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BristolUK Jan 5th 2018 12:47 pm

Re: Movies - 2018 Strikes Back
 

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12412138)
...Ex-Machina...

:thumbup:

Shard Jan 6th 2018 1:24 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12412141)
:thumbup:

:thumbup::thumbup:

Shard Jan 6th 2018 1:27 am

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Spotlight (2015; Netflix) film about the Boston Globe journalists uncovering the sexual abuse pandemic in the Catholic church. As if the idiocy of religion isn't bad enough, situations like this demonstrate just how ugly the whole charade can become. Anyway, very good film, well acted and paced.

BristolUK Jan 6th 2018 1:47 am

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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 12412401)
Spotlight..

Loved it. I always wanted to be a journalist and I've always liked newspaper/news stuff.

All The President's Men, Lou Grant, The Paper (also Michael Keaton), A Brit TV series I forget the name of, The Newsroom....looking forward to The Post.

Tangram Jan 6th 2018 3:02 am

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Goodbye Christopher Robin was excellent

Tangram Jan 6th 2018 3:05 am

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Blade Runner 2049, Victoria & Abdul, Dunkirk and Wind River were also pretty good

BristolUK Jan 6th 2018 4:03 am

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Originally Posted by Tangram (Post 12412439)
Blade Runner 2049...

Did you like the original? I know I was "supposed" to like it but I didn't.

Novocastrian Jan 6th 2018 8:29 am

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I watched "Bright" on Netflix with my son, visiting from Berlin, on Thursday.

An original concept pitch with elements of the Hobbit and Men in Black (including Will Smith as an LA cop with an Orc partner). Unfortunately the whole thing rapidly fell apart into confused nonsense and car chases.

!1/10]

Shard Jan 6th 2018 9:46 am

Re: Movies - 2018 Strikes Back
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12412616)
I watched "Bright" on Netflix with my son, visiting from Berlin, on Thursday.

An original concept pitch with elements of the Hobbit and Men in Black (including Will Smith as an LA cop with an Orc partner). Unfortunately the whole thing rapidly fell apart into confused nonsense and car chases.

!1/10]

Started that one, but it was vetoed by the powers that be. "Elysium" also on Netflix, as a dystopian action flick, wasn't bad. Possibly a 2/10 on your scale.

DandNHill Jan 6th 2018 11:28 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12409015)
I have a problem with Will Ferrell. I can't abide him. As funny as that childish so called comedian in a tight suit (not Alexei Sayle) who somehow managed to become popular and whose name escapes me.

Will Ferrell makes me cringe.

beckiwoo Jan 6th 2018 12:02 pm

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Just watched Infinity Chamber on Netflix. Was a bit slow and I expected there to be a big plot twist but it didn’t happen, disappointed with the ending.

6/10 for keeping me in suspense and a plot that Black Mirror series would probably use/have

BristolUK Jan 7th 2018 12:14 am

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Originally Posted by DandNHill (Post 12412682)
Will Ferrell makes me cringe.

I can't think why. :lol:

DandNHill Jan 7th 2018 1:27 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12412978)
I can't think why. :lol:

Eeek!

Maybe he likes having that effect on people?

morpeth Jan 7th 2018 1:41 am

Re: Movies - 2018 Strikes Back
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12412616)
I watched "Bright" on Netflix with my son, visiting from Berlin, on Thursday.

An original concept pitch with elements of the Hobbit and Men in Black (including Will Smith as an LA cop with an Orc partner). Unfortunately the whole thing rapidly fell apart into confused nonsense and car chases.

!1/10]

I watched Bright and during film thinking wasn't here another movie the last year or two, also set in LA very similar ?

Watched three Italian movies , the Great Beauty, Suburra, and a comedy I think called "Hello Mr President- so different Italian movies, just when I think the Fellini-type scenes are detracting from the film pace and I feel like not watching, I persevere, and at the end I am impressed one way or another often in a way I didn't expect.

Dunkirk I think had many faults, but I think for anyone who had relatives there it was quite effective.

BristolUK Jan 8th 2018 12:11 pm

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A few days ago I was trying to remember a movie where a girl escaped her miserable home life by crawling into a washing machine in the kitchen and emerging from another washing machine in a laundromat.

I sat down tonight to watch a quirky sounding movie and instantly I knew it was the one I was trying to recall.

I reviewed it in the 2016 thread and gave it 12 out of 10.

It's quite magnificent.



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