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Watched elite squad 1 and 2, very very good movies. Wagner Moura looks a lot younger than in Narcos and Nascimentos character is very well portrayed.
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Watched the first episode of The Penguin and enjoyed it quite a lot. Colin Farrell is very charismatic and very believable. and Cristin Milioti is genuinely creepy. Neither overacts their parts but both bring enough panache to grab your attention. It doesn't go overboard on gratuitous violence and blood either, which I appreciate, though there's one scene which really made me wince.
It's also one for Dolly Parton fans.
It's also one for Dolly Parton fans.
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Watching a lot of films again lately and am working through stuff in my backlog, caught "The Limey" by Steven Soderbergh from 1999 yesterday.
I never have watched a Soderbergh film yet that i disliked and this one was no different, "Out of Sight" still remains my favourite. The dialogue is excellent, the supporting cast is, too, first and foremost Luis Guzman, one of Hollywood's most versatile and, i think, still underrated "wingmen". My only beef with the film is that the titular limey should've been played by another brit actor, like Ray Winstone or Pete Postlethwaite (who was probably too old already when the movie was shot), i simply didn't buy Terence Stamp's hard man shtick. He still wasn't bad or anything, just unconvincing. Movie clocks in at 1 1/2 hours and it's almost a forgotten art by now to put a good film on screen in that short of a timeframe, MILD SPOILERS it's about a career criminal britbong dad who goes to LA to find out what happened to his daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. Was a neat little thriller.
Won't even sperg about niggers, just another sign of the industry's complete creative bankruptcy.
Also planning on watching the second season of Tulsa King once more episodes are out, i quite liked the first season, it's nowhere near must-watch territory but i enjoyed it, Stallone is charming and competent in it.
Edit: I also rewatched "Things to do in Denver when you're dead" for the first time since it came out, i couldn't remember it being that much of a shit film, had it in my mind that it was quite good. Which it wasn't at all. Tonally all over the place, bad casting, bad dialogue. Christopher Walken as the quadriplegic mob boss was the only good thing about it. Waste of time.
I never have watched a Soderbergh film yet that i disliked and this one was no different, "Out of Sight" still remains my favourite. The dialogue is excellent, the supporting cast is, too, first and foremost Luis Guzman, one of Hollywood's most versatile and, i think, still underrated "wingmen". My only beef with the film is that the titular limey should've been played by another brit actor, like Ray Winstone or Pete Postlethwaite (who was probably too old already when the movie was shot), i simply didn't buy Terence Stamp's hard man shtick. He still wasn't bad or anything, just unconvincing. Movie clocks in at 1 1/2 hours and it's almost a forgotten art by now to put a good film on screen in that short of a timeframe, MILD SPOILERS it's about a career criminal britbong dad who goes to LA to find out what happened to his daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. Was a neat little thriller.
Only book i've ever read of him so i don't have any comparison. Just googled to check if i maybe read anything else, what do i get graced by on the first page?
Won't even sperg about niggers, just another sign of the industry's complete creative bankruptcy.
Gonna watch that tonight, one user described it to me as "They try to be The Sopranos very hard and fail" but i'll have a look-see myself. I'm big on Farrell, very good actor.
Also planning on watching the second season of Tulsa King once more episodes are out, i quite liked the first season, it's nowhere near must-watch territory but i enjoyed it, Stallone is charming and competent in it.
Edit: I also rewatched "Things to do in Denver when you're dead" for the first time since it came out, i couldn't remember it being that much of a shit film, had it in my mind that it was quite good. Which it wasn't at all. Tonally all over the place, bad casting, bad dialogue. Christopher Walken as the quadriplegic mob boss was the only good thing about it. Waste of time.
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I just want to make absolutely sure that you know this is a sequel. It follows on from the much older movie Poor Cow. So those flashbacks to when his daughter is little and she's threatening to call the police, that's from the first movie I think. I saw this movie at the cinema. I thought it was good for the most part. I imagine today I'd consider it a little of its time.
Sometimes I think people's expectations do more to stop them enjoying life than any actual external impediments. If you go into something thinking "this is an attempt to be X" all you'll think the whole way through is how it does or doesn't copy X. It's it's own thing I thought it was fun. I hope you enjoy it. I suspect you'll like Cristin Milioti in it. She's not a cat but she's pretty supreme.
I'm ahead of you then - I thought it was one of the biggest loads of crap I'd seen at a cinema at the time. But I'm quite likely older that might be a factor as tastes change with age.
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I actually did not, thank you. Ken Loach's debut film, weird how i haven't watched nor heard of it before, i think i watched every other Ken Loach film. And it is Terence Stamp in that, i was thinking "Damn, that young guy really looks like him!" when watching The Limey but put it down to Debra Zane's casting director magic, Soderbergh films are always exceptionally well-casted. I'd watch that one right now but i watched too many "heavy" movies in a row and need something lighter in between.
It tried SO hard to be this unique, super cool indieish crime film and failed on all fronts, gotta look up if it bombed at the box office, it was fucking terrible. Waste of Walken and Garcia's talents, Garcia acted like he was in a completely different movie than everybody else. The dialogue was so fucking bad.
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Watched "The White Queen", then "The White Princess". Both take place during The War of the Roses. Not very historically accurate, but not a bad watch. Lots of Rebecca Ferguson tits in "The White Queen", Jodie Comer had some nudity in "The White Princess".
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Was dissapointed by Rebel Ridge, having loved Green Room, Blue Ruin and Murder Party. The middle section drags and the ending was unsatisfying. 5/10. Not even bad or interesting enough to make me mad.
Savageland (2015) (Tubi Link) mockumentary movie in the style of an A&E crime doc. A whole bordertown is massacred, with there being only one survivor. 7-8/10 better than expected,
In October im gonna try to do a horror movie a day, starting with In a Violent Nature.
Savageland (2015) (Tubi Link) mockumentary movie in the style of an A&E crime doc. A whole bordertown is massacred, with there being only one survivor. 7-8/10 better than expected,
In October im gonna try to do a horror movie a day, starting with In a Violent Nature.
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Thought the ending was abrupt. Was surprised to find out AnnaSophia Robb was in it, didn't recognized her there.
If you liked Jackal you can pick up any of Forsyth's first four or five books and probably have a good time. For me there's a sweet spot around The Fourth Protocol where he was still writing very much like the journalist he started as, and no longer trying to write sex scenes. (The Dogs of War is one of my favorite novels, and I highly recommend it if you want an education on the arms trade in Europe during the middle 1970s, but the romantic subplot is not one of its high points.)
The movie versions of The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File are both quite good. Odessa has a young Jon Voight and a bunch of first rate character actors, Fourth Protocol is Michael Caine versus Pierce Brosnan.
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Watched this a few years ago and I agree, much better than expected. They managed to do a lot with very little, and the photographs that frame the movie are very creepily made.
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Eagerly awaiting the latest film from director Xu Haofeng, behind films like The Sword Identity, Judge Archer, and his last film The Final Master (he also worked on the screenplay for Wong-Kar Wai's Ip Man biopic The Grandmaster).
Following the same beats with his previous films, in the settling disputes in the martial arts world. Xu is one of the few action directors that choreographs the action using traditional styles and weapon usage that are framed, composed and shot just beautifully. No hyper-active fighting, high wire action or MMA. It's all very old school, with methods displaying how to counter a fighting style, and how attacks and counter-attacks are preformed. It's not just the fight scenes, what I've seen indicates this is a beautifully staged and composed film all around. Never before did cinema have a historian-novelist-martial artist-writer-director-choreographer combo like it does in Xu Haofeng. WellGoUSA has the US rights to this, so I guess we won't have to wait long.
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Oh shit, Saulnier has a new movie out? Gonna have to watch that.
Watched it, thought it was really fucking good. Solid cast, solid acting, trademark Saulnier feel. Very nicely choreographed action scenes. It's no Blue Ruin or Hold the Dark but nonetheless excellent. Can't see how you put that one at 5/10, miles above the average film, especially these days. I'd put it at least at 7/10 but i hardly use the X/10 scale, i've watched too many movies for it to ever feel accurate for me.
How come? It flowed nicely IMO.
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Recently watched both 'Old Henry' and Christian Bale's 'Hostiles' and I gotta say, 'Old Henry' was the better flick, even with very limited sets and environments. I think the one thing that bugged me was how 'pretty' the son looked, he should've been a little wonkier and scruffier.
I also saw The Outrun. 10/10 for me. I think it releases in regular theatres Oct 4th.
I also saw The Outrun. 10/10 for me. I think it releases in regular theatres Oct 4th.
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Watched mcbain
I went in cold for the memes and I had a pretty good time. There's no moments were someone yells mcbain in an over the top manner but it has Christopher Walken assembling Michael Ironside and Steve James into a team of badasses to just casually liberate Colombia. Because fuck the CIA that's why.
It's stupid, the villains barely put up a fight against the heros and it's like a super feel good happy version of the dogs of war, but it's a fun popcorn movie if you love Walken.
I went in cold for the memes and I had a pretty good time. There's no moments were someone yells mcbain in an over the top manner but it has Christopher Walken assembling Michael Ironside and Steve James into a team of badasses to just casually liberate Colombia. Because fuck the CIA that's why.
It's stupid, the villains barely put up a fight against the heros and it's like a super feel good happy version of the dogs of war, but it's a fun popcorn movie if you love Walken.
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Been watching Bad Monkey, honestly I’m surprised this came from Apple.
Little woke shit and what’s there isn’t a problem, the white male lead is competent and is never overshadowed, women are allowed to be just as repulsive as men, black people act like black people and the main romance between Rosa and Yancy is actually well-written. Episode nine is the weakest though.
Vince brought a little bit of 2000s comedy back to the world and I’m in. Power-read the book this week and I actually prefer the show’s world that lets the supporting cast in on the adventure more.
”She’s a kid-fucking sociopath.”
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I'm no Apple fan in the tech sphere, but Apple TV+ quietly has a handful of good-but-not-great shows. They're fun watches but have some stinkers mixed in there. Here are the ones I've enjoyed... for the most part:
- The previously mentioned Bad Monkey
- Dark Matter
- Severence
- Silo
- Slow Horses
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Six String Samurai
This was talked about once a few years ago but I want to take special care in highlighting it. Six String Samurai is a post apocalyptic rockabilly romp through an irradiated Sout West America. The premise is that King Elvis has died and his throne in Lost Vegas to the baddest hombre rocker that can take it. Out hero Buddy must make his way through the wastes while fighting off bowlers, rednecks, cannibals, the spinach monster, communists, and Death itself all while protecting his unwitting protégé. It is incredibly low budget and they do not try to hide it. It is a great and fun flick if you want some original silliness. Part of me wants this world more fleshed out but I'm scared of how they would screw it up. You can be a Chad and buy a copy of it from Vinegar Syndrome
or you can play it safe and watch the whole thing on YouTube first and then buy it.
This was talked about once a few years ago but I want to take special care in highlighting it. Six String Samurai is a post apocalyptic rockabilly romp through an irradiated Sout West America. The premise is that King Elvis has died and his throne in Lost Vegas to the baddest hombre rocker that can take it. Out hero Buddy must make his way through the wastes while fighting off bowlers, rednecks, cannibals, the spinach monster, communists, and Death itself all while protecting his unwitting protégé. It is incredibly low budget and they do not try to hide it. It is a great and fun flick if you want some original silliness. Part of me wants this world more fleshed out but I'm scared of how they would screw it up. You can be a Chad and buy a copy of it from Vinegar Syndrome
or you can play it safe and watch the whole thing on YouTube first and then buy it.
Johnny Got His Gun was the inspiration for Metallica's song One.
R.O.D. is one of those rare ones that fully commits to it's gonzo premise and treats it with thought and respect.
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Well I got the trial just to watch the latest Vince Vaughn kino and during a vacation to the States I saw ads everywhere, none up here though.
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Since the Bossman got into rehab I started to watch the " Kaiji " Anime/Manga series and it really hit the spot.
There are no 2D women in the story so no coomer bait, just gambling adicted loosers and human scum trying to fuck each other over with constant rigging on all sides.
The First season also has a dub that is very campy and gives a great contrast to the constant, very dark scenarios that are shown.
So yeah, a rare case of an anime that does't make you gay.
There are no 2D women in the story so no coomer bait, just gambling adicted loosers and human scum trying to fuck each other over with constant rigging on all sides.
The First season also has a dub that is very campy and gives a great contrast to the constant, very dark scenarios that are shown.
So yeah, a rare case of an anime that does't make you gay.
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After you’re done watching Kaiji, please take the time out of your day to watch Akagi. It is arguably one of the best examples of a prequel done right, and is honestly one of the best examples of drama and gambling done in a detailed and well-written manner.
If I were being bold, I’d put this in the top 25 anime I’ve seen in my life.