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RETRIBUTION 1987 Two men George and Vito born on the same day two strangers to each other, George a failing artist attempts suicide. Vito a small down crook killed by his fellow gang members. Vito's soul finds George and when he sleeps Vito awakes and looks for revenge. This is a low budget supernatural thriller that's entertaining, and decent enough to watch. 7out of 10.
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Spiderman Homecoming. Jon Watts. 2017. Caught this in the cinema Saturday evening. Given the hype this film seems to have raised i went in with high expectations. Something we all know is often fatal. The third reboot for the iconic character sees Marvel Studios take back the reigns. And personally i think they've fuffed it up. I'm not sure i can put my finger on the problem but the plot is roughly this... Peter Parker is Spiderman. He is a bit put out that following his somewhat contrived recruitment by Tony Stark in CA:Civil War he has since been left to his own devices in NYC. He gets tangled up with Adrian Toombes, a salvage contractor turned arms dealer who is producing weapons made from the remains of the Chitari invasion seen in Avengers Assemble. He tries to tell Stark but for the purposes of the plot his concerns fall on deaf ears. So he takes Toombes on alone. Thing is Toombes, played by a scene stealing Michael Keaton by the way, has a set of giant mechanical wings which make him a big hard bastard. As opposed to previous Spidey movies this one takes Parker back to his mid teens. But oddly we don't bother with or need for that matter any origin story. We all know who Spiderman is and how he got there. So why does this film take so long to get going?? And why does the character seem to be but a clumsy precursor to the fully formed character we saw swooping around in Civil War? Personally I've never liked the shitty mechanical webshooters, give me Tobey Maguires organic web gland thingies any day. But here we not only have a rather halfcocked version of the character but the majority of the film seems to be set in suburbia or worse still the countryside meaning Spidermans main skills become a tad redundant. So what we get is a kid in a Spiderman costume running around. Don't get me wrong the film isn't bad but as I'm writing this I'm really struggling to come up with anything but criticism. Of the six standalone Spiderman movies there have been in recent years this for me is the weakest. And i include Raimis Spiderman 3 in that. |
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Never liked either of the two Amazing Spiderman films despite rating the performances of Garfield and Stone. Ended up selling off my AS blu-rays and haven't regretted that decision. btw Thought that the cgi Lizard looked truly godawful in the first film, designing it to appear without a prominent snout was a terrible decision. It also surprised me that the first AS film was so popular and that a backlash only occurred when people viewed the also messy sequel. Am curious to see this latest iteration but will be waiting for a domestic release first.
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William Berger as Zeus, Ferrigno's velcro beard etc. Well worth a look. The stop motion reminded me of Dr Mordred for some reason. Will see if I can track down his Sinbad Frostbiter: Wrath of The Wendigo (1995, Tom Chaney) More stop motion mayhem. My favourite Evil Dead ripoff starring one of The Stooges (you wanta sub genre...you getta sub genre ). It's the age old story ... redneck idiots unleash an ancient evil, luckily a pretty girl has the answer!!
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Spiderman homecoming. I'm going to have to be the voice of dissent here. Homecoming isn't as good as Raimis spiderman 2, that's pretty much the definitive spidy film, however I'd say its probably a better film than the rest. Spidy one is great fun but its very poorly written, out of costume Willem Dafoe nails the Green Goblin, in costume it looks ugly and stupid. Spiderman 3 is bloated and suffers from one villain to many and studio interference. Amazing spiderman was ok but a bit bland and amazing spiderman 2 was a piece of s*** with way too much world building and an awful screenplay. Homecoming is an enjoyable superhero film, not as good as Civil war or Avengers assemble perhaps but its a lot of fun. Michael Keaton delivers possibly the best villain in the MCU to date. The vulture is not just there to serve the heroes story arc, hes a plausible, well-rounded individual with believable motivation and sympathetic to boot. Sure he ends up becoming a murderous thug in a suit but he's driven to it by greed and envy and a system that appears to be gamed against the little man. I'm glad uncle ben's death is not covered again, its almost as predictable as seeing Bruce waynes folks getting gunned down outside the theatre. Tom Hollands Peter/spidy is possibly the best to date. Both Maguire and Garfield were solid enough but Holland is more plausible as an awkward nerd making bad decisions for good reasons which seems to be a central theme of this film. Its to the films credit that spiderman is basically played very plausibly as what one might expect if a 15 year old kid suddenly got powers. One example is the statten island ferry scene where he busts the arms deal only for a boatload of federal agents to appear, then everything goes wrong. for me its about 8/10 but I loathe scores. |
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Man who stole the sun. Kido is seemingly normal, if somewhat eccentric high school teacher. His students nickname him bubble and his lessons veer off from the curriculum quite a bit, mainly as he spends time lecturing the kids on nuclear physics. Netherless he appears to be an upstanding citizen, especially when he assists Inspector Yamashita (Bunta Sugawara) in foiling a terrorist who takes a busload of his students hostage. However Kido has an obsession with Nuclear weaponry that goes beyond mere eccentricity and leads to him staging a well planned robbery at a local nuclear power station where he steals some plutonium. Using his knowledge of nuclear physics and an improvised lab he sets about making a nuke. He makes two and leaves one in the diet building to prove to the Japanese government that he has a real, working nuke. with the government in the palm of his hands he makes a series of strange demands including a Rolling stones concert in Tokyo as he begins a game of cat and mouse with Yamashita as he succumbs to radiation poisoning. Its an odd film. Perhaps a little overlong at 142 minutes, it veers from very sombre and disturbing to all out action and exploitation. It can feel a little Jarring in places. Kido's raid on the nuclear power plant feels like something from a Bond film, it also has an incredible car chase sequence and some jaw dropping stunts. It was written by Paul Schraders brother and there are echoes of Travis Bickle in the central character with his utter detachment from the real world and other people. It even briefly homages that film in once scene. If you can actually track down a copy then it comes highly reccomended. |
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Sadomania (1981) Probably Jess Franco's most full on women in prison film. The sleaze is ramped up to the max. Everywhere are naked women either working outdoors or romping in their cells. However when you throw in a woman raped by an Alsatian, a camp turn by Franco including him enjoying BBC and the prison warden played by transsexual Ajita Wilson, who acts fine but whose body doesn't really fit the role, it all becomes a bit too silly even for Jess. Even Franco himself in the doc suggested it didn't quite end up as he'd hoped. On the plus side there is some gorgeous outdoor photography including a fight to the death between two female prisoners on a cliff top filmed entirely in the shadow of a stunning sunset. Sadomania ends up a (love) camp curiosity and not one of the directors better films, but then again it's certainly not his worst either. |
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hi guys, just re watched American Graffiti. pure class imo. |
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