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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Pitt

Canny action scenes, Young lad was mis cast for me and thought Pitt done his usual languid style and sleepwalked through it whilst thinking this script is horrific but cars are fun.
All films have cliches but this was took the piss, and juts silly at times man. Surprised anyone at F1 had out to do with it.

Cobra gives it a 4/10 for the racing scenes alone.
 
The Spiral Staircase (1946)

Dorothy McGuire is a mute helper in a large house full of characters who don’t get on. She is warned to stay in the house because a killer is targeting local women with ‘conditions’.

Lovely to look at, this thriller noir contains some horror stylings and influences. There’s some great shot framing, a nice use of shadows, and some dynamic camera movement, and the near-constant sound of a thunderstorm outside is very atmospheric.

Dated but skilfully filmed and nicely performed.

8/10
 
Last few months of cinema visits:

Dogtooth - 9/10
Caught Stealing - 7/10
Alien/Aliens Double Bill - 10/10 & 9/10
The Long Walk - 8/10
Big Boys - 7/10
Dead of Winter - 5/10
Ghostbusters - 10/10
One Battle After Another X 2 - 10/10
The Golden Spurtle (A documentary about Porridge) - 7/10
Wake Up Dead Man- 5/10
A House of Dynamite - 7/10
Frankenstein - 6/10
Good Boy - 5/10
Big Trouble in Little China - 7/10
I swear - 9/10
Bugonia - 9/10
Predator Badlands - 6/10
Back to the Future - 10/10
Die My Love - 7/10
The Nightmare Before Christmas - 8/10
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - 8/10
Zootopia 2 - 4/10
 
DJ Doubt said:
Last few months of cinema visits:

Dogtooth - 9/10
Caught Stealing - 7/10
Alien/Aliens Double Bill - 10/10 & 9/10
The Long Walk - 8/10
Big Boys - 7/10
Dead of Winter - 5/10
Ghostbusters - 10/10
One Battle After Another X 2 - 10/10
The Golden Spurtle (A documentary about Porridge) - 7/10
Wake Up Dead Man- 5/10
A House of Dynamite - 7/10
Frankenstein - 6/10
Good Boy - 5/10
Big Trouble in Little China - 7/10
I swear - 9/10
Bugonia - 9/10
Predator Badlands - 6/10
Back to the Future - 10/10
Die My Love - 7/10
The Nightmare Before Christmas - 8/10
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - 8/10
Zootopia 2 - 4/10
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OMG you have a kind face
 
Nuremberg 7/10

Pretty good despite rami malek being pretty shite and lightweight in it.
Thought Russell crowe was very good, and seems to be the part he's been stuffing his face for years for. Who'd have thought he'd go all method

Running man
A reasonable 6/10 wasn't as bad as I was expecting, so an enjoyable enough fillum
 
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The woman in cabin number 10 - 4/10. Seen it all before, something happens, no one believes the protagonist, thinks they’re crazy, solves it, bad guy drops himself in it.
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Just watched it tonight.

Really enjoyed it.

The Savannah costs 1 million dollars a week to hire.
 
DJ Doubt said:
Last few months of cinema visits:

Dogtooth - 9/10
Caught Stealing - 7/10
Alien/Aliens Double Bill - 10/10 & 9/10
The Long Walk - 8/10
Big Boys - 7/10
Dead of Winter - 5/10
Ghostbusters - 10/10
One Battle After Another X 2 - 10/10
The Golden Spurtle (A documentary about Porridge) - 7/10
Wake Up Dead Man- 5/10
A House of Dynamite - 7/10
Frankenstein - 6/10
Good Boy - 5/10
Big Trouble in Little China - 7/10
I swear - 9/10
Bugonia - 9/10
Predator Badlands - 6/10
Back to the Future - 10/10
Die My Love - 7/10
The Nightmare Before Christmas - 8/10
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - 8/10
Zootopia 2 - 4/10
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Wow! That’s quite a list!

We really should get to the cinema (our local is the Omniplex) more. The experience is always better than watching at home on a tv.

I totally agree about ‘One Battle After Another’ - it’s brilliant - but definitely one that deserves another viewing and I bet that I’ll pick up on things that I missed first time around.
 
The Ipcress File. 7/10.
Michael Caine is a……….you’ve all seen it loadsatimes. I can’t help myself I was just flicking through the bbc app to see what films they had atm and there it was…..click. Here we go again.

They’ve got “Hell Or Highwater” on atm. If you’ve not seen it just get it watched.
 
Predator: Badlands: Another average to decent watch, in some ways it's the reverse of the original Predator, utilizing nature to beat the baddies. Solid 6.5/10

Got me thinking in the 80's/90's some films were events, you seen the posters and the trailers and there was a buzz/hype that got bums in seats. Now films just come and go, all pretty much average, like a conveyor belt, just one after another...........
 
Schlinders list. Sky cinema

Neeson and fiennes

Everyone knows the story, hadn't seen it in about 10/15 years. A young Neeson superb but clearly fiennes performance is top draw, no cliche, no OTT theatrics juts oooozzing evil, his eyes look dead. Superb stuff, not sure who got best supporting actor that year but must have been unreal.

Film for me could be 30 mins shorter but ha way what a film man. Brilliant ending, class touch. A cobra score of 9.5/10
 
The Running Man (2025) 3/10
Dire script, hackneyed action sequences. Tries to satirize the modern media landscape. Fails.
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Ghost World (2001) 8/10
A couple of people I know reckon this is the best film of the century so far. Not for me, though Steve Buscemi is brilliant, and it takes plenty of risks.
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Crumb (1994) 9/10
Documentary about cartoonist Robert Crumb from Terry Zwigoff, director of the above. Cut of the same cloth as Ghost World (Crumb was the basis for the Buscemi character), though even more morally ambiguous.
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Oppenheimer (2023)

I thought this was absolutely fantastic. It helped that I know a lot of the names from the era, but that aside, it’s a masterclass. Very well acted and scripted, and it had me engaged throughout.

9/10
 
Joker. 2019. 7/10.
Finally got round to watching this. It’s ok.

Circus. 2000. 7/10.
Brit gangster con man caper set in Brighton. Watch yerselves down there this weekend you lot they’re not the southern softies you think going by this. Fred Ward is the old Brit film style token yank used to sell it ower there but due to woke nonsense there’s also an old Brit film style token yank lass as John Hannahs Mrs to help sell it ower there. Eddie Izzard and a few other tv faces feature anarl. Weirdly enough I watched both tonight and both feature the auld Sinatra song “That’s Life”. Wot are the odds eh etc.
Hmmmmm I think I’ll have to put a few more yanks in my great unfinished novel/screenplay if this is how it’s being done in the 21st century.
 
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