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• #19827
I thought it was so mediocre and couldn't quite get the fan fair from it.
I felt it relied too much on nostalgia and it just was a bit meh.
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• #19828
You're a meh.
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• #19829
Currently watching jojorabbit šš¼
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• #19830
Renfield was daft gory fun. Guardians of the galaxy was the worst of the series but enjoyable enough if you like spaceships and lasers, which I do, probably just the hangover but I got almost emotional at a couple of the bits designed to get you all emotional.
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• #19831
This weekend's viewing:
Dune (2021) - first time seeing it since I saw it in the cinema. Still a big fat 3/5 from me. It probably doesn't help that I really enjoyed the book but something just didn't click either time. I'll still see the second one when it comes out though.The Long Good Friday - quite enjoyable, mostly for the glimpses of scummy, late 70s London and some of the hardest/ most disgusting looking blokes you'll ever see.
The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic. Gene Hackman in one of the best, most understated performances of all time. Wish I'd watched it years ago!
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• #19832
Been meaning to re-watch The Long Good Friday, one of my favourite films. Few actors could do menacing and vulnerable like Bob Hoskins could.
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• #19833
His scottish accent was fuckin awful too.
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• #19834
Accurate then?
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• #19835
Sorry. We can like different things I suppose.
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• #19836
The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.
Agreed, now watch Enemy of the State. Hackman must have known what he was doing.
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• #19837
The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.
Agreed, now watch The Lives of Others (and Enemy of the State)
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• #19838
Murder Mystery 2
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston sequel a movie I apparently have seen but have zero recollection of.
This was equally as forgettable, but with the added disappointment of knowing I watched it yesterday.
Load of shit, unfunny, no redeeming value.
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• #19839
We started it and my other half pulled the plug after 25 minutes so just before the action started - I know because I finished watching it last night.
Utter shite, the irony of the āget a room you two, the sexual tension in this roomā repeated line when there was no dynamic between the lead characters was pitiful. So many tired tropes - exploding vehicles whose wheels carry on rolling etc etc.
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• #19840
This looks fully mental!
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• #19841
The Long Good Friday
Love this. One of few films I have on DVD and rewatch. Helen Mirren is great in it, there's that bloke from Casualty, and the fountain of blood moment always gets some audible reaction from people who haven't seen it before. Final scene with the music and Bob Hoskin's expressions is brilliant.
It's one of a "London trilogy" (selected by me) but the best film of them. The others being London (my favourite - gets a rewatch at least once a year), and Dirty Pretty Things (which I haven't seen for a while, the acting's a bit hammy and it doesn't bear rewatching as much as the others).
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• #19842
Francis Monkman's theme tune is awesome for this film!
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• #19843
Renfield was daft gory fun.
It's good, isn't it - it has a classical horror comedy feel to it.
And Nicholas Cage just acts the same as he ever does.
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• #19844
D&D was enjoyable.
Sisu was great. Outrageous Finnish Machete, 80s action throwback with Western and Tarantino vibes and shitty Nazis. -
• #19845
Sisu
Want to watch!
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• #19846
And me..
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• #19847
It's less overtly b-movie, maybe not quite as silly but still a lot of fun with some nicer looking camera work .
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• #19848
Just watched Sisu.. Banger. A joyous romp of film refs. Thanks for the rec.
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• #19849
I want to recommend CinĆ© Real for the East/North London folks (although itās worth the trip from further afield).
https://www.cine-real.com/pages/about
I wonāt give it all away as you get the spiel from Liam and Ćmit when you go, and itās lovely.
Checked out 12 Angry Men (classic) and The Trial (incoherent, indecipherable, but intentionally and charmingly so) just lately. Wonderful experience. Love to hear the projector clicking away. During The Trial, one reel hadnāt been rewound - cue much hilarity as Ćmit effed and blinded and promptly snapped the reel rewinding it š
The Castle is such a brilliant venue generally and feel so lucky itās so close by. Iām just disappointed that Science Fiction Theatre - https://sciencefictiontheatre.co.uk/ - seems to have vanished into a blackhole š Happy will be the day if that ever returns.
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• #19850
PS, Ćmit does private screenings at the shop in Clapton. Iāve been pondering getting a group together to experience it. If anyone is keen, let me know and I will arrange. Trying to get to ten people (I think Iāll get about 5-6 of those), which works out at about ~Ā£25, which I think will be absolutely well worth it.
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