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Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

vball wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:37 am Watched .... The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Thought it was aTV series on Prime.

A rather good yarn and thoroughly enjoyed it. Easy to watch and no hard thinking required.

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

vball wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:37 am Watched .... The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Thought it was aTV series on Prime.

A rather good yarn and thoroughly enjoyed it. Easy to watch and no hard thinking required.

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

Just watched it on a flight. Entertaining in a daft way, though I thought there'd be a couple more twists.

However (and I know this is ridiculous in a film that is so inaccurate anyway) but I was annoyed that Fleming was wearing the wrong cap. It's really easy to get these things right!

S/Lt_Phillips wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:11 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

Just watched it on a flight. Entertaining in a daft way, though I thought there'd be a couple more twists.

However (and I know this is ridiculous in a film that is so inaccurate anyway) but I was annoyed that Fleming was wearing the wrong cap. It's really easy to get these things right!

He is a bit fast and loose sometimes....

I mean, have you seen the size of the magazine on this MP40?

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

vball wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:37 am Watched .... The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Thought it was aTV series on Prime.

A rather good yarn and thoroughly enjoyed it. Easy to watch and no hard thinking required.

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

Thanks Matt, marked down, her in doors loves a good Caper movie

S/Lt_Phillips wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:11 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

Just watched it on a flight. Entertaining in a daft way, though I thought there'd be a couple more twists.

However (and I know this is ridiculous in a film that is so inaccurate anyway) but I was annoyed that Fleming was wearing the wrong cap. It's really easy to get these things right!

Hahaha there's nothing wrong with correct unit ID.

Jethro wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 12:03 pm

mat the expat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 am

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 4:40 pm

Aye me too. As long as you watch it as an action film and not a serious SWW story.

It's effectively a Caper movie.

The Lady of the House enjoyed it also

Thanks Matt, marked down, her in doors loves a good Caper movie

I got bored and switched Ungentlemanly off halfway through. It's really surprising that people still pay Guy Ritchie to make films. Man From UNCLE and the first Sherlock Holmes are decent, but outside of those, nothing post-Snatch is particularly noteworthy.

Watched The Meg 2 last night as I'd heard it was ridiculous, but kinda fun and I like a lot of Ben Wheatley's horror work.

It's absolute garbage. The laundry I folded while it was on held my attention better.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:18 am I got bored and switched Ungentlemanly off halfway through

Should have been so much better

epwc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:37 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:18 am I got bored and switched Ungentlemanly off halfway through

Should have been so much better

I'm waiting for Henry Cavill's undoubted charisma to be put into a worthwhile project. Between this, The Witcher and his outings as Superman, he really is being squandered.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:04 pm

epwc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:37 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:18 am I got bored and switched Ungentlemanly off halfway through

Should have been so much better

I'm waiting for Henry Cavill's undoubted charisma to be put into a worthwhile project. Between this, The Witcher and his outings as Superman, he really is being squandered.

He's a bit too focused on money for his own good.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:04 pm I'm waiting for Henry Cavill's undoubted charisma to be put into a worthwhile project. Between this, The Witcher and his outings as Superman, he really is being squandered.

Jeez, that's about 7 films now and he's still a plank of wood. You better have an incredible writer up your sock, mate.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:26 pm Watched The Meg 2 last night as I'd heard it was ridiculous, but kinda fun and I like a lot of Ben Wheatley's horror work.

It's absolute garbage. The laundry I folded while it was on held my attention better.

I gave up pointing out the logic bombs in that one, only thing missing was a TRex to be honest

Infested - French killer spider flick, rocks for the first two acts and then sort of goes insane in Act 3. Some good tension and scares, apparently the spiders in use (they have both real and CGI) were huntsmen from Australia. Worth a look, be warned is subtitled as the movie is French.

Jethro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:04 am

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:26 pm Watched The Meg 2 last night as I'd heard it was ridiculous, but kinda fun and I like a lot of Ben Wheatley's horror work.

It's absolute garbage. The laundry I folded while it was on held my attention better.

I gave up pointing out the logic bombs in that one, only thing missing was a TRex to be honest

Infested - French killer spider flick, rocks for the first two acts and then sort of goes insane in Act 3. Some good tension and scares, apparently the spiders in use (they have both real and CGI) were huntsmen from Australia. Worth a look, be warned is subtitled as the movie is French.

Funnily enough I popped that one on my watchlist the other day. Arachnid horror is surprisingly thin on the ground given how widespread arachnophobia is.

There was an English language one earlier this year - Sting. Not bad, worth a watch if you're at a loose end.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:42 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:04 pm

epwc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:37 pm

Should have been so much better

I'm waiting for Henry Cavill's undoubted charisma to be put into a worthwhile project. Between this, The Witcher and his outings as Superman, he really is being squandered.

He's a bit too focused on money for his own good.

I think it's recognition and becoming a name, with the secure supply of work that produces rather than money per se. He was relatively unknown when cast as Superman, so probably wasn't on that much (relatively speaking). With how crap the Snyder DC universe turned out to be, it's a bad decision in hindsight, but it still raised his personal profile considerably.

Some of the bit parts and smaller films he did around the bigger stuff, like Sandcastle and Man From UNCLE, show there's something there to work with and perhaps he'll be more willing to now.

As much as the cash , the status that Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson gained from their respective franchises meant they've had the clout to get smaller, more interesting projects they want to do greenlit and they've been able to turn their backs on bigger stuff unless they actually want to do it knowing that they'll likely never be truly forgotten and relegated to the kind of straight to streaming/DVD we see a lot of actors end up resorting to.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:44 pm

Jethro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:04 am

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:26 pm Watched The Meg 2 last night as I'd heard it was ridiculous, but kinda fun and I like a lot of Ben Wheatley's horror work.

It's absolute garbage. The laundry I folded while it was on held my attention better.

I gave up pointing out the logic bombs in that one, only thing missing was a TRex to be honest

Infested - French killer spider flick, rocks for the first two acts and then sort of goes insane in Act 3. Some good tension and scares, apparently the spiders in use (they have both real and CGI) were huntsmen from Australia. Worth a look, be warned is subtitled as the movie is French.

Funnily enough I popped that one on my watchlist the other day. Arachnid horror is surprisingly thin on the ground given how widespread arachnophobia is.

There was an English language one earlier this year - Sting. Not bad, worth a watch if you're at a loose end.

Sting is on my must watch list, Aussie movie this time, why we don't make more spider movies is beyond me, but hey getting good write-ups.

Late Night with the Devil - one of my favs for the year, really nailed the 1970s vibe, from the careful what deal you make with the Devil brand of horror. Notably there's as much happening in reflections etc as the Exorcist managed.

For Aussie horror movie fans, come on there must be at least one other person, zombie roos coming at you



Movie length from this short

Chris Nolan to start filming his next project in 2025 for a July 2026 release. Matt Damon attached but secrecy surrounding the subject / plot.

There's been a lot of chat about him doing The Prisoner, which he's been open about doing for a long time, but I don't really see Damon in the Patrick McGoohan role. He's also been keen to do a Bond film, and there's been chatter again in recent days about who will be cast as the next Bond, but again don't see where Damon fits in to that (Babs Broccoli has been clear that it needs to be a Brit, and under 40). The villain maybe but it's a bit of a clash with the Bourne stuff tbh, would feel forced. Other chat about a bigger budget remake of Memento which would probably be a mistake as it opens up a perpetual argument about which was better among online film snobs.

Wolfs on Apple TV+ with Clooney and Pitt. Had sooo much potential to rekindle the great chemistry between these two from Oceans 11-era films, however the scripting and dialogue is painfully bad.
Both try their best, but have nothing to work with and it ends up just dragging for 2 hours. 4/10

They do not need a movie about them .... everybody knows they are evil.

From Shaun of the Dead comes ...... The Midges!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZcJBAxu6hE

vball wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 12:35 pm They do not need a movie about them .... everybody knows they are evil.

From Shaun of the Dead comes ...... The Midges!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZcJBAxu6hE

Looks like a good documentary.

Challengers is proper shyte.
Poorly directly, weak script, meandering storyline heading nowhere. Not even Zendaya can save it.

Was wondering why it took so long to be released from the first time I saw it advertised in the cinema. I reckon it had have gone through 2-3 serious re-edits just to get it to this state and it didn't work, in the old days a proper straight to VHS release

Lee is just absolute shit. Dull, dull, dull. I think the whole cinema breathed a sigh of relief at the end.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 6:43 pm Challengers is proper shyte.
Poorly directly, weak script, meandering storyline heading nowhere. Not even Zendaya can save it.

Was wondering why it took so long to be released from the first time I saw it advertised in the cinema. I reckon it had have gone through 2-3 serious re-edits just to get it to this state and it didn't work, in the old days a proper straight to VHS release

They thought a Zendaya love triangle was enough to launch a movie, as if Gens Z and A would flock to it. Unsurprisingly, the film didn't even wash its face.

The new Salem's Lot is proper crap. I gather that the director's original cut was 3 hours and then the studio intervened... which explains why the pacing is so off and why it feels like huge chunks of the film are missing.

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut woman of the hour is pretty good. For a crime thriller with comedic gameshow scenes it does a good job of balancing tone.

The First Omen is half decent for a deeply unnecessary prequel. It certainly comes out ahead of Immaculate in the battle of 2024's 'antichrist child and nuns' films.

Also tried watching the most recent Mission Impossible instalment. It's terrible. Even by the standards of that franchise the action is so physics defying that suspension of disbelief is impossible, a lot of the dialogue is even more awful than usual and the whole thing feels incredibly disjointed.

The next Christopher Nolan film will star Matt Damon, Anne Hathawqy, Tom Holland and Zemdaya.

And we've got no idea what it is yet.

Recent watches

Sasquatch Sunset - utter tripe, it's not often I won't watch a film through but this is poor teenage boy humour at best.

Dune 2 - it's beautiful, but it has some pretty big holes in the sequences. I suppose they had to edit something out, it's already nearly three hours long

The Holdovers was good, but I think I was hoping for too much from it because Giamatti is just terrific. I still enjoyed it, though.

Conclave - very good, again it has some beautiful photography in it and has some great performances - Tucci (always good) and Ralph Fiennes in particular.

I started watching Napoleon and it looked great, I was called away but I'll get back to it.

Kneecap was an unexpected treasure - I'd never heard anything about the film but it was excellent

We'll be watching Lee soon

oh, edited to add, this is out in January here. I'll be queueing for my tickets

Ha! I loved Sasquatch Sunset, but didn't really enjoy Conclave much; well-acted ensemble piece that it is.

Gumboot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:24 pm Ha! I loved Sasquatch Sunset,

I always say that "each to their own" is the most boring phrase in the English language and I'm more than willing to hear why someone has enjoyed something when I haven't, but really, to me this was The Inbetweeners in monkey suits

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:31 pm

Gumboot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:24 pm Ha! I loved Sasquatch Sunset,

I always say that "each to their own" is the most boring phrase in the English language and I'm more than willing to hear why someone has enjoyed something when I haven't, but really, to me this was The Inbetweeners in monkey suits

You make that sound like a bad thing.

Gumboot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:34 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:31 pm

Gumboot wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:24 pm Ha! I loved Sasquatch Sunset,

I always say that "each to their own" is the most boring phrase in the English language and I'm more than willing to hear why someone has enjoyed something when I haven't, but really, to me this was The Inbetweeners in monkey suits

You make that sound like a bad thing.

Not sure what to make of the 28 years later trailer.

I'm a huge fan of the original and liked the sequel despite it's faults but the giant zombies look to be moving the filum away from it's original semi rooted in reality premise of the infected being ordinary humans subject to the same physical frailties and limitations.

That said, the voiceover poem (Boots by Kipling) is pretty chilling.

Heretic is pretty good and tbh Grant's performance was brilliant. Quite a thought provoking them and a lovely dark undertone.

The final act unravels a bit, but Grant is very good. I am enjoying this phase of his career where he takes on more interesting roles than bumbling yet charming leading man.

The Gentlemen is typically meh Guy Ritchie fare, but Grant's sleazy tabloid hack is fantastic.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 12:16 pm The final act unravels a bit, but Grant is very good. I am enjoying this phase of his career where he takes on more interesting roles than bumbling yet charming leading man.

The Gentlemen is typically meh Guy Ritchie fare, but Grant's sleazy tabloid hack is fantastic.

I think I may revisit Cloud Atlas soon lol