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SMB Film Thread 2025

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craigypants said:
The woman in cabin number 10. Think that's the title. Shamefully awful Guy Pearce performance. Dreadful shite that was apparently a novel. Fuck my eyes. 0/10.
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If you need to exorcise the memory of GP’s performance try watching Animal Kingdom, if you haven’t already. Great film and he’s very good in it, though he very much plays second fiddle to Ben Mendelsohn, who I always thought should’ve got an Oscar for his part in it. One of the best/worst ‘baddies’ I’ve ever seen.
 
Diamond Eyes said:
If you need to exorcise the memory of GP’s performance try watching Animal Kingdom, if you haven’t already. Great film and he’s very good in it, though he very much plays second fiddle to Ben Mendelsohn, who I always thought should’ve got an Oscar for his part in it. One of the best/worst ‘baddies’ I’ve ever seen.
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Yeah I've seen that. It is good. Some disturbing scenes but excellent viewing. Just think Pearce took a Netflix job for the money. Hope he buys something worthwhile. Or perhaps he produces movies/plays?
 
NYMackem said:
Kill Your Friends is on Netflix. Ten year old but I'd never heard of it.

It's like a weird mash-up of American Psycho, Layer Cake set in the 90s British music industry. Way better than the reviews would suggest, 7/10.

Downsides: features James Corden
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he is beaten to death very graphically quite early on.
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Re Spoiler: Worth watching just for that alone.
 
craigypants said:
The woman in cabin number 10. Think that's the title. Shamefully awful Guy Pearce performance. Dreadful shite that was apparently a novel. Fuck my eyes. 0/10.
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Ridiculous. Waste of a decent cast.

Also, what's with Keira Knightley's choppers? Her bottom row are like Billy Bob teeth. You'd think an actor whose main role is "the hot chick" would have been pushed towards invisalign earlier in her career.
 
New Kathryn Bigelow film looks decent. Can’t get to the cinema to see it this weekend but I think it’s out on streaming soon.
 
NYMackem said:
Kill Your Friends is on Netflix. Ten year old but I'd never heard of it.

It's like a weird mash-up of American Psycho, Layer Cake set in the 90s British music industry. Way better than the reviews would suggest, 7/10.

Downsides: features James Corden
Upsides:
he is beaten to death very graphically quite early on.
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Based on Greedys marras novel iirc.
 
Drexl said:
New Kathryn Bigelow film looks decent. Can’t get to the cinema to see it this weekend but I think it’s out on streaming soon.
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Aye I’m looking forward to this, I’m assuming it’ll be out next week. Don’t Netflix give it a week at the cinema before they release them now?
 
Sorcerer (1977) - Criterion 4K UHD

Brilliant. A superb example of 70s filmmaking.

Sparse dialogue allows the action, cinematography and setting to tell the story. Scheider is very good, but it’s Friedkin’s direction that’s the real star. He ramps up the tension so that you’re constantly on edge, and even the vaguest bump in the road causes you to wince. The famous bridge scene retains its brilliance, and several other sequences are pure tension. In fact, the bridge bit seems better than ever, with that roaring storm battering everything. The environment and weather both feel like antagonists.

I absolutely love the fact that it’s all proper practical effects. No shitty computer effects, no back projection - just real action, skilfully filmed. Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack is used sparingly, though effectively.

One of Friedkin’s three 70s masterpieces, and better with every watch. I even enjoyed the opening vignettes more than last time.

I couldn’t tell you whether or not the 4K master is better than that Blu-ray. Presumably so, but that’s not particularly important. What is important is that @Cockney Mackem stops messing about and buys one of the best films of the 70s in its premier presentational form.

9.5/10
 
Doogie Hauser said:
Sorcerer (1977) - Criterion 4K UHD

Brilliant. A superb example of 70s filmmaking.

Sparse dialogue allows the action, cinematography and setting to tell the story. Scheider is very good, but it’s Friedkin’s direction that’s the real star. He ramps up the tension so that you’re constantly on edge, and even the vaguest bump in the road causes you to wince. The famous bridge scene retains its brilliance, and several other sequences are pure tension. In fact, the bridge bit seems better than ever, with that roaring storm battering everything. The environment and weather both feel like antagonists.

I absolutely love the fact that it’s all proper practical effects. No shitty computer effects, no back projection - just real action, skilfully filmed. Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack is used sparingly, though effectively.

One of Friedkin’s three 70s masterpieces, and better with every watch. I even enjoyed the opening vignettes more than last time.

I couldn’t tell you whether or not the 4K master is better than that Blu-ray. Presumably so, but that’s not particularly important. What is important is that @Cockney Mackem stops messing about and buys one of the best films of the 70s in its premier presentational form.

9.5/10
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I've given in to the peer pressure
 
The Lost Bus - Bus full of kids gets lost/goes long way round in midst of a forest fire, was OK, nowt special, I think it's aimed at the American audience as they love this type of thing. 5.5/10
 
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All The President's Men (1976)
Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the two journalists investigating Watergate in this biographical political thriller based on the non-fiction book written by the two journalists.
Gripping stuff, thoroughly enjoyable.
8.8/10
 
Doogie Hauser said:
Sorcerer (1977) - Criterion 4K UHD

Brilliant. A superb example of 70s filmmaking.

Sparse dialogue allows the action, cinematography and setting to tell the story. Scheider is very good, but it’s Friedkin’s direction that’s the real star. He ramps up the tension so that you’re constantly on edge, and even the vaguest bump in the road causes you to wince. The famous bridge scene retains its brilliance, and several other sequences are pure tension. In fact, the bridge bit seems better than ever, with that roaring storm battering everything. The environment and weather both feel like antagonists.

I absolutely love the fact that it’s all proper practical effects. No shitty computer effects, no back projection - just real action, skilfully filmed. Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack is used sparingly, though effectively.

One of Friedkin’s three 70s masterpieces, and better with every watch. I even enjoyed the opening vignettes more than last time.

I couldn’t tell you whether or not the 4K master is better than that Blu-ray. Presumably so, but that’s not particularly important. What is important is that @Cockney Mackem stops messing about and buys one of the best films of the 70s in its premier presentational form.

9.5/10
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Hopefully not too controversial but I always thought the opening vignettes were some of the best parts of the film.
 
Mission Impossible 2 (2000) 6/10
The best and worst of John Woo: Hong Kong-style action sequences, but also face swapping nonsense a la Face/Off.
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Boss Level (2021) 7/10
Time loop thriller: Groundhog Day with added extreme violence. Good fun initially, but outstays its welcome.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 9/10
Classic Spielberg. I last saw the Special Edition at the cinema. This time it was the Director's Cut, which is longer, but - thankfully - loses the mothership interiors.
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The Correspondent - A 2024 film starring Richard Roxburgh about the imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste. 5/10 from me. Unfortunately this film is very slow and drawn out with no action at all.
 
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