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The Death of Stalin 7.9/10. Has a good score, is often very funny and Jason Isaacs is great as is the actor playing Beria.
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Daddy's Home 2 0/10 worthless, mirthless.
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Daddy's Home 2 0/10 worthless, mirthless.
And yet Wahlberg still gets work.
'Tis a puzzlement.
Well he has had some big hits amongst the detritus.
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Feb 24, 2018 - 8:08 AM
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I agree, TG, about Three Billboards. McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson gave great performances. Sam Rockwell as Dixon was stunning in his portrayal. Hate him, pity him, start to like him, etc. Three Billboards and Wind River were my favorite movies in 2017. Both deal with the loss of a daughters and how parents deal with such a loss, and both are mysteries.
Joan, please stop it. I HATE it when you write things that I wanna write here but never get a chance to and you beat me to it!! And you make it so much better than I EVER could!!
Agreed on everything here, seriously. Wind River is my 2nd favorite movie of the year and hideously overlooked at this years award season.
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Kind hearts and coronets
Uk tcm
For a 1949 film it stands test of time superbly.
I can watch it with renewed enthusiasm about every 6 months
It has impeccably-delicious dialogue and voiceover from start to finish.
I dont normally give 9s out for anything but this is a true classic.
9 out of 10.
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I lasted about 25 mins Tg. I remembered i liked the score but couldnt sit thru it again.
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Waterloo 7.8/10. Looks fantastic, despite some very petrolly explosions. Funny to see The Saint, Arfur Daley and Fred Elliott in a room with Christopher Plummer. Plummer and Steiger are excellent and there's some cracking lines and good music. Just some weird camerawork and editing at times that made me think it was an Italian film.
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Too Funny To Fail. 7/10. Doco about the making of Dana Carvey's failed comedy series from about 1996.
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Feb 25, 2018 - 9:14 AM
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Annihilation
This film is based on the Southern Reach Trilogy of which I know little to nothing about, so I was able to go in and take it on its own terms. Alex Rowland, of "Ex-Machina" fame, wrote and directed this film starring Natalie Portman. It's more or less, if you will, a heady alien invasion film of the head scratching kind. In this film "something" falls to earth, lands inside a lighthouse somewhere on the Florida coast and begins to spread out some thing called "the shimmer", a boundary of influence where once you go in, you don't come out..that is, mostly. In reviewing this film I won't go much into plot details as I've always felt that as long as you know the "gist" of what the movie is about the less you know the better. There are things I liked and disliked about Annihilation, much like I did about "Ex-Machina".
Natalie Portman gives a good performance as expected, as does the rest of the cast, as a biologist and ex-marine who goes in to investigate the interior of "the shimmer " with 3 other soldiers, including the often strange Jennifer Jason Leigh whom I've never really cared for as an actress anyway, who gives another one of her deadpan/creepy/mumbling performances here as the leader of this group. What then transpires inside "the Shimmer" makes up the bulk of the film.
This is not an action or horror film by any stretch of the imagination but there are some violent scenes though, one of which IS horrific and downright unnerving. Rowlands handling of this particular scene actually starts prior to its occurrence, creating a building that when it occurs, it's bone chilling and gory. He doesn't hold back gore here in this scene. But the film is more of a suspenseful mystery investigation, to find out what happened to previous squads and what is going on inside the the Shimmer. What transpires is weird, a bit mind bending and somewhat opaque in its answers.
In speaking of being opaque, that brings me to my biggest complaint of the film. That is, the fuzzy/out of focus cinematography. In all scenes it has a haze look to it and I know why, as when the soldiers begin to unravel what's going on inside the Shimmer, the photography is pretty much telegraphing that point. But my problem is that the hazy look of the movie gives it a cheap look. For all it's slick CGI and mind bending story elements, it looks at times like as if a cheap digital camera was used throughout. For me it detracted the overall feel of the movie instead of adding elements to it.
But overall the film is well done and executed and is not your typical sci-fi movie. It hung on me after it was over but just know going into it that it is a quiet film, that slowly sneaks up on you without knowing it has done so. Not a perfect film but a good one that has things on its mind and you will too when it's all said and done.
7/10
edited
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After thomas's steer, i recorded it too. Watched it 3 nights ago - well, it was exaggerrated nonsense and plain silly - but it had style, good sets, and some outlandish colours. Morricone's score is decent but a lot of themes reminiscent of better versions in other films. The main track Deep deep down is very catchy and a relentless earworm. Plus the John Phillip law from death rides a horse and the red baron is unrecognisable, this was more Pygor in a swimming hat.
I lasted to the end but mostly becase of JPL's sexy girlfriend in a mini skirt!
Overall film 6.5 out of ten. Score 7.5 (never quite got the obsession with this among other morriconians)
JPL's henchwoman Marisa Mel 8.5 out of ten!
And a rather weird appearance by Terry-Thomas was about as pointless as Diana Dors as the madame for ten seconds in Hannie Caulder.
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Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
5/10
Better than 2, worse than 1 and 3.
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I watched Danger Diabolik! that I recorded on TV a few nights ago. I've no doubt it's a film of it's time, but it isn't very good. Cheap looking and dodgy acting. Nice to hear Morricone's score though, makes a bit more sense to me of the rerecording from a few years ago.
I recorded it as well, Thomas, but have it still to watch. I'm guessing that it'll be to the spy genre what The Humanoid is to the sci-fi genre. The score is far from my favourite type of Morricone but it will be fun to see it in situ.
You didn't score it, by the way. What the hell?
You have never seen DD?!
Shame on you TG.
DEEP DOWN is one of Ennio's all time great songs.
Brm
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There was quite a lot of similarities to Barbarella throughout I felt. Certainly came to my mind a few times, and not just because of John Phillip Law. I bought that score rerecording when it came out, couldn't get into it so might give it another listen soon.
Oh, 5/10 for me
Score rerecording? ?????
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And you are a fine writer, so don't underestimate yourself.
