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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Farewell My Lovely. 1944. Dir Edward Dmytryk. 7/10.
Released as Murder My Sweet in the USA.
The secondish version of Raymond Chandlers 1940 Phillip Marlowe novel of the same name played this time by Dick Powell. The first borrowed the plots basics for The Falcon Takes Over which was a crap private dick film series at the time. This version was the first actual Marlowe film and released just six months after Double Indemnity with both films being told first person in flashback thus helping establish a few Film Noir essentials.
Powell is no Bogart, Mitchum or even Gould but if you like this stuff it’s required viewing.

Angel Face. 1953. Dir Otto Preminger. 6/10.
Starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Mitch is a former racing driver whose career was interrupted by WW2 and is now driving an ambulance for a living while saving up to open a car repair workshop. Simmons is a beautiful young heiress. Will she manage to play him for a sap? Waddyathink? You may think you see the ending coming but…..
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Dick Powell did the wireless series of Marlowe.
 

Underwater (2020).
Never saw this advertised when it was released but popped up on Disney+.
Decent survival horror set on an underwater drill station. Has elements of The Abyss, Aliens and The Descent.
Is all well done and there's no getting to know the characters, it starts with a bang.
7/10.
 
The Fifth Element (1997) 6/10
You've got to admire the Eurotrash ambition of it, even if it's ultimately a total mess. Some truly bizarre casting: Tricky with his Bristol accent; Moxey out of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet with an American accent; Lee Evans doing his Norman Wisdom shtick, also with an American accent. HD, sadly, shows up the shortcomings of 1990s CGI.
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Tokyo Pop (1988) 8/10
A aspiring American rock singer steals her boyfriend's rent money and legs it to Tokyo where she gradually escapes the hostess bars and makes a name for herself. A grittier more authentic forerunner to Lost in Translation.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) 6/10
I loved the book by Ben Fountain. For reasons best known to himself, Ang Lee decided to push the technical boundaries with this one: the fastest ever framerate for a feature film (120fps); 3D; ultra-HD. Only five cinemas in the world were equipped to show it as intended.
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I enjoyed the Fifth Element at the time. Then Chris Tucker came on screen. I found his character the single most annoying thing I’d ever witnessed. I wanted to cringe. I wanted to scream with frustration. I wanted to cry with anger. This bastard had ruined a perfectly decent sci-fi film. It took me years before I built up the mental fortitude to watch Rush Hour, and only the draw of Jackie Chan prepared me for it.
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Dick Powell did the wireless series of Marlowe.
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Dick Powell I’m undecided on. I didn’t think he had the screen presence to play the role in Johnny O’Clock, and was left disappointed. Yet his Four Star tv stuff is very enjoyable.
 
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Monty Pigeon said:
Tokyo Pop (1988) 8/10
A aspiring American rock singer steals her boyfriend's rent money and legs it to Tokyo where she gradually escapes the hostess bars and makes a name for herself. A grittier more authentic forerunner to Lost in Translation.
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Not many people I know ever speak about this film, I really liked it.

Possible Hidden Gem for the pod @Albay3037
 
Monty Pigeon said:
Jackie Brown (1997) 9/10
Not seen this since it came out. I loved it then and still do. Excellent ensemble acting, neat use of timelines. Mind, I doubt Bridget Fonda would look as good in a bikini now.
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The Changeling (1980) 8/10
Slow-burning horror film starring George C Scott as a composer who moves into an old house in Seattle following the deaths of his wife and daughter. Guess what - the house is haunted, and it all points to a dark secret in the past of a high-ranking politician.
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The Dead Zone (1983) 8/10
Made for an excellent double bill with the above film. Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher in a coma for five years after a car crash. When he wakes, he has the power to read people's fate. As with The Changeling, there's a political sub-plot (this one involving Martin Sheen). Herbert Lom is great as the doctor overseeing Walken.
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hoy your photo up there mate, bet you're a reet oil painting imo. Only fair if you're bodyshaming lasses there
 
Watched Armour with Sly Stallone last night.

It's one of worst films I've sat all the way through.

Terrible acting, completely unrealistic, plot full of holes.

What story they had could of been done in 30mins.
 
Fred Army said:
Same here! I could easily get behind a Gorgo or Valley Of Gwangi remake!
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Valley of Gwangi,what a film that was,scared me rigid as a kid,fantastic movie.
Gobuchul said:
Watched Armour with Sly Stallone last night.

It's one of worst films I've sat all the way through.

Terrible acting, completely unrealistic, plot full of holes.

What story they had could of been done in 30mins.
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No one seemed to use that road for hours,what was he thinking taking that role?
 
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