Time lapse is another B movie that ventures into time and seeing into the future. Because it can be quite a complicated subject it is difficult to get right and in my opinion they failed big time with this one. The nonsensical story revolves around three young people who find a dead neighbour and his machine that takes photographs of pictures 24 hours before the scene happens . Johnny Jackson lookalike ( George Finn) stars alongside Matt O'Leary and Danielle Panabaker , all three play annoying characters and i realised halfway through i couldn't care less what happened to them. This was released straight to DVD for a very good reason. It's rubbish.
So.. Terminator: Genisys. Forgive me, this is going to be a bit ranty.
Where to start...
The tone of T3 was all mixed up. Comedy beats and such. T4 was serious, but without a heart. I was hoping for the seriousness of 4, with the quality of 2.
The tone of this one.... is best summed up by a scene about 60 minutes in. Arnie and the gang are with the cops and they get their criminal mugshots taken.... to the tune of "bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do..."
It's a cynical reboot that somehow manages to be a love letter to the first movie, while managing to piss all over it with a grin and a fistful of cash. It's cynical. It's studio filmmaking at its very worst.
The plot is mental. Totally stupid. It's so bad most of the characters spend the duration explaining the events to each other (and us).
The casting is atrocious. She's a TV actress, nothing more. Jai Courtney truly is the most vacuous leading man currently available (along with Sam Worthington, funnily enough). Jason Clarke is more interesting, but largely delivers moronic one-liners. Arnie is utterly embarrassing.
There are some half-interesting action sequences, but for the most part there's no tension. You don't expect anyone to actually get hurt. If a Terminator attacks someone, one of four things are going to happen; 1) The character finds a random gun on the floor 2) Someone comes in from off-screen and shoots it, 3) the terminator gets hit by a long metal pole 4) A giant magnet gets switched on.
So assuming any one of those things will happen will remove all tension. The one thing the Terminator cannot do: Kill anybody. Anybody at all.
Structurally it's all over the place. Halfway through the movie, there isn't a Terminator to escape from. There's a social media undercurrent that's cringe inducing. Skynet is going to kill us when it takes over our iPads.
The line "I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do," from T2 partly sums up why this film is so bad; Arnie wants to cry in it. He doesn't want to be a machine, he wants to give it subtle comedy or feeling. They basically ignore the fact that he's a robot when it suits. It's fan fiction. It's like a Terminator sequel written by 14 year olds. I honestly believe we could have written a better plot on this thread between us.
If I hadn't seen Jupiter Ascending on Monday, then T5 would be the worst big-budget Hollywood film I'd seen this century. But as I paid for my ticket for a change, I chose to not walk out. But that mugshot scene...
That is disappointing to hear. T2 is one of my favourite films, but I didn't make it past the first 20 mins of T3 and didn't even make an attempt at T4. Sounds like I should give this one a miss too.
I don't usually catch up on new releases until they've been out a couple of years, but a few films I watched recently on Netflix are Walk Among the Tombstones which was nothing spectacular but I still enjoyed it had a bit more about it than your average action thriller, Nightcrawler and Take Shelter which were both really excellent .
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
Nightcrawler was in my top 3 of last year. How that film didn't get many nominations during award season is puzzling
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
I absolutely loved Nightcrawler. People were comparing it with Gone Girl because of the similar creepiness the leading characters have but I like Nightcrawler much more. I think Jake Gyllenhaal's been very good at picking quality films and roles, especially in the past ten years. I don't particularly follow his career but I've watched many of his films, from Brokeback Mountain to last year's Nightcrawler, most of which are very good ones. I look forward to seeing Southpaw, too.
Nightcrawler Enemy (yet to watch) Prisoners End of Watch Source Code Love & Other Drugs (not very good but okay) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (I haven't seen this one, not my cup of tea) Brothers Rendition Zodiac Jarhead (yet to watch) Proof Brokeback Mountain
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
Nightcrawler was in my top 3 of last year. How that film didn't get many nominations during award season is puzzling
I think it was a lack of marketing. I don't think the studio got behind it. Winning awards is as much about a studio getting it in the faces of the voters as it is being any good. It's why Harvey Weinstein movies win so much. He knows how to produce a film and make it look like it HAS to win awards (Imitation Game, The Artist, King's Speech...)
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
I absolutely loved Nightcrawler. People were comparing it with Gone Girl because of the similar creepiness the leading characters have but I like Nightcrawler much more. I think Jake Gyllenhaal's been very good at picking quality films and roles, especially in the past ten years. I don't particularly follow his career but I've watched many of his films, from Brokeback Mountain to last year's Nightcrawler, most of which are very good ones. I look forward to seeing Southpaw, too.
Nightcrawler Enemy (yet to watch) Prisoners End of Watch Source Code Love & Other Drugs (not very good but okay) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (I haven't seen this one, not my cup of tea) Brothers Rendition Zodiac Jarhead (yet to watch) Proof Brokeback Mountain
1999's October Sky is also a great film.
Enemy is much stranger than I expected after Prisoners. Plus I'm hugely arachnophobic which was an issue. I also like Prince of Persia and don't entirely understand why it gets slagged off. The rest of those are all 4 star movies at least though. Except maybe Love and other Drugs, but at least that movie has a heart and deals with some serious themes.
Jessie, I imagine you must have seen it, but Donnie Darko is one of my favourite films missing from your list.
Ah yes I watched it many years ago. Strangely I can't remember what it was about except it was a little creepy. Maybe I was too young to understand it....
Both Nightcrawler and Take Shelter are really engaging watches. I do think Gyllenhaal is fantastic. I hear his new film - Southpaw - is really good.
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
I absolutely loved Nightcrawler. People were comparing it with Gone Girl because of the similar creepiness the leading characters have but I like Nightcrawler much more. I think Jake Gyllenhaal's been very good at picking quality films and roles, especially in the past ten years. I don't particularly follow his career but I've watched many of his films, from Brokeback Mountain to last year's Nightcrawler, most of which are very good ones. I look forward to seeing Southpaw, too.
Nightcrawler Enemy (yet to watch) Prisoners End of Watch Source Code Love & Other Drugs (not very good but okay) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (I haven't seen this one, not my cup of tea) Brothers Rendition Zodiac Jarhead (yet to watch) Proof Brokeback Mountain
1999's October Sky is also a great film.
Enemy is much stranger than I expected after Prisoners. Plus I'm hugely arachnophobic which was an issue. I also like Prince of Persia and don't entirely understand why it gets slagged off. The rest of those are all 4 star movies at least though. Except maybe Love and other Drugs, but at least that movie has a heart and deals with some serious themes.
When I first saw the trailer for Enemy, I thought it was intriguing and wanted to watch it someday. Now that you mentioned arachnophobia.... I probably have to reconsider if I want to watch it or not because I'm scared of all kinds of insects...
It's just spiders. It opens with a tarantula and occasionally you see the odd flash of spider. I think it represents the character's fear or something. The giant, room-sized variety was a bit much for me.
I too am looking forward to Southpaw. Kurt Sutter wrote it (also created Sons of Anarchy) so expected it to be very bloody and violent. Interesting that Eminem was due to play the lead originally.
Jurassic World - I haven't seen any of the previous films, and thought it was quite good. Easy to follow and fun to watch. Yes it is ridiculous, but then again what do you expect when you see a film that is based on a theme park where you can go and watch dinosaurs.
Terminator Genisys - Spent most of the film trying to work out how it fits in with the rest of the series, and was completely baffled. Shame as I am a huge fan of the T2 and T3. It just seemed like an unnecessary film.
This is the Brian Wilson biopic, which alternates between the 60s (Paul Dano) and the 80s (John Cusack), as it charts Wilson's mental health issues and musical triumphs. An interesting film with some strong performances, especially from Dano and the magnetic Elizabeth Banks.
A lot of people are after Rose. Mainly for the bounty but there is one young man who want's to see her for different reasons and that man is Jay. Slow West is a superb western . It looks amazing , has a lovely feel about it yet still has the grit of the old style westerns. Great performances from Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender make this a great hidden gem of a film. Recommended
Insidious chapter 3: best and scariest one yet 10/10
Jurassic World: I thought was pretty decent 8/10
Minions: dragged by the other half to this but was ok 6/10
Terminator Genisys: hard to follow to start with, going back to 1984 but a different 1984, the 1984 Arnie was poor but the movie was funny in parts and was still very good 9/10
Coming up this month:
The Gallows Ant-man Inside out (another movie I am being dragged to) Mission impossible
Watched 'The second coming' last night on BFI player. UK release, based in South London about a mother and her family trying to cope with an 'immaculate conception' Script and acting was very strong and natural, I don't know if its my set up but I found the dialogue hard to decipher in places. But apart form that an enjoyable thought provoking film that had humanity and humour.
A friend in the business recommends Ant Man and Trainwreck. Bear in mind, though, he doesn't pay for his tickets so he may not be sufficiently critical.
Terminator Genisys: hard to follow to start with, going back to 1984 but a different 1984, the 1984 Arnie was poor but the movie was funny in parts and was still very good 9/10
Terminator shouldn't be funny. It shouldn't be complicated. It certainly shouldn't have a robot called pops.
As for inside/out, the reviews I've heard thus far are either "best Pixar movie ever" or "best movie ever" !!
Ant Man is apparently half genius and half generic marvel movie. The half genius comes from Edgar Wright, who was effectively sacked for not carrying the corporate can and including wider Marvel story elements. Same problem messed up Avengers 2.
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Time Lapse
Time lapse is another B movie that ventures into time and seeing into the future. Because it can be quite a complicated subject it is difficult to get right and in my opinion they failed big time with this one.
The nonsensical story revolves around three young people who find a dead neighbour and his machine that takes photographs of pictures 24 hours before the scene happens . Johnny Jackson lookalike ( George Finn) stars alongside Matt O'Leary and Danielle Panabaker , all three play annoying characters and i realised halfway through i couldn't care less what happened to them.
This was released straight to DVD for a very good reason. It's rubbish.
3 out of 10
Where to start...
The tone of T3 was all mixed up. Comedy beats and such. T4 was serious, but without a heart. I was hoping for the seriousness of 4, with the quality of 2.
The tone of this one.... is best summed up by a scene about 60 minutes in. Arnie and the gang are with the cops and they get their criminal mugshots taken.... to the tune of "bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do..."
It's the greatest nadir of any big franchise movie. It doesn't get more wrong than this. It makes Pierce Brosnan's waterskiing look like 2001.
It's a cynical reboot that somehow manages to be a love letter to the first movie, while managing to piss all over it with a grin and a fistful of cash. It's cynical. It's studio filmmaking at its very worst.
The plot is mental. Totally stupid. It's so bad most of the characters spend the duration explaining the events to each other (and us).
The casting is atrocious. She's a TV actress, nothing more. Jai Courtney truly is the most vacuous leading man currently available (along with Sam Worthington, funnily enough). Jason Clarke is more interesting, but largely delivers moronic one-liners. Arnie is utterly embarrassing.
There are some half-interesting action sequences, but for the most part there's no tension. You don't expect anyone to actually get hurt. If a Terminator attacks someone, one of four things are going to happen; 1) The character finds a random gun on the floor 2) Someone comes in from off-screen and shoots it, 3) the terminator gets hit by a long metal pole 4) A giant magnet gets switched on.
So assuming any one of those things will happen will remove all tension. The one thing the Terminator cannot do: Kill anybody. Anybody at all.
Structurally it's all over the place. Halfway through the movie, there isn't a Terminator to escape from. There's a social media undercurrent that's cringe inducing. Skynet is going to kill us when it takes over our iPads.
The line "I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do," from T2 partly sums up why this film is so bad; Arnie wants to cry in it. He doesn't want to be a machine, he wants to give it subtle comedy or feeling. They basically ignore the fact that he's a robot when it suits. It's fan fiction. It's like a Terminator sequel written by 14 year olds. I honestly believe we could have written a better plot on this thread between us.
If I hadn't seen Jupiter Ascending on Monday, then T5 would be the worst big-budget Hollywood film I'd seen this century. But as I paid for my ticket for a change, I chose to not walk out. But that mugshot scene...
I don't usually catch up on new releases until they've been out a couple of years, but a few films I watched recently on Netflix are Walk Among the Tombstones which was nothing spectacular but I still enjoyed it had a bit more about it than your average action thriller, Nightcrawler and Take Shelter which were both really excellent .
If you see The Pledge on TV or Netflix anywhere, and you haven't seen it obviously, give it a shot. Like Take Shelter it's one of those little-seen hidden gem dramas.
Nightcrawler
Enemy (yet to watch)
Prisoners
End of Watch
Source Code
Love & Other Drugs (not very good but okay)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (I haven't seen this one, not my cup of tea)
Brothers
Rendition
Zodiac
Jarhead (yet to watch)
Proof
Brokeback Mountain
1999's October Sky is also a great film.
When I first saw the trailer for Enemy, I thought it was intriguing and wanted to watch it someday. Now that you mentioned arachnophobia.... I probably have to reconsider if I want to watch it or not because I'm scared of all kinds of insects...
Terminator Genisys - Spent most of the film trying to work out how it fits in with the rest of the series, and was completely baffled. Shame as I am a huge fan of the T2 and T3. It just seemed like an unnecessary film.
Tom Grant, a private investigator once hired by Courtney Love, reveals his take on the death of Kurt Cobain.
Real eye opener and makes you think. Well worth a watch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3253624/?ref_=nv_sr_1
This is the Brian Wilson biopic, which alternates between the 60s (Paul Dano) and the 80s (John Cusack), as it charts Wilson's mental health issues and musical triumphs. An interesting film with some strong performances, especially from Dano and the magnetic Elizabeth Banks.
Slow West
A lot of people are after Rose. Mainly for the bounty but there is one young man who want's to see her for different reasons and that man is Jay.
Slow West is a superb western . It looks amazing , has a lovely feel about it yet still has the grit of the old style westerns.
Great performances from Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender make this a great hidden gem of a film.
Recommended
8 out of 10
Still can't believe anyone over the age of 9 likes Terminator though. Mental.
Poltergeist: not as good as the original 5/10
Insidious chapter 3: best and scariest one yet 10/10
Jurassic World: I thought was pretty decent 8/10
Minions: dragged by the other half to this but was ok 6/10
Terminator Genisys: hard to follow to start with, going back to 1984 but a different 1984, the 1984 Arnie was poor but the movie was funny in parts and was still very good 9/10
Coming up this month:
The Gallows
Ant-man
Inside out (another movie I am being dragged to)
Mission impossible
As for inside/out, the reviews I've heard thus far are either "best Pixar movie ever" or "best movie ever" !!
Ant Man is apparently half genius and half generic marvel movie. The half genius comes from Edgar Wright, who was effectively sacked for not carrying the corporate can and including wider Marvel story elements. Same problem messed up Avengers 2.