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The Gorge (2025)

A sniper dude and a sniper dudette are hired to watch over their respective sides of a gorge-shaped hole in the ground. Because something lives in the gorge-shaped hole that everyone would rather just stayed in there. Since it's no fun watching two guys bum around waiting for their shift to end, gorge-shaped hole related stuff happens.

It's a fun movie with gorge-ous visuals. Worth a look in my opinion.

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Is it James Corden?

I feel that should really be James Corden down the hole.


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Or Piers Morgan.

Both, ideally.

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Piers Morgan, James Corden, and Jared Leto walk into a pub......

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Mad Doc Grotsnik uses some truly choice language, and leaves the pub.

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'Nuke the place from orbit - its the only way to be sure' - a wise person somewhere
   
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I have yet to encounter a problem to which that is not an adequate solution.

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Thunderbolts*

Can a gaggle of loners with dodgy pasts save the world?

Liked this one more than I thought I would, it's not an action-packed spectacle, more a subdued, almost grounded character study. But it worked surprisingly well (For me at least) and made a welcome change to the usual Marvel formula, pity it didn't do too well box office-wise.

My only real niggles were
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Taskmaster being pretty unceremoniously killed off. I know she was a very controversial take on the character, but it still felt like a waste. And after all the little teases and build up, that's it for Val? Really thought they had more planned for her.


Thought I was finally all caught up on my MCU stuff, for at least a couple of days, but I forgot about Ironheart, I'm always going to be a bit behind aren't I?
   
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On the Surface of the Sun aka Florida in the Summer.

 Geifer wrote:
I have yet to encounter a problem to which that is not an adequate solution.


There are a few problems that doesn't work to well.

Building LEGOS without instructions

Fixing Dinner for family/friends

Trying to figure out where MDG lives so I can mail him Jared Leto and/or Jack Whitehall DVDs.


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If you find that nuking from orbit doesn't achieve the desired effect, you're not using enough nukes. That's a you problem.

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Copy pasting my review from the Superman thread cause I forgot there was a movie reviews thread
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I really liked Superman in this movie, no drawn out origin story, with the few parts in it being explained quickly enough like the home message. Superman really felt like a good person who fights to save even squirrels, and fights to stop death regardless of the condemnation by political actors.i loved the interview between him and Lois lane, I think it really gets across who he is as a person to even those seeing Superman for the first time, as I saw with some kids in the theater. Him being such a paragon I feel is part of his draw, how he’s an ideal. I guess it’s just nice to have a genuinely good person trying to do the right thing because they feel it’s right, instead of the usual brooding and suffering kind of thing.

Krypto did feel like he broke the tension too much, but I get people like silly dogs. Was cool to see Mr terrific, since I didn’t know much about him before but he got some really cool scenes I enjoyed. Lex Luther was a mega hater, which was pretty fun to watch. I do wish the ending with Superman had him helping the people instead of fighting evil Superman, since it felt like the movie wanted Superman to be the paragon fighting for the people while the justice gang works on the more unsubtle beat stick villains, and it would make sense and make the justice gang seem actually strong by proving they can take on lex’s trained evil Superman themselves while Superman fights for the people and downtrodden. Would have been easy to show how lex focused so hard on only fighting Superman, he failed to even consider the friends he has. Then again, it did show how the justice gang took up the values that Superman had of protecting the weak, which I think was a nice sort of character growth.


Uh I give the film a good out of 10, I liked it.

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SoCal

We wanted to watch the Mac and Me MST3k, but it’s not available off of Netflix, not even to rent, so…

Mac and Me

Paul Rudd’s favorite movie.


This would have been a forgettable mediocre-to-fine ET ripoff movie if not for one thing: the nightmare fuel aliens. Mac is almost cute when he isn’t twitchy and creepy. Occasionally his eyes do that freaky Mad God insanity roll. The adults move like demented mimes with dead eyes and dead flesh. They are hilariously off-putting. We were laughing a lot.

Watch it for the scene where the kid in the wheelchair rolls off a cliff. Keep watching it for the ending where the police shoot wheelchair kid dead and blow up a strip mall, engulfing the Mac family in flames. (Yes, this actually happens.)

   
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And don’t forgot the impromptu McDonald’s song and dance number!

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
And don’t forgot the impromptu McDonald’s song and dance number!


And the breakdancing in the McDonald’s parking lot.

If anything, that bear costume made him even creepier, because all you could see of him were his distended, inhuman eyes. Again, I am reminded of Phil Tippett’s most unhinged work.

   
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But, genuine props for casting a disabled actor in a disabled role.

It ain’t much in the grand scheme of a dreadful movie, but credit where it is due.


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Carry On Screaming

For me? The absolute height, pinnacle and indeed zenith of the long running British Comedy Farce series.

The films are universally made on the cheap, with a semi-regular cast playing new roles. The humour is bawdy, and by modern standards crude, sexist and at time racist. And so the entire series is very much Of Its Time.

In some defence? It was never nasty about it. Just comparatively unthinking.

But Screaming? Absolute perfection. It’s sending up the Hammer, Tigon and Amicus movies, and does so with wit and aplomb. Possibly long running cast member Kenneth Williams’ finest moment.

Also, Phenella Fielding in this film did strange things to me as a kid, and still does strange things to me.

FRRRRRYING, TONIGHT!

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The Carry On series sounds like something I might have watched as a tween if it could correctly answer the Patrick Stewart Movie Question.


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”Yes, but is there any nudity in it?”

   
 
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