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[the jambo-rocker]

Baby Driver 6/10

Okay, I liked this film, but I didn't love nearly as much as I wanted to. The first twenty minutes are fantastic, frantic and fun. From then on though, there are just so many small things that, once you start thinking about it that I just couldn't buy. For all the hype, the cast and director I expected so much more.

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The main character was fun from the start, but I don't know if they were going with some misanthrope, or some Forrest Gump with shades type character. His fun Chris Pratt-lite routine at the start was alright, but it disappeared completely, like that cheeky-chappie pysche just fucked at the first part of adversity, and at no point did I feel like things were not going to work out for him in the end.

The female lead has some 'you come to me' eyes about her, but nothing really else going on. I didn't like that Jon Hamm went from a cool don't play by the rules, Heat type character best bud to ridiculous Jason X.

Kevin Spacey went from bad guy to good c**t over love? He could have been much more of a struggle but to flip it and kill him off so cheaply (although I did fun the prop funny).

Nah, f**k off. Jamie Foxx' character was the c**t's c**t, and one that probably should have been the main antagonist at the end rather going out so early, it just felt so anti-climatic.

The soundtrack had a couple of good songs. I expected more from Edgar Wright however with his previous for Scott Pilgrim credit, but this felt like a really shite rip off of trying to be Guardian's of the Galaxy except they shoe horned songs that had no relevance into that stage of plot and weren't even that good. Barry White's song to Jon Hamm's confronting to kill Baby and his bird off? I'm not saying it's not an alright song, but how the f**k does that work?

 

 

Edited July 1, 2017 by the jambo-rocker

[dogmc]

Had an unexpected opportunity to take the wean to the cinema during the week, so we saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul....had no other choice at the time we went, unfortunately. I'd only seen the first one, and thankfully the titular wimpy kid wasn't as big a c**t in this one. Seriously, I can't think of a main character that you're supposed to sympathise with who comes across as a bigger arsehole; there isn't a single thing he does through the whole film that isn't self-centred.
Anyway, this one was alright, as far as films-you'd-never-see-if-you-didn't-have-a-kid go. It's the stereotypical National Lampoon's Vacation style road trip movie, with the standard cliched archetype parents, and the idiot older sibling. There are a couple of unsubtle nods to Hitchcock for the parents in the audience. That's about it. Probably more bearable than the new Transformers film, which is as damning as faint praise gets.

Ferris bueller is also a kant. In the originals the parents especially Steve zahn were best bit of it. Wee lad had all the books and they did a reasonable job of translating them into movies.

[Hedgecutter]

Mindhorn. .....8/10

Low budget comedy nonsense filmed on Isle of Man apparently from people behind mighty boosh? Loved it.

 

I'm not a Mighty Boosh fan at all, but I also thought this was great. Usually hate anything musical in films but got to love a good spoof:

 

 

Never clocked these lyrics until now though: "A thousand kisses and sad goodbyes but it's to late for anymore, The ferry to the mainland leaves at six, I got to be there twenty minutes befooooooore!"

 

I like the guy from Horrible Histories in general though. Had me thinking of 'Stupid Deaths' from a great under-the-radar (albeit kid's) comedy show.

[lichtie23]

Jumanji (sp) - teckle. Havnt seen it for a long time so ended up watching it with the bairn. Top stuff

The new one looks shite

[The Minertaur]

The House. Last time I let my fiance pick a film. Will Ferrell ans Amy Poelher star in a comedy about starting an illegal casino in a mates house.

3/10. Laughed a few times.

[tongue_tied_danny]

21 hours ago, the jambo-rocker said:

Baby Driver 6/10

Okay, I liked this film, but I didn't love nearly as much as I wanted to. The first twenty minutes are fantastic, frantic and fun. From then on though, there are just so many small things that, once you start thinking about it that I just couldn't buy. For all the hype, the cast and director I expected so much more.

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The main character was fun from the start, but I don't know if they were going with some misanthrope, or some Forrest Gump with shades type character. His fun Chris Pratt-lite routine at the start was alright, but it disappeared completely, like that cheeky-chappie pysche just fucked at the first part of adversity, and at no point did I feel like things were not going to work out for him in the end.

The female lead has some 'you come to me' eyes about her, but nothing really else going on. I didn't like that Jon Hamm went from a cool don't play by the rules, Heat type character best bud to ridiculous Jason X.

Kevin Spacey went from bad guy to good c**t over love? He could have been much more of a struggle but to flip it and kill him off so cheaply (although I did fun the prop funny).

Nah, f**k off. Jamie Foxx' character was the c**t's c**t, and one that probably should have been the main antagonist at the end rather going out so early, it just felt so anti-climatic.

The soundtrack had a couple of good songs. I expected more from Edgar Wright however with his previous for Scott Pilgrim credit, but this felt like a really shite rip off of trying to be Guardian's of the Galaxy except they shoe horned songs that had no relevance into that stage of plot and weren't even that good. Barry White's song to Jon Hamm's confronting to kill Baby and his bird off? I'm not saying it's not an alright song, but how the f**k does that work?

 

 

Yeah I just saw and I agree with most of that. It was entertaining in a tongue in cheek way but there were one or two small things that annoyed me.

I'd still give it a solid 7/10 though...

[Biscuits]

The circle (Netflix) - Tom hanks and Emma Watson in film about the future of social media. Was ok 7/10.

[ViktorVic]

6 hours ago, Biscuits said:

The circle (Netflix) - Tom hanks and Emma Watson in film about the future of social media. Was ok 7/10.

You got me at "Tom Hanks and Emma Watson". I love a good cast, even though the social media thing is getting boring since Fincher.

[19QOS19]

You got me at "Tom Hanks and Emma Watson". I love a good cast...

Shame Watson is in it then. Hanks will be his usual excellent self I imagine.

[GordonD]

Edited to remove orphaned reference - will be back!

Edited July 3, 2017 by GordonD

[Ex Machina]

Went to see The House last night. Absolutely shite.

About a couple who start up an illegal casino in order to fund their child's university after her scholarship is cut by a corrupt councillor.

Really disappointed with this, I am a big fan of both Jason Mantzoukas and Nick Kroll but even they weren't enough to save this film. Jeremy Renner was also criminally underused. Would not recommend.

4/10

[Sooky]

This month the unlimited card has made use of:

Churchill - 5/10
Gifted - 7/10
Baby Driver - 8/10

[JamieStevenson]

Baby Driver is a solid 9/10. I'll be looking to see Spiderman and new Apes this month at the very least too.

[killiepiemuncher]

Transformers: The Last Knight... 1/10 for the cars.

Utter, utter, utter, utter SHITE. Two and a half hours of my life I'll never get back. Michael Bay should be bludgeoned to death and dumped in a shallow grave.

[MSU]

I can understand the negative comments about The House and if I'd been in anything other than a good mood when I saw it, I may well have agreed. It's stupid and dumb and I'm in no hurry to see it again but I laughed pretty much all the way through. File away with the likes of Meet the Millers and Central Intelligence. 

[Christophe]

(146-147)

Risk 6/10

Doco about Assange, not as insightful as I'd hoped about Wikileaks (although I guess there's not actually really that much to say - it's just a website innit). Basically confirmed my suspicion that Assange is a bit of a massive twat with delusions of grandeur. (cinema)

Baby Driver 10/10

Fucking awesome. Amazing cast. Amazing action. Amazing music. Everything fitting together like a fist in yer maw. Style over substance to a degree, but what style! Like many Edgar Wright films, I think that there's actually loads and loads that was missed on first viewing. Jamie Foxx was outSTANDing. I give this a very solid recommendation. (cinema)

[Ira Gaines]

I'm going to see this at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham on Saturday. Was it on here that I seen Jamie Foxx getting called "the c**t's c**t"? Either way, that intrigues me.

[GrahamJags]

Despicable Me 3 - 6/10. Enjoyed this, particularly Trey Parker who I never knew was in it until I recognised his voice, so that was a nice surprise.

The House - 6/10. Mindless comedy, but some genuinely funny parts. Can see why it's getting panned though, if I wasn't in the mood for a film to just switch off to, then I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.

All Eyez On Me - 5/10. Some of the acting is abysmal at times, and its far longer than it needed to be. Felt like I was waiting for him to get shot for ages.

Baby Driver - 9/10. Loved it. Kevin Spacey is the fucking boy, Jamie Foxx was excellent as well. 

[killiepiemuncher]

All Eyez On Me - 5/10. Some of the acting is abysmal at times, and its far longer than it needed to be. Felt like I was waiting for him to get shot for ages. 

Missed him getting shot, went for a piss.

[throbber]

Watched the first two Human Centipede films in the last few nights, had never seen them before but had heard they were absolutely disgusting without hearing the details about what exactly a human centipede was.

Think the first one was great and you could believe something like that actually happening, there is also quite a bit left to the imagination and it isn't completely all out there for shock factor. The second one is just absolutely revolting with no proper storyline in it and very little dialogue, just absolutely obscene violence for the sake of it. I have heard about 3 minutes of it got edited out and I assume quite a bit of this included the newborn baby but I hate to think how bad it was considering the stuff they left in.