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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Monty Pigeon said:
Interesting precedent set in India. A cinema-goer has been awarded compensation for having to sit through ads: £450 for the wasting of his time, and £45 for 'mental agony'.

For me, the ads have always been part of the cinema experience.

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I like trailers. Ads tend to annoy me. I didn’t mind them so much in the days they were specifically created for the cinema.

I’m going to be gutted when this place goes. The film threads are a goldmine of recommendations. There always seems to be a good balance of old and new films. It’ll be a sad loss.
 

Doogie Hauser said:
I’m going to be gutted when this place goes. The film threads are a goldmine of recommendations. There always seems to be a good balance of old and new films. It’ll be a sad loss.
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Don't worry, if this place goes we'll definitely find somewhere else. Whether that's another forum/reddit/facebook I don't know. I'm probably going to have a look around soon to see if I can find a well-run movie forum with a good vibe we can invade.
 
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Alice Lowe's follow on feature to Prevenge seems to have taken a bit of a kicking from audiences but I thought it was ok.
It definitely suffers from it's low budget, but has a few laughs along the way.
6/10
 
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Alice Lowe's follow on feature to Prevenge seems to have taken a bit of a kicking from audiences but I thought it was ok.
It definitely suffers from it's low budget, but has a few laughs along the way.
6/10
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Agree with the rating. Laughed a few times, decent movie but yer right, must have been made for next to nothing.
 
'Hundreds of Beavers' stuck it on for five minutes while we had summat to eat and ended up watching the whole movie. Not sure I've ever really seen anything like it before, thought it was clever and plenty of laugh out loud moments. Hats off to whoever made it 8.5/10
 
Fletch73 said:
Don't worry, if this place goes we'll definitely find somewhere else. Whether that's another forum/reddit/facebook I don't know. I'm probably going to have a look around soon to see if I can find a well-run movie forum with a good vibe we can invade.
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I'm a little reluctant to discuss it while we're still hoping Roger can sort it out but is it possible to have an RTG subreddit? With sub-subreddits under it for PF, SMB etc? Even break it down as far as the SMB Film sub Reddit?
 
Sporty said:
Anyone like time travel movies? I've just watched Primer (2004) earlier toneet and was watching a timeline explanation on Youtube. I then noticed this suggested video so watched it and thought it was canny enough to share, as is the 2nd one

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That 2nd video is on a channel called DUST and I've been watching a few of them. They're great to watch as quick fillers as the time ranges from 5 mins to 20 mins and there's loads of them, over 1,000. I think a lot of them are from budding movie creators and I've spotted some well known actors in them.

From the few I've seen, some of them would be really good as longer movies as they leave you wanting more. Even so, some short ones are good watches and keep you interested as the story evolves in the short time and I thought this was canny enough to share.

I think he was 'in love' with her and going to run away but the bit at 11:25 when he sees the other bloke come out after being with her makes him change his mind

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This is the channel just in case any movie buffs fancy watching shorts when they haven't got time to commit to a longer movie.

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Steven Soderbergh experiments again, this time by making a haunted house movie where the camera is from the ghosts perspective.

Hard to go into any detail as it will spoil it but, barring the acting (the dad being the only good one), I enjoyed it but I reckon it’s going to be super marmite.

The writing is daft but just go with it.
 
Oh, God! (1977) 7/10
John Denver as a supermarket worker personally singled out to spread the message of God (played by George Burns). Not bad. A smart script by Larry Gelbart, who created the TV series of M*A*S*H. (Oh, and Teri Garr's in it - terrific as always.)
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Black Tuesday (1954) 9/10
As noir as Film Noir gets. Edward G Robinson as a prisoner on death row who escapes immediately before his execution, taking with him fellow prisoners and hostages. The film was more or less lost until last year. Brilliant use of light and shade, really giving a sense of everything closing in.
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Little Caesar (1931) 9/10
Edward G Robinson's breakout role, as a small-time hoodlum who rises to the top of the underworld. Simplistic by today's standards, but originated many gangster movie tropes.
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Black Tuesday blew me away. If anything, I think that I underrated it when I mentioned it on here months ago. I got the Eureka release on day one. What a cracker from EGR.

Little Caesar is excellent, too. All of the cliches stemmed from films like this. Atmospheric time capsules that can still enthral, as long as one remembers their context.
 
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (2017) Based on the memoirs of Peter Turner of his relationship with Gloria Grahame during her final years. A bittersweet film with outstanding performance from Annette Benning. 9/10
 
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Mission to Moscow (1943) 2/10
Pro-Russian Hollywood propaganda directed by Michael Curtiz two years after he made Casablanca. Interesting to see Hollywood artifice recreating Germany, Moscow, and even Churchill's garden at Chartwell in the studio, but the the message - 'Stalin is a good lad' - is a hard sell.
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I hope this isn't too SEB, I hope I'm not teaching granny to suck eggs, apologies if I am

When the UK and Russian became allies in WW2 there was an exchange of camera crews - Russian crews came to the UK to shoot propaganda movies about what great mates we were - iirc there is a well odd movie with Laurence Olivier as a communist shop steward in Glasgow. I am pretty sure Mission to Moscow comes from this programme

The other half of the exchange sent some British crews to the USSR to shoot footage, mostly intended for pathe news. One crew in particular was embedded with Zukhovs 8th red army post Stalingrad. Some of it was used in Pathe newsreals, but most of it was never shown in the UK

All of the footage is now in a University historic film archive, or at least it was at the time.

When I was at Uni I did a lot of C20th stuff, and along with a few other undergrads with similar interests we were invited to view a selection of the material put together but a doctoral researcher. The Russian propaganda stuff was pretty crackers, but the British stuff was utterly horrific.

I really can't stress enough how disturbing it was, and I don't think we were watching the worst of it. We hear about how awful the Eastern Front was, but this footage was truly haunting

I won't try and describe what I saw but one image which still haunts me is set in a railway marshalling yard. There are german prisoners of war, in what are recognisably gestapo/SS/etc uniforms. The Russians are tearing off the insignia from their uniforms and burning their papers in front of them, obviously to remove any way of identifying them. They are then being packed into cattle trucks

The germans, clearly horrible people who have done evil things, are terrified. A look of total horror. Clearly they know what they have done to others, and they know what will be done to them.

There was a lot worse but that was the most haunting image
 
Lankester Merrin said:
I hope this isn't too SEB, I hope I'm not teaching granny to suck eggs, apologies if I am

When the UK and Russian became allies in WW2 there was an exchange of camera crews - Russian crews came to the UK to shoot propaganda movies about what great mates we were - iirc there is a well odd movie with Laurence Olivier as a communist shop steward in Glasgow. I am pretty sure Mission to Moscow comes from this programme

The other half of the exchange sent some British crews to the USSR to shoot footage, mostly intended for pathe news. One crew in particular was embedded with Zukhovs 8th red army post Stalingrad. Some of it was used in Pathe newsreals, but most of it was never shown in the UK

All of the footage is now in a University historic film archive, or at least it was at the time.

When I was at Uni I did a lot of C20th stuff, and along with a few other undergrads with similar interests we were invited to view a selection of the material put together but a doctoral researcher. The Russian propaganda stuff was pretty crackers, but the British stuff was utterly horrific.

I really can't stress enough how disturbing it was, and I don't think we were watching the worst of it. We hear about how awful the Eastern Front was, but this footage was truly haunting

I won't try and describe what I saw but one image which still haunts me is set in a railway marshalling yard. There are german prisoners of war, in what are recognisably gestapo/SS/etc uniforms. The Russians are tearing off the insignia from their uniforms and burning their papers in front of them, obviously to remove any way of identifying them. They are then being packed into cattle trucks

The germans, clearly horrible people who have done evil things, are terrified. A look of total horror. Clearly they know what they have done to others, and they know what will be done to them.

There was a lot worse but that was the most haunting image
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Have you seen Come and See? Absolutely harrowing. You'd have thought the experiences of WWII would be enough to put them off war for generations - but here we are again, with young men and women going through exactly the same horrors in Ukraine.

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