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Ad Astra - 3/5

 

Less an odyssey and more an oddity, although think at times it harks back nicely to the 70s-era sci-fi it’s aping. Flirts with being very good, but overall lacking true depth and has a few too many escapades along the way. An enjoyable, frustrating curiosity.

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Ready or Not - 4/5

 

In an era where every popcorn flick is po faced 2hr plus epic this is a refreshing return to the short tight 90minute rollercoaster. There’s absolutely no fat throughout  as the movie sets the tone from the first second and then instantly sets up the scene and protagonists. You then get a movie that embraces the absurdity in its own concept, darting from moments of tension and extreme violence to black humour, at moments feeling that it’s poking fun at itself and typical horror tropes. Samara Weaving steals the show as the heroine. A must see for those who want some brainless fun. 

 

 

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Joker- 4/5 on initial viewing. It has everything I think I wanted from it but I'm inclined to agree with some of the criticisms about

 

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the movement his actions and Thomas Wayne's words inspire being a bit nondescript and reduced to window dressing. The rest was very, very good.

 

I enjoyed it more than any of the Nolan films- ironic, considering Batman isn't in it!

 

Possibly a 5/5 on repeat viewings. I'm considering the Blu-ray.

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Had a long flight so tried John Wick 3. I didn't even get to the end. I really enjoyed the first two but this one was just going through the motions. 1/5

 

Watched Shazam! instead, it was alright. Funny in places and I liked the characters. It did feel too long mind. 3/5.

 

On a side note, 1h 30- 1h 40 films. What happened? Please come back. Just because you shot it doesn't mean we need to see it. Tighter story writing and editing should be praised like performances do imo. In my experience limitations of what you can and can't do in a creative brief typically result in more creativity not less. Having a blank canvas that can go on and on forever gives us lots of lumpy, lazy overly long films. If running time was treated like a precious, finite resource on the whole I think you'd get better films as directors and editors would have to work harder. :blah:

 

 

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Restless Natives


Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items. 

 

They are both bored and skint. "You can't do anything without money".

 

One wears a wolfman and the other a clown mask and they rip across the highlands to a terrific soundtrack by Stuart Adamson (Big Country)

 

It's very lighthearted in that early 80's way. Cheery, and genuinely funny. There's a scene where a poilceman enters the joke shop one of the lads works in, and tensions rise high as he looks around, then he suddenly goes up to him and belts out "FAKE TITS, YEE GOT ANY?" I creased.

 

 

3/5, 5/5 for the soundtrack !

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1 hour ago, mexos said:

Had a long flight so tried John Wick 3. I didn't even get to the end. I really enjoyed the first two but this one was just going through the motions. 1/5

 

Watched Shazam! instead, it was alright. Funny in places and I liked the characters. It did feel too long mind. 3/5.

 

On a side note, 1h 30- 1h 40 films. What happened? Please come back. Just because you shot it doesn't mean we need to see it. Tighter story writing and editing should be praised like performances do imo. In my experience limitations of what you can and can't do in a creative brief typically result in more creativity not less. Having a blank canvas that can go on and on forever gives us lots of lumpy, lazy overly long films. If running time was treated like a precious, finite resource on the whole I think you'd get better films as directors and editors would have to work harder. :blah:

 

 

2nd one was shit too. 

 

First one was a belter though. 

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The Dark Knight. 3.5/5

 

A film I loved back in the day that has serious pacing issues early on. For almost an hour it's a mostly generic movie set in a mostly generic city. 

After that it picks up greatly into a brilliant epic. Well acted, though Bale is still weird with that whispery voice. Ledger is excellent as we know and both Oldman and Eckhart support brilliantly. 

 

Cut off 20-30 mins and would have been perfect. Plus the city needs more identity. 

 

Batman Returns 4/5

Whilst feeling small in scale in terms of locale, it's feels more like Gotham Town than city, this is a wonderfully dark tale with a ending that is almost moving but leave the feeling of pity rather than sadness. 

Tim Burton movies are the highlight of Batman for me, it feels suitably gothic and mysterious. Amazing music too.

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Joker 5/5

 

Very rare for me to go the whole 5, and while the film isn’t perfect, it deserves more than a four. I can’t remember the last time I watched a lead absolutely revel in so much screen time and continually impress throughout. 

 

El Camino 2/5

 

Its hard to feel this was any more than a cash-in, although I have no doubts that Gilligan and the cast gave their heart and soul to produce the best film they could. Some of Gilligans flaws are cruelty exposed over the two hour piece, and even a solid and mature performance from Aaron Paul wasn’t enough for me. I consider Breaking Bad my favourite tv show of all time. 

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In the Shadow of the Moon

 

A Netflix sci-fi thriller thing. A cop is chasing a woman who appears every nine years and does some murders. There's probably a decent film here but it's too long and there's a few bits that make no sense,

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even for a time travel film. 

 

The acting isn't up to much and the script is pretty bad. 

 

Not worth the running time. 2/5

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The Master - 2/5

 

A rewatch definitely in order here. So that score is very provisional. But fuck was I let down by this. Few great performances, no doubt about that. But the story. You never find out what exactly happened to him in the war, the lack of any coherent middle to the story (what is he getting from all this, what does he hope to get?  Where is it all going? Has he actually stopped drinking or not? Why exactly did he leave? ) And the shitty ambiguous ending.  

 

Seems like they had the makings of a good film there and just forgot to actually add a decent middle and end to the story.

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The Iron-Fisted Monk (1977)

 

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Husker (Sammo) is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle, who was murdered by the nasty Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson and teams up with a martial artist monk (Chan Sing) who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus attack the factory and kill everyone there, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it’s time to even the score. 

 

Sammo Hung's directorial debut begins in typical late '70s made period martial arts fashion, but then takes a dark turn.

 

The baddies brutally rape a young woman, who then commits suicide.

 

The film attempts to return to a less serious tone, but can't recover from that scene.

 

Then, just to be extra hardcore, they throw in a second rape scene. 

 

I had to watch Brandon Farris videos for an hour afterwards, just to get the funk out of my head. 

 

2/5 (purely for the fights)

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Tremors - 4.5 / 5 

 

A great movie, with very little fat or wrong footing. Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon make a brilliant team, the creatures and their methods are inventive, and there's the excellent Michael Gross. I watched this with my 8.5 year old, and she was very impressed, though did jump at a couple of moments. 

 

We later had a discussion on what the grabboid flesh was made from, she reckoned pumpkins. We currently have a folder called Scary Movie for 8 Year Old's, that we plan to work through. It has stuff like Return to Oz, Labyrinth, The Witches, that kind of thing. 

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El Camino

 

Obviously very thinly plotted (and I can totally see where @kthxbliz is coming from with his 2/5) but I really liked this - all about tone and tension; it had a Wild West/Tarantino sub-plot thing going on, that's quite powerful if you settle into its vibe. 

 

3.5/5

 

n.b. Sad to see Robert Forster knowing the poor guy's just passed away. Rest in peace, buddy. 

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