cobra_gordo Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 13 hours ago, patiirc said: The Tomorrow War. (Prime) Shove as many film homages as you can into two hours 17 minutes worth of run time. Amongst other films blatantly stolen (sorry, gently paid tribute to) from include. (and this list isnt exhaustive) Alien, The Thing, Predator, Evolution, Starship Troopers, Edge of Tomorrow, World War Z, 28 Weeks Later, Rampage, Transformers. I really enjoyed The Tomorrow War. Stuck it on last night and thought it was good fun, plenty tense when needed and I loved the creature design. I think it was 20 minutes too long but it won't stop me watching it again. And I thought it was more like Warhammer 40k Tyranids: The Movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 I thought Fear Street 1994 was fine for what it was, but I wish it wasn't bogged down in all the supernatural silliness. I much prefer horror (particularly slasher) films without it. The 1978 one, which is clearly heavily inspired by Friday the 13th, looks like it should be good fun. Last night I watched Mackintosh & T.J., something I've been trying to track down for a while and finally found thanks to a recent DVD release. It's the last film of Roy Rogers, who plays an ageing cowboy drifting around and looking for his next job when he comes across a troubled, homeless tearaway teen and takes him under his wing, straightening him out while they work on a ranch together. It is a lovely film, for the most part, but takes a really dark turn at the end, which I didn't expect (though thankfully not in the relationship between the cowboy and the kid). I loved the look and feel of the film and Waylon and Willie being on the soundtrack certainly didn't hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 6, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 6, 2021 The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) (Sony Movies or whatever it's called now) There's nobody else I would have trusted to remake this than Tony Scott and he does a fine job, although I did miss the black humour of the original. Not a bad job at all considering the original is the greatest crime film of the 1970s. Tony Scott was just the best, mainstream cinema remains so much poorer for him not being around. The Pelican Brief Alan J. Pakula tried to recapture his Klute / The Parallax View / All the President's Men glory days with another conspiracy thriller. Problem is it was written by John Grisham, who's shite. Wonderful cast, mostly wasted. I don't blame you though, Al. Year of the Dragon Michael Cimino was shit and here's more evidence. Boring, racist, appallingly acted drivel with almost nothing going for it aside from a stylish ending and one other scene of enjoyable violence. Narc Joe Carnahan should have amounted to way more than he has considering what a superb debut this was. The opening scene is ridiculously good and even Jason Patric is good in it. And now Carnahan is making films with Frank Grillo. What a shame. Freeway Superb mid-90s take on Little Red Riding Hood. I didn't used to like Reese Witherspoon but I was absolutely wrong. The courtroom scenes are funny as fuck. And there's Brittany Murphy ❤️ The Last Boy Scout (ITV4) Head or gut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 10, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 10, 2021 Framed (1975) (Talking Pictures TV) Superbly violent revenge thriller as Joe Don Baker pursues the conspirators who stole his money, raped his girl and put him in jail. A bit like a deep South Point Blank, there are a couple of brilliant fight scenes and an inventive bit of vehicular torture. Just my cup of tea, and would be for several other reprobates round here -particularly looking at you @Scott Malbranque Don't Bother to Knock (Sony Movies) Noted for being a vehicle that was created to show off Marilyn Monroe's prowess as a serious actress, it works well as that and she's actually really good here. Playing against type as a mentally disturbed babysitter, she also gets a great script behind her and a quality support cast from Richard Widmark and Elisha Cook Jr, who says to her at one point "You smell like a cooch dancer!" Cop Land (ITV4) This has stood up really well. Interesting to remember back to when this was released and all the fuss that was made about Stallone trying to be a serious actor, but it's so much more than that. I love the set-up of this town almost being like a cop's commune, and the cast is absolutely perfect. Absolute Power Kicks off with a brilliant opening half an hour before becoming entirely daft and nowhere near as good. Still fun to see Clint Eastwood as a Master of Disguise, even though all the disguises are complete shit. Good old Gene Hackman though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted July 13, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2021 I watched the Fear Street 1978, and it seemed almost entirely pointless. It didn't really add anything to the narrative that we didn't learn - or couldn't have figured it out - in the 1994 episode, and wasn't even a convincing pastiche of '70s horror. With it being set in a 1978 camp, I assumed we were getting a Friday The 13th homage, but it wasn't really that at all, just more of the heavy-handed supernatural guff and teen drama of the first one. The Sunnydale/Shadyside thing of there being a perfect and a "cursed" side of town works in teen/YA fiction, but comes across as incredibly lazy writing in an adult adaptation. Just incredibly childish High School Musical stuff, at odds with how over the top violent a lot of the rest of the thing is. Worst of all, it's not even very convincingly 1970s. No one's clothes or hair feels particularly of the time, and there's none of the attention to detail that made the '90s one feel like it was set in the '90s, in terms of set dressing and cultural references. Yes, all the music cues are '70s tracks, but none of them do a great job of anchoring the story in that time - partly because something like "Don't Fear The Reaper" has transcended being "a '70s song", so doesn't automatically conjure up images of the decade. It also had maybe the worst single line of dialogue I've seen in a film for years: Spoiler The entire set-up of the episode is that, picking up where we left off in the '90s one, we know that one woman survived the 1970s massacre. We know her name. She's the one telling the story. At the end of the episode, one of the kids reacts by going wide-eyed and disbelieving, saying, "you were Ziggy?!". Aside from Ziggy being one of only two characters in the whole story to have her surname, her having said that her sister died (so you've got a 50/50 chance to guess who she might be!), and you already knowing she survived this massacre - she was the one telling the story. Are we supposed to believe that she somehow told the entire story of how she survived a serial killer, but in the third person just to keep some kids guessing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted July 13, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2021 Everytime I see Magnum, Dev and Frankie post a list of films, I think I should watch more films. So I actually watched two in one night. And what a pair I chose! Buffaloed - The beautiful Zoey Deutch as a Buffalo girl with lifelong interest in business desperately trying to make it big, getting into debt collecting, being really good at it and pretty much just ending up in prison all the time. Really good supporting cast with Judy Greer and Noah Reid (from Schitts Creek) and an assortment of other characters. It's a pretty smart film with unrealistic but cool dialogue. I quite enjoyed it, it's short and sweet. Was on Sky. The Escorts (aka Amateur Night) - This just seems like a vehicle for Jason Biggs to be Jason Biggs except I'm not convinced Jason Biggs was someone anyone would create a vehicle for in 2016. I'm being hypocritical though, the poster with a high heel standing on Jason Biggs's head was the reason I chucked this on (was Netflix or Prime). He's an out of work architect whose missus is about to give birth so he takes a driving job in desperation only to find it's driving a hooker to appointments and hilarity insues. It's not a terrible film but it's not a good one. It's just kind of there. If you want to see Sharpay from High School Musical pissing on a bloke, it's for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 13, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2021 11 minutes ago, tiger_rick said: Buffaloed - The beautiful Zoey Deutch as a Buffalo girl with lifelong interest in business desperately trying to make it big, getting into debt collecting, being really good at it and pretty much just ending up in prison all the time. Really good supporting cast with Judy Greer and Noah Reid (from Schitts Creek) and an assortment of other characters. It's a pretty smart film with unrealistic but cool dialogue. I quite enjoyed it, it's short and sweet. Was on Sky. Ahh, been meaning to catch this. Zoey Deutch is great, highly recommend Set It Up (Netflix) and Zombieland: Double Tap, which she's the best thing in, if you want to see more of her being excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy seems to be taking an absolute pasting online. I don’t know what people were expecting from 2021 Looney Tunes or ‘Not An Actor’ LeBron James, but some are having a right fit about it. It’s probably all just rose-tinted specs for the original, which I haven’t seen since I was a kid an I imagine hasn’t aged well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 17, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 17, 2021 LeBron James was brilliant in Trainwreck, he shouldn't be wasting his time in stupid Space Jam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted July 17, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 17, 2021 Space Jam - A new Legacy (arrrgh bay) I couldn’t be bothered to even see this with my unlimited card. And after a shitter of a day and my daughter wanting to 1) see it, and 2) cheer her up we watched it at home. It’s one of the worst films I’ve seen in years. Literally anything of note was in the trailer. Just god awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 After Dark, My Sweet was very enjoyable - thanks for the heads-up, @Devon Malcolm! Also quite liked Wild West (1992), a British indie film about three Pakistani brothers who want to be country music stars. It's a bit slapdash and was clearly written and filmed in a very 'loose' manner, but it's fun. There's a bunch of stuff going on and there's some subplots that don't quite get resolved, but the main story is fine. Feels like it would have had more of an audience if it had come around later in the decade around the time of East is East and Bend it Like Beckham etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Mortal Kombat. Well that was a fucking mess. Best thing I can say about it is that Kano gave me a few laughs. Avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 23, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 23, 2021 Hit! (Talking Pictures TV) Outstanding mid-70s flick that crosses The Dirty Dozen with The French Connection, and how could anyone not like that? Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor almost make it into a buddy cop film at one point. It's pretty long but I still loved it and that says a lot. Casino First time I've watched this, and probably the last. Way over an hour too long, repetitive as hell, and a total overuse of voiceover. Miles away from Scorsese's best. True Romance I wasn't much of a fan of this back in the 90s and now I dislike it even more. The Hopper / Walken scene is fucking putrid but the rest of it is just Tarantino's usual excesses with nothing else to hold it together. Gandolfini and Arquette get a pass. Money Movers (Talking Pictures TV) Vicious Aussie 70s heist film with a superbly brutal ending. Pulls absolutely no punches at any point, one of the best Ozploitation films I've seen. From the director of Driving Miss Daisy! Hell or High Water Delighted to see this is as good on a rewatch. I say we let Taylor Sheridan write all the films from now on. I believe in Ben Foster supremacy. The Killers (1946) (YouTube) One of the greatest film noirs of all time, and one of the greatest films of the 1940s. Starts bleakly, doesn't get any lighter after that, its story is perfectly unfurled and it's nuts that this was Burt Lancaster's debut. Fracture Gregory Hoblit made Fallen and Frequency so he's alright with me, and this is good fun too. Utterly absurd but terrific watching Tony Hopkins winding up Ryan Gosling for a couple of hours. Gosling decides to play his role drunk, but I still don't know why. The Hit (1984) One of the best British crime films of the 80s. Hurt, Roth and Stamp in the three leads would be enough for me anyway but their characters are well written and the humour is nice and dark. Stephen Frears is a great director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted July 24, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 24, 2021 I love John Hurt in the 80s. He looked fresh and ready to go. Did some crackers too like "Scandal" about the Profumo affair. "Champions" about the Grand National winning jockey, Bob Champion. I love me some 80s John Hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WeeAl Posted July 24, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted July 24, 2021 7 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Money Movers (Talking Pictures TV) Vicious Aussie 70s heist film with a superbly brutal ending. Pulls absolutely no punches at any point, one of the best Ozploitation films I've seen. From the director of Driving Miss Daisy! This was a real gem of a find when I stumbled upon it a few months ago. Talking Pictures: The gift that keeps on giving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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