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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Phantoms (1998) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020  
Phantoms (1998)
Phantoms (1998)
1998 | Horror, Mystery
4
4.8 (10 Ratings)
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Peter O'Toole was the bomb in 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘴, yo. Features elements of a horror movie but fails to actually make a horror movie out of them - spends most of its runtime focusing on the bracing thrills of walking around slowly and looking at stuff, and the heart-clenching horrors of sitting in some lab talking about chemicals and stuff. Dean Koontz is the Dan Brown of horror, ineptly weaving together such laughably idiotic historical appeals (forced to be played straight) for people who don't know they aren't cultured and then doing nothing with them. Also Rose McGowan is either genuinely crap here or she just doesn't care. The sci-fi violence/gore is honestly quite vicious and damn cool for what this is, and there is a noticeable amount of enjoyable stupidity to be had (terrified Affleck pleading for his life to a golden retriever, O'Toole screaming about how some ancient extraterrestrial-demon shapeshifting oil killed the dinosaurs, etc) but it's too slapdash for its own good. Gets right into it then takes multiple breaks to sit on its ass, not awful but also not worth any sort of time, tbh. The Blob for those thirsty for cardboard vapidity. *Please* just watch 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 7𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 instead.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Enola Holmes (2020) in Movies

Sep 24, 2020  
Enola Holmes (2020)
Enola Holmes (2020)
2020 | Adventure, Crime, Drama
5
6.7 (25 Ratings)
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Lavish slab of Holmesian schlock, which managed to get Netflix sued by the Conan Doyle estate on the grounds that it depicts Sherlock Holmes having emotions: frankly, this is the least of the film's divergences from the canon. The great detective's slightly manic younger sister is home-schooled by her mother, and then goes off to London when said matriarch vanishes on her sixteenth birthday.

Doesn't really bear much resemblance to the original canon, nor to the realities of Victorian London or much else, really: there isn't a great deal of detecting going on, but there is a lot of earnest messaging about finding your own path and giving the patriarchy a good kicking. Has clearly had some money spent on it; Brown has a certain presence and Cavill, while arguably miscast, is less problematic than you might expect. For a film which appears to be aimed at a fairly young audience there are some moments of surprisingly nasty violence, but on the whole it's fairly inoffensive. I imagine members of the target audience will probably enjoy it a lot more than me; I think I'll be sticking with Young Sherlock Holmes when I'm in the mood for this sort of thing.
  
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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Deadpool 2 (2018) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019  
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
2018 | Action, Comedy
10
8.5 (282 Ratings)
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I'll refrain from gushing, but needless to say, this movie was wonderfully entertaining mindless violence. Just what I look for in a film. I'm still cheesed off that there wasn't a midnight screening, but it was a wonderful showing with loads of us packed in to see it. There's no denying that a packed house makes for a better experience. We were all laughing and cringing together, such fun.

As you can see just a little further down the screen, I saw this another two times, and I'm still not convinced that I saw all the little nods to other things. Top tip for the DVD commentary... one with actual commentary, and one with Peter just telling you what all the little things were.

Speaking of Peter, he is definitely one of my top five things about DP2. He's magnificent, and I genuinely panicked when bad things started happening to X-Force... and damn the script writers for lulling me into a false sense of security.

Bit of a spoiler alert here if you haven't seen it... I love the credit scene... but who in their right mind would give Deadpool a time travel device?! What about that seemed sensible to you, Negasonic Teenage Warhead? WHAT?
  
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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019  
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
2018 | Crime, Thriller
6
7.1 (18 Ratings)
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So... I'm beginning to think that if I haven't heard of a film franchise then I probably shouldn't worry about catching up with the previous ones. We had an Unlimited screening of this one and I've left it off my listing because I walked out 15 minutes into the movie. This is nothing on the quality of the film. There are three reasons that contributed to me leaving: the start of the showing wasn't until 8.15pm, there were excessive trailers/ads, and I disliked the first one so much that in my mind I already hated the second.

I knew I'd give it another go, and this second time was much more successful. (It didn't hurt that the seats were much more comfortable than the ones in Bristol.)

I'm not sure that there's much to say about it though. I mainly gave it three stars because I enjoy some mindless violence in my movies and Benico Del Toro is able to perform it perfectly. In all honesty it should probably get two stars. I didn't feel like there was much of note in the storyline, and nothing really seems like it gets resolved as such. And the ending... I will not be watching a third.