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[Colin YNWA]

The trouble is that review is so funny it's made me want to watch the movie so I have context!

[Keef Monkey]

Yeah that is an entertaining and wholly accurate review! Rob Zombie is hit or miss with me, I really like some of his films and really don't like others, and this was definitely a big old miss (and also mess). The one thing I do think it has going for it is a really intense villain performance by Richard 'Intense Villain Performance' Brake. He's pretty much the only memorable thing about it but if I remember correctly he won't even have really appeared by the time you walked out so I can't blame you for missing it.

[TordelBack]

The trouble is that review is so funny it's made me want to watch the movie so I have context!

Same.  This is the problem with many of the Bear's more scathing reviews.  One might suspect it's the reverse-psychology ploy of a committed sadist.  Or maybe misery just really loves company.

[Dandontdare]

Trawling through the depths of Amazon Prime's lower backwaters I came across the cheapest, tackiest and most ill-begotten movie - Adventures of a Plumber in Outer Space - it looked like an ironic bit of risqué fun but was so crap I reckon the producer must be sleeping with someone at Amazon.

It's basically a 2019 attempt to recreate the British sex comedies of the seventies, but without the acting talent, production budget or any actual nudity. At 43 mins I wonder if it was a soft (or hard) core porno that's had all the tits and bums removed, but this is so amateurish I really can't fathom why it's there.

Seriously, I don't recommend watching it  but take a look and tell me how that shite gets onto a global streaming platform.

[Tiplodocus]

I probably saw OCEAN'S ELEVEN on its cinematic release back in 2000(?) and remember thinking that Soderbergh had actually polished a turd (the Rat Pack original)  but what the actual fuck was Don Cheadle's accent?

Rewatching it last night and it's still a gorgeously shot and scored, slick, star powered heist movie which is a lot more linear than I remember it but Don's cockney is not the thing that stands out.

There's a problem that Danny (Clooney) and Rusty (Pitt) are just too similar so no real conflict or drama arises with them.

There is a problem that you can clearly see the padding (the emp device).

But most of all, it's such a sausage fest. Julia Roberts is the only female speaking role (excluding strippers, hookers and croupiers), and is LITERALLY a trophy fought over by the hero and the villain.

Hard to believe that twenty years ago, updates weren't really all that updated. And at the time, I didn't even notice.

[Professor Bear]

CATS - 90 minutes of furries singing songs about themselves and then one of them gets euthanised.  Andrew Lloyd Webber may despise poor people, but he sure does love cats, so while I don't think the stage show was meant as furry porn, the movie has a case to answer.
Anyway, it is a very odd film and the tone is all over the place, but I enjoyed it for the spectacle and the tunes. 

[von Boom]

Deathgasm. A very 80s toned horror/comedy film from New Zealand. The performances were quite good and the effects suitably low budget. It's not funny enough to elicit big laughs or scary enough to induce any sort of lasting impression but the combination is enough to sustain the film. Not worth ever watching again but it was fun enough to pass the 90 minute run time.

[paddykafka]

I've heard that there are plans for a Martial-Arts styled sequel to Cats.

Current working title is: Fists of Furry

[Professor Bear]

It's called Fur And Loathing now.

[repoman]

I've been rewatching the SAW and Final Destination movies.  The FD ones are often quite brilliant.

Currently watching Automation which is cheap and terrible so far.

[Tiplodocus]

 I like the way the Final Destination movies have to play with an audiences expectations of a kill so that you end up with some convoluted sequence of events each one of which MIGHT have killed the victim until you get to the actual killer.

[Keef Monkey]

Yeah those Final Destination movies are a hoot, really fun to watch some of the Rube Goldberg style elaborate death sequences and the punchlines are usually great and unexpected!

Something we probably wouldn't have chosen if Disney + hadn't come along is Maleficent, really not a 'classic' Disney household (we like some of the Pixar animated stuff but no particular fondness for the princess/fairytale stuff). Despite that we had a great time with this, really really liked it. Were very invested and pretty taken aback by how much we enjoyed it to be honest, now wondering what other Disney gems we've missed.

[TordelBack]

Kingsman: The Secret Service.  If you didn't know this was a Millar adaptation, you wouldn't be long guessing. It's entirely predictable, Jackson's lisp is very annoying, the anal-sex bit at the end is just wildly out of place, and there's this vague sense of this being Eccleston-era Dr Who that undercuts the violent edginess it seems to be going for, but... it is pretty brisk fun, everyone puts their back into their paper-thin roles (Mark Strong is the obvious standout, but Egerton and Boutell are good too), and there is some surprisingly stylish design (the way it embraces the choreographed head-explosions is remarkable).

It's almost admirable that it never for one second addresses the morality of a secret order of British super-assassins, except on a class basis.  The funniest thing in it may be that the Swedish PM travels in a jet marked "Swedish Air Force", which takes patronising your audience to new levels.

Passes the time, will probably try the sequel(s) at some point, if only to see what a world without all the dignitaries on Valentine's list looks like...

[von Boom]

The Walk. As with all true story films take this one with a pinch of salt. The story of Phillipe Petit's outlandish highwire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York in 1974.

I didn't know all that much about the event since it happened when I was very young but this film manages to make all the work leading up to the event quite entertaining. It plays much like a grand caper film where all the players come together and the story is in the planning, not in the execution, although that was a work in itself as well. The narration of Gordon-Levitt as Petit throughout the film could have been reduced or dropped IMO. I would rather the film kept its focus on the story without the constant interruption. It would also have made the film 30 minutes shorter without taking much away from the story.

The walk itself was almost anti-climatic after everything leading up to it. Seeing it at home the heights were pretty dizzying on my 4K screen. In the cinema, I might have felt vertigo at the views to the ground. A decent enough way to pass a couple of hours.

[Keef Monkey]

Basket Case 3, bonkers. Mostly suprisingly dull for how bonkers it is though, just a little too awkward to be as fun as it could have been. Some of the splattery rubbish rubber gore gags later on are a good laugh though and [spoiler]Robo-Belial[/spoiler] really was a good madcap surprise.