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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 1, 2016 19:08:02 GMT
I am convinced you are a jester.
At least swap 1 and 2!!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 2, 2016 14:26:08 GMT
Nope.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 29, 2016 18:54:29 GMT
1. Bridge of Spies
2. Captain America: Civil War (watch the grown-ups and learn, DC)
3. The Assassin
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
5. The 5th Wave
6. Deadpool
7. London Has Fallen
8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
As usual, worth staying to end of credits.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 29, 2016 21:24:13 GMT
The Comic Balance has been maintained. Martin and I are at odds. While CA:CW had one great sequence at a thingy and a well realised certain character who has not been well served before on screen I thought it was overall quite average and trying too hard to set-up/pay-off other films. It also needed at least 45 mins lopped off. Pacing was poor.
Thought it was ok while it was on but it is going down in my opinion as I think about it. The score was deeply banal and the soundscape was a bit flat at times.
I enjoyed BVS: DOJ much more!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 1, 2016 10:48:06 GMT
1 - Captain America: Civil War (does a better job than BvS:DOJ in juggling the cast and plot threads, and urinated from a great height over the comic series that inspired it)
2 - Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
3 - Deadpool
4 - Jem.
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Post by Bogatan on May 1, 2016 12:36:30 GMT
#teammartin
While it wasnt as bad as I thought it might, bvs was just too messy. I cant think of a comparable between the films that Civil War doesnt do better on for me. Maybe something like cinematography or the score they are close on. But I was too engrossed to to notice the break down of civil war.
On complaint I have with civil war was the return of the bendy men. In the early fights especially there were bendy men (and women) on par with Blade 2.
Im hoping the 3D conversion is to blame as I wasnt terribly impressed with that either.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 1, 2016 18:11:11 GMT
1. Bridge of Spies
2. Captain America: Civil War (watch the grown-ups and learn, DC)
3. Bastille Day (watch the grown-ups and learn, cast and crew of London Has Fallen)
4. The Assassin
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
6. The 5th Wave
7. Deadpool
8. London Has Fallen
9. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
London Has Fallen - I see your Gerard Butler and raise you one Idris Elba.
Martin
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Post by legios on May 2, 2016 18:59:01 GMT
Right, everybody move down a row, my film of the first quarter is coming on station:-
1. Eye in the Sky: Probably the best drama about the Remote Warfare age so far. Throws out a fair stack of moral quandries and very much wants you to look the questions in the face, without having any pat answers for you. Also a fantastic exercise in steadily tightening the screws of tension.
2. 13 Hours:The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
3. Captain America: Civil War (/Avengers 2.5): Afflicted by some of the same pacing and bloat problems that afflicted the Avengers movies. Starts out with a better grasp on the "should vigilantism on a global scale be tolerated" question than does the comic story it is named after. Unfortunately this kind of gets lost in the shuffle of a story that by halfway through has become about something else entirely. It feels less like it chooses not to offer answers and more like it has forgotten what the question was. Does manage to deliver some absolutely fantastic action sequences but it did feel over-long and rather unevenly paced. Much better executed than Batman vs Superman and with a lot of positives. But it isn't going to be troubling Guardians or Thor for second place in my Marvel films chart any time soon.
4. Jem and the Holograms
5. London has Fallen
6. Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
Glad to hear good things about Bastille Day. I am considering going to see that as a reward once I get my last assignment of term 2 handed in... I was hoping that "Idris Elba vs Terrorism" would be good.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 3, 2016 19:16:04 GMT
Just out of Civil War. Bored stiff throughout (like many of the actors it seemed going by their performances). Pacing off, dull sound, lurching characterisation and generally in a muddle with itself.
Not even Cap's bulging arm muscles could hold it together as it flies apart in many different and forgetful directions!
Disappointing.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 3, 2016 19:35:45 GMT
Got my ticket to see X-Men: Apocalypse on the 18th.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 19, 2016 6:04:15 GMT
1. Bridge of Spies
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Bastille Day
4. The Assassin
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
6. X-Men: Apocalypse (saved by the Quicksilver and Magneto scenes from being in the lowest category of X-Men films inhabited by 'The Last Stand' and 'The Wolverine')
7. Our Kind of Traitor (plodding and predictable)
8. The 5th Wave
9. Deadpool
10. London Has Fallen
11. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Martin
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Post by legios on May 19, 2016 14:03:57 GMT
1. Eye in the Sky
2. 13 Hours:The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
3. Bastille Day: Idris Elba punches bad men in Paris. Decent if unexceptional euro-thriller material with a cast who make a pretty good fist of things.
4. Captain America: Civil War (/Avengers 2.5)
5. X-Men: Apocalypse: It all starts out so well, and then starts to slow down and go around and around in circles for a while before remembering it lost the back end of act 2 and act 3 somewhere back thataway and goes off to find them. Seriously, there is a whole chunk of the film which literally does nothing useful and should have come out long before they started shooting. This would also have helped it avoid the current "Superhero bloat" that seems to have affected all the superhero movies I've seen this year.
6. Jem and the Holograms
7. London has Fallen
8. Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2016 20:31:33 GMT
I see that the distributer of 'Sing Street' has shoved it out on general release the same weekend as 'X-Men: Apocalypse'. There's counter-programming and there's shoving a film under a bus. A shame as it will die quickly. Really charming Irish comedic/kids-form-a-band flick, which also suffers from a *dreadful* trailer which sells a completely different film entirely. Lovely stuff and the soundtrack is tops.
If it helps sell it, Jack Raynor from 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' is in it. Um. It's good! Go see it! It will cheer you up!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 29, 2016 16:53:39 GMT
1. Bridge of Spies
2. Alice Through the Looking Glass (IMAX 3D) (a shocking (to me) entry in at number two)
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Bastille Day
5. The Assassin
6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
7. X-Men: Apocalypse
8. Our Kind of Traitor
9. The 5th Wave
10. Deadpool
11. London Has Fallen
12. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Didn't care for 'Alice in Wonderland' at all as it couldn't decide whether it was trying to be a homage or something new and so failed to do either properly. This film plumps for option number 2 and in my view (though apparently not the critics') succeeds frabjously. It's the sort of time-travel movie whose version of technobabble consists of the likes of "void of infinitude" and "It's not impossible, merely un-possible".
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on May 29, 2016 17:01:29 GMT
I have now stopped keeping a list and commenting here on every film (the Book of Face mostly used for that) I see so I have no idea how many films I have viewed this year! I am a bit more selective though. I've had a look at the Edinburger Film Festival programme and a few items have caught my eye so bookings shall be made shortly!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 29, 2016 17:05:15 GMT
I have now stopped keeping a list I noticed! As a non-Bookerface I shall continue the Hub tradition. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 29, 2016 17:34:19 GMT
1 - Captain America: Civil War
2 - X-Men: Apocalypse - easily the weakest of the Singer helmed films, and the weakest since First Class. Some nice touches cannot mask a meandering and thin plot, a woefully miscast Oscar Isaacs as Apocalypse, but Psylocke looked like she stepped out of a comic book page and the chap playing Nightcrawler was a great improvement on Alan Cummings.
3 - Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
4 - Deadpool
5 - Jem.
6 - Top Cat Begins - I wished it would end from a few seconds in. Cheap CG animation on a par with music videos from the late 90's, early 00's and an awful story and FFS why give a CGI cat lounge singer jiggling tits in a kids film. Avoid like the plague.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 30, 2016 20:54:55 GMT
Ralph has watched the Warcraft film. He predicts that Martin has too!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on May 30, 2016 21:10:43 GMT
Was it any good?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 31, 2016 6:44:49 GMT
Ralph has watched the Warcraft film. He predicts that Martin has too! He predicts wrong! It looked rubbish from the trailer, so unless you tell me (truly) that it was actually really good, it will remain with Jem, Top Cat Begins, Green Lantern and the Nativity franchise in Martin's Sphere of Ignorance. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on May 31, 2016 17:12:52 GMT
It was ok. I had had a shit day and needed some escapsism.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2016 19:22:49 GMT
Movie roundup for those not on FB:
(movie)'Top Cat Begins': In the year Five Billion, strange beings we can barely dream of came to the ruins of Earth shortly before the expansion of the sun eliminated it from memory. Sifting down through layers of history in the ashes of a forgotten land they searched for the answer as to why the beings who once called this world their home (who had sensibly moved away, having evolved into far more clever organisms) had thought it had been a Really Smart Idea to chronicle exactly where Top Cat and his canine chums had come from. The answer to this fabled question had been lost to the ages along with all known copies of this cinematic treat. Songs had been sung of the day when this last remaining mystery of the human race would be revealed. Next to this, the answer to Pi to 19878657.9 decimal places was just not important at all.
Excitedly, Research Unit #145 exclaimed loudly to her colleagues: "I have found it! I have located a scrap of film from the fabled lost epic of 'Top Cat Begins'! Glory is assured!"
With many thrills passing through them, the team assembled to view the footage via their astounding playback device.
Shock piled upon shock as their unbelieving eyes were greeted with the sight of Officer Dibble crossdressing. Their eyes opened wide with shock. Then, with great solemnity, they spontaneously combusted in fear and alarm accompanied by a mildly unpleasant smell not unlike burnt toast.
This was a bit of a shame as they had planned to go to a really good party later that day on an especially funky asteroid in the ninth dimension which had pink balloons and everything. The party still took place, but they would never taste the miniature sausage rolls.
Thus ended the legacy of 'Top Cat Begins'.
(movie) 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows': I thought the previous turtle-based film was jolly good fun. Alas, I experienced Thin Script Syndrome during this one and found myself dreaming of cakes instead. However, just a few hours before I had enjoyed an especially splendid sausage supper so all was not lost after all. Hurray!
(movie)'Warcraft: The Beginning': Activate Generic Fantasy Movie Alert! Very watchable and a nicely realised world. Some nice directorial flourishes and a better script from time to time peeking out. Despite all this it is a bit forgettable and nowt that hasn't been done before. A shame. I had some nice cheese sandwiches with me though.
(movie) 'A Hologram for the King': White American mid-life crisis chap goes to Saudi Arabia to sell a teleconferencing system. Sadly it's a bit twee and inhabited by characters who never feel real, despite the better efforts of the cast. Doesn't quite get across the sense of translocation it's going for.
(movie) 'X-Men: Apocalypse' - Now the film starts with the feeling that the big button marked Bonkers Tosh has been pressed and I thought: 'Yes, yes, why not, go for it' but then it just sort of...bumbled along. See if you can spot which cast members put in Contractual Obligation performances! It's not awful. It's perfectly watchable and it passed the time reasonably enough but it lacks any magic. I doubt I'll remember much of it by next time next week. The series has been much stronger than this.
Also: the adverts lied! At no point did the X-Men use their awesome powers to showcase the amazing broadband powers of a Large Media Corporation. I must write to my MSP!
(movie) 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot': Tina Fey plays a U.S. news reporter embedded in Kabul. Reasonably interesting with good turns all good and surprisingly has something to say about the nature of addiction. Worth a watch.
(movie) 'Sing Street': 15-year old boy moves to shitty new school in 1985 Dublin and tries to escape his circumstances by forming a band to impress a local girl. A really lovely film, shot through with that certain style of warmth and wit that only the Irish can do. Pretty decent songs too.
(movie) 'The Jungle Book' (2016): As everyone knows the one true Kipling is the chap who makes exceedingly good cakes. Sadly this is based on the other one who is often misquoted by lazy Science Fiction writers, with gooey dollops of Disney's previous version of this shoved in like a wedge of cheese in a surprised chicken.
You've never seen CG animals look so real! So real in fact that zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzohgoditwassoboringzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 19, 2016 13:37:22 GMT
1. Bridge of Spies
2. Alice Through the Looking Glass (IMAX 3D)
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Gods of Egypt (IMAX 3D) (I tried really hard to hate this bonkers film, but the IMAX experience shorted out my critical faculties)
5. Bastille Day
6. The Assassin
7. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
8. X-Men: Apocalypse
9. Our Kind of Traitor
10. The 5th Wave
11. Deadpool
12. London Has Fallen
13. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 19, 2016 15:54:45 GMT
(Film) 'Money Monster': The latest entry in the growing financial crash sub-genre. Can George 'Batman' Clooney prevail against the young chap who invades his trashy money related TV show with a bomb? Not a bad watch, most effective when it concentrates on two people in a room with idealogically opposite views and least effective when it tries to open the story up. Quite enjoyed it though. Sadly, my pre-movie chicken and stuffing sandwich had insufficient mayo.
'NT Live Encore: The Audience': Top drawer performance from Helen Mirren and the type of high quality intelligently written verbal wittery that is right up my street. Excellent.
I also enjoyed some fine sour apple Chewits while watching along with some orange Lucazade. Hooray!
(EIFF) 'The Library Suicides/Y Llyfrgell': Probably the world's first revenge thriller in Welsh set in the National Library of Wales. It should be great in exactly the same way that macaroni pies should be in the premier league of fine fast foods.
Pies are good. Macaroni is good. Pies should be the optimum delivery system for macaroni and yet they aren't. Many people have wept over this sad fact. Thus is my judgement rendered on this well intentioned effort (which does have a good idea in the last act). Onwards!
(EIFF)'The White King': More film festival fun in a small budget Dystopian future flick based on a Hungarian novel where you must do what you are told. Depressing (which is the point) and not the ending you would get in a Hollywood film. Decent wee effort.
Lively Q and A with cast and crew afterwards. Jonathan Pryce used his spot to point out how Europe has mutually benefitted the UK on a cultural level. Quite right too.
(EIFF) 'Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece': A billion blistering barnacles! It turns out that in 1964 the French made a charming live-action Tintin film. Captures the fun of the comic strips much better than Spielberg's effort. The chap playing Captain Haddock was tremendous. I think he really thought he *was* the Captain!
A pleasant way to spend a Sunday morning.
On the freebie outdoor screen as part of the EIFF I have also seen 'One Million Years BC' (so realistic!) and Finding Nemo (which was new to me and fun). Also enjoyed seeing a 70mm print of '2001: A Space Odyssey', which is a film which just does not work on the small screen and demands a cinema viewing. Third time seeing it on a big screen and it really is the only way to watch/hear it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2016 21:14:39 GMT
(Film) 'Independence Day: Resurgence': Ahahahahahhahahahahaha. What pish.
(Film) 'The Secret Life of Pets': I cannot dislike any film which features a comedy dance sequence in a sausage factory. Great fun and I guffawed many times. I especially enjoyed the bunny who plots the downfall of mankind.
(EIFF) 'Highlander': it's fair to say that like many cheeses it has not aged well but just like the strange blue one it's still tasty enough to get by on for a while.
Hoots mon!
(EIFF) 'Macbeth Unhinged': I should have realised from 'Cosmopolis' that the sub-genre of limo-based arty-fart does not bring good tidings! Fairly sure this kind of thing should be banned under the Geneva Convention!
*pounds car bonnet feebly*
(EIFF) 'Lawrence of Arabia': Amazing to see/hear this projected on 70mm film! Pan and scan telly showings did not do it justice.
*rides into huge desert*
(Film) 'Gods of Egypt': Darn it, GERARD BUTLER!, you're better than this!
*weeps*
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2016 11:25:16 GMT
'Central Intelligence' did not make me laugh once.
Booked for the Ghostbusters remake on opening day after work. I only have the cinema trailers to go by which look poo but you never know. With films like this I like to see them before any reviews and/or The Internet spoiling every plot point. Even if it is poo I do desire the new Ecto-1 Lego set! It looks like fun.
I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I do feel very old though as I remember seeing the original in a cinema when I was, er 6 or 7.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 9, 2016 17:18:02 GMT
I hope to be pleasantly surprised. Don't worry Ralph, I'm sure it will be great. The producers are so pleased with it that all reviews are embargoed until opening day to save the surprise of what a delightful film it is. Embargoing reviews is never a bad sign! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2016 17:41:19 GMT
Oh no.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2016 12:45:26 GMT
I spent £6 on Ghostbusters sweets in B&M. I had no choice...but it was a bad choice. I am now ready for the new film.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 10, 2016 16:28:09 GMT
3 hours pass... don't know about anyone else but I'm quite nervous about the impending reaction!
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