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Vim Fuego 
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 Posted: 05 Jun 2021 at 5:44am |
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 Never seen this before. Absolutely brilliant! Rips so much piss out of war movies.  Also excellent. The fight scene in the church in particular is utterly over the top. Doesn't seem clever at first sight, but there's a vein of dark humour running through there.
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Posted: 06 Jun 2021 at 12:55am |
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 OK, this hasn't aged particularly well, but there are so many stunning performances, and it's such a sharp satire of 1970s US society that it's still well worth a watch.
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Posted: 06 Jun 2021 at 5:19am |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2021 at 6:34pm |
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How did you rate it? Worth a look?
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Posted: 06 Jun 2021 at 11:48pm |
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 A big dumb noisy war movie. Completely implausible, and a ridiculous plot, but so many great actors in it I could watch all day - Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Carroll O'Connor, Don Rickles, Harry Dean Stanton.
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Posted: 07 Jun 2021 at 12:55am |
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I enjoyed it, though it's not my usual sort of thing. It's a very calm, contemplative movie. Without a lead star I really like I may not have been interested in it.
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Posted: 07 Jun 2021 at 11:41am |
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Bloodshot (2020) The Nice Guys (2016). The former meh...the latter pretty good. Edited by UMUR - 07 Jun 2021 at 11:42am |
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Vim Fuego
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Posted: 07 Jun 2021 at 9:45pm |
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 The best bits of the prequels and sequels condensed into three and a half minutes!
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Posted: 08 Jun 2021 at 1:07am |
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 Wow, gritty and nihilistic. Great band performances. Penelope Spheeris has always made great movies about punk and metal sub-culture, both factual and fictional.
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Posted: 10 Jun 2021 at 1:46pm |
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I watched these back to back today. I have seen the first one before but I didn't remember it that well. The second is surprisingly solid for a fictional sequel to a based on actual events movie.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 12:55am |
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 This was really good. About a gangsters rise to power while in prison. There's never been a sequel, but it was certainly left open for one.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 4:16am |
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 Apparently not a very well liked Bond film - Roger Moore hates it, and a lot of people consider it one of the worst in the entire series. I actually like it. Went to see it at the movies when it came out. Moore didn't get along with his Bond girls. Apparently Tanya Roberts didn't like him, and he thought Grace Jones was creepy. Last appearance for Moore, and also for Lois Maxwell, Miss Moneypenny.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 4:42am |
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Started re-watching the Star Wars movies in chronological order (so Prequels, Solo, Rogue One, Originals, Sequels) in 4K on Disney+. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but with my old DVDs, but being able to see them in 4K gave me an extra push to do it.
 As an adult, I suppose I can understand why this wasn't considered as good for many older fans, but for me, it's still my favourite of the prequels. This movie was the shit in 1999 and you were 10 like me. Jar Jar included.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 3:38pm |
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 The weakest of the prequels for me. But I still enjoy it a fair bit.  This is pretty good and tense but for some reason some of the reveals that were clearly supposed to be plot twists seemed pretty obvious long before they actually happened.
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Posted: 12 Jun 2021 at 9:10pm |
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It's my favourite of the prequels too. I think it has more iconic scenes in it than the others. Whatever else people might think of the movie, the pod race holds up against any action sequence anywhere in the entire franchise.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 4:16am |
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 Always felt with this one that they really didn't know how to kill Padme off since the original trilogy established that she is dead. Not sure how they managed to fuck her death up so much though: Return of the Jedi pointedly established that Leia remembers a little bit about her real mother. Even with plot holes aside, her death really is dumb as fuck. Otherwise this movie is pretty great with its action sequences and being packed full of lightsaber duels. Next up, the Star Wars Stories movies and then onto the true classics.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 4:45am |
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I like this one too...I agree with Moore though in finding Grace Jones creepy
 . She would have been perfectly cast in the role as one of the cyborgs in Bladerunner.Edited by UMUR - 13 Jun 2021 at 4:46am |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 7:55am |
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I liked this one as well, an improvement on the previous Bond movie, the messy and ridiculous Octopussy.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:33pm |
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 I mostly liked this. Tom Cruise is too small to be a proper Reacher, but for probably the first 3/4 of the film he projects a proper Reacher vibe. Then inexplicably he starts channeling that lame arsed character from the Mission Impossible movies (can't remember, and hate those movies, so don't care), before a final flick back to Reacherisms. Loved the action sequences, which seem so plausible when Lee Child writes them, but are so utterly ridiculous when put on screen. And Rosamund Pike seemed to be just phoning in her performance.
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Posted: 13 Jun 2021 at 1:59pm |
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 Only the second time I've watched this one and personally I didn't think it held up as well as I'd expected. Leaves a lot of plot strands hanging which I'm not sure we're going to see resolved now.
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