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Lightyear - Weird one this from Pixar. It all feels a bit rushed in the most part, but more than that, our main protagonist is just a bit of a non entity. I appreciate that the original Woody and Buzz and a hard act to follow, but characters are where Pixar normally excel themselves. Bit of a missed opportunity this one.

2.5 pieces of confetti out of 5.

Mooncrash - Bang average B movie that is ever so slightly better than most bang average B movies. Essentially a remake of Armageddon. S to the werve.

1 stolen plot device out of 5.

Old School. Aged terribly, wasn’t even funny anymore, apart from Will Ferrel.

Edge of Tomorrow. Tom Cruise is a complete psycho, but if he’s in a movie it’s usually at least entertaining. I love this and Oblivion (that movie gets a lot of help from the M83-soundtrack though), the two are IMO the best alien invasion movies of the past 10 years. Emily Blunt in the movie doesn’t hurt either.

    Homegrove and Oblivion

    I have watched both of those films a fair few times. More than I expected. Oblivion gets a watch partly for the ending SPOILER ALERT which is le grand fromage when he says Fuck you Sally! Serious cringe/wtf/so bad it’s good moment

      Maverick - first trip to the cinema for ages. Some fucking little shit kick my seat and rustling for the whole film really did his utter best to ruin the experience. I had the fear for the first 45 minutes - it was fucking excruciating to watch, but then it just got good and fun and I found myself genuinely just enjoying the film. Stupid as it was. 7.5/10. My missus cried three times.

      The Green Knight. It was like some art student was given millions to make a medieval movie. Dev Patel and scenery was amazing, the movie most certainly was not.

        Homegrove Have a look on youtube for a video on how it’s a deconstruction of the hero’s journey - it’s really illuminating as to what the director was going for and made me appreciate it more. I’ll see if I can dig it out.

            Homegrove EOT is great. Oblivion is good but seems to chuck every single sci fi trope into one movie. The last 15 mins or so with the mothership in space (been a while since I watched it but that’s what I recall) - really could have done without that.

                McEnroe…. Documentary about the tennis player…. Started off focussing on his perfectionism, on his winning being the only thing that mattered to him… but moved in a wtf am I doing with my life direction. Reminded me of Asif Kapadia’s documentaries, although here McConroe is alive (Kapadia’s subjects were all dead).. and like Kapadia’s Senna and formula 1 focus, I’m no great (formula 1) tennis fan… but it didn’t matter - this is just a great documentary that everyone should watch…8/10

                  Jules72 Big fan of him….I’ll take a look. I saw him play in the flesh when he was long retired and he still made some of the top 20 players look average.

                    Promising Young Woman: Missus immediately did a pay to watch on Amazon after the trailer showed up. Tbh, I was intrigued as well. I wish it was more surreal, and less straight forward. It needed more American Pyscho and less melodrama. The ending is wild and there is a wtf pay off, kinda. Definitely an uncomfortable watch which makes it worth the time. 5.9 / 10

                    Homegrove Agreed. Think it may be better if you know the story/poem beforehand, but so many dead end/unexplained wtf stuff in there.

                      Wally The last 15 mins or so with the mothership in space (been a while since I watched it but that’s what I recall) - really could have done without that.

                      Fuck you, Wally!

                          BlainSA What? It’s been out 9 years. I think it’s past spoilers territory.

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                          Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action-adventure film co-produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski, and produced by Peter Chernin with screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in supporting roles. Oblivion, based on Kosinski’s unpublished graphic novel of the same name,[5][6][7] pays homage to 1970s science fiction, namely Ray Bradbury’s novel The Martian Chronicles.[8]

                              Wally it was a referance to Cruise’s line “Fuck you Sally!” at the end of the movie Wally.

                                Oh. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. <shrug>