Anyone else think American Hustle was just a bit too long? I fell asleep before the end.
Kid Goat went to see Ready Player One today. Apparently it was cool.
This is the whole of her review.
I recommended the novel to pap a while ago.
Kid Goat is astonished that itās a book too.
Me and Mrs Fatso watched āDownsizingā earlier. Its a good film. It has the potential to be brilliant, but falls short as it fails to develop some great ideas. Itās about people who shrink themselves down to a tiny size 0stensibly to save the world/resources but really its because its so much cheaper to live as a small person. Anyway, itās a really interesting idea that had me thinking but then it just kind of stopped trying. I think it forgot what the point was. It could have made a big statement but in the end it didnt. Anyway, an enjoyable film.
6.5/10
Ready Player One. Hope Spielberg is on form. Popcorn munching time
Netflix. Game Over Man
Gross, gratuitous use of penis shots and exploding things.
Tries to be a cool āDudeā type movie.
Awful.
But it still elicited some snorks. And almost worth watching for the way they āabuseā Shaggyā¦ Sing that song manā¦
Looking forward to watching something decent tbh
Just back from what must be the most entertaining trip to the Cinema weāve made.
Nostalgia aināt waht it used to beā¦
Ready Player One is beyond Cool. It is an Epic - a total Cult film you will watch again and again. It may also be a Marmite Movie.
For me?
Spielberg is back to his best bringing out that inner kid in all of us.
The movie has huge flaws, the pacing is erratic - the 3rd act loses some pace (for which I forgive him) the ending is sort of not quite whelming. In one way the entire movie is designed to simply dig into the psyche of every movie goer and tug the nostalgia key.
You could say it is a rip off of Avatar or every movie ever made. And THAT is the point - the genius - or the Marmiteness.
Just sit back, pop a can of Tab and listen to Duran Duranā¦
There is a moment of everything, from every cult movie ever made (and some bloody great bits of some great 80ās tracks), ll set in a Distopian Universe.
Rush, Van Halen, Depeche Mode, Hall & Oates New Order, Blondie, Springsteen, Howard Jones, Aha and many many more the soundtrack alone is epic
Iām no Gamer or Manga or KPOP - Mrs D_P even less so, but we recognised so much, Super Mario to Godzilla, Asteroids to the Atari 32. New Order to, well, Jack Nicholson.
The opening storyline leads into our first immersion in a game. It truly was the most immersive 3D Iāve watched - felt really dizzy at times and there was just SO much going on!
Gang, this TRULY is a movie you have to see in 3D and preferably in IMax while you can. You wonāt applaud at the end but everyone in the cinema had a silly grin on their faces as they walked out.
It wonāt change the world, win awards for best script or best actor. It will simply tug on the emotions of our memories - and when he does that, Spielberg is at his best.
Bloody Loved it.And yes it really is as Cool as Fuck.
And yes it could have been even better but then
āIāve never seen The Shiningā
I recommend āThe Shiningā Phil. Kubrick took the novel and elevated into something quite amazing.
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His treatment of Shelley Duvall was awful though.
Will watch it AN. One of those Iād forgotten and beer caught.
Spielberg just made an epic āmomentā out of all of us who never saw it
Cliched and clever and funny in context in the movie
No need to link youtube clips SB. Just post directly in dialogue box.
Saw A Quiet Place last night.
I really enjoyed it, but fuck me it was both excruciating and exhausting.
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Doing an Ostrich impression today. Fingers in ears not checking scores lalala.
So watched Spectral on Netflix.
Itās not shit.
Plenty of leap of faith plot holes but kept me excited enough to not want to curse our luck with the other games.
So yes better than hiding behind the sofa.
God I picked a bad weekend to stay off booze so my Tuxedo fits for a gig Tuesday night
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2017 update on the famous Trainspotting speech ā¦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsfVJMWL0E
The sequal is really quite good.
Netflix. Bright.
Imagine Lord of the Rings meets an in form Min Will Smith in an LAPD gritty drama.
Very entertaining 1hr 57 mins and great material for a spin off universe.
Get your Shrek like self back to Fiona or something like thatā¦
Excellent fun and no blue unicorns.
Blue fairies instead
Went to see āA Quiet Placeā. Itās a kind of high concept horror/thriller, which may sound alarm bells. But itās one of the best films iāve seen recently. Really convincing and beautifully acted. Itās just designed to be horrifically tense, and it is.
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We watched āWhat happened to Mondayā. It is awful rubbish. Iāve read some reviews on line which seem to say this is a good film and the acting by Rapace is great. Itās not. The acting is terrible as is the script as is the story. Itās a waste of everyoneās time and should be removed from Netflix in case it puts people off subscribing to the channel. One of the worst films Iāve seen in ages.
What did happen to Monday?
Is it that bad?
Itās worse than that, Ted. I just canāt be arsed to give any more time to reviewing it.
Well that seemed like a review.