I second/third this, what a lovely film to watch to take yourself away from the world.
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Fletch73
Midfield
It Happened One Night [1934] 7.5/10
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other.
The template for all future odd-couple rom-coms.
The Morning After [1986] 5/10
An alcoholic actress wakes up in bed next to a dead man with a knife in his chest. Did she do it or is someone trying to frame her?
Sidney Lumet, Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges. This should be great but it's a tonal mess and the killer is pretty obvious. Fonda was still nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other.
The template for all future odd-couple rom-coms.
The Morning After [1986] 5/10
An alcoholic actress wakes up in bed next to a dead man with a knife in his chest. Did she do it or is someone trying to frame her?
Sidney Lumet, Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges. This should be great but it's a tonal mess and the killer is pretty obvious. Fonda was still nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
Which version of Killer of Killers?
They’ve now rereleased it with an extra couple of bits.
Also, Michael Biehn now joins the same small group of actors that have been killed by a Terminator, and Alien (sort of) and a Predator, along with Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen.
Shack
Striker
28 Years Later (2025) - 3/10 - Full disclosure, I only watched about 20 minutes of this pap before turning it off. Absolute clichéd shite. Ooh, there's a zombie crawling around eating guts, oh I'm terrified. Now, they're running at me, shoot then with an arrow and make this head explode, champion! Lots of camera cutting and shaking to attempt to make things terrifying/interesting. Thought Danny Boyle might have more about him than this rubbish. Couldn't be arsed with it. Looked very low budget.
Drexl
Striker
I’m curious, did you get to the chase with the alpha? It came right after the arrows.
The low budget feel is deliberate btw.
Fletch73
Midfield
Bronson [2008] 7.5/10
Nicolas Winding Refn's Charles Bronson fever-dream.
Hardy is brilliantly unhinged and the film is visually engaging but the narrative is pretty hollow.
Nine Queens [2000] 8.5/10
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the “nine queens”.
Really good. I would have loved it more if I hadn't guessed most of the twist.
Asteroid City [2023] 6/10
In an American desert town, a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Mid-level Wes Anderson.
Nicolas Winding Refn's Charles Bronson fever-dream.
Hardy is brilliantly unhinged and the film is visually engaging but the narrative is pretty hollow.
Nine Queens [2000] 8.5/10
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the “nine queens”.
Really good. I would have loved it more if I hadn't guessed most of the twist.
Asteroid City [2023] 6/10
In an American desert town, a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Mid-level Wes Anderson.
Drexl
Striker
Agreed on Bronson. I find a lot of Refn’s work hollow, Drive being one of the outliers.
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
The shit Charles Bronson.
Shack
Striker
The last bits I saw were either when the father and son got chased into a house and got to the loft or when there was someone strung upside down with a bag on their head. I think the issue is simply I've never been into Zombie movies. I just find the whole concept ridiculous and like any genre that's had hundreds of movies made it's difficult to be original. I just felt it fell into clichéd delivery and couldn't be arsed with it.
Drexl
Striker
Fair enough. There’s a sequence not long after that I found very intense, but if zombie films aren’t your thing it probably won’t change your mind.
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
I’m not a fan of zombie stuff either. The only one I’ve particularly enjoyed was Night of the Living Dead and that was barely a zombie film for me - more a study of human nature in a crisis.
Shack
Striker
Just checked online and seems to have a steady 7/10 scores. But then I dropped down into feedback on Rotten Tomatoes and quite a few slating it also. Probably one of those to completely divided opinion.
Drexl
Striker
I think it’s all about expectations. A lot of people wanted a walking dead/world war z type film. Alex Garland was never going to write something like that for a follow up. Plus, World War Z is fantastic, why try remaking it? They tried it with 28 Weeks later and it’s not good. People seem to feel strongly one way or another though!
Shack
Striker
That's a classic though and from which other zombie films copied. It's difficult to be original when the concept is simply people become infected with a virus which ultimately has to make them want to infect those that aren't infected! They all end up rabid monsters who can break through windows to get you but not follow you up into a loft.
Dark Traveller
Striker
Cheers for that! I watched it when first released, so be interested to see what’s been added. I did see something shared on X a couple days ago of further close ups of the Native American lass from Prey, Dutch from first film and Mike Harrigan from Predator 2 all in cryo stasis pods, so assume it must be that.
Predators don’t like to loose do they!
Drexl
Striker
The director of Prey has said he’s had early talks with Arnie about bringing Dutch back in a new film…Cheers for that! I watched it when first released, so be interested to see what’s been added. I did see something shared on X a couple days ago of further close ups of the Native American lass from Prey, Dutch from first film and Mike Harrigan from Predator 2 all in cryo stasis pods, so assume it must be that.
Predators don’t like to loose do they!
Dark Traveller
Striker
nothing against Arnie, but a 78 year old taking on Predators is probably pushing it a fair bit!
In the 1990s Dark Horse comics released a predator series set in New York (
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), a police detective was being hunted by a predator tribe, turns out he was the younger brother of Dutch, John Schaefer, and the hunt was payback for what happened in the film. It was a canny read, but only managed to read five or six issues before my local shop stopped getting it.Dark Horse released a follow up series last year (
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) where John had been kidnapped to a predator hunting reserve planet… so I be interested to see film along that route with John Schaefer
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