Mr Redknapp
Striker
Thought it was gritty and realistic.
Audrey will never be boring to look at
,, you can me shallow, actually I don't have an end to that sentence 
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Audrey will never be boring to look at
,, you can me shallow, actually I don't have an end to that sentence 
When people have asked me what I thought, I’ve said I wanted to like it.
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
The Flying Scot (1957)
Lee Patterson, Kay Callard and Alan Gifford plan to steal money from a train via cutting through compartments.
Nicely put together B movie which has a great wordless heist scene at the beginning. There’s a good dichotomy developing as the film progresses between the plan and the reality. Another winner from Patterson, although his character here is just a total twat, whereas Gifford’s is far more sympathetic.
7/10
The Last Blood (1991)
Alan Tam, Andy Lau, Eric Tsang and Bryan Leung feature in a film about a race to get a blood donor to save the life of a visiting religious dignitary. Also needing a transfusion is the girlfriend of triad bum Andy Lau. Tam and Leung must protect Tsang’s donor character (Fatty) from assassination, as the Japanese group being the shootings want the dignitary dead.
Utterly off the wall, crazy HK action film. As usual, the comedy stuff is hit and miss (mostly miss), but ride it out and there’s some great action stuff. This is more heroic bloodshed genre than martial arts, so you’ve got the usual carnage and absurdly poor aiming taking place. Special mention to the car chase with a whole fleet of motorbikes pursuing them.
Marketed as Hard Boiled 2 in Britain just to sell more copies off the back of Hard Boiled. It has no connection whatsoever and was made before Hard Boiled. A genius move by the Eastern Heroes lads!
Absurd. Stupid. Annoying. Liked it.
7/10
Lee Patterson, Kay Callard and Alan Gifford plan to steal money from a train via cutting through compartments.
Nicely put together B movie which has a great wordless heist scene at the beginning. There’s a good dichotomy developing as the film progresses between the plan and the reality. Another winner from Patterson, although his character here is just a total twat, whereas Gifford’s is far more sympathetic.
7/10
The Last Blood (1991)
Alan Tam, Andy Lau, Eric Tsang and Bryan Leung feature in a film about a race to get a blood donor to save the life of a visiting religious dignitary. Also needing a transfusion is the girlfriend of triad bum Andy Lau. Tam and Leung must protect Tsang’s donor character (Fatty) from assassination, as the Japanese group being the shootings want the dignitary dead.
Utterly off the wall, crazy HK action film. As usual, the comedy stuff is hit and miss (mostly miss), but ride it out and there’s some great action stuff. This is more heroic bloodshed genre than martial arts, so you’ve got the usual carnage and absurdly poor aiming taking place. Special mention to the car chase with a whole fleet of motorbikes pursuing them.
Marketed as Hard Boiled 2 in Britain just to sell more copies off the back of Hard Boiled. It has no connection whatsoever and was made before Hard Boiled. A genius move by the Eastern Heroes lads!
Absurd. Stupid. Annoying. Liked it.
7/10
Jon Dough
Striker
Great film,I watched it recently to see if it had improved with age,it had,machine gunning melons
Fletch73
Midfield
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey [2014] 9/10
Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain.
I've been trying to find this for years and finally did. It was worth the wait.
Won't You Be My Neighbour? [2018] 8/10
For more than thirty years, through his television program, Fred Rogers spoke directly to young children about some of life’s most important issues.
Absolutely charming. The world could do with a lot more Fred Rogers.
Secret Mall Apartment [2024] 7/10
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way.
Pretty mad. I bet there's loads of big buildings that you could move into part of and not be discovered.
Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain.
I've been trying to find this for years and finally did. It was worth the wait.
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Won't You Be My Neighbour? [2018] 8/10
For more than thirty years, through his television program, Fred Rogers spoke directly to young children about some of life’s most important issues.
Absolutely charming. The world could do with a lot more Fred Rogers.
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Secret Mall Apartment [2024] 7/10
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way.
Pretty mad. I bet there's loads of big buildings that you could move into part of and not be discovered.
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I love the beginning where you don’t even really know who he actually knows in the townGreat film,I watched it recently to see if it had improved with age,it had,machine gunning melons
Drexl
Striker
Robocop (1987)
Take away the supposed commentary on Reaganism, big tech, big business, and simply call this film what it is - a silly, inferior amuse bouche to Verhoeven’s far superior Total Recall. I get this film will mean a lot to people who grew up with it, in the same way I love 1987’s Masters Of The Universe, but I can’t believe how it has a 3.9 on Letterboxd and 92% on RT. Sort of entertaining? Sure, in a pretty mindless way.
4/10
Take away the supposed commentary on Reaganism, big tech, big business, and simply call this film what it is - a silly, inferior amuse bouche to Verhoeven’s far superior Total Recall. I get this film will mean a lot to people who grew up with it, in the same way I love 1987’s Masters Of The Universe, but I can’t believe how it has a 3.9 on Letterboxd and 92% on RT. Sort of entertaining? Sure, in a pretty mindless way.
4/10
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I suppose this is how I made you feel when I said Bad Boys 2 is the film Miami Vice could have been
Normally a good poster but what in the name of god is this shit?!
Drexl
Striker
You’ve already got me doubting myself
I hadn’t watched it since I was very young and the person I watched it with was very critical of it which may have affected my thoughts. I’m going to stand my ground on Total Recall though!
Shit, have I entered my “Peter Bradshaw” phase?
Robocop is a masterpiece.You’ve already got me doubting myself
I hadn’t watched it since I was very young and the person I watched it with was very critical of it which may have affected my thoughts. I’m going to stand my ground on Total Recall though!
Shit, have I entered my “Peter Bradshaw” phase?
Not only Verhoevens best but one of the best satires on big corpo you can see. It’s got the lot. Is insanely quotable and watchable and it pulled no punches.
Total Recall was great and a proper blockbuster but Robocop is one of the best imo.
TOGETHER
Darkly funny, which seems to be a pattern with body horror these days.
Real life couple James Franco and Alison Brie are excellent. Michael Shanks is definitely a talented director and I look forward to what he makes next.
Saying that.
I enjoyed it up to a very obvious point where Hollywood took over and it became reminiscent of Smile (1 that is, I love 2).
I’ll give it a 7.
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I'm rewatching Rear Window now, just because. Masterful
Always reminds me of this
Post in thread 'Recommend me a funny film.' Recommend me a funny film.
My second best movie of all time.
leyburnrunner
Midfield
Watched Total Recall on its release whilst on holiday in Florida. I remember getting back home and telling folk how good it was. Listening to The Rest Is Entertainment podcast and it's crazy that back then the average UK waiting time to see a newly released US film was 4-6 months. Kids got it easy nowadays!
And that was just to rent!
It was normally another good 6 months to a year until you could buy them
Son of Stan
Striker
Spent a splendid afternoon watching The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) with Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford - a dream pairing. 
And with Joyce Grenfell too. A joy from beginning to end.
And with Joyce Grenfell too. A joy from beginning to end.
Fantastic Four First Steps
Or as I shall now name it, Unfantastic CGI with even worse CGI baby.
Not terrible, in fact I’d go as far as to say it’s one of the better MCU films for donkeys.
Alas, Disney.
It may as well be called Sue Storm the Movie. Her whole GIRL POWER schtick is just a bit too much imo. The other three come across as absolutely useless.
Good art direction. Galactus is superb (although you get Ralf Ineson, why change his voice???). Silver Surfer booby edition isn’t bad.
Space flight look good albeit nicking cinematography wholesale from Interstellar.
Massive shout out to Natasha Lyonne who was obviously given a point to look at that was somewhere around Ben Grimms neck
I sound like I hated it but I didn’t. It was ok.
Or as I shall now name it, Unfantastic CGI with even worse CGI baby.
Not terrible, in fact I’d go as far as to say it’s one of the better MCU films for donkeys.
Alas, Disney.
It may as well be called Sue Storm the Movie. Her whole GIRL POWER schtick is just a bit too much imo. The other three come across as absolutely useless.
Good art direction. Galactus is superb (although you get Ralf Ineson, why change his voice???). Silver Surfer booby edition isn’t bad.
Space flight look good albeit nicking cinematography wholesale from Interstellar.
Massive shout out to Natasha Lyonne who was obviously given a point to look at that was somewhere around Ben Grimms neck
I sound like I hated it but I didn’t. It was ok.
Drexl
Striker
Massive drop off in its second weekend box office.Fantastic Four First Steps
Or as I shall now name it, Unfantastic CGI with even worse CGI baby.
Not terrible, in fact I’d go as far as to say it’s one of the better MCU films for donkeys.
Alas, Disney.
It may as well be called Sue Storm the Movie. Her whole GIRL POWER schtick is just a bit too much imo. The other three come across as absolutely useless.
Good art direction. Galactus is superb (although you get Ralf Ineson, why change his voice???). Silver Surfer booby edition isn’t bad.
Space flight look good albeit nicking cinematography wholesale from Interstellar.
Massive shout out to Natasha Lyonne who was obviously given a point to look at that was somewhere around Ben Grimms neck
I sound like I hated it but I didn’t. It was ok.
I’ve read they’re filming Doomsday without a finished script as well, wouldn’t be surprised at this point!
They’re a mess.
This is as good as it gets now I think.
I can’t get over some of the cgi. The baby is embarrassing, at one point Reed is holding his head and it looks like a shocking 90s photoshop job
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