer after later after layer), although it did nicely explain a couple of things I had questioned earlier. 4/5
The Beach
I haven't read the book but surprised it was rated so low on Rotten. I thought it was alright, funny and a good parody of Thailand and travel culture.
7/10.
I haven't read the book but surprised it was rated so low on Rotten. I thought it was alright, funny and a good parody of Thailand and travel culture.
7/10.
The book as usual is much much better but I liked the film as well.
The film is probably good in its own right but its a bad adaptation. I get why people who read the book first dont like it.
I swear Willem Dafoe literally stepped off The Lighthouse set, switched costumes and just quickly read his lines.
For me the movie went downhill after the scene where Hoult meets Orlok for the first time.
Agree on both parts, I like Defoe, but in this he was just OK.
I have friends that think this is brillant, even on here there is a huge difference of opinions, I just got bored with TBH.
Was it meant as parody?
I'd assume it's meaning to at some points given the script.
The Killer (2025). David Fincher directs Michael Fassbender.
It must have been a relaxing film for Fincher to make, compared to his obsessive works like Zodiac and Mank. When I read Fincher's filmography I realized I'm not much of a fan. I think 2 of his films are great: Fight Club, Zodiac. I don't know what to do with this film: it doesn't present a "bad guy" you're hoping gets caught, or a good guy who fecked up and you're hoping doesn't get caught. You have a protagonist with seemingly zero personality, with no politics, opinions, interests other than killing random people for (lots of) money. You don't find out who he has killed before, or who he's trying to kill in this one. As the character says, it's just a gig.
He understands security systems, cameras, automatic card readers, how to clone digital passes, he's an expert hand to hand combat specialist, he knows how to tail people, how to remain unseen, how to handle high powered sniper rifles and a various methods of murder like poison, strangulation, and staged drownings. How did he get this training? How long has he been a hitman? Who knows. Maybe none of it matters, but then you're watching an empty vessel galavanting for 2 hours. Apparently he was in law school in New Orleans before a professor of his turned him on to the very common world of professional murder.
He also like The Smiths and TV sitcoms. The soundtrack is littered with The Smiths, and each of his many fake IDs is a different TV personality, something that was done for laughs in Fletch but is played straight here: Archie Bunker, Felix Unger, Oscar Madison, Howard Cunningham, etc., with no explanation why. Does any of this matter? Again, who knows. I just felt there was no heart to this movie, no soul. There was no reason to care about whether this guy lived or died. So it was a perfectly empty, immaculate TV commercial selling nihilism.
5/10
It must have been a relaxing film for Fincher to make, compared to his obsessive works like Zodiac and Mank. When I read Fincher's filmography I realized I'm not much of a fan. I think 2 of his films are great: Fight Club, Zodiac. I don't know what to do with this film: it doesn't present a "bad guy" you're hoping gets caught, or a good guy who fecked up and you're hoping doesn't get caught. You have a protagonist with seemingly zero personality, with no politics, opinions, interests other than killing random people for (lots of) money. You don't find out who he has killed before, or who he's trying to kill in this one. As the character says, it's just a gig.
He understands security systems, cameras, automatic card readers, how to clone digital passes, he's an expert hand to hand combat specialist, he knows how to tail people, how to remain unseen, how to handle high powered sniper rifles and a various methods of murder like poison, strangulation, and staged drownings. How did he get this training? How long has he been a hitman? Who knows. Maybe none of it matters, but then you're watching an empty vessel galavanting for 2 hours. Apparently he was in law school in New Orleans before a professor of his turned him on to the very common world of professional murder.
He also like The Smiths and TV sitcoms. The soundtrack is littered with The Smiths, and each of his many fake IDs is a different TV personality, something that was done for laughs in Fletch but is played straight here: Archie Bunker, Felix Unger, Oscar Madison, Howard Cunningham, etc., with no explanation why. Does any of this matter? Again, who knows. I just felt there was no heart to this movie, no soul. There was no reason to care about whether this guy lived or died. So it was a perfectly empty, immaculate TV commercial selling nihilism.
5/10
I remember it as a critique of backpackers in general behaving in a very colonialist way while pretending to be in some hippyish utopia, rather than a parody of Thailand specifically. I should watch it again as although I quite liked the book I wasn't a huge fan of the film, but that could have been because Di Caprio was in it when he was in his unbearably fetus yet cast as a main man phase.
the book is a satire of western backpacking culture, yeah
I'm surprised it's only 6.6 on imdb, I thought it'd be a 7+
I remember the part where Leo is so fecked up he imagines he's in a video game, but beyond that I thought it was meant as a straight tale of -- not exactly sure what. Loss of innocence? Things looking too good to be true usually not being good? I don't know. Seemed like maybe Danny Boyle wanted to feck off in paradise for a few months with his mates and convinced a film studio to bankroll it.
I didn't read the book. Makes more sense that it was supposed to be parodying this world rather than lionizing it. I fecking hated this movie.
I should have said travel culture in Thailand rather than Thailand and travel culture. As it's still very apt to what you see today there. Was in Thailand earlier this year and met many people like in the film.
Have you ever been to Thailand or to a backpacking hotspot like Bali or something? You'll meet and hear similar things from people there.
There are also not so subtle bits like when he's waffling about the night sky when Francoise is taking photos and she says something along the lines of 'this is the type of shit American boys say to french girls when they want them to sleep with them'. The film is full of cheap philosophical waffle because it's the type of waffle you'll get from backpackers.
I have never been to Thailand, but I hope to go someday. I backpacked around Europe for 5 months but I was solo, and I found Leo's character insufferable in this one. Maybe it's also parodying Americans abroad -- and they/we deserve it. I avoided other Americans as best I could. I guess I wasn't savvy enough to realize the waffle was meant to be waffle, and just thought that the characters were a bunch of dickheads, like, I didn't realize that the filmmakers were aware these people sucked.I should have said travel culture in Thailand rather than Thailand and travel culture. As it's still very apt to what you see today there. Was in Thailand earlier this year and met many people like in the film.
Have you ever been to Thailand or to a backpacking hotspot like Bali or something? You'll meet and hear similar things from people there.
There are also not so subtle bits like when he's waffling about the night sky when Francoise is taking photos and she says something along the lines of 'this is the type of shit American boys say to french girls when they want them to sleep with them'. The film is full of cheap philosophical waffle because it's the type of waffle you'll get from backpackers.
It did a good job of critiquing backpacker culture. But the lighter tone of the film (and probably Di Caprio's presence) didn't work for me.I should have said travel culture in Thailand rather than Thailand and travel culture. As it's still very apt to what you see today there. Was in Thailand earlier this year and met many people like in the film.
Have you ever been to Thailand or to a backpacking hotspot like Bali or something? You'll meet and hear similar things from people there.
There are also not so subtle bits like when he's waffling about the night sky when Francoise is taking photos and she says something along the lines of 'this is the type of shit American boys say to french girls when they want them to sleep with them'. The film is full of cheap philosophical waffle because it's the type of waffle you'll get from backpackers.
Ça sent la coupe. A Quebec film in which a guy's psychological journey as his long-term relationship comes to an end and he has to come to terms with the (much earlier) loss of parents is paralleled with the 2009-10 NHL season of the Habs, of which he and his buddies are huge fans. The parallel isn't all that relevant and the story not that engaging either. There are anyway plenty of decent movies in the film, but it's not something I'd recommend overall. 2/5
Looking forward to the Jafaican reviews.