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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Straight in to my Top 5 of 2024
Possibly Top 3
Top, top notch
4.5 Belfast Mas out of 5 North of Ireland Acronyms
Up there with Train Spotting IMHO. Deserves more exposure. Cracking film.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Straight in to my Top 5 of 2024
Possibly Top 3
Top, top notch
4.5 Belfast Mas out of 5 North of Ireland Acronyms
Yeah, that's definitely one for my top 10. I saw it at the cinemas in June (I think) and it was still showing in some cinemas in Nov so I think it's doing pretty well. I actually introduced some Irish work mates to it.
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@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones Did you ever read Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness? Africa Queen (& Apocalypse Now) are (loose) retellings of the story
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Never trust anyone with a first name for a surname.
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Read?
What a number 8 and captain he was
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones Did you ever read Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness? Africa Queen (& Apocalypse Now) are (loose) retellings of the story
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Never trust anyone with a first name for a surname.
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Read?
What a number 8 and captain he was
Terrible author tho
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Straight in to my Top 5 of 2024
Possibly Top 3
Top, top notch
4.5 Belfast Mas out of 5 North of Ireland Acronyms
Up there with Train Spotting IMHO. Deserves more exposure. Cracking film.
Just watched it. Bloody good. Blew my mind seeing after-the-fact that it was based on a true story with some of the real life personalities playing themselves.
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@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones Did you ever read Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness? Africa Queen (& Apocalypse Now) are (loose) retellings of the story
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Never trust anyone with a first name for a surname.
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Read?
- Especially if they’re hiding their Eastern European roots.
- 100% but start with Lord Jim it’s where the real Conrad action is. It’s a Treasure Island for grownups. Probably also read Nostromo before Heart of Darkness. Then you can tell us why Scott named the spaceship in Alien after a social-climbing Italian silver thief.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Have watched a few films recently because of flying. Started Fall Guy but bailed pretty early. Had heard good things about this. Thought it was shit.
I watched this a few days ago. Based on seeing the trailer at another movie I had no intention of watching it, but it was much better than I expected. Obviously you can switch the brain off and just enjoy. Some cameos at the end too.
It has been a pretty average year for stand out movies this year - I genuinely think I'll struggle to put a top 10 for the year together. I've been pretty consistent with watching a movie a week but this year I've gone to way more I've known nothing about going in - which is sometimes a good thing and other times a bad thing.
Really enjoyed all these
Civil War
Blink Twice
Longlegs
Trap
Abigail
Don’t Move
MaXXXine
Sleeping Dogs
Snack Shack
Back To Black
In A Violent Nature
Am I Racist?
Zef
American StarSo I managed to scrape together a 'really enjoyed these' list over the break.
These are movies I watched in the cinema this year (I have a record of these on my membership accounts) so no streaming movies and I exclude Oscar films as most of them were actually 2023 releases.
All of Us Strangers
Blink Twice
Civil War
Deadpool and Wolverine
Inside Out 2
Knee Cap
My Old Ass
Saturday Night
The Apprentice
The Bikeriders
The Iron Claw
Thelma
TrapDocos include: The Contestant, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Will and Harper, Mr McMahon, The Greatest Night in Pop.
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Heretic
Hugh Grant continues his dramatic shift from the foppish characters of his youth with an excellent portrayal of a recluse two young female Mormons are trying to convert. Now while that plot summary sounds like something you'd see in the, ahem, adult section of your local video store, this is an excellently acted and shot horror movie. Easily the best I've watched in a year, probably more.
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Better Man aka Robbie Williams Is A Monkey
Your pretty standard rock-star-drugs-hard-times-success flick.
He's an entertainer, and the monkey graphics angle was a little weird but it kept a bunch of VFX people in work.
Placement of tunes and the choreography in a couple of numbers was pretty bloody good actually.
The slaying of his own demons was also a sight to behold.
I liked it. There were tits.
4 lines of coke out of 5 Take That members.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
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@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew still don't understand the first reference but I'm on board with the second one.
I must have missed that one due to not being born for another 26 years
UM it is a bona fide classic!
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@antipodean I definitely wouldn't have watched it after reading the overview, so thanks! It says the girls "must turn to their faith to make it out alive"...
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@NTA said in Movie review thread...:
Better Man aka Robbie Williams Is A Monkey
Your pretty standard rock-star-drugs-hard-times-success flick.
He's an entertainer, and the monkey graphics angle was a little weird but it kept a bunch of VFX people in work.
Placement of tunes and the choreography in a couple of numbers was pretty bloody good actually.
The slaying of his own demons was also a sight to behold.
I liked it. There were tits.
4 lines of coke out of 5 Take That members.
Have you watched his doco series that's on Disney or Apple? (Actually should have included that in my docos list above). I'm wary of going to see this as it appears it will tread much of the same ground.
There's an Empire podcast interview with Williams and the director where they discuss why they used the monkey graphics.
The Empire Podcast #648: Aaron Pierre; Robbie Williams & Michael Gracey; Ben Schwartz & Jeff Fowler
Guests from Mufasa: The Lion King, Better Man, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl join us on this week's pod. Listen here.
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Grown Ups / Grown Ups 2.
Classic modern Sandler and filmed in a weird way, in that once scenes start to get going, they stop and move on to the next thing. Sort of feels like it's made by amateurs in that the flow is really poor. Probably explains the appalling Rotten Tomatoes ratings.
Having said that, I did have loads of very immature and pathetic laughs at various points and the characters are for the most part pretty likeable, and often relatable. Weirdly, King loudmouth Chris Rock, is pretty much so a background character, which I think is a good thing.
3 hot daughters out of 5 stupid jokes.
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@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
Grown Ups / Grown Ups 2.
Classic modern Sandler and filmed in a weird way, in that once scenes start to get going, they stop and move on to the next thing. Sort of feels like it's made by amateurs in that the flow is really poor. Probably explains the appalling Rotten Tomatoes ratings.
Having said that, I did have loads of very immature and pathetic laughs at various points and the characters are for the most part pretty likeable, and often relatable. Weirdly, King loudmouth Chris Rock, is pretty much so a background character, which I think is a good thing.
3 hot daughters out of 5 stupid jokes.
I love Sandler but actually couldn't finish Grown Ups. Like you say it felt like amateurs.
I love Rock even more so his being a background character might have contributed to that.
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anyone heard of the podcast "worse idea of all time"...two "comedians" watch the same movie every week for a year and then review again desperately trying to find something new to say, season one was Grown ups 2....in hindsight the podcast was much better than the movie
Kneecap (2024) ⭐ 7.6 | Comedy, Drama, Music
