Looked it up after, turns out the director went on to do the first two Bourne sequels!

Went and watched the new Spiderman with the kids last night. I enjoyed it for what it was but I wouldn't be a massive fan of those movies in general. Thought the Miles Morales animated one was better.

Managed to get my internet cut off for a few days last week so went and bought a few 1 euro dvds in CEX. Watched some awful tripe but did enjoy the fact I didn't have 10,000 films to pick from. I'll probably go pick a few more that way during the week.

#2537 February 04, 2022, 09:56:05 AM Last Edit: February 04, 2022, 09:58:36 AM by Eoin McLove
Looking at Don't Look Up. I don't know what to make of it; it feels like an action film trapped in a farce. I think the Yanks could have made a good straight up action/ Sci fi out of it and the Brits could have made a decent comedy out of it. It feels a bit fucking dense as it is, though.

Edit. I am still watching it, though. I blame Joe Rogan  8)

It's okay and at the same time also fucking awful. All the spas jumping on it going, "Er mer gerd! I'm a climate activist and this is like exactly what everyday is like for me! ER MER GERD!", that was fairly head-wrecking. And the ending is shite. And the second ending is even worse. Good idea, but as you point out, it just didn't know what the fuck it wanted to be. A failed Idiocracy.

I said the same thing to the missus when we watched it  Idocracy is very funny and well put together. If you removed the main cast from Don't Look Up nobody would bother watching it. Well cast......just as said above, it didn't quite deliver.

Watched One False Move. Low budget film with Bill Paxton. Decent crime/thriller type but not the type of film you'd watch again.

Thought don't look up was not bad. Not great either but a bit of fun poked at the world. Only saw Idiocracy the other night. Also not bad.

Watched Monster Hunter and Alien Resurrection with the kids today and both were pretty bad.

I watched  the original Candyman again the last day. Its still as good as I remembered. The music is great and haunting.

Rewatching 1917 since last seeing it in the cinema a few years ago. Such a great film and it's putting me in the mood to listen to Sacriphyx (the whole opening sequence looks like a Sacriphyx album cover) so that'll be my listening sorted after  8)


Watched 1917 in the cinema and didn't really think much of it but watched it again at home and thought it was well decent. Probably an expectation thing.

"American Assassin" - my Jesus - what a heap of shit. Only watched it to the end because Michael Keaton is decent in it.

Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 07, 2022, 05:28:18 PM
"American Assassin" - my Jesus - what a heap of shit. Only watched it to the end because Michael Keaton is decent in it.

I watched this at the height of lockdown boredom and can absolutely agree - complete scutter.

Riders of Justice - not what I was expecting at all. Great film. Mikkelsen is good in it as expected but the other 3 lads steal the show.

The title ' American Asassin ' alone would be enough to send me to my man cave in disgust.
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New jackass holds up pretty well!