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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2023 18:47:55 GMT
Booked for Creed III on Imax next Saturday. I hope it is not the crushing disappointment that Ant-Man 3 was.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 27, 2023 16:22:14 GMT
1. Tenet: Oh my. On the one hand I am genuinely sad not to have seen this in a cinema - the cinematography and lighting just wonderful. On the other hand, seeing it from the comfort of my sofa, with a nice cup of coffee to hand and time to appreciate the way it is plotted and structured? Oh yes. Like The Prestige part of the magic is that it takes a relatively simply stated broad concept, in this case "causality is sign invariant", and runs with it to see what it can make out of it narratively. Then attaches to that all the moving parts of a James Bond movie plot, winds it up and sets it running to see what will happen. Oh yes. I can see why this would have been a terrible experience for some folks, but it was definitely very much my bag.
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 27, 2023 21:55:49 GMT
1. Avatar The Way of Water
2. Puss in Boots : Whatever this ones called. Still enjoy Puss in Boots.
3. Antman 3: Perfectly happy with that. Micheal Douglas was a lot of fun. New Cassie was more like young Cassie than Endgame Cassie who in the few seconds she was on screen for somehow annoyed me. Enjoyed both the bad guys. The living houses stole the show though.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2023 17:05:57 GMT
Creed III (Imax): watchable but by-the-numbers. Time to rest it there, I think.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 7, 2023 18:37:05 GMT
Booked in for a double bill this Friday: Scream VI and '65'.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 10, 2023 21:30:38 GMT
1. Babylon
2. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
3. M3gan
4. Scream VI (kept me interested throughout)
5. Plane
6. The Enforcer
7. 65 (not good)
'65' was half an hour shorter than Scream VI but felt a lot longer.
I thought I'd give Adam Driver a second chance after he was rubbish in Star Wars. My mistake.
Also, I thought from the trailer that it was a time-travel movie. It wasn't, and therefore it made no sense at all.
Never in all the Jurassic movie franchise have I wanted the dinosaurs to win as much as I did today.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 11, 2023 16:32:57 GMT
I must now see this film.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 18, 2023 17:55:13 GMT
Booked in to see Shazam tomorrow and John Wick next Friday.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 19, 2023 18:41:52 GMT
1. Babylon
2. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
3. M3gan
4. Scream VI
5. Shazam! Fury of the Gods (more enjoyable than most DCEU films)
6. Plane
7. The Enforcer
8. 65
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2023 19:02:54 GMT
What's your DCEU ranking list Martin?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 19, 2023 19:08:41 GMT
What's your DCEU ranking list Martin? Hmmm. Well, I've only seen some of them once and a long time back, but I think my enjoyment ranking goes something like this: 1. The Suicide Squad 2. Wonder Woman 3. Aquaman 4. Black Adam 5. Suicide Squad 6. Shazam! Fury of the Gods 7. Wonder Woman 1984 8. Shazam! 9. Birds of Prey 10. Justice League 11. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 12. Man of Steel Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2023 19:19:44 GMT
I must now see this film. -Ralph But I didn't, as I have been ill. -Ralph |
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 19, 2023 19:22:44 GMT
1. Avatar The Way of Water
2. Puss in Boots : Whatever this ones called.
3. Antman 3:
4. 65 - Er... a week later and Im still not sure how I feel about this one. Theres something vaguely interesting about exploring the idea of how alien the planet would be 65 million years ago. I think my main problem was seeing Sam Raimis involvement and thinking he would be directing. That really might have been interesting in a way that the actual film was not.
The back story wasnt exactly important, but it still would have been nice if it was clearer who was going, where they were going, why they were going.
There were also some continuity issues that werent quite continuity issues, bags and supplies would vanish or be lost during action scenes but always reappear later. They were never shown going back to collect them, which they must have done, however potentially risky that would be.
On the plus side, it was short, focused, with decent action and some decent jump scares. But mostly left me thinking, why?
5. The Whale - Frasers performance was great and I was quite invested at the time but Im not at all sure the rest of the film was very good.
6. RRR - finally got around to it. Last time I had a look Im sure there was no English dub available, but now there is and it was a blast. Its like Fast 5 with a dash of Taken, but also a historic musical.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 24, 2023 9:21:47 GMT
Day off on Monday. Planning to catch 65, Shazam 2 and Mrs Ralph joins me that evening for...John Wick 4 in IMAX!!! Very excited.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 24, 2023 9:25:30 GMT
Day off on Monday. Planning to catch 65, Shazam 2 and Mrs Ralph joins me that evening for...John Wick 4 in IMAX!!! Very excited. Although I won't be seeing John Wick for another few hours, I suspect that is the order of increasing entertainment value for the three movies. Er, and increasing length. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 24, 2023 17:36:31 GMT
1. John Wick: Chapter 4 (this is what the big screen was invented for)
2. Babylon
3. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
4. M3gan
5. Scream VI
6. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
7. Plane
8. The Enforcer
9. 65
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 26, 2023 21:17:29 GMT
*ALERT*
Some cinemas are showing SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE on 10/4/23 for its' 45th (!) anniversary.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 26, 2023 21:30:02 GMT
Ooh. My local is over the Easter weekend. Three screenings. Right then...
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 27, 2023 17:27:02 GMT
Shazam! 2: that was fine.
65: Bogatan and Martin are right.
John Wick 4 in half an hour!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 27, 2023 21:35:39 GMT
John Wick 4 on IMAX: OH MY GOODNESS!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 27, 2023 21:47:04 GMT
Hehehe, yeah!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 28, 2023 11:02:51 GMT
Wanted to see 'Rye Lane' but annoyingly it is not playing in my fleapit (despite ads for it). Booked for Dungeons & Dragons IMAX on Sat evening. Mrs Ralph wants to see it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 29, 2023 14:17:22 GMT
John Wick 4 on IMAX: OH MY GOODNESS!!! -Ralph Big German Gold Teeth Guy is the sensational character find of 2023. He has been my favourite baddie of the 4 films. Give him his own spin-off!!! |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 29, 2023 22:24:08 GMT
Saw John Wick 4 again after work. Even on a second viewing it's more entertaining than any of the other films I've seen this year. As a must-see-on-the-big-screen, it's the Top Gun: Maverick of 2023.
I thought too much about the logic holes this time, though. If I was a man on the run, trying to get from A to B across Paris, I'd put on a disguise. If I were the bad guys trying to stop a man who's not in disguise but very good at close-range combat, trying to get from A to B across Paris, I'd use many snipers.
My film would not be quite so fun to watch.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2023 22:59:44 GMT
One does not come to a John Wick film for logic.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2023 21:53:32 GMT
Dungeons and Dragons (2023): Fun! Much better than the 2000 effort.
I have no idea how it relates to the game.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 3, 2023 22:52:52 GMT
1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. Babylon
3. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
4. M3gan
5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (a mixed bag)
6. Scream VI
7. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
8. Plane
9. The Enforcer
10. 65
D&D is variable, but has a lot of decent stuff in it.
Chris Pine plays the character he always plays. Michelle Rodriguez plays the character she always plays. Hugh Grant plays the character Jeff Goldblum played in Thor: Ragnarok. The other characters are more interesting, but don't get enough development. One of them goes away halfway through seemingly just because the mission would be too easy if he stayed.
I want to turn into an Owlbear.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 4, 2023 16:08:52 GMT
I would have left D&D to the Easter weekend, but I realised it was only getting one week on SuperScreen before being demoted to lesser screens, to make way for some animated computer game thing.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 7, 2023 9:00:10 GMT
Off to what I imagine will be a very quiet screen for Scream VI at the end of its run, while the hordes pour in to the fleapit for Super Mario*.
-Ralph
*Which I will of course see too soon.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 7, 2023 15:54:56 GMT
Scream VI: Meh. Watchable but it was painfully obvious early on who was behind it all. The last act threatened to go in an interesting direction...then didn't.
I will of course be back for Scream VII. I can't resist shitty sequels. I am part of the problem.
-Ralph
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