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Pelé doco on Netflix. Would have liked to have seen a bit more about him at Santos and Cosmos and his personal life, but interesting to see the back drop to his world cup appearances. The footage from Mexico 70 is gorgeous, I love seeing footy shot and edited by a cinematic director.

Four CIA backed dictatorships out of five.

City of God. Wonderful re-watch. Absolute stone-cold classic, if you’ve not seen it, sort yourself out. 10/10

    Over the weekend showcased to the kids Trainspotting and French Connection. Talk about living the cinematic dream.

    The Matrix… is this held up as a classic of some sort? If so, why? It’s bloody dreadful - wooden acting and a continuous stream of cheesy lines. The effects are looking very outdated too. 5/10

      Jules72 It was brilliant at the time. If you want to see something truly awful, watch the two sequels - absolute fucking tripe

      Jules72 it drastically changed the game. Wooden acting and cheesy lines are just par the course in blockbuster sci fi.

      Introduced my 13 year old son to The Matrix recently and he loved it. I didn’t mention there were any sequels, obviously. I’m trying to get him to appreciate films that don’t exist in the MCU

        Millsy Scum’s a good one too Millsy. That’ll help the lad stay on the straight and narrow.

        Where’s your fuckin tool?

        Cracking film

        Saint Maud is possibly the biggest steaming turd that i have watched in a long time. gutted that i paid £4.49 to watch it on amazon rather than an illegal stream. paying for it was the only reason it stayed on as long as it did 0.5/10

          Ha semi enjoyed Maud…. Oh well different strokes for different folks

          I liked it. Thought it was massively overpraised though.

          Homegrove

          Critics also hated Armageddon, which is the greatest documentary of all time, so I don’t trust their words anymore.

          Along_the_Wire i have only ever shouted at the tv during sporting events (i am spurs fan so pretty frequently). however my wife even heard me in the other room telling the tv to fuck off when the beach scene at the end started

          Good to see that 75% of nominations for a BAFTA this year are from under-represented communities.

            jonattonyeah He Got Game is pretty good considering one of the main stars had zero acting experience. But I’ll never get passed the idea that a high school student and his little sister would be living alone in a apartment. They’d be in foster care. Pull it together, Spike.

            Best thing about He Got Game was the Public Enemy soundtrack.

            The last decent album they put out. An absolute banger, in fact.

            4 days later

            Where Eagles Dare. A proper dad-movie. There’s a shit load of stunts that in 1968 must’ve been really expensive in this movie. And it’s also held up really well, aside from a few cars exploding for no reason aside.

              Homegrove Probably my fave war film by some distance. Mad plot, amazing setting, everyone is boss in it, great sound track too.

              Margin call - bold move trying to make a film that humanises the traders behind the 2008 crash. Found it pretty unrealistic and it didn’t really have much to say. Great cast (if you can ignore Spacey’s misdeeds) but that’s about it. 6/10

                Wally
                Started watching it last night but crashed out just before they could see what was going to happen.

                alistair Still hot AF - should have just stuck the camera on her for 90 mins instead. Way more interesting that the film

                  Wally Disclosure..How could any otherwise happily married man resist the onslaught? Pure fire and flith

                  Homegrove Love the ending where (on board the plane) Burton informs him that he’s removed the firing pin from the machine gun.

                  Gotcha!

                  Iron Man 2. One of my least favorite movies in the MCU, though it has it’s perks. The bad guys. Mickey Rourke is great, and Sam Rockwell can play such a great asshole. Noticed a great character detail, Justin Hammer was spray tanned.

                  Man of Steel. This Snyder-verse rewatch is a really bad idea. Knowing it just gets worse from this, and this was pretty bad. The amount of destruction in the end fight is just stupidly OTT.

                  Judas and the Black Messiah… 16 gbp on Amazon prime for a 48 hour rental (😳)… a decent enough film… sort of Blackkklansman without the funny bits. There is little doubt it’s about a disgraceful abuse of police power, but I’m not sure I’m going to remember much about it in a year’s time. I do hope Kermode’s podcast is wrong that this is going to be one of the year’s film highlights. 6.5 out of 10.

                    SM001 yeah their argument would be that’s what a cinema ticket costs I guess

                      Jules72 Good Jaysus. That’s scandalous. 😅 There’s no justifying that price.