NotThePars Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 10 hours ago, BFTD said: Hot Fuzz (Netflix) - second film in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Simon Pegg's supercop is sent to a small village as punishment for solving all the crimes in London and making the rest of the Met look bad. This was fucking great and, as a Shaun of the Dead fan, I'm kicking myself for not watching it until now. I guess it always looked like a spoof of the triggerhappy Eighties Hollywood action movie, with the joke being that it's set in a quaint English hamlet, but that's just a small (and the weakest) part of it. Just an absolute joy, with an incredible cast; Simon Pegg could be a quality straight actor if he fancied it. Personal highlights were Olivia Colman being absolute filth, and one character who responded to anything involving body parts with "Ha! Tits/Cock/whatever", which my son was horrified by me pointing out is him down to a fucking tee I think it suffers from being one of the 7 movies ITV2 has on repeat but it's one of my favourite comedies. I've seen it like 10 times but if it became difficult for me to watch I think I'd be chomping at the bit to watch it again. There's so many good scenes and I think it might actually be the strongest of the trilogy. The way all the moving pieces are gradually introduced over the course of the story and are just detonated like the world's most cohesive fireworks display in the last half hour is superb. There's like 20 Chekov's guns! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Duplicity 2/10Julia Roberts opens the film looking tremendous as always, from the neck down.Then it just gets convoluted and the pay off is poorly done. Some good acting but the script is fucking abysmal.Notting Hill 8/10We all know this one, I haven't seen it before last night but we all know of it. Hugh Grant, travel book shop owner falls in love with film star who is gorgeous, from the neck down. Good story though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRocketman II Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, BFTD said: Hot Fuzz (Netflix) - second film in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Simon Pegg's supercop is sent to a small village as punishment for solving all the crimes in London and making the rest of the Met look bad. This was fucking great and, as a Shaun of the Dead fan, I'm kicking myself for not watching it until now. I am struggling to come to terms with this. If I am a big fan of a film, I will watch the director's next film regardless of what it is about. Given Hot Fuzz is second to Shaun in the Cornetto trilogy (as you say), has not only the same director but the same cast, this makes your delay in watching it even more bizarre. Edited April 11, 2021 by KingRocketman II spelling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 You cannot kill David Arquette. This is an absolute scream of a docufilm. He's off his fucking tree, his new wife is the spitting image of his ex wife (both wids and in a different world to him, so fair fucks) but he has an exceptionally high opinion of himself and has clearly made a terrific living out of not being particularly good at anything he's actually done. About getting a hide in from a 60 year old Nasty Boyz being a particular highlight. It's a terrible watch, but a must watch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 You cannot kill David Arquette. This is an absolute scream of a docufilm. He's off his fucking tree, his new wife is the spitting image of his ex wife (both wids and in a different world to him, so fair fucks) but he has an exceptionally high opinion of himself and has clearly made a terrific living out of not being particularly good at anything he's actually done. About getting a hide in from a 60 year old Nasty Boyz being a particular highlight. It's a terrible watch, but a must watch. This has been on my ‘maybe’ list for a while. Based on your review it will be getting watched this week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 You cannot kill David Arquette. This is an absolute scream of a docufilm. He's off his fucking tree, his new wife is the spitting image of his ex wife (both wids and in a different world to him, so fair fucks) but he has an exceptionally high opinion of himself and has clearly made a terrific living out of not being particularly good at anything he's actually done. About getting a hide in from a 60 year old Nasty Boyz being a particular highlight. It's a terrible watch, but a must watch. I hope this was deliberate?(Providing David Arquette is who I think he is) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 7 hours ago, KingRocketman II said: I am struggling to come to terms with this. If I am a big fan of a film, I will watch the director's next film regardless of what it is about. Given Hot Fuzz is second to Shaun in the Cornetto trilogy (as you say), has not only the same director but the same cast, this makes your delay in watching it even more bizarre. I had a Cineworld Unlimited subscription back when Shaun of the Dead came out, but I haven't had much time for watching films in the past ten years or so, and I fall asleep a lot during them when watching at home. Depressingly, I tend to watch films that I'm not expecting much from, as I don't want to watch something good and wake up with the credits rolling. Quite a few of the posts on here have been about films that I've watched through in pieces over a period of days. Lockdown has been wonderful. Fancy watching a film, Dave? Sure, I'm awake and there's nothing else to do 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 13 hours ago, Pato said: Sputnik. Russian horror film. Cosmonauts find something strange in space and bring it back to earth. Suffers from the 'early reveal' mistake a lot of horrors make. OK as a diversion, the sets were good and evoked the early 80s setting. 6/10 I saw that on Netflix a month or two back, and agree with that assessment. I'd never heard of it and had a horrible feeling it would be one of those ultra-cheapo mockbuster things, but was surprised when it obviously had some money and effort put in. Just a shame that the story wasn't better, which it needed to be after the early reveal. It had to go down the deep-and-meaningful, Arrival-style route, or turn into an Alienesque survival thing, and didn't really do either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 The Invisible Man (Blu-Ray) - Modern retelling of the classic Universal Monsters story. Elizabeth Moss escapes from her abusive husband, and becomes convinced he's somehow become invisible in order to stalk her. Second time of seeing this and, if anything, I enjoyed it even more this time. Very clever reworking of the tale, keeps the interest up throughout, and has some masterful camerawork, with the lens randomly roaming around the scene to seemingly empty spots, and lingering in rooms after the characters have left. Is someone there? Maybe; maybe not. Woo. Elizabeth Moss is excellent as a woman slowly being driven to insanity by what she's been/is being subjected to, and is backed by a solid supporting cast. My only gripe is that there are a couple of scenes that absolutely scream "re-edit", as they just don't make sense in this version of the film, but you can see how they might have. Impressive that it still turned out so well, if that's the case. Spoiler The scene with the knife in the attic; the sister (unknown to the viewer) is already supposed to have been murdered off-camera by this point, and the husband's left the knife for her to put her fingerprints on to. I can't think of any logical reason for the knife to be there in that scene otherwise. They must have decided to make a new scene where our heroine is more directly involved in her sister being killed on-camera, and just hoped nobody would ask too many questions about the attic scene they already shot. Or I'm an idiot, and there's an obvious explanation. Help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Baywatch (2017) I had read reviews on it and, as expected, it was rated a stinker, saw it was on Comedy Central last night so watched it just to see how bad it was. It didn't disappoint. Cringey, unfunny, terrible GCI, terrible acting, terrible cast. The Rock should go back and work for Vince. It does have Alexandra Daddario in it so for that, 9/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Nosejob Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 On 11/04/2021 at 01:53, BFTD said: Hot Fuzz (Netflix) - second film in Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Simon Pegg's supercop is sent to a small village as punishment for solving all the crimes in London and making the rest of the Met look bad. I first watched this on a rented DVD and spent part of the next morning watching the extras. Hopefully this deleted scene is now included in any screening as I loved it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 On 07/04/2021 at 14:22, jimmy boo said: Sound Of Metal Riz Khan plays a rock drummer touring the US with his girlfriend who loses most of his hearing through exposure to the volume level over time. Ends up in a deaf community rehab type place while waiting to raise cash for implants. Great preformance from Khan as usual along with the supporting cast.........7/10. It's the other Riz, Riz Ahmed. But you're absolutely right, he's great in this. Seems he spent seven months learning sign language and how to play the drums, which kinda explains how he manages to sell both 100%. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 The Social Network (2010) dir. David Fincher Rewatched this as I was finishing work and wanted something on in the background. The thing about Sorkin is I think he writes good dialogue but he's an obnoxious toad with a shit ideology so having that (definitely enforced) distance from the direction makes it much, much better. It still moves at that snappy pace with rapid witty dialogue but Fincher is content to let the movie show Zuckerberg (played really well by Jesse Eisenberg) as a little obnoxious, if talented and witty, dickhead who creates the problems for himself by his inability to not be an obnoxious dickhead. Soundtrack is class and it does a good job of building the stakes and showing how it happened and got out of hand for everyone involved. The sequel ought to be a full Ballardian comedy/ horror tho portraying how Facebook destroyed the minds of boomers across the country while Zuckerberg increasingly shed his human form. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Work is dead at the moment: Ginger Fights. Guns. Drugs. Naked girls. Naked girls on drugs fighting with guns. It's poorly made exploitation. 3/10 The Flesh and Blood Show An incel villain is wild for 1972. Kinda 70's sex comedy, kinda slasher. A weird mix. 6/10 Empire of the Ants A movie with giant radioactive ants will get better once the ants are on screen? Amazingly, it gets worse. 4/10 The Undertake and His Pals Starts seriously promising, with an Undertaker and a motorcycle gang killing people and taking body parts to help their businesses (Undertakers and a Cafe) make food on the cheap. Then it goes a bit three stooges. 5/10 Ironmaster A Quest for Fire rip off that's pretty fun, with George Eastman wearing a lion cloak and going on a murder rampage. In the space of a week his tribe go from peaceful hunter gatherers to murdering entire villages. Patrick A killer who is comatose can send hid spirit out and kills to try and obtain his nurse's love. Pretty cool. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Dan Otherthing Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 On 13/04/2021 at 18:21, MSU said: It's the other Riz, Riz Ahmed. But you're absolutely right, he's great in this. Seems he spent seven months learning sign language and how to play the drums, which kinda explains how he manages to sell both 100%. Sound of Metal is rightly nominated for 6 Oscars. Available on Prime and I’d highly recommend it. Riz may not get the best actor nod ahead of BAFTA winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father - haven’t seen that, so can’t judge) or a posthumous award for Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s...), but gives a stellar performance in a very watchable story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Long Good Friday It shows the good and bad side of British/UK people My only complaint is Helen Mirren didn't get her tits out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 2 hours ago, Ann Dan Otherthing said: Sound of Metal is rightly nominated for 6 Oscars. Available on Prime and I’d highly recommend it. Riz may not get the best actor nod ahead of BAFTA winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father - haven’t seen that, so can’t judge) or a posthumous award for Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s...), but gives a stellar performance in a very watchable story. I think he'd beat Hopkins most years, but it'll likely be a much deserved posthumous Oscar for Boseman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 JACOB'S LADDER 2019 The remake of the film from the early 90's that starred Tim Robbins had the potential to be really good and thought provoking given it swapped a traumatized Vietnam veteran for one returning from Afghanistan with similar demons, unfortunately it tries too hard to be political given the core subject matter and it's attempts to have a Sixth Sense style massive twist fail spectacularly as you can see said twist coming a mile off from the point the lead character starts hallucinating, some rather 'meh' CGI special effects only contribute to the general feeling of let down at a fairly shoddy attempt at a remake of a classic. The lead actors playing the two brothers put in very good performances with a pretty lame plot and script so earn it a point each, two hours of my life I won't get back im afraid. 2/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Comrie said: Empire of the Ants Ironmaster Patrick I used to threaten the wife with Empire of the Ants if she didn't hurry up and pick a fucking film for us to watch. In a crowded field, Them! is still the premier giant ant movie, although the lack of Joan Collins is palpable. Patrick got a pretty shitty remake a while back. If you liked the original, I'd also recommend The Medusa Touch as, for years when I was trying to track it down without knowing the name, Patrick was the match that always came up. That, and it's good too. George "Anthropophagous" Eastman also starred in films called Porno Holocaust and Erotic Nights of the Living Dead. That's entirely irrelevant, but worthy of comment, I feel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 11 minutes ago, Flybhoy said: JACOB'S LADDER 2019 The remake of the film from the early 90's that starred Tim Robbins had the potential to be really good and thought provoking given it swapped a traumatized Vietnam veteran for one returning from Afghanistan with similar demons, unfortunately it tries too hard to be political given the core subject matter and it's attempts to have a Sixth Sense style massive twist fail spectacularly as you can see said twist coming a mile off from the point the lead character starts hallucinating, some rather 'meh' CGI special effects only contribute to the general feeling of let down at a fairly shoddy attempt at a remake of a classic. The lead actors playing the two brothers put in very good performances with a pretty lame plot and script so earn it a point each, two hours of my life I won't get back im afraid. 2/10 Don't know why, but I was sure you were taking the piss for some reason. Lo and behold, Jacob's Ladder was indeed remade in 2019, and has appalling reviews. One of the strangest remake decisions I've seen in a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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