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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Cockney Mackem said:
Were you expecting what you got from it? Do you think the people who don't like it were expecting an all out action film or something?
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Yes to the first, Eggers is quite divisive as a director. I haven't seen Nosferatu yet and really enjoyed The Witch, but thought the Lighthouse was awful.

I guess people who didn't like the movie didn't realise/care it was Eggers and just wanted an all out viking action movie, or possibly thought the whole mysticism angle of this one was OTT or overplayed in some way.
 
Longlegs (Amazon)
7/10
Horror/serial killer movie with a barely recognisable Nic Cage as the protagonist.
Eerie and suspenseful and pretty well acted tbh. Good story that builds to a pretty grim conclusion.
Would recommend if you like the genre
 
The Substance (2024) - 6.5/10 - What a strange movie. After briefly reading the synopsis I expected AI to be used to make Demi Moore young again after taking the substance. How wrong I was! This was just bizarre - at times it felt a bit a Tarrantino movie the way it was edited, then it was like some weird sci-fi movie before becoming an 80's shock horror/comedy. I can't decide if it was good or rubbish! It was entertaining but not what I expected! 😂
 
Shack said:
The Substance (2024) - 6.5/10 - What a strange movie. After briefly reading the synopsis I expected AI to be used to make Demi Moore young again after taking the substance. How wrong I was! This was just bizarre - at times it felt a bit a Tarrantino movie the way it was edited, then it was like some weird sci-fi movie before becoming an 80's shock horror/comedy. I can't decide if it was good or rubbish! It was entertaining but not what I expected! 😂
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Honestly thought it was brilliant haha
 
Speakeasy said:
Netflix have made some really excellent movies, but such is the ridiculous volume of content they've produced in the last 5+ years the ratio of good to shite is massively skewed.

I reckon you have to sift through at least 4 absolute turds to find 1 half decent film.
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The majority of their own stuff is crud, when you check their top 10 lists they are mostly old repeats from the BBC and ITV.
 
buckowski said:
To live and die in LA (1985) 8/10

Memories of murder (2003) 7/10

Heretic (2024) 6/10

Cuckoo (2024) 5/10
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Memories of Murder is one of my favourite films I can't believe you gave it 7/10 :neutral:
We may just have different tastes in films but just needed to point this out to encourage people to watch it.
 
Amokachi said:
Memories of Murder is one of my favourite films I can't believe you gave it 7/10 :neutral:
We may just have different tastes in films but just needed to point this out to encourage people to watch it.
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That’s fair enough.
It does get rave reviews, I just thought it was merely good.
I’ll stick with the 7 :)
 
Blazing Magnum (1976)
I bet Tarantino has seen this movie more than once. It's a hugely entertaining Poliziotteschi classic with one of the best car chase sequences since Bullitt and The French Connection. For a nostalgic trip back to 1970's crime cinema it's well worth a watch.
 
Shack said:
I can't decide if it was good or rubbish!
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I thought substance was for me, terrible... but that's cause it's not my kind of entertainment, I could see for some it would be great and demi plays it brilliantly. But I thought it a load of bollox.
Fletch73 said:
Wicked [2024] 4/10
Too long. Too many forgettable songs.
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Watched this with the bairn last night, better than a 4... definitely too long but it was an enjoyable movie all the same. I think having seen it on the stage with the bairn at the empire helps the enjoyment factor of the movie too.

Cynthia Erivo is brilliant I thought.
 
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Escape Room on BBC on Friday night. This was surprisingly good for what it was.

5/10

I watched the sequel on Amazon last night (it's on BBC this coming Friday) and it was ok although even sillier than the first.

4/10
 
Daz965 said:
Blazing Magnum (1976)
I bet Tarantino has seen this movie more than once. It's a hugely entertaining Poliziotteschi classic with one of the best car chase sequences since Bullitt and The French Connection. For a nostalgic trip back to 1970's crime cinema it's well worth a watch.
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Great film. One of the best in the genre.
 
HABA87 said:
Escape Room on BBC on Friday night. This was surprisingly good for what it was.

5/10

I watched the sequel on Amazon last night (it's on BBC this coming Friday) and it was ok although even sillier than the first.

4/10
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I found it far better than it had any right to be, and the continuing story worked well.
 
MagicRat said:
Longlegs (Amazon)
7/10
Horror/serial killer movie with a barely recognisable Nic Cage as the protagonist.
Eerie and suspenseful and pretty well acted tbh. Good story that builds to a pretty grim conclusion.
Would recommend if you like the genre
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I liked it but found the ending oddly predictable, considering all the suspense they had built up
 
Two Mules For Sister Sara. 1970. Don Siegel. 6/10.
Entertaining western nonsense in which Clint and Shirley McClain side with Mexican revolutionaries against the occupying French forces who are propping up a puppet government or summet like that. Clint is Clint and Shirley is superb. It’s great fun watching the ends Siegel goes to prevent us noticing it’s a stuntman and not Shirley on the donkey or climbing up the bridge etc. I love the very final scene where Clint says “I haven’t got time for that”.

Hang ‘Em High. 1968. Ted Post. 6/10.
Ex lawman Clint gets in a bit of bother early doors but lives to fight another day while now wearing the tin star of a U.S. Marshall. They say revenge is a dish best served cold and as we all know there’s nowt colder than Clint with a grievance. Dennis Hopper presumably practicing for his nutty photographer role in Apocalypse Now is a bit blink and you’ll miss him while Bruce Dern gives another one of his horrible Ives type baddy roles. There’s a few surprisingly brutal hangings along the way.
 
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Das Boot [1981] 9/10
A German submarine hunts allied ships during World War II, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

Watched the 3 hour+ director's cut (don't think I could manage the 5 hour tv version). Tense isn't the word. Gruelling but rewarding.
 
A Real Pain

Terrific movie. Both the leads are good, but Kieran Culkin really steals the show. Strong shades of Roman Roy in his performance, he does that vulnerable, insecure, spiky Millennial thing better than anyone.

(Didn't notice till the end credits, but one of the main characters was Jennifer Grey off Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller - hasn't seen her in decades!)

9/10
 
Two British movies back to back. The Bank of Dave 2 (Netflix) and Get Away (Shudder). Both are kind of shite really, 4/10. The actors do decent jobs actually. Nick Frost who wrote and starred in Get Away should quit these comedy horrors. This one started reasonably then turns to stupid, unfunny levels of gore.
 
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