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A slightly different take on the werewolf legend. Good cast (Liv Tyler, Brad Dourif and young British actress Bel Powley) and nicely done, but it feels a bit rushed and unsatisfactory at the end.
Hmm, it’s quite a serious film and was someone’s labour of love to put together. Quite a hard sell I guess ( journalists investigating catholic priests abusing children) but I got quite gripped as it progressed. Some lovely understated acting from Keaton and others.
I don’t think this is really a spoiler, a trivia bit from IMDB that amazed me a bit:
Jimmy LeBlanc, who plays Patrick McSorley, was himself an actual survivor of the clerical abuse scandal, so when director Tom McCarthy first brought him in for rehearsals with Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci, he was concerned that 'revisiting' Jimmy's abusive past might be too emotionally traumatic for him. However, as McCarthy later accompanied Jimmy out after the session, he asked him if he was freaked out by his first 'acting' experience with the other actors. "Of course I'm freaked out," Jimmy said, "that was the Hulk and Batman and that guy from the devils wear prada."
I hadn't seen it at the cinema when it came out - the trailers and some of the early reviews put me off, and I thought they might have gone too far with milking the franchise.
I was wrong... it's quite good. Not in the same league as Rogue One, but I think it's better than both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
Alden Ehrenreich still isn't very convincing as a young Harrison Ford, but it bothered me much less than I thought it would, and he actually did quite well. The plot is surprisingly decent, and the new characters were excellent - top marks to L3 who had some great lines (as in Rogue One with K2S0, in fact) - and I thought the acting quality of Woody Harrelson and Paul Bettany made a big difference.
There's a nice twist at the end which seems to be setting up a sequel set between this and Rogue One, but ironically might not happen now since this one didn't do too well...
A possibly slightly generous (since I did really enjoy it after all) - 8/10
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Jaime Lannister as Conan the Barbarian meets Aladdin, Thor and the king of Sparta in a badly realised computer game.
Utter shite.
And presumably the casting director who gave Chadwick Boseman the Black Panther gig hadn't seen it. Fortunately for both of them.
looking forward to the new Suspiria. Good or bad, it’s one I have to see (Argento nut, so it’s gonna be interesting seeing what they’ve done)
I wish there weren't so many of them, I wish people would do something new but a remake can't tarnish the original and can sometimes be worthwhile in its own right. That said, some of the worst films I've ever seen have been remakes or re-imaginings.
A low budget Canadian zombie(?) infection/virus mystery(?) film.
Centred around a radio station it features a lot of the radio-voice-man talking, which I generally tend to find a bit annoying, for some reason, and it's a bit mannered and slightly detached comedy at times.
I honestly don't know what to make of it, it starts of quite slow but builds up and improves as it goes along, and although I rate it 5/10 I'm wondering if I should watch it again.
The reviews on imdb are split between rave 10/10s and outraged 1/10s.
There's an hour long BBC radio play version which I'm going to listen to first.
This film got a bit of slack on it's cinema release, mainly (it seemed) for not being as funny as the original ...which seems a bit harsh seeing as I (and I know I'm not alone in this) had to watch the first one twice to get all the gags because I was laughing so hard during the initial viewing!
Anyway, I liked it. It stays true to the original characters, does justice to the newly-introduced ones and very definitely keeps up the subversive spirit of the first movie. Roll on Deadpool 3. CHIMICHANGA!
Absolute tosh. 4/10.
Watched Opera for the first time in about a decade earlier in the week. Superb stuff - I really like this period of Argento when he's matured a bit (the utter lunacy of Phenomena is just glorious). Shame about the massive spoiler pic of the killer in Alan Jones book as I didn't remember much about it at all.
Hopefully this Suspiria remake will be a success as the trailer strongly indicates that they are looking at the Three Mothers with potential to further films. INFERNO PLZ
Agree on QT - I don't really rate him at all nowadays.
Last night I watched Theatre of Blood - again - after a discussion about how good it'd be to have a drink with Vinnie P.