Oh it’s excellent mate. Brilliant cinematography and it’s intense! Actually I’m going to rewatch it tomorrow now haha
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SMB Film Thread 2025
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Doogie Hauser
Midfield
The Silent Partner (1978)
Elliott Gould is a bank teller who predicts a robbery and skims 50k off it. The villain, Christopher Plummer, becomes aware of this, and plots to get it back.
Interesting, watchable thriller with obvious Hitchcock influences. There’s some good work here from the leads. The premise veers off into a few odd areas, and it never quite feels as expansive as it could potentially be, but it’s a good example of 70s cinema.
Elliott Gould is a bank teller who predicts a robbery and skims 50k off it. The villain, Christopher Plummer, becomes aware of this, and plots to get it back.
Interesting, watchable thriller with obvious Hitchcock influences. There’s some good work here from the leads. The premise veers off into a few odd areas, and it never quite feels as expansive as it could potentially be, but it’s a good example of 70s cinema.
It's horrendous. Would've been better to just remake alien isolation as a fillum
Harry Gates
Winger
One of the hooers is Dominique McElligott of Hell on Wheels, House of Cards and The Boys.
Kids gave it 5.5 out of 10.
Might need to try them with others but hoped they might like it more. Going to watch Castle in the Sky by myself this week I think.
Booo - surprised really mine were blown away at a similar age
They gave Sonic 3 10/10 so they’re obviously dicks.
Doogie Hauser
Midfield
Forgot to put my rating for this.
7/10
Rewatched The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) again this morning. Lee J Cobb in fine form as a policeman having an affair. His lass accidentally kills her husband and they have to hide the crime.
Standard noir tropes but Cobb is great, as usual. I love these old films and their straightforward narratives. There’s an economy and purity to them that focuses and immerses the mind.
7/10, maybe higher.
DearRatBoy
Central Defender
'The Wind Rises' is probably my favourite Ghibli one. It's beautiful.
The
Striker
Turd like. Unfortunately for me I persevered for the duration.
Mousehold Mackem
Midfield
Severance shite.
Speakeasy
Full Back
A Complete Unknown
I'm by no means a Dylan aficionado so thought a lot of this might be a bit boring, but I really enjoyed it. Chalomet's performance is excellent, and so are Ed Norton, Elle Fanning and the girl who plays Joan Baez (completely forgotten her name!
). Some of the little period details and the general atmosphere of the mid-60s seems perfectly evoked.
8.5/10
Babygirl
Vaguely interesting concept to start with, but ended up just being completely bored. The plot ended up a bit insultingly stupid at times, but the worst bit was the total lack of chemistry between the two leads. Nicole Kidman is a fantastic actor, but she'd have had more luck playing opposite a plank of wood then the male lead - one of the shittest acting performances I've seen in a movie in a while.
4/10
I'm by no means a Dylan aficionado so thought a lot of this might be a bit boring, but I really enjoyed it. Chalomet's performance is excellent, and so are Ed Norton, Elle Fanning and the girl who plays Joan Baez (completely forgotten her name!
). Some of the little period details and the general atmosphere of the mid-60s seems perfectly evoked.8.5/10
Babygirl
Vaguely interesting concept to start with, but ended up just being completely bored. The plot ended up a bit insultingly stupid at times, but the worst bit was the total lack of chemistry between the two leads. Nicole Kidman is a fantastic actor, but she'd have had more luck playing opposite a plank of wood then the male lead - one of the shittest acting performances I've seen in a movie in a while.
4/10
Lankester Merrin
Striker
Whatever good movies netflix might have made in the past their current output is awful. Formulaic, shallow and bland.
Is anyone else cancelling their subscriptions? I am going to drop Neflix, and I would drop Amazon Prime, but my kids use it (also I suspect that my ex is still using it too, which explains the occassional really shit movie I get billed for)
My Neighbour Totoro?
At the risk of being too much of a show off the first time I went to Tokyo with my kids I managed to get tickets for Studio Ghibli and took them both.
Except in those days you didn't actually get tickets. You got a real celluloid frame from a Ghibli movie in a cardboard holder. One of the single coolest things I have seen ever. I still have them.
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DearRatBoy
Central Defender
We get ours with Sky but the last year I’ve watched 3 things, Medici which they pulled before I could finish it, ‘Nobody wants this’ which was canny and ‘The Two Popes’ which is my usual go to.
Bank of Dave 2. Worth a watch.
errant
Striker
Agree with all this, saw it yesterday and thought it was brilliant. I don’t know Dylan’s story that much so can’t say if the details are correct… but the look & feel of the film is spot on whilst as said above chalomet is excellent.A Complete Unknown
I'm by no means a Dylan aficionado so thought a lot of this might be a bit boring, but I really enjoyed it. Chalomet's performance is excellent, and so are Ed Norton, Elle Fanning and the girl who plays Joan Baez (completely forgotten her name!
8.5/10
Can I be controversial and say that’s better than spirited away?
Evidently you can
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