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They Shall Not Grow Old
9.5/10
That Peter Jackson thing with the WW1 footage restored from grainy, jerky, eroded footage to smooth, colorized stuff. That's something I usually hate but it actually looked really good and worked very well in making the war more immediate and getting across the humour in particular of the soldiers on screen. Details like heavy canon being fired causing the roof slates of a nearby building to cascade off were remarkable to see. Sometimes in correcting it the footage looked a touch animated but I assume that was trying to fix the impossible in parts. The story, told only through the voices of those that served was very touching and at times grim. Definitely worth a watch.
At last - a film that The Wanderer's watched that I also want to. I knew it'd happen sooner or later!
Not watching Alligator is your loss!
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And in the same mistake i watched Gator by accident.
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And in the same mistake i watched Gator by accident.
Gator? The comedy action thriller in which Burt Reynolds directs himself as a moonshiner coerced into bringing down a local crime boss, score by Charles Bernstein?
Never heard of it!
No this was a different Gator. With Burt Reynolds. Charlie B did write the music though. But the plot was different.
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Mission impossible: fallout
6.3/10
It were awreet.
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A Good Day to Die Hard: 5/10
Impressively staged action. Dumb heroes. Impossibly retarded villains. Inert inner conflict. And glass. So much glass. Who gives a shit about glass? Who the fuck is this???
Under the Skin: 7/10
A mirror is held to masculinity - benign, toxic, and otherwise - viewed through the prism of an alien whose invasive purpose was simple and made complex the more she is exposed to humanity, begging the question: Are we really worth saving from invasion?
Justice League: 5/10
Won't someone think of the property damage? So many walls crumble from so many thrown bodies (Hollywood's go-to kinetic kitsch), as reluctant heroes grapple with two MacGuffins (one of which would have been better served by trademarking "MacGuffin") against a pixel-deep mocap zealot from the shallow end of the Uncanny Valley, while trading quips, awkward conversastional platitudes, and divergent directorial styles in a runtime that would've been served by being both longer and shorter at the same time. Proof positive that Hollywood and audiences have a hypocritical bias against animation when it's right there in front of them, even when used rather poorly.
Doctor Strange: 7/10
Uses mindblowing imagery to distract from the perfunctory hero's journey (in Marvel's usual douchebag-with-a-heart-of-gold style) that may make sense to itself (sometimes), but mainly conjures showdowns of importance* in the minds of those engaged in the franchise as a whole. Elements and twists are introduced in quick order without much impact. Ends with only a hint of consequence. Brilliant use of backwards-is-forwards composition from Giacchino (which, quite frankly, I imagined first... y'know... pbpbpbt... whatever...).
*But seriously, which is more important to preserve: the Nine Realms, subquantum space, or the multiverse? And what are they in relation to each other? Did Thanos kill half of everyone in only one universe (pbpbpt, what a pussy)? Why are there only Nine Realms, yet an infinite multiverse? Is the multiverse still considered "Midgard", and if so, does each Whateverheim or Whatsisgard have a multiverse? Does each dimension have its own subquantum space? Can shwarma be ordered from any of them?
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Aquaman 7.5/10
Mrs TG insisted that we see this film, which is odd because she normally dislikes superheroes. She must have decided we should see this as an early Christmas gift for me, which was thoughtful of her. I don’t think she enjoyed it much, because everytime that Jason Momoa was on screen she sighed. I whispered that we could leave if she was bored but she was kind enough to say no, she was fine, and so we watched it to the end.
I thought it was well-imagined but a little derivative of numerous films, including Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Harry Potter. The music was incessant but not offensively so, and if there was a single shot that didn’t use CGI I missed it.
Mrs TG must have thought that I really liked it, because she asked when I thought it might be available on Blu-ray. Bless her, she’s so good to me.
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Ant Man and the Wasp 6/10
This was a pretty entertaining movie, though I notice I'm starting to see the other side of superhero movies now (and hope others are as well...this genre is starting to wear some imo, all but the best are kind of disposable now). Some of the story was just way too fantastically far out and I felt my suspension of disbelief slipping away more than once. It was mostly the hocus pocus Janet thing that started siphoning my interest in the film.
I had trouble making it through the ending, and in fact that was the worse part of the movie. Paul and Douglas and Evangeline were all really good, of course, in fact I daresay they were the whole movie, really.
The score...was there a score? I guess it worked for the movie in that it was unobtrusive.
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Justice League: 5/10
Won't someone think of the property damage? So many walls crumble from so many thrown bodies (Hollywood's go-to kinetic kitsch), as reluctant heroes grapple with two MacGuffins (one of which would have been better served by trademarking "MacGuffin") against a pixel-deep mocap zealot from the shallow end of the Uncanny Valley, while trading quips, awkward conversastional platitudes, and divergent directorial styles in a runtime that would've been served by being both longer and shorter at the same time. Proof positive that Hollywood and audiences have a hypocritical bias against animation when it's right there in front of them, even when used rather poorly.
Doctor Strange: 7/10
Uses mindblowing imagery to distract from the perfunctory hero's journey (in Marvel's usual douchebag-with-a-heart-of-gold style) that may make sense to itself (sometimes), but mainly conjures showdowns of importance* in the minds of those engaged in the franchise as a whole. Elements and twists are introduced in quick order without much impact. Ends with only a hint of consequence. Brilliant use of backwards-is-forwards composition from Giacchino (which, quite frankly, I imagined first... y'know... pbpbpbt... whatever...).
*But seriously, which is more important to preserve: the Nine Realms, subquantum space, or the multiverse? And what are they in relation to each other? Did Thanos kill half of everyone in only one universe (pbpbpt, what a pussy)? Why are there only Nine Realms, yet an infinite multiverse? Is the multiverse still considered "Midgard", and if so, does each Whateverheim or Whatsisgard have a multiverse? Does each dimension have its own subquantum space? Can shwarma be ordered from any of them?
Agree with your rating for JL. Really the only worthwhile thing about it were Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot who's extremely charming.
I gave a similar rating for Doctor Strange though I found less faults in the story than you. I thought the film was highly entertaining with a strong cast and a bit more adult than the average MCU film. The only thing that really fell flat for me were the attempts at humor.
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In darkness. 2018
Which is what i was by the end of the film.
Confusing cack. Dont be tempted.
4.5 out of 10.
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Xebec flicking between talking pictures and TCM!!
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