I loved everything about Dredd as an old 2000ad fan.

But timing was a bit off coming after so soon after the raid, there was a samey feel even though they are not the same at all.

Gonna rewatch Dredd

Everything Everywhere All At Once
There’s a fine line between madness and genius and this movie straddles it perfectly. Complete insanity held together by Michelle Yeoh’s charisma. Marvel movies take note: This is how you do a multiverse story.

Fair play, Mission Impossible Fallout is a step above the just four

Full Metal Jacket

Still the greatest war movie ever made.

It is a classic. Haven’t seen it for years and think I’ve only watched it twice but was blown away when I first watched it back in the 80’s.

Fantastic film. There's always a lot of talk focused on the first half (rightly), but the second half is great too.

Always found Full Metal Jacket to be the weakest of all Kubrick's films. Never got the love for it. Rewatched fairly recently to see if I'd changed my mind but I haven't. The first and second part have no real connection and the second part has no weight. Film seems kind of pointless. I say this as a huge fan of Kubrick's films.

The book Dispatches by Herr is a great read, Kubrick based the film on that + the Short Timers (Part Timers?) and Herr co-wrote the screenplay I think. This is all common knowledge no doubt.

2001 is his weakest. Its a bit pap.

Dark Soldier wrote:

2001 is his weakest. Its a bit pap.

The wrongest sentence ever written.

48. Avatar - 8

Still enjoyed this and watched with the missus in anticipation of the sequel. She enjoyed it too and said it was a very pretty film, can't argue with that.

49. & 50. Maze Runner - Scorch Trials and Death Cure - 6 and 6

Very much diminishing returns these sequels to what was a solid Hunger-Games-For-Boys opening movie, some decent acting from the kids, but the story meanders across these overly long movies.

51. Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of The Ring - 10

Still a classic. It has taken years but finally persuaded the other half to watch it despite it being the extended version and she enjoyed it. And yes, she can binge watch 4 hours of Netflix but a 3.5 hour movie is too much.

52. In Time - 7

Does what good Sci-Fi does well, it nails the state of the world perfectly, despite a slight cheap feeling to the film and some sub-par acting from Timberlake, the supporting cast are most solid and feels even more relevant now than it did when it came out.

53. 13 Lives - 8

Missus suggested this and I wasn't expecting it to be as tense and well-made as it was. After all, if you followed any of the news then you knew the outcome, so how could they build tension? Well they manage it really well. I'm not claustrophobic but there were times I was holding my breath and wincing at what the rescue teams went through. Brilliant stuff, dodgy accents from Viggo and Colin and didn't realise until the credits that it was a Ron Howard film. Highly recommended.

54. Contact - 9

My go-to comfort sci-fi flick of what would probably happen should aliens contact us. James Woods nails the real-world response.

55. Top Gun: Maverick - 6

Said it all in the Film thread, but was really underwhelmed by the lack of tension and plot in this. The flight scenes were obviously very well done and it all looked pretty but I honestly can't feel it is any better than the original (which I will re-watch to confirm) they just made it more serious to try to give it some credence and it appears to have paid off with lots of people swallowing the emperor's new clothes.

See How They Run
Watched this with the family as we were looking for something lightweight and fun.  From that perspective, it pretty much delivers. It's a comedy Who-dunnit set in the 1950s, in which a film producer is murdered backstage at a performance of The Mousetrap. I suspect it got bankrolled in the hope it would be another "Knives Out". However whereas that film has a proper murder mystery nestled amongst the silliness, See How They Run doesn't really manage that half of the deal. Partly because the mystery itself isn't all that mysterious, and partly because half the characters are real people that we know didn't go down for murder in the 50's which rather limits the list of suspects.

Still, whilst the murder mystery doesn't quite hold up, the comedy half of the equation is better served - particularly in the film's first half. Most of the comedic heavy lifting comes from Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, with Rockwell largely playing the straight man for once. They both have impeccable comic timing, and manage to elevate stuff that arguably wouldn't work in lesser hands. (Indeed, not everyone in the film manages to pull it off so well).

Oh - it's also probably not a movie for anyone who somehow managed to go their whole lives both wanting to see The Mousetrap, and not knowing who did it. The film manages to spoil the ending and include various bits of the play, including the main motive of the killer. It treads a fine line between being an homage to The Mousetrap, and actively taking the piss out of it. (Various characters comment on its relative failings.)

So, yeah. Not a classic of cinema, but a reasonably entertaining dollop of escapism none the less.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Full Metal Jacket

Still the greatest war movie ever made.

You ever watch Devils on the Doorstep? Not really a war-war movie, as opposed to a movie set against the backdrop of a war, but it’s a cracker and I reckon you might get something from it.

Glad people are enjoying this as I’ve been looking forward to it.

There’s no hope for you.