mikeymikec
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Miss Marple - Nemesis (1987, Joan Hickson)
By far the best of the mini-series, its only let-down being the at-times overplayed "isn't she amazing?" nemesis winged-avenger type stuff, oddly overplayed for a British drama but hey-ho.
I yoinked this quote from another forum:
By far the best of the mini-series, its only let-down being the at-times overplayed "isn't she amazing?" nemesis winged-avenger type stuff, oddly overplayed for a British drama but hey-ho.
I yoinked this quote from another forum:
IMO an iconic murder mystery. A young woman was murdered some years ago but there wasn't a solid case against the son, so the son went free. I like it particularly because it's different from a lot of such stories in that the murder is normally committed in the present and the evidence is fresh, whereas this one is a cold case with characters, many of whom were very close family and have been scarred by the murder (or allowed it to fester within themselves), like for example the mother of a woman who went missing around the same time, who's turned into a quiet alcoholic since because she's never had closure.
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DigDog
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i watched
Caddo Lake - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15552142/reference/
which is a strange film about time-travel.
Somewhere south (gun'guess Luisiana, since there's the bayou) there's a family of normal locals. They got their problems like age or health and mostly life just carries on.
Protagonist "Paris" is particularly obsessed with trying to discover further details about how his mother died years prior due to having a seizure while driving.
Sisters Ellie and (younger) Anna love spending time together.
Not much happens for about half hour, mostly establishing characters, but these are not particular noteworthy characters; they are mostly just normal, unassuming people.
Eventually both Paris and Ellie discover that some part of the bayou has time-displacement properties. They randomly time-travel anything between 3 days and several years, and each time they interact with another member of their family; once Ellie finds Anna after she has run away, brings her back home, but does so because she time-travelled back 3 days, but also Paris goes looking for Anna and finds her severely wounded because he finds her in another point in time.
And, when these characters meet in another time, they don't really "interact". Ellie finds she is talking to her mother, and her reaction is just being stupefied..
and, this is it. I told you the entirety of the plot. I suppose the emotional connection between these family member matters, as it changes as they view one another differently after having time-travelled, but it doesn't really make for much of an interesting plot. Nothing like, having to get your parents back together while Biff is trying to beat you to a pulp, all before the midnight so you can rig lightning to a clocktower -kind stuff.
I would have to give it a soft 6/10, because it's well made and well acted, but for entertainment values, it's more of a 5/10 than not.
Caddo Lake - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15552142/reference/
which is a strange film about time-travel.
Somewhere south (gun'guess Luisiana, since there's the bayou) there's a family of normal locals. They got their problems like age or health and mostly life just carries on.
Protagonist "Paris" is particularly obsessed with trying to discover further details about how his mother died years prior due to having a seizure while driving.
Sisters Ellie and (younger) Anna love spending time together.
Not much happens for about half hour, mostly establishing characters, but these are not particular noteworthy characters; they are mostly just normal, unassuming people.
Eventually both Paris and Ellie discover that some part of the bayou has time-displacement properties. They randomly time-travel anything between 3 days and several years, and each time they interact with another member of their family; once Ellie finds Anna after she has run away, brings her back home, but does so because she time-travelled back 3 days, but also Paris goes looking for Anna and finds her severely wounded because he finds her in another point in time.
And, when these characters meet in another time, they don't really "interact". Ellie finds she is talking to her mother, and her reaction is just being stupefied..
and, this is it. I told you the entirety of the plot. I suppose the emotional connection between these family member matters, as it changes as they view one another differently after having time-travelled, but it doesn't really make for much of an interesting plot. Nothing like, having to get your parents back together while Biff is trying to beat you to a pulp, all before the midnight so you can rig lightning to a clocktower -kind stuff.
I would have to give it a soft 6/10, because it's well made and well acted, but for entertainment values, it's more of a 5/10 than not.
I find it strange that it has two directors (I think only other dual directed movies I've seen are Rogue One, though the second director "fixed" it and the other movie is Captain Marvel). How does this work? The two directors sit in on every scene? Or are scenes/shots divided between them? What is usually the reason for having two directors?
DigDog
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as you can tell, i'm on holiday, the weather is fierce, sweating like a pig, so i spend morning to afternoon in front of the air-con, watching films.
i watched
Frantic - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095174/reference/
which is almost the essence of what the opposite of the word "frantic" means.
Some american couple come to Paris for a holiday, and about half an hour of the film is the director showing us how awesomely French the French are. French dialogue is not translated at any point.
Next half hour the wife goes "missing" i.e. she walks out of the hotel. the French, being French, go "hon hon hon, but of cours, she has the Lover" while husband is "nooo, my wife is AMERICAN".
Then another half hour talking to bureaucrats in the embassy, and the police, who finally agree that maybe yeah, she *is* missing, but we have no crime, we have no clue, we have nothing we can do to actually find her, and also it's lunchtime now.
Then Harrison "i was Indiana Jones" Ford starts his own investigation from a number inside a match booklet (which did not exist in France FYI) and thanks to the world's most oblivious criminal, he finds the girl who caused all this ruckus by switching the suitcases at the airport.
Then they wait a lot, and even are contacted by the US secret service, who are totally cool about letting this civilian handle a matter concerning nuclear secrets; eventually he agrees to an exchange of McGuffin-for-wife and the incredibly clumsy terrorists wind up shot and the McG thrown into the Siene river.
idk, i would give it a 5.5/10 at best. it's a mediocre film that really takes no chances whatsoever; and, the brief scene that was in the trailers, of Ford climbing on a rooftop with the suitcase, not only is just about 30 seconds long, but is stolen from another film that had it 20-minutes long and full of stunts.
i watched
Frantic - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095174/reference/
which is almost the essence of what the opposite of the word "frantic" means.
Some american couple come to Paris for a holiday, and about half an hour of the film is the director showing us how awesomely French the French are. French dialogue is not translated at any point.
Next half hour the wife goes "missing" i.e. she walks out of the hotel. the French, being French, go "hon hon hon, but of cours, she has the Lover" while husband is "nooo, my wife is AMERICAN".
Then another half hour talking to bureaucrats in the embassy, and the police, who finally agree that maybe yeah, she *is* missing, but we have no crime, we have no clue, we have nothing we can do to actually find her, and also it's lunchtime now.
Then Harrison "i was Indiana Jones" Ford starts his own investigation from a number inside a match booklet (which did not exist in France FYI) and thanks to the world's most oblivious criminal, he finds the girl who caused all this ruckus by switching the suitcases at the airport.
Then they wait a lot, and even are contacted by the US secret service, who are totally cool about letting this civilian handle a matter concerning nuclear secrets; eventually he agrees to an exchange of McGuffin-for-wife and the incredibly clumsy terrorists wind up shot and the McG thrown into the Siene river.
idk, i would give it a 5.5/10 at best. it's a mediocre film that really takes no chances whatsoever; and, the brief scene that was in the trailers, of Ford climbing on a rooftop with the suitcase, not only is just about 30 seconds long, but is stolen from another film that had it 20-minutes long and full of stunts.
DigDog
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thestrangebrew1
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Fired up Silo S2. Oh boy...Got 2 episodes in last night and wanted more but had to hit the sack. So far loving it and can't wait to watch the rest!
DigDog
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i just watched
Nosferatu (2024) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/reference/
and i fucking hated it.
I saw a video by The Critical Drinker, one of the most prominent independent reviewrs today, praising this film, and i wonder if the guy - given that he has "for work" to review almost exclusively things like The Acolyte and She Hulk - was starved for the opportunity to rate something as not-shit, because i too feel like that, sometimes, given that all the reviews i've written lately are all 5s and 6s, so i really, really wanted to like this, but i just couldn't.
Based on the 1922 Nosferatu film, it is essentially once again the same standard Dracula story, with the only difference really being the changes in the character's names; Mina is Ellen, Johnathan Harker is Thomas, Van Helsing is Von Frantz, etc but they are the same characters.
Dracula doesn't recognize his previous wife in Harker's locket, but rather "Mina" in this version had some kind of spiritual seizure which allowed her to commune with Dracula years prior, which woke him from his sleep. The rest of the plot is also near-identical, with a change in the end.
..i'm really not going to spoiler the plot to Dracula, it's 2025 and if you have never seen one of the god knows how many versions of the book, it's on you, not me.
My problem with Nosferatu is that it is EXCESSIVE in literally every fucking thing it does.
Lemme'splain. There is a scene on board the "Demeter" (dracula's ship) where a crewman wants to kill dracula inside his coffin; and he searches for the coffin, axe in hand. And he FINDS the coffin, and between him finding the coffin, and actually walking to the coffin and hitting it with the axe, 44 fucking seconds pass. It takes three quarters of a minute for a crewman to lift his axe and hit a box.
Dracula also speaks with this thick fake Romanian accent, but does so, slowly, insistently, throughout the film, to the point where it's almost comedic.
The dialogue wasn't great, and the delivery of the dialogue was not good, to the point where i thought "am i watching a stage adaptation?". It's neither historically accurate nor believable in any way.
Nobody has any realistic reactions, if not those of absurdly exaggerated fear; now, you may argue that fear, when facing the undead, is appropriate, but every scene in 2h15m is like that.
It's like, a bunch of clueless modern cinematographers wanted to show Hollywood that they "can make a 1920s Dracula", and if this film had come out in the 20s, man it would have fucking rocked. But today, it's not just slow, but all that space is filled with trying to stretch everything to the maximum. How long does it take Johnathan "Thomas" to walk up the stairs to Dracula's castle? A fuckton of time, is how long.
Nosferatu 2024 absolutely does not understand pacing, it has no sense of colour, has unimpressive dialogue, and all of this to tell YET ANOTHER version of the same fucking story. (William DeFoe though plays Van Helsing and he is still magnificent)
My vote: 5.5/10 because of a few decent things scattered here and there, but if you have been thinking about that Family Guy joke that "it insists upon itself", here is it, this is the film.
I still think Netflix's Dracula (2020) was the best of our generation.
Nosferatu (2024) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/reference/
and i fucking hated it.
I saw a video by The Critical Drinker, one of the most prominent independent reviewrs today, praising this film, and i wonder if the guy - given that he has "for work" to review almost exclusively things like The Acolyte and She Hulk - was starved for the opportunity to rate something as not-shit, because i too feel like that, sometimes, given that all the reviews i've written lately are all 5s and 6s, so i really, really wanted to like this, but i just couldn't.
Based on the 1922 Nosferatu film, it is essentially once again the same standard Dracula story, with the only difference really being the changes in the character's names; Mina is Ellen, Johnathan Harker is Thomas, Van Helsing is Von Frantz, etc but they are the same characters.
Dracula doesn't recognize his previous wife in Harker's locket, but rather "Mina" in this version had some kind of spiritual seizure which allowed her to commune with Dracula years prior, which woke him from his sleep. The rest of the plot is also near-identical, with a change in the end.
..i'm really not going to spoiler the plot to Dracula, it's 2025 and if you have never seen one of the god knows how many versions of the book, it's on you, not me.
My problem with Nosferatu is that it is EXCESSIVE in literally every fucking thing it does.
Lemme'splain. There is a scene on board the "Demeter" (dracula's ship) where a crewman wants to kill dracula inside his coffin; and he searches for the coffin, axe in hand. And he FINDS the coffin, and between him finding the coffin, and actually walking to the coffin and hitting it with the axe, 44 fucking seconds pass. It takes three quarters of a minute for a crewman to lift his axe and hit a box.
Dracula also speaks with this thick fake Romanian accent, but does so, slowly, insistently, throughout the film, to the point where it's almost comedic.
The dialogue wasn't great, and the delivery of the dialogue was not good, to the point where i thought "am i watching a stage adaptation?". It's neither historically accurate nor believable in any way.
Nobody has any realistic reactions, if not those of absurdly exaggerated fear; now, you may argue that fear, when facing the undead, is appropriate, but every scene in 2h15m is like that.
It's like, a bunch of clueless modern cinematographers wanted to show Hollywood that they "can make a 1920s Dracula", and if this film had come out in the 20s, man it would have fucking rocked. But today, it's not just slow, but all that space is filled with trying to stretch everything to the maximum. How long does it take Johnathan "Thomas" to walk up the stairs to Dracula's castle? A fuckton of time, is how long.
Nosferatu 2024 absolutely does not understand pacing, it has no sense of colour, has unimpressive dialogue, and all of this to tell YET ANOTHER version of the same fucking story. (William DeFoe though plays Van Helsing and he is still magnificent)
My vote: 5.5/10 because of a few decent things scattered here and there, but if you have been thinking about that Family Guy joke that "it insists upon itself", here is it, this is the film.
I still think Netflix's Dracula (2020) was the best of our generation.
purbeast0
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Yah I saw Sonic 3 as well and would give it like a 6/10. I enjoyed the first 2 quite a bit, and the first one a lot more than I anticipated. But 3 just did not have the same feeling to it or something. I also think Keanu as Shadow was a total miscast.
mikeymikec
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It's been a while since I watched it last (probably more than 20 years), but I remember the scene with the drug dealer and the protagonist asking questions about "the white lady"
I'm also wondering how many times Emmanuelle Seigner has been in Roman Polanski's films!
mikeymikec
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail had two directors according to wiki because both were newbies and treated it as a learning experience together. I thought I had read somewhere that the entire MP team took directing roles in it, but wiki doesn't mention it.
DigDog
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Best picture
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“I’m Still Here”
“Nickel Boys”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best actress in a leading role
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best actor in a supporting role
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Best actress in a supporting role
Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Best director
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Best cinematography
“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
Best international feature film
“I’m Still Here”
“The Girl with the Needle”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
“Flow”
Best adapted screenplay
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
Best original screenplay
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“The Substance”
Best live action short film
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Best animated short film
“Beautiful Men”
“In the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Best animated feature film
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
Best documentary short
“Death By Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Best documentary feature film
“Black Box Diaries”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugarcane”
Best original song
“El Mal,” from “Emilia Pérez”
“The Journey,” from “The Six Triple Eight”
“Like a Bird,” from “Sing Sing”
“Mi Camino,” from “Emilia Pérez”
“Never Too Late,” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
Best original score
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best makeup and hairstyling
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best costume design
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best editing
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
Best sound
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best production design
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best visual effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
DigDog
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i watched
The Wild Robot - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480/reference/
Cute, funny, and exceptionally well animated, story of how a robot gains a soul, the soul of *a mother*.
And that's it. While the film is certainly good, it doesn't have that spark of greatness as WALL-E or Ice Age, the characters are quite bland, the story is very average, and if the voice acting was good, it wasn't memorable in any way - you won't find a Sid The Sloth here.
And it's a bit too long.
Lilo & Stitch, by the same director, is MILES away.
7.2/10
if Love Death + Robots did not win the Oscar, neither should this.
The Wild Robot - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480/reference/
Cute, funny, and exceptionally well animated, story of how a robot gains a soul, the soul of *a mother*.
And that's it. While the film is certainly good, it doesn't have that spark of greatness as WALL-E or Ice Age, the characters are quite bland, the story is very average, and if the voice acting was good, it wasn't memorable in any way - you won't find a Sid The Sloth here.
And it's a bit too long.
Lilo & Stitch, by the same director, is MILES away.
7.2/10
if Love Death + Robots did not win the Oscar, neither should this.
MrSquished
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Been watching American Primeval. Down to the last episode tonight. It's pretty good. I can forgive a couple fast moving plot devices due to it being a limited series. I could swear one part in episode 3, with the frenchies, was so close to one I've seen in another movie I've seen a while back. Can't remember, or maybe I'm daydreaming it
DigDog
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aww... fuck .
i just watched
Conclave - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20215234/reference/
and until almost the very end, it was solidly on track to be the best film of the year.
Please keep in mind that, as someone *from* Rome, who can understand all 4 languages spoken in the film, went to catechism, got a Missa Grande baptism, etc i may be reading into it far more than someone from the states.
Absolutely stellar performance by Fiennes, excellent direction, subtle yet powerful dialogue, fabulously delivered, excellent production, and a really gripping plot, but a fucking rug pull of an ending.
Fiennes is the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Lawrence, and the man in charge of the Conclave, with this being the secret ballot by which a new Pope is elected.
This happens "sequestered", i.e they cannot leave the voting premises until the vote has been resolved.
Traditionally this was a time of scheming, as when the church held temporal power (e.g. "cut your head off" stuff) siding with the wrong candidate could have a drastic effect on one's lifespan.
The protagonist, Lawrence, is a pious man, who does not wish to become Pope, to the point of not even entertaining the idea. But, while trying to maintain the proceedings of the Conclave in order, he unwillingly (or not?) puts himself in the leading position.
There is also a moustache-twirling villain, Cardinal Tedesco, who is the fire & brimstone candidate that wants to see the church go back to war with the infidels.
The majority of the film is the subtle yet absolutely gripping intrigue, and the film even gives you slight hints at which direction the plot might take, but at the very last minute it chooses to veer into a completely different direction.
I won't spoil anything, and it's absolutely worth watching, but while the script isn't particularly obscure, it does help to know a few things about the church, and you won't really be explained anything more than the superficially obvious. (and you'll need subtitles, unless you can understand english, italian, latin and spanish)
i'm gonna be fair and give it the vote it deserves, 7.8/10
Your reading of the film might be different than mine and you may vote it higher, it depends if you see this film as being about the obsession with power, or if you see it as a film about salvation. In the second hypothesis, then 8/10
i just watched
Conclave - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20215234/reference/
and until almost the very end, it was solidly on track to be the best film of the year.
Please keep in mind that, as someone *from* Rome, who can understand all 4 languages spoken in the film, went to catechism, got a Missa Grande baptism, etc i may be reading into it far more than someone from the states.
Absolutely stellar performance by Fiennes, excellent direction, subtle yet powerful dialogue, fabulously delivered, excellent production, and a really gripping plot, but a fucking rug pull of an ending.
Fiennes is the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Lawrence, and the man in charge of the Conclave, with this being the secret ballot by which a new Pope is elected.
This happens "sequestered", i.e they cannot leave the voting premises until the vote has been resolved.
Traditionally this was a time of scheming, as when the church held temporal power (e.g. "cut your head off" stuff) siding with the wrong candidate could have a drastic effect on one's lifespan.
The protagonist, Lawrence, is a pious man, who does not wish to become Pope, to the point of not even entertaining the idea. But, while trying to maintain the proceedings of the Conclave in order, he unwillingly (or not?) puts himself in the leading position.
There is also a moustache-twirling villain, Cardinal Tedesco, who is the fire & brimstone candidate that wants to see the church go back to war with the infidels.
The majority of the film is the subtle yet absolutely gripping intrigue, and the film even gives you slight hints at which direction the plot might take, but at the very last minute it chooses to veer into a completely different direction.
I won't spoil anything, and it's absolutely worth watching, but while the script isn't particularly obscure, it does help to know a few things about the church, and you won't really be explained anything more than the superficially obvious. (and you'll need subtitles, unless you can understand english, italian, latin and spanish)
i'm gonna be fair and give it the vote it deserves, 7.8/10
Your reading of the film might be different than mine and you may vote it higher, it depends if you see this film as being about the obsession with power, or if you see it as a film about salvation. In the second hypothesis, then 8/10
You know with those language skills, you could write and direct pretty decent movies about the Knights Templar, Exorcisms, Angels and Demons and with the money, go on ACTUAL treasure hunts! I don't understand you.
Dr. Detroit
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Hatchet - 4.5/10 (Now streaming on Tubi)
What in the Sam Hill was this movie!
Horror comedy set in the swamps of Louisiana with lots of bare breasteses as the film opens during Mardi Gras.
The kill scenes were comedicaly over-the-top which is why this was deemed a horror comedy, it just wasn't a good one.
Joel David Moore, the weird freak JP from Grandmas Boy, stars and does a fine job with the rest of the D-list of performers and while some individual scenes were solid, it mostly fell flat.
What in the Sam Hill was this movie!
Horror comedy set in the swamps of Louisiana with lots of bare breasteses as the film opens during Mardi Gras.
The kill scenes were comedicaly over-the-top which is why this was deemed a horror comedy, it just wasn't a good one.
Joel David Moore, the weird freak JP from Grandmas Boy, stars and does a fine job with the rest of the D-list of performers and while some individual scenes were solid, it mostly fell flat.
DigDog
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understanding liturgical latin is not the same as being fluent in the language. the same way that a US lawyer will know a bunch of latin terms, such as Habeas Corpus or Affidavit, but doesnt actually speak the language. there's only so many times you can hear "ora pro nobis" and not figure out what it means.
thebestMAX
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I didnt see Gladiator II on the list for animation or special effects. LOL, this may be one of the best films to see on a small screen as it hides a lot of poor CGI.
Are you entertained? Well, not the worse gladiator type film Ive seen but the original might just be better, maybe by a factor 0f 10. Only watched the first half so far and Ill probably finish it as I am a sucker for films about that age. Pablo Pascal does well as usual, the lead not so much with his buddy buddy with many, condescending and facial expressions, Denzel is just plain strange. The dual Emperors (?) what can I say? Bad ass riding a Rhino didnt even look the part. Sharks in a flooded arena? The plot? You can see it coming a mile away. There is more but I havent had my coffee yet this AM.
How do I rate it? 5.5 and glad I didnt pay to see it.
Are you entertained? Well, not the worse gladiator type film Ive seen but the original might just be better, maybe by a factor 0f 10. Only watched the first half so far and Ill probably finish it as I am a sucker for films about that age. Pablo Pascal does well as usual, the lead not so much with his buddy buddy with many, condescending and facial expressions, Denzel is just plain strange. The dual Emperors (?) what can I say? Bad ass riding a Rhino didnt even look the part. Sharks in a flooded arena? The plot? You can see it coming a mile away. There is more but I havent had my coffee yet this AM.
How do I rate it? 5.5 and glad I didnt pay to see it.
purbeast0
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Just a warning - it gets worse.
And I watched it on my 10 foot screen and the GCI was so god awful. When I first mentioned watching it in this thread I believe I even said something along the lines of like "why is CGI getting worse as technology gets better?" because this is a perfect example of it.
DigDog
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Back In Action - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21191806/reference/
two complete hasbeens (although Jamie Foxx can occasionally pull out the odd decent film) in the blandest, most phoned-in spy-action-parents film about a lovingly bickering couple of superspies who are also trying to fight the life's hardest fight, raising kids.
this film shouldn't exist, and yet it does.
4.9/10
two complete hasbeens (although Jamie Foxx can occasionally pull out the odd decent film) in the blandest, most phoned-in spy-action-parents film about a lovingly bickering couple of superspies who are also trying to fight the life's hardest fight, raising kids.
this film shouldn't exist, and yet it does.
4.9/10
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) - IMDb
D.N.A. - Experiment des Wahnsinns (1996) Reference View
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Because, she is such an incredibly desirable woman. Or, at least, she was in 1996. And it's very appropriate to have her as a half-cat, with her facial features.
Unfortunately this film, being the epitome of "development hell", can't really be asked to "do more with X character", since they could barely patch together the mess they did.
Both Brando and Kilmer were being divorced, there were hurricanes, disease, staff dropping out, and to be honest, the source material - being the 1896 HG Wells novel - isn't really suitable to modern filmmaking.
A random nobody washes up on the island of Dr Moreau. Said doctor has been working on splicing human and animal genes together, perhaps almost successfully from a purely medical perspective, but visually, he's just created a bunch of circus freaks.
In a short dialogue at the end, it is revealed that he had almost succeeded, with the final experiment being just days away, and Fairuza would have been the first successful, fully-human, fully-stable hybrid (implying that she would be "superior" to normal humans).
Because of circumstances not directly caused by the protagonist, Brando is murdered by the beasts, and the whole place falls into anarchy and destruction. Fairuza gets killed offscreen without any resolution to the love-interest subplot.
Unfortunately there is nothing to see here; a Val Kilmer that loses his mind and descends into drugged hedonism, Fairuza doing a incredibly sexy belly-dance, and Brando being the buffoon that he had become in his later years - while the man can still deliver lines very convincingly, it's never a give *which* lines he will deliver.
5/10 - but actually 4/10, but with an extra point for historical reasons. and Fairuza.
DaaQ
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Just wondering if you seen the director's other movie The VVitch?
Rodger Eggers I think, if I am not mistaken he is more about the cinematography and historical accurateness .
IDK I have not seen this movie yet.
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