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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Oli Wagkz said:
Agreed. Although the bairn loved it. It missed not have Lin Manuel Miranda doing the tunes.
Set up for 3rd. Oh and the live action remake of the first one is out next year as well.
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I think Miranda's run his course now. There's a lot of repetition across his work and the more he does the more obvious it becomes.
Fetch Fletch said:
Not sure if I love this or hate it.
For one, Blomkamp did great satire in District 9, on the other it’ll be Sharlto Copley chewing up scenery and too much South Africa.

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It's obvious why they want to remake it. It's because they think we were enjoying it the wrong way due to their complete lack of knowledge of satire. They think it's Triumph Of The Will in colour.
 
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La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) 10/10
Downtown Abbey, French style. Masterpiece directed by Jean Renoir, who also has a major role.
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The Passionate Friends (1949) 10/10
Lesser known David Lean film. For me, better than Brief Encounter. Trevor Howard and Ann Todd as thwarted lovers; Claude Rains as Todd's husband. Rains needed an extra day of preparation for this pivotal scene, in which his delivery of one word reveals he's on to them. "Ice?"
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Mary Reilly (1996) 7/10
Together at last: Julia Roberts and Nora Batty (not to mention Arthur Daley and a very young Michael Sheen). Jekyll and Hyde retold from the POV of his housemaid. Critic David Thomson ranks this as one of Stephen Frears's best, though it bombed at the box office. It's decent, but I wouldn't call it a classic. Some dodgy accents (Glenn Close's flips between Liverpool, Dublin and places unknown in every sentence), and John Malkovich is, well, John Malkovich.
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Monty Pigeon said:
I used to cadge posters off our local cinema owner. Still have them. There's a framed original of Heaven's Gate on the wall beside me right now.
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I can't claim anything as cool as that, but for years I would go to the pictures with my son as he grew up. Before the Odeon opened in Durham we used to go to the Gala. I knew the marketing manager and we used to get the cut out lobby standees after the film closed. At different times he had his bedroom entirely done out with Batman, at another time Lord of the Rings. His bedroom door for most of his childhood had a life size Gandalf "you shall not pass"

Yes, we were a bit nerdy
 
Lankester Merrin said:
I can't claim anything as cool as that, but for years I would go to the pictures with my son as he grew up. Before the Odeon opened in Durham we used to go to the Gala. I knew the marketing manager and we used to get the cut out lobby standees after the film closed. At different times he had his bedroom entirely done out with Batman, at another time Lord of the Rings. His bedroom door for most of his childhood had a life size Gandalf "you shall not pass"

Yes, we were a bit nerdy
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You want nerdy? When Superman was released in 78, House of Andrews in Durham had a big promo display for the soundtrack. I plucked up the courage to ask the manager if I could have it when they were finished with it. My bedroom ended up decorated with a dozen gatefold LP sleeves and a full size cardboard cutout of Christopher Reeve.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
I used to cadge posters off our local cinema owner. Still have them. There's a framed original of Heaven's Gate on the wall beside me right now.
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Was telling my son of the ordeal of putting your name down ffor the big films at video shops n begging for the poster once theyre done with it.
Think every big film you got an old free one to hire too so you’d watch a blockbuster then any old shite 😂

This was the same time a kid with cable would tape the wrestling then it was passed around the class for a fortnight.

Different times! 😂
 
SPUFF said:
Was telling my son of the ordeal of putting your name down ffor the big films at video shops n begging for the poster once theyre done with it.
Think every big film you got an old free one to hire too so you’d watch a blockbuster then any old shite 😂

This was the same time a kid with cable would tape the wrestling then it was passed around the class for a fortnight.

Different times! 😂
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I liked those times. video shops are one of the things I’d bring back if I had the power.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
You want nerdy? When Superman was released in 78, House of Andrews in Durham had a big promo display for the soundtrack. I plucked up the courage to ask the manager if I could have it when they were finished with it. My bedroom ended up decorated with a dozen gatefold LP sleeves and a full size cardboard cutout of Christopher Reeve.
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I wouldn't dare enter a nerd-off against some of the people on here.

I am 2nd division at best
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House of Andrews in Durham
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Also... the last time I was in House of Andrews in Durham me and a mate shoplifted some "Gor" novels, and sold them to the kids in class who were into Dungeons and Dragons

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Sisu (2023)

Stupid, comic-booky, wafer-thin and just plain nasty in some places.

I was mostly entertained by its single-track concept, though. It does exactly what it sets out to do. 6.5/10
 
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover [1989] 8/10
The wife (Helen Mirren) of an abusive criminal (Michael Gambon) finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband’s restaurant.

Visually stunning. Gambon's performance is as big as anything Nic Cage has ever done.

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