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In fairness one of those occasion where a fairly innocuous comment was taken worse than it was meant and sarcasm escalated to prickly. No harm done and nothing to see here.
Apart from..
From here to Eternity
1953.
Not for nuffin an oscar-winning classic - it won 8 out of 13 nominations, including Fred Zinneman as director -
about soldiers stationed on Hawaii ahead of Pearl Harbour. Lancaster, sinatra, clift, Borgnine, Kerr, Donna Reed ...stellar cast surrounded by very solid stalwarts like Tim Ryan, Robert J Wilke, Jack Warden, Harry Belaver and Claude Akins
8.8 out of ten.
Karen: "I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do."
Sergeant Warden: "Nobody?"
Karen: "No, nobody."
Sergeant Warden: "Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by?"
Karen: "Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been?"
Sergeant Warden: "I wouldn't know. Can't you give me a rough estimate?"
Karen: "Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you?"
Sergeant Warden: "I forgot to bring it."
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Red Sparrow - 6/10
It's John le Carre (distilled, dark spy thriller) with 007 trappings (secret society vixens, weird gadgets, and a super assassin cleaner, to boot). It's in no hurry to conclude, and its twist is revealed as a last-minute infodump that refuses to sprinkle hints for mystery fans. Its saving grace is that of a parable about how people are trapped within their own circumstances, even when they "triumph". Lawrence's acting energy, the kind that was missing from her last two X-Men movies, is here in spades.
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Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) 10/10 (Final Cut Version)
Of course, for years I knew that I would watch this movie this very month.
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THE MOB
1951
dir Robert Parrish (who later did Wonderful Country, Journey to Far Side of the Sun and A Town Called Hell/bastard)
The always-superb and genuinely-believable Broderick Crawford stars as a tough cop who goes undercover and poses as a dock worker in order to identify the mobsters who are running rackets. Decent noir-ish b/w thriller, good pace, great dialogue and plenty of "faces" pop up - Borgnine, Neville Brand, Charlie Bronson and a few years before he had a horse'e head in his bed, John Marley.
Id go 7.9 out of 10
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Assimilate
4/10
A Netflix film (I think). Another variation of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. It's probably really a 3/10 film but I'm a fan of Bodysnatchers type stuff in general, so might be being a bit too generous. But it's not unwatchable. It's still probably better than Invasion, the Nicole Kidman film I saw once and have absolutely no memory of.
Despite the two heroes being wannabe YouTube stars (dear God), they're actually rather likeable, as is the girlfriend of the one of them. The YouTube angle is simply there to bludgeon you with exposition in the first five minutes, setting up the isolated town and a few characters, and allows the leads to have a reason to video themselves and have mini-cameras on them at all times. Sometime the shots go to these mini-cams, but the angle and what they're filming rarely match up, and they can seemingly zoom in and out, colour correct and do all sorts of things. It's lazily done.
The CGI, whether it's breaking glass, bugs, monsters or flame effects, almost never convinces. Just put a window through and use hand puppets or something. The CGI mouth extension as the invaders scream is particularly hilariously bad.
The score is mostly bubbling away quietly in the background, probably adding to the tension, without actually doing anything of interest.
The script veers between efficient and dunderheaded. When your leads are heroically uploading Facebook and Youtube videos to defeat the baddies, you know you're scraping a barrel somewhere.
The film is a bland, soulless copy without any real identity of its own, almost entirely suspense-free and utterly disposable. A perfect reflection of modern horror.
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Sword of trust
(2019)
Fell asleep but what a pile of shit.
0 out of 10. 
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Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
Directed by a pre-Bond Lewis Gilbert - classic b/w ww2 film about Violet Szabo - recruited into the S.O.E to parachute into occupied france as a spy but who is eventually caught by the Germans. Virginia McKenna plays Violet very authentically in a tense and poignant story.
The 50s delivered some brilliantly-made war films and this was one of them.
8.5 out of 10.
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Ah forgot u r a Fellinista since your box set! No i havent but if Crawford is in it, l'd watch it. Id seen him in a few 50s n 60s films but most was impressed when i saw him in Private Files of J Edgar Hoover.
Hows Gran Canaria? They have internet after all then? 
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