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11 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said:

Imaginary - Saft as shite and full of ropey moments but I had a lot of fun with it. I'd take one of these over an Ari Aster-esque 'trauma is the boogeyman' elevated horror anyday.

I didn't really like Imaginary. There was potential for something pretty good or entertaining, but it just ended up being a really average supernatural-horror film. It lacked scares and lacked imagination, and had very little interesting happening in it. The story and the characters were boring and the creature designs were quite poor as well. 

In fact, I've watched a few disappointing films this week:

Night Swim - An average supernatural horror film about a haunted backyard swimming pool. The cast is pretty good, but they're not given much to work with and the plot is as basic as you would expect from the idea of a haunted swimming pool. No scares, no atmosphere and no tension leaves you with a film that is not really worth watching and that would have worked better as a short film in an anthology.

Femme - I'd heard good things about it, but I found it to be a pretty average drama that lacked the impact it was striving for. It's well acted (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay are really good) but it wasn't as tense, thrilling or gripping as I had seen it made out as being.

Frogman - A boring found footage horror film and a waste of 75-minutes. Poorly written and poorly made, with a lack of scares, tension, atmosphere or entertainment.

The Blackening - A really basic, predictable comedy-slasher that is poorly written/improvised and neither funny enough to be a good comedy, nor scary enough to be a good horror.

Anna Sawai from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and the new Shogun series.


Mari Yamamoto from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

As you might have guessed, I watched Monarch: Legacy of Monsters recently. Looking forward to starting the new Shogun series soon. 

16 hours ago, Merzbow said:

We're All Going to the World's Fair, I saw that it had a very high RT rating from critics and horrendously low rating from punters so had to check it out. First thing, it's absolutely not a horror film as often listed, it's just a well made and slightly weird coming of age story of a sad lonely girl who's into creepypasta.. it felt like it was created by someone who was brought up on the fringes of 00's internet.

A solid low budget debut from both director and lead actress.

I hated We're All Going to the World's Fair and found it to be an awful, tedious film and one of the worst things I'd watched in years. Good to know that there are people who like it though.

I didn't hate Saltburn and thought it was a decent film, but it doesn't live up to the hype and doesn't deserve the attention it's been getting. Emerald Fennell's previous film Promising Young Woman is a much better film.

A few films I've watched over the last couple of weeks:

Silent Night, the latest film from John Woo, was really disappointing and just ended up being a really average revenge-action film that lacked any good action or thrills.

Rebel Moon (Part One) was a generic sci-fi movie in pretty much all areas, whilst The Creator was a good sci-fi action movie with some great visuals, on half of the budget of Rebel Moon.

Renfield was entertaining enough with Nicolas Cage good as Dracula, but yet still a quite underwhelming horror-comedy.

When Evil Lurks was a very good horror film, with a few memorable disturbing scenes. The director's previous film Terrified, whilst a bit of a mess, was also pretty good and an effective supernatural horror film.

I enjoyed Mad Max Fury Road and Anya Taylor-Joy is a good actress, so this should be worth watching when it comes out next year.

5 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Can't make out the double champ between Cormier and GSP - who is that?

Looks like

26 minutes ago, Loki said:

Any women's match on the card or has the division gone all AEW?

Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Bianca Belair for the WWE Women's Championship

Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler in an MMA Rules match

48 minutes ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

Seen it posted that Cody and Roman are facing off again tonight in a tag match, with Cody having a mystery partner so maybe that’s the start to build a rematch for Backlash in Puerto Rico on May 6th

I could see them doing a cage match between Reigns and Cody at Backlash, to try to negate the influence and interference of the Bloodline. Cody says he would have beaten Reigns if Solo had not interfered and Cody has to beat Solo (again) to get the stipulation.

Rematch time at UFC 287. Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya 2

Also at UFC 287:

Hellraiser
Maybe it was going into it with low expectations, but I really liked it. I wanted a competently made Hellraiser film, with some thought and effort put into it and that's what it delivered. The visuals are good, the story is perfectly fine and the Cenobites look great. This might be faint praise, but it's probably the best since the original. 
Is it perfect? No. Is it a great film? Not really, but I didn't expect it to be. It's too long at nearly two hours, but I enjoyed it and I'd like to see the same people make a few sequels to it (hopefully it is successful enough to allow them to do so).

53 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said:

Looking like Chimaev’s definitely gonna miss weight. Badly. Helwani’s saying he’s been told he’s 8-10lbs off making weight and the weigh ins are going on now as far as I can tell.

178.5lbs!
 

Zhang beats Esparza.

Which leads to Zhang vs. Namajunas 3, which Namajunas wins.

Which leads to Esparza vs. Namajunas 3, which Esparza wins.

Which leads to Zhang vs. Esparza 2, which Zhang wins... and we're forever stuck in a loop of rematches.

Another couple of posters from Ghana. There really needs to be a collection of these put together somewhere.

22 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

I heard from various sources that Berberian Sound Studio was good?

A lot of people seem to like it, but I've watched it a couple of times and wasn't impressed. Toby Jones is good in the lead role, but the film itself did nothing for me.

The latest film from Peter Strickland, who has the impressive ability to take seemingly interesting ideas and make dull, uninteresting films (Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, In Fabric) or unbelievably boring, tedious and truly awful films (The Duke of Burgundy) out of them.

New Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trailer:

24 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

Can't wait until next week's show, Reigns/Bryan should be an absolute barnstormer of a match. I hope the consequence of this is not a Bryan move to Raw, to give Lashley a new opponent. If he's leaving Smackdown, which very much feels like "his" show, I really hope he ends up leaving the company and wrestling in AEW. 

Surely Bryan is just going to be moving to a more backstage position (isn't he helping write Smackdown at the moment?) rather than leaving WWE for AEW.

Well Raw was awful again this week.

There is just no motivation or reason to sit through three hours of it. Nothing of any interest happens and everyone is just back to being on the same level again (other than maybe Lashley, who I don't think was even on the show this week); it just feel like within a few weeks, Wrestler A beats Wrestler B, then B beats A, then there is a tag match where A beats B, then a rematch of that tag match were B beats A, and so on (everyone has to beat everyone else). No thought is put into anything and it is just really badly written and put together (from the promos, to the matches, to the camera work, to the stale look of the show).

There is just no reason to care about any of the wrestlers or "storylines" on the show. Riddle beat Orton, Elias beat Kofi, Bad Bunny's friend beat Miz, Naomi/Lana beat Baszler, Asuka beat Charlotte (via distraction of course); but really, who cares? Retribution lost their masks, Alexa Bliss has a doll, Charlotte hit a ref and has been fined 100k..... *shrug*

Don't get me wrong, this is nothing new (it has been the same for months, if not years), but it's just frustrating to waste time watching Raw (even if I FFW though most of it at this stage).

17 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Drew? 

Not after Lashley beat him with relative ease at Wrestlemania.

Not sure where to post this, but Chris Jericho is the next guest on Steve Austin's Broken Skull Sessions.

Interesting to see WWE having an AEW wrestler on one of their shows (even if it is just having a chat with Austin).

After how well they got on last week, team Balor and Kross together again.  Then have Balor & Kross vs Cole & O'Reilly; unlikely partners unite to try to win the tag titles, maybe in a ladder match (as suggested above).

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

Does AJ still do the Styles Clash? 

On the right opponent, who will not break their neck taking it wrong, yes.

He did a slingshot one to Ricochet a few weeks ago.

PFL Heavyweight & Women's Lightweight rosters.

Do not know much about all of the other women (a couple are familiar), but it looks like Kayla Harrison's tournament to win again.