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Beerfish said:
I've been umming and ahing about watching this. Sounds like it could be interesting but I don't really like Sandra Bollock.
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She’s not bad in it.
 
Watched Brawl in Cellblock 99 or something with Vince Vaughan instead. Damn there was some pretty ****ed up violence in that thing. :sick:
 

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jmoo wan said:
how can you not like Sandra Bullock? she’s the very definition of harmless and inoffensive.
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That's just it. I like my female leads dangerous and offensive.
 
Watched Standoff last night with Lawrence Fishburne and Thomas Jane. I thought it was a good little film. imdb gave it 6.1 which I thought was a little low. I would've given it a 7. Metacritic, on the other hand which I've been keeping an eye on since EFC 1871 mentioned it, gave the film a 36. I couldn't believe it so I went and had a look at the 5 critic reviews. The first 2 were 60 and 50 but they're dragged down by the next 3 which were 38, 30 and 25. The 25 was given by some guy from rogerebert.com whose review was 'It's all very terribly tiresome'. Great help from someone who apparently does this for a living. Another gave it 38 partly because the 'blood bursts looked digitally added.. in some places'. If they were I didn't notice it and that's hardly a reason to give a movie a shit score anyway. It made me wonder whether critics are overly critical just because they think it's cool to hang shit on everything. I don't think they got the film. It wasn't meant to be a Bruce Willis action flick. It wasn't really an action flick at all. It could have been a play. I thought the reviews from the imdb users were much more thoughtful, expansive and considered.
 
Yeah that's the danger of lesser known/reviewed films, I guess. It only takes one or two bozos to skew it.

I do find it irritating when professional critics rate films based on their personal hangups or preferences.

It's fine for everyday people, particularly if you clarify that's your reason for liking or disliking it, but critics should be a lot more objective.
 
Howard Moon said:
The kids want to go watch the new Mary Poppins film, but weirdly had not even seen the original - I put it on yesterday - I guess its been maybe 30 years since id seen it has a child myself.. I actually got into it, maybe you see more things as an adult? but it didn't seem just a fluffy carefree kids movie

But I was wondering if anyone Lord Nicholson maybe, could enlighten me on the symbolism of a few things in the film, or maybe some hidden meanings of things?

Clearly the film isn't about the kids, or the wife - who don't progress one iota - but its just about the dad and his progression from absent father and husband to family man... but is there any significance to the sailor next door and the cannons?

Were the 8am cannons meant to symbolize banks life running like clockwork? but every time they noted the wind change - it was telling banks his life was about to change or get unsettled?

I had no frame of reference for what the cannon men were there for (that's before asking about the old uncle or the bird lady...)

..or the simmering sexual tension between Mary and Bert/banks...or how a raging feminist sash wearer could be so submissive to her megalomaniac husband who loved to portray being a big fish as home but was a sniveling subservient at work...

Are they many fan theories on the film? or is it all just sweet as pie from the travers book
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The children do progress, they learn the value of charity and to exercise their imaginations and be more in harmony with the world around them.

I expect Admiral Boom is ported straight from Travers' book (haven't read it), but to me it's always symbolised the horrific problem (everything being knocked out of place every hour) that these people just live with. This is also the function of "Sister Suffragette" and "The Life I Lead" to introduce the parents - they are extremely contented or so they think and their solution to any problem is to ignore it or suppress it. None of the family really notice each other until Mary Poppins corrects this.

The Rob Marshall sequel is horrendous - a very good companion piece is Saving Mr. Banks however, which not only features yet another amazing Emma Thompson performance but gives insight into the impact of "Mary Poppins" and how it's not the magic but the spirit behind the lessons that helps people.

As for the simmering sexual tension between Mary and Bert, LOOK AT HER. There's no theory there - Van Dyke and Andrews had great chemistry and Disney decided to indulge the adult audience with a quasi-romantic number and let both talents strut their stuff. Albeit with penguins.
 
The penguins were awesome.
 

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For those like me who like psychological horror, not gore, then Incident in a Ghostland is awesome. The story has a great twist. I loved it.
 
I’m liking it even if it directly tells me it’s bad.
 
Jade said:
Very meh.

The Last Jedi absolutely killed Star Wars, I’m not even sure I’ll head to the cinema to see this.
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I'm going to give this a chance. Low expectations.

Lots of people were burnt by the last one. I still refuse to watch it. But JJ has done what he does best. Raised some questions that I'm curious of the answers.
 

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