The SMB Movie thread 2020 to 2023

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Falling.
Really enjoyed this, old bloke with dementia goes to live with his gay son and doesn't give a fuck what he says. Fantastic acting by all involved. 8/10.
 
Honest Thief

Liam Neeson playing a shit Liam Neeson in a shit film where worryingly Liam Neeson is the best actor even though he’s shit

4/10
 
Well I watched the Godfather for the first time last night, it was canny enough and I'd probably give it a 7.5/10. Al Pacino has always been one of my favourite actors and he was really good doing his brooding, initially reluctant gangster impression (eventually heading up the business after his dad carked it in the garden after having a chest clutcher).
Brando is a weird dude, he looked like he had marshmallows stuck between his lips and gums - props for surviving being shot several times mind - his muffled chat pissed me off though and I struggled with it.
I would have liked subtitles for the bit where Michael is in the restaurant "talking Italian" to the dude that he comes out and shoots after getting the gun from the bogs (along with the Police chief). His resulting exile to Italy or wherever was canny until his missus got blown up by a car bomb :(.
I must say that there have been other gangster films I've enjoyed more (Goodfellas and Casino in the main).
 
Well I watched the Godfather for the first time last night, it was canny enough and I'd probably give it a 7.5/10. Al Pacino has always been one of my favourite actors and he was really good doing his brooding, initially reluctant gangster impression (eventually heading up the business after his dad carked it in the garden after having a chest clutcher).
Brando is a weird dude, he looked like he had marshmallows stuck between his lips and gums - props for surviving being shot several times mind - his muffled chat pissed me off though and I struggled with it.
I would have liked subtitles for the bit where Michael is in the restaurant "talking Italian" to the dude that he comes out and shoots after getting the gun from the bogs (along with the Police chief). His resulting exile to Italy or wherever was canny until his missus got blown up by a car bomb :(.
I must say that there have been other gangster films I've enjoyed more (Goodfellas and Casino in the main).
Jesus, spoilers man ffs! ;)
 
Dolly Parton's Christmas in the Square.

Don't really know what to say about it, it's full of bizarrely excessively cheery show tunes like something out of a Try Parker/Matt Stone pisstake, but played deadly straight, it looks like the cheapest Hallmark movie you've ever seen, Dolly Parton pops up randomly to sing a tune and float on a cloud, there's a fertility subplot that goes nowhere and also a brain tumor one thrown in there which seems a bit weird for Christmas film but hey ho. I felt like I'd been on LSD watching it.
 
Watched Mosul last night. Sub titled. Canny.

Also watched Haunt over the weekend. The worst horror movie I've ever seen. Not many fillums have an ending which leaves you going "buh?!?"
 
Well I watched the Godfather for the first time last night, it was canny enough and I'd probably give it a 7.5/10. Al Pacino has always been one of my favourite actors and he was really good doing his brooding, initially reluctant gangster impression (eventually heading up the business after his dad carked it in the garden after having a chest clutcher).
Brando is a weird dude, he looked like he had marshmallows stuck between his lips and gums - props for surviving being shot several times mind - his muffled chat pissed me off though and I struggled with it.
I would have liked subtitles for the bit where Michael is in the restaurant "talking Italian" to the dude that he comes out and shoots after getting the gun from the bogs (along with the Police chief). His resulting exile to Italy or wherever was canny until his missus got blown up by a car bomb :(.
I must say that there have been other gangster films I've enjoyed more (Goodfellas and Casino in the main).
His missus may be among the first ever screen boobies I saw. Very nice they are too.
 
Planes Trains and Automobiles. Still very watchable.

The Lion in Winter (1968) - it's set at Christmas, so my first Christmas film! What a fantastic actor Peter O'Toole was and he was robbed of the oscar again. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to watch an intelligent and funny film. Excellent script and great support from Katharine Hepburn and a youngish Anthony Hopkins.
 
The Dressmaker
8/10

absolute nonsense about a woman returning to her hometown inAustralia from Paris to find out if she committed a murder as a child.

perfectly watchable.

Planes Trains and Automobiles. Still very watchable.

The Lion in Winter (1968) - it's set at Christmas, so my first Christmas film! What a fantastic actor Peter O'Toole was and he was robbed of the oscar again. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to watch an intelligent and funny film. Excellent script and great support from Katharine Hepburn and a youngish Anthony Hopkins.
Peter O’Toole massive lads fan
 
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Crock of Gold 8/10
Julien Temple documentary about the life of Shane MacGowan and his time with the Pogues. Very good. A series of conversations cum interviews with Shane sat down seperately with his wife, Johnny Depp and Gerry Adams, mixed with a plethora of old footage Temple must have had from the early London punk days, Pogues gigs and animations to fill in events from the man's life as well as contributions from his sister and family photos and videos. Draws heavily from Victoria Mary Clarke's 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan', in fact I'd wager they used the tapes she recorded for the book as backing dialogue as some of it is in verbatim. Not much by way of new information but it is very watchable if you're into that sort of thing, if a touch dismaying to see the state of the man as he is now.

Ava (Netflix)

Ok cast, utter chod fillum.

1/10
If I could by any means have petulantly sued the filmmakers for compensation the 20 minutes of my life wasted before switching this off I would have done so. It cannot be stressed enough how bad that film is.
 
Well I watched the Godfather for the first time last night, it was canny enough and I'd probably give it a 7.5/10. Al Pacino has always been one of my favourite actors and he was really good doing his brooding, initially reluctant gangster impression (eventually heading up the business after his dad carked it in the garden after having a chest clutcher).
Brando is a weird dude, he looked like he had marshmallows stuck between his lips and gums - props for surviving being shot several times mind - his muffled chat pissed me off though and I struggled with it.
I would have liked subtitles for the bit where Michael is in the restaurant "talking Italian" to the dude that he comes out and shoots after getting the gun from the bogs (along with the Police chief). His resulting exile to Italy or wherever was canny until his missus got blown up by a car bomb :(.
I must say that there have been other gangster films I've enjoyed more (Goodfellas and Casino in the main).

Eeh, you've got part 2 to look forward to now.

PS - Episode 8 of the Double Reel Film Podcast is out this Friday

PPS - here you go @riffraff
 
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