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[Jim_Campbell]

Razorback (1984). (...) I love the look and feel of this film

Russell Mulcahy, demonstrating his talent for making shit material look great. I believe this was his first movie.  I've only seen it once, many years ago, but I remember thinking then that it was very much making a silk purse out of a massive homicidal pig's ear.

[Smith]

Transformers the movie,surprising how well it looks after 30+ years.

[Professor Bear]

Origin Wars - low-budget (Aussie?) sci-fi thriller bought from the supermarket's "3 For £10" bin about a soldier who goes AWOL to save his daughter when the terraforming company he works for decides to wipe out every living thing on a distant colony planet to cover up that they've been performing illegal genetic experiments on prison inmates to turn them into the mutant monsters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret Of The Ooze.
This is a hot mess of a film, but in a good way, with the creature effects having a pleasing physicality to them I haven't seen in much more expensive films.  Likewise the general art direction of the film is more coherent than more expensive movies, with the over-designed CGI spaceships actually looking like they belong in the same time and place as the organic-tinged interiors.  There's one or two instances of CGI compositing that looks off, and the characters spend the first hour and twenty minutes on a quest to reach a city and then suddenly they just magically appear there like there's a scene missing, but on balance they probably get away with it.
It's all over the place and never quite pulls the emo strings it wants to, but it's a decent sci-fi potboiler that's well-made and decently-acted.

[JamesC]

Thor: The Dark World.

I saw this at the cinema on release and immediately judged it as Marvel's weakest offering to date.
On a second watch I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. The film still has major problems - mainly IMHO that the villain is incredibly weak and undeveloped and that the scenes in London (in fact the scenes on Earth in general) are unfunny and a bit cringey (Jane Foster's best friend is particularly annoying).
All of the Asgard stuff is pretty great though and they almost could have set the entire film there. I liked the Warriors Three but would have liked to have seen more from them as well as from Lady Sif so that her unrequited love for Thor had more impact.
Hemsworth and Hiddleston are as good as ever - the Thor/Loki scenes are the best in the film. I like Portman as Jane Foster but she's swimming hard against the tide of bad dialogue and annoying support.
It all feels like something of a missed opportunity but there are still some successes amongst the failures.

[JLC]

Lamberto Bava's Demons

[Hawkmumbler]

Lamberto Bava's Demons

Bloody bugnuts crazy isn't it! Not a conventionally good movie by any means but a total blast.

[Hawkmumbler]

Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno/2016)...well...that was certainly an Anno movie! Most certainly a brazen and ballsy reboot to the series (Yes, an actual honest to god reboot! '53 doesn't get mentioned once!) and feels like a live action Evangelion movie....yeah, I said it. So that will either sell it or sink it for you, but I thought it was chuffing brilliant, often times hilarious. Nice to see it with a crowd who obviously where as big a fans as I was too.

[Smith]

Way to much focus on the politics there.Whole thing was pretty mediocre IMO.

[Hawkmumbler]

Look, all I want is Godzilla with fricking laser beams attached to his back...

[Smith]

With an added commentary about Japanese government reaction to Fukushima?

[Steve Green]

Get Out.

Loved it, and so glad I really avoided spoilers/trailers

[spoiler]Felt like an extended Twilight Zone/Black Mirror episode more than the straight horror I was expecting[/spoiler]

[Daveycandlish]

VALERIAN I like Luc Besson's visual style but oh dear.

I've always thought Clive Owen was a charisma-free zone but he acts the socks off the young fella who plays Valerian, which shows you how bland I thought he was.

I'll give it 2 out of 5 just for the visuals but at times it just resembled a video game in all the chase scenes.

Not recommended

[Professor Bear]

With an added commentary about Japanese government reaction to Fukushima?

Holding the current government up to scrutiny over their crass handling of Japan's disaster of the age is arguably the kind of open goal that a series that's been allegorically exploring nuclear angst and natural disasters for five decades can't really ignore, but Shin Godzilla explored the effects of the 2011 Tsunami rather than the Fukushima meltdown specifically, and even recreates famous news footage of water washing away entire homes with a glee that makes the film border on snuff porn IMO.

[Smith]

I apologize in that case.
Im more of a Heisei era person anyway.

[Jim_Campbell]

Against my better judgement, and mainly because t'missus fancies seeing the sequel later in the year: Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Fuck me, that was so unapologetically, determinedly stupid that it actually ended up being enormous fun. No one is more surprised by this than me.