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GWANGI
3/10
Poorly made in all areas. Editing is especially amateur hour.
The cult of Harryhausen will no doubt love it.
Brm
Yes we do. Plasticine stop-motion monsters rock. A fairer 6.5 out of 10.
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BLADE RUNNER 2049
just caught this on sky.
Not sure how i felt.
The imagery of mist and lights and adverts combined with the vangelis-flavoured electronic music - like the first one - was impressive.
I felt like it had potential to be excellent but was a bit...limp.
The wallace enforcer android was impressive and i felt her character couldve been developed/used more. Brutal kills.
Id go 8 out of 10 including an extra mark for the futuristic scenery.
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9 or 10. The best sci-fi film I've seen in a while!
What is? Gwangi? Or did you forget the title of the film you're referring to?
I'd say 6.5/10 is a fair "high-ish" score for Gwangi. It really isn't a particularly good film on its own, but the Harryhausen effects are damn impressive as usual. And I certainly got a surprise thrill when I saw the scene Spielberg lifted for Jurassic Park where the rex emerges from the trees and snags a gallimimus.
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I thought the film was called " 9 or 10." 
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I thought the film was called " 9 or 10."
I must check it out then!
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Ready Player One 4/10. Well that was a chore. I'm not a fan of loads of CGI (obviously needed) and don't weep at 80s nostalgia or pop culture references so there's 90 per cent of the film. It felt very long. The crowd at the end are odd, directed to act like extras and not people, so it came across as odd. Pointless eff word thrown in because you know otherwise a film isn't cool. The film lacked wonder. Lots of CGI stuff happening onscreen doesn't wow me as a spectacle.
Good things were the Silvestri score which really worked and shone through a few time, the lead guy was ok, the girl was great - though her "shameful disfiguring" birthmark just looked like a Cool faded tattoo on a beautiful girl, Ben M. made a good baddie.
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The Darkest Hour 8/10. Oldman is very good as is Lily James and all the supporting actors. I'd heard àbout the Churchill on the underground scene and wondered how bad it could be and thought people were being previous. But I found it to be bloody awful and on the nose. Good Lord, I was quite surprised how bad it was. Then it went on and bled into a following scene. A good film other than that 5 minutes. The music was decent and worked well in the film. Oh Kristin Scott Thomas was excellent also, I forgot his good she was.
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The Darkest Hour 8/10. Oldman is very good as is Lily James and all the supporting actors. I'd heard àbout the Churchill on the underground scene and wondered how bad it could be and thought people were being previous. But I found it to be bloody awful and on the nose. Good Lord, I was quite surprised how bad it was. Then it went on and bled into a following scene. A good film other than that 5 minutes. The music was decent and worked well in the film. Oh Kristin Scott Thomas was excellent also, I forgot his good she was.
I had heard all the griping about that underground scene and was prepared to be offended, but I never was. Now if it was my film, perhaps I would have cut it, but really, the over the top disgust with that little scene was just too much too grasp. Joe Wright was not trying to make an art film here, it's a historical drama, and people that were looking for some wispy thing just missed the boat.
I think that this film is quite good, a really good score, well shot, great acting. And it is a terrific final scene.
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Exhibit A 8/10 (independent film) hand held camera-fest
This is a character study, but you have to get past the annoyance of seeing this particularly obnoxious character before you can get to the heart of the film.
This was also a disturbingly dark and hard-to-watch film...there are things in this movie that almost certainly aren't for people under seventeen (I'm in late middle age and I wanted to stop twice, it was too graphic and heartbreaking).
That said, I'll go as far (despite the at times very rough edges) to say this is a work of abysmally dark art. Not really exploitation...there are too many other variables that negate that classification imo.
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The Darkest Hour 8/10. Oldman is very good as is Lily James and all the supporting actors. I'd heard àbout the Churchill on the underground scene and wondered how bad it could be and thought people were being previous. But I found it to be bloody awful and on the nose. Good Lord, I was quite surprised how bad it was. Then it went on and bled into a following scene. A good film other than that 5 minutes. The music was decent and worked well in the film. Oh Kristin Scott Thomas was excellent also, I forgot his good she was.
I had heard all the griping about that underground scene and was prepared to be offended, but I never was. Now if it was my film, perhaps I would have cut it, but really, the over the top disgust with that little scene was just too much too grasp. Joe Wright was not trying to make an art film here, it's a historical drama, and people that were looking for some wispy thing just missed the boat.
I think that this film is quite good, a really good score, well shot, great acting. And it is a terrific final scene.
I have no problem with a scene like that being included I just thought it was a bit dunderheaded and blunt compared to the rest of the writing. Felt like it should be the PM from Love Actually. I liked the pools of light I was shot in.
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Stay Hungry 5.5/10 it was okay but more interesting was the cast, it was chock full of stars in the making.
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Deadline USA 8.4/10. Humphrey Bogart is immense.
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My Cousin Vinny 9/10 Great fun and Marissa Tomei and Joe Pesci make an immense team.
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Still/Born 6/10
A Shudder original, and it's entertaining enough. I've seen all the movies this was borrowed from, so if you're looking for something groundbreaking (or even a new twist on an old Twizzler) , you're barking up the wrong...uh, licorice stick.
Or something.
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Black Panther: 7/10
It has a refreshing motif of hero and villain morales becoming intertwined, and its futurist state skirts just this side of incongruent magic, but illogic tends to get in the way of the story's need to fascinate. I really like Goransson's non-RC rhythms mixed with Kendrick Lamar's trap theme for Kilmonger (something so hated should be put to villainous use).
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