Zombieland 2 - 8/10 - My hopes were not very high, but I was pleasantly surprised. Not as good as the original, but comes much closer than almost all sequels tend to. Emma Stone is a goddess and the wrinkle of Breslin now being an adult is a nice twist on the group dynamic.

Buster's Mal Heart was dreadfully pretentious and deliberately vague to the point of convincing me it had nothing to say and so was trying to bluff the viewer into interest or enjoyment.

I'm disappointed it has decent reviews because it is a perfect load of shite.

The Night Comes For Us is 30 minutes in and I can already tell it's up there with The Raid in terms of choreography and The Raid 2 in terms of storyline strength.
The violence is shockingly vivid.

I think it's time for a martial arts film deep dive.

I think I'll go hard on the Donnie Yen and Iko Uwais, the two best right now.

I honestly think an accomplished horror director would struggle to better the exceptional use of visceral gore this film has.
Almost any time there's an emotional ante up the film slams some gruesome "reality" back in there.

Some of the gorier parts are really quite disgusting :lol:

That was exhausting. No more fighting tonight, I need a comedy.

Picked up "The Man Who Fell To Earth" today, been hoping to see that somewhere for at least a couple of years. I also picked up "Altered States" and "Hunt For The Wilderpeople".

Very nearly bought the original Village Of The Damned too but it was way overpriced.

Watching "Hunt For The Wilderpeople".

This will need a full review. I swear I saw this once but none of this stuff happened in it and it wasn't very funny.
I think I was still drinking back then though so it was either a dream or I watched something else and got confused.
Anyway 30 minutes in and it has a good heart and brilliantly funny lines. Lovely stuff.

The guy in the shop actually went out of his way to talk the other film up as I bought it. I'm going to mail the chain's head office and talk him up.

Love the movie.

The laugh count is unbelievably high with a story like this. This is effectively Leave No Trace but with real wit and snappy dialogue.
I love everything about it so far.

Dave I'm dying here. This is one of the funniest films ever made.

This is likely a top 20 film of all time for me, possibly top 10.

I haven't felt like this since Nebraska.

Now I want to rewatch it tonight.

It's hilarious but it also fills my heart.

I very nearly burst into tears there.
Held it in. Now my eyes are all fucked up.

It was definitely my film of 2016.

I still have to watch:

Holy Motors
Seven Samurai
Altered States
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Eiger Sanction
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
The Runaways

To watch but I just keep neglecting them and buying more.

Hunt For The Wilderpeople - 4/4

My new favourite film.

I will review it properly when I stop crying and punching the air.

Hunt For The Wilderpeople is 90 something minutes of straight fun. It was fun but nice, dark in parts but totally safe and understanding too. The dynamic between the actors was natural and easy, the film is smooth all the way through.
In terms of what it made me feel this is an example of brilliant manipulation done for all of the right reasons. No tears were drawn for an inadequate cause and no laughs were cheaply obtained.
I felt like no matter what happened, these guys were robust enough to handle it.

Midsommar 8/10

I found it fascinating; it doesn't have the same impact as Hereditary, but I have come away with the same feeling of disorientation and "WTF" as I did when I finished watching that film.

"The Man Who Fell To Earth" is awful so far. No effort has been made to make the story and time line coherent, the acting styles are jarringly disparate and choices have been made with regards to presentation and aesthetics which are deeply questionable. The voice overs are the choice of a director forgetting how to tell a story. Also I didn't want to see Rip Torn's flaccid dick in a young woman's hand as she said he was "nothing like her father".
Fucking bad bad bad.

This is an off-putting film and I still have 100 minutes left.

Zombieland: Double Tap - 7/10

Every woman in this film has insane eyes and huge gums.
Candy Clark just comes off as completely mental and hideously unpleasant. I don't think an Alien would settle for her.

A millionairlien

I hate it when I wait years to see a film without going out of my way to buy it, stumble upon it all excited and then when I watch it it turns out to be crud.

David Bowie is the only good thing in it and he's been hung out to dry fittingly.

I have absolutely no idea why Rip Torn is in this film

Oh great, Bowie's pubes now.

I honestly might have to turn this off. This is insufferable.

Wicker man with dumb tourists instead of a cop.

Looking forward to watching Seanny's new fav movie when I get home in a few days. Also reminded that I've wanted to see Nebraska for a while but never had the chance.

I don't think it's fair to expect a viewer to endure Candy Clark for this length of time. Especially when she has five times the dialogue that Bowie gets.

This is what killed him you know. 40 years later he died from Candy Clark exposure, just like when everybody involved in filming that John Wayne Ghengis Khan film died of cancer years later because they filmed it near that Nevada atomic bomb testing site.

Man alive it is rare to see a film so wholly unappealing as this.
This is on par with "Tommy" as a film that deliberately spurns everything I hold dear in storytelling.

At least it makes sense in some ways. It's just incredibly poorly realised. It's a lot like The Deer Hunter, a story that looks good in synopsis but somehow misses every chance to connect with me in the style it was made.

Thank God that's over.
That was an ordeal I should have skipped through in half an hour.

Been debating buying this.

I just doubt anything will ever scare me the way "Hereditary" did.
I don't watch a lot of horror, in fact I used to avoid it. Since I started watching it, Hereditary is the scariest one.

Please watch his movies

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Dave just a heads up mate, don't watch The Man Who Fell To Earth unless it is free.

I read your post about it.

Terminator Dark Fate-7/10

Massive upgrade over the last number of sequels. T3 was the last decent Terminator movie, imo. And a lot of that had to with the fact that they didn't try to reinvent the wheel and just made a chase movie with time traveling robots.

Dark Fate is better than T3 simply because it's much more violent thanks to the R rating. It is a direct sequel to T2 and the opening scene establishes that from the start.

This time, we get a different take on the machine sent back to protect our new female lead, Arnold's T800 gets a new layer added to its persona in a way that makes sense, and the movie returns to the feature chase scene feel of the first three.

The new Terminator, the Rev9, has some neat new abilities, and is a better terminator than the T-X in the 3rd one.

Acton sets are fun, loud, violent and bloody. The movie doesn't try to do what Genesis did with a bunch of time travel mumbo mumbo. It does create a new thread in the timeline, but it's not overly convoluted or confusing.

T2 is one of my fave films of all time. I'm glad it finally got a solid R rated sequel. Nothing will ever live up to the first 2 but they've finally made one that works and can maybe spin off a new series.

It is not particularly scary; actually, except for a couple of "WTF" moments, it is not scary at all. It is just odd as fuck.