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My wife had a group of imaginary friends- great names - Jimbo, Copo, Canan and Shimpyshampy. Her parents were a bit worried she was taking to spooks in the shed.
Lifelong horror fan. This was a great movie, the last twenty minutes especially. Horrifying imagery, slow-building tension with an incredible payoff at the end, well-acted...what's not to like? This reviewer has it wrong imo.
What about Cloud Atlas?
anyone watched this on Netflix with the dubbed english yet? How is it?
Man, the opinions on this film are all over the spectrum. Just took 3 friends last night (my second viewing): one loved it, another was like "it was pretty good" (lukewarm), one was like, "oh it's not even close to the first couple in the series, and nothing ever will be". XD
Can't help but feel Zendaya is slack casting. She's a very pretty clothes horse, but acts in a nondescript way with no actual character. It's the eye rolling and faux-swagger that scream 'cool girl' acting. I've not read the books, so maybe hers is supposed to be a young, self-conscious, precocious teen but I found her presence on screen distracting in all the wrong ways.
The movie was peak and worth to watch 👍🏻🍿😍
I had a imaginary friend when I was young called wotsit. Mmm only child horror lol.
everything everywhere all at once?
Saw it yesterday. GO SEE THIS BEAUTY
Saw it last night. excellent film with a fantastic cast at the top of their game. Loved the use of swearing. It had the same feel of a Blackadder script or even Yes Minister in the way it used dialogue.
Sounds really good. Shame it doesn't seem to be playing anywhere where i live
I loved this film.
I wanted to give this film a chance since Marissa put in over a year of effort to sing like Amy, but OOF…it was a painful watch. It felt like a parody. I’m not an Amy stan, her music was phenomenal but I also know she was a woman with trauma and who seriously hurt herself over and over (that is said with no judgement, this world doesn’t exactly set us up for healthy trauma responses and her parents were IMO negligent as hell) but I watched the AMY doc and she was treated like crap by the press and too many of the public and this film just felt so humiliating to her. It wasn’t done to show her side or to tell the whole truth, it literally felt like mockery and a determination to show that Amy was weak, Blake was the villain and Mitch was a perfect daddy - just no. This film felt like nothing other than an ode to a story Mitch wanted to tell. It’s not truth or even a cautionary tale - it’s mockery and nonsense and it felt blatantly disrespectful to a woman who made destructive choices because of the trauma others (including Mitch) caused her.
My short review, you should definitely watch it. It throws so many ideas and MOST land. It's like Fincher doing sesame street. It actually reminded me a lot of that PS game LA Noir. It has this abducted kids plot, alongside character studies about addiction and toxic fatherhood, queeress and racism, then this social stuff about town planning which very The Wire (backed up by some Wire nostalgic casting), and has amazing period setting, set design, soundtrack and performances - particularly Cumberbatch and the main cop. Got me in the feels and kept me guessing. My criticisms are: It has some spectacularly unearned moments. It gets a bit loose and repetitive with the abduction thread with some very convenient devices moving it along (much like LA Noir actually). And the tonal shifts make it unique, but sometimes felt overwrought.
Imagine being a man of this thoughtfulness and intellect and making movies all your life and at the age of 80 producing something so urgent and interesting, whilst being labelled “woke” due to having a “girl boss” in it. My gosh the polemics of the internet and how it pervades all things.
Lots to like here except for the ridiculous central premise which, for me, just didn't work.
I was skeptical before watching it,but I really enjoyed it tbh,didn't feel long or anything
I stumbled on this show and loved it, binged it in one afternoon and honestly episode 5 broke me and the last episodes where a shocker and the rest was a blurr Honestly surprised me so well and so good
Michael Flatley: superb dancer. That's it. With Blackbird he has truly fulfilled the Peter Principal. If you don't know what that is, Google it.
I heard it bombed
Michel Gondry’s Kidding on HBO had more depth to it.
I think its an excellent movie. Its an old fashioned Hammer horror thats excellent at face value as people are 2D in horror anyway but here they hop to 5D - excellent.
Watched it,, i am still wondering what is itabout,, is it a mature year olds drama, a sesame Street tribute to the crime drama,, what the umph is eric doing,, its bonkers
Easily one of the Worst Movies of the year so far to me , its A Full Rip off of Monsters INC meets Drop Dead Fred With a Dash of Toy Story Too. Plus Kruzinski Is unbearable and Seems like Hès Ripping off Dick Van Dyke being All Dancing at Stuff and Can't Pull It off At All. There was Nothing Moving At All About This Story Either at All. Who Would Ever Cry At This Crap ? Nothing Magical Either. A 2 Out of A Booshty Ten. IF Only They Never ever made this Crap.
A bloated and messy show .. entirely too much going on, and constantly trying to squeeze in as many themes and sub-plots as possible.. nothing feels resolved in a satisfying way
Absolute rubbish. I say that as a lifelong arachnophobe.
Yes I loved the soundtrack...but struggled with the storyline...probably should have watched your review first!
I thought it was The Feast, i was hoping for a movie about my favourite ice cream
Benedict Cumberbatch was phenomenal in this.
Took my 7yr old daughter to see it yesterday. She asked to leave after an hour. I only persuaded her to stay because we had reclining seats. Had we not had reclining seats I would have gone to find the Garfield screening.
Can we talk about that resonator hanging on the wall back there?
Filler for Fury Road. Fury still tops
Weirdly other than this only seen extremely lukewarm reviews. Three stars at most, so wasn’t overly keen…but will definitel watch now.
The cinematography was the highlight of the movie for me. The weakest part was the script because the dialogue frequently broke my immersion. It often became incredibly obvious that the actors were reciting their lines rather than acting in a way that felt natural to the scene. Maybe that's a sign of bad acting, idk. Even a day after watching, I'm still thinking about it which means it left some kind of impact. 7/10 seems like an appropriate score. It could have become a masterpiece with better written characters and dialogue.
Those final words, "one would hope so", that's one broken man
Binged it today. Excellent show
Significantly better film than Fury Road. More story, more humour and more nuanced.
The greatest thing about this movie was everyone questioning online about how this happened as everyone would would be questioning online.... Its a hard watch at times but for the budget they had they did an unbelievable job
What is the film mentioned at 0:36? It sounds like horde but I cannot find it anywhere
Hoard. 2023.
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Chris Hemsworth is a shocking actor, one horse town...
There's a lot to like, but overall its a bit of a mess.
Can’t wait to watch it
I adored this film
Learning Alyla Browne is also Young Furiosa blew my mind because she was great in Sting as well. It definitely reminded me of Evil Dead Rise.
I really liked Nocturama
Enjoyed it. Lots of fun with a few jumps. Not a film for people scared of spiders. 6/10 for me.
It felt like a greatest hits of the Serkis trilogy if I’m honest.
I watched it today IMAX. Well worth going to see Not as good as furry Road or mad max two. But defo worth seeing if you’ve sin the others
2.5 hours of my life wasted on this rubbish. Nothing ever felt real. It felt more like i was watching someone playing a video game all that time. The CGI was very poor too. But that's not the worst aspect for me. I honestly didnt care at all about the characters or what they were fighting for. Furiosa became the main character in FR only because MM was such a weakly written and sidelined character. Did we need a Furiosa back story? I know I certainly didn’t. Mad Max was a great revenge film; a modern day post-punk Western with men in cars and riding motorcycles instead of horses. It was a warning, it felt threatening and yet it had a heart and it was adrenalin filled. The stunts were great and real. Mad Max 2 was the very rare sequel that easily surpassed the original. It was a more violent film but had better action, bigger stunts and most importantly, built a world that became a cultural touchstone. It was massively influential in its look with the cars, the clothes and that visceral gritty lived-in appearance. Even Duran Duran and Gary Numan borrowed liberally from it! Thunderdome had it's moments but it tried too hard to appeal to a wider, post-Indiana Jones audience with its young teenager friendly ratings appeal. FR is a pale retread of MM2, almost without Max and suffers from a very weak plot. Furiosa has so many moments which are shot for shot, retakes of MM2 but done with CGI or heavily augmented. It has nothing original about it to recommend it. We've seen it all done before and much better. If there is another MM film, I sincerely hope George Miller hands the reins to another director as he has already hinted he might. If Tom Hardy returns I hope they give him some purpose and a little more than grunting to do this time. I'm not holding my breath.