Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 10, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 10, 2022 Watched the first two Ip Man films last night, subbed, although the second one tried to foist a dub onto me. They were enjoyable. The scene where he fights Jin in the first one and his wife says "try not to break anything" as she's leaving was amusing, and the final fight against General Miura was good, but I was not prepared for the second half of the second one to turn into Rocky 4. I was waiting for Vince DiCola's training montage music or Heart's On Fire by John Cafferty to start playing. The fight with all the masters on that desk was impressive. Sammo was good as well. The first one didn't feel as wire worky as the second one. I'll probably try and get the other 2 out of the way tonight. That lad turning up as Bruce Lee at the end was nice as well. I hear Mike Tyson turns up in the third? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted February 10, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 10, 2022 The Killing (1956) - Cinema An early Kubrick film that I hadn't seen before. It's a decent, low-budget heist movie - surprisingly for the time, it's non-linear, jumping back and forward through the day depending which character we're focusing on. It's not complicated with it, but it must have been pretty unusual for the time. The music and narration are a tad over-blown at times, but I'm not complaining - really enjoyable throughout. Belle - Cinema Annoyingly, my local Vue advertised this as the subtitled version, but was actually showing the dubbed one. However, with it being a weird musical cross between Ready Player One and Beauty and the Beast, they got a cracking lead actress to play Belle, and the music's lovely in it. It's also visually stunning in places and consistently likeable. That said, the plot wanders at times, and ends up wandering into a place that feels out of synch with the rest of the film in some ways, suddenly bringing in quite a serious topic and handling it a little too fairy-taley. That said, if you can see this in the cinema, the visuals and music make for a good time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 9 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said: Watched the first two Ip Man films last night, subbed, although the second one tried to foist a dub onto me. They were enjoyable. The scene where he fights Jin in the first one and his wife says "try not to break anything" as she's leaving was amusing, and the final fight against General Miura was good, but I was not prepared for the second half of the second one to turn into Rocky 4. I was waiting for Vince DiCola's training montage music or Heart's On Fire by John Cafferty to start playing. The fight with all the masters on that desk was impressive. Sammo was good as well. The first one didn't feel as wire worky as the second one. I'll probably try and get the other 2 out of the way tonight. That lad turning up as Bruce Lee at the end was nice as well. I hear Mike Tyson turns up in the third? Preston Guildhall and Bus Station turn up in the 4th one. It was a bit jarring but hey ho. Been on a bit of a retro splurge on Prime 50/50 with Peter Weller and Robert Hays is a typical Cannon action film, ergo it is gloriously silly in places and thus a must watch. Mach 2, is an amazingly awful action thriller set around what looks like a promo flight of Concorde at somepoint with a completely different story arc thrown in to match the footage. Epicly bad and has bonus Michael Dorn Lance Guest in for added hilarity. Over on Netflix, Betty Gilpin lands a substantial role (fuck you, The Tomorrow War) and does what is a riff on Hard Target in the form of the Hunt. Very enjoyable, despite not being massively original and having a tiny budget is a fun watch Reminded me a bit of Series 7: The Contenders which is no bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 11, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 11, 2022 Kimi Steven Soderbergh is in this weird part of his career where he's pumping out DTV films and I'm mostly here for it. This one's good fun, written by David Koepp, who mostly writes enjoyable films. Not much to it but a 90 minute paranoid thriller always works for me. Zoe Kravitz finally did another good film after Fury Road, too. Daniel (ok.ru) A much lesser known Sidney Lumet film, this one is about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for being Soviet spies back in the 50s. The split narrative doesn't work too well at times but it's really powerful and Timothy Hutton is awesome in the lead. A lesser Lumet still has loads to offer. Save the Tiger (ok.ru) Enjoyably depressing 70s drama about a PTSD-riddled Jack Lemmon struggling with a fashion company about to go under. Lemmon still gets overlooked for how great a dramatic actor he was but this is as good a performance as he ever gave. Timebomb (ok.ru) Mental action-thriller with Michael Biehn, who acts drunk the whole the way through, trying to find out why he knows so many different ways to kill people. Poor Patsy Kensit looks legitimately traumatised by the whole ordeal. Obviously enjoyed it loads. The Big Red One Excellent war film with a great non-Star Wars Mark Hamill performance and, if you needed any more persuading, Lee Marvin. Ill-judged name for a combat unit and a movie though, surely. Small Soldiers Joe Dante going back to what he knew - small things terrorising a small town. Not as good as the Gremlins films, obviously, but once the chaos starts it's just as inventive as you get from Dante at his best. Sweet Sixteen (Film4) Typical Ken Loach social realism excellence with baby Martin Compston trying to drug deal enough to buy a mobile home for his incarcerated mum. Funny at the start, depressing at the end. Good old Ken. Running Scared (the good one) (ok.ru) My current favourite buddy cop therapy film. "We have an obligation to the lovely ladies of Key West." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAREBEAR LUVVA Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Last night I watched "Covid-19: Invasion" which is a low-budget bit of nonsense "starring" (or more appropriately "featuring", seeing as he's only in it for about two minutes) Kevin Nash. Set in 2035 where a super-deadly variant has decimated the population to the point where there aren't many survivors left, Kev and his followers decide to wipe out a bunch of homeless people who have shacked up in a nearby abandoned school, because apparently they're to blame for spreading the virus. At the same time, an ex-military chap (because there always has to be one of those) has gone into the school to get his estranged sister out before she ends up being killed by the gang. Competently directed and edited, but also features lots of painfully slow fight scenes and awful dialogue (apparently they had no script at the time filming started, and it absolutely shows), a cast who are generally able to say their lines but are all completely unable to convey any sort of emotion whatsoever, and an almost complete lack of logic behind anybody's actions. Pretty much total nonsense from beginning to end. I had a really good sleep after it though, so at least that's something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted February 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2022 Boiling Point: Brilliantly shot film, great cast but found the story far too predictable. It’s a 1 shot film that was completely shot in 1 take. Worth watching and only 94 minutes. Uncharted: The best video game movie adaption. Poor casting for the 3 leads compared to the video games, but it’s a fun action adventure. Sing 2: Decent sequel to a film that shouldn’t have been as much fun as it was. Think I preferred this to the first film, some great song choices in this one an added Adam Buxton. The King’s Men: Too long, lacking the humour of the first 2 films. Better then the sequel, some good sequences and twists and the WW1 setting was interesting. Needed more Gemma Arterton. All were solid 7’s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted February 13, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2022 Got round to The Kings Man, I didnt mind it. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a good film, but it wasn't bad. It just wasn't in keeping with the Kingsman kinda theme. In itself it was a 4 or 5 out of 10. As a Kingman film it was scraping a 3 at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 13, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2022 The first Kingsmen film featured an endorsement of The Sun so I don't know why anybody would watch past that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Are Kingsman films big hits? Feels like they’re trying to make a proper franchise out of them and I can’t figure out why. The only thing they have going for them is an OTT (even by his own standards) performance from Samuel L. Jackson and the weirdest thing you’ll ever see Elton John do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said: Are Kingsman films big hits? As @johnnyboy said, moderate to big hits. The first one grossed $414million worldwide in 2014, which for something that was relatively unknown outside of the comic reader bubble was deemed really well. The second grossed $410million, so although it didn’t do better than the first, which the studio would’ve hoped to have done, it was still a financial success. This third film has only grossed $121million since release, with a $6million opening weekend in the US. Had it not been delayed by a year because of COVID it might have done better. When it was finally released it was up against Spider-Man: No Way Home which annihilating everything else at the time. Spider-Man’s US opening weekend from 2 weeks earlier was double The King’s Man’s entire worldwide gross to date Edited February 13, 2022 by WyattSheepMask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) Blue Story Not the "glorification of gang violence" that many were claiming it to be but it also barely questions why young people are going down those routes in life, it felt a little like a lazy copy of Kidulthood and Top Boy and without the heart of either. Pleasure Ninja Thybergs first feature length, decided to give it a watch after seeing Agathe Rousselle mention it. A truncated story of a young woman entering and rising through the porn industry, not an easy watch but felt weirdly hollow. Edited February 13, 2022 by Merzbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 13, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2022 1 hour ago, WyattSheepMask said: When it was finally released it was up against Spider-Man: No Way Home which annihilating everything else at the time. A Marvel film destroying the potential box office earnings of parallel releases? But I'd heard this was a myth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted February 13, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2022 A prequel which opened up against Sing 2 and The Matrix 4 as well as the biggest film of 2021 and had no marketing. It was DOA and had production issues and reshoots. Should have sent it straight to D+. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 The bumpf on Netflix for Night Hunter looked good. Ben Kingsley and Henry Cavill were in it so I gave it a shot. A shot to the head may have been preferable. Garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 18, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Netflix) As reported in the horror thread, completely terrible. How did Elsie Fisher go from Eighth Grade to this? Just nothing going for it, I wish Fede Alvarez would fuck off. Moonfall (cinema) Awful. I've got plenty of time for Emmerich's films but this is intolerably stupid and gets even more so as it goes along. At least John Bradley got to use his lovely Wythenshawe accent. Thelma & Louise I'd always assumed this was too long and very boring but it's not, it's actually great. So we can add one more to the still all too short list of good Ridley Scott films. The Devils Precisely as nuts as I'd always heard. I love these 70s British films where you can find George from George & Mildred overseeing a massive orgy. Probably Ken Russell's best film. Before Sunset / Before Midnight The second part proves to be the best part when it should have been the final one. Midnight shits the bed by just becoming another boring marital bickering drama but the middle one is perfect for what it should be. The trilogy as a whole is overrated but I'd definitely watch the first two again. Annihilation (Netflix) Still love this. The soundtrack in those lighthouse scenes shits me up as much as the soundtrack to Sicario. Would kill to see this at the cinema one day. Runaway (ok.ru) Michael Crichton was a really good director of enjoyable, accessible films like this. Gene Simmons as the lead villain, bullets that go round corners, robot spiders, Tom Selleck. Lovely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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