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SMB Film Thread 2025

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The “big twist” was given away in initial promo material so if you’ve not seen that go in blind.

Still very good. Funny, awkward and dark.

Sophie Thatcher is also quite tremendous
 

Speakeasy said:
September 5

Cracking little film! I knew very little of the facts of the event (all happened 10 years before I was born), but this was a fascinating concept of to tell the story. Essentially, it tells the story of the Munich Olympics hostage affair through the eyes of those who brought it to the world's eyes - the ABC sports news crew who threw together the live coverage of the siege completely on the hoof.

Short, punchy little thriller that kept me hooked throughout.

8/10
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Really great movie. Proper tense thriller, old school.
 
Fletch73 said:
The Florida Project [2017] 6/10
A precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends fill their summer with adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Okay. Anything about the adults backstory would have given this more depth.
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When you realise what it means when the bairn is in the bath :(

Sad film. Also eye opening how expensive it is to be poor.
 
American Graffiti (1973) 8/10
Written and directed by pre-Star Wars George Lucas, with Harrison Ford in a supporting role. Decent enough early-1960s teen nostalgia film, though I've never understood how it became such a box-office smash. It's one of the most profitable films of all time.
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The Big Red One - Reconstructed Version (1980/2004) 8/10
I'd forgotten why I always took the title to be a euphemism for a bollock...until a character gets blown up and Lee Marvin picks up a bloodied testicle. The movie's an autobiographical account of director Samuel Fuller's WWII service. Often brutally graphic, but also a few scenes that don't really work - maybe the reason the film was severely cut before release. The reconstruction was released after Fuller's death.
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Winter Kills (1979) 5/10
Intended as a Dr Strangelove-type satire of the Kennedy assassination. Doesn't hit the right note, but notable for a non-speaking cameo by Elizabeth Taylor, and also for one of the oddest billings in movie history: Toshiro Mifune as Keith.
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The Order (2024) - 6.5/10 - Decent enough true story of a white supremacist terrorist group in America during the 1980's. Judd Law plays a good part as the FBI agent sent to investigate, whilst Nicholas Hoult is excellent as the leader of the organisation known as The Order.
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Both main parts played by UK actors though you'd never know.
 
Nickel Boys (2024). Interesting point of view storytelling about a brutal institution in 60s America. Personally felt was a little too long but definitely worth checking out. 6/10.
 
Think I'll give the gorge a go ,
Probs be shite but a mate of mine did the health and safety stuff for the rope /climbing scenes
 
mickb2112 said:
Going to watch Munich at the weekend by Spielberg about the aftermath of the attack.
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Really enjoyed that. There’s a cracking documentary film “one day in September” narrated by Michael Douglas based on the book by Simon Reeve (him off the BBC). Book’s really good too goes through Munich to the hunting of those responsible and all the f**k-ups.
 
DearRatBoy said:
Really enjoyed that. There’s a cracking documentary film “one day in September” narrated by Michael Douglas based on the book by Simon Reeve (him off the BBC). Book’s really good too goes through Munich to the hunting of those responsible and all the f**k-ups.
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I`m sure I`ve seen that a long time ago. Think I`ll try and track it down and see if it`s online, if not I`ll buy the DVD.
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I`m sure I`ve seen that a long time ago. Think I`ll try and track it down and see if it`s online, if not I`ll buy the DVD.
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Found it
 
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Nosferatu 2024. Dear God. Ten minutes and already Lily Rose Depp has got right on my tits. Terrible actress. Loved the Herzog movie. Eggers must be mental casting her. My God....Isabelle Adjani. Think I can't watch this. Turned off means 0/10.
 
The Brutalist (2024) 6/10
Massive disappointment. For the first ten minutes it promised much, but for the remaining 3+ hours it didn't deliver. It's like the featured architecture - all surface, very little substance. A bit of Holocaust, a bit of anti-Semitism, a bit of Zionism, a bit of architecture, a bit of drug addiction, a bit of rape. But it doesn't add up to a cohesive whole. Best thing about it was the Bauhaus titles, but even they were ruined by the crappy Italian disco song that plays over the final credits. I can't understand the acclaim.

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The Brutalist (2024)

A trip to the rather brutalist Curzon cinema in Russell Square today. A sprawling tale of struggle from 1947 until 1980. Brody delivering a powerhouse performance of rage, frustration and sorrow as the man bringing brutalist architecture to the U.S. Guy Pearce as the fiery tycoon. Every scene, every shot perfectly crafted. A soundtrack as big in scope as its subject. It reminded me in a lot of ways of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America. The first half is better than the second and it doesn’t quite connect the ending with its moving pieces. That being said, a rich film.

8/10
 
To live and die in LA (1985)

Amazon Prime Video

Kinda weird but enjoyable enough.

Secret service agent tries to catch a counterfeiter (player by a young Willem Defoe)

6.5/10
 
I'm busy working on a Korean project, which includes research about the Gwangju Massacre of 1980, when 4,000 people - mainly students - were killed in protests against a military coup. It's central to the modern Korean psyche, as evidenced by the current crisis after President Yoon attempted to introduce martial law. The massacre and its aftermath has featured in several films. I'd already seen A Taxi Driver (2017), which is terrific - I rated it 9/10.

I've just watched three more:

May 18 (2007) 8/10
As with A Taxi Driver, it's a film of two halfs. It begins with gentle comedy, and then transforms into melodrama when the violence starts. This one takes liberties with the facts, but provides a vivid sense of the chaos and tragedy.
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The Attorney (2013) 9/10
Song Kang-ho (who also stars in A Taxi Driver) is a huckster tax attorney in Busan who takes on the case of a student reading group who are collectively charged with being North Korean agitators in the wake of Gwangju. Brilliant courtroom drama based on a true story. The real attorney, Roh Moo-hyun, later became president of South Korea.
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26 Years (2012) 7/10
A thriller about a plot to kill former president Chun Doo-hwan, the man who ordered the Gwangju Massacre. Incredible that it got made, because Chun was still alive at the time with a loyal support base. (Imagine in the 90s making a UK thriller about killing Thatcher.) Funding was pulled while it was in production, so it was crowd-sourced. The end credits include a list of everyone who donated - it goes on for 10 minutes.
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