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Watched It Comes at Night on Netflix. Probably the worst film I've seen in a long time. It was too ambiguous for my liking, and nothing really happened through the film.

Disappointed because it got all these good reviews, and I think Joel Edgerton's one of the most underrated actors out there
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Mortal Kombat is one of the dumbest **** movie i have ever witnessed, and i enjoyed every god damn moment of it. :lol:
Encourge any one who grew up begging their parents to let them play this game to go and see the film, and as Shea Serrano says, if you're not yelling the names of each character as they arrive on scene, you aint doing it right
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Botman wrote:Mortal Kombat is one of the dumbest **** movie i have ever witnessed, and i enjoyed every god damn moment of it. Image
Encourge any one who grew up begging their parents to let them play this game to go and see the film, and as Shea Serrano says, if you're not yelling the names of each character as they arrive on scene, you aint doing it right
want to take bonejr but being rated r18+ is a challenge since he's 13, I'm ok with him seeing it based on generated violence for the rating.

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bonehead wrote: April 24, 2021, 8:12 pm
Botman wrote:Mortal Kombat is one of the dumbest **** movie i have ever witnessed, and i enjoyed every god damn moment of it. Image
Encourge any one who grew up begging their parents to let them play this game to go and see the film, and as Shea Serrano says, if you're not yelling the names of each character as they arrive on scene, you aint doing it right
want to take bonejr but being rated r18+ is a challenge since he's 13, I'm ok with him seeing it based on generated violence for the rating.

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I don’t understand why it has the same title as the original
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation
Mortal Kombat

It’s a different movie to the original.. give it a different title?
Anyways I’m keen to see it this Wednesday. Scorpions Revenge on Nutflicks was pretty good.
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Ok with gore as you say the video games have that.


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Just watched the first 15 mins of Can’t Hardly Wait, since it’s about to go off Netflix... possibly the worst 15 min start to a movie I have ever seen. I couldn’t take it anymore.
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Just finished watching The Dry. Really recommend it. Amazing cinematography. I think it’s probably the best Eric Bana movie I’ve see since Munich.

Only bugbear, there’s a scene where Bana gets offered a beer, and they give him a Budweiser. No self-respecting Australian, let alone someone from rural Australia, is pulling that from the fridge. Wish Great Northern matched Bud’s product placement offer
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I watched Nomadland yesterday. It was sort of exactly how I expected it to be. Nothing happens pretty much. It was like most Frances McDormand films. Beautiful scenery and cinematography. I can see exactly why the Academy voted the way they did. But it didn’t move me. I’d seen this cookie cutter movie before.
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greeneyed wrote:I watched Nomadland yesterday. It was sort of exactly how I expected it to be. Nothing happens pretty much. It was like most Frances McDormand films. Beautiful scenery and cinematography. I can see exactly why the Academy voted the way they did. But it didn’t move me. I’d seen this cookie cutter movie before.
I saw a trailer of it the first time. The trailer made it look like a faux-documentary. Cant really see what the story is actually about
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Watching War Horse now... why are the German soldiers speaking to each other in English?
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the bone wrote:Watching War Horse now... why are the German soldiers speaking to each other in English?
Probably for the same reason the Russian captain on The Hunt for Red October spoke with a Scottish accent and a lisp
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the bone wrote:Watching War Horse now... why are the German soldiers speaking to each other in English?
I think you mean War Orse
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Strictly Ballroom just finished on ABC. Haven’t seen that since my teens. Forgot how good it was, it’s a classic.

I found it interesting watching it now, and being able to pick up the Baz Luhrmann techniques through it.
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Just finished watching “My Salinger Year” on Foxtel. It’s not the best film you’ll ever see, but nice performances from the two leads. Sigourney Weaver is a great actress, she was perfect in the role. Really enjoyed it.
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Also just finished watching “Promising Young Woman”. Extraordinary film. What an impact that film has... Difficult to watch at times. Much more challenging than a film like “Nomadland”. A must watch film.
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Just finished watching Minari. Very good film, very good performances, Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress in the role of the grandmother, and it was well deserved. The critics throw around words like poignant, delicate, tender, heartfelt, but I felt vaguely depressed by it.

It really has been an awful year for film. So many movies have been held back due to the pandemic.
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Just watched “Apollo 11”. An absolutely amazing documentary from 2019, that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It entirely comprised film and audio exclusively from the time. A lot of the film was 70mm not seen before, incredible quality. I guess it has been digitally remastered too. An amazing film. Must watch on Netflix if you haven’t already.

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Just finished watching Warrior for like the 50th time. That movie just hits me in the feels so much oddly. As soon as I hear About Today by The National play, the eyes start watering.

Not sure if it’s the movie or the song though. Even hearing it in the car gets me emotional.

I’m also convinced Blacktown’s Joel Edgerton is one of the most underrated going around

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Watched Dune today
Pretty stunning visual film and the world and lore behind it is something that really appeals to me, love that sort fo sci-fi stuff...so i really enjoyed the film, but it felt very much like a pilot film and i think people might struggle with that.
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Read the books botty? Or new to it?
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What do you mean by a pilot film? I’ve got this one on the shortlist
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Probably means that it doesn’t come to a satisfying conclusion, think it only covers the first third of the book from what I heard.
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gangrenous wrote: October 24, 2021, 7:05 pm Read the books botty? Or new to it?
Totally new to it
thought about doing the books first, but decided to dive right in... really good stuff i thought, love the world building, and the concepts

But yeah as you said, no satsifying conclusion and the film really spent a lot of time setting up the world and lore of this thing, so it was a lot of talking and setting the stage.

But yes, as i understand it, this is a 2 maybe even 3 part movie and the next ones will build off this. Very fun.
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The 3 films I've enjoyed the most over the last year or so are all things that are 3/4 years old and oddly linked by certain actors.

The end of the tour. Jason Segel sensational as David Foster Wallace. Sent me on a long journey to find the novel around which it is centred which I am still slowly, but surely divulging.

The Peanut Butter Falcon. A sweet feel good appropriation of the timeless Mark Twain classic. Starring and based around the plight of a young actor with Down Syndrome. Dakota Johnson and Shia Lebouef are great.

Our Friend. Johnson and Segel again, with Casey Affleck. Looked like it would be sad but had to watch it after the 2 other films where I'd really enjoyed their roles. It's an incredibly sad and hard watch but a really moving and brilliantly shot story based on the Esquire Article The Friend, by Matthew Teague. I'll likely never rewatch but I'm glad I saw it.
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Botman wrote:
gangrenous wrote: October 24, 2021, 7:05 pm Read the books botty? Or new to it?
Totally new to it
thought about doing the books first, but decided to dive right in... really good stuff i thought, love the world building, and the concepts

But yeah as you said, no satsifying conclusion and the film really spent a lot of time setting up the world and lore of this thing, so it was a lot of talking and setting the stage.

But yes, as i understand it, this is a 2 maybe even 3 part movie and the next ones will build off this. Very fun.
Dont really have much to ask my wife and kids for christmas, it's basically ironboard covers, clothes and comic/sci-fi books... that's all that's left for a man who has it all... so thinking getting them for christmas and getting right into it.
I read the first one 20 or 30 years ago. From what I remember, apparently the quality dropped after the first novel.

Will definitely watch this though maybe not at the cinema. I really enjoyed Valerian despite if flopping badly. Such a visually beautiful film.
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Yeah same here gerg. Read it about 20 years ago or so. I think I read one or two sequels but wasn’t overly fussed and stopped there.
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I read it for the first time 2 years ago.
It required a second reading to really appreciate.

The old movie is phenomenal SciFi for the time. It's one of those casting sweet spots where they have a number of great actors just before their more famous roles.
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Finally got around to watching Tenet. I was expecting to be annoyed and confused, but I feel I got it enough.

Definitely one I’m keen to watch again to proper get my head around.
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Tenet was a disappointment because it had a good concept but they didn’t put the time into the storyline (pardon the pun) and left too many plot holes.
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Just watched Boys State on Apple TV+. Really worth watching. A documentary that won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Drags you in, and highlights the good and bad things about American politics.

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greeneyed wrote: November 6, 2021, 1:58 pm Just watched Boys State on Apple TV+. Really worth watching. A documentary that won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Drags you in, and highlights the good and bad things about American politics.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boys_state
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Just watched tick, tick... BOOM! It is on Netflix, having also had a theatre release. It's brilliant and Andrew Garfield is outstanding in the lead role. Oscar time for him and perhaps a nomination for the director, Lin-Manuel Miranda. If you liked RENT, which I did, no brainer watch. Here's a trailer, so you can see if it is your sort of movie.

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That does not look like my kind of movie. I’ve always thought Andrew Garfield came across as a bit of a pipsqueak. Feels like he should be British… wait, I just Wikipedia’d him, and he is British (he was raised there)! How fitting.
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Just watched The Power of the Dog on Netflix. Unusual “western”, but lots of Oscar contenders there. Picture, director (Jane Campion), actor (Benedict Cumberbatch) supporting actress (Kirsten Dunst), cinematography.

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