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Suicide Squad won’t come close to the 2021 record. I’d be surprised if it hit £3mill for the weekend.
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1 hour ago, Inceptionzq said:
Thinking about binging the Walking Dead. I haven’t watched since sometime in season 7 and I kinda wanna catch up.
Done exactly the same, hadn't watched it since the start of Season 7, now nearly finished Season 9. Glad i got back into it.
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I sometimes need a second watch with QT films to fully appreciate them but on first watch this was probably QT’s weakest film for me. Large sections of the film just meander without any real progression of the storyline. This would be fine if QT’s usual snippy dialogue was in there but it just isn’t with this one. Every other QT film you can point to at least one scene (usually much more than one scene) and instantly recognise that you’re watching a scene with fantastic dialogue and back and forth between the characters. Calvin’s speech at the table in DU, The entire opening 15 minutes of IB, every other scene in Pulp Fiction. I didn’t view any scenes in this as being iconic or including particular engaging dialogue.
Sure the recreation of old Hollywood is great but I so wanted more to happen with the Manson family angle. The almost goofy (albeit extremely violent) ending gives a glimpse of more what I was hoping for in a QT alternate history revenge flick.
My opinion will hopefully change when I watch it in a few months on home video but for now, I give this a passable grade and nothing more.
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Agree with the above, there is untapped potential and a lot more they could have done with this story but for a ‘generic’ action film, I liked it. The action scenes themselves are directed far more competently that you would probably expect from a film that critics have trashed. The motorbike chase in particular has a distinctive eye that you would expect a director of Lee’s capabilities to be able of.
Its not ground breaking but I’ve seen much worse action fodder in the past few years.
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Thought it was terrible, neither scary nor funny
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Very well directed, great cinematography.... but what a chore to watch.
A maid who is not very good at her job and works for an annoying family (no wonder the dad left) gets pregnant and ditched. The baby dies but she helps save two of the children from drowning, the end.
I was not interested in the story or her character at all, she says about 10 words throughout the whole film and it moves at such a slow pace going from one mundane scenario to the next. The opening scene is literally almost five minutes of watching water going down a drain. At least 90 minutes of this movie is watching people clean, kids running around shouting or trying to park a car.
The Oscars wont do them selves any favours with the general audience if a slow, black and white, spanish language film wins best pic.
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90 minutes of an annoying moping 12 year old girl glued to her phone in between saying ‘like’ every other word. It’s competently made and acted but watching what is a very average girl, being awkward at school and then scrolling through Instagram at home does not make for an entertaining film.
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A disappointingly standard slasher. It takes way too long to get going and have Michael put on the mask. All of the nods to the original are just role reversals of the first film and the new characters are uninteresting and purely there to be killed off. The cheating boyfriend not being killed seems a baffling choice as they spend time showing what a scumbag he is.
The comedy is forced and feels out of place in a brutal slasher and lauries house just doesn’t make sense. It’s designed to be a fortress but it’s actually really damn easy to get in and she must have known that because it’s designed to include traps within the house.
its good to hear the score up on the big screen but I would personally rank quite a few of the sequels above this. It’s nowhere near as bad as Zombies awful remakes but it lacks creativity in the kills and much like the franchise, it feels tired and overdone.
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It's good, a solid biopic that benefits from good acting and some pretty great direction. The score as expected is also very good.
Despite it using Neil's family life to drive the story forward it lacked a bit of heart for me. Neil is such an understated and quiet individual that hes actually quite hard to connect with. He comes off as having an admirable perseverance to his work that leaves his family neglected.
Acting wise i don't see any wins at the oscars, I would not be surprised at all if Gosling isn't nominated because his performance doesn't have any big flashy scene. Foy has more to do dramatically and probably gets in Supporting, even though she has enough screen time to be lead. Picture and Director noms should be locked.
It's my least favourite of Chazelle's films and I'd rank it under biopics like Captain Phillips but it is still an interesting, if not wildly entertaining, look at an amazing advancement for our species.
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Really overhyped. Cooper both behind and in front of the camera is the best thing the film has going for it but a lot of the rest is generic.
There is one truly standout song which is played 4-5 times. The rest of the film jarringly goes between concert scenes to jack drinking to Gaga becoming world famous after a couple of shows.
The story is so generic and obvious (ageing drunk musician) and a (self conscious girl with talent) that it’s hard to connect with the story or care too much about what happens to either of them. The Brit record producer is another bland character who’s every action is predictable.
overall it’s got one good song and a few well acted scenes but the story and characters are dull.
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4 hours ago, James said:
I just saw on Twitter that Vue won't show it (yet) because of a negotiation confllict with WB. Isn't that a major chain?
Vue is one of the biggest chains in the U.K so it's definitely going to have some sort of impact. I can't see ASIB until vue show it or I can pay 3x the price at the local arthouse.
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The reviews aren’t that baffling it’s an extremely poorly made film. Generic story, acting is awful and the action is for the most part an uninspired cgi mess. Some really cringe attempts at comedy and there’s one scene that will likely go straight on some ‘what were they thinking’ lists.
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1 hour ago, PenguinHyphy said:
For starters, why is Black Panther being brought up? Sorry to Bother You is an arthouse/indie movie, so of course it is not going to make anywhere near what Black Panther made. Tully has not made anywhere near what The Avengers made, but what do those two things have to do with one another, besides the race of the stars, when one they are two different types of movies? It is telling that arthouse/indie movies with white stars such as 7 Days in Entebbe, First Reformed, Disobedience, Beirut, Leave No Trace, Unsane, Tully, Chappaquiddick and probably numerous others from this spring,summer that escape me are able to make $5,000,000 or less overseas in numerous countries without anyone questioning whether they oughta any more movies like that overseas. Meanwhile, Sorry to Bother You, a movie that has made more domestically than those movies have made internationally and domestically altogether, is being refused to be played because 'it will not make any money.' They just are not playing it because they do not want to play it. I am not even about to broach the movie being compared to a Tyler Perry movie because you are not going to compare Birdman or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to a Larry the Cable Guy movie.
What part aren’t you getting about movies primarily aimed at African-American audiences not having much play in countries that don’t have African Americans?
sorry to bother you making more than other indies in the u.s means nothing overseas. If they thought it would be worth releasing and make them money then they would.
Seeing as you brought it up, Larry the Cable Guy movies didn’t really get released overseas either. He’s an unknown outside the U.S so the films wouldn’t have made any money.
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7 minutes ago, La Binoche said:
It's funny b/c post-Trump, the US is viewed as racism central. That's hilarious to me...try visiting some European countries lol.
I don't think it has anything to do with that, most 'black' movies are targeted primarily at the African-American demographic. As other countries worldwide don't have African-American populations then they don't resonate with worldwide audience as much and tend to get a smaller or no release at all. Big exceptions are films with wide ranging appeal like 'Black panther' and 'Get out'.
Sorry to bother you is a small platform release with stars that aren't known outside the U.S so its not a surprise overseas distributors don't think it has much potential. Tyler Perry movies do great business in America but don't get released much overseas because they wouldn't make any money.
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23 minutes ago, baumer said:
Most politicians are white, so if the Purge is targeting low income communities that are mostly black, then how else do you want them to portray the white people that are in power? This is the beginning of the Purge. From here out, it goes nation wide, but to start, it goes for a low income/poor black community.
I thought it took a bit too long to get into the Purge and it kind of suffers because of it but once it happens, it's well done. I thought the lead character was really well done and he has a striking resemblance to Chadwick Boseman. I was disappointed in how they show it all starting. They explain things as they go, but for a film that is supposed to show the origins of the Purge, they just kind of stick us in the middle of the idea and let us watch it from there. I think it would have been better to show how this became an idea. Take us inside the room where the first person suggested it and how percolated from there. That was a missed opportunity for sure.
The killings were inventive and the soundtrack was used to the films advantage as well. I liked it for the most part because of the two leads and for the last 45 minutes. I'd like to see Frank Grillo in the next one, if there is a next one. However, with the state of the US, this does seem like a very well timed film and I think it will play well to audiences.
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Come on, they literally have the white people in this as either evil rich politicians or klansmen. There is no inbetween. The only white woman in this gets to have her ‘I’m changing my ways’ moment before she gets killed by white men. I thought the main klansmen in the final scene was wearing a Reagan mask at first he had such a striking resemblance.
Theyve gone sledgehammer first at the ‘whitey is keeping us down’ crowd and it might work for them but not for me. Bring back grillo.
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Almost on par with the first film as being the worst in the series. It’s political message is so heavy handed that it’s pretty much pandering to its target audience. One of the characters shouts “don’t grab my pussy”, the ‘hero’ is a black murdering drug dealer and pretty much every white character is a stock evil racist.
The story itself starts off slowly and doesnt follow up with any of its ideas. Some of the masks used are creepy and there’s a handful of inventive death and chase scenes but it’s overall a poor effort.
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Hot weather or not that’s a very average opening over a full week for Oceans 8.
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12 minutes ago, tonytr87 said:
So whats so "controversial" about I Feel Pretty? Isn't it a positive body image message? Isn't that a good thing?
It's weird to me how everything becomes "problematic" these days.
Nothing really but it seems to have found a way to anger most sections of the Internet. Schumer has a lot of people who downright just don't like her or her brand of comedy which means they were going to trash the film, there are the hardcore social justice warriors that are trashing the film for being about a straight white able bodied woman trying to be body confident. There are the fatties who aren't happy that Schumer is classed as being overweight in this film when she is marginally chubby at best.
Basically everyone everywhere tends to find something to complain about nowadays, some people just like being offended or being offended on the behalf of others.
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2 hours ago, Krissykins said:
If feminism annoys people then it’s probably them that has the problem (with women).
The average moviegoer doesn't want to constantly see an actor/actress talking about political issues or feminism, I don't think its got anything to do with people having a problem with women, it's more the fact that they are actors not politicians or activists no matter how hard they try to be. If you shove your agenda down everyones throats its eventually going to come back on you.
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Overly political/feminist celebrities tend to annoy people. The fact that she steals jokes and isn’t particularly funny doesn’t help her win over anyone.
A different actress in this, maybe one who was genuinely overweight rather than just a bit chubby would have probably worked better.
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4 hours ago, DeeCee said:
Game Night opened to AUD1.95m here and Blockers just opened over Easter weekend with AUD2.62m.
Im not sure if game night did the same but blockers had an extra weekend of previews the week before last added to its gross.
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I enjoyed this, not as consistently funny as game night but it should still do well with audiences. The adults are the best part, the 3 girls are okay but they get outshone by their parents.
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Yeah looks terrible, not a single laugh. Obvious fatstick humour.
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Saw this last night, as a big fan of Prometheus this was pretty dissapointing. I felt nothing for the characters, the alien itself looks so out of place because of poor CGI and very few of my questions were answered.
I agree with another post, worst since AVP, I think I got more fun out of requiem.
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Same, group of teens that laughed and giggled the whole way through. Early morning shows are the only way to go for horror if you don't want to be surrounded by morons. Worst genre by far for audiences.