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The Cured - 7/10
Good low budget Irish movie, takes a different angle with the undead/virus/zombie genre. A story of reintegration after finding a cure.
I very much enjoyed this film, even if it did go a little more traditional towards the end. |
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Funny Cow - 2/10
I don't know how we ended up watching this dross, I think the wife thought that with the name of it, and the trailer giving some glimpses that it was going to be humerous, it was going to be a comedy of some description but what it was instead was a pile of massive 'Grim Up North' cliches with some properly weird acting, half-trodden character-filling plot lines and just general abject misery.
The premise is that a woman grows up in the grim north, gets battered around by her dad (that's also her brother, well the actor that plays both of them is - cheap or what?) and then her partner who she gets with after a whirlwind romance quite young and he turns into a wife-beating bastard. Why it was her dad beat her, who knows; why it was that her boyfriend that becomes her husband goes from nice and pretty ordinary to a nasty piece of work, who knows. I think the narrative you're supposed to take here is that all Northern men knock women around for fun whilst shouting 'make tea'. To top this off, her mother becomes an alcoholic after her dad dies, for reasons that - guess what - who knows; and her brother gets married with kids and then distances himself from her for reasons of - guess what - who knows.
To cope with all this she befriends an unfunny comedian who does stand up in the local Labour clubs (because all Northern men are working class Unionist Labour supporters with weight problems and limited intelligence, of course) and decides to follow in his footsteps to escape from her batshit life. He feels unwell, she takes to the stage, owns some fat northern heckler and everyone loves her; great times. Her friend the unfunny comedian then immediately commits suicide because, who knows. How does she feel about that? Who knows. Don't see anything of it.
So to summarise, she's a poor little girl getting beaten up who becomes a young woman who gets beaten up who becomes a woman who finds a way out of her horrible life into a new life which is still horrible and she still has no friends or family around her. Yes, it really is as comical and riveting as that sounds.
Utter shite. |
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Suicide Squad 7/10
Tongue in cheek humour. Switch brain off and enjoy. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Mission Impossible: Fallout - 7/10
Felt like a 90s spy/espionage/secret agent film, straight from the 90s, with actors from the 90s.
Not bad, but not exciting. A typical international spy film plot, with a few too many twists and shock-reveals that weren't actually that shocking because there was so many of them happening every other minute.
Also, fair enough, he's doing very well indeed for his advancing years, specially the parts where he's running and jumping around like a man 30 years younger than he really is, but it just seemed like I was watching a 55-year-old Tom Cruise trying very, very hard not to be the 55 year old that he is. It's pretty obvious he's done some kind of anti-aging procedure to his face, too.
A way better film involving an 'advanced years' badass would be Taken, where Liam Neeson was also 55.
Overall, 7/10, would probably watch again but not for at least a year. Might be fun to have a Mission Impossible fest and watch them all over a weekend. |
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50 Shades of Grey: 6/10
Bit late to this one, but what a total joke.
Was that it? Was that the big film all about exploring female sexual empowerment?
Synopsis: Insecure girl meets wealthy controlling man with extremely dominant S&M fantasies, she falls in love with him and his constant attention, obviously because he's a rich fucker instead of a lowlife penniless stalker, then she realises she doesn't really want to be a sex slave and leaves him.
And that's it! !
Genuinely amazed that this film had so much feminist empowerment hype around it! !!! It's about a girl being used for sex by a weird rich man!
There are not enough faces in the world for me to express how much of a joke that film was, and how pathetic the feminist crusade was for jumping on it as an example for women to to be inspired by. |
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the Predator (2018) 8 / 10
cheese fest. stupid one liners, lots of ineffective gunfire, seemingly intentionally bad CGI, ridiculous plot, glaring product placement, the works.
i loved it.
i think my favorite moment was when the group needed transport when stranded in an area - 51 style base and there's just a cut to them riding away on new brand new Harleys. ____________________ killa wrote: Im an ass man myself |
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Hong Kong Phooey wrote: | Whiplash (2014) - 8/10
Jazz drummer student meets drill instructor type teacher, a dynamic relationship drama between student and teacher cumulates in a decently satisfying ending.
Music is good if you're high brow like wot I am.
Regardless of your musical tastes, the acting is much better than the normal Hollywood A-lister shite.
Nicholas Cage, I'm looking at you. |
Became my new goto film, if there's nothing on telly and I have 100 minutes to kill.
Couldn't tell you how many times I've watched it now, music is right up my street, I'm a drummer and JK Simmons is every overbearing, arrogant, nasty piece of shit teacher that I encountered at public school, all rolled into one.
Close to perfect in my book, almost could've been made just for me.
9.5/10 ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Shaft wrote: | Hong Kong Phooey wrote: | Whiplash (2014) - 8/10
Jazz drummer student meets drill instructor type teacher, a dynamic relationship drama between student and teacher cumulates in a decently satisfying ending.
Music is good if you're high brow like wot I am.
Regardless of your musical tastes, the acting is much better than the normal Hollywood A-lister shite.
Nicholas Cage, I'm looking at you. |
Became my new goto film, if there's nothing on telly and I have 100 minutes to kill.
Couldn't tell you how many times I've watched it now, music is right up my street, I'm a drummer and JK Simmons is every overbearing, arrogant, nasty piece of shit teacher that I encountered at public school, all rolled into one.
Close to perfect in my book, almost could've been made just for me.
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I will be watching again, can't believe how far under the radar it flies. ____________________
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Hong Kong Phooey wrote: | Shaft wrote: |
Became my new goto film, if there's nothing on telly and I have 100 minutes to kill.
Couldn't tell you how many times I've watched it now, music is right up my street, I'm a drummer and JK Simmons is every overbearing, arrogant, nasty piece of shit teacher that I encountered at public school, all rolled into one.
Close to perfect in my book, almost could've been made just for me.
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I will be watching again, can't believe how far under the radar it flies. |
I only knew about it because I heard someone mention it on the radio and I thought the idea of a movie about a jazz drummer was a bit leftfield and it appealed to me.
Then a copy appeared in my local supermarket and I thought it might be worth a punt - best 3 quid I've ever spent, in fact, I'm watching it again now.
There's a few factual inaccuracies, but I can live with that, they don't take away from the story.
The only thing I'm never quite sure about is the ending - I know why they did it that way, but I can't help thinking a split second of audience reaction would've finished it off a little better.
And I guess it's under the radar because it's jazz, as Fletcher says 'and they wonder why jazz is dying' ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 199 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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