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21 Bridges (2019, Amazon Prime)

Chadwick Bozeman and Sienna Miller hunt some cop-killing ne’er do-wells.

I struggle with Sienna Miller at the best of times but with that accent? Ugh.

The first half of this was alright actually but then it goes downhill fast.

4/10

    Angel Heart (1987)

    Whew lordy has that not aged well. Lisa Bonet looks beautiful ’cause she always looks beautiful. But in this she looks beautiful…FOR LIKE A 15 YEAR OLD. Her going at it with a 48 year old-looking Mickey Rourke is a tough watch. A really tough watch. The movie is also impossibly stupid and Robert Deniro’s fingernails are dumb.

    2/10

    Extraction (2020, Netflix)

    Chris Hemsworth plays white saviour and shoots loads of brown guys, but it’s cool because he’s doing it to protect a brown kid, right?

    I actually don’t mind a bit of ol’ Hemsy and I didn’t mind a bit of this either. Some pretty tight mindless nonsense. Good use of setting. Felt like a game of COD.

    7/10

    Sideways….enjoyable low key comedy about two male friends on a wine tour of California before one of them gets married. Nothing mind blowing but worth watching. 7.5/10

      Watched Pacific Rim again the other night. 8.5/10. I love action films, and this one has monsters AND robots! It makes my geek heart happy.

      The Wraith. Terrible mid 80s action click with Charlie Sheen……and Sherilyn Fenn, so not all bad. Hilariously bad hair metal soundtrack.

      C_J Like your new addition of where / how you watched the film CJ - very handy

        One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

        Brilliant. Read the book when I was a kid as part of my GCSE English, and it started me out reading counter culture literature, but had never seen the movie. 10 crazy horses out of 10.

          vinnyt77 never seen it? Wow…one of my favourite films of all time. Fucking brilliant.

              Millsy lol! Just gonna watch this Nazi film and eat this packet of Frazzles if it’s alright with you? Shalom. holds out hand for a fist bump

              It was a Saturday as well. The utter bastard

                Millsy I know, right? I’m an idiot…

                I think I had that dumb “the book was brilliant and therefore must be better than the movie” mentality.

                Twat.

                Nicholson is incredible in it.

                    vinnyt77

                    Him doing that and Chinatown in back to back years is like repeating in the Super Bowl.

                      Homegrove

                      Was about 4 or 5 years later. But still. Insane run by Jack.

                      Gotta say, ’though, my fav Jack character might be….

                      Is in it for, what, 20 minutes? And crushes every scene. He’s Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. Lector steals the show, but he doesn’t actually get that much screen time. Same with Colonel Nathan R. Jessup.

                        He actually also did both takes, even when the camera was on Cruise, because he said you don’t get material like this too often, and he just loves acting.

                          Homegrove and he just loves acting.

                          It’s not a proper job though is it.

                          Though do agree he’s pretty damn good at it

                            Would like to see Jack at the coalface of business transformation.

                            The Shining is poor, but I’m biased as I find horror a bit dull and I was also annoyed that it didn’t follow the book very well at all (I loved the book when I was a kid).

                            I’d add As Good as it Gets and About Schmidt to the list of great films of his. Chinatown and One Flew Overt he Cuckoos Nest are easily his best mind and two of the best films ever made.

                            I watched The Pledge again the other day and he’s excellent in that too.