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green street football film forgot what year pile of shit 0/10 got that actor out of lord of the rings what a fake dull weak fluff film rubbish, hand that in to the charity shop or smash it bin it could never watch that junk again.
No argument from me there, its awful. Altho charlie hunnam's comedy cockney accent gets a 3 out of ten!
Perhaps this thread title should be not What did you just watch, but What movie did you fancy rating? 
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The Walk 7/10 an interesting story but think I'd prefer a documentary. The first hour is quite slow and it took me a while to get used to the accents and the sometimes dodgy CGI. I wasn't a fan of repeatedly cutting away to the main guy but I did like the last 45 minutes or so.
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Black Mass 7.5 - decent enough but I think you're better off watching a documentary about this. It's disheartening to see his scumbag brother get away scott free and pathetic sentences given to killers who 5 & 12 years and one FBI guy getting total immunity. I ghink someone else maybe on here said it but as good as Depp is he just feels like Depp in a bald cap. I liked the music in it and ghe actors are decent (with David Harbour seemingly being everywhere these says).
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CindyLover, i can't imagine you ever thought you'd write the line: "and lots of annoying ferret-centric slapstick."
But i'm glad you did. Made me laugh.
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Aug 30, 2016 - 6:08 AM
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Tall Guy
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High Rise - 8/10
I read the book maybe 15 years ago and found it both thought-provoking and slightly disgusting. Two bullseyes for Mr Ballard, then! I also thought it would be unfilmable, but the excellent Ben Wheatley has had a right good shot at it. Thankfully, we got Mr Hiddleston's buttocks out of the way early on, after which the film reflected quite faithfully the feeling of the book. it was set in the 1970s, like the book, and had some glorious cars of the day on show in the huge carpark out front of the block of flats.
The score was excellent throughout, with various references to classical and pop, and when it comes down to it I'm not sure how much of the better stuff was by Clint Mansell and how much from other sources. However, I'd certainly give the soundtrack CD a chance to impress if I saw it cheap enough, and wouldn't really care how it carves up. I also like his general approach to film music - he seems to despise most of it apart from Herrmann and Carpenter.
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Miami Blues 3.5/10 a quirky cop film that doesn't quite work. If made now it would be a Shane Blà ck film minus his humour. Alec Baldwin plays an oddball thief/idiot quite well.
Stormy Monday 6.5/10 beautifully shot and fairly well acted low-key, slow-paced crime drama. Makes Newcastle is it? look great. Sean Bean and Sting aren't Bad.
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Silver Streak 5.5/10. An oddly dull first 20 with a bit too much nattering about getting girls and the hilarity of someone immediately falling for Gene Wilder gives way to a somewhat entertaining without ever being very good rest of the film. Noticed a few moments that were always in The Fall Guy credits. It always seemed to be on telly on a Sunday when I was a kid so I'm wondering if the cut it much for cringeworthy sex banter and 2 N-words.
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Sep 4, 2016 - 8:25 PM
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Warlok
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Last Days Of The Nazis - 7 out of 10.
A&E flubbed the potential of this documentary. Worth watching, yet suffering from certain documentary cliches which were totally unnecessary. The producers of this 3 part series - which was seemingly really a string of 20 broadcast minute (?) episodes knitted together - endeavour to present Nazis and their psychologies via Allied audio interviews conducted at war`s end, bookended by historian commentary.
A&E (now owning the History channel) plunders the tired old tactic of reintroducing the premise of the series at the start of every one of those 20 minute episodes. Considering a run time of 255 minutes, this manages to eat up a great deal of show time.
The far larger issue is how a production boasting Nazis in their own words manages to utilize so very little of them. The whole point of the production is to let viewers hear perpetrators and participants speak about events and their roles in them. One would think this warrants an albeit selected span of actual audio testimony followed by historical opinion (from experts). Instead, although of course presented, producers begin with actual audio in German with subtitles, segueing into re-enactments in english, the subject of the interview in a chair speaking into our camera. Many segments of interview are repeated from one mini episode to the next, which again wastes valuable time. When first introduced, each Nazi has a dossier - their pictures upon the actual documents are altered to match the actor re-enacting the interview! That is absurd and regrettable.
It would have been far more powerful to let the raw **ACTUAL** German play, with sub-titles, preserving/presenting the inflections, accents, and emotions or lack thereof of the subjects, uninterrupted for a lengthy span. Then follow that up with the appropriate historical fact-based dissection and discussion of the utterances by experts (whose participation is welcome). And you sure as HELL show their real mugshots.
Good but typical over-produced A&E.
(I think I`ll post this on Amazon)
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Good review, Warlok. Sounds like I would be immensely irritated by a lot of that. Does it also gave the background music iced obnoxiously high? And gave continuous pulse pounding rhythms playing almost continually? That's another common irritant in midterm documentaries and also, oddly, cookery shows.
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Anzio 7.2/10 generally decent war film. One good shock moment near the end. The fight vs snipers seemed poorly done though. No sense of where people were in relation to each other and snipers pratting about in an un-sniperly way. Columbo and Mitchum were great though and it made me want to read/watch about the real deal.
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Tobruk.
Seen plenty of times over the years. Enjoyed it again. Good cast especially nigel green and Jack Watson (who later played an even louder Sergeant major in Wild Geese). Decent actioner, Rock Hudson and Peppard adequate enough, solid Kaper score, id probably give it 7 out of ten.
Although i think Anzio is marginally better.
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