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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 7, 2021 19:48:09 GMT
Horror fans -
Watched 3 horrors today -
Nice little Indie low budget Ghost Flick -
The Deeper You Dig - 2020
Wasn't half bad - nice atmosphere
Followed up with another freebie - 'The Hole in the Ground' - stay away from this stinkbomb
And
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Werewolf movie. Not terrible
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Post by klawrencio79 on May 7, 2021 20:00:03 GMT
Horror fans - Watched 3 horrors today - Nice little Indie low budget Ghost Flick - The Deeper You Dig - 2020 Wasn't half bad - nice atmosphere Followed up with another freebie - 'The Hole in the Ground' - stay away from this stinkbomb And The Wolf of Snow Hollow Werewolf movie. Not terrible I also did not enjoy The Hole in the Ground. Has a great setup but the last hour is a total slog.
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 7, 2021 21:19:01 GMT
Horror fans - Watched 3 horrors today - Nice little Indie low budget Ghost Flick - The Deeper You Dig - 2020 Wasn't half bad - nice atmosphere Followed up with another freebie - 'The Hole in the Ground' - stay away from this stinkbomb And The Wolf of Snow Hollow Werewolf movie. Not terrible I also did not enjoy The Hole in the Ground. Has a great setup but the last hour is a total slog. Agreed. Good setting, decent cast, engaging concept, but it doesn't do anything interesting with any of that.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2021 18:13:39 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 8, 2021 19:47:59 GMT
I watched "Wrath of Man" yesterday, the new Guy Ritchie/Jason Statham movie that just came out. I am not a big fan of Jason Statham, although I have mostly enjoyed the few of his movies that I have seen. And with a few exceptions, I usually like Guy Ritchie's movies.
As anyone minimally familiar with the work of those two guys could probably guess, this is an action thriller. Nothing terribly innovative, but it has an interesting structure and good action. Pretty decent overall.
I watched it in a movie theatre, which was a bit depressing. A huge theatre and only six people in the audience. This on a Friday evening in a theatre that in normal times would have been crowded. I hope that is not a sign of things to come once the pandemic is over.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 8, 2021 23:59:47 GMT
I watched "Wrath of Man" yesterday, the new Guy Ritchie/Jason Statham movie that just came out. I am not a big fan of Jason Statham, although I have mostly enjoyed the few of his movies that I have seen. And with a few exceptions, I usually like Guy Ritchie's movies. As anyone minimally familiar with the work of those two guys could probably guess, this is an action thriller. Nothing terribly innovative, but it has an interesting structure and good action. Pretty decent overall. I watched it in a movie theatre, which was a bit depressing. A huge theatre and only six people in the audience. This on a Friday evening in a theatre that in normal times would have been crowded. I hope that is not a sign of things to come once the pandemic is over. Saw it in the theater as well, although ours was fairly crowded (by covid restriction standards). I'm a Ritchie fan and I have to say I was disappointed in this one. It had the Ritchie hallmarks of nonlinear storytelling, but I thought the structure didn't suit the story. They waited too long to introduce Jeffrey Donovan's character, to the point that he and his entire crew felt tacked on. You were already invested in Statham's story, it didn't really matter who the bad guys were at this point...so why waste time with birthday parties etc as if the audience is going to care what happens to him? He should've gone back and forth between the two crews from the beginning, building tension and letting the audience decide who they wanted to root for in the end; since neither side was comprised of particularly good people. Also, I don't know whether to blame Ritchie or the actors but overall I thought the movie was filled with poor performances from otherwise decent character actors. A lot of the dialog was delivered as if you were having the waitstaff at a restaurant do a table read-- like the actors had no context for what kind of person they were playing and how they would talk. Very off putting for any film, but especially a Ritchie script. The score didn't suit the material at all. Way too dark, even at the beginning when it's all playful banter between the drivers. It added to the overall sense that the film never really found itself in terms of tone. At times it tried to be vintage Ritchie with the quippy characters, but none of them were mean enough, odd enough or crazy enough to put them in the pantheon of Ritchie characters. They were neither menacing nor humorous. It was like someone doing a bad knockoff of a Ritchie film; or like Ritchie trying to change his style but couldn't do it? The flow of the story just wasn't there. Spoilers ahead. Another thing that really bothered me was how Statham barely got to do anything. The bad guys all killed each other off while Statham was sidelined. Sure he got the trigger man, and that's what's important; but again if you're going to build up this other crew of bad asses, let the action star take them down one by one. This is a revenge thriller, no?
Now for the nitpicks.
1. Why would Bullet tell Statham about the heist?! The guy has gone Rambo the two previous robbery attempts, there's no way in hell he'd be down with helping you on an inside job. I know you need both guys to get inside the depot, but I don't know, knock him out and threaten to kill a bunch of people if he doesn't comply or something. There's just no way you would be like, "Oh hey, I'm going to help these guys rob the depot, are we cool?" I mean come on.
2. They made Statham a little too bad ass in the opening action sequence. He was like Terminator level. Three shots, three kills. Dodge bullets, two shots, two kills. Dodge bullets, chase down Post Malone, blow him away. Could've at least made him work a little bit for it, especially when he doesn't do a whole hell of a lot in the final battle. He really struggled to beat that one guy, then gets taken out of the fight.
3. This movie universe is populated by two types of people: armored truck drivers, and people who rob armored trucks. Statham is on the job for like two weeks and gets held up three times by three different crews!!! Hell, his son is killed by armored truck robbers as he's doing recon for robbing the same armored truck! I don't know if that's irony, karma, or what, but it's pretty ridiculous when you stop to think about it. Overall it wasn't terrible, but it was subpar for a Guy Ritchie crime caper.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2021 19:33:39 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 10, 2021 1:47:40 GMT
Tonight, it's... Decent, if I recall, but then again I don't really... so not that memorable, I guess.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 4:48:44 GMT
Tonight, it's... Decent, if I recall, but then again I don't really... so not that memorable, I guess. Yeah, it's alright. The story is good, but it's pretty CGI effects heavy, which is a let down.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 10, 2021 14:12:39 GMT
I missed Fargo s4e1 last night on Channel 4.
Anyone see it?
The newspaper reviews have been lukewarm.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 10, 2021 16:46:01 GMT
I am three quarters of the way through a new miniseries on Netflix called “The Innocent”, based on a book by Harlan Coben. For those who are not familiar with the name, he is a very prolific American mystery writer whose books are (almost) always a variation on the “upper middle class family man has his life upended when a secret from the past resurfaces” theme. It might sound repetitive, but he is really able to put intricate plots together that keep the reader guessing. Pretty good airport fiction if you ask me.
Anyway, several of his books have been adapted into miniseries, but for some reason it is always in Europe, not in the USA, even though the stories in the books always take place in the USA (and more specifically, around New York/New Jersey). There are three or four British productions, at least two French ones, one from Poland, and now this new one which is from Spain.
The mini-series consists of eight episodes ranging from 50 to 60 minutes. I haven’t read the book upon which it is based, so I am still guessing at the plot twists and turns. I am finding it a bit heavy on the exposition, which is not normally the case for the books. I don’t know if this book is an exception, or if it was the choice of the screenwriters. In any case, the fact that I will have watched the eight episodes over the course of three days should be proof that I am quite enjoying it. Recommended to those who like this sort of thing and who don’t mind subtitles.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 19:03:03 GMT
'From Hell'
Typical Jack the Ripper stuff... Dingy back alleys, gin shops, prostitutes with hearts of gold being murdered, the Jews, the Freemasons, the royal doctor, half arsed theory, and Johnny Depp doing a really bad effort at an accent.
Overall disappointing. Needs a supernatural element to drag it out of the usual boring Jack the Ripper conspiracy rubbish.
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Post by klawrencio79 on May 10, 2021 19:22:33 GMT
'From Hell' Typical Jack the Ripper stuff... Dingy back alleys, gin shops, prostitutes with hearts of gold being murdered, the Jews, the Freemasons, the royal doctor, half arsed theory, and Johnny Depp doing a really bad effort at an accent. Overall disappointing. Needs a supernatural element to drag it out of the usual boring Jack the Ripper conspiracy rubbish. I remember hating that movie the one time I saw it in theaters when it first came out. Honestly, that's all I remember about it.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 10, 2021 19:34:18 GMT
'From Hell' Typical Jack the Ripper stuff... Dingy back alleys, gin shops, prostitutes with hearts of gold being murdered, the Jews, the Freemasons, the royal doctor, half arsed theory, and Johnny Depp doing a really bad effort at an accent. Overall disappointing. Needs a supernatural element to drag it out of the usual boring Jack the Ripper conspiracy rubbish. Based on the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name, which is a tome as comic books go. I don't recall being enamored with the book or the film.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 10, 2021 23:47:54 GMT
Guys, have we talked about Army of the Dead yet?
Headed to see it on Friday. No idea if the movie will be any good, but this has to be a top ten trailer of all time for me.
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 11, 2021 0:51:19 GMT
'From Hell' Typical Jack the Ripper stuff... Dingy back alleys, gin shops, prostitutes with hearts of gold being murdered, the Jews, the Freemasons, the royal doctor, half arsed theory, and Johnny Depp doing a really bad effort at an accent. Overall disappointing. Needs a supernatural element to drag it out of the usual boring Jack the Ripper conspiracy rubbish. Based on the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name, which is a tome as comic books go. I don't recall being enamored with the book or the film. As I understood it the Alan Moore book is quite a bit different than the movie. But I remember liking it. It's overly convoluted and throws a lot of stuff at you, but it looks terrific and never drags, and Johnny Depp carries it well enough (Father Jack's accent complaint is unfounded and really just the obligatory, cliche thing that any English person has to do whenever any American plays a brit...that said why not go after what's-her-face instead?), and those murder setpiece sequences are well stylized and cool... and I liked evil Bilbo. Im sure it's not great but I remember it being very watchable.
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 11, 2021 1:00:37 GMT
Guys, have we talked about Army of the Dead yet? Headed to see it on Friday. No idea if the movie will be any good, but this has to be a top ten trailer of all time for me. Meh... Zack Snyder almost always makes great trailers. The movies almost always disappoint after. This one has his the requisite hot shirtless dude flexing their muscles in slo-mo, and he's showing off all that unrealistic looking CGI he's using all the time. But, I do think it's funny that Tig Notaro is in it, and it does actually look like he's making something he thinks will he fun. He's better off doing something silly and dumb on purpose. He gets into more trouble when he thinks he being profound (although he failed at both when making Sucker Punch). The trailer is perfectly decent, but it's rigidly formulaic for trailers today. The music choices play like a parody of blockbuster movie trailers.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 11, 2021 2:41:54 GMT
Guys, have we talked about Army of the Dead yet? Headed to see it on Friday. No idea if the movie will be any good, but this has to be a top ten trailer of all time for me. Meh... Zack Snyder almost always makes great trailers. The movies almost always disappoint after. This one has his the requisite hot shirtless dude flexing their muscles in slo-mo, and he's showing off all that unrealistic looking CGI he's using all the time. But, I do think it's funny that Tig Notaro is in it, and it does actually look like he's making something he thinks will he fun. He's better off doing something silly and dumb on purpose. He gets into more trouble when he thinks he being profound (although he failed at both when making Sucker Punch). The trailer is perfectly decent, but it's rigidly formulaic for trailers today. The music choices play like a parody of blockbuster movie trailers. Disagree on Snyder's trailers. I think they're always honest, but I don't think they're great. You could tell Sucker Punch, BvS and the Snyder Cut were going to be garbage from the trailers. Visually impressive but a total mess storywise. Army of the Dead feels like the ultimate Snyder movie, which is a frightening thought. Like you said, he gets into trouble when he tries to think. Doesn't look like much thought is necessary for this one. Snyder can't do proper characterization to save his life, but I don't need it for this movie to do its job. Parodies wish they could nail the tone (as well as the premise) of the flick as well as their song choice did here. It just entertains the hell out of me. It's got the 'getting the team together for one last job' thing going for it and an appearance by a zombie Elvis impersonator. Ticket sold. I know Snyder is a hack; wild visuals, shouting, and mindless killing are what he does best. I still love 300. The movie will probably suck. But for my money this trailer is a ridiculous home run.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 11, 2021 2:49:18 GMT
Guys, have we talked about Army of the Dead yet? Headed to see it on Friday. No idea if the movie will be any good, but this has to be a top ten trailer of all time for me. Is it a theatrical release, or direct to Netflix? Either way, I will be watching it very soon.
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 11, 2021 11:13:18 GMT
Guys, have we talked about Army of the Dead yet? Headed to see it on Friday. No idea if the movie will be any good, but this has to be a top ten trailer of all time for me. Is it a theatrical release, or direct to Netflix? Either way, I will be watching it very soon. It's definitely gonna be in Netflix. Not sure if there will also be a limited theatrical release.
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