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Zombieland 2
Unlike the first film, this was genuinely funny in places with some funny characters (especially the pink-clad bimbo) and witty dialogue.
Id give it 7.7.
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Aug 22, 2020 - 1:32 PM
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The Bride Of Frankenstein A few decades ago, the consensus was that this was a better film that the original Frankenstein, but I don't think that's the general view anymore. It's a classic film & has some great things in it, but I don't think it's as effective as the first one. The humour is a bit weird (as is Ernest Thesiger), Boris Karloff is great, but his face has filled out a bit & he hasn't got the same haunted & unworldly look, & he doesn't have the same strange stance & walk, & he talks, which takes the strangeness away. It is a classic & has some great things, Waxman's score, & the creation of the bride is one of the all time great sequences of cinema. Son Of next.
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Aug 23, 2020 - 2:44 PM
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The Son Of Frankenstein A really good film, almost a classic, everyone is so good in it. It's Boris Karloff's last outing as the monster, but by now he's just a killer, so I can see why he got bored with the roll. Basil Rathbone is great as Frankenstein's son (with that great voice), & Bela Lugosi is surprisingly good as Ygor. A really great score from Frank Skinner, & the dreamlike & bizarre sets are amazing, especially the Frankenstein castle (& really well lit).
The Ghost of Frankenstein And now the monster is...Lon Chaney Jr. he lumbers around in a very disinterested way (I think Universal only used him so they could have the Lon Chaney name on the film posters). It's all very B picture, gone are the amazing sets, but at only 67 minutes long it doesn't outstay its welcome. I think I'll give it a week or so before I tackle Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, a film I've never seen.
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The informer
2019
Decent thriller where informant for fbi (ex spec forces soldier) goes undercover in polish mafia to save his wife n child, results in him having to serve time to run drugs ring in jail for them/fight for his life etc.
Pretty good n very watchable, espec the prison section.
8 out of 10
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Alien - 1979
I had seen it several times of course but this was the first time (last night) i saw it with my 3 older daughters. I envied them getting the chills, jumps and scares for the very first time, not knowing what was going to happen next. Cushions were hidden behind! At times it was more fun watching them react.
They all gave it 8/10 - i'd still give it a 10! Well done Ridders! :-)
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Frantic
6.8/10
I saw this on tcm last week. Yeah it was a bit cliched but ennio score n grace jones takes it up a notch.
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Aug 27, 2020 - 10:23 PM
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Tenet
2/10 My score
(2/10) Friend 1 (1/10) Friend 2 (4/10) Overheard Stranger (That much?) Overheard stranger's friend or partner
Not for me, i'm afraid.
The worst aspect was the soundmix, which is the most awful I've heard in any professional film.
Whole swathes of dialogue, often important plot-relevant details, are muddied to incoherence. It rendered most of the plot irrelevant. I had no idea what was going on half the time because i couldn't hear a word of explanation. Though they do have some incredibly painful exposition in it, and a lead character who repeatedly says "I'm the protagonist".
The sound effects are very loud and sharp. It worked right from the off, but then when everything is so high and loud and the dialogue is lost, it just became a constant irritation. I actually had to put earplugs in.
The abrasive and grindy musical score is dialled incredibly high to the detriment of the film.
Sadly, i found the score more irritating than anything. In part it may be the soundmix though.
If you hated Dunkirk, you'll probably despise this. I actually really liked the Dunkirk score and thought it helped build the tension really well. Here the score just made itself constantly known in an unwelcome way.
Some of it sounded like they might be trying to create the sound of time going forwards and in reverse in various ways and i'm sure it was throughly thought out and intelligent, i just didn't enjoy it at all. Neither did my two friends and several others i overheard leaving the pictures.
The film itself is an okay sci-fi idea probably worth 45 minutes of a TV show but not worth 2.5 hours. I think at the start a scientist lady says about the science "Go with it" or words to that effect. And i guess you buy in or you don't.
The acting was odd. Kenneth Brannagh and Anna Debicki are good, John David Washington is a little flat in the lead but likeable. he was better in Blackkkansman. Robert Pattinson hampers himself with a posh English accent which makes him sound like an american failing to do a convincing English accent, and then another English actor, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, does the same but trying a commoners accent and somehow sounds like he's brain-injured. Anyway, the cast is likeable.
There's nothing too memorable in the entire thing, a lot of things happen in reverse and that's about all they're memorable for. Though i do like the way Nolan moves a camera and there appeared to be a lot of actual bullet squibs and real helicopters and jumbo jets and things. Any CGI was used well. He should just make a Bond film that someone else has written and be done with it.
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