Films The Official bit-tech Movie Thread - What have you seen lately?

Ant Man Quantumania
WTF was that / 10

Now if you'd have sold that to me as a B rated sci fi stand alone silly fest, then fine it's not offensive or too much of a time vampire, but as part of the Mavelverse, yeah I don't think so, I only watched it as I saw Capt Merica BNW beforehand and thought I was missing out on some plot lines.

 

Captain America: Brave New World - 4/10

I've seen all of the previous MCU movies and many of the TV shows (although I don't always finish those when they're not very good). This movie felt like it needed me to have finished watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (which wasn't great) in order to enjoy it most.

It felt very Disney. Safe. By the book. Barely competent. Disjointed story and weak character motivations. I already knew it was bad from reviews I had read. I only watched it because I guess I'm still watching the MCU stuff. Phase 4 was okay. Pretty much all of Phase 5 has struggled to justify its existence in my eyes. Deadpool & Wolverine is the exception, but it's the worst of the Deadpool movies and sort of retconned into the MCU post Disney purchase. It was soft-included before and now Disney is really trying to bring all of their Marvel IP into one cinematic universe.

I hear Thunderbolts* is actually pretty good, but I'm going to wait until I can stream it at home.

 

Gladiator 2: not needed/10

the very definition of a film that didn't need to be made, i found myself losing interest by about half way.

 

Took me a moment to remember where that was from

“You broke out, let me see if I can get this straight, down the incinerator chute, on the mine car, through the tunnels to the power plant, under the steam engine - that was really cool by the way - and into the cistern through the intake pipe. But how, in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOLE… did you get out of your cell? I only ask because I’m our current situation, well, it might prove to be useful information MAYBE!

[commotion intensifies]

[cell door clanks open]

[Mason appears at cell door]

Trade secrets, my son.”

 

Ballerina 8.5/10

John Wick 4.5; that'll do nicely, very nicely indeed.

 

The Predator
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829266/

Oh sweet baby jesus what have they done

 

Sinners 4/10

seriously had potential until the 3rd act when it collapsed in on itself and faceplanted the landing, the last remaining 20 mins are an utter car crash that keeps on roling downhill. the more i think about the last 20 mins the more irritated i get, such a shame.

 

I think, at the time, my impression was that they had mixed up the edited footage with the sweepings from the cutting room floor.

 

So what? The predator is a kid, and Daddy Predator has come to clean up the mess?
Will not be watching - unless it has Arnie shouting "Get to da choppa", I'm not interested.

 

It does have some interestingly gratuitous camel toe shots at the swimming pool though. Deserves a point and at least forwarding to that bit. You can get the rest of the synopsis from Wikipedia (which bizarrely doesn't include the swimming pool scene as a main plot point).

 

Bring Her Back 7/10 (Vue secret pre-screening)
Somewhat predictable but scores a 7 for some truly grim bits. Better than average but not necessarily a big screen jobbie.

 

A man Called Otto.

Brilliant / 10, reaches out and touches you right in the feels, I need to track down the original, A Man Called Ove, and give that a watch

 

Polar 7/10 (Netflix)
Mads Mikkelsen in a semi-predictable ex-hitman in retirement affair, Matt Lucas hamming it up in good style as the Baddie. Good enough to watch on the treadmill, couple of giggles.

Road 8/10 (Prime)
About the Dunlop dynasty and the trials and dangers of road racing. It was late and I kept nodding off, so I need to watch it again but if you liked Closer to the Edge, you'll like this. Closer to the Edge probably pips it for thrills, but for background and more detail, Road is well worth it.

 

Kraven the Hunter - JFC/10 (Sky)
Forget it.
Marvel have outdone themselves.
It is the most derivative, contrived and generic piece of inanity I have seen in some time and therefore fits neatly in with the rest of the latter day Marvel cack.

 

Monolith - Erm.../10 (Sky)
I've come to the conclusion I'm either thick or distracted. The young lady in this was rather attractive, if a bit bonkers, but I have no idea what happened at the end.
If someone else has seen it, please let me know, as it just didn't seem possible.

 

Casshern (2004) 7.5/10

The origin story to Casshern, based on the cartoon from the 70s.

The film is 2hr22 mins and it feels like it very much story driven with drips of combat and fancy action scenes, for a 2004 film i think its impressive.
I personally enjoyed it, my friend not so much, its a long film for subtiles, but i am used to subed filmes..
Not going to be for everyone but its set me off down a rabit hole.

 

Master and Commander 4k - Weevels/10

A great film made better by the new ATMOS track, my god if you ever wanted to either demo ATMOS to someone or justify carving holes in the ceiling to the wife this is the film to show, from the creaking of wood to the holwing winds every speaker gets a glorious work out, and the overheads, by bloody god the overheads dance with the sounds of sail and rigging every chance they get.

truely stunning audio mixing, truely stunning.

 

My wife randomly chose "Palm Springs" on Emby the other night, and we were pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

8/10