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This film is taking me to a place I really don't want to go.

Yep, that was fucking nuts. I loved it. Well done Madeline Brewer for making it so believable.

Ok then Slik, Birdbox and what else?

What does Netflix have to offer?

I am watching Bird Box. Shoulda said it was a Bullock joint.

I will throw reviews up for this and Cam when I have recovered.

Dear Slik,

Thanks for tricking me. You know what you did.
My favourite non-Streep actress nearly murdered by my most hated? You just destroyed Paulson's credibility with me.

You loved it when she...*spolier*

You wished she'd do that for reals.

Been watching a lot of shitty movies on netflix. I'll look back and see if I have others to recommend, Seanny. Check out Cloud Atlas if you haven't seen it and have 3 hours. Interested to know your thoughts on that often devisive movie.

Cloud Atlas was actually decent, no beef with Cloud Atlas. Jupiter Ascending on the other hand is one of the worst films ever made.

Cam - 3/4

An emotionally claustrophobic horror that is as much about the vapid nature of models on film as it is an indictment on fame chasing, delusions of grandeur and obsessive social media tracking in a dangerously sexualised world view.

This is the film that Neon Demon could have been had Neon Demon replaced stupidity with bravery. The film maker here proves that you can make a hell of an effective horror on a shoestring budget and without a marquee star provided you are committed and have substance behind your conceit.

I very much enjoyed this, it was uncomfortable and yet very inclusive of the audience. You won't walk away feeling empty or hollow hopefully.

The documentary series "Evil Genius" is superb. I remember when this happened, it was all over the world news and they turned it into a slapstick Jesse Eisenberg caper movie.
The true story is just so much more incredible.

White Trash Moriarty they shoulda called it.

Cargo is good so far. They establish a procedural protocol for infection that other zombie films don't often have. Smart move, hopefully it's a smart movie.

Cargo is wonderful. I'm not happy with the reviews, nobody got it. It's about the inevitability of a doomed situation and a beautifully taken pot-shot at Western civilisation.

I thought that it had real quality both in performance and style. I see it as a contemporary "Walkabout" and I see no reason not to call it a great film.

Did you go to the cinema yet?

Fuck off!

We are all so excited to hear your Aquaman thoughts

We will have to wait for the DVD release, Jawquin Locksmith.

Please read my posts

When you go make sure to let us know how many people are in the theater and the % of them that are kids who will make noise throughout the movie.

Well, that's a drag. Command + F didn't reveal much. I guess there's no way around it.

This is all I can see. I will not accept any other rational explanation thx

Second Act - 10/10

Probably the greatest movie ever made. Jennifer Lopez and Vanessa Hudgens make out at least ten times. Must watch!

Netflix free pass. I'd rather watch 50 things than one. I don't trust DC or you enough to bother with a £10 movie ticket and a return bus journey to match it. That's £20 when I could sit on my balls watching unheard of horror films for free.

I made a sound fiscal choice.

The Babysitter is so far beyond expectation I'm still not sure what I thought I would get from it in the first place. That's a very well sold comedy horror with two outstanding performances that give you the true tone of the film. It is exceptionally weird and that quality does it no harm.

You smart. You loyal. I appreciate that.

Reading what Seanny has to go thru just to go see a movie theatrically puts in perspective how lucky I am to have the AMC stubs pass. I've seen 4 movies this month alone, and good chance i make one more before New Year's.

EDIT: confirmed another movie this month. Seeing Creed II tonight.

Sir, I've seen three movies since Friday :D

Hey hey hey. Put your dick away

Creed II-9/10

Personally liked it better then the first. Kid Drago is a fucking monster. His backstory is excellent and while it would prob have ruined his mystique, I would've loved to have seen more of him as his story and where dad Ivan ended up is sad.

Creed's arc is familiar, though they don't go the usual route to get to the same outcome and his personal story and journey, and the driving forces behind it, are different but effective.

Rocky has a side story that gets wrapped at film's end that's a bit a tear jerker. My only gripe is damn it, why hasn't Carl Weathers gotten a cameo. Yes, I know his being dead is the driving force behind the purpose of the new main character, but still.

Anyways, i loved this film. And to make it better, people in the audience sitting at the bottom row where fucking popping for Creed in the climactic fight. Drago goes down and it sounded like Austin hit a stunner. Usually hate noisy movie crowds but given it was a boxing movie, this exactly enhanced my enjoyment.

Re: Carl Weathers... Sylvester Stallone wouldn't let Carl Weathers anywhere near a Rocky film now, and he was going to if not for all the shit he caused around the time of Rocky Balboa. He demanded to be physically in the movie then denied use of his image rights for flashbacks. He's a lunatic.
Arrested Development got his character so perfect when they made him the ultimate sponger.

Adam West once decried Tim Burton when he made Batman and didn't want to use him.
It's like old action stars just never want to let go.

Cause of the holidays and Netflix I watched these in the last few days:

Little Evil - 3.5/4
The Fundamentals Of Caring 4/4
I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore 3.5/4
Jim And Andy: The Great Beyond 3/4
Happy Hunting 4/4
The Babysitter 3.5/4
Cargo
Bird Box
Cam

Every single film there was at least a 3/4 for me.

Not to mention fuck knows how much of Always Sunny...
Seriously thinking about getting the net for my house. It's cheaper than buying movies every day.
I just hate booking workmen into the house.

The Fundamentals of Caring was really nice

Also, you finished "I Don't Feel At Home…"?

Welcome To Marwen - 7/10 - Heard nothing but bad things going in, but I rather enjoyed it, despite it being an "odd" film. As always, Steve Carrell is amazing in everything he does.

Come, Seanny. Join us in the 21st century.:wave:

Fuck yeah, it was incredible.

Cold Mountain 7/10

The Constant Gardener 7.2/10

Danny Huston is brilliant in The Constant Gardener. It's a depressing trudge though.

A Futile And Stupid Gesture - 4/4

I didn't know who Doug Kenney was going into this but now I know his influence in my life in several small ways. Not being a National Lampoon fan I watched this more to find out about the stars it made and left with the knowledge that Doug Kenney was probably a good part of the reason these people ever had careers.
This is Will Forte's best ever performance, using his trademark one-liner comedy to embody one of his many precursors. I am in great admiration of his ability to do that and somehow build towards real, unabashed emotional and heartbreaking pathos.

He's as good in this as Jim Carrey was in Man On The Moon. The comparisons are fairly obvious but these are two distinctly brilliant performances from men of whom the world expects nothing beyond buffoonery and they are a joy to watch at their best.

Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher 2 - 6,5/10

Decent action flicks. What I didn't understand is why he never has his own gun. It's not like he's against guns, he picks them up and shoots them, just never carries. He goes to meet the villain for what is surely gonna be a gunfight and he's got no gun.

He refuses to carry a gun because he knows that his own instincts are enough on an average day. He regularly carries guns during conflict.
It's a fundamental part of the character that is esteblished in the books. So much of it was thrown out of the window with the casting of Tom Cruise. I actually love Cruise as Reacher but I think a guy who looks the part is essential to the role now. The first Reacher film was pure class though.

Sixx if they do the character justice in the upcoming show then you'll love him. He's a big hard bastard that saves the day by killing all of the evil. All of it.
I imagined Karl Urban or Ray Stevenson playing him long before Tom Cruise took the part.

Watching some teen comedy called "The Package".

I did not expect to laugh so hard. The lead female in this was in Blockers and she's great. She's going places no matter what, you can't start off that well in broad comedy without being a very good actor.

Well, maybe the books explain this, the movies don't.

And as for the casting, I've heard Reacher is a huge blond guy in the books?

I love Cruise, love knowing that the shit that goes down it's not a stuntman doing it.

By the way, do I need to know all the Mission Impossible movies to enjoy Fallout? Heard so much good about it, but I don't even remember which was the last MI movie I saw.

I have to applaud anybody who makes a movie about this subject and manages to get away with it. This would have ruined me when I was 14.

Dirty blonde hair, like Ben Foster.

Fuck it's a shame Ben Foster isn't 6'5"

Geraldine Viswanathan is cool. I hope she does well because she's the best thing in that ludicrous film.

She is. Her Instagram is a lot of fun.

...Of course

Like I can't say anything ever....

such a cunt you are

You are spectacularly feminine

Bumblebee-8/10

Far and fucking away the best written transformers movie since they went live action. Like, not even close. The characters are actually the driving force behind the story. There aren't endless, impossible to follow, over the top action sequences that beat your ear drums into submission.

And whenyou do get to the action, it's so satisfying and thrilling not only because it was choreographed and shot well, but because they actually didn't blow their load throughout the movie. The opening scene is a rousing one.

So glad I gave this a go and I hope it works as a soft reboot of this franchise with more movies written in this manner.

I agree with you on all of that.

It isn't hard to imagine a decent Transformers film.

Just take Michael Bay away and replace him with a person who has directed a beautiful kid's film already.
Michael Bay is a douche for what he did to Transformers. I still maintain that the very first one was enough to expect a lot more from the sequels though.

Yeah, first one was actually ok. Then they turned into the mindless slogs we know them for. I have no idea how those movies made the money they did other than either being released at perfect times where there was nothing else in theaters to see or that the dumbest of our species have multiplied faster than anyone has realized.

Or the Chinese government made everyone in the country see it.

The first one is solid but it's peak Bay. Competent at best and is more driven by the novelty of being the first live action Transformers movie. I remember watching the first Optimus Prime transformer sequence with my jaw on the floor. Also, Hugo Weaving as Megatron was fantastic casting and he had great lines, and a good final boss build up.

But that doesn't compare with this one. Not in the slightest. Ideally this is a new direction and we get more this writer/director team. The opening sequence starting on Cybertron and then to Earth was a blast.

Vice - 5/5

Adam McKay with another home run. Christian Bale freaked me the fuck out.

One last remark on Bumblebee; there's a character moment where Hailee Steinfeld's character is called on/encouraged to do something that would essentially break her out of the dorky/nerdy/self imposed secluded shell she's built up at the start of the movie.

If Michael Bay was making this film, she absolutely would've done it in the middle of the film because it would've been a "cool scene bruh". But here, the director chooses to treat the character with hesitancy and an unwillingness to embrace the situation. And when she does embrace that moment that draws her back to a past she's running from, it actually means something. It's the little things that set this one apart.

If it were Michael Bay, she'd probably undress in slow motion and dive to like late '90s rock music with massive explosions in the background.

Also, it was a pretty good scene. Could relate to it.

Centurion 6.5/10

Naff script, but Michael Fassbender is always watchable.

There should be a gay pornstar named Michael Fatbender

Escape Room - 7/10 if you like the Saw series but wished it was less violent this is your movie. However a couple of the rooms had clues so obvious I actually yelled out the answer to one 5 seconds after the clue was revealed but about 5 minutes before they figured it out. I Aint that smart.

You yelled out the answers in the theatre?

You're one of those? How did you not get the shit beaten out of you in an alley is beyond me.

What are you talking about, SixxT9? That's a sound strategy to get laid.

To get laid the fuck out

I don't give a shit how easy they were. You could've solved them all in 2 seconds, you're still an idiot. Because YOU ARE YELLING AT A FUCKING SCREEN IN A CINEMA.

Maybe he was in a theater with lots of black people so no one noticed.

Get it you guys? Because black people talk and yell a lot at the theater.

Guys?

I think it would be funny if a nice black family went out to the theater and there were a bunch of slack jawed yokels just hee hawing throughout the film.

ha ha ha

My last few post aren't as funny since a new page split them. Please view TPWW at 80 posts per page for maximum fignuts efficiency.

I thought black people just shoot their guns at the screen.

To paraphrase Chris Rock: "This movie is awesome, let's bust a cap in it!"

The Favourite 7.5/10

@ElVaq You got to see Emma’s boobs on the big screen

You’re confusing black people with cowboys.

I've never experienced that.

I shouted out "That's Dr Quinn!" During Wedding Crashers in a Canadian cinema and got a decent reaction. She did have her tits out though.

Yes. Yes I did.

From the screencap I saw you only get a good look at one and it's a bit abject and out of sorts. Looks like what a blind person's impression of a boob would be based on feel alone.

That is pretty much the one and only scene of her boobs.

Split 7.5/10

Watching BlacKkKlansman, didn't actually expect it to be such a hilarious film. By about half an hour racial language has been devalued down to a ludicrous level by repeated use in farcical ways. It's a simple way to do it but it works very well.
I think the film would be a bit of a slog if it was like "Detroit" or something. In fact Detroit really annoyed me, this is very good and thoroughly enjoyable so far. Easily Spike Lee's best film since the 90's because I prefer farce and comical undermining to pure demonisation.

Really loved it when it came out. The entire cast is great.

Did not like the pointless love story at all. Spike could have chopped about 25-30 minutes out of that film quite easily and left a much more streamlined and enjoyable film.

It's very good but the addition of the fuckable Black Panther woman was completely pointless. There was no need for it, the film had enough going for it without it. They could have done all of that Black Panther stuff and not had him try to fuck the leader.

Spent a good chunk of the movie thinking "that guy looks and sounds exactly like Steve Buscemi", apparently he's one of his brothers. Jesus man, hopefully the other brothers are great looking because if they all look like that then how do we know Steve Buscemi hasn't been pulling a Multiplicity on us for years?

I just learned that she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Agree that the love story portion was a bit of a drag.

Escape Room - 6/10

It was all going along decently enough until the last hour. Last half hour is a trainwreck.

Yeah the love plot in BK was highly unnecessary. It didn't take away from my enjoyment but it's definitely a useless diversion from the centralplot.

Yeah she's the hot unattainable chick in that too.
90% of that film could have happened but didn't and yet the central premise that two men are playing the same character when it really only would take one of them is hilariously true.

What a weird story.

I think Topher Grace is great, he certainly plays "detestable" very well and doesn't shy away from using the same mannerisms that made him a divisive protagonist for That 70's Show. He does have a very smackable face...

STOKED - 8/10

Really good documentary on YouTube about a pro-skater who violently murdered a girl

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Skateboarders are all lunatics. Skateboarding documentaries are good but documentaries about the lunatic behind the skateboard are literally always great.

if u watch it lemme know ur thoughts, I really dug it

Bird Box--garbage 1/7

The Favourite - 9/10

Beautiful set pieces and strong performances.

Watching my first Satyajit Ray film, Nayak: The Hero.

The Hero - 10/10

Yorgos Lanthimos may be the newest director who disappoints me the most.

Pointlessly weird. At least Dogtooth makes sense. All of his American films have been awful.

Some of the scenes from that film were filmed at my current place of work.

Split-7/10

Really fun performance from James McAvoy. Casey had a really interesting, if not fully fleshed backstory that I wish we saw more of. The upcoming sequel maybe dives into that, but on its own merit as a standalone, I wanted more of her history.

The premise was really cool and the whole idea of what the horde considers pure.

Hopefully we get everything nearly wrapped and further explored in Glass.