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I thought I'd seen this, but I'm not sure I had... Anyway, I have now. All good clean fun.
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No wonder this one did so well. It's my favourite too. Love the digger on the train and motorbike chase scene.
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A Quiet Place was the sort of movie where it kinda felt like they couldn't pull off the same thing twice, but they actually managed it with this. Enough of the first movie's style with some reinvention of the formula including more dialogue and action. The opening scene set on Day 1 is excellent. Arguably the movie peaks too early there, but it remains enjoyable with some really tense encounters. In this one, humans also pose a threat to the family, not just the aliens. Like with the first one, the adult actors get upstaged by the kids. If there's a complaint about the film its that the end is extremely abrupt. There's obviously supposed to be a third part to follow, which doesn't seem to have been greenlit yet (if you Google A Quiet Place Part III all you seem to get is talk of a spin-off movie, not a sequel), which is slightly concerning given the ending. They really can't leave it here...
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This having its 20th anniversary last year makes me feel old. Been a while since I watched it. It's probably my favourite one of the three. 



Oh boy where do I even fucking begin with this one? A contender for the most absurd movie I've ever seen. It's part Mad Max, part Western, part Samurai and 100% off the wall. I feel like it should be crazy good with that genre mix but it's really just crazy... meh, I guess. A movie that simply, exists. I feel like it should have been completely played for comedy and then it might have worked better. Instead it feels like a silly film that seems to want you to take it seriously, which is impossible. I don't expect much of this one will have stuck with me a few weeks down the line, except that one memorable scene where Nic Cage gets his testicle blown off. 

I've struggled with director Sion Sono's work before, and I guess this one was at least watchable in a turn your brain off kind of way without being too problematic (one has to raise an eyebrow at this Japanese directed, Japan set film where the leaders of all factions seen are all white dudes, as is the unnamed Hero). I guess I'll take this over Love Exposure any day of the week. 
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Didn't know what to expect from this, but it's excellent. I didn't realise it was Natalie Portman's first movie either.
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What a movie! I can see why it's so highly rated. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter are excellent. There's also a young Marilyn Monroe in a bit part, but even then it was obvious she was destined for bigger things.
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Mixed feelings on this one. It's intriguing enough, has some good scenes too, but overall I spent most of the movie with my attention wandering. 



Robert Altman impressing as usual. I never know what I'm going to see when I pick one of his films to watch for the first time. I've yet to see a bad one from him or two that are completely alike even if they technically share a genre. 
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^Yeah I´m sure you are right, and that´s what makes it so great Wacko...and scary Unhappy....but also pretty funny Cool. "She´s gonna come back"..."She´s gonna come back" he he that´s brilliant. I love the closing scene too.
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Sounds just like the pandemic. 
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^ The news is always scaremongering about this asteroid or that comet. No one takes it seriously except the doomsday preppers. If (when) it does ever happen, I'm pretty sure people are going to react in exactly the same way as this movie. And that is terrifying. 
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Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:


So funny, but scarily so plausible. 


Definitely worth watching...
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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

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Brutal, funny, powerful, a bit confusing, and the last scenes were filmed in New Zealand, which I wasn't aware of.


I love this one. The middle movie of the Park Chan-wook vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mister Vengeance and Lady Vengeance bookending it). Although the motive for revenge in this movie is a bit out there, it´s still a stunning movie visually and yeah it´s quite brutal too.

The Koreans sure know how to make a brutal movie. I believe I Saw the Devil may outdo this one though. That's a hell of a serial killer movie if you've ever seen it. 


Not yet, but you recommended it before, and it´s on my to watch list Thumbs Up
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Brutal, funny, powerful, a bit confusing, and the last scenes were filmed in New Zealand, which I wasn't aware of.


I love this one. The middle movie of the Park Chan-wook vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mister Vengeance and Lady Vengeance bookending it). Although the motive for revenge in this movie is a bit out there, it´s still a stunning movie visually and yeah it´s quite brutal too.

The Koreans sure know how to make a brutal movie. I believe I Saw the Devil may outdo this one though. That's a hell of a serial killer movie if you've ever seen it. 
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Originally posted by Vim Fuego Vim Fuego wrote:


Brutal, funny, powerful, a bit confusing, and the last scenes were filmed in New Zealand, which I wasn't aware of.


I love this one. The middle movie of the Park Chan-wook vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mister Vengeance and Lady Vengeance bookending it). Although the motive for revenge in this movie is a bit out there, it´s still a stunning movie visually and yeah it´s quite brutal too.
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If they just wanted to make The Hobbit they could have done it in one film. The book itself doesn't set all that much up for The Lord of the Rings, so they drew on other sources to build a more complete picture of what was happening before The Fellowship of the Ring. The extended Hobbit's add even more to that tie-in material. The result is something that feels part of one long saga, not just a story set in the same world. 

By comparison as well, each LoTR film has considerable more cut from the source text even in the extended editions. While interlaced with tie-in material, you do actually get all of The Hobbit novel as I remember it across three films. We would not have done so if they'd instead made one film. 
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^I've only ever watched the first two movies, somehow, but I always thought breaking that particular book into three movies, when the three longer LOTR books only needed one movie each, was nothing but pure greed, so I'm not surprised the pacing seems to have been completely ruined.
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The extended edition of the final film primarily just amps up the battle itself to 11, to the point that in the UK the film got reappraised by the BBFC as a 15 instead of a 12. I'd say the film is improved by going all out with the battle, but as a film it does still suffer from most of the film being one long climatic battle. If you think of the trilogy as one very long film the length of the battle makes more sense, but as an individual film it still lacks something the others don't. 
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A very simple story, and a very short movie (64 minutes), but it's going to stick with you. Be warned: could be construed as exploitative by today's standards.
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So funny, but scarily so plausible. 
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