Watcha Watchin?

[voice]

Oh come on, creatures with such sensitive hearing no one thinks of just using noise to collect em into places you can just blow them up or use miniguns to make mincemeat of em, and no one thinks to use sound as a weapon to deal with them until a little girl stumbles on the answer just randomly. Its about the first thing I thought of, so yeah, a bit stupid.

[mids]

That's the yawning plot hole. Too specialised senses and hunting techniques.

[Repat Van]

Sept 26, 2024 22:55:33 GMT voice said:

Oh come on, creatures with such sensitive hearing no one thinks of just using noise to collect em into places you can just blow them up or use miniguns to make mincemeat of em, and no one thinks to use sound as a weapon to deal with them until a little girl stumbles on the answer just randomly. Its about the first thing I thought of, so yeah, a bit stupid.

*Throws Voice out the room and slams the door behind him*

[Repat Van]

Also the aliens are super durable until they open up the hard mask over their face when dealing with sound. That is their only weakness so the machine gun tactic (as the war referred to in the first film) wouldn’t have worked.

[mids]

It's horror film season again. The House of Spoils. Weird foodie horror. Quite good, though.

[voice]

The Guard, good fun.

[mids]

Ghost Ship. Ghost Shit, more like.

The Devil's Hour. Quite good.

[flatandy]

Watched The Bikeriders. Shiteriders more like. Pointless movie about sort of proto-hells-angels who're all a bunch of cunts, starring Austin Butler who's in half the films you see these days but nobody can work out why.

Also watched Hitman, starring Glen Powell who seems to be in the other half of the films. At least he's not plain boring. Funny and very enjoyable movie, well worth watching.

[mids]

I was almost tempted by the Bike Riders but I thought it might be Australian.

[flatandy]

It's not Australian but it might as well be. Very dull. Lots of shots of Austin Butler brooding. I like Jodie Comer by I've no idea why you need to cast a British girl to do a parody of Rizzo from Grease. Nothing interesting happens. Biker gang starts off as a bunch of knuckleheads. The 60s happen and they attract worse knuckleheads. Things go bad. Nothing is fleshed out. Cut to credits.

[Repat Van]

Six.

A little bit Boss pregnant dog Feminism (and when I saw the creators they looked exactly how I thought they would given the show.)

But it was an enjoyable reimagining of a fascinating period in English history.

(I enjoyed a depiction of Katherine Howard that accurately shows her as an abuse victim but then they ruined it with the awful depiction of Anne Boleyn.)

[flatandy]

Nobody Wants This on Netflix, Romcommy series with Kristen Bell as a sex podcaster who falls for Adrian Brody as a rabbi. Charming and surprisingly excellent. Kristen Bell seems to have very good taste in the projects she chooses.

[marechal]

This Must Be the Place. Sean Penn as a jaded rockstar, hunting down a WW2 Nazi from his father’s past. Good cast and it had its moments, but meh.

[voice]

Kaos, retelling of Greek god myths in modern setting. Very good.

[perrykneeham]

Keiros, we call that.

[mids]

Nautilus. I managed about 5 minutes of it. Utter pish.

[moggyonspeed]

The Night Agent.

A harmless-enough Netflix 10-parter - but John le Carré it ain't.

[flatandy]

I watched the new Roadhouse over the weekend. Utter schlock but surprisingly entertaining until Conor McGregor showed up. He was utterly risible and almost ruined the back half of the film.

As a result of watching it, I watched old Roadhouse yesterday. Also schlocky and very much of its time - lots of unnecessary boobies which was probably as tittilating as they were allowed to be back then. I was surprised by the amount of Jeff Healey in it. Also, Patrick Swayze in high waisted jeans and a silk blouse is not the most convincing bouncer you ever saw.

[Repat Van]

Oct 28, 2024 15:02:01 GMT flatandy said:

I watched the new Roadhouse over the weekend. Utter schlock but surprisingly entertaining until Conor McGregor showed up. He was utterly risible and almost ruined the back half of the film.

As a result of watching it, I watched old Roadhouse yesterday. Also schlocky and very much of its time - lots of unnecessary boobies which was probably as tittilating as they were allowed to be back then. I was surprised by the amount of Jeff Healey in it. Also, Patrick Swayze in high waisted jeans and a silk blouse is not the most convincing bouncer you ever saw.

I had the same reaction. It was marginally ok but Macgregor was shockingly bad!

[Repat Van]

I watched a film called Swallowed over the weekend.

Possibly one of the worst films made in the history of cinema which a lot of random penis shots for some reason.

But baffling the Rotten Tomatoes reviews are pretty decent. I don’t get it.

Basically two men try to smuggle what they think are drugs across the Canada / US border (they are made to swallow the packages like drug mules). They turn out to be bugs. One guys bag of bugs burst inside him after he is beaten in a public toilet. He “overdoses” on the bugs and they desperately try to extract them out of him….via his arse.

They fail. He dies. His friend manages to poo out his own and then kills the bug dealer that is holding him captive.

He then becomes a gay porn star. The end.