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Triceratopsoil 
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 Posted: 14 Apr 2022 at 5:52pm |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2022 at 10:52pm |
 Wasn't quite sure what I expected from this, but this was excellent! The English dubbing was a bit shit, but the subtitles looked sanitised.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2022 at 4:23pm |
 This was good. Badly mistagged on RYM though. A non-horror role for Vincent Price.  Second watch and this more than holds up. Few horror movies have this much style.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2022 at 5:05pm |
 Great movie. Great cast, only a little bit far-fetched (a lot of war movies are!) and a subtle but strong anti-war message.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2022 at 11:35pm |
 This could have been better. Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie was a terrible piece of casting - she was an Oscar winning dramatic actor, and this was too light weight for her. She couldn't sing, and her face was partially paralysed from plastic surgery. Elsewhere, it's sanitised a bit too much - Jud doesn't die! Otherwise though, there's some great song and dance numbers, and the whole production looks quite spectacular
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Posted: 16 Apr 2022 at 1:35am |
 Better than the critics would have you think, but not amazingly good. A slow start, but gets interesting once the undead start appearing. Those characters at least retain the spirit of the original film, even if the charm of the rest of it is missing. A reasonably rocking soundtrack too.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2022 at 4:16am |
 It's Easter, innit!
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Posted: 16 Apr 2022 at 12:43pm |
 Not the most flashy of sci-fi epics (it was made for TV, as well as not being that sort of sci-fi), but compelling. Later works like The Matrix owe something to this and of course the novel upon which it was based.  I haven't finished with Moore yet nor started on Dalton, but Prime just added all the Bond movies and I want to get caught up on Craig so my Dad and I can watch No Time to Die one evening. I've seen this and the next two before (really didn't remember too much of this and even less of the next two), but Spectre and of course No Time to Die will be first time watches. This one is bloody good.
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Posted: 16 Apr 2022 at 6:05pm |
 As usual in a Cheech and Chong movie anything resembling a coherent plot is lost in a smoky haze, but it doesn't matter. Some parts of this are fucking hilarious!
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Posted: 16 Apr 2022 at 10:19pm |
 (AKA Warlords of the 21st Century) I first saw this when I was a kid, and this was the biggest, coolest movie ever made in New Zealand, on a then massive budget of $1,000,000! This was made in New Zealand because there was a writers strike going on in the US at the time. It's often accused of being a Mad Max 2 rip-off as there are a lot of similarities in plot and setting, but this was released only 2 weeks after Mad Max, so both were in production at the same time. Anyway, it still looks amazing, the truck is a fucking beast, there's some pretty cool stunts in it, and it has a pre-Cheers John Ratzenberger in it, along with a who's who of Kiwi actors - Bruno Lawrence of The Quiet Earth fame among them. There's also a young unknown boom operator called Lee Tamahori, later to direct Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day, and xXx 2.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 12:54am |
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^ great name, I gotta check that one out
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 3:50am |
Here's a YouTube link
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 3:52am |
 Fucking brilliant. Love the ending.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 5:59am |
 Yeah, nah. Great idea from the pen of Ray Bradbury, but not terribly well executed.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 6:46am |
 Quite effective horror-thriller. The premise is basic, but it's well executed.  This kept showing up during awards season, so I thought I'd give it a look. It's a small but heartful film dealing with grief, with time travel.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 11:36am |
 On one hand this is a big step down from Casino Royale. On the other it's a lot better than I remember it being, possibly even underrated.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 4:39pm |
 Hammer's take on The Phantom of the Opera. It departs significantly from the 1925 version. The story is moved to London and the Phantom character is significantly more sympathetic. It's okay but I liked the silent one better.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 8:16pm |
 Asterix movies are somewhat hit and miss, but this one is a hit. Excellent 3D animation which keeps to the spirit of the original art style, if not matching it quite perfectly. A suitably absurd story, plenty of the usual cartoonish slapstick, and an excellent vocal cast, including Jack Whitehall, Nick Frost, Greg Davies and Harry Enfield.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:56am |
 Watch out for bad drivers and people who have had a bad day...
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Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 11:28am |
 Shows its age, especially with the ending, but still quite funny.
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