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[COYBL25]

I really enjoyed this, as I love these type of bleak, backwoods, dark crime films :

The Silencing.

A reformed Hunter, who’s daughter has been missing for years, stumbles across a serial killer, who is kidnapping and then hunting young girls, in remote woodland, near to his cabin.

He teams up with the local sherif and chief of the local Native American police force , to hunt the serial killer.

The casting is excellent, particularly , the choice of Anabelle Wallis ( Peaky Blinders ) to play the sheriff.

Dark and brutal, with the use of the desolate landscape used to maximum effect.

Weirdly the critics panned it, but audiences have loved it.

It would make an excellent book too.

It’s on Netflix.

 

[dholliday]

Definitely check out the reef if you haven’t seen it. Just like open water, incredibly tense! Right up there for me

i just ordered the dvd based on yours and @DP1 recommendation.

Forgotten 80s gem alert!!


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Set in LA - check.
Cop haunted by Vietnam - check
Drives a cool car - check
Likeable but green sidekick - check
Synth soundtrack - check
Implausible conspiracy - check
Sassy dialogue - check
Gratuitous nudity - check
Police chief obsessed with ass (they're 'chewin/all over/right up' my ass)

They don't make em like this anymore, with actual live helicopters flying under bridges, and explosions that rain down barbecue chicken, and cast credits like 'thug', 'man in beanie' and 'nudy lucy'.

Modern films are [Poor language removed].

Netflix. Get on it.

was a big fave as a kid, recently received the dvd to see if it's still decent, not got round to it yet.

Are you paying actual money to watch TG2? The first one was bad enough, this just looks like a remake masquerading as a sequel like most things out of Hollywood these days.

I am ! I think the trailer looks alright tbh, plus I haven't been the cinema in ages. I always watch new releases on my firestick, but thought I'd go all out for this one.

I will let you know on Wednesday if I threw my money away

Top Gun 2 looks like they've ditched the cheese and macho-homoeroticism and focussed on state-of-the-art stuntwork & special effects.

 

[Rich1878]

i just ordered the dvd based on yours and @DP1 recommendation.



was a big fave as a kid, recently received the dvd to see if it's still decent, not got round to it yet.





Top Gun 2 looks like they've ditched the cheese and macho-homoeroticism and focussed on state-of-the-art stuntwork & special effects.

Looks decent doesn't it ?

 

[4737carlin]

Moneyball

Clearly a good film and I did enjoy it. I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more though if it was about a sport I cared for or even understood. 6/10

I watched that season play out as back then Baseball was on Channel 5 twice a week, if you were really into it what happened was amazing, like a far fetched script that came true. Did you get onto the fella at the end being Liverpool's current owner?
Jonah Hill is brilliant in th film too.

 

[nsno-chris]

Dr Strange 2

It was boss and mental, Sam Raimi should have been given a bit more creative freedom though

NEA

 

[Daz1878]

Saw Vortex last night. It's very good. Certainly Gaspar Noé's tamest film, in a sense - I think it's the only film of his not to be rated 18 in the UK. Although there's nothing graphic in it, it's a tough watch, especially for anyone who has witnessed dementia or similar in a family member (I'm sure a couple of walkouts were on account of this). While it's very slow, he builds it up expertly into a real hammer blow. It will be compared to Amour, which I liked, but I feel as if this one is a bit more emotional in its approach. It's a tough sell, but is a proper slice of grown-up cinema.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Platoon. Had never seen it before. Very good film. 8/10. Thought Willem Dafoe was fantastic.

Going to give The Silencing a go tonight based on @COYBL25's recommendation above.

 

[COYBL25]

Platoon. Had never seen it before. Very good film. 8/10. Thought Willem Dafoe was fantastic.

Going to give The Silencing a go tonight based on @COYBL25's recommendation above.

It’s owes a lot to the excellent films of the same genre, Wind River and Winters Bone, but watches like a Scandi Noir, if that makes sense.

 

[d34noj]

The VVitch

Great film.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Forgotten 80s gem alert!!


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Set in LA - check.
Cop haunted by Vietnam - check
Drives a cool car - check
Likeable but green sidekick - check
Synth soundtrack - check
Implausible conspiracy - check
Sassy dialogue - check
Gratuitous nudity - check
Police chief obsessed with ass (they're 'chewin/all over/right up' my ass)

They don't make em like this anymore, with actual live helicopters flying under bridges, and explosions that rain down barbecue chicken, and cast credits like 'thug', 'man in beanie' and 'nudy lucy'.

Modern films are [Poor language removed].

Netflix. Get on it.

That's tonight sorted. Roy Scheider as well -get in.

 

[Rich1878]

Fire Starter

About a young girl with special powers , well.. she can set things on fire.

Wasn't too bad

 

[Acrobat]

Platoon. Had never seen it before. Very good film. 8/10. Thought Willem Dafoe was fantastic.

Going to give The Silencing a go tonight based on @COYBL25's recommendation above.

I watched it last night (also based on @COYBL25's recommendation). Its excellent.

 

[ste d' indica]

Fire Starter

About a young girl with special powers , well.. she can set things on fire.

Wasn't too bad

Honestly, Hollywood just glamorises everything. A young girl on our estate used to do that as well but they just locked her ass away.

 

[COYBL25]

I watched it last night (also based on @COYBL25's recommendation). Its excellent.

Some nifty little plot twists along the way too.

 

[SuperTimCahill]

I watched that season play out as back then Baseball was on Channel 5 twice a week, if you were really into it what happened was amazing, like a far fetched script that came true. Did you get onto the fella at the end being Liverpool's current owner?
Jonah Hill is brilliant in th film too.

The guy Pitt met from the Red Sox? I didn't realize at all! I'd probably've thrown something at the TV if I'd known tho, so it's for the better really.