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[Hawkmumbler]

Big thumbs up for FURIOSA. Agree with the sentiment there was a good 20 mins of material here that could have stayed on the chopping room floor.
Spoilers: (given how bedraggled Dementus crew was by the third act the entire 40 day holy war thing felt a bit redundant)
But on the whole, visually arresting, always engaging, often thrilling. The balls on Miller to present the credits as he did, good stuff.

[Colin YNWA]

Godzilla Minus One wanted to like it...and didn't just a bit... daft (again I know big monster movie get over it) and cliche.

[Le Fink]

Godzilla Minus One wanted to like it...and didn't just a bit... daft (again I know big monster movie get over it) and cliche.

I liked it. I really liked the early part about the survivors of world war 2 coping in a destroyed Tokyo. If the whole film had been about the adopted family I would have been happy. The Godzilla parts were good enough though and this movie does get across the awesome destructive power of the  monster and how utterly powerless unprepared people are to do anything about the attack. The prototype plane was cool. But yeah also bit cheesy. My other half sat through it too and asked why Godzilla's head was so small, why it moved like a lumbering idiot, and why it appeared to have breasts. I had no answers.

[Barrington Boots]

Just to be the curmudgeon, I watched Furiosa last night and was unimpressed.

The spectacle bits are certainly spectacular - I especially enjoyed Octoboss and his gang vs War Rig - but other than that I found it very self-indulgent. I know it shouldn't be compared to Fury Road but it's hard not to, and the structure was very loose where FR is very tight, the CGI was often clumsy where in FR it's used sparingly and deftly. Things felt repetitive and dare I say it, in places tedious. A lot of world building in this that only seemed to make the world smaller and diminished.

I think one problem I had is that there's a lot of suspension of disbelief required and once that belief is lost, little issues start to become more prominent. Like, her birth name is Furiosa? Really?

Not bad but as Immortan Joe would say: MEDIOCRE.

[Tiplodocus]

UNDER PARIS

I fell for the hype about the "best shark movie since JAWS" and, while that is true, you have to remember that it is a very low hurdle to clear.

Top marks for everyone taking it totally seriously and an unexpected ending. I mean, the mechanism that provokes the ending is very much "Chekhov's gunned" but what happens next threw me. (To be fair, if I had paid a bit more attention to the theme and the fact there was such a high body count by the halfway point, I could have guessed)

Worth a watch, I reckon.

[Tiplodocus]

Another thumbs up for FURIOSA. Deffo twenty minutes too long (what isn't?) and it suffers from never quite living up to a ridiculously good opening thirty minutes even with two awesome action set pieces. I almost had as much fun as Chris Hemsworth was having.

[The Legendary Shark]

Enola Holmes. Thoroughly enchanting.

[Dandontdare]

Enola Holmes. Thoroughly enchanting.

I really thought that Helen Bonham-Carter deserved a slap rather than a hug at the end, but yes it was a lot of fun.

[Tiplodocus]

TWO TOWERS EXTENDED EDITION at the cinema.

I think they are releasing these as part of some tie in with the 4K release.

Anyway, as most of you already know, it's remarkable stuff. Some of the more ambitious effects have a slight age to them now but despite a near three and a half hour run time, it fair rattles along.

As a fan, you do notice the bits where someone, usually Gandalf, stops to explain the plot fof the more casual viewer but these are usually so well written and delivered that they are a minor impediment.

Helm's Deep, despite the ludicrous design of the castle, has to remain the benchmark for doing an epic battle on screen.

But look at that landscape with heroes sneaking, running, or galloping across it and listen to that music and be giddy at the thrill of it all.

Hey and did you know that in the scene where Aragorn kicks the helmet...

[Jim_Campbell]

Anyway, as most of you already know, it's remarkable stuff. Some of the more ambitious effects have a slight age to them now but despite a near three and a half hour run time, it fair rattles along.

Weirdly, I found that the extended version of Two Towers felt shorter than the original theatrical release, despite being 45min longer — the longer version is better paced and the narrative flows better.

[Tiplodocus]

They need to update the adage...

A film is made FOUR times; in the script, in the shoot, in the edit and in the director's cut.

I'm all for Jackson doing this given the constraints he had on cinema releases. But is there a reason for Snyder to be doing it for Netflix releases? Do those same constraints apply? Or maybe a whole other set I haven't considered.

[Colin YNWA]

Jeremiah Johnson

A film I've wanted to watch for so long that I selected for watching it on ITVX, mind it was worth it. Its a curiously great movie. In short Robert Redford having fought in the Mexican war (which one?) decides to put his past behind him and escsape to the mountains. He struggles to survive, meets the odd person, learns to cope, finds happiness and of course as is inevitable in a film like this has that snatched away after angering the local. Leading to even harder struggle.

Its a curious reflective piece interwered with hardship and violence. It portrays a hard world and the impact on a person. It looks wonderful, is well performed and while it does rather fall into some of the cliches, the fate of hos found family is so predictable and annoying, overall refreshing different.

Well worth checking out, even if that means ITV X

[Hawkmumbler]

VENOM & VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE

Cheeky afternoon rewatches prior to the third and (assumedly) final outing with cape cinemas only true gay couple.
They're guff, hilarious hokum of the highest degree.
I unapologetically love them, both these movies know the kind of b-flick shenanigans they where crafted to be, there's enough of the cast and crew being in the the joke without it tipping into trite meta humour, some of the stunt fight choreography is unexpectedly great for a bunch of blobs going ham at each other. Big, loud, gaudy and unassumingly camp.
Best cape movies of the last decade, this isn't a hill I will die on, more a sand fort of righteousness. And you aren't allowed in my sand fort.

[pictsy]

VENOM & VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE

Cheeky afternoon rewatches prior to the third and (assumedly) final outing with cape cinemas only true gay couple.
They're guff, hilarious hokum of the highest degree.
I unapologetically love them, both these movies know the kind of b-flick shenanigans they where crafted to be, there's enough of the cast and crew being in the the joke without it tipping into trite meta humour, some of the stunt fight choreography is unexpectedly great for a bunch of blobs going ham at each other. Big, loud, gaudy and unassumingly camp.
Best cape movies of the last decade, this isn't a hill I will die on, more a sand fort of righteousness. And you aren't allowed in my sand fort.

The Venom films are absolute peak trash cinema - so much fun.  Thanks for the heads up that there's a third.

I'm still really burnt out on the superhero genre.

[Colin YNWA]

Finally got around seeing Furiosa, taken me a while for one reason or another and while I've stayed largely spoiler free I have heard very good things. And given that Fury Road is my fav movie of ALL TIME (well when Princess Bride isn't) I was really nervous that it wouldn't live up to my expectations, especially since so many folks have been saying its really good. Far from calm my nerves that's built my expectations and actually left me more worried I was getting too hyped and I'd feel let down when I save it. Well finally I have and

IT'S AMAZING

It actually exceeded my expectations. I loved it. Its the perfect sequel (prequel) to Fury Road. Its not as good, what could be, but to be honest it runs it close. Its clearly not as focused and tight. Its telling a completely different type of story, while still being absolutely rooted in the world both tonally and visually. That lack of tight focus is more than compensated for my having an absolutely epic scale and telling a real saga. This works so well.

Mad Max films are all over the place (well until Fury Road and this) and George Miller has always happily set that as the tales being the stuff of legend. Tales retold and reimagined of a figure of myth. That makes the series work perfectly and hang together really well. Well Furiosa is the most explicit in doing this. Where Fury Road is too tight to feel legendary and epic (I mean it can be a tale of legend and is EPIC in the moment, but not as in epic saga) Furiosa is just that. The fact that this is a myth write large is beautifully underlined at the end. But clues are dotted throughout. I mean Chris Hemsworth is Thor in the first half of the film (he gets a bit Dante in the second but that's me reading things in that aren't really there!). But its also brave enough to leave some things along. The 40 day War being breezed past works so well, another tale for another mythical retelling. Not all the bits you know happend between this and Fury Road are spelled out, nor need to be. This is no Solo. Its brave, compelling and utterly breathless but trusts the viewer when it wants to. Just like Fury Road.

Its just glorious and looks absolutely AMAZING. Okay look I need to see it again and I really do think it will hold up to repeat viewing as well as Fury Road, possibly even better (well if such a thing is possible!). But I think this is the second best Mad Max film and really close to being as good as Fury Road to my absolute amazement.

I might try to sneak in another cinema viewing. Is is it right this has done well at the box office? if so that's bloody criminal.