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SMB Film Thread 2025

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DearRatBoy said:
Minecraft.
It’s a kids film. It’s not high art it’s probably not for anyone who hasn’t played the game.
Jennifer Coolidge is hilarious in it. Jack Black is just Jack Black and Jason Momoa steals it as the washed out 80’s gamer.
The rest sadly is just flat. The visuals are great and there’s a lot going on but it doesn’t quite know what the plot is. It’s all very undeveloped and thin in places.

However it’s nice to see the cinema completely packed out. But the sooner they’ve done the refurb the better.

6/10.
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Sons going tonight again after watching it Saturday! 😂
 

The Rule of Jenny Pen
John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush put great performances into an actually quite gimmicky “horror” about an old people’s home from the director of Driving Home in the Dark.

And that’s it.

There’s a massive gimmick to it all but it doesn’t really have any consequence. It’s extremely slow burn which I don’t mind but it’s definitely a background watch rather than Saturday night cozy.

Wanted to like it more and it have more purpose and consequence. That’s down to convenient writing as is often the case.
 
Drexl said:
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion tbh, it made 1.5 billion and was more critically acclaimed. It’s the better of the two.
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I thought the second top gun was absolute shite and went to sleep to miss the end 2 hrs 10 to tell a story which you could probably do in an hour- kak. Glad you enjoyed it though
 
Flip said:
I thought the second top gun was absolute shite and went to sleep to miss the end 2 hrs 10 to tell a story which you could probably do in an hour- kak. Glad you enjoyed it though
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Agree. I couldn’t believe people think it’s good, or even ok. Just a lot of f***ing nonsense.
 
The foreigner - 2017 on prime, Jackie chan as a vengeful father after his daughter is killed by an ira bomb. Pierce Brosnan as the deputy minister ( definitely not Gerry Adams, nope, no way,no sirree, not a chance) getting to say c#nt in his best Ulster accent while trying to avoid helping JC.fairly run of the mill 6/10.
 
Fletch73 said:
Black Tuesday [1954] 8/10
Gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking several hostages with him.

Another Eddie G. ticked off the list and a pretty vicious one at that. An entertaining 80 minutes.
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Love it. Fab old film.

The Pushover (1954) - Fred MacMurray initially starts to woo Kim Novak as part of a sting operation. Her fella is on the run after robbing a bank and shooting a cop. But daft Fred starts to fall for her properly. His plans to get the dough and run off with her become ever-more elaborate, as he betrays his fellow cops.

There’s some great tension building here, and nice work from people like Philip Carey and EG Marshall. It’s an old fashioned noir, with the focus on the main character falling deeper and deeper into stupid actions.

7.5/10
 
September 5th (2024) - 6.5/10 - Retelling of the Munich Olympics terrorist attack from the perspective of the ABC Sports team. I think the use of actual footage and mainly showing inside the TV studio was a good idea in some respects but it also hindered it as some events were not shown, merely described over phone calls. Still, it was a decent enough watch.
 
The Saint (1997)

Watched this as they covered it on The Rewatchables with the passing of Val Kilmer last week (RIP)

Kilmer plays the spy out to keep the scientific breakthrough of cold fusion out of the hands of the Russians, while falling for Elisabeth Shue’s nuclear scientist.

Kilmer is very charismatic, and it has real moments of momentum (the chase along the river and into the apartment block for example) but immediately stalls itself with long scenes of clunky dialogue. It appears to be at odds with itself on whether it wants to be seen as a brother of Bond (Roger Moore’s voice over at the end just one of the many links to 007, although that one of course creates a bridge to Bond by association)

Ultimately, it’s just not good enough. A mere 5 years later Jason Bourne came along and it almost dates this 30 years. A shame.

5/10

It should be said, Kilmer never quite had the career he should have. As I said, a charismatic performer with leading man looks and a chameleonic quality that allowed him to slip in and out of roles effortlessly. He was pretty much done as a leading man after this film.

Undoubtedly, his on set confrontations wouldn’t have helped. On The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Marlon Brando quipped, "Your problem is you confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent", John Frankeheimer reportedly said, upon the completion of Kilmer’s final scene, “Now get that bastard off my set!” and Tom Sizemore alleged they got into a fist fight on the set of Red Planet. The other side of that coin is his performances in Heat, Tombstone and The Doors to name a few, as well as his heartbreaking turn in Top Gun: Maverick. His contribution to film was huge.
 
Drexl said:
The Saint (1997)

Watched this as they covered it on The Rewatchables with the passing of Val Kilmer last week (RIP)

Kilmer plays the spy out to keep the scientific breakthrough of cold fusion out of the hands of the Russians, while falling for Elisabeth Shue’s nuclear scientist.

Kilmer is very charismatic, and it has real moments of momentum (the chase along the river and into the apartment block for example) but immediately stalls itself with long scenes of clunky dialogue. It appears to be at odds with itself on whether it wants to be seen as a brother of Bond (Roger Moore’s voice over at the end just one of the many links to 007, although that one of course creates a bridge to Bond by association)

Ultimately, it’s just not good enough. A mere 5 years later Jason Bourne came along and it almost dates this 30 years. A shame.

5/10

It should be said, Kilmer never quite had the career he should have. As I said, a charismatic performer with leading man looks and a chameleonic quality that allowed him to slip in and out of roles effortlessly. He was pretty much done as a leading man after this film.

Undoubtedly, his on set confrontations wouldn’t have helped. On The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Marlon Brando quipped, "Your problem is you confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent", John Frankeheimer reportedly said, upon the completion of Kilmer’s final scene, “Now get that bastard off my set!” and Tom Sizemore alleged they got into a fist fight on the set of Red Planet. The other side of that coin is his performances in Heat, Tombstone and The Doors to name a few, as well as his heartbreaking turn in Top Gun: Maverick. His contribution to film was huge.
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He also did a great impression of Tom Sizemore in The Snowman
 
The Onion Field (1979) 7/10
Based on a true story. Two small-time thieves (James Woods and Franklyn Seales) abduct two LA cops (Ted Danson, in his movie debut, and John Savage). In an onion field, one of the cops is killed, the other escapes. The rest of the movie deals with the aftermath - mainly the succession of court cases whereby the culprits try to get their sentences commuted. Strong start, but loses steam.
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Thieves Like Us (1974) 9/10
Lesser-known Robert Altman film, based on the same book as They Live by Night (which I rated 7/10). A very young Keith Carradine and two older criminals escape from prison and go on a bank-robbing spree. Contemporary 1930s radio programmes provide much of the soundtrack, providing a vivid sense of the era.
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The Incident (1967) 8/10
Thought-provoking urban drama. Two hoodlums (one played by Martin Sheen in his debut) terrorize a random group of passengers on a New York subway car. Will any of them have the courage to intervene? The filmmakers weren't given permission to film on the NY subway, so the cinematographer went down there anyway and filmed some of the footage from a camera hidden in a box. The effect is grittily realistic.
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Drexl said:
Good shout on the pod about the new Lynne Ramsey film @Cockney Mackem , not sure how I hadn’t heard about that one! Cast sounds great.
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Nick Nolte 😳
Cockney Mackem said:
Only 8 years since her last film, hope she hasn't rushed it
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As long as it matches WNTTAK…

Although You were never really here was close.
For anyone remotely interested

sinners currently sits at 100% after 35 reviews on RT. Hasn’t appeared on Metacritic yet but reading the reviews, they’re not just 3/5 types, they’re glowing.

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Fetch Fletch said:
Nick Nolte 😳

As long as it matches WNTTAK…

Although You were never really here was close.
For anyone remotely interested

sinners currently sits at 100% after 35 reviews on RT. Hasn’t appeared on Metacritic yet but reading the reviews, they’re not just 3/5 types, they’re glowing.

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Except for…

You guessed it, Peter Bradshaw, who gave it 3/5.
 
Fetch Fletch said:
Nick Nolte 😳

As long as it matches WNTTAK…

Although You were never really here was close.
For anyone remotely interested

sinners currently sits at 100% after 35 reviews on RT. Hasn’t appeared on Metacritic yet but reading the reviews, they’re not just 3/5 types, they’re glowing.

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The trailer looks class although 2k 17m is a long time with my attention span
 
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