melkur
Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Sept 17, 2020 14:06:56 GMT
Batman Begins - My third attempt at watching this film since it came out on DVD, the first time that I've been able to watch it without falling asleep. Let's slow-clap it out for me... The Dark Knight - Yeah, it's going to be that kind of afternoon... Edit: Yes, I did watch 'The Dark Knight Rises' as well. Whilst it did feel a little long in places, I think I did still (just about) enjoy as much as I did when I last saw it on the big-screen... Spending seven-and-a-half hours marathoning the 'Dark Knight' trilogy, this is how a normal person spends a day, right? Oh... Look, I'm on holiday from work until Sunday, sush!
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Post by Digi on Sept 18, 2020 17:11:07 GMT
Last few days...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - I read these books as a kid and had totally forgotten about them, so I had a nagging sense of familiarity throughout the movie. It was okay I guess. Kind of a horror movie for 12 year olds, sort of thing. Not awful, but I definitely won't be back for the sequel.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - For the bazillionth time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 18:03:59 GMT
The magnificent Hawk the Slayer. Absolutely torn apart by critics in 1980 when it was released, it has since picked up a cult following and there was even talk of a sequel at varying times. It is cheap, cheerful and charming. Jack Palance snarls his way through it all, half-hidden under a mask, as Voltan (Palance was 61 at the time), and John Terry (30) is Hawk. We have Bernard Bresslaw (Ice Warrior in Doctor Who), Christopher Benjamin (Henry Gordon Jago), Patrician Quinn (Belazs and Queen Angvia) and Annette Crosbie (Mrs Angelo from the Eleventh Hour) and many other well-known thesps. In fact, the cast is nothing short of magnificent, and the whol thing is a huge amount of fun, in a spooky, British sword-and-sorcery kind of way.
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Post by grinch on Sept 18, 2020 20:41:31 GMT
Thunderbirds (2004)
Have to say, it was a particularly ‘inspired’ choice to have a Thunderbirds film where the Thunderbirds are barely in it. Sophia Myles as Lady Penelope and Sir Ben Kingsley as The Hood are just about the only enjoyable thing in this.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 18, 2020 20:59:02 GMT
Hell on the Border
(Western based on True Events Bass Reeves [David Gyasi] becomes one of the 1st Black Deputy's in the US when he apprehends an ageing bounty hunter [Ron Pearlmen] but risks all when he suspects the hunter's being framed for his most recent bounty's crimes)
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mark687
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Post by sherlock on Sept 18, 2020 21:03:49 GMT
Thunderbirds (2004) Have to say, it was a particularly ‘inspired’ choice to have a Thunderbirds film where the Thunderbirds are barely in it. Sophia Myles as Lady Penelope and Sir Ben Kingsley as The Hood are just about the only enjoyable thing in this. Oh that film is a travesty. Myles and Kingsley are basically the only ones who emerge positively. Though the redesigns of the Thunderbirds aren’t half bad, I have a few models of them. Shame, as you say, that they’re in it so little. Thankfully the TV animated reboot of Thunderbirds avoided making the same mistakes.
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Post by grinch on Sept 18, 2020 21:12:45 GMT
Thunderbirds (2004) Have to say, it was a particularly ‘inspired’ choice to have a Thunderbirds film where the Thunderbirds are barely in it. Sophia Myles as Lady Penelope and Sir Ben Kingsley as The Hood are just about the only enjoyable thing in this. Oh that film is a travesty. Myles and Kingsley are basically the only ones who emerge positively. Though the redesigns of the Thunderbirds aren’t half bad, I have a few models of them. Shame, as you say, that they’re in it so little. Thankfully the TV animated reboot of Thunderbirds avoided making the same mistakes. They’re decent redesigns I will agree with you there. Would you believe I never saw the reboot? Really need to get on that as soon as possible.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 19, 2020 11:59:39 GMT
I'm Thinking of Ending Things. One of the worst films I have ever seen.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 19, 2020 12:13:09 GMT
Double Keanu on tv tonite. Bill and Ted 2 followed by Fast N Furious 1.. err.. Point Break.. F N F 1 is literally a rip off of Point Break, once u see it u can't unsee it
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melkur
Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Sept 19, 2020 23:02:40 GMT
Today is my last day off from work in a while, so, in lieu of going to London to see a couple of shows as I usually would on a Saturday (thanks Covid), I went to the cinema again for another triple-bill...
Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse. - I don't know if I enjoyed it as much as I did the last time, but hey, it's at least nice to have seen it on the big-screen...
The Roads Not Taken - A little long in places (even at 85minutes), but still decent enough... 'Shame that the cinema cut-off the subtitles for the Spanish scenes for the first ten or twenty minutes, meaning I had no idea as to what was being said throughout them (two other audience members left. Sadly didn't get a freebie ticket for next time, though did get a couple of free M&M chocolate bars between it & my next film, as they were trying to get rid of stock). =_=
Tenet - The ending/final siege lost me a little in places but that was fine, I guess...?
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Post by polly on Sept 20, 2020 5:07:56 GMT
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Yeah, it's cheap, and it reeks of the 70s, but a classic never dies. Actually, I quite like the grindhouse look, and I'm very glad it's been preserved even on Blu-ray. No digital "enhancement" here. Most slasher films that followed pick off the cast one by one, but here they're whittled down to the final girl in very quick succession. It's nearly hypnotic in places, thanks to nightmarish imagery and a droning soundtrack. And as far as scream queens go, Marilyn Burns is one of the best to ever do it.
I'd forgotten what a relentless experience this movie is. It's a very no-frills package, exactly what is says on the tin, but made with real gusto.
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Post by Digi on Sept 20, 2020 5:32:13 GMT
I just gone done watching (for the first time) the movie Insidious. I had no idea what it was about going in, so I was pleasantly surprised that it made me jump more than a few times, and had a bunch of sequences that were creepy enough to raise the hairs on the back of my neck.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 20, 2020 10:59:36 GMT
The 3 Papadopoulos
(British Comedy Drama almost Melodrama. Following the double blow of becoming a Widower and the financial crash of 2008, A Greek businessman and father of 3 begins spiraling into depression. All is not lost however when he discovers that he still has a part ownership in his Late Father's Fish and Chip shop and decides to invest his remaining capital in it and move his family into the flat above. However this brings its own challenges in the form of his Father's old "Happy go Lucky" Partner, their shared tragic history, and a long standing rivalry with the neighboring Turkish Kebab shop which escalates when its gets all Romeo & Juliet between our protagonists Daughter and the Kebab shop owner's Son.)
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mark687
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Post by Digi on Sept 21, 2020 6:10:18 GMT
Tonight, another first time: The Purge.
Great concept, garbage execution. There was so much stupid going on that I was actively annoyed for large swathes of the movie. I didn't pay to watch this movie (it's on Prime), and I still feel like I was overcharged. 90 minutes of my life I will never get back.
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 21, 2020 7:45:45 GMT
Enjoying my Jackie Chan movie nights best money i spent in ages getting his films on Blu ray.
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Post by Digi on Sept 22, 2020 4:56:26 GMT
Tonight's "horror" flick was Happy Death Day. Fluff, but fun. More in the vein of Scream, with a tongue-in-cheek not taking itself too seriously approach. Jessica Rothe was surprisingly very, very good in the lead role. Based on how she played the character in the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, I was not expecting the range she brought to it for the following hour.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 22, 2020 7:40:39 GMT
Tonight's "horror" flick was Happy Death Day. Fluff, but fun. More in the vein of Scream, with a tongue-in-cheek not taking itself too seriously approach. Jessica Rothe was surprisingly very, very good in the lead role. Based on how she played the character in the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, I was not expecting the range she brought to it for the following hour. Wait till u see the sequel
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Post by mark687 on Sept 22, 2020 18:31:26 GMT
Tonight's "horror" flick was Happy Death Day. Fluff, but fun. More in the vein of Scream, with a tongue-in-cheek not taking itself too seriously approach. Jessica Rothe was surprisingly very, very good in the lead role. Based on how she played the character in the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, I was not expecting the range she brought to it for the following hour. Wait till u see the sequel
I really enjoyed both Regards mark687
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Post by mark687 on Sept 22, 2020 19:32:01 GMT
Unexpected Emilio Estevez Christian Slater double bill
Young Guns II
Public (2018)
(Drama with a star studded cast. When a town Mayor [Slater] threatens to cut funding to the Public Library during snow storm season, the head Liberian [Estevez] declares it a Safe Space for the Homeless, resulting in a siege situation)
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mark687
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Post by Digi on Sept 22, 2020 19:41:30 GMT
Tonight's "horror" flick was Happy Death Day. Fluff, but fun. More in the vein of Scream, with a tongue-in-cheek not taking itself too seriously approach. Jessica Rothe was surprisingly very, very good in the lead role. Based on how she played the character in the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, I was not expecting the range she brought to it for the following hour. Wait till u see the sequel Wait till u see the sequel I really enjoyed both Regards mark687 Will probably try to check it out at some point over the spooky season, right now just trying to keep things fresh by watching something new each time rather than sequels/series all in a row
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