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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Dark Traveller said:
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! :lol:
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I’m on the fence about Badlands, despite enjoying that. My concern is they’re already desperately shoving alien into it. but I’ve liked Trachtenburg since his Portal short so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt.

He has said he made these two together so he could get to what he calls an absolutely nuts third film.
 

Dark Traveller said:
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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I think it would be more like the way they used Laurence Fishburne in Predators. Wouldn’t be expecting Arnie to fuck shit up :lol:
 
Fletch73 said:
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.
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Was this the Hollywood Nine Queens or the Argentina original? The originals better imho.
 
Ash (2025)
Slick, atmospheric Lovecraftian sci-fi body horror movie directed by rapper/musician/producer Flying Lotus, whose previous film credit was co-writer/director of a segment of V/H/S/99.

It has vibes of The Thing, Event Horizon, Color Out Of Space...
Woman (Eliza Gonzalez) wakes up on a damaged spaceship on a terraforming/colonising mission with memory loss and various wounds, tries to piece together what's been happening from fragments of trippy gory memories while trying to survive and repair her ship with the help of a crewmate (Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad). Alien parasite-induced carnage ensues.

No idea why this is only getting a 4.6 on IMDB right now. Perhaps too cerebral/arty/trippy/slowburnWTF-y for mass audiences. As a big fan of the genre, I thought it was f***ing great!

8.3 / 10 for me. One of the best new movies I've seen this year. Maybe even THE best. Definitely not for the faint of heart, the squeamish, mainstream-only non-artsy movie sticklers, or people that want to be spoonfed a basic linear plot.
 
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) 9/10
Excellent French adaptation with English subtitles by Anthony Burgess. Depardieu is at his best.
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Jamaica Inn (1939) 7/10
Un-Hitchcockian Hitchcock film, largely because Charles Laughton stuck his oar in - had his own part expanded, and more or less directed his own scenes.
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Trafic (1971) 7/10
The final Monsieur Hulot film, financed by the Dutch because Tati wiped out his own finances making Playtime. Some nice set-pieces, but thin on laughs.
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Shack said:
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.
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Watched the lot. f***ing garbage.
 
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