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Love the Coopers had a couple of briefly poignant moments, but was mostly your typical Chrimbex guff, with a totally chaotic, unconnected range of narratives kept just about watchable by an incredible ensemble cast.
Yoshiki: Under the Sky is a concert film that I saw, followed by a live Q&A. I love a lot of Yoshiki's work, but this is not the best showcase of that, and the film feels like a totally misjudged (is there another kind?) vanity project. Bonus points for my boy Jamie showing up in the crowd-sourced "fans sing Endless Rain" montage bit, mind.
Parallel Mothers was disappearing off Mubi so I had a race against time to watch it before midnight last night; it looks great, is well acted, and the melodrama simmers nicely without needing to escalate continually. Actually quite like that the two narratives aren't pushed closer together, and that they're just independently good.​Comment
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Wonka
This is a strange beast. Being from the guy who made the Paddington films it shares its soft edge yet somewhat sets itself up as a prequel to the 70's version. Due to that the overt weirdness of the Burton version is gone but also so is the darker undertones of the 70's version too. Timothy is largely likeable even though the role borders on the edge of not being pulled off, he never comes within the remotest touching distance of Wilder though. It's a very 'mid' family film but nothing is actively bad about it.
Wish
I kind of figured that despite the weak reviews a lot of the struggle was trailers holding stuff back having heard about a huge amount of cameo's and nods etc. That's not the case though. The film is incredibly flat and not helped at all by the art style that I appreciate the dice roll of but it doesn't pay off, coming across as very visually dull throughout. The central premise is okay but the film is incredibly unambitious and so whilst another simple and easy watch you'll forget it quickly.
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Godzilla minus one
Belive the hype this is a seriously good Godzilla film. It’s right up there with the original and Shin. You care about the people in it and it makes the violence of the big G seem more horrific. The design of Godzilla is closer to that of the Monsterverse incarnation but this one is an unthinking machine. The dead eyes and lack of expression make it terrifying.
And when that classic score kicks in…Comment
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I’m getting to see it tomorrow. I haven’t heard a single negative report.Comment
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Good Burger 2. One of the worst films ever made.Comment
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Went to Godzilla Minus One. It’s big and terrifying and sad and warm and full of heart all in one and I loved it. A top tier Godzilla movie, really well told. A great movie.Comment
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Trading Places
Still fun after all these years even if some sequences hurt with how much they've dated badly
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Hello, I'm still alive!
Watched a metric tonne of movies since I last posted from a combination of finishing off my 6 month movie pass, cramming in some horrors and doing a whole month of action films with the annual Woovember movie challenge.
Godzilla Minus One 2023 (Cinema)
Clash of the Titans 1981 (iPlayer)
Die Hard 2 1990 (Disney+)
Die Hard 1988 (Cinema)
Furie 2019 (Netflix)
Thor: Love and Thunder 2022 (Disney+)(Woovember)
The Betrayal 1966 (Archive dot org)(Woovember)
King Kong Escapes 1967 (DVD)(Woovember)
Creed II 2018 (Prime)(Woovember)
Tokyo Drifter 1966 (Archive dot org)(Woovember)
Revenge of the Ninja 1983 (Archive dot org)(Woovember)
The Rock 1996 (Disney+)(Woovember)
Telefon 1977 (Archive dot org)(Woovember)
Blade Runner 2049 2017 (Blu-Ray)
Blade Runner 1982 (Cinema)
Walking Tall 1973 (YouTube)(Woovember)
K-20: 2008 (Blu-Ray)(Woovember)
To Live & Die in L.A. 1985 (YouTube)(Woovember)
Battle Royale 2000 (Cinema)
Ghosts of Mars 2001 (DVD)(Woovember)
Flushed Away 2006 (Prime)
Triple Threat 2019 (Prime)(Woovember)
Magnificent Warriors 1987 (DVD)(Woovember)
Wheels on Meals 1984 (DVD)(Woovember)
Welcome to the Darkness 2023 (Cinema)
Flashpoint 1984 (DVD)(Woovember)
Gladiator 2000 (Cinema)
Jack Reacher 2012 (Prime)(Woovember)
Three the Hard Way 1974 (YouTube)(Woovember)
Edge of Tomorrow 2014 (Blu-Ray)(Woovember)
The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 (DVD)(Woovember)
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear 2013 (Blu-Ray)(Woovember)
Flash Point 2007 (DVD)(Woovember)
Hugo 3D 2011 (Blu-Ray)
Who Am I? 1998 (DVD)(Woovember)
The Guest 2014 (Blu-Ray)(Woovember)
Code of Silence 1985 (YouTube)(Woovember)
The Thing 1982 (Cinema)
Concorde Affair 1979 (YouTube)(Woovember)
The Killer 1972 (DVD)
Anatomy of a Fall 2023 (Cinema)
The Killer 2022 (Plex)
The Killer 1989 (DVD)(Woovember)
The Killer 2023 (Cinema)
Goosebumps 3D 2015 (Blu-Ray)
End of Days 1999 (Prime)(Woovember)
Safety Last! 1923 (YouTube)(Woovember)
Thelma & Louise 1991 (Cinema)
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 (Cinema)
The Wailing 2016 (Prime)
Gravity 3D 2013 (Cinema)
Trolls Band Together 2023 (Cinema)
The Beyond 1981 (Prime)
The Lost Boys 1987 (Cinema)
Mean Streets 1973 (Cinema)
From Beyond 1986 (Prime)
Mr. Vampire 1985 (DVD)
Host 2020 (iPlayer)
Friday the 13th 1980 (Cinema)
GoodFellas 1990 (Cinema)
Bloody Hell 2020 (Prime)
Oldboy 2003 (Cinema)
Totally Killer 2023 (Prime)
The Belko Experiment 2016 (Prime)
The Relic 1997 (iPlayer)
Willy’s Wonderland 2021 (Prime)
Raging Bull 1980 (Cinema)
The Creator 2023 (Cinema)​
For those of you who are curious, here are all the films I saw at the cinema using my 6 month pass running from May to November.
I absolutely rinsed it and loved doing it. I saw films I normally wouldn't take a punt on or wait for streaming, saw secret screenings, saw classics I should've seen by now and quite a few that I already own on disc, but I love so much that I happily saw on the big screen again.
01. Super Mario Bros. Movie
02. Ip Man: The Awakening
03. Akira
04. Evil Dead Rise
05. Guardians 3
06. Sisu
07. BttF
08. The Flash
09. Spider-Man
10. The Wicker Man
11. Inception
12. Asteroid City
13. Dunkirk
14. Indy 5
15. Mission: Impossible DR p.1
16. Interstellar
17. M:I DR (Again!)
18. Oppenheimer
19. Smoking Causes Coughing
20. Talk To Me
21. Barbie
22. My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
23. Vertigo
24. Enter the Dragon
25. Metallica live
26. Strays
27. Jurassic Park
28. Equalizer 3
29. The Shining
30. A Haunting in Venice
31. Dumb Money
32. Dead Man's Shoes
33. The Departed
34. The Creator
35. Raging Bull
36. Oldboy
37. Goodfellas
38. Friday The 13th
39. Mean Streets
40. The Lost Boys
41. Trolls Band Together
42. Gravity 3D
43. Killers of the Flower Moon
44. Thelma and Louise
45. The Killer
46. Anatomy of a Fall
47. The Thing
48. Gladiator
49. Welcome to The Darkness
50. Battle Royale
51. The Martian
52. Blade Runner​Comment
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Violent Night The real Santa gets trapped in a Die Hard style siege with a bunch of terrorists holding a family hostage on a big family estate. it sounds like a great set up but it kind of falls flat as none of the cast bar David Harbour are worth rooting for. It's not without its redeeming bits the kid's home alone style traps bit is hilariously gory, as are a lot of the terrorists deaths the body count in this is pretty high too and it improves in the second half when Harbour suddenly turns from bumbling Santa to killing machine. Ultimately It's just not quite good enough to be added to the crimbo rotation, id stick to Die Hard.Comment
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The Equaliser 3 - Denzel can still look suitably menacing at 68 (or a year or two younger depending on when it was filmed). Cleverly choreography and shot positioning throughout so we never think that Denzel cannot do all of the cool stuff happening. Washington can almost phone it in and he will dominate the screen, thankfully here he doesn't phone it in though the plot is relatively generic (with a little depth). Like the tie in with Dakota's character, if they were aiming for a follow on with her they should have fleshed her out a bit more though as I cannot see her (at the moment) as a suitable replacement in terms of action/fighting etc. Overall I enjoyed it a lot more than 2. Would I see Dakota in a follow up - yeah might be cool.Comment
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Bloody hell man, how did you ever have time to do anything else? That's a load of entertainment right there.Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostComment
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Chimpy is morphing into Neon.Comment
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Here's my tiny update compared to QC's huge, imposing... list
Die Hard
Coz it's Christmas, innit!Comment
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Surprised myself last night rather enjoying Our Ladies (2019) on Film4.
A sort of Scottish Catholic schoolgirl "Inbetweeners" movie but less funny, less likeable and less well drawn characters, often misandrist and a soft centre despite its general sex obsessed, warts and all crudity. But it is still a well observed depiction of friends' changing group dynamics and a believable, if exaggerated, snapshot of teenage life anyone could relate to if you've been a teenager of any gender in the last fifty years.Comment
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