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 Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 9:04am |
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 It does depend on how what will only be my second viewing of The Rise of Skywalker goes, but I'm quietly confident that this is actually the best movie of the sequel trilogy. It still has some obvious re-hash from the original trilogy, but I think it still manages to work as its own thing. It's only got better with re-watches, unlike The Force Awakens.
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Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 3:43pm |
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 It's a very entertaining movie, but accusations of a rehash are not exaggerated. It's biggest issue, true of the entire sequel trilogy though, is how it treats long beloved characters who had a satisfactory end in the original trilogy.  This is now the longest movie I have ever watched, at over 7 hours long. This is definitely not a film for everyone. I, personally, enjoyed it and found it quite mesmerising, though it nearly lost me during a rather infamous scene involving a cat being tortured and poisoned to death, which although simulated, is presented extremely realistically and had me really hating the character who was performing these acts, although it turned devastating for another reason come to the conclusion of that chapter. This was the most difficult thing to watch that I've seen for over a year or more.
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Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 12:30pm |
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Decent independent zombie movie: |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 1:15pm |
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And there are toon murders, and some very adult jokes... It really wasn't aimed at families when it was released.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 1:03pm |
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 I prefer the reimgained Netflix series, but this is really good too.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 12:31pm |
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 Never seen this before. Quite amusing, although I'm left unsure just who this movie is supposed to be for. Most of the time it seems like the fun, family fare that it looks like on the tin... ...But then there's Jessica Rabbit.  Objectively it probably is the weakest of the original trilogy, but I don't see this as having the kind of significant problems of the prequels and sequels. I still kind of wish this was the end point of the Skywalker Saga because even though I do enjoy the sequels, they do kind of take a massive shit on the ending of this.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 8:35am |
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I just finished The Mandalorian. It was excellent.
 As a kid, I was always the biggest fan of Return of the Jedi, but I think I do have to acknowledge that Empire is the pinnacle of Star Wars now.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 2:38am |
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 Another one that for some reason I never re-watched until now. It holds up a bit better than Solo and the direct lead in to the original movie is pretty great. [/QUOTE]
Every time I´ve watched this it gets better. I think it´s the best Star Wars movie after the original three. Great apocalyptic ending to the movie too. Wow it´s such a powerful (and sad/romantic) moment. If you haven´t yet I strongly suggest that you watch The Mandalorian TV-series. Now that´s great Star Wars entertainment.
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Posted: 14 Jun 2021 at 11:52am |
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Another one that for some reason I never re-watched until now. It holds up a bit better than Solo and the direct lead in to the original movie is pretty great.  Hypnotic and fascinating.  The original. Not sure what else I can say, that hasn't been said many times over by many people since it's release. Been a while since I last saw it, but it loses nothing.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 1:59pm |
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 Only the second time I've watched this one and personally I didn't think it held up as well as I'd expected. Leaves a lot of plot strands hanging which I'm not sure we're going to see resolved now.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:33pm |
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 I mostly liked this. Tom Cruise is too small to be a proper Reacher, but for probably the first 3/4 of the film he projects a proper Reacher vibe. Then inexplicably he starts channeling that lame arsed character from the Mission Impossible movies (can't remember, and hate those movies, so don't care), before a final flick back to Reacherisms. Loved the action sequences, which seem so plausible when Lee Child writes them, but are so utterly ridiculous when put on screen. And Rosamund Pike seemed to be just phoning in her performance.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 7:55am |
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I liked this one as well, an improvement on the previous Bond movie, the messy and ridiculous Octopussy.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 4:45am |
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I like this one too...I agree with Moore though in finding Grace Jones creepy
 . She would have been perfectly cast in the role as one of the cyborgs in Bladerunner.Edited by UMUR - 13 Jun 2021 at 4:46am |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 4:16am |
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 Always felt with this one that they really didn't know how to kill Padme off since the original trilogy established that she is dead. Not sure how they managed to fuck her death up so much though: Return of the Jedi pointedly established that Leia remembers a little bit about her real mother. Even with plot holes aside, her death really is dumb as fuck. Otherwise this movie is pretty great with its action sequences and being packed full of lightsaber duels. Next up, the Star Wars Stories movies and then onto the true classics.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 9:10pm |
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It's my favourite of the prequels too. I think it has more iconic scenes in it than the others. Whatever else people might think of the movie, the pod race holds up against any action sequence anywhere in the entire franchise.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 3:38pm |
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 The weakest of the prequels for me. But I still enjoy it a fair bit.  This is pretty good and tense but for some reason some of the reveals that were clearly supposed to be plot twists seemed pretty obvious long before they actually happened.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 4:42am |
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Started re-watching the Star Wars movies in chronological order (so Prequels, Solo, Rogue One, Originals, Sequels) in 4K on Disney+. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but with my old DVDs, but being able to see them in 4K gave me an extra push to do it.
 As an adult, I suppose I can understand why this wasn't considered as good for many older fans, but for me, it's still my favourite of the prequels. This movie was the shit in 1999 and you were 10 like me. Jar Jar included.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 4:16am |
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 Apparently not a very well liked Bond film - Roger Moore hates it, and a lot of people consider it one of the worst in the entire series. I actually like it. Went to see it at the movies when it came out. Moore didn't get along with his Bond girls. Apparently Tanya Roberts didn't like him, and he thought Grace Jones was creepy. Last appearance for Moore, and also for Lois Maxwell, Miss Moneypenny.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 12:55am |
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 This was really good. About a gangsters rise to power while in prison. There's never been a sequel, but it was certainly left open for one.
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Posted: 10 Jun 2021 at 1:46pm |
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I watched these back to back today. I have seen the first one before but I didn't remember it that well. The second is surprisingly solid for a fictional sequel to a based on actual events movie.
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