I liked Sin City as it looked amazing and loved the pulp noir feel but it is pretty juvenile though which I can't decide actually works for or against it.
@Bunkerneath Well yeah but problematic movies are still being made today and always will be. Progressive is a work in progress or something witty like that.
The first two that comes to my mind recently is Blonde, an intentionally eww take on Marilyn Monroe that feels more like exploitation than a film about exploitation (it's very much one of those films based on a true story that you look up afterwards to see how wildly wrong they got everything) with one highlight being her unborn CGI fetus telling her off for having an abortion, they could at least be subtle with it like Juno which everyone seemed to like. The other is Death On The Nile which features a cast made up of so many problematic actors it's just missing Gina Carano and Kevin Sorbo to complete the full set.
watching a couple of movies on Netflix this weekend
Astro Boy
Missing Link
then on Tubi, i might watch a documentary called Direct to Video Straight to Video. Not entirely sure but I think i watched some of that before like last year
I've watched Page Eight from The Worricker Trilogy, it's a bloody good dialogue driven thriller from David Hare. It kinda reminds me of Bond as in Bill Nighy is a womanizing witty British toff with sophisticated tastes who works for MI5 but only he doesn't bother with jumping around chasing after bad guys or name dropping fancy brands as he owns everyone without going to that much effort.
I really looking forward to the rest of The Worricker Trilogy now.
@Rambler Yeah the cast is proper star studded for a mere BBC telly film. Ralph Fiennes, Judy Davis, Rachel Weisz, Felicity Jones, Michael Gambon, Spud from Trainspotting (he has a real name but he will always be Spud to me) and probably another good actor or two I'm forgetting, which thankfully elevates the film as it makes sure Bill Nighy (the step-Dad from Shuan Of The Dead or the mad scientist from the Pikachu movie for those who don't know him) has someone good to work off in every scene. The sequels (which I haven’t seen yet) are the same with adding more talent like Olivia Williams, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder etc to them too.
Yep, Rachel Weitz is married to Danny boy Craig. In hindsight she would have made a pretty good Bond girl but I suppose she made her name with The Mummy movies so she didn't need a franchise to move up the ladder anymore and instead could focus on films with acting in them or maybe they just thought she was too old once she hit 25.
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Not seen Euan Bremner in anything recently, but he was great fun in (the only amusing scenes in the otherwise harrowing) Naked, and is exceptional in Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine's Dogme '95 effort. That's the one with Werner Herzog as the dad.
Rachel Weisz can do no wrong (apart from me not being able to spell her name). Apparently she's doing the Jeremy Irons' roles in a TV version of Dead Ringers..!
@Rambler I forgot he did Julien Donkey-Boy, that is a great bizarre flick. Spud seems to be constantly working, at one point he kept being the funny loser in actions movies like Alien Vs Predator or Wonder Woman where he has PTSD but it's okay he can't fight anymore since he can sing for everyone instead, YAY. Spud is now in Our Flag Means Death, a comedy show from Taika Waititi, very loosely based on the real life Gentleman Pirate wth Spud as the first mate. It takes a turn after a few episodes from this posh pirate story into something else which feels like a spoiler as it wasn't advertised as that but is now the thing everyone talks about as it works really well.
I can spell Rachel Weisz's name fine, I just can't pronounce it as it normally starts off with me sounding whizz but then change it half through to vice and hope no one notices. The last film I saw her in was Runaway Jury a month or two ago. It wasn't bad, I quite enjoyed it but I was expecting a tight courtroom thriller only to see it's basically caper film with the typical series of self satisfied plot twists. She was bloody good in Disobedience and The Fountain is on my never ending list of movies to see.
@Kermit1 I hope in Destiny he's a grumpy old sod as he blast those robo-aliens in their faces!
Well, I thought it was great. Brad Pitt goes on a train to steal a briefcase, and mayhem ensues, quite a few assassins are on this train that are all connected somehow to said briefcase, which is shown with flashbacks.
Loved it all, it was a mixture of Quentin Tarantino (the violence), Guy Richie (the english characters) and Edgar Wright (the swapping between stories)
Even the wife, after reading the quick blurb on Sky and saying "oh not sure about this", really liked it
@Bunkerneath Yeah it's alright, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would as everyone was raving about how good it is but it is good.
I do find it weird that A list movie star, America's sweetheart, both Razzie and Oscar winner Sandra Bullock would have that be her last film now that's retired from acting though, she's barely in it.
The new Antman is a few moments of better character writing away from being a rare, genuinely underrated Marvel movie. It's very dumb in a way I kinda respect. With some of the way Phase 4 went combined with the reviews I was scared of a miserable slog of either bad comedy or just boredom, this was not that at all.
I saw Ant Man & The Wasp 2 awhile ago at an advance screening with the writer and director there as I know someone who worked on the film. I had forgotten about it until I saw the argy bargy online. The Marvel movie fan bubble is so weird to me, they have been complaining ad nauseam about how bad the films only for one of them to get a bad Rotten Tomatoes score so they have worked themselves up into a frenzy to defend the franchise. lol
I thought it was pleasing fun but far from the pinnacle of movie magic as usual from Marvel ever since the first lot of films. It kinda reminds me a Rick & Morty episode (minus the sweary fart jokes and the nihilistic ramblings) with it's wacky world with spot the pop-science references. I had expected the film to be stolen by Jonathan Majors as Kang (who was so good in Lovecraft Country, I fancy giving that another watch thinking about it) but Michelle Pfeiffer's OG Wasp was the highlight for me. MODOK was a bad misfire though, I get the irreverent offbeat take they were going for (so it's not he's a hero now, he's too pathetic to care about) but just in terms of art design and showcasing it was such a waste for someone who could have been a show stealer and elevated the movie.
That's why he's great. I had to stop myself laughing multiple times because of him.
...it's really easy for me to be all in on appreciating unintentional comedy after that last Thor movie tried to make me hate the entire concept of jokes in superhero films. And honestly, based on his last scene, I'm not even sure it was unintentional.
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