I know they're making a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so I assumed you were talking about that. Was a bit taken aback when I thought they'd cast Nic Cage as Willy Wonka.Originally Posted by Lofty
I know they're making a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so I assumed you were talking about that. Was a bit taken aback when I thought they'd cast Nic Cage as Willy Wonka.
This is the film I want now.
"Mr. Wonka has so far dodged questions about his use of migrant midget workers."
That and the fact that poor Charlie is now the owner of a factory that's going to be getting fuuuuuucked with legal issues for all the mutilated children.
My local kino place is screening Heat a couple of times in two weeks.Can't think of many other movies I'd rather re-watch on a big screen.
'Heard he's got a b-INFECTED ASS...'
Dune is so so dull and meaningless. Should have seen it coming but I was restless so decided to give it a shot. Muggy.
Seen Dune a second time now. Understood what was going on this time round.
I watched Shang-Chi earlier today. Enjoyed it a lot but I feel that the ending let it down a bit. It's probably low tier 2/high tier 3 in the rankings of Marvel films for me.
Tony Leung was top quality in his role.
Could've done with not spending so much of it doing more interesting settings and colourful wire-fu fight scenes just to end in a load of beige CGI but it's decent before that.
I've just watched The Predator. It's a load of dumb nonsense which is fine for a predator film but what isn't fine is that it's just no fun. Makes the predator boring and uncool and has an overcomplicated story that doesn't make an ounce of sense. If you've seen / liked other Shane Black films you wouldn't guess he was involved in this without reading it.
Avoid, if you haven't already done so.
Fucking Predator dogs
The bit I lolled at with them was that it wasn't even just the weird alien "dogs" they had in Predators. They've got the fucking dreadlocks.
Thankfully I saw it on some dodgy streaming stick not long after release, so didn't pay for the privilege. They are doing some weird sequel/prequel called Prey now with a female lead.
Yeah I'd forgotten all about that. Ye Olde Predator(e) filling in Native Americans. It will probably be rubbish but I do think just sticking the predator in new, different situations is a better idea than trying to build up this deep lore around it.
It is a tough one because Predator has the same problems as Terminator, it is easy to fuck it up and the films that made the franchises are hard to top.
I kinda enjoyed the Adrien Brody one actually.
Yeah I feel we're in a bit of a minority but I didn't mind Predators. It's a bit of fun.
Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Bizarrely the main characters mum is English. While that’s not bizarre in itself, the confusion comes when you also discover Englishman Jack Whitehall is in it, playing said English mums brother, with an American accent. And on more than one occasion he puts on a very bad English accent.
The CGI is also laughably bad.
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Predators is the most acceptable offering after the first 2, I have the 4K three film box set of those on order. I even thing AvP wasn't absolutely terrible but after that...
Watched Goodbye Christopher Robin on TV last night, was better than expected.
AvP is shit but has the novelty of a daft Arctic alien pyramid and the first on screen alien / predator barney. AvP 2 doesn't have a redeeming feature.
I liked the concept of the sacrificial chamber in AVP. I remember seeing AVP2 and the kid getting chest burstered early doors like 'wow' due to the shock factor but shock alone does not make a good film.
Watched Red Notice earlier and it's decent but very by-the-numbers heist stuff. Ryan Reynolds is basically himself and Gal Gadot is fit and The Rock is good at being a unit.
I am currently watching Love Hard, another Netflix original film like Red Notice and one reviewer has deemed it 'too well cast for the Hallmark channel, too half-assed for the movie theatres' which seems to be a fair assessment of all Netflix original films.
Watched Free Guy last night. Really good and decent concept.
It was surprisingly good, I agree.
Going to give Mr Reynolds other new film (on Netflix) a go next weekend.
I watched it last night. As RD said it's decent, by the numbers stuff. Was surprised to discover it was written by the guy who wrote Dodgeball and We're the Millers.
Is last night in soho any good? I’m being dragged to it tonight.
Whoever made it is a Metal Gear Solid fan for sure.
Critical reviews had it as more style over substance and a homage to giallo horror films. Most people seem to think it is the best thing ever and will win an oscar though.
Mike: the globetrotting definitely had an Uncharted vibe too.
Well Dune was shit. And to cap it off, I'm going to see that new Wes Anderson one on Weds, which I hear is also pants.
Last night in Soho.
Music: great
Visuals: incredible
Plot: complete arse.
I'm developing a sudden interest.
Watch some new Rock thing called Red Notice yesterday. It was very by the numbers but I think it's a made for Netflix thing so yeah grand job, it was good enough.
How does a film like that cost $200million to make?
Anyone seen a film called Red Notice. Would the description 'by the numbers' be a fair summation of it?
Netflix will have paid over the odds to land three A listers, then all the location shooting won't be cheap.
Yeah it was polished enough that you can see where the money is gone.
Could you envisage The Rock reprising the role, albeit slightly differently where he goes to a corner shop and is aghast at the price of vape liquid?
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The money-laundering and creative accounting in search of tax breaks doesn't come cheap, either.
Oh yeah, one review I saw even noted 'the real heist was at Netflix's expense'
Have you tweaked your avatar or is it just the dementia playing tricks on me again?
Changed it yeah.
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Well at least it was more obvious than when Benny was just zooming in on Ainsley by a pixel a week or whatever it was.
Just seen the new Ghostbusters. It was a mixed bag for me personally, some good stuff, some stuff that could have been done better and a few dud scenes but it was definitely better than the 2016 one.
Anyone watched King Richard yet?
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Last night in Soho is a riot. Thomasin McKenzie is utter shit though.
Watched Bond after. I dunno.
Red Notice is fine for what it is. The Rock and Reynolds and Gadot are all good value. Story's as dumb as a bag of rocks but it has some fun action bits and some laughs and whatnot. A reasonably diverting hour and a half or whatever it was.
Most films with The Rock in it are worth the watch, not because they are all good but because it's The Rock. I'd probably watch any with Stone Cold in too although I think the only one that springs to mind is The Condemned which was probably shit but because it was the two biggest Attitude stars, probably made them better than they were.
Less freds > more freds or I can create if there is scope. I mentioned in a recent thread about being petrified of the sea, along with spiders and the two films that sprung to mind are Jaws and Arachnophobia which I am convinced created said fears having watched both at an impressionable age.
What film, if any, created a real life fear that you either conquered or remain iffy about even today?
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