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Vim Fuego 
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 Posted: 01 Feb 2022 at 10:20am |
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 Based on a book based on a true story, there are a few historical liberties taken here, but it doesn't spoil the overall effect of this being a brilliant story. This also has a stellar cast, and some amazing special effects. Dad took us to see this when we were kids, because he'd really wanted to see it. Suited me fine, because I was a real space nut as a kid. Don't remember what my brothers thought.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 11:09pm |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 10:47pm |
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 Excellent techno-thriller! Last saw it about 30 years ago, and can say it's aged reasonably well too. Most of the scientific jargon used is absolute bollocks, but it's very convincing bollocks.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 2:28pm |
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 Surprised by the lukewarm reception to this one. Probably Edgar's Wright's best film since Hot Fuzz and certainly joining my rankings of the best modern horror films.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 10:00am |
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adg211288
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Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 6:09am |
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 Louis Malle disc 8: My Dinner with Andrew. Apart from a short intro and conclusion, this entire film is one long conversation. A film of that description shouldn't really be as good as this is.
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Posted: 30 Jan 2022 at 4:08pm |
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 George Romero's long thought lost film. This was made as an educational film, but this film fucked with my head more than most normal horror movies.
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adg211288
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Posted: 30 Jan 2022 at 9:46am |
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 Disc 7 of the Louis Malle boxset: Black Moon. I skipped disc 6 for now since its Lacombe, Lucien which I only recently saw off of streaming. This one is pretty weird. Louis Malle channelling Alice in Wonderland. It doesn't really go anywhere in particular, but its strangely absorbing. Makes a good companion to Robert Altman's Images, which also starred the lead actress. Supposedly this was Malle's first film in English. But I find it odd that I watched this off of a UK blu-ray disc and the only language is French. For what actual dialogue there is anyway. A lot of it is intentionally incomprehensible gibberish.
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Vim Fuego
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Posted: 30 Jan 2022 at 2:44am |
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 Yep, fuck 2021 almost as much as 2020. And 2022 isn't shaping up too flash so far either.
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Posted: 30 Jan 2022 at 12:16am |
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 And this is the anti-Gandhi... Lots of boobs, bad one-liners, fake blood everywhere, and chainsaws.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022 at 8:58pm |
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I just thought it was bad all round.  Hadn't seen this since I was a teenager. One hell of a movie! Just the scale of this alone is incredible.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022 at 4:24pm |
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Yes it's really bad. And all the soundtrack and sound effects are really fucking loud at the same time. I spent the entire movie adjusting the volume. Pretty much all modern movies have this issue where the dialogue is far too quiet but it is extra pronounced on Tenet.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022 at 4:21pm |
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most of the complaints I've seen about Tenet (which I haven't watched) is that the dialog is too hard to hear/understand
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Posted: 29 Jan 2022 at 3:29pm |
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 Expected more from this cult film. Might have been better if Shudder had uploaded it in its original language and not dubbed.  Not Nolan's best work and also bloody hard to keep track of, but still better than some have said it is.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2022 at 4:25pm |
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 Nice period setting and okay atmosphere, but ultimately pretty dull and ineffective.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2022 at 1:40pm |
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 I find it hard to say if this was a good film or not: this had to be the worst film quality I've seen this side of pirate VHS.  Not too bad. Good tension. Better than a lot of what Shudder has served up.  Disc 5 of the Louis Malle boxset. Like The Lovers (disc 2), I wasn't sure if I'd dig this one but Malle does seem to have a way of making a compelling drama. This one is a coming of age tale (complicated by the titular heart murmur), but it ends up more disturbing than you'd expect.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2022 at 2:04am |
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 I thought I'd seen this, but turns out I hadn't. Love the gunslinging martial arts.
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Posted: 27 Jan 2022 at 11:40pm |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2022 at 1:44am |
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 Louis Malle disc 4: The Fire Within. This one is often rated as one of Malle's best films but while it's a solid psychological drama that really gets you thinking, it didn't do as much for me as others in the set. Honestly this movie could make you as depressed as the protagonist.  A disturbing movie, even more so because this all really happened. The movie itself though managed to be somehow uncompelling.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2022 at 11:41pm |
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 B-movie brilliance!
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