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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Havoc ..... Tom Hardy trying to make things right, tough cop, saves the day in a Kill Bill style blood bath. Fine. 4/10

Novocaine.... lad out of The Boys stars as a down on his luck lad with a birth condition where he can't feel pain. Ends up using his gift to rescue the love interest from bad guys in what I thought was a lot of fun. Very gory and a few laugh out loud moments. Way better than I thought it would be. 6/10
 

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Just watched the trailer for Jurassic World Scarlett’s Arse and thought “wow this actually looks ok and more adult”…then, IT, appeared.

Can you guess what I mean?

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Yes 1:38 is my suspcion with the back pack, I would have quite fancied this at pics if had been under 1h 40 - but its 2h 14 for christs sake
 
Petulia (1968) 6/10
Love triangle involving Julia Christie, George C Scott and Richard Chamberlain. Robert Altman was originally slated to direct, but Richard Lester took over with Nicolas Roeg as cinematographer, and tried to capture the counter-culture zeitgeist - cameos by the likes of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. More a curiosity than a decent film.
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36 Hours (1964) 7/10
James Garner as a US officer captured by the Nazis ahead of D-Day. In order to get him to reveal the secrets of the forthcoming landings, they attempt to trick him into believing that he has amnesia, six years have passed, and the war is over. Interesting suspense film based on a short story by Roald Dahl; shame that Hitchcock didn't get to make it.
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Bound for Glory (1976) 7/10
Woody Guthrie biopic directed by Hal Ashby. Evokes the Great Depression brilliantly, but lacks narrative drive and becomes repetitive.
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Crap, anar they are not meant be great films with good stories and oscar winning performances but this just takes the piss. The CGI seems to have gone back 20 years

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Ps just shows you that IMDb ratings are a load of shite. On what planet is the a 10/10 or even what the majority said 7/10

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Havoc - Tom Hardy, Tom Hardies his way through this kinda cop/action film, weak as piss plot to hold together some half decent action scenes. By the films end, I think almost everyone has lead (bullets) in them, dead or alive, with a few other dispatched to the afterlife by other metal shaped objects. Despite its naffness, its watchable, 5.5/10
 
Went old school tonight and watched the 1970s Black Christmas.

Known about it for a while but had never seen it before because i always assumed it was a low brow college slasher flick.

Was a lot better than I expected and not a cheap slasher flick.

IMDb have it at 7.1 out of 10 and I think that is about right.

Decent enough, if you like the 70s vibe.

The true horror is the the orange and brown wallpaper.
 
Jurassic World filums have been utter garbage, the last two some of the poorest of all time, but lo and behold new trailer comes out and I want to see it. That’s how good the original was and how it gave anyone of a certain generation a love for dinosaur filums. Please be good 🙏
 
Thunderbolts - Possible a blip in the Marvel conveyor belt of recent releases, but was ok, something a tad different with newish (returning) faces. Still nowhere near Marvel in its prime, perhaps there is some life left in them....6.5/10

Accountant 2 - Not as good as the first one, but enjoyable, although I thought they could have toned down the brother dynamic mid film and lost some of the filler that padded out the film to around 2 hour'ish, but ended well enough. 7/10
 
Wild Card said:
Went old school tonight and watched the 1970s Black Christmas.

Known about it for a while but had never seen it before because i always assumed it was a low brow college slasher flick.

Was a lot better than I expected and not a cheap slasher flick.

IMDb have it at 7.1 out of 10 and I think that is about right.

Decent enough, if you like the 70s vibe.

The true horror is the the orange and brown wallpaper.
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By the same bloke who directed Porky's
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) 9/10
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke as brothers who plot to rob their parents' jewelry store. But it goes catastrophically wrong. One of Sidney Lumet's best films.
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The Unseen (1945) 6/10
Reworking of Henry James's Turn of the Screw. Very strong start, but the last third is rushed and unconvincing. Whole movie here:
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Cold War (2018) 8/10
An ill-fated love story against the backdrop of post-WWII Poland and the Cold War. Tastefully done in moody black and white.
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Cold War (2018) 8/10
An ill-fated love story against the backdrop of post-WWII Poland and the Cold War. Tastefully done in moody black and white.
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Have you watched Ida, Monty? I reckon it's Pawlikowski's best but Cold War seems to get more love.
 
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