Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

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The Circle - meant to be a thriller loosely based on if Facebook went full NSA on us. Emma Watson (with the most wavering American accent I've heard in a long time) Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt just can't do anything to save a very dull script that takes a pretty clever premise and does nothing with it at all. Also Emma Watson just isn't good, I don't think she's been good in anything I've ever seen her in. 4/10
 

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The Circle - meant to be a thriller loosely based on if Facebook went full NSA on us. Emma Watson (with the most wavering American accent I've heard in a long time) Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt just can't do anything to save a very dull script that takes a pretty clever premise and does nothing with it at all. Also Emma Watson just isn't good, I don't think she's been good in anything I've ever seen her in. 4/10
That's a shame I was looking forward to watching this.
 

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Wind River: Good film. Even better backdrop. Contained the same sort of ingredients that the director Tyler Sheridan brought to Hell or High Water and Sicario which he wrote. A really interesting moody thriller which slowly builds (but is always compelling) and culminates in some stunning action. The performances are great (and special mention to the Jon Bernthal cameo). 8/10
 

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John Wick - People have been banging on about this for years. I thought it was pretty solid, good character acting ect. Puts Keanau back in his wheelhouse with a wooden, minimal emotion performance.

Solid 7/10 - excellent for what it is and never tries to be anything else. For anything higher it would have needed something a bit more thematically deeper. That said, killing a puppy gives the feels.
 

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Wind River: Good film. Even better backdrop. Contained the same sort of ingredients that the director Tyler Sheridan brought to Hell or High Water and Sicario which he wrote. A really interesting moody thriller which slowly builds (but is always compelling) and culminates in some stunning action. The performances are great (and special mention to the Jon Bernthal cameo). 8/10
Really wanted to get to this but the show times at the cinemas have made that impossible.
 

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Shot caller: starring Jamie Lannister. Really enjoyed it, and thought the movie was going down the obvious ending, but didn't. Definitely should check it out 7/10
 

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Arnie was the best part of TG but even that bordered on parody.

Only other good part was the future war scene. Much better than the Mad Max style of Salvation. More like what we seen in T2.

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My favourite movie of all time and now finally get to see it on the big screen :straining::straining::straining:
 

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One of the more polarising films I've seen talked about here, I was very keen to give it a watch, although my initial high hopes had been turned to caution by the bad stuff I had seen written about it.

In the beginning of the movie, I seen why. I thought I would be leaving another disappointing review and another hoodwinked viewer. It was slow, pretentious, directionless, and devoid of any meaningful exposition. Even the well done car chase failed to incite emotion. ****. Eventually though, roughly around the same time Jamie Foxx comes in to things, things begin to take a sharp rise. I guess you could say the movie shifted in to gear? Or not.

We start to get a plot, our main character becomes more human, the situations become more investing. After this the movie is very enjoyable. The humour begins to fire, the drama is more serious, the action way more engaging. I dunno if it was meant this way or not, a slow burn effect, but it happened exactly when it needed to to save the movie from being some sort of weird too clever by half film student nudge nudge wink wink experience. It became what the trailers made it out to be. The only let down after this was the very end scene, which did leave a bad taste in my mouth. Also, the soundtrack which was always going to be a big part of things was more single minded than what I was expecting. A lot of older more soul style music. I was hoping for a variety of genres like a Guardians of the Galaxy or Kingsmen. I'm probably biased towards use of music, (I consider Maximum Overdrive the best soundtrack ever) but I think it's best to use different styles unless there's a good story or character reasons to only stick a certain kind of sound, which I didn't think there was.

I liked it a lot and will be seeing it again, despite issues which force me to rate a little lower than what I wanted to.

7.5/10
 

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Forgotten how much I really like this movie.. so many quotes
"My mothers, mothers, mother was BLACK! You see colour is a state of mind! Thank you Rhythm Nation. Yo **** you Vanilla Ice!"
"Are you happy now... is your British ass happy now!!!"
"IM NOT A BATHROOM ATTENDANT... ****en redneck"
"I cant believe you're selling allergy medicine.... we're out of that, I'm onto chewable asprin now"
"IM NOT GETTING IN THE BAAAAAACK!!!"
 

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Alien Covenant


Knew I should have just let this one slip by.
After the wonderful set-up of Prometheus, we get this no-path nonsense.
A studio hijacking has let slip what should have been a wonderful story to no story at all. 3/10
 

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The Dark Tower.

It's never a good thing when your reaction at the end of the movie is to laugh.

Other than some solid acting from the main characters, there isn't much to like about this film.

Idris Elba had some kinda cool scenes, though nothing new and nothing that hasn't been done better in different movies.

Haven't read the books but I assume they tell a much better story than this.

3/10
 

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Not on the level of Sicario and Hell or High Water but Sheridan's penchant for dark, neo-western storytelling is still a sight to behold. The end is a real high, I guess I just wish the road there was more tense.


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Pure Soderbergh. Pure fun. The most purely entertaining experience I've had at the movies this year. Carefree and innocent. Daniel Craig deserves the applause he'll get but the whole ensemble shines.
 

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spotlight - solid movie nothing exceptional about it 7/10

Cold in July - rewatched this after hearing of Sam Shephards passing but a movie I have been meaning to re-watch for some time. A real hidden gem and probably one for the few movie since 2010 actually worth watching twice.
 
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