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Purple Rain: Great musical performances (by Prince and the Revolution at least, wtf was 'Sex Shooter' meant to be?) balanced by terrible acting and plot. 7/10

http://filmfixx.com/cult-film-club-purple-rain-1984/

Prince's Puppet in Purple Rain that talks to him and tells him he doesn't need anybody else:
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1000/10
 
Dont Blink

10 people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
The acting was passable, the story was interesting, my big gripe was then ending, no explanation about anything , not one single reason given for anything that happened, but I still enjoyed it, not the best film you will watch but definitely not the worst.
It was billed has a Horror , Mystery, Sci-Fi film, only 1 out of 3 for me , there was no horror and the only Sci-Fi was 2 MiB's at the end.

5/10
 
The Mirror

Three intrepid flatmates who purchase the supposedly haunted antique on eBay and set up round the clock cameras in the hopes of capturing evidence of something going bump in the night.
WTF have I just wasted 80 mins of my life on , complte and utter rubbish.

0/10
 
Night Moves

Starring Jesse Eisenberg the modern day silent film star. Nearly two hours of in your face environmentalist flannel. A great and ridiculously important message completely lost due to a moronic plot, extremely unlikeable characters and well over an hour of complete silence and nothing but very close camera shots of Jesse Eisenberg's unmoving concrete expression and unemotional, unshaven and exceedingly punchable face. That's not even mentioning the massively underwhelming climax, one not seen or felt since Boris Becker last entered a cupboard, or the absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical ending. A pretentious clusterfeck of a movie best avoided unless you suffer from insomnia and need something to send you off to sleep. Drugs however would be far more pleasant and less painful.

Shite. 3/10
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Dont Blink

10 people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
The acting was passable, the story was interesting, my big gripe was then ending, no explanation about anything , not one single reason given for anything that happened, but I still enjoyed it, not the best film you will watch but definitely not the worst.
It was billed has a Horror , Mystery, Sci-Fi film, only 1 out of 3 for me , there was no horror and the only Sci-Fi was 2 MiB's at the end.

5/10
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I hate films like this. Lazy writers who get praised for 'making the viewer think' when in reality it's usually just because they aren't good enough to come up with a credible ending to tie the story together. The Yellow Brick Road is the same. Both that and Don't Blink had me interested until I realised they both had zero explanation behind an interesting premise.
 
Arlington Road

Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a college history professor at George Washington University who has been raising his nine-year-old son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark), alone since the death of his FBI agent wife, Leah. She was killed in the line of duty in a scene loosely based on the real-life Ruby Ridge incident. Somewhat of a specialist regarding American terrorism and due to teach a class on terrorism at the university, Michael starts to become suspicious of his new neighbours Oliver (Tim Robbins) and Cheryl Lang (Joan Cusack.)
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8/10
 
Mommy - big, brash pop song of a movie from 25 year old Xavier Dolan about a mother and her difficult son. Beautiful looking and highly entertaining but over long and contains one of the cheesiest sequences I've ever seen (a montage set to Wonderwall). Also begins with a massive contrivance that acts as a bit of a Deus Ex Machina. Plenty to like about it though.
 
Archie Leach said:
Mommy - big, brash pop song of a movie from 25 year old Xavier Dolan about a mother and her difficult son. Beautiful looking and highly entertaining but over long and contains one of the cheesiest sequences I've ever seen (a montage set to Wonderwall). Also begins with a massive contrivance that acts as a bit of a Deus Ex Machina. Plenty to like about it though.
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Do they play Wonderwall but?
 
...aka Las Cortinas said:
I hate films like this. Lazy writers who get praised for 'making the viewer think' when in reality it's usually just because they aren't good enough to come up with a credible ending to tie the story together. The Yellow Brick Road is the same. Both that and Don't Blink had me interested until I realised they both had zero explanation behind an interesting premise.
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Normally I would agree with you , but there was something about this that kept me watching, maybe it was just the hope that something would be explained.
 
Archie Leach said:
Mommy - big, brash pop song of a movie from 25 year old Xavier Dolan about a mother and her difficult son. Beautiful looking and highly entertaining but over long and contains one of the cheesiest sequences I've ever seen (a montage set to Wonderwall). Also begins with a massive contrivance that acts as a bit of a Deus Ex Machina. Plenty to like about it though.
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It also has Dido, Céline Dion and Simple Plan in it :lol:

Good film though, definitely Dolan's best so far.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Normally I would agree with you , but there was something about this that kept me watching, maybe it was just the hope that something would be explained.
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I probably worded that post wrong. I didn't actually hate the movie, like you I'd probably give it a 5/10. I just hated that (as is often the case) they treated the viewers as mugs with the lack of an explanation to tie things together.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Dont Blink

10 people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
The acting was passable, the story was interesting, my big gripe was then ending, no explanation about anything , not one single reason given for anything that happened, but I still enjoyed it, not the best film you will watch but definitely not the worst.
It was billed has a Horror , Mystery, Sci-Fi film, only 1 out of 3 for me , there was no horror and the only Sci-Fi was 2 MiB's at the end.

5/10
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Seen this. Felt exactly the same. It needed a proper resolution.
 
The Drop
Good start and had so much potential with a talented main cast (Tom Hardy and Gandolfini) and the premise was kind of interesting, if not a tad predictable. However it seemed to just peter out. The ending felt rushed and just seemed to pass with the viewer knowing exactly what would happen. And Hardy's character was odd without being intriguing.

All in all I was disappointed considering the talent on show. i just felt there could've been more from so much in that film
 
R.N7 said:
Short Cuts - Magnolia before Magnolia, without any of that frog nonsense.
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Definitely one of Altman´s best. But the real genius being basing the stories on American short story master Raymond Carver´s works.

Paradise: Love - Ulrich Seidl (2012)

Part of Austrian director Seidl´s Paradise trilogy. Story of an middle aged chubby Austrian woman´s dabbling in sexual tourism on the Kenyan coast. Very believable story (which reminded me quite a lot of gringos in Colombia) which says so much about the third world, European relations with ex colonies and our perception of sexual tourism when dealing with women as the power player . . . but not much about love. I will definitely check out the other two parts of the trilogy. Very good film

8 and 1/2 cocks up
 
Bubz27 said:
The Drop
Good start and had so much potential with a talented main cast (Tom Hardy and Gandolfini) and the premise was kind of interesting, if not a tad predictable. However it seemed to just peter out. The ending felt rushed and just seemed to pass with the viewer knowing exactly what would happen. And Hardy's character was odd without being intriguing.

All in all I was disappointed considering the talent on show. i just felt there could've been more from so much in that film
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It was an incredibly forgettable film, without being a bad one really.
 
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