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Oct 25, 2016 - 3:12 PM
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Tall Guy
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Yes, i wonder if he reads about us talking about him as though he wasnt there?! Its true - he does watch a lot of crap. But hes stuck in an antarctic outpost - like where they send incompetent captains at the end of Stripes - and therefore is grateful to watch anything when his shift is over!! Is he really in an antartic outpost? Practically - Regina, Saskatchewan. It has Arctic weather for about 5 months a year (except last year). And it is in the middle of nowhere. I do watch a lot of bilge, 'tis true. Cannot understand myself why i do it, i must get some enjoyment out of them at some level. Some are films i have to see to believe are so bad and put my fingers in their wounds (Suicide Squad, Ghostbusters). I like films from all kinds of genres and decades thanks to growing up in England with 3 channels and lots of 1930s - 1970s films. Put George Formby on and I'm there (he's the best thing out of Wigan). Or i get on a kick of watching a bunch of Hammer films or The Universal films i wanted to catch up on. I often watch films i enjoy a lot but have seen before or reviewed years ago maybe so don't put them up. I never go to the pictures and always see films a longtime after they've come out. I also don't have Netflix or TV channels, so i'm reliant on libraries and buying or friends recommending or lending me films. I do have a friend who insists if he suffers, i have to suffer, so i do watch more bad films than i'd like to or anyone should. As for whether i read reviews, it depends. Most older films i'll have a rough idea of. New films, not so much, most likely. I try and go in open-minded (well, i say that but i could be wrong and this does not apply to Eli Roth films). Anyway, hopefully i warn a few others from watching the shite i watch - leave me, save yourselves! (apart from Carson and TallGuy, who I'm dragging to hell with me) Thanks but I've been there - a pal who owned a video shop in the 1980s saw to that. There was more spitting on graves and executioning than you could shake a stick at.
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Inside Out. Wonderful, and proof you don't need to have villains in an animated movie. ] oh yeah!
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Student Bodies 2/10 - Airplane! For early 80s slasher flicks, but despite a couple of good moments and sight gags it's mostly a dud and missed opportunity.
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On cable, I watched the classic AMERICAN GRAFFITTI. I remember the first time I saw it in the theater and marveled at how well Lucas captured the lives of teenagers on the brink of adulthood in 1962. I remember a drive in my home town where we all gathered, and I remember “dragging the Ave.” as part of our teenage rituals. Warning: Spoilers ahead. It is still a relevant, marvelous coming of age movie no matter what decade people are from. It was wonderful to see the young Dreyfuss demonstrating his early comedic acting chops. Loved Paul Le Mat’s character who embodied the tragedy of not being able to move on, to break from the town he lives in, to break away from others’ perception of him and to finally break away from the whole teenage, high school persona. As he said, “The Ave. is getting shorter.” No, he is just getting older, is stuck in a rut and doesn’t have some kind of future new identity. Both Ron Howard and Dreyfuss have the opportunity to break away from their small town, to emerge and become evolving men, but only Dreyfuss leaves perhaps following the possibilities embodied in the Suzanne Summer’s symbolic character. Loved the music, of course, and if one listens to the lyrics carefully, you can see that some of the songs were just to capture the era, and some were strategically placed to support various narratives on the screen. . One of the greatest films of all-time. It is one of the first of the era's "mythic' films and seems to be inspired in an odd way by ONCE UPON A TIME..WEST. Both films are about the end of an era and feature characters who can not adopt to the new age. Vert astute comments, Joan bruce
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The Wind Rises (2014) - 9/10 Probably one of the best films I've seen from Studio Ghibli in a long time. I'll have to check this one out. I liked Grave of the Fireflies. i have no doubt that SOLIuM will hate it lol! brm ps one of the best films of the decade
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Oct 26, 2016 - 1:55 AM
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jenkwombat
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Thanks, Bruce. I can't remember when I posted that critique. I forgot to mention that a very young Harrison Ford was in that movie, and I think that lead Lucas to cast him as Hans Solo...maybe, but I'm not sure. Well, yes, but not at first. If memory serves, Lucas wanted to used completely different actors in "Star Wars" than in "American Graffiti", so he initially avoided considering Ford for the part of Han Solo, and hired him only to read lines with the other auditioning actors. But Ford was so perfect for the part of Solo during these readings, he decided to hire him in the end anyway. I'm glad he did.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself - 1.5/10 - Roger Moore is very watchable and does all he can, but at best this is a 25 minute Tales of the Unexpected episode stretched out forever. You're just stuck waiting for Moore to catch up to the other him who has just left the room, again and again! Nice to see a young and lush-haired Anton Rogers, and some nice 70s London scenery and Roger in a bowler hat, but it's a dull affair.
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Thanks, Bruce. I can't remember when I posted that critique. I forgot to mention that a very young Harrison Ford was in that movie, ...maybe, but I'm not sure. i cut that part out brm
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The Wind Rises (2014) - 9/10 Probably one of the best films I've seen from Studio Ghibli in a long time. I'll have to check this one out. I liked Grave of the Fireflies. i have no doubt that SOLIuM will hate it lol! brm ps one of the best films of the decade How old are these posts? Anyway The Wind Rises was okay. But it didn't blow me away. The last Studio Ghibli film I really liked was Porco Ross. I think the Ghibli films got progressively worse. Disjointed stories and weaker animation. "wrong!"
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The Man Who Haunted Himself - 1.5/10 - Roger Moore is very watchable and does all he can, but at best this is a 25 minute Tales of the Unexpected episode stretched out forever. You're just stuck waiting for Moore to catch up to the other him who has just left the room, again and again! Nice to see a young and lush-haired Anton Rogers, and some nice 70s London scenery and Roger in a bowler hat, but it's a dull affair. you have been at ice station zebra too long!! At the time, this was quite an unusual film, and a thought-provoking concept. Not least michael j lewis catchy score dominating proceedings. Gotta be at least worth a 6!
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The Man Who Haunted Himself - 1.5/10 - Roger Moore is very watchable and does all he can, but at best this is a 25 minute Tales of the Unexpected episode stretched out forever. You're just stuck waiting for Moore to catch up to the other him who has just left the room, again and again! Nice to see a young and lush-haired Anton Rogers, and some nice 70s London scenery and Roger in a bowler hat, but it's a dull affair. you have been at ice station zebra too long!! At the time, this was quite an unusual film, and a thought-provoking concept. Not least michael j lewis catchy score dominating proceedings. Gotta be at least worth a 6! I did wonder, was this made a couple of years before he became Bond? He does make a reference to Bond and On Her Maj's SS.
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Sausage Party 0.5/10 - Deeply unfunny, unless you like swearing. One decent moment parodying Saving Private Ryan and the score is actually pretty great in places. It seems to go on forever. Unbelievably awful.
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Independence Day: Resurgent 3.5/10 - entertaining enough to start before becoming pretty awful. But there's some fun to be had. Brent Spiner and Goldblum, Fichtner and Judd Nelson are watchable. The young actors are horribly bland and stuck with the worst dialogue you can imagine. But the younger Hensworth and kid who plays Will Smith's son are really quite bad, as are the two younger comedy relief characters. About 95% of the attempted humour falls flat. It was interesting to see so many characters from the original brought back. Like most blockbusters it doesn't make a lick of sense and bigger is definitely not better. Some nice scenes of wide scale destruction, though that's not really muh thing. The score popped through the noise now and again and seemed effective enough. Oh and though there's lots of Chinese people in it at the beginning they're all killed off except for a beautiful pilot who then has two lines of dialogue and zero impact on the story in a transparent and sickening attempt to grab Chinese box office cashola.
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