Chester40 Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 10 hours ago, ramsbottom said: The Listener - 5/10 Bad Boys : Ride or Die - 6/10 I Saw The TV Glow - 7/10 Hit Man - 7/10 Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker - 4/10 Furiosa A Mad Max Saga - 7/10 Beverly Hills Cop : Axel F - 7/10 In a Violent Nature - 8/10 The Watchers - 4/10 I'm Thinking of Ending Things - 8/10 The Instigators - 7/10 No One Will Save You - 7/10 Deadpool & Wolverine - 8/10 Twisters - 7/10 Trap - 1/10 Longlegs - 7/10 The Killer (2024) - 4/10 Assassin (2015) - 2/10 A Quiet Place : Day One - 8/10 Milk & Serial - 6/10 After Hours - 7/10 Last Straw - 5/10 Wolfs - 7/10 Strange Darlings - 7/10 I thought 'In a Violent Nature' was really slow and bordering on tedious. Reminded me of 'Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer'. Obviously some point about the mundane nature of murder, but just left me cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsbottom Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 2 hours ago, Chester40 said: I thought 'In a Violent Nature' was really slow and bordering on tedious. Reminded me of 'Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer'. Obviously some point about the mundane nature of murder, but just left me cold. I enjoyed the fact it was from the killer’s POV for the majority of it. Admittedly it could’ve done with 10 or so minutes of him walking cut out, but other than that it was really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 23 hours ago, ramsbottom said: I enjoyed the fact it was from the killer’s POV for the majority of it. Admittedly it could’ve done with 10 or so minutes of him walking cut out, but other than that it was really good It's definitely picked up a lot of plaudits, so I'm in the minority. I felt like I was watching the kids play a horror, POV computer game. Just a generic character wandering round aimlessly, happening upon somebody and killing them. Followed by more aimless walking along boring fields. Really made me feel nothing. It was all definitely a deliberate artistic choice so I was just missing the point I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 Nocturnal Animals (Netflix) Loved this & the more I think about it, the more I love it. Amy Adams is living a superficially privileged life & receives a book, written by her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal). The film is then a mix of her real life story, and the plot of the book she’s reading. Just a warning that there’s a very stressful sequence early on (from the book story) which almost made me give up, but I’m glad I didn’t. 9/10 Crewton and Comrade 86 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram-Alf Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Prey...on film 4, Predator movie, Set in Native America in 1719, Loads of blood and snot, The female Native is a cool cat taking on the Predator, guess who wins☺️..."If it bleeds we can kill it" 5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 (edited) 2012 An absolute classic 'Bad Science' movie - there is precious little that is right about it, but if you want a man in a car outpacing a pyroclastic flow, the Earth's crust rotating 2000 miles around the planet's core, California dropping into the Pacific Ocean, magnetic pole reversal and neutrinos interacting with, well, anything really, this is the film for you. 0/10 for reality, 9/10 for fun. I love bad science films, and this one's 'worse' (at least from a scientific accuracy perspective) than most. NASA named it as "... the most absurd and scientifically flawed sci-fi blockbuster in recent memory" - which is as good a review as it gets in my book. Edited October 14 by Eddie TimRam, richinspain and Comrade 86 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 Violent Night First Christmas movie of the year. a jaded and disillusioned Santa Claus (David Harbour) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. His reindeer have apparently headed back to the North Pole, and Santa has just found the 'good stuff' which he finds preferable to the usual glass of milk. Speaking of 'wrong place at the wrong time', that could be said for the crooks and mercenaries who turn up, expecting an easy and profitable heist. They reckon without Santa's sledgehammer and Trudy (Leah Brady) who most definitely watched 'Home Alone'. Well worth watching. 8.5/10 Wolfie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 4 hours ago, Eddie said: Violent Night First Christmas movie of the year. a jaded and disillusioned Santa Claus (David Harbour) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. His reindeer have apparently headed back to the North Pole, and Santa has just found the 'good stuff' which he finds preferable to the usual glass of milk. Speaking of 'wrong place at the wrong time', that could be said for the crooks and mercenaries who turn up, expecting an easy and profitable heist. They reckon without Santa's sledgehammer and Trudy (Leah Brady) who most definitely watched 'Home Alone'. Well worth watching. 8.5/10 @Day will not be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 13 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: @Day will not be happy. Ha! That was my exact first thought when I read this too! I reckon @Eddie could be up for a ban if the gaffer spots it! 🤣👍 DarkFruitsRam7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 (edited) 19 hours ago, Eddie said: 2012 An absolute classic 'Bad Science' movie - there is precious little that is right about it, but if you want a man in a car outpacing a pyroclastic flow, the Earth's crust rotating 2000 miles around the planet's core, California dropping into the Pacific Ocean, magnetic pole reversal and neutrinos interacting with, well, anything really, this is the film for you. 0/10 for reality, 9/10 for fun. I love bad science films, and this one's 'worse' (at least from a scientific accuracy perspective) than most. NASA named it as "... the most absurd and scientifically flawed sci-fi blockbuster in recent memory" - which is as good a review as it gets in my book. I'm so gonna watch this now 🤣 Edited October 15 by Comrade 86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 1 hour ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: @Day will not be happy. Why won’t I? Over my head this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 14 minutes ago, Day said: Why won’t I? Over my head this one Doesn't take much. Christmas in mid-October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted October 15 Share Posted October 15 27 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: Doesn't take much. Christmas in mid-October. In his own house, can watch what he likes. Just don’t stick the Christmas lights on yet and he’s fine Mucker1884 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted Wednesday at 13:44 Share Posted Wednesday at 13:44 19 hours ago, Mucker1884 said: Ha! That was my exact first thought when I read this too! I reckon @Eddie could be up for a ban if the gaffer spots it! 🤣👍 Humbug. Mucker1884 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted Wednesday at 14:14 Share Posted Wednesday at 14:14 How It Ends There are 'Bad Science' movies - and then there are just bad movies. 'How It Ends' is an example of the latter. Society breaks down, but nobody seems to know why. The film is a road trip which follows the following path: Car running out of fuel Find fuel Get robbed of fuel Get fuel back again ... repeatedly from Chicago to Seattle. Roads are blocked by the Military and/or Militias. Forest Whittaker dies Get to Seattle All the while, nothing happens to explain why nothing happens. Every cliffhanging moment has an anticli8mactic conclusion. All power, internet, cell coverage is down. There's a volcanic eruption and another instance of a car being able to out-run a pyroclastic flow, and then the hero gets there and meets the missus again. The whole thing seems to be one "Wouldn't it be a good idea if this happens" sub-plot after another, with no explanation of why it happened in the first place. Bizarre and, frankly, rather dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram-Alf Posted Wednesday at 20:14 Share Posted Wednesday at 20:14 On 15/10/2024 at 00:38, Eddie said: 2012 An absolute classic 'Bad Science' movie - there is precious little that is right about it, but if you want a man in a car outpacing a pyroclastic flow, the Earth's crust rotating 2000 miles around the planet's core, California dropping into the Pacific Ocean, magnetic pole reversal and neutrinos interacting with, well, anything really, this is the film for you. After some wonderful critique I thought I'd give it a go, After some superb driving and great piloting after only 2 lessons while the whole of California is crumbling and are able to🤷♂️...well I don't know😏 as it put "the disaster movie world" to shame, I couldn't stand another circa 100mins. I have now rewound the film and got back those 50+mins 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted Wednesday at 22:34 Share Posted Wednesday at 22:34 Just back from Asif Kapadia's "2073" as a mixture of dystopian drama and current politics,as a way to talk about the future. Expected/hoped it would be good. Turned out to be drivel. Nick Pickering/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted Thursday at 00:20 Share Posted Thursday at 00:20 4 hours ago, Ram-Alf said: After some wonderful critique I thought I'd give it a go, After some superb driving and great piloting after only 2 lessons while the whole of California is crumbling and are able to🤷♂️...well I don't know😏 as it put "the disaster movie world" to shame, I couldn't stand another circa 100mins. I have now rewound the film and got back those 50+mins 😁 Can't everyone fly a plane between two collapsing skyscrapers after just two lessons? You should have seen him flying the Tupolev later in the film - another instance where pyroclastic flows don't move as fast as they ought to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted Thursday at 00:55 Share Posted Thursday at 00:55 A Man Called Otto Perhaps it's time for me to have a break from 'Bad Science' and 'Bad Santas' for a while, so I've just armed myself with a nice Tripel and watched Tom Hanks in this emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried, I had a second beer. I absolutely loved this film. Tom Hanks is amongst my favourite actors alongside Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood. Perhaps it's because I found myself identifying with grumpy old Otto (apart from the 'attempting suicide' bit). Comrade 86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram-Alf Posted Thursday at 07:58 Share Posted Thursday at 07:58 7 hours ago, Eddie said: Can't everyone fly a plane between two collapsing skyscrapers after just two lessons? You should have seen him flying the Tupolev later in the film - another instance where pyroclastic flows don't move as fast as they ought to. If only those in Pompeii that got caught up in the explosion of Vesuvius could have out run a 500mph pyroclastic surge the 100meter race would have set a world record never to be beaten 😁 Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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