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

Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning
7.3 times better than the last offering, but still way over egged, there was a good 30 - 45 minutes that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

With luck the franchise will bow out gracefully and not have to suffer reboots or character films.

 

Talking about the Razr cheers me up slightly. Watching Twisters (Sky) about seven times did not - 3/10.
I just cannot understand why I felt I had to watch the end of this despite repeatedly falling asleep throughout the last act. I did like the way that hitting the important button harder gets it to work though. Any geek knows that's the right way to get a button to perform.

Also watched The Surfer (Sky) 2/10.
JFC. I thought Mr Cage might have a decent film left in him, but I'm clearly wrong. Playing an American on a beach in Australia comes across exactly as it sounds. The Oz actors were all pretty good, but I have no idea how Nic got cast. Unless it was on purpose.

 

Caught Stealing- What if Darren Aranofsky tried to be Guy Ritchie but tones down the humour a bit and dials the violence right up? Well, it works. Set in 90s New York, average Joe stumbles onto crime-macguffin, his world unravels and he's pulled in all directions by various bad hombres. Brought back some warm feelings of how crime thrillers used to be with some amazing performances by Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz. It's also the one movie where Matt Smith's appearance doesn't irritate me to no end, I actually found him funny! 9/10 (Would've been 10/10 but there's slightly too much baseball.)

Caught it on Vue's new Epic screen in Nottingham which is a full-on High Dynamic Range feast for the eyes. For a few bob more it's definitely worth it over the IMAX screen it replaced.

 

I'll tell you something I never tell anyone, because it's so embarrassing. Once I was on a ferry crossing in the north sea, about 20 miles off Dover, and my phone was roaming on whatever the hell it is phones tenuously pick up out there. I was super horny so I tried to browse the internet on whatever early smartphone I had at the time. I managed to download about 3 low resolution photos of smut before the connection gave out completely.

On my next bill, those 3 images had cost me about £18 in super-premium roaming data.

I love Nicolas Cage the way that parents love that one underperforming child who never amounts to anything but says adorably weird things sometimes. He's made so few good films and so many bad ones. I go in braced for cringe and he seldom surprises. But directors and casting agents are 100% wise to this phenomenon at this point, so we gotta always assume that however terrible the results, it's exactly as terrible as they - for whatever reason - wanted it to be.

 

I tried looking at “porn” on my Nokia 7110. Basically blocky ASCII art.

 

The Naked Gun (2025) - 4/10

funny in places but a lot of jokes miss their mark & a very short film as well at a mere 75 mins run time.

 

Atlas 2/10 (Netflix)
Watched it in and out of sleep.I wouldn't bother.

 

Yeah, fair enough. Credit where it isn't due etc.. I'm in a sad place right now and Nic just didn't wash it for me. But acknowledged xx

 

of that bad, the missus was asking me to watch this at the weekend

 

Weapons - nah/10

started slow and didnt start getting decent until 2/3rds in, fumbled the landing imo.

 

Sea Fever (Amazon) - I am not wasting any more time by granting this a rating

 

Nobody 2 7/10 not has dark/grim as the first but that is not a bad thing decent light hearted action comedy

 

Ballerina.
John Wick lite, but now with hollywood unlimited ammo / 10.

The first 2 JW films were soooooo good, why do they have to try and build franchises and kill off all that was good.

 

Because Hollywood ran out of good ideas years ago?

 

It all began when they let the studio accountants make script decisions.

 

Just watched the new Superman.

I enjoyed it as a mindless watch, i would recomend it. Proberbly one of the better DC films as of late, and the introduction of other "heros" was a nice touch, how they did lex in this film was probably one of the better ones, a man driven by the thought of not leaving a mark and being forgotten,

And Nathans Guy Gardner needs to have his own show

Best part without a douby thou is Krypto.. he was such a good boi

 

Done a few recently:

The Wolfman (with Ruth from Ozarks) (Sky) 7.5/10
Bit of a slightly different take on the usual format, some proper "Eewwwww!!" moments and a couple of interesting twists. Worth a watch for the grot factor in certain places.

I Swear (Cinema) 8/10
Serious, but with some proper comedy moments ("Sp*nk for milk!"). Bit of a tearjerker but feelgood at the end.

Rocky Horror (Cinema) 7/10 (including a point for a younger Sarandon in her underwear)
Never seen this before, so went down the local for the revival night. This film is more camp than a field full of tents. They must have had a right laugh making it. No-one in the audience in fancy dress though, sadly.

The Long Walk (Cinema) 6/10
Not really sure what to say about this one, other than wait for it to be on streaming. Not really worth a cinema ticket. Thought they could have done a bit more with it, to be honest.

One Battle After Another (Cinema) 4/10
I'm not entirely sure how this got made. It's one of those films from the mind of a very strange director (bit like Life Aquatic, or the recent one set in the desert near Area 51 with Johanssen in etc) but it seemed like a two hour sub-plot. I can't be doing with subtexts and metaphorical messages, I just want to be entertained. This just didn't seem tied together, or to ever really get going.

Urchin (Cinema) 2/10
Rubbish. Another arty effort that never really took off. Gritty, yes. Realistic, sure. Exciting/interesting? Not really. Thought something might be going to happen, then it finished. Which was actually a good thing, because I needed a wee.

 

Conjuring: Last Rites (Cinema) 4/10
Too slow really (do we honestly care about Ed's birthday party?) and when it did reach the point of the film, there wasn't really anything much new there. Some chilling moments interspersed, but the worst one was probably looking around behind me at the end to find I was the only person left in the entire dark cinema.

Yeah, brain started winding me up then, for sure.

 

I've heard nothing but praise for this so far so interesting to see it didn't work for everybody.

Grabbed a digital copy of The Ballad of Wallis Island to rewatch it, just as good as when I saw it in the cinema, still recommend it to everyone I meet it feels like.

 

Had a "me" day yesterday. Gym x2 and cinema double header, so....

F1 (Cinema, 4DX) - 7.5/10
As soon as I saw Bruckheimer's name pop up at the start, the entire film made sense. It's like an almost-copy of Top Gun, but thankfully also has the "no sub-theme/hidden messages, what you see is what you get" entertainment approach. There really is nothing new, but it's a great watch, especially once Brad Pitt-stop starts using some interesting tactics, which I've never really thought about before.

Caught Stealing - 7.5/10
Pleasantly surprised. Thought from the trailer it was going to have a bit more black humour but it was watchable without being toooo derivative. Again, just entertainment for its own sake, which is my personal preference. Also the first time I've ever seen a five foot lunatic do a flying headbutt at someone on the ground - hilarious.