Watched The Pledge last night with Jack Nicholson, really enjoyed it. Quite a depressing end but its stuck with me a bit, been thinking about it at points today. Its cool when a film gets you like that after the credits have rolled.

Anyone here seen it?

Restless Natives, like most Scottish Movies (cf Local Hero) sucks balls.

21. Iron Man 3
The more Shane Black you watch the more you realise he's quite a misogynistic director who likes the word "spaz". He can spin a good yarn but this didn't land as well for me this time.
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First one is mint, second one is terrible.

26. Twilight: Eclipse the third film adds more violence and sexual three way tension. Full report in the main movie thread. I even laughed once. Are these films growing on me?

b0r1s wrote:

26. Twilight: Eclipse the third film adds more violence and sexual three way tension. Full report in the main movie thread. I even laughed once. Are these films growing on me?

Just you wait till some of the stuff that pops up later. Gets a bit wild.

22. Sword and the Stone
Been a long time since I'd seen this and I must have mixed it up in my mind with The Black Cauldron and others as I'd forgotten how nothing it is. Really quite cheap and boring. Squirrel part is still weird and overly sad.
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23. Minari
Not bad. I'm liking Steven Yuen's current career trajectory and he does well but the film seems to be made by someone grab bagging from typical drama tropes but not knowing how to really make them work.
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I remember the funniest bit being a sugar pot getting into a fight with the other cutlery.

Robin Hood's better.

I'd go with that too. I think that era of Disney film is where they got handy recycling frames from other films too.

Black Cauldron was the first film I remember seeing at the cinema.

Eric’s right though, Merlin vs Madam Mim is top tier classic Disney. The rest of the film just doesn’t match up.

Eric wrote:

Harsh! Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood are both Disney childhood favourites of mine! I still can remember the opening song from Sword in the Stone, 'When Knights were brave and bold....' Probably not going to revisit now, wouldn't want to taint them, but remember Merlins battle with Madame Mim being decent.

That was a bit of a slump in the Disney output. Still decent stuff but not quite the same lush backgrounds etc.  But maybe that was part of the new style but looking at it now it isn't to my liking. I remember enjoying the films when I was a kid though.

First film I remember seeing in the cinema was Aristocats. Big single screen cinema. Stalls and circle.

Ive started watching Zak Snyders Justice league

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

23. Minari
Not bad. I'm liking Steven Yuen's current career trajectory and he does well but the film seems to be made by someone grab bagging from typical drama tropes but not knowing how to really make them work.
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What!? You didn't like it? I really enjoyed it, just the right amount of humour and drama.

Minari is on my watch list. A 5 doesn’t sound good and I usually trust Shabby’s judgment. I’m still going to watch it.

Hyde wrote:

tin_robot wrote:

Monster Squad -  It’s...not great...

Always loved your posts, but I am now stealth-suited up and just sliding into my Battle Hanglider. Before I launch for sweet England, pray tell what are your thoughts on The Goonies and Beastmaster?

(Checks the skies)

I'm going to have to admit that I don't quite love the Goonies as much as everyone else, but I like it enough that when one of my kids saw a Belly Dancer for the first time she shouted "look Dad she's doing the Truffle Shuffle!"

Like I say, I suspect that had I seen Monster Squad as a kid I would have enjoyed it, but now?  I don't know, a film where the heroes spy on, photograph and then blackmail a topless teenage girl is kind of difficult to enjoy in this day and age. 

I would say though that the makers of Monster Squad definitely enjoyed The Goonies as much as you did, as lots of the beats are lifted almost straight from it. (Disparate group of kids who form their own secret society?  Check.  Overweight boy who is bullied mercilessly, but ultimately comes good?  Check.  Lumbering monster who appears terrifying but is actually a big old softie?  Check.  It's just the Monster Squad version of each of those tropes isn't quite as fun as the Goonies iteration - with the exception of swapping out the criminals for classic monsters, which is genius, if only the  monsters got to do more...)

The thing I most enjoyed about Monster Squad?  My wife shouting "you're all bloody virgins you idiots!" at the TV during the finale.