sfha Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Watched Megan is Missing last night. The scene setting before the actual kidnapping was well paced, the last 20 minutes has some of the most brutal scenes I've ever watched. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Soul (Disney+) - 7/10 Typical Pixar fare. Reminded me a lot of Inside Out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Watched Megan is Missing last night. The scene setting before the actual kidnapping was well paced, the last 20 minutes has some of the most brutal scenes I've ever watched. Yeah it's verging on torture porn just for the sake of it. Check out The Poughkeepsie Tapes for something similar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Clemency (2019) It's slow so if you're an action movie fan it's not for you. Brilliant acting from Alfre Woodard (Star Trek First Contact, 12 Years A Slave, Scrooged) as a prison warden whose psychological and emotional detachment to her Death Row duties come into question and affect her marriage (to Bunk from The Wire) and also to a prisoner who she believes might be innocent (although this is implicit). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Apparently the producers of Megan is Missing wanted to make a film that parents and schools could show to teenage girls in order to get them to stop trusting strangers off the internet. No idea if they succeeded in that, or were even allowed to show it to kids, but I certainly haven't been near the internet in years. Spoiler Saw it for a second time earlier this year and, despite knowing the barrel scene was coming, I still flinched. Horrible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I think the message in Megan Is Missing kinda gets lost about halfway through. The first half certainly does a decent job of going for what they were looking for. Then it just turns into standard horror shock tactics. And then the first half of the movie is basically thrown out of the window and forgotten about. All in all, it ends up being quite shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Repo Man Cult classic from 1984 starring Emilio Estevez as a young punk who teams up with the legendary Harry Dean Stanton. A bit too offbeat for most people, but I'm not most people and I fucking love it. 9/10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Silence of The Lambs - I'm not sure how many times I've watched this movie, but it's one I'd never tire of watching . Amazing performance from Anthony Hopkins with superb support from Jodie Foster ,everything about this film is great definitely a classic . 10/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) The Shape Of Water (2017) Finally got round to watching this and thought it was an interesting concept of a fantasy love story set against a 60s Cold War espionage plot, I guess del Toro used this time period to highlight how certain groups of people were marginalised, the main star who was mute, her colleague at work and her friend who was gay. I think this is the sort of film that will stand up to several viewings. 7.5/10 Edited December 28, 2020 by JustOneCornetto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Just watched the always excellent Paddington 2 on BBC1 with my daughter. Great fun from beginning to end credits. You can tell Hugh Grant is in his element throughout. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Couple of ones here. The Midnight Sky Aggressively dull stuff here. I've not long watched it already forgotten the vast majority of stuff that happened. 2/10 Death to 2020 Hit and miss stuff here, but it's a lot more hit than miss so credit where it's due. Most of the characters get better as they go on. The real highlight is the "soccer mommy", which is probably the most on-the-nose character in the thing. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 12 hours ago, Andre Drazen said: I think the message in Megan Is Missing kinda gets lost about halfway through. The first half certainly does a decent job of going for what they were looking for. Then it just turns into standard horror shock tactics. And then the first half of the movie is basically thrown out of the window and forgotten about. All in all, it ends up being quite shite. I'm not sure that the first half would have carried across the point that they were trying to make. Which was clearly that WaffenThinMint could be at the other end of any phone line. BE A WEAR. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 57 minutes ago, Archie McSquackle said: Just watched the always excellent Paddington 2 on BBC1 with my daughter. Great fun from beginning to end credits. You can tell Hugh Grant is in his element throughout. Excellent, I thought it might have been me crying at the end, but it was clearly you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 23 minutes ago, BFTD said: I'm not sure that the first half would have carried across the point that they were trying to make. Which was clearly that WaffenThinMint could be at the other end of any phone line. BE A WEAR. I'm not sure it had to go to the lengths that it did though. The speed of the tone shift is pretty jarring as well, which didn't help those matters at all. There's a movie called Trust that David Schwimmer directed which probably does a much better job of telling much the same story, albeit with no horror. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.Aye.R Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Couple of ones here. The Midnight Sky Aggressively dull stuff here. I've not long watched it already forgotten the vast majority of stuff that happened. 2/10 Death to 2020 Hit and miss stuff here, but it's a lot more hit than miss so credit where it's due. Most of the characters get better as they go on. The real highlight is the "soccer mommy", which is probably the most on-the-nose character in the thing. 8/10Midnight sky also.Turgid shite and clearly a Clooney vanity project. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 On 28/12/2020 at 00:33, tongue_tied_danny said: Repo Man Cult classic from 1984 starring Emilio Estevez as a young punk who teams up with the legendary Harry Dean Stanton. A bit too offbeat for most people, but I'm not most people and I fucking love it. 9/10 I absolutely loved this as a youngster but am wary of watching it again in case i'm disappointed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Eventually watched Godfather 3. Wish i hadn't. It was ok, entertaining enough but completely unengaging and didn't even have the aesthetics of the other 2 to redeem it. 5/10 Just tried watching The Rock after it getting rave reviews on here. Had to turn off after 25 minutes due to unbelievable shitness. 1/10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickoverayard Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Point break ( original ) 9/10 absolutely outstanding piece of nonsense! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Due to it being mentioned on here, last night I watched Meghan is Missing. f**k me, that's 85 minutes of my life I'll never get back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I saw an extended advert for either a new edit, or a remaster, of The Godfather III recently. Lasted several minutes. Not a single shot of Sofia Coppola. Smart move. 44 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Due to it being mentioned on here, last night I watched Meghan is Missing. f**k me, that's 85 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Don't blame us; it's not like we had you over a barrel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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