I thought it was nicely done if a little lightweight. You could tell a mile off the ending was going to go wonky but it was a fun film all the same.
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Awesome movie, go watch it!
This is one of those rare movies that deserves a remake, reboots, prequel, sequel etc.
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The fall guy
It’s fine , a bit long , a bit of nice stuff after the initial end credits .
Tarot … predictable horror … I left after 30 minutes and went food shopping ( I have Cineworld unlimited ,about £18 a month so it’s. I issue leaving during bad films )
Boy kills world and monkey man are both good fun.
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Watched it last night. Good film and I enjoyed it but agree with your thoughts. Could have been a classic with the premise.
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Watched Out of Darkness last night, and I really enjoyed it. The premise is that 45000 years ago, a small band of nomads looking for a new land wash up on a barren shore. As they hunt for food, they find that something is stalking them.
I didn’t know that “caveman survival suspense” was what I needed, but it was enjoyable, even if not particularly scary.
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I saw that the other week. A really interesting premise and while not really high on the scare stakes it was brooding with atmosphere. Well worth a watch.
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Some really good flicks in here for sure. Not sure if anyone has shared this yet?
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If you are looking for a really bad movie, I got you. Highly recommended 
Haha! I may have it beat … I just arrived at the cinema to watch the new Garfield movie with my kid. Thankfully they serve alcohol. Old fashioned incoming.
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Nice recommendation, largely underrated and, IIRC, overshadowed by the wildly more popular first Matrix movie which came out around the same time. I totally loved Dark City’s atmosphere back then.
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If you’ve never seen it, another weird not quite film noir but with the same stylized world building as dark city is the city of lost children. I think it’s French, came out around the same approximate time as dark city, maybe a little before. It’s been a while since I watched it but I remember thinking they were similar (although both unique in plot and substance). It might lean slightly harder towards the Terry Gilliam side of steampunk than dark city.
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Love it. The director is well worth exploring.
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Furiosa
If you liked the other one you’ll like this
Big cars , sand , bad fake beards , loud
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Some quick capsule reviews of things I watched lately.
Abigail (2024)
Fun romp with a decent script. A movie that fell victim to its marketing and somewhat rushed ending.
Aquaman 2 (2023)
Absolutely dreadful.
Blue Ruin (2013)
Superb drama/revenge thriller. Highly recommended.
Creep (2014)
I accidentally put on the wrong movie. I was hoping to watch the one with the train in the tunnels (?) with the same name. Still haven’t seen that one. This though was a pretty interesting and unsettling thriller with a real stinker of an ending!
Dark City (1998)
Late as hell to the party, but it felt like a very unpolished Terry Gilliam picture. The ideas were better than their execution and I was bored to tears through the majority of it. (this is coming from someone who considers Wim Wenders Until the End of the World to be a masterpiece, mind you)
Deep Fear (2022)
Paris > Catacombs > Nazi zombies. Decent way to waste your time, if a little unremarkable in the end.
Deep Rising (1998)
It’s a comfort movie and I needed comfort. Why are you looking at me like that?
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Well this is obviously just a masterpiece in cinema. 
This movie just gets funnier and funnier the more you think about each scene individually both in front of and behind the cameras.
Ghostbusters…6? (2024)
Not as offensively bad as Afterlife but this movie has waaay too many characters that don’t do shit. I kept trying to figure out what this movie was supposed to be, because at least the 2016 tried to be a comedy.
Glass (2016)
I think this film needed another hour or so to really set the mood. It felt incredibly rushed and anti climactic towards the end, in particular with Bruce Willis’ character which was too bleak for my liking.
Godzilla x Kong (2024)
Depressing doesn’t even come close to describe it. I’ve seen plenty of more engaging cut scenes in video games back in the 90’s.
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Masterpiece doesn’t even come close to describe it. Seen it twice and cried two times on both viewings. This movie goes hard.
Halloween Ends (2022)
I would probably respect this movie much more if it the filmmakers had actually built towards this conclusion to the trilogy from the very beginning, AND if the actual showdown and resolution would stay between Cory and Laurie. It’s basically The Last Jedi all over again. Solid ideas but then we’re just backpedalling to same old tired formula in the end.
Immaculate (2024)
It’s basically
Summary
Rosemary’s Baby
(1968) in a convent. Not bad at all and the ending was 
Infested (2024)
Ever wonder what would happen if a whole family of facehuggers would invade an apartment building? This is basically a small scale Alien movie on earth. Loved it.
Late Night with the Devil (2024)
Had incredibly high hopes but thought they should have committed to the format or just done away with it. As much as I adore David Dastmalchian, this was very disappointing. Go see Ghostwatch (1992) instead. Again.
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Good god this was a trip. From the director of Saint Maud (2019)‚ this felt like an unreleased David Cronenberg movie of sorts. Brutal, sweaty, grimy and sexy. Rose Glass as a director is a force to be reckoned with.
Monkey Man (2024)
Well made and I can appreciate this movie for what it is, but again, I was bored to tears with all the hand to hand combat/action scenes with a seemingly unvincible protagonist. I like that they take the time to establish the back story and all the drama bits - but it felt boiler plate to me.
Saltburn (2023)
Great ride, but I felt like I had already seen this movie before with a certain Matt Damon in the role.
Sator (2019)
A little rough around the edges but an interesting mood piece nonetheless, especially if you’re into Eldritch horror.
Southbound (2015)
Anthology movie about four different purgatorial scenarios that bleed into eachother in some way or another. Fun, creative and a decent watch.
Sting (2024)
Had to turn it off 40 minutes in. I really can’t abide seeing cute animals/dogs getting slaughtered. Even if it’s a chihuahua. Fuck that shit.
Thanksgiving (2023)
Hell yeah. This is a modern slasher movie done right. Very funny at times, too.
The Beekeeper (2024)
Was hoping for another gem like the Extraction movies. It’s not.
The Creator (2023)
Pretty looking movie with only half of a finished script. It’s like watching a show reel for a VFX artist.
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A friend of mine sent this to me when I was learning to make electronic music. I think its similar to The Matrix, I agree, nothing that I would watch every day. You are probably wondering why I keep appearing in your memories, John. It is because I have inserted myself into them.
Furiosa - technically well made with some good characters (good/interesting character design I mean) but dragged for me.
Felt like a studio controlled franchise film in many ways and didn’t really offer anything I couldn’t get better with the existing films. The CGI isn’t great (janky motion rather than poor visual quality) and I don’t think the film will age very well because of it.
Mostly though it felt very neutered. Likely in order to ensure a lower rating/wider audience. That plus the plot contrivances hampered the film for me.
Vehicle scenes were well executed though as expected. I also liked Tom Burkes character Praetorian Jack.
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Couldn’t agree less about Furiosa. It’s the best big-budget spectacle picture to come out of anglophone cinema since its predecessor, which sort of seemed like the last of its kind. A movie where every single detail seems to be relished over by its creators unlike so many other movies of the last decade+ that seem to be transparently covering up for a lack of ideas—or not even trying. Every minor character name, wardrobe detail, vehicle design, bizarre gang-culture ritual, odd bit of quirky dialogue, every death of every goon—almost no opportunity is wasted to do something creative, sumptuous, unexpected. It is pure maximalism, and it never skimps. It seems really determined to not just do what every other movie would do. If it were the 70s, fine we could nitpick. But given the absolute wasteland of anglophone cinema in the last 15 yrs, it is in another league. At a birds-eye view, yes it follows the general conventions of sweeping revenge plots along with some very stock fantasy tropes. But zooming in just beyond that, it’s a complete feast of details. I mean just compare it to the creative vacuum of the villeneuve dune movies, or the desperate-to-be-seen-as-auteur Robert Eggers/Ari Aster/Yorgos Lanthimos pablum. It’s smart, and completely unpretentious—unlike the aforementioned. I assumed it would be pieced together from ideas that weren’t quite good enough for Fury Road and so I went in with lowered expectations, but in fact it feels more like an attempt to try and catch a creative overflow that Fury Road kickstarted.
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Great movie. The director’s follow up, Green Room, is also excellent. He does a good job of having faith in his audience’s intelligence and using the “show, don’t tell” method of storytelling. Want to understand what’s happening? Pay attention and you’ll figure it out.
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