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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.

Is it James Corden?

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


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Or Piers Morgan.

Both, ideally.

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

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

'Nuke the place from orbit - its the only way to be sure' - a wise person somewhere

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

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

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?

 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.

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

Copy pasting my review from the Superman thread cause I forgot there was a movie reviews thread
Full spoilers including the ending

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

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.)

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

 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.

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!

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

I don’t think so?

All the filth, and believe me there’s plenty filth? It’s inneuendo.

There are lasses running around in their skivvies, but nothing actually nude. Not so far as I can recall. Even in Carry On Camping, where I may be wrong, but it’s all hastily covered up.

Most of them appear on BBC channels during the daytime so there's zero actual nudity. Everything is "risky" and implied but nothing is ever shown.

That is unless there's an "uncut" version of them but I think not.

That’s probably why I never saw them.

At the very best, you might get the merest sliver of a glimpse at gassssssssp a ladies nipple.

Otherwise, as the good Judge Dread* once sang?

It’s all in the mind, it’s all in the mind, the rudeness is all in the mind.

And frankly? As much as I enjoy my many, many, formerly banned films? The world is all the better for innuendo. On account your critics must, de facto, admit to having a dirty mind,

*The regggae singer. Not the comic book character.

I love those films. I prefer Cleo or Khyber to Screaming, but it is also pretty good

They all appear to be U or PG rated, so actually very tame. But great puns all around, and Sid James' laugh should have its own 15 rating all of its own.

I remember watching them as a kid when Austrian TV showed them around noon. We found'em funny back then.

If it's nudity you're after, earlier today I watched a rather fun documentary about British sex comedies between the late 60s up to the mid-70s. It's called "Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy", apparently it originally is a 2-part Channel 4 production from 2024. French-German culture channel ARTE got it on their website right now with the original English audio. Obviously it features naked people, which is something to be aware of.

Hmmm... something I know nothing about.

You got me again, Northern France.

Civil War

I finally caught this on MAX and I don't know.

I feel like a lot of discussion I've previously been aware of about this movie, is just the purest copium. The studio trying to sell an idea of what this movie is supposed to be about but the movie doesn't remotely work the way they describe it. So I was very confused wondering how the feth this is supposed to be a movie about the importance of journalists.

The characters don't really act like journalists. Mostly they act like glory hounds, prima donas, adrenaline junkies, and appear to have no inquisitive interest at all. Not really. If this movie is supposed to be about journalists, I can only interpret it as a massive shot across the bow against modern media's obsession with exploiting violent events and fears around them to produce sensationalist gutter trash that preys on the American mind with its senseless lust for empty carnage. The journalists don't come out of this movie looking like they're important. They come out looking like they're useless in the face of true crisis and pretentious. This whole angle of trying to interpret the film makes no sense to me. Not the way I've come across it.

On the other angle, it's not a film that I think has much to say about America either. It doesn't speak to our times or moments. it seems so afraid of even broaching any contemporary political concepts it produces fictional landscape of aimless, senseless and uncontexted violence (that the journalists just don't inquire much into). Maybe there's something in there. Something about the American fetishization of domestic and civic violence and its randomness? I don't feel like crediting the film for it though cause it feels more like I'm trying to figure the movie out a hell of more than the movie is really trying to say anything.

It's a beautifully shot film. There's some scenes that are intense or utterly captivating (the 'what kind of American are you' scene everyone loves earns the love) but blarg. I think this movie pretends to have some kind of deep thing to say a hell of a lot more than it really has anything deep to say. My gut instinct is to mock it as an exploitative film capitalizing on the times and not really knowing what it's trying to say.

Certainly, most of what I've heard people say its trying to say doesn't work.

I agree with what you write aboute journalism as shown in Civil War. I feel like the movie does what it can to make the viewer dislike or even loathe the protagonists. They are self-important but ultimately useless. The movie is a solid punch in the gut itself, though.

***

Rebel Ridge – a very pleasant surprise from a film I didn't expect anything from. An intense modern take on the classic First Blood, with likable characters*, engaging dialogue, and thrilling action. What more could you want?

*-The main character is a stoic cyclist who enjoys heavy metal – how can one not like him?

Clockwise

1986 Comedy of Errors starring John Cleese as a strict headmaster, and his failing efforts to attend a conference.

You can’t go far wrong with John Cleese of course, and this is perfect Saturday afternoon easy viewing.

Though this is technically a You Couldn’t Make That These Days. Mostly because the prevalence of mobile phones would pretty much erase the first Error, and so mean the rest of the plot is just John Cleese riding the train to his destination.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Well, at least the ick is now justified!

They Live

Rowdy Roddy Piper’s finest moment, in a sci-fi classic from John Carpenter.

It….it puts me in mind of something…..

Also, just noticed that one of the Guard’s radio is in fact a PKE Meter from Ghostbusters. So that’s a nice observation to make, isn’t it?

It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.

I attempted to watch Star Trek Into Darkness last night.

To misquote Joan Rivers, some films age like fine wine, others age like milk.

I got a good 11 hours of sleep in last night. Thanks J.J. Abrams!

That really is the film that should have ended his career.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That really is the film that should have ended his career.

Nope, it unfortunately continued and allowed him to ruin more Star Wars too.

You have to admit that it is pretty impressive JJ was able to absolutely fracture not one but two of the most stalwart and reliable fan bases.