Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 Monkey Man - A fine addition to the John Wick-esque genre with enough of Dev Patel's personality in it to stand out from the Wick clones. Wouldn't mind a few more of these. Still think Nobody is my absolute favourite of this particular sub-genre but Monkey Man isn't far off. Kung Fu Panda 4 - The most consistently 'good' franchise in animation delivers yet another solid entry. Changes the dynamic up from the previous three and is a lot of fun. I think 5 might be stretching it though. Wicked Little Letters - Surprise of the year! I thought this was funny as fuck with some brilliant casting. Had a great time with this. (Side note, Jessie Buckley is very fit in this). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted April 19 Moderators Share Posted April 19 Surely Taken was the father of this revenge fantasy genre? Excited to see Monkey Man though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 Monkey Man was excellent. A really good story and array of characters, especially in the second half with the hijra representation. Really impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Yeah Dev went out of his way to make sure they had such positive representation, he's been really outspoken in interviews since, too. I love that Anwar is the one from Skins that's doing the best in Hollywood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 Man on Fire We watched the first two Equalizers on Netflix and thought they were pretty enjoyable so moved on to another Denzel film as Equalizer 3 isn’t on Netflix yet. I can only speak for the first 40 minutes as we turned it off after absolutely fuck all happened for the full 40. An action/thriller with no action for nearly the first full hour. Yawn. The editing is headache inducing as well. Constant quick cuts and filters and rubbish camera angles. It’s like watching Raw at it’s worst but with awful early 2000s greeny brown filters over everything. Maybe it gets good but I’m not investing that much time into it to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 2 minutes ago, FLips said: Man on Fire We watched the first two Equalizers on Netflix and thought they were pretty enjoyable so moved on to another Denzel film as Equalizer 3 isn’t on Netflix yet. I can only speak for the first 40 minutes as we turned it off after absolutely fuck all happened for the full 40. An action/thriller with no action for nearly the first full hour. Yawn. The editing is headache inducing as well. Constant quick cuts and filters and rubbish camera angles. It’s like watching Raw at it’s worst but with awful early 2000s greeny brown filters over everything. Maybe it gets good but I’m not investing that much time into it to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 I'm in a weekly "bad movie" watchalong thing that started during Covid, where everyone nominates a film each week, and then what we watch is decided on the roll of a dice. Last night's was Starslammer a.k.a. Prison Ship a.k.a. The Adventures Of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer. It's a strong contender for not necessarily being the worst film I've ever seen, but certainly one of the most unpleasant. It jumps between sci-fi parody and borderline softcore porn women's prison stuff, and every bit of dialogue is either misogynistic as hell or a punchline with no joke - at one point the warden of the prison does an "oxygen masks will fall from above you" joke, but they're not on a plane, and she's not an air steward, so why? Similarly, there's an ill-defined space emperor type bloke who was clearly never on set at the same time as any of the main cast as he never interacts with any of them, and he ends one of his video broadcasts by saying "that oughta hold the little bastards" - the same urban legend referenced by Gabbo in The Simpsons - but it's just meaningless in this context, just a reference for it's own sake. Speaking of not being on set at the same time as anyone else, John Carradine shows up on a green screen for one scene, because I think he just naturally occurs once a film is bad enough, you don't have to even film him, just when you start editing he'll be there. Imagine the scripts he turned down. I couldn't even tell you what the plot was. It had Johnny Legend - wrestler, founder of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, rockabilly musician, brother of Andy Kaufman's girlfriend - as a kind of space wizard, and it's some of the worst acting I've ever seen. I found out this morning that the director, Fred Olen Ray, was also a wrestler, under the name Fabulous Freddie Valentine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 39 minutes ago, FLips said: I can only speak for the first 40 minutes as we turned it off after absolutely fuck all happened for the full 40. The first 40 minutes is the build to the rest of the movie when everything kicks off so maybe keep going with it. I haven't seen it in years but I remember it being pretty fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 (edited) Few things recently. Robot Dreams (cinema) Lovely little mostly-silent animation about a world of animals, and a dog who buys a robot friend. All about joy and bittersweet sadness, etc. Beautifully made. My partner and I did a rare Everyman for this one, which made it feel like a treat. Immaculate (cinema) Liked it rather than loved it. I liked that they went there for the ending, but it faltered in places for me. Sydney Sweeney was good, but I wanted the whole thing to be more Suspiria-style lurid. The few flashes of colour and abstract stuff really worked, and I'd have loved more of that. The Last Omen The Omen is one of my favourite horror films (and the first proper grown-up one I watched). And while it's not in the same league, I really liked it. Ralph Ineson is, once again, brilliant in a horror film, and it just overall worked better for me than Immaculate. It's surreal that two such similar films came out a week apart though. Mute Witness (shudder) Odd little film, about a woman with total speech impairment - she's working in a horror film in Russia, and starts being stalked after she witnesses a murder. It's not great, but it has a whole bunch of really good bits. And an odd cast - Fay Ripley plays the best friend, and Alec Guinness has a cameo (filmed separately, years before) and it's his last credited film role. Has a great scene involving a type-talk phone, and a genuinely funny bit of exploitative nudity. Spoiler The lead is being spied on by a pervert across the road. In an effort to get his attention when a killer is after her, she flashes him, standing naked to get his attention - but he's not looking, so she throws her arms up in frustration, covers up and gets on with trying to escape. It was so well-timed and her reaction was so spot-on and unexpected that I laughed out loud . Late Night with the Devil AI-nonsense aside, this was really fun. Could have been more subtle by the end, and it would have been better going back to the documentary-style... but when it works, it really works, and has some cracking moments in it. And it's funny too. "He died." "You mean he bombed?" "No." Edited April 19 by Chris B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, LaGoosh said: The first 40 minutes is the build to the rest of the movie when everything kicks off so maybe keep going with it. I haven't seen it in years but I remember it being pretty fun. 40 minutes is absolutely too long to build an action film. It’d be like Commando if it was 40 minutes of Arnie eating ice cream and petting deers with his kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 So the mother-in-law is comig on Sunday and I've been given the afternoon off, I want to go to the cinema. I'm currently deciding to between either Monkey Man or Civil War...what say you UKFF? I rarely get the chance to go to the cinema these days so I have to get my picks right to avoid crushing disappointment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, FLips said: Man on Fire We watched the first two Equalizers on Netflix and thought they were pretty enjoyable so moved on to another Denzel film as Equalizer 3 isn’t on Netflix yet. I can only speak for the first 40 minutes as we turned it off after absolutely fuck all happened for the full 40. An action/thriller with no action for nearly the first full hour. Yawn. The editing is headache inducing as well. Constant quick cuts and filters and rubbish camera angles. It’s like watching Raw at it’s worst but with awful early 2000s greeny brown filters over everything. Maybe it gets good but I’m not investing that much time into it to find out. Creasy’s art is death and he was about to paint his masterpiece before you turned it off!  If I remember correctly the whole point of the slow start of that film is showing Creasy’s relationship with Dakota Fanning develop so when the shit does hit the fan you feel it more. I remember really liking it, plus the Christopher Walken bit I’ve beautifully paraphrased at the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Just now, LaGoosh said: So the mother-in-law is comig on Sunday and I've been given the afternoon off, I want to go to the cinema. I'm currently deciding to between either Monkey Man or Civil War...what say you UKFF? I rarely get the chance to go to the cinema these days so I have to get my picks right to avoid crushing disappointment. They're both great imo but Monkey Man just edges out in front for me, I think it's definitely a more enjoyable film while Civil War gets pretty fucking harrowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 19 Paid Members Share Posted April 19 Monkey Man here too @LaGoosh although both were high 8 films for me, Monkey Man edges it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 6 hours ago, BomberPat said: I'm in a weekly "bad movie" watchalong thing that started during Covid, where everyone nominates a film each week, and then what we watch is decided on the roll of a dice. Same, but the group is just me, and the films are daily 5 hours ago, FLips said: It’d be like Commando if it was 40 minutes of Arnie eating ice cream and petting deers with his kid. Would watch. I'm still wondering what was in that sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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