Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)
Discussion
Bret 'Hitman' Hart - Wrestling with Shadows (1998) - streaming.
Did not know what to expect before watching this, like the Jake the Snake documentary film, you don't need to be a fan of American Wrestling or, in the case of Bret, a fan of the U.S.A either but, it does help to be a fan or, at least know a little bit about who the characters are.
The Honky Tonk Man cameo was a particular highlight.
Like Jake the Snake and Razer Ramone documentary, this was a much deeper story than what I expected it to be, it also gave me an increased respect for American Wrestling, particularly the WWE/WWF wrestlers.
I am going to give it a 8.5 out of 10, it could easily have been a 9 if it had included parallel perspectives from Shaun Micheals and Vince McMahon.
Cotty said:
I don't know what it is but I have really gone off Colin Farrell to the point I can't watch anything with him in it. I don't know if he has been playing roles that rub me up the wrong way.
I'm equally ambivalent about CF, dating back to 2004 and Alexander which put me off watching anything with him as a lead character. Totally miscast though.Doofus said:
Gadgetmac said:
Kes Arevo said:
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and honey
The worst film I have seen for a very long time.
Yeah, that's what I said a few days ago...The worst film I have seen for a very long time.
Gadgetmac said:
According to some critics one of the worst films ever made. A shame as I thought the premise had potential.
.mooseracer said:
John Wick 4 - cinema
Brain out, loved it. Couldn't get much better in the genre...9/10
My mate's just gone and seen it at Cineworld in Southampton and he swears it's a bootlegged movie they're showing as all of it was massively out of focus - and he knows his film an cinema stuff - and is a big John Wick (and cinema in general) fan ...Brain out, loved it. Couldn't get much better in the genre...9/10
How was the quality of your film's showing - pin sharp?
Edited by uk66fastback on Saturday 25th March 04:41
Holy Mary, Mother of God!
Today I watched 'Jurassic Domination'.
I'll try to review it, but I already tried to bleach my eyes. Pound shop dinosaur movie piggy-backing on the Jurassic Park/World name, US Army confiscates some "weaponised" Allosaurus from scientists/arms dealers in South America, and bring them back to midwest USA to develop them into a weapons program. Two escape their crates while being moved in convoy, and mayhem ensues. You can tell it's a Covid movie, because the cast is tiny, especially in comparison with those other 'Jurassic' movies. Two civilians in a trailer park get eaten, and the world is saved by three officers and a couple of non-coms, working for a dodgy Colonel and her even more dodgy boss General. A handful of scenes-worth of CGI dinos used on repeat throughout, and a complete lack of any physical prop animatronics meant that every time a dino made a kill it would happen off camera, in another room, around a corner in a corridor, behind a trailer in the trailer park, etc, and when the bodies were discovered the dinos, curiously, were nowhere to be seen. The modified Allosaurus? their skin is so thick they're bulletproof, but the General wants them contained, alive. The only effective weapon is a giant "taser" so powerful that it shreds fuses after just a single shot, which is only designed to stun the beasts anyway. There's a lady scientist, though, who turbocharges the guns with quartz to solve the fuses blowing, and adds carbon to create "volcanic lightning". Which is just as well, because the Allosaurus eggs are hatching, and mum is getting overprotective and also very keen to feed her growing brood. An utterly terrible script, some dreadful acting, the circa 1895 special effects, and the "fewer soldiers than a standard infantry section" saving the world all combine to drive it down to just about watchable if you regard it as either a comedy, or a demonstration of "how to make the worst movie you ever saw"...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21065316/
Today I watched 'Jurassic Domination'.
I'll try to review it, but I already tried to bleach my eyes. Pound shop dinosaur movie piggy-backing on the Jurassic Park/World name, US Army confiscates some "weaponised" Allosaurus from scientists/arms dealers in South America, and bring them back to midwest USA to develop them into a weapons program. Two escape their crates while being moved in convoy, and mayhem ensues. You can tell it's a Covid movie, because the cast is tiny, especially in comparison with those other 'Jurassic' movies. Two civilians in a trailer park get eaten, and the world is saved by three officers and a couple of non-coms, working for a dodgy Colonel and her even more dodgy boss General. A handful of scenes-worth of CGI dinos used on repeat throughout, and a complete lack of any physical prop animatronics meant that every time a dino made a kill it would happen off camera, in another room, around a corner in a corridor, behind a trailer in the trailer park, etc, and when the bodies were discovered the dinos, curiously, were nowhere to be seen. The modified Allosaurus? their skin is so thick they're bulletproof, but the General wants them contained, alive. The only effective weapon is a giant "taser" so powerful that it shreds fuses after just a single shot, which is only designed to stun the beasts anyway. There's a lady scientist, though, who turbocharges the guns with quartz to solve the fuses blowing, and adds carbon to create "volcanic lightning". Which is just as well, because the Allosaurus eggs are hatching, and mum is getting overprotective and also very keen to feed her growing brood. An utterly terrible script, some dreadful acting, the circa 1895 special effects, and the "fewer soldiers than a standard infantry section" saving the world all combine to drive it down to just about watchable if you regard it as either a comedy, or a demonstration of "how to make the worst movie you ever saw"...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21065316/
Edited by yellowjack on Friday 24th March 20:58
Three Thousand Years of Longing is free on Prime. Tilda Swinton with annoying Northern accent meets Idris Elba's Djinn, and falls in love. Largely Idris narrating the Djinn's story in flashback, its a sort of fantasy love story. Slow and gentle and mostly two people talking in a hotel room there are echoes of Good Luck to you, Leo Grande. Some nudity, but again not the sort you wanted to see. 7/10.
ajprice said:
yellowjack said:
Holy Mary, Mother of God!
Today I watched 'Jurassic Domination'.
I saw something about this a few months ago. It's an Asylum film, it's got Eric Roberts in it, the full film is on YouTube. I'll watch it, I like the Asylum/SyFy silly stuff.Today I watched 'Jurassic Domination'.
grumbledoak said:
Three Thousand Years of Longing is free on Prime. Tilda Swinton with annoying Northern accent meets Idris Elba's Djinn, and falls in love. Largely Idris narrating the Djinn's story in flashback, its a sort of fantasy love story. Slow and gentle and mostly two people talking in a hotel room there are echoes of Good Luck to you, Leo Grande. Some nudity, but again not the sort you wanted to see. 7/10.
Strange movie, but the time seemed to pass swiftly. Oddly enjoyable i thought.Absolutely, Everything all the Time….
What a waste of 20 minutes that was (20 minutes is how long I lasted before turning it off!). I’m sure there’s a few of you out there that will like this but it a huge pile of s
te. Ok, maybe I just didn’t get it and couldn’t keep up with it at my tender old age if 56….it still gets a
1/10
The Fall…
Meh….2 girls up a tower….if all goes wrong. Lots of holes in the storyline including a VERY important one at the end! Ok but once you’ve got over the ‘wow aren’t they high up’….It goes down hill.
5/10
The Father…
2 pretty good actors, Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in a story about dementia. Hopkins performance was impressive. It’s set in one apartment so is basically a play. If you’ve got a close relative who is suffering it does pull at the heart strings. Kind of ‘does what it says on the tin’…sad!
7/10
What a waste of 20 minutes that was (20 minutes is how long I lasted before turning it off!). I’m sure there’s a few of you out there that will like this but it a huge pile of s
te. Ok, maybe I just didn’t get it and couldn’t keep up with it at my tender old age if 56….it still gets a 1/10
The Fall…
Meh….2 girls up a tower….if all goes wrong. Lots of holes in the storyline including a VERY important one at the end! Ok but once you’ve got over the ‘wow aren’t they high up’….It goes down hill.
5/10
The Father…
2 pretty good actors, Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in a story about dementia. Hopkins performance was impressive. It’s set in one apartment so is basically a play. If you’ve got a close relative who is suffering it does pull at the heart strings. Kind of ‘does what it says on the tin’…sad!
7/10
Edited by Lordbenny on Saturday 25th March 07:26
Lordbenny said:
Absolutely, Everything all the Time….
What a waste of 20 minutes that was (20 minutes is how long I lasted before turning it off!). I’m sure there’s a few of you out there that will like this but it a huge pile of ste. Ok, maybe I just didn’t get it and couldn’t keep up with it at my tender old age if 56….it still gets a
1/10
Did you mean Everything Everywhere All at Once ? What a waste of 20 minutes that was (20 minutes is how long I lasted before turning it off!). I’m sure there’s a few of you out there that will like this but it a huge pile of s
te. Ok, maybe I just didn’t get it and couldn’t keep up with it at my tender old age if 56….it still gets a 1/10
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