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I loved Glass Onion.
I’ll definitely watch the next Knives Out, if they make one, and I love the lead character.

My only criticism…it could have used an interval.
A legit interval.
It’s two hours twenty minutes, and there is a precise moment where an interval would have been perfect.

Bautista is fantastic.
Norton is very good.

I loved the start. I loved the impossible puzzle, and I loved the idea that not very clever people always have an answer that very clever people will miss. I love the idea that everyone has something to contribute.
And I loved the cutting of the Gordian Knot.
Further along, I love the kind of obvious takedown of Elon Musk, and given how long ago the film was completed, let alone written, how prescient it is.

More than anything, I loved the constant subversion of expectations.

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Watched TopGun Maverick today.

Very enjoyable. Must have been great on the big screen.

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I loved the puzzle at the start!!

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Watched it in 4D. Pretty awesome! Although my mate took a drink at the wrong time :joy:

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If you liked trolls and Norway. You might like this one. Filmed in the style of a documentary, some school kids investigate bear killings.

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Watched Willow for the first time ever. Not bad for a 1988 movie. How it was a kids movie is beyond me with some of the references and actions.

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Really liked Everything Everywhere All At Once.

It’s a multiverse story with a sense of humour.
Some fun martial arts fights, a wonderful imagination, a family story with themes of cultural and generational issues, and some quite beautiful moments.

Weird and wonderful, reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine while at the same time being nothing like that, and it has Jamie Leigh Curtis.

Recommend.

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Just watched The Swimmers- excellent film portraying the best and the worst of humanity. Based on a true story about Syrian sisters (& played by real life sisters) who face enormous challenges trying to escape Syria to pursue a dream to swim at the Olympics and provide a safer place to live for their family. Netflix.

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When Jaws came out it was PG. gremlins too.

Some of us are still scarred/.

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Violent Night is awesome

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To this day I cannot watch Roald Dahl’s The Witches

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Amsterdam is one of the worst ,most boring movies I have seen for a long long time.Christian bale and the last 20min are the only decent things about it. With an absolute star studded cast, to make a movie so boring is almost a crime

Ticket to paradise- fun rom com.best parts are Clooney and Roberts just trading digs at each other

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watched thunderstruck last night, not bad bit of a slight twist in the old favourite switcheroo, this time it was basketball talent.

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M. Night Shyamalan what twists will be in this movie haha

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Elvis is a failure.
As it must be.
An incredibly ambitious failure with an incredible performance from the lead actor.
There is just no way to fit all of the contradictions of that man’s short forty-two years into one film, but by gosh Luhrmann gives it a go.
Some spine-tingling moments.

I’m sure some people will dislike this, but I thought the placing of hiphop into the fifties to give some idea of how foreign ‘coloured’ music was at the time was genius.

Well worth a look.

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Part of me wants to see the Elvis film as I don’t know a lot about him , but I normally hate baz lurhmanns films.

I watched the Whitney Houston movie the other day. Really enjoyed it, didn’t know a lot about her at all( though I love the bodyguard movie). Im guessing they glossed over a lot of the heavier stuff regarding her drug issues and her marriage issues. Seemed like they skipped through some stuff pretty quickly. Some of it was pretty sad stuff

I had no idea just how much of a big deal she was and how successful she was at the time. The music scenes were really well done. The anthem part gave me goosebumps

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I don’t really have any interest because she looked at Diana Ross and said, ‘hmmm, not self-absorbed enough.’
Rude to her fans, extremely rude to her contemporaries.

Edit: nothing against the film that I haven’t seen, I just know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

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She could belt a tune though.

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There’s no doubting her talent.

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Going by the movie, they didn’t go to much into that stuff. But she definitely had a big ego, and she definitely didn’t have the best people around her( without going into spoilers regarding the movie)

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