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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Rewatched Oppenheimer at the weekend for the first time since I saw it on IMAX. Still a brilliant film from start to end for me. I remembered Matt Damon being in it longer though. 10/10

I'm now half way through Sorcerer. I think they're just about to set off on the van. It's took a long time to get to this point mind.
lchavez said:
Rewatched Oppenheimer at the weekend for the first time since I saw it on IMAX. Still a brilliant film from start to end for me. I remembered Matt Damon being in it longer though. 10/10

I'm now half way through Sorcerer. I think they're just about to set off on the van. It's took a long time to get to this point mind.
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I also started the Mr Scorsese documentary on Apple last night. Watched the first 1.5 episodes. It was very good. Lots of Rolling Stones songs.
 
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lchavez said:
I'm now half way through Sorcerer. I think they're just about to set off on the van. It's took a long time to get to this point mind.
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This possibly falls into the category of ‘wimp
talk’.

The build-up gets better for me every time. The four vignettes are great, and then you have the locale where they’re hiding out. Everything is grotty and suffocating. It’s not a tense rollercoaster ride. It’s all about a slow build up and the desperation of these men to put their lives in jeopardy for an escape.

Tbf, I was slightly underwhelmed the first time I saw it. It was subsequent viewings where it clicked.
 
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I love a found money story. No Country For Old Men being the ultimate. The one with Keith Allen dying in an Edinburgh house share even cuts it.
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Watched it years ago and I still can't get the mental image of him lying starkers, dead on the bed, out of my head. 🤢
 
zebediah said:
:lol: Independence Day

I just despise every single thing about it.
The script was obviously written by primary school kids imo.
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I find the first half watchable dross.

The second half is just plain dross.

Even as a highly-forgiving teenager, Randy Quaid’s lines made me squirm with embarrassment as I tried to convince myself that a film I desperately wanted to be good wasn’t shit.
 
The bit I hate most is the "July the 4th was the US Independence Day, today, it will be the worlds Independence day!!!!!!!!"

That is aside from the preposterous "steal an alien space ship and sneak into the mothership with a nuclear bomb"
 
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The bit I hate most is the "July the 4th was the US Independence Day, today, it will be the worlds Independence day!!!!!!!!"

That is aside from the preposterous "steal an alien space ship and sneak into the mothership with a nuclear bomb"
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"Yeah, this computer virus will definitely disable the IT systems of this alien spaceship we've never seen before, and this MacBook will definitely connect up to it, Apple devices are f***ing *renowned* for being compatible with other tech"
 
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My reaction too, but each to their own.
The worst film ever made to me has 7/10 on IMDB :lol:
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Cockney Mackem said:
I don't like it very much, wouldn't put it on my list of worst ever but not going to try and defend "Good shot Mr President!"
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I can't stand Independence Day. For me it was the talisman of the start of the golden age of big budget "all FX, braindead script, no care spent on the acting" movies.

(In the same way I hold Oasis responsible for the "jangly guitar bollocks major label pseudo-indie" decade and a half or so we had to endure from '94ish onwards).

That said, whenever I hear someone say "worst film ever" I always think, "well, there's someone that's never seen Night Of The Living Jews".

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I’d been keeping my eye on this horror film coming out soon from Neon called Shelby Oaks, it seemed to be getting some decent buzz.

Benjamin Lee just gave it one star in The Guardian…:(
 
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Doogie Hauser said:
I find the first half watchable dross.

The second half is just plain dross.

Even as a highly-forgiving teenager, Randy Quaid’s lines made me squirm with embarrassment as I tried to convince myself that a film I desperately wanted to be good wasn’t shit.
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Agree with this.

And I absolutely hate the whole gung ho American thing, happened in Midway as well.

Just an excuse for American propaganda.
 
Drexl said:
I’d been keeping my eye on this horror film coming out soon from Neon called Shelby Oaks, it seemed to be getting some decent buzz.

Benjamin Lee just gave it one star in The Guardian…:(
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He's a bit of a moaning Minnie. It's not that he's wrong necessarily but he comes across as very very hard to please. It wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion
 
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