Movie Thread VII: Adrian's Revenge

Not with that attitude

Agreed. I watched it over the weekend and was surprised with how much fun it was and how well it sat in the series.

So last night, watched Avengement on Netflix. It’s one of those straight-to-dvd releases.

Not a terrible way to kill an hour and a half. Best way to describe it is a Guy Ritchie British Crime movie meets Kill Bill meets John Wick.

A lot of good fighting scenes, some bloody gore scenes, bit of kerb stomping, bloke gets his head blown off with a sawn of shotgun…and a lot of cockney “Let’s fuckin’ ave it then”.

Probably not one to show the kids…least because it’s rated R18…

I randomly watched that movie a couple of years ago and thought it was great.
Didn’t fuck around at all.

Agreed. No mindless mindnumbing back stories.

Just straight to the point. Nothing complicated, just an hour and a half of a bloke taking revenge on his brother., with a nice undertone of dry British humour in there.

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I watched Hundreds of Beaver last night and it was such a great experience. Such a silly and fun movie all helped with the fact it was a 3/4 full cinema.

Wierdest name for a porno ever

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You’d hate to be an usher after that screening. All the tissues, sticky floors…

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Wouldn’t be too much work if every second girl shared the one cup.

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I saw that movie once.

My therapist says there’s nothing that can be done to help me…

One man one jar was worse

One man one horse…

Yeah.

Twisters - not as good as the original. I also thought the Twisters in the original looked better too.

Still a decent popcorn disaster porn. 7/10.

Leave The World Behind may just be the weirdest dystopian movie ever.

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Twisters in IMAX, can recommend

I remember thinking that, and thought that they might have tried to make it more realistic looking? The final ones were good though.

Watched Tomorrow War last night.

Summary

It started off pretty cool but then just went absolutely down hill fast. The premise that they make a toxin that can kill aliens, bring it to the past and then dont know what to do with it, i mean really? Then they go to the one place they know the aliens start from and not a single nation has even considered fortifying it. On top of the fact that 6 people go into a spaceship containing the race that wipes out humanity with zero support…

The Passenger (1975) at the Dendy last night. Looked amazing but not sure about the story, partially because I was exhausted going in and napped a lot of the first third away.
There’s something about the sparseness of dialogue and need to have shit happening all the time that you used to have in that era of filmmaking that I love. Couple that with the look of the film in that era and what the world looked like and it gets me every time.

A general question here - Does any actor ever have a body of work as comprehensive over so long as Jack Nicholson? Over 50 years where he’s made more films than I care to remember, from proper serious auteur shit, to commercial success.

I love Jack but Pacino for sure.

The problem is that later in his career Pacino has heavily leant into an over the top screaming caricature. Giving him the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman’ gave him carte blanche to rehash this for every role after that.