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September 8, 2018
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The Official Films Thread

Well bollocks, we've got a telly thread so I thought I'd create one for films too.

I'm currently working my way through Movies With A Twist Collection 3 which I downloaded years ago from TPB. All of those torrents are now dead which is a shame because I didn't get around to downloading Collection 4. I'm downloading all of those separately which is a hassle but will be worth it in the end going by 1-3 so far.

Am in the middle of watching Law Abiding Citizen, I think I've seen it before but i was so long ago I've forgotten what happens.

The problem with watching these films knowing that there's a twist makes it easy to work out what the twist in question is so probably better if you watch them without that knowledge lol

Here's a list of some of my all-time favourite films of all-time in no particular order:

Brazil
The Life Of Brian
The Holy Grail
The Meaning Of Life
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Lifeforce (a terrible film but the female lead vampire spends most of it naked lol)
All Lethal Weapons
All Die Hards
Every Dirty Harry Film
The Jungle Book (the Disney original)
Pi
Falling Down (just for the McDonalds scene lmfao)
Silent Running
Logan's Run
All 60s-70s Planet Of The Apes
Soylent Green

Am going to stop there otherwise this post is going to be HUGE lol



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      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
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      December 29, 2018
      Just saw this one in Blu-ray 3D with my 10 (soon 11) year old son - it's 6.4 on IMDB. I'd probably rate it 7/10 and my son would probably rate it 8/10. I've never been the biggest fan of Jurassic Park/World, I don't think Fallen Kingdom was worse than the previous movies in the series. Actually Fallen Kingdom has a lot of truly awesome scenes - 3D wasn't exploited a lot, more to created depth and great image quality. I did enjoy the casting too - Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard may not win Oscars, but delivered nice performances as usual. 

      https://youtu.be/vn9mMeWcgoM

      This evening it's time for Ant-man and the Wasp 3D - it's quite stressful having to watch so many movies during the Christmas holidays! Nearly got no time for VR :D
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      Digikid1
      Honored Contributor
      December 30, 2018

      RuneSR2 said:

      it's quite stressful having to watch so many movies during the Christmas holidays! Nearly got no time for VR :D


      You get your priorities straight mister! :D
      Digikid1
      Honored Contributor
      January 1, 2019
      Just watched Venom on iTunes. Great movie. Lots of funny humor. 

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprHtqrfn0Q&feature=youtu.be

      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
      Honored Contributor
      January 2, 2019
      BTW, my son corrected me - Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom wasn't 8/10 - it's 10/10! So now you know  B)

      Ant-man and the Wasp was kinda boring, although all actors delivered solid performances - 3D effects were nice, but the movie never really got to me. It's 7.2 on IMDB, so many may disagree with me... Like Black Panther (which I liked slightly better), Ant-man & Wasp was like a stand-alone movie, not really connected to the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_rTIAOohas

      And when you shrink something, why would the weight go down? Can they shrink atoms? - I easily get headaches trying to figure that out - because as you can see in the movie, when things shrink, they lose weight. The rest of the Marvel universe I don't have a problem with, everything is perfectly realistic  :D  

      Looking forward to Venom 3D ;-)
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      Phaserlight
      Inspiring
      January 3, 2019
      "Avalon" (watch this movie)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CBcaHWRaM

      "Baraka" (all of it)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BJkLWivzY
      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
      Honored Contributor
      February 8, 2019
      I've always been fond of the song:

      https://youtu.be/UdE9h9R8iZA

      So I just went ahead and bought the movie  o:) - looking forward to see it  <3  B)

      Image result for mandy movie poster

      Image result for mandy blu-ray box

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      Fazz
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      February 8, 2019
      I've seen this film and it's rather bizarre. This has to be the first movie that had me thinking is this a shite film or is it quite good. I still don't know the answer, so it will be interesting to know what @RuneSR2 thinks about it. I would usually turn a movie off it's it's crap, but I did watch this movie right the way through. 
      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
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      February 8, 2019

      RedRizla said:

      I've seen this film and it's rather bizarre. This has to be the first movie that had me thinking is this a shite film or is it quite good. I still don't know the answer, so it will be interesting to know what @RuneSR2 thinks about it. Usually I would turn a movie off it's it's crap, but I did watch this movie right the way through. 



      I had some bonus points I needed to spend in a movie shop - and I couldn't find a lot of interesting movies - and like you said, I read this review on IMDB:

      ***

      User Reviews

      Either you'll love it or hate it!
      jimdan196216 September 2018
      FYI, I'm 56 and very jaded and cynical when it comes to movies so this review is as honest as I can get.

      Seriously, I see 10's and 1's, most people seemed to either love it or hate it. I loved it, but I really wanted to hate it but I couldn't. It's exactly the type of movie I normally dislike and Cage has been a bit of a has been for a while now which doesn't help matters, but still, I loved it! I even read a bunch of the bad reviews and thought that based on those, I wouldn't like it, but nope, I still loved it!

      The music I actually loved for the most part (it's very loud and in your face, not subtle at all) , the colors and cinematography in general were just great, just beautiful, and great actors to boot. As most people pointed out the first 30 minutes are a bit bizarre and trippy but for some reason I loved it and didn't have a problem with it. Please keep in mind the whole movie is a bit bizarre and trippy for the most part. Nicolas did a great job as did Andrea and Linus Roche was just plain great in it! The supporting actors did a fine job as well Not really sure what else to say, I don't feel the need to break it down.

      If you're thinking about checking it out, give it a try, there's a 50/50 chance you'll actually like it.

      ***


      It may all boil down to this...


      Image result for half full or half empty


      Maybe I should consider this movie the worst garbage, then I can't be anything but positively surprised when watching it  :D The movie should be in the mail tomorrow - I'll let you know what I think. 

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      Anonymous
      February 8, 2019

      Phaserlight said:

      "Avalon" (watch this movie)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CBcaHWRaM

      "Baraka" (all of it)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BJkLWivzY



      Avalon is fantastic, one of my favourite films!
      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
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      February 10, 2019

      RedRizla said:

      I've seen this film and it's rather bizarre. This has to be the first movie that had me thinking is this a shite film or is it quite good. I still don't know the answer, so it will be interesting to know what @RuneSR2 thinks about it. I would usually turn a movie off it's it's crap, but I did watch this movie right the way through. 



      It's definitely not a 10/10 movie, but I'm convinced it's not 1/10 either - I'd probably rate it 6/10. I guess you could describe it as a powerful movie about justified mayhem and/or violence. Movies about revenge aren't new, but the mixture of Rambo/Hellraiser combined with the revenge aspect may set this movie apart from other slightly similar movies. Now I'm thinking I should have bought Deadpool 2 instead, but Mandy wasn't bad - but it didn't really touch me much. Despite all the gore and the tragic story, I'm not sure I'll remember this movie much in a few years - the story seems way too shallow. In some way I consider it more an experimental art film - for what it's worth :)

      PS. There might be some inspiration from Evil Dead in Mandy too - Nicholas Cage does look a lot like Ash. And Leatherface and his weird family may be represented too, although Leatherface's role may have been divided onto 4 different new characters.
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