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The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History

Jon Morris

8.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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A fun, funny, and affectionate look at the strangest superheroes to ever appear in comics, some so...

Kieran Harvey (51 KP) rated Baby Driver (2017) in Movies

Jul 16, 2017

Baby Driver (2017)

2017 | Action, Comedy

8.2

(159 Ratings)

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Whole cast is great

Funny

Action packed

Original

Re watchable

Anyone can enjoy it

Flawless movie

Baby Driver is everything I want in a movie. A movie set to music is literally what I dream of because we only ever see it in trailers but never in movies, for example the Suicide Squad trailer used Bohemian Rapsody very well but the actual film was awful. This movie however lived up to the hype of the trailers and delivered more than anyone could have asked for.
It's not very often that a film hooks you right from the offset and doesn't let up the entire time but this film does. In my opinion it features some of the best directing, best editing and best use of soundtrack ever in film history. I'd be very surprised if it doesn't get some awards buzz because it truly deserves it. There is very little wrong with this movie because it's just amazing. Really really amazing and if you don't want to go see it again immediately after coming out of the screening, there's something wrong with you.
Go see it for a guaranteed good time and you'll have the soundtrack stuck in your head for a long time !

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Madbatdan82 (341 KP) rated The Predator (2018) in Movies

Mar 24, 2019

The Predator (2018)

2018 | Action, Horror

6.1

(47 Ratings)

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Some action and the comedy (0 more)

The tone, the storyline, the ending...lots!! (0 more)

What da the hell are you??

This movie is a mess! It doesn't know what it is which is unfortunate as it could have been really good - if it wasn't a predator film!!...let's start with what's good. It looks excellent and the action sequences are done well. The acting and comedy are also good BUT there in lies its downfall. This film is a comedy at heart and genuinely made me laugh a few times but the tone is wrong. This is a predator film! It's about massive alien hunters coming to kill us not ridiculous 'predator dogs' and 'your mumma' jokes. Now yes the original had the occasional 'pussy' joke BUT that was rare and was to show the connection between this 'family' of soldiers which then makes their eventual deaths more impactful. Here the jokes don't let up and what's annoying is (as I said) they're quite funny they just doesn't suit the tone of whst this film should be AND what a predator film should be. Finally this film has one of the worst final scenes and finally dialogue lines in cinema history - just awful!! Watch this for for a few laughs but DO NOT expect a predator film.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Dunkirk (2017) in Movies

Feb 10, 2018 (Updated Feb 10, 2018)

Dunkirk (2017)

2017 | Action, History, War

8.0

(197 Ratings)

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Life's a Beach

I'm fully aware I'm swimming against the tide on this one, but I didn't really understand the rapturous reception Dunkirk got from most people. Yup, well-made; yup, well-acted; yup, a highly significant moment in history - but I found the actual story to be rather thin, and - apart from all the funny business with the chronology - it is wholly lacking in the usual imagination and ambition you'd expect from a Christopher Nolan film.

Apparently Nolan wrote the script over twenty years ago and said to his wife 'I must now become a hugely successful director of blockbusters, as this will give me the experience I need to make this film' - well, for me this does almost feel like retrograde step from the man responsible for Interstellar, Inception, and the Batman trilogy. Then again, those are all SF and fantasy movies, and he's never going to win the Oscar he deserves if he carries on doing that sort of thing.

I expect I would have been impressed by this film if it had been made by anyone else, or if I wasn't so familiar with Nolan's other work. As it is, this is the only Nolan movie in over a decade I can't see myself owning on DVD.