nick_md wrote:

The sound of the balls hitting each other, hitting the back of the pocket then sinking into the net, the hushed tones of the commentators. Game. Of. Kings.

*Posts brilliaaaant pic*

nick_md wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Caught the end of the Wilson win. Enjoyed it. I miss the occasional frame, haven't played since the pre-times. Might need to line something up.

I dislike Kyren Wilson not because of his absurd, made up first name, but because he always looks like he's about to burst into tears.

I don't like Ratty either.

6. The Eternals
Well it is done and to quote a line from the movie "at last my boredom is ending".
When it trying to fill 7000 years of exposition into an hour of movie in a somehow incredibly boring manner The Eternals is asking us to care about characters we don't know. Many, many characters are introduced , no doubt going through their own shit but when we met them 2 minutes ago and in such abundance it is very hard to care.
Drab looking for 99%of the movie. Fortunately there is 1% prettiness that at least makes those sections tolerable.
I watched every Marvel movie across about 6 weeks last year. There are two or three of them that fall short but retain some elements of fun, a good action scene or some funny dialogue.
By contrast Marvel have massively dropped the ball on this one.
Superhero movies can be many things, what they should never, ever be is boring.

The cg characters in fight scenes look terrible, I'm guessing this is due to challenges with placing them in real world locations, not filming on green screen isn't necessarily a good thing.
There are some passable action scenes (despite the CG people) but we are 13 years into the Marvel project now, I have seen spandex people doing all this stuff plenty of times before with much more creativity and engagement.

I'm struggling to score this one because I just don't care. Its not really the worst film ever made but expectations going in do matter.
A point for the pretty exposition CG scene. Another because it isn't a total mess.
Doesn't even have the decency to be funny bad though.
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Ghostbusters Afterlife  Saw this in the cinema which usually helps any film....but.....I liked this. There's faults that one could list, but fuck that. I enjoyed myself. Ghostbusters was lightning in a bottle but it was no masterpiece and the YT review slagathons by man-children are, I have now decided, not worth a bucket of cold spit.

It could be accused of being quite like the Disney Star Wars relaunch being like a pseudo remake or sorts but frankly, it didn't bother me. Too many kids? Didn't bother me as they weren't annoying.

A lot of notes that could be accused of being lazy "remember this" moments. But again - don't care. I enjoyed them even if they are pretty contrived at time.

The action was well done.
Only loophole that kind of niggles was But fuck that noise. This isn't a brilliant film but it was pure enjoyment and to hell with the knockers. Ghostbusters is a great IP that was never fully taken advantage of in my opinion....but I hope this is the end of it. What a pity this didn't happen 20 years ago.

oops. done.

One of the people in the post-credits scenes was


So plenty of people who are much younger than us would have known, and been very impressed by the appearance of, the actor at least. The role is a bit secondary to that.

And the off-camera voice in the other post-credits scene was
I know the post-credits scenes are meant to be the most ‘geek service’ parts of the films, but both of these are all about introducing characters nobody’s heard of. You’d have to be really into comics to have the faintest clue.

poprock wrote:

Spoiler:

Mahershala Ali, who apparently is playing Blade.

I think that's a great choice.  Really looking forward to that!

It was cool but also reminded me of gravy skin.

See? Another character I’ve never heard of and don’t give a shit about. FFS Marvel.

I've already bashed it plenty but it's one of those films that was so shit it made me angry.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

9. Last Night in Soho
At first I thought the terrible, unsubtle writing was on purpose and would lead to something but no it was just bad writing. Also, a couple of creepy moments but a lot that seemed like they were meant to be but they really weren't... Disappointing.
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Almost like Edgar Wright is a bad director.

2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 15/1
The only books my 11yo daughter read on her own. Borrowing the boxset and watching them all with the kids (although 8yo probably will get scared by some bits).
Never read the books (didn't last more than a few pages of the first one) and only seen this movie once many years ago. No real desire to do so. Anyway...
I found it dull and shit before and still find it dull and shit although it sows the seeds for some interesting stuff. I guess I should cut some slack here, they're just little kids, but my daughter and I found the acting so over the top and dramatic at times.
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regmcfly wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

9. Last Night in Soho
At first I thought the terrible, unsubtle writing was on purpose and would lead to something but no it was just bad writing. Also, a couple of creepy moments but a lot that seemed like they were meant to be but they really weren't... Disappointing.
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Almost like Edgar Wright is a bad director.

Ah yes, I activated the Reg-signal.

I like his earlier stuff but he definitely needs someone to write his films for him