Archive for August 2018
23 posts from 04 to 31 August 2018.
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The Sherlock Holmes adaptation where Watson is the brains of the enterprise, Mrs Hudson is the heart and Holmes himself is an ignorant boob.
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Not a bad directorial stint for Jodie Foster. The ending is strong on this one…
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The American remake of Banlieue 13, with less parkour and more Paul Walker punching and shooting people.
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Completely crazy catwalk of cognate cameos. Creates a cognitive confusion concerning celebrities communications containing cant ciphers, commonly called slang. Neil deGrasse Tyson in da house, bitches!
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Less transporting gets done since the last time.
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A very good action film with really inventive fight scenes. Has more in common with the old Jackie Chan films than the usual fight-scene driven drivel, but with a better script.
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A bog standard thriller with the requisite twist and counter twist towards the end.
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The superior crazy people film. All female cast in which some poor woman deals with mental illness by pretending her neighbourhood in Washington Street is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Meta film in which Martin McDonaugh eviscerates himself, being impersonated by Colin Farrell.
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A classic sports plot elevated into greatness by being set in medieval Europe. Probably the only mainstream film that starts with a secondary character violently voiding his own bowels ‘till death (offscreen, of course, this is still Hollywood).
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Undoing the character development in the last film for fun and profit.
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One of Bond’s many low points. This is just bad.
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Actually pretty funny. The basic plot is good enough, but the script is tight and very well acted. A joy to watch.
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Freaking ace! Brad Bird gets the helm of the Impossible Mission Franchise and proceeds to do a The Incredibles inspired romp that is a joy to watch.
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How come this is so well regarded? It’s nothing more than white dudes talking.
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Laughable waste of resources. A very talented cast doing fuck all, a preposterous script that resembles Yu Gi-Oh and children’s card games, millions of dollars in cars getting wrecked.
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The Bond origin story that no one was pining for.
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Light horror for kids. At least that’s how this is sold, but the backstory includes people committing suicide, with on-screen hangings. Just like Pirates of the Caribbean, this was adapted from a Disneyworld ride, except this is dead, Jim.
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Back to thin plots layered on copious amounts of action scenes.
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The one where the franchise grows the beard. After dozens of formulaic carbon copies, they graduate to the big boys club.
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The good remake of The Toxic Avenger, with added anime referenced for good measure.
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Another competent musical from the Disney assembly line. Professionally Formulaic.
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Another Transcendence mindfuck. This one is a more blatant Tarkovsky ripoff, mostly Solaris and Stalker.