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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2022 8:26:17 GMT
1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2022 Director's Edition).
2: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (2022 Director's Edition re-release).
3: Top Gun: Maverick (IMAX).
4: Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
5: Jaws (IMAX re-release): I still shat myself when the head bobs out of the boat.
6: The Fast and the Furious (4DX re-release): The vibrating chair actually adds a lot to a film which is mostly daft car chases.
7: Minions: The Rise of Gru.
8: Bullet Train.
9: Jurassic World: Dominion (IMAX)
10: Batman Begins (4DX re-release): Great to see it again but the vibrating chair really doesn't work for this film at all.
11: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (IMAX).
12: Thor: Love and Thunder.
13: Everything Everywhere All At Once.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Sept 25, 2022 12:30:21 GMT
Oh hey 1. Operation Mincemeat Finally! 2. Moonage Daydream There are three ways to make music biopics. There's the bad way (Bohemian Rhapsody), the fun way (Rocketman) and the arty way (Montage of Heck). Fittingly, this opts for the third way, and is all the better for it. |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 25, 2022 17:34:37 GMT
Weird Al believes there are four!
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Post by Benn on Sept 25, 2022 18:28:03 GMT
I do intend to see that as soon as I work out how!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2022 16:09:07 GMT
1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2022 Director's Edition).
2: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (2022 Director's Edition re-release).
3: Top Gun: Maverick (IMAX).
4: Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release).
5: Jaws (IMAX re-release).
6: The Fast and the Furious (4DX re-release).
7: Minions: The Rise of Gru.
8: Bullet Train.
9: Jurassic World: Dominion (IMAX)
10: Batman Begins (4DX re-release).
11: Halloween Ends: for the first half it's a slow burn which looks like it's setting up something really interesting and then it just sort of...stops. Watchable though I doubt it will linger in the mind long.
12: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (IMAX).
13: Thor: Love and Thunder.
14: Everything Everywhere All At Once.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 19, 2022 16:12:44 GMT
0. Top Gun: Maverick
1. Amsterdam (superb)
2. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
3. The Black Phone
4. Firestarter
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
6. Bullet Train
7. Nope
8. Uncharted
9. Scream
10. Operation Mincemeat
11. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
12. Jurassic World: Dominion
13. Thor: Love and Thunder
14. Everything Everywhere All at Once
15. The Lost City
16. Morbius
17. Moonfall
18. Death on the Nile
19. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
20. Ambulance
21. Nightmare Alley
22. The Batman
23. The 355
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 23, 2022 13:43:44 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Amsterdam 3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release) 4. The Black Phone 5. Firestarter 6. Where the Crawdads Sing 7. Black Adam (a pleasant surprise - the trailer misled me)8. Bullet Train 9. Nope 10. Uncharted 11. Scream 12. Operation Mincemeat 13. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 14. Jurassic World: Dominion 15. Thor: Love and Thunder 16. Everything Everywhere All at Once 17. The Lost City 18. Morbius 19. Moonfall 20. Death on the Nile 21. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 22. Ambulance 23. Nightmare Alley 24. The Batman 25. The 355 Well, well, well. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can play funny, charismatic, tongue-in-cheek heroes. He does this in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise, 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' and 'Jumanji'. He can also play unfunny, boring, over-serious heroes. He does this in 'Scorpion King', 'Jungle Cruise' and (as I suspected from the trailer) 'Black Adam'. The first half hour of this film is the first half-hour of another humourless DCEU dud of a film, a film called 'Black Adam'. Then. Half an hour into a crap film, they switch to a completely different film, 'Justice Society vs Black Adam', and it becomes the best film in the DCEU after 'The Suicide Squad', starring an eight-character ensemble of whom Black Adam is the least inspiring. I had a silly smile on my face for far too much of the subsequent 90 minutes. The writers have just blatantly replaced the boring DCEU Justice League with a completely different team written to be instantly engaging and likeable. Why couldn't they have spent the last decade making movies about these guys???
I particularly liked the fight scene in which a room filled with Justice League posters and memorabilia got systematically trashed.
The mid-end-credits scene was pointless.
More Justice Society films, please!! Martin |
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 24, 2022 18:02:04 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home 2. Moonfall. 3. Death on the Nile 4. The Batman 5. Morbius 6. The Lost City 7. Dr Strange ITMOM 8. Everything Everywhere All at Once 9. Sonic 2 10. Chip and Dale 11. Top Gun Maverick 12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX 13. The Lion King 2 (disney+) 14. JP: Dominion 15. Lightyear 16. Thor: Love and Thunder 17. Bullet Train 18. Star Trek The Motion Picture 19. Dragonball Super something something: 20. Minions 2 21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn 22. Spider-Man: No Way Home more fun edition 23. Black Adam Pretty much what Martin said. Starts rubbish suddenly gets better and unlike most DC films it sticks the landing. Personally I think Shazam was better so would place this third. Just edging out Wonder Woman which for most of its run time is better but was massively let down by its vomiting cgi all over the screen at the end rather than doing good finale. Trailer spoiler warning Spoiler
As someone with no knowledge of the character I was annoyed that the first trailer decided to give away something that the film was treating as a major twist/surprise. Then again my brother who had seen the same trailer didn't think it had given the twist away even when he rewatched it after the film. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2022 20:07:18 GMT
Popped to the cinema.
Not a lot of Black Adam in the Justice Society movie.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 5, 2022 20:12:40 GMT
Not a lot of Black Adam in the Justice Society movie. And all the better for it in my opinion. More Justice Society please! Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 5, 2022 20:18:07 GMT
I'm fine for more Justice Society.
I'd also like a Black Adam movie.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2022 23:19:36 GMT
Black Panther 2 was far too dour. It also could easily have lost an hour. Nowhere near enough plot for 2 hours and 41mins.
What a downer. I was a tad disappointed. The first one was fantastic.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 14, 2022 17:34:27 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Amsterdam
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release)
4. The Black Phone
5. Firestarter
6. Where the Crawdads Sing
7. Black Adam
8. Bullet Train
9. Nope
10. Uncharted
11. Scream
12. Operation Mincemeat
13. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
14. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
15. Jurassic World: Dominion
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Everything Everywhere All at Once
18. The Lost City
19. Morbius
20. Moonfall
21. Death on the Nile
22. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
23. Ambulance
24. Nightmare Alley
25. The Batman
26. The 355
First thing to say is that Marvel Studios rightly realised they needed to do a serious MCU film after Thor 4 and She-Hulk, to prove that they still could, and they succeeded in doing that. Second thing to say is that the supporting cast of the first Black Panther film totally proved they could carry a film as leads. All the Wakandans who reprised roles in this film remained likeable and charismatic in this one.
The film's weakness was it's lack of a decent bad guy. Namor was just as one-dimensional and irritating on film as he is in all the comics I've read, and none of his followers were any more interesting. This resulted in the film sagging heavily in the middle, where they got the most screen time. I think the film would have been more satisfying if the Martin Freeman / CIA plot was fleshed out more and actually went somewhere relevant to the final act.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2022 18:35:30 GMT
Martin is correct.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 22, 2022 18:35:50 GMT
Glass Onion is only showing in cinemas for one week. So I guess I'd better see it this week then.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 22, 2022 20:51:11 GMT
Doesn't appear to be showing at my local.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 22, 2022 21:09:26 GMT
First thing to say is that Marvel Studios rightly realised they needed to do a serious MCU film after Thor 4 and She-Hulk, to prove that they still could, and they succeeded in doing that. Second thing to say is that the supporting cast of the first Black Panther film totally proved they could carry a film as leads. All the Wakandans who reprised roles in this film remained likeable and charismatic in this one. The film's weakness was it's lack of a decent bad guy. Namor was just as one-dimensional and irritating on film as he is in all the comics I've read, and none of his followers were any more interesting. This resulted in the film sagging heavily in the middle, where they got the most screen time. I think the film would have been more satisfying if the Martin Freeman / CIA plot was fleshed out more and actually went somewhere relevant to the final act. Martin Generally agreed. They needed to do a lot more or a lot less with Scott than they did. I enjoyed the Namor stuff so I didn't feel the sag, though my brother did, butI do agree about him being a disappointing bad guy especially in comparison to Killmonger. |
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 22, 2022 21:12:42 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Bullet Train
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture
19. Dragonball Super something something:
20. Minions 2
21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn
22. Spider-Man: No Way Home more fun edition
23. Black Adam
24. Weird - Really really good, but I strongly suspect it would have fallen flat on its face if they hadnt cast Radcliffe or someone equally committed. That he was completely jacked coming off another role was just the cherry on top.
25. Black Panther Wakanda Forever - It was nice to get back to a serious MCU project. Living up to the first one was always going to be virtually impossible that they got even close given everything that has happened in the last couple of years is amazing.
I dont imagine anyone imagined when they cast Angela Bassett in the first one that she would be leading the sequel, but here we are and it was great.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 25, 2022 18:24:05 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery3. Amsterdam 4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release) 5. The Black Phone 6. Firestarter 7. Where the Crawdads Sing 8. Black Adam 9. Bullet Train 10. Nope 11 Uncharted 12. Scream 13. Operation Mincemeat 14. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 15. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 16. Jurassic World: Dominion 17. Thor: Love and Thunder 18. Everything Everywhere All at Once 19. The Lost City 20. Morbius 21. Moonfall 22. Death on the Nile 23. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 24. Ambulance 25. Nightmare Alley 26. The Batman 27. The 355 So the two most entertaining film releases for Martin this year are both sequels, and both much better then the films they are sequels of. www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/23/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-review-daniel-craig-shakes-and-stirs-up-the-party"I'm not Batman." - Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion See it this week only in cinemas, or see it at Christmas on Netflix. But do see it. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2022 20:11:25 GMT
It's not showing round here alas.
Sorted tickets for Christmas showings of Batman Returns (Dec 23rd) and Muppet Christmas Carol (Dec 24th) at the local fleapit as part of Mrs Ralph's Christmas.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2022 22:15:49 GMT
Booked for Casablanca on Sunday. The late lamented Edinburger Filmhouse used to show it every year and I have missed seeing it on the big screen.
There remains a dearth of new films I actually want to see.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2022 16:14:45 GMT
Only 3 of us in the audience for the 80th anniversary re-release of Casablana  . Cinema was dead. Sigh. I have taken off Monday the 12th for a cinema day. I hope there will be some new releases!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 4, 2022 17:55:22 GMT
No new releases on my radar to see for the remainder of this year.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2022 20:18:54 GMT
It's been a very thin release calendar this year.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 4, 2022 20:49:33 GMT
There's Avatar 2 out on 16 Dec. if you like that sort of thing. I'll be skipping it, as I got nothing from the first one (or the trailer for this one).
Nothing really for me now until Ant-Man 3 on 17 Feb., then Shazam 2 on 17 March, John Wick 4 on 24 March, Scream 6 on 31 March, and Dungeons & Dragons on 7 April.
Oh, there is a Gerard Butler action movie called Plane out on 27 Jan.
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 8, 2022 21:17:46 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home 2. Moonfall. 3. Death on the Nile 4. The Batman 5. Morbius 6. The Lost City 7. Dr Strange ITMOM 8. Everything Everywhere All at Once 9. Sonic 2 10. Chip and Dale 11. Top Gun Maverick 12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX 13. The Lion King 2 (disney+) 14. JP: Dominion 15. Lightyear 16. Thor: Love and Thunder 17. Bullet Train 18. Star Trek The Motion Picture 19. Dragonball Super something something: 20. Minions 2 21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn 22. Spider-Man: No Way Home more fun edition 23. Black Adam 24. Weird 25. Black Panther Wakanda Forever 26. Violent Night - Late and shockingly unexpected shout for film of the year. All time great Christmas film here. So, so not prepared for that. If you like Christmas and John Wick. Or Christmas and Die Hard, go see it. {Spoiler}I went in with nothing but the elevator pitch. Santa beats up bad guys. That plus starring David Harbour was enough to get me to see.
I didn't even realise it was the real Santa when it started.
But its a proper magic of Christmas film. And its a proper Die Hard / John Wick* action film.
Mind blown.
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Santa = Wick
Christmas = Puppy.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2022 21:21:50 GMT
I'm booked for Strange World and Violent Night on my day off next Monday.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 9, 2022 5:51:50 GMT
26. Violent Night - Late and shockingly unexpected shout for film of the year. All time great Christmas film here. So, so not prepared for that. If you like Christmas and John Wick. Or Christmas and Die Hard, go see it. OK! Will give it a go then. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 12, 2022 19:35:05 GMT
1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 3. Amsterdam 4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (extended re-release) 5. The Black Phone 6. Firestarter 7. Where the Crawdads Sing 8. Black Adam 9. Bullet Train 10. Violent Night11. Nope 12 Uncharted 13. Scream 14. Operation Mincemeat 15. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 16. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 17. Jurassic World: Dominion 18. Thor: Love and Thunder 19. Everything Everywhere All at Once 20. The Lost City 21. Morbius 22. Moonfall 23. Death on the Nile 24. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 25. Ambulance 26. Nightmare Alley 27. The Batman 28. The 355 Yeah, I enjoyed that. It made me laugh. But I liked it as an action comedy, not really as a Christmas film. Just as I've never been able to think of Die Hard 2 as a Christmas film. 'Cos I don't see the spirit of Christmas being categorising people in a black & white way as naughty or nice and killing all the naughty ones. The Muppet Christmas Carol (which does embody the spirit of Christmas) would have been a very different movie if it had gone down that route. I'm not sure what it says about my brain these days that I thought the least realsitic thing about Violent Night was the baddies letting the little girl talk freely on a walkie-talkie while being held hostage.
And I have visions of the reborn Santa going on a killing spree and murdering all the children on the naughty list with his hammer rather than just not give them presents this year.
The bit with the step ladder to the attic made me shout "No!" out loud in the cinema when I saw what was about to happen to the guy. I don't think I've ever done that before. Martin |
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 13, 2022 13:15:29 GMT
1. Spider-Man no Way Home
2. Moonfall.
3. Death on the Nile
4. The Batman
5. Morbius
6. The Lost City
7. Dr Strange ITMOM
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Sonic 2
10. Chip and Dale
11. Top Gun Maverick
12. Top Gun Maverick 4DX
13. The Lion King 2 (disney+)
14. JP: Dominion
15. Lightyear
16. Thor: Love and Thunder
17. Bullet Train
18. Star Trek The Motion Picture
19. Dragonball Super something something:
20. Minions 2
21. Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn
22. Spider-Man: No Way Home more fun edition
23. Black Adam
24. Weird
25. Black Panther Wakanda Forever
26. Violent Night
27. Strange World - Not sure what the hell Disney are doing with this. I didn't even know it existed till after it was released. Anyway its a fun, cant really say much without spoilers, but its a fun action adventure. a few of the characters reminded me of Trap Door which Im sure was not intentional but amused me.
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