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  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,107MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    He looks like a panto dame.

    (All together) Oh no he doesn't!

    :)) :)) :))
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Red 2 : Not as bad as I remembered, quite fun really.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Fate of the Furious : ( 4K uhd ) This film looks amazing in 4k, the cars
    the girls, the action {[] and at 68 Kurt Russell is still one of the coolist
    guys on the planet
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    Venus (2006), with Peter O'Toole as a randy old actor openly lusting after his friend's teenage niece, played by Jodie Whitaker. This could have been gamey, but it's actually kind of sweet and sad, with the late O'Toole in fine form. And who'd-a thunk that Dr. Who actually looks pretty good without clothes on?
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I've just watched the trailer for "I spit on your grave : Deja vu "
    :)) I have to asume this is a piss take ? it looks terrible in a
    good way, I was waiting for the late great Leslie Nielsen to make
    an appearance, and "Angel has Fallen", looks fun -{
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Ens007 wrote:
    Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: Starring Zac Effron

    Well acted - especially from the lead who managed to display many of Bundy's mannerisms & 'charm' very well ... however the movie could have been so much more in my opinion. Having read a lot regarding Bundy over the years, it failed to show a lot of what he actually did (gore not even required in that regard) and how the horrifying story actually unfolded, plus it missed showing his truly evil side or his cunning. This may well be due to it being told from the perspective of his former partner & perhaps she never truly saw the true monster that he was.

    I wouldn't put anyone off watching it, however it left me feeling like it was a missed opportunity to actually nail the story.

    Pity, I was thinking of going to the cinema to see that one. That's a very rare event for me! :)
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Enjoying the "Scary Movie" series :)) I still laugh out loud at these Films -{
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  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    I've busted my shoulder, so I'm playing catch up:

    TAKEN 3 - crikey, this was a gore fest, hated it.

    THE SEA WOLVES - odd little film, dated even in 1980, had no idea it was based on a James Leasor novel and a true story, Roger Moore is rather good in it, Gregory Peck is dreadful

    THE LADY VANISHES - why exactly did they remake a classic?

    THE CHASE - Excellent, Deep South melodrama, Brando was one of my idols as a youth and I rate his performance very high in this one, Clifton James has a small part, Jane Fonda is gorgeous, an underrated gem

    THE PASSENGER - typically enigmatic Antonioni movie, beautiful photography, it utilises Hemingway's 'iceberg' characterisation in a cinematic form and as American studios don't understand that sort of theory, the distributor hacked it to pieces to try to make it a thriller instead of a character study. This was the long version and its very, very good indeed.

    SAFE - a very worrying film, too violent with paedophilic undertones, Luv Besson did this with better characters and a multi-textured story in Leon.

    ICE COLD IN ALEX - can't believe I'd never seen this, quite a good film, the beginning is particularly fine as it introduces characters quickly and concisely while still managing to portray the unending horror and chaos of war, but I didn't care much for the all too easy ending.
  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,118MI6 Agent
    Guava Island. Good little film.

    Nonso Anozie incredibly menacing would make a fantastic Bond baddie. (The perfect Mr Big!)
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    A Shot in the Dark :)) Inspector Clouseau -{
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Cold Pursuit:
    Not what I was expecting, not the usual " out for revenge "
    Thriller but a very good black comedy.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Escape Room :
    Standard saw type movie, enjoyable enough, but nothing new.
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  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    Hard Times (1975)
    Walter Hill's depression boxing drama with James Coburn (overacting as he often did in the 70s) and Charles Bronson (doing his strong, silent, brooding act to perfection). Good, but doesn't go anywhere; Roger Spottiswoode was the editor.

    The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
    I remember watching this in the cinema with a girlfriend. We enjoyed it then, but it's not as good as I remembered it. Rene Russo is dreadful. Quite why she was directed by McTierman to be such an airhead as well as a genius is beyond me. As for the odd bridging scenes where Pierce discusses his psychological make-up with Faye Dunaway, well, they were inserted just as a nod to the original movie. The credits should have been much better than they are, but are spoilt by the need to cut away from the animations to the movie itself; sometimes less is more. The music occasionally reminisces on Windmills of Your Mind. The scene where Pierce and Rene dance is awful and the love scene embarrassingly unerotic. For all that it looks glamorous, has a fun plot and Pierce Brosnan is excellent.

    I haven't seen the original for years, so probably due a revisit.
  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    Suntan

    A Greek movie about an alcoholic doctor assigned to a holiday island; the first two thirds is an intriguing study of a lost soul, caught up in an environment he doesn't understand; the climax is a trifle sordid and very unlikely. Good photography. Like many 'artistic' European movies, its lacks explanation, you can make of it what you will.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Jane Eyre (2011) directed by Cary Fukunaga

    Those who know the story this is a gothic thriller-romance, if that's a genere, and far from James Bond. Mia Wasikowska plays the title character, Michael Fassbender plays Rochester and Jamie Bell and Judi Dench are among the supporting cast. I think Fukunaga's use of light and darkness is masterfull in this movie, and many frames look like Rembrandt paintings. In spite of this he brings out great performances from the high-quality cast and the story works really well. I also noticed how the director has the patience to let a scene "rest", just focusing on a face and let the mood and feelings play out. Children also play important roles in the film, including Jane herself as a child. I think the scenes involving children work well, he draws out good performances from the young actors and in the commentator track Fukunaga says he let them improvise a little. This is interesting since there's at least one child in Bond25.
    It's also clear from the comentator track that Fukunaga is very involved in the many aspects of filmmaking, such as writing, wardrobe, music and lighting.
    There's many versions of "Jane Eyre", including a rather good Mini-series from 1983 with Timothy Dalton as Rochester.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The Italian Jon ( 1969)
    a classic and always fun -{
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  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    The Italian Jon ( 1969)
    a classic and always fun -{
    It's just been reissued, did you go to the cinema to see it?
  • chrisno1chrisno1 LondonPosts: 3,172MI6 Agent
    I spent Sunday night watching FATHOM (1967) with Raquel Welch.
    Fun and very silly. Odd that Miss Welch does not get top billing despite being in almost every single scene of the film !
    I only watched it for the bikinis and for the scenes in Nerja, Spain, where I've just been on holiday - amazingly some bits are still there, exactly the same, 50 years on !
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Not in the cinema, but on bluray.
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    The Italian Jon ( 1969)
    a classic and always fun -{

    Jon? Is that a toilet or a guy who frequents ladies of the evening? :007)
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  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    Prime 2/6 , Streep as a shrink , Uma is dating her son and is also her patient......just indifferent about it , boring zzzzzzzz. Skip it.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    The Aftermath

    Set in aftermath of WW2 as the Allied forces occupy Berlin and take over the lovely mansions for their own use. So we have the English taking over a wealthy Germany's mansion only in this case the sergeant decides to let the family stay on and his wife Keira Knightley to live there too, rattling around... Already we have nods to Schindler's List - occupiers taking over property - and Rebecca, as Knightley wanders around the big house looking frail and at a disadvantage to the haughty German servants. Then nods to 9/11 as desperate folk hold up photos of missing loved ones that get pinned to a great notice board. Thing is - and you get this with a lot of films these days - you get the feeling the whole thing is a sort of composite of other movies or moments and doesn't really hold its own.

    So the buttoned-up wife in due course starts something up with the haughty German man of the house, and it then gets a bit Lady Chatterly's... I suppose maybe that's how it might have been had Colonel von Trapp hung around to see his Austrian mansion been taken over by the Allies. That said, the German accent slips a bit, as does Keira's nightie.

    At some point you feel a better cast with more chemistry or stardom might have worked, as in days of yore you would have had an English Patient vibe, with that cast in their respective roles. This movie looks great - almost makes the famine and misery look like something out of a coffee table book on interior decor - and it has lush strings to make the heart stir but a more eerie feel and a stark look might have served the purpose. It never really looks cold, though it's set in snowy winter.

    Took my 90-year-old Dad to see this, it's not a bundle of laughs.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    edited June 2019
    The Girl in the spider's web (2018)

    This movie is losely based on the first continuation novel in the Millenium series, now written by David Lagercrantz. Lisbeth Salander is no longer a troubled and angry hacker/punker. She's more of an action hero, female Batman protecting wronged women. Some elements from the book are still there, but the main plot in the film would be more at home in a Bond movie. That being said it's well shot, the action scenes are good and most of the actors do a good job. Claire Foy, best know for playing Queen Elizabeth II, is a very good Lisbeth Salander. Sadly Mikael Blomquist is redusced to a supporting character and it's made worse by the young and bland Sverrir Gudnason. Daniel Craig was far better in the role. If you loved the origional books and Movies you may be disapointed, but if you're looking for a well-made action thriller this is better than average.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,906MI6 Agent
    Number24 did you read the book, or any of the other continuation books?
    I had avoided them, because I remember some legal issues between Larsson's widow and his family, it seemed like the wrong relatives had won control of his estate and were in a position to cash in on it.
    Aside from the film adaptation, were those continuation books any good?

    I also remember a rumour that Larsson might have left more as yet unpublished but if they havent appeared yet I guess it was just a false hope.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I did read the book. The book was closer to the style of the origional trillogy and I liked it. The movie is more of an action film, but a pretty good one.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    The Quiet Place (2018)

    I rarely watch horror, but this is a very worthy exception. This a masterful thriller and I won't be surprised if it end up on my list of the best movies I've seen this year. It stars the married couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt as husband and wife, Krasinski also directed and co-wrote the film. Earth has been attacked by murderous creatures who are blind, but hear very well. The creatures aren't explained in any way, and that's a good thing. Instead we focus almost completely on one family and their efforts to survive. Perhaps they've been able to stay alive for so long because their daughter is deaf and they're all able to communicate via sign language? Instead of wall-to-wall blood and gore this movie uses mostly tense set-pieces. It's more Hitchcock than SAW. The movie also takes time for us to get to know the family, such as a wonderful scene where father and son stand behind a waterfall to be able to talk out loud and shout, venting months of buildt-up grustration and tension. Highly recomneded!
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    CASINO (1995)
    I've not seen it in about 2 years, but as much as I enjoy every minute of film that shows up on screen, it's just too long for me to do it very often; it gets tiring. That said, there's nothing to be said about just how great it is. My sister has it a top 5 film ever, I wouldn't go so far. For its genre, it just might be the indisputable masterpiece.
    Everything from the casting to the swearing (Joe Pesci does "fucks" like no one else and no measures were taken to be politically correct -{ ), the music, to the direction (particular shots I love are that of De Niro lying down looking at his left and right aswell as the sunglasses reflection shot), the underlying cynicism, the drama, the locations and the fact that that Vegas is over.
    It's all "Vegas, baby" now. And that is that.

    THE GRADUATE (1967)
    I've never seen it before but I know all too well about Garfunkel and the opening shot inspiring Tarantino and in turn Jackie Brown ( :D ) and of course that lovely scarlet Alfa Spider and curiously, the ending shot inspiring Archer.
    It's so terribly inventive with its shots and the use of costumes, especially at around 40 minutes where it was so smooth it may aswell have been animated.
    For my situation, I'm at opposite ends of Benjamin as I've yet to really start university and I flunked my entry towards it, so I identify on the "uncertainty about future" part of his dilemma, so I had to see it.
    It's like the person they're praising and who he actually is are two different people. He thinks too much and he's very undecided about just about anything, so afraid to take any initiative. (The movie equivalent of Shinji from Evangelion, if anyone's on a Netflix bender with that treacherous dub). For the total sub he used to be, he finally took action and progressed as a character. And those **** ice cubes.
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    That was yesterday and the day before that. I saw 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) and it kind of is my favourite sort of movie, like Reservoir Dogs, since it used a single location and story telling to tell of the crime. As a viewer, you're not really thrown a bone since you don't step into the shoes of the jurors throughout the trial but through this way, it's way more seamless and interesting to watch as a movie when you're going in blind. I like how self aware it seems to be because of the requests of #8 that are entirely visual in some parts but they are totally justified in the way the movie progresses. You step into the lives of most men and it's up to you to decide what sort of life they've lead to make them see the situation as they have. #8 remains mysterious to me because of the way the movie sort of revolved around him in the end. #11 seemed like a dumber 50s Don Draper. The script is savage at times with the shade that is thrown and I liked the pragmatical insults so so much.
    It's scepticism vs brutality, but in the end, each and every one of them is fragile in their own way. Everyone is looking for something.
    In a way, this jury was made up of every sort of part of society of that time and the way it's presented makes it identifiable even today.
    Clever. Very clever.
    Wish it was a bit more rewatchable but I'm sure in future I'll return to this somehow.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The Road to Bali, classic Hope and Crosby comedy -{
    What a great double act they made.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Armageddon : epic disaster movie, with loads of action. Loved it
    From the first time seeing it in the cinema.
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