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Road House (2024)
Great fun! Movies like this aren't made anymore.
Movies like this just made any more and we are the ones who lose out.
Cheesy, camp and over the top dialogue and action what's not to love?
Seriously, watch this it's well worth your time.
Jake Gyllenhall has put in an incredible amount of work to get into peak condition for this movie and while McGregor is juiced like a maniac his first turn at being a bad guy bell end, art imitating life?, he's what the movie needs.
Soundtrack is also excellent and if you watched this when you were 13 you'd be talking nonsense non stop in the playground about it.
Life is hard enough, watch things like this and don't take everything so seriously.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Why the hate?
This is a solid eight, I don't know why that hate is being thrown on this.
Did we need it? I doubt it but is it brilliant to see Harry Ford back as Indy? Yes!
Little nods to the originals are cute and made me smile plus we get to see some of the old, older?, faces from previous adventures which is again nice as nostalgia as we get on a bit is always good.
Nostalgia is the reason why I loved this. Proper Indy movie escapades, Nazis, horses, planes, punch ups and stupid gags.
Amazing sets too and made me pine for old Hollywood which is ironic considering the amount of cgi used in this movie.
Thoroughly enjoyable and rewatchable. If only we could say that about its predecessor.
Get Gotti: Episode #1.1 (2023)
Fresh take if you know the stor
As a Mafia obsessive who has read over 100 books on the subject, watched numerous documentaries and listened to the majority podcasts, I was expecting the same old stories.
There's new footage from the FBI that I've never seen before so that was refreshing and the yin and Yang story of Good v Bad from both sides is edited very well.
The cuts are in keeping with the era of the 90s MTV styling, it's my era so I love the nostalgia.
As many books as I've read, the respect for each other is always there and especially to hear it from the horses mouth from one to another will baffle the casual True Crime enthusiast but they both see it as a job. Bad Guy does bad things. Good Guy sets out to capture bad guy.
Brilliant.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Celebrity Booze: The Ultimate Cash Grab (2023)
Malcolm's Dad makes it.
The reason I Iove this programme so much is because of the ridiculous situations that become something.
It's The Simpson's made real most of the time.
I still can't look at the newer botoxed faces seriously while Charlie looks the same while the rest are ridiculous looking!
I know it's been said a billion times already and we can put it down to the characters vanity but it's bad work.
Danny De Vito (as always) Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul save this episode, but only if you know Breaking Bad.
As funny as this episode is, without the stellar supporting cast it's a very weak episode but I did love the suits.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 23: The Spies (2023)
My eyes hurt from all the rolling.
Penultimate episode and they've rammed as much predictable cliches as they can into it.
Gave it a 7 because the last 5 minutes were excellent but even those were cliched nonsense.
Moff Gideon character gets more annoying with every scene he's in too. He's a cut and paste bad guy who just happens to have all the best tools all he's missing is a top hat and a moustache long enough to twirl.
Grogu is being forced into these eps but I love him and have nothing bad to say about him, he's too cute.
All in it's a decent episode but honestly, if this had been spread across the whole season it would have been as good as the first one.
Clerks III (2022)
What you'd expect but also sweet.
You're not here unless you know the premise of a Kevin Smith movie. This is an insight to a middle aged man's love of life, friendship and sudden acknowledgment of his mortality...and the fact he's done nothing with his life...according to him.
What is life? Age old question. Nobody knows but, BBC Randall has a heart attack and reviews his life. Like most of us would ask, "what have I achieved?"
He decides to make a movie! Queue parody!
There is a beautiful third view of a love that died but isn't dead will affect us all but the riposte will also make sense.
Fans will tune in because of the title but!
If you're just passing by and don't know the background, the genuine humanity and love of the real friends on screen will make you feel emotional and think about your own friendships.
Killing Gunther (2017)
Watch this, it's stupidly brilliant.
We can all be serious about reviewing movies but ffs take something for what it is and this is stupidly brilliant.
Concept is there's a Hitman who's the best in the business and a bunch of other assassins want to take him out because they're losing business to him but he's so good he knows they're trying to kill him...and that's it!
This leads onto slapstick and sometimes projected jokes but it's mainly good fun and Arnold is terrific, clearly loves living up to his old puns, and is also having tons of fun doing this style of film.
Only idiots or people too serious about life reviewed this lower than a 5, it's worth your time and if you're after a quick, popcorn movie this is it.
Morbius (2022)
Doctor Who wrote the script?
I wonder who the bad guy will be...hmm.
Batman and Blade forced together doesn't make a great movie and this tries to do that but doesn't know what it is.
The soundtrack and visuals are Nolan & Zimmer era Batman done badly and the end credits as per have an MCU tie in but if you've made it that far you won't even care.
Cliched garbage. I watched it so you don't have to.
Avoid!
Wayne (2019)
Brilliant. Simple and brilliant.
Road movie. Love story. Comedy. Slapstick violence.
I'm late to this but it's magnificent.
Go watch it because you won't be disappointed, that's my review.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
I Don't get the hate.
I was one of the "What more can you do with this character?" people but it's really enjoyable.
Last episode is better than all three prequels and the last three movies put together.
Third sister actress is just terrible, honestly a seriously terrible actress.
A paper plate with a face drawn on it could have done better and of course there's a new cute droid for the kids but overall it's surprisingly good and Darth Vader makes it better.
Third Sister is terrible. Just reiterating it. Really. A horribly terrible actress.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Can we stop these movies now please?
If the MCU was an album this would be an album filler you'd listen to once out of respect for the musicians you love but never listen to again.
A bad B-side single whatever you want to call it this is just terrible from frame one.
Avoid.
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
The Bore of Boring Fett
The brilliance of Rogue One and The Mandolorian stemmed from characters we neither knew or had an emotional investment in which led to brilliant entertainment.
Disney sells dreams. It doesn't care about your daughters princess obsession and it doesn't care about your love of Star Wars either.
Take a character that has deep mystery, remove his helmet at every opportunity making him more human than human (Deckard would be proud).
Did you always think that he was human under there and not alien?
Anyway, much like Vaders transformation from whiny brat to Galaxy bad ass this whole ordeal is terrible. Last episode has more action than the previous 6 episodes and even the best bit of this one was the use of ED-209 of Robocop fames noises.
Yet another poor show by Disney from the original canon.
Cobra Kai (2018)
As fun as it's frustrating.
I love this show, really I do but after doing Martial Arts for 24 years it's annoying that everybody that turns up to a class takes 10 minutes before they're at full contact fighting level.
Kreese is a magnificent villain but grow up.
Johnny is a brilliant character but grow up.
All the original characters have arrested development and make out like they're the Karate equivalent of Army Generals and while it's funny by S4 it's boring.
A kids Karate competition shouldn't take this much time up in anyones life but it's too good and funny to stop watching.
Underbelly Files: Chopper (2018)
Decent & Annoying at the same time.
I read the books and watched the movie, saw this and got excited.
Parts of his life are included that weren't part of his celebrity but also there're weird parts in this programme where they've fleshed it out I.e.we don't know if it's his psyche or if it actually happened.
Set up? Dream? Usually a scriptwriter will indulge us with a hint but this is supposedly a true story so why the added drama? The guys life is drama enough we don't need Scorsese moments!
The guy who plays Chopper is excellent and lost out to Eric Bana which is not a fail but you can see why he's not Hollywood fodder.
House of Gucci (2021)
Shambolic considering the source material
From hugely interesting stories of every member of the Gucci family we get this?
Saw it on the first day and I've been so baffled at how bad it is since then.
The pacing is really slow (10 minutes in I wanted to leave) and considering the wealth of talent on show the accents and acting go from sublime to ridiculous making everyone terrible due the the lack of balance.
Seriously, go read about the Gucci family before seeing this movie, nothing adds up. Massive pieces of the history cleaved and rewritten badly and visually this should have been stunning but guess what? That's right it's not.
Ridley Scott has gone from being an amazing storyteller to an old man shouting at clouds.
The Valhalla Murders (2019)
Boring. 4 episodes stretched to 8
Nordic Noir has become vogue in recent years and rightly so but this is infuriatingly bad.
How are these Detectives in a job?
The most basic things that you or I would do as a non detective don't happen until eps 4&5, the female detective gets thrown around by a man at least once an episode and the side story is so badly plotted I cared as much as the writers did.
I watched this so you don't have to.
It's way too slow and not in a character/plot building fashion but purely down to the lack of substance.
No Time to Die (2021)
Bond becomes a porn storyline
To explain the headline, much like porn there's too much story for the money shot.
I love Bond movies and after a great start Daniel Craig for me was the best Bond.
Bond movies should be BIG, explosive, fun, cheesy, predictable but never boring which Spectre was but stay with me.
Craig's tenure as Bond has brought nostalgia via gadgets, soundtracks, gags and cars with a mild nod to all Bond universes and this movie wants to cram it all for DC's last hurrah.
Hans Zimmer has recreated his Batman soundtrack and as brilliant as it was/is it's like this movie, nothing we haven't seen or heard before.
Beautiful woman, pissed off baddie who hates Bond because, bad guys with weird visuals and futuristic disabilities and overly choreographed shoot outs.
The action is excellent as it is in every JB movie but without the 007 brand it's a forgettable Statham/Willis/insert terrible actor vehicle.
From the best Bond movie in Casino Royale to this one, Daniel Craig should pissed that From a strong start this was his last.
Very disappointing.
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Excellent.
If you don't get this movie it's in jokes and subtleties then you're either an idiot, haven't watched or understood The Sopranos.
People moaning about black gangs again are ignorant to how New York was in this period and how guys like Frank Lucas with heroin and the numbers made a lot of money for gangs who weren't of Italian heritage. This is a major part of the whole Mafia folklore in this time period.
Yes, some of the actors play the known characters weirdly and over the top while others hit the mark perfectly (Silvio for instance.)
I genuinely think there's a follow up to be had from this story and Michael Gandolfini while teasingly used is brilliant and you can see he's watched his father carefully for Tony's nuances.
I loved it, you might not but don't expect 9 years of phenomenal writing and storytelling to be rammed into 2 hours, it's a different animal entirely.
The Shield (2002)
Conquistador of Television
10 is difficult to justify for anything but The Wire, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad et al have The Shield to thank for smashing down and taking away the the barriers to make the kind of TV we have grown to love.
Some of it admittedly (Forest Whittaker eps) is way over the top but the inbetween cop and life stories are riveting.
Genuinely great writing, character development, gripping storyline and cliffhangers at the end of every episode.
I still find myself hating and loving the same characters as I did the first 6 times I watched this.
It's the same recipe that has been copy and pasted into every major programme you and I love since The Shield ended.
As with all cult programmes and movies, this is original and a leader of everything that came after it.
Creation Stories (2021)
Boring
As with all biopics there are liberties taken but this one seems to rewrite the narrative on the guys whole life.
There are parts that make no sense at all that have been dropped in like an homage to Trainspotting, the sound mixing is terrible and being Glaswegian I can assure you none of the cast sound like us.
The annoying thing about it though is it's a really boring movie. There's no substance to this other than the soundtrack which, as you'd expect, is brilliant.
ZeroZeroZero (2019)
Couldn't tie Gomorra's laces!
Gomorra is shot like a love story to Naples. The dirty, seedy side of Naples is shown in all its ugly glory and that is most of Naples!
Naples is beautiful because it's lived in, scarred and seen everything and with the Neapolitan language its like rapid fire gunshots to the ear and difficult to follow but it's speakers are honest and natural.
None of this happens in TripleZero. It's too slick in its production and too polished to be as interesting as Gomorra. 30 minutes in there's a massive annoyance (while this probably happens in reality it should and could have been done a lot better).
Too many obvious Hollywood cliches are cemented per character to make this watchable beyond Ep. 1
I loved the rawness and honesty of Gomorra and while they try to emulate it they can't.
I'm one episode in and this seems to be a cash in by the creator/writer Roberto Saviano to build a bank account and not his journalistic talent that made his name.
Shame.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intimidation Game (2015)
Absolute garbage.
Since Stabler left some of the writing has been bad but thankfully it's been consistently good. Episodes like this however make me want to give up on it. I'm not a gamer but this was clearly written by someone who doesn't play either.
Honestly it's garbage and thankfully most episodes are stand alone so you can skip this one, I endured the pain so you don't have to.
A.P. Bio (2018)
Dennis has a teaching job!
Dennis has moved into teaching!
If you like It's Always Sunny...you'll like this, its very funny.
Dennis's, sorry, Jack's nemesis Is a really unfunny Ricky Gervais impressionist (if you think RG isn't funny then you're wrong) but proves for obvious and funny scenes.
The cast are brilliant especially Patton Oswald and Allisyn Snider but I'll say it again, Dennis from Sunny has a teaching job. It's everything you'd expect from him.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Psycho/Therapist (2014)
Garbage and disappointing.
What started out as a fantastically written show Episodes like this have made it ridiculous.
I'm not educated in law but even I know half of the garbage spouted by the defence was nonsense. The ending was projected so far in advance I had to duck before I was hit in the face with it.
I now have this poor attempt at Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes to deal with in future episodes.
21 Bridges (2019)
Cliche ridden garbage.
Cops can hit a target?
Baddie escape route in the tightest of situations?
Bad guy who seems to be a good guy deep down?
Everything not as it seems?
Etc.
Boseman is good and Sienna Miller is always a pleasure to look at but a good movie this is not.