What movie did you just watch, and how was it? (expect some spoilers but try not to post any!)

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#3444506 16-Dec-2025 10:52

Tinsel Town. A completely different role for Kiefer Sutherland. And a non-traditional Christmas story. Still, some wooden acting and the redemption was too quick to be true (well, it's a Christmas movie). Give it a 5/10.

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#3444516 16-Dec-2025 11:20

Speaking of excellent Christmas movies, I am queuing up a couple for this season:

Fatman - starring Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins. Thoroughly Enjoyable.
- Fatman is a 2020 American black comedy action film written and directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms, and starring Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.[4][5] The film is an unorthodox slant on holiday traditions that follows a jaded, gritty Santa Claus who struggles with ennui, production issues, government interference, and an embittered assassin sent by a vengeful naughty kid

Violent Night - starring David Harbour and John Leguizamo - also a thoroughly enjoyable bloodbath.
- Violent Night is a 2022 American Christmas action comedy film starring David Harbour as Santa Claus, depicted as an immortal Viking warrior who has since become the familiar Christmas figure, as he fights mercenaries who have taken a wealthy family hostage in their home. The film was directed by Tommy Wirkola and written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. The film also stars John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, and Beverly D'Angelo.

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#3444533 16-Dec-2025 12:41

Thanks for the title (Violent Night), I remembered the film but couldn't remember the title. We watched it last year as our compulsory family Christmas movie night, thoroughly enjoyed it, a R18 version of home alone almost

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#3444565 16-Dec-2025 14:14

I've also watched the latest instalment of the Knives Out franchise on Netflix:

Wake Up Dead Man

Starring (of course) Daniel Craig as Benoir Blanc, the famous detective.

This one has a very different feel to it than the others and is (in my opinion) a little less enjoyable for it.

It's still a very good movie, but it's lost a bit of the campiness that the others had.

Co-stars include: Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Mila Kunis and Jeremy Renner amongst others.

An excellent cast, well acted and wonderfully filmed. It's just not quite Knives Out or Glass Onion.

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#3444597 16-Dec-2025 16:01

sen8or:

Thanks for the title (Violent Night), I remembered the film but couldn't remember the title. We watched it last year as our compulsory family Christmas movie night, thoroughly enjoyed it, a R18 version of home alone almost

I remember feeling like there must have been a lot cut from the final product. There were little snippets of a potentially interesting origin story, but it seemed like they cut most of it out and what was left didn't tell you much about the character.

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#3446454 22-Dec-2025 16:24

Saw a great movie last night starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler and a massive cast of additional characters, made up of too many decent level stars to name. Cameos galore.

Jay Kelly on Netflix

IMDB says: Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting his past and present with his devoted manager Ron. Poignant and humor-filled, pitched at the intersection of regrets and glories.

It's a really interesting introspective look at a big, famous, almost super-human figure from the movies who ultimately starts to regret some his life choices and look at the way he's lived his life to make his fame and fortune, while he travels across Europe with his entourage. I almost wonder at times if it's slightly based on Clooney's real-life experiences.

Sandler plays it straight as a frazzled, overworked and overburdened manager, who is more babysitter than business man.

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#3446463 22-Dec-2025 17:32

Silent Night, Deadly Night (Original) 5/10

Wanted to watch the new one but couldn't find it on a streaming platform, so re watched the original and I forgot how gory this was and the extended titty shots, you can tell it's very 80's. Very surprised they went on to make 5 of these!

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#3448862 2-Jan-2026 08:42

Went to see Nuremberg at a theatre. A family member had been and was raving about it. Thought it was good - but not great. Thought Russell Crowe was great but Remi Malik was totally miscast - not a good performance from him IMO. As much as I like his acting he seemed like a square peg in a round hole here.

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#3449743 4-Jan-2026 21:50

Weapons
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26581740
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"When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance"

I'd give it a solid 10/10 .
Really well acted . Gets really fast paced near the end , pretty intense , not predictable.
The first part mainly follows one person and how the missing kids affects her . The 2nd half it ramps up , takes a turn & becomes creepy & fast paced .

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#3449838 5-Jan-2026 09:41

F1 (Apple) - 8.5/10

Watched this on New Year's Day, having had it on my list for a while. It was really good. There are more than a few parallels with Days of Thunder. Curiously, it's directed by Joseph Kosinski, who directed Top Gun: Maverick, which was a sequel to Top Gun, which was followed by Days of Thunder and considered by some to be an (inferior) Top Gun on four wheels. Dubious connections aside, there's more than a hint of the same cinematography that we saw in Top Gun: Maverick, and that's a good thing IMO. It looks fantastic.

The key players are all well presented. Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, an ex-F1 driver who lost his seat due to an accident, and has since been making do racing in any format that will have him. Pitt is, as always, very watchable. Javier Bardem plays his friend who now runs a F1 team that is yet to rack up a win with their rookie driver, and brings in Hayes to shake things up. Cue clashes between "old" and "new" styles, thinking, etc. It's not an original plot device, but it works.

I know next to nothing about F1 racing, but I found it really enjoyable. The pace of the film - despite a bloated run time of 2h40m - is pretty good, and I never felt like things were dragging. My only real complaint, which cost the film half a point in my review, was the annoying and completely unnecessary commentary during the races. It was someone doing an impression of a car race commentator, but they were really just a shouty narrator for those in the audience too thick or too distracted to be paying attention to whatever was happening on the screen. For example: "OH NO, HAYES HAS COMPLETELY FAILED TO START HIS CAR. IF HE CAN'T GET IT STARTED SOON HE'LL BE OUT OF THE RACE FOR GOOD! THIS IS A DISASTER FOR APEX RACING!!!" I get that they're trying to recreate the feel of a race, and often commentators make stupid and unnecessary comments. But it felt like they ran it past a test audience and some morons were unable to follow what was happening on screen, so they added a shouty commentator to hold the hands of anyone who doesn't have an attention span greater than a mayfly. It really did ruin the immersion for me.

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#3449845 5-Jan-2026 09:55

Lizard1977:

My only real complaint, which cost the film half a point in my review, was the annoying and completely unnecessary commentary during the races. It was someone doing an impression of a car race commentator, but they were really just a shouty narrator for those in the audience too thick or too distracted to be paying attention to whatever was happening on the screen. For example: "OH NO, HAYES HAS COMPLETELY FAILED TO START HIS CAR. IF HE CAN'T GET IT STARTED SOON HE'LL BE OUT OF THE RACE FOR GOOD! THIS IS A DISASTER FOR APEX RACING!!!" I get that they're trying to recreate the feel of a race, and often commentators make stupid and unnecessary comments. But it felt like they ran it past a test audience and some morons were unable to follow what was happening on screen, so they added a shouty commentator to hold the hands of anyone who doesn't have an attention span greater than a mayfly. It really did ruin the immersion for me.

FYI those commentators in the movie were actually the real Sky Sports commentators for F1 - Crofty and Martin Brundle. That's how they sound, but yeah it was dumbed down a bit.

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#3449849 5-Jan-2026 10:03

I read an article where the author mentioned movies now are certainly not like the movies in the 60s/70s because people share their time between the screen and a phone, mainly the streaming audiences (although I did see an idiot with a phone on during a cinema screening), so they have to describe stuff that's obvious to anyone that actually pay attention.

The enshitification of entertainment continues.

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#3449851 5-Jan-2026 10:08

I observed someone on their phone while they were using the urinal in a public toilet. They couldn't put it down for the 10-15s it takes to take a piss. Society is doomed.

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#3449858 5-Jan-2026 10:18

Someone was watching me in the public toilet while I was journalling my kidney disease symptoms as requested by my specialist. Society is doomed.

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#3449861 5-Jan-2026 10:23

tim360:

I observed someone on their phone while they were using the urinal in a public toilet. They couldn't put it down for the 10-15s it takes to take a piss. Society is doomed.

Yukiddy Yuk - don't touch his phone as I know a large proportion, all age groups, do not wash their hands or properly dry them after 1's or 2's (shudder).

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