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Son of Saul
Winner of the 2015 Oscar for best foreign picture, this is the story of a Hungarian Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz who is desperate to give the body of a boy, who he believes to be his son, a decent burial. Very different from most films about the Holocaust, the film has an intentionally claustrophobic, confusing style, with very little dialogue or explanation of what's happening. I'm sure it's a very fine film, but I just couldn't understand what was going on and it left me largely unmoved. Maybe I should watch it again, but not for some time.
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Half way through watching it at the time of posting this and have to say that even for a Scotsman this is brilliant lol.
Keep a look out for it on the horror channel on Virgin, great fun!
Not the funniest film I've seen but I did enjoy the singing.
I thought the film was okay. The actor who played Brian did a good job. The film had a very Americanized ending. And I'm not sure how i felt about them using his illness to contribute towards the big gig.
Overall an okay film, would have loved to have seen Sacha in the Freddy role. Rami did an admirable job but i still think him as mr robot.
I'm not a fan of Motley Crue, but enjoyed the movie, quite surprisingly. Imho - better picture that Bohemian Rhapsody - characters were better written and whole story kept together. I didn't have a feeling that I am watching a performance (felt like that with Malek) but just followed the story...Bit with Ozzy at the pool was crazy though.
6.5/10
Takes itself very seriously but the plot is really very silly in a Jack Ryan meets American Ninja kind of way. The characters are cardboard cutouts but portrayed by decent actors (despite Dylan O'Brien looking like a junior Mark Wahlberg). It's never boring, never eye-rollingly annoying, it's well paced and the action scenes are good. Overall I quite liked it. They'd clearly like to make it the first of a series but I don't know if it was successful enough.
Captain Marvel. As a MCU fan, it was average. Not as duff as Spiderman Homecoming, but maybe on a par with Ant Man. It was "alright".
Green Book - loved it.
Eventually got round to watching this. On first watch it just pissed me off really, why change the 'real story' ? The real story would've been just as 'dramatic' for the audiences and it certainly didn't end with Live Aid, Queen did lots of stuff after that and when the public heard about it, it was very shocking (from memory). I worry that in years to come people will relate Freddie Mercury's life to this film and get it completely wrong!
That said, on 2nd watch I enjoyed it a lot more.
And I've watched it a 3rd time since! The full Live Aid performance on the 'Special Features' is very close to the real live performance and have played that back a few times now. It's a very enjoyable and entertaining film.
All in all, I love films with music and this one is a 7/10 for me. It will never be more than that even if I watch it 20 times just because there was no need to change the real story at all.
A bit smaller in scope than I expected after seeing a preview last year, but enjoyable enough. The war movie bits actually work better than the horror bits.
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The main storyline about the quantum realm, or whatever it's called, is utter tripe, but it's all done with such style and the cast are, without exception, thoroughly excellent. I really enjoyed it.
Now, that's not to say it's bad, but the marketing teams seem to have thought "He's done one type of film, so lets assume the next is the same without checking".
My review of the film is thus:
Us is brilliant fun, but like many fun films the story doesn't hold up.
A bad film in this category will have you think "why did that person do that? no person would ever do that" DURING the film which pulls you out of the narrative and impacts enjoyment, and a good film like this will have you think it afterwards. In the case of US, we watched the film through and came out singing its praise before "... huh... why was X like it was?". The story is basically "some dumb stuff happens for no logical or good reason" but it doesn't matter, it's dumb stuff happening for no reason that is highly entertaining. Perhaps this needs a specific term... Dumb-Good (aand retro-actively Dumb-Good could be applied to a lot of classic films like Die Hard... it's awful rubbish, but there's a reason that I have it on DVD and Bluray, and have seen it so many times)
Like all good (even Dumb-Good) horror comedy, you will have some jolly good jumps, and some jolly good laughs. The directing and acting is brilliant, it has an authenticity to the performance that allows you to suspend disbelief and relate to the characters. The soundtrack is probably good enough that I'll pick it up come payday. The plot is silly alternating between predictable and silly, but you wont care while watching.
8/10 - will watch again
Kevin Costner and Woody Harlston play two aging, retired, ex Texas Rangers, dragged out of retirement to hunt for Bonny and Clyde.....Texas Rangers are no longer politically correct, so they are hired as "Highwaymen".......based on real events, this is as much a study of the two, ageing men as it is the hunt for the Gangsters...a great watch, thoroughly enjoyed it....
9.5/10 from me!
I streamed Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) last week.
Fantastic. Loved the animation style, decent story and well executed. I look forward to more. I also look forward to seeing how bad DC's inevitable Batman version ends up being...