forehead1
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Member Since: 26 Dec 2009
Location: UK
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Superman II (1980) - Rated 06 Aug 2025
Creed 2 (2018) - Rated 29 Jul 2025
"Creed Jr has inherited none of his dad’s charisma and together with his missus forms the dullest, most depressing couple in the history of cinema. The film is nothing more than fan service, and even while the Drago storyline seems somewhat interesting there’s never any effort made to make the audience care about anything: it’s just assumed you will (Adonis’ motivation is never even clear or consistent FFS). Worse than any entry in the Rocky series, including the awful IV it’s trying to emulate."
The Graduate (1967) - Rated 16 Jul 2025
"Maybe not the classic it was seen as almost 60 years ago, but still pretty enjoyable for a first time viewing. Hoffman’s on point acting the nervous 21 year-old (even if he looks ten years older), it’s well-directed, amusing in places, and has a good - if overused - Simon & Garfunkle soundtrack. The story moves along too fast though and none of the character decisions ever really feel believable. Wayne’s World 2 ruined the ending for me."
Whiplash (2014) - Rated 14 Jul 2025
"I enjoyed the experience but left feeling like I’d only seen part of a film. Whiplash’s roots as a short make sense, but you feel it needed to be extended even more to create the full package – many of the scenes/characters outside the studio being so slight they offer little more than confirmation of Andrew’s already-established character. Both Simmons and John Cusack-alike Miles Teller are good, and I bet drummers love this film, but I can’t see myself putting it on again."
Back to School (1986) - Rated 11 Jul 2025
"A throwaway ‘80s comedy in very similar vein to many others, lighthearted in tone and the premise has potential but it’s just not very funny. It does have a young Robert Downey Jr looking fat and gay though. And I do like the way whole characters have been transferred directly from the Rocky & Karate Kid movie sets. If you like Dangerfield even Ladybugs is better than this."
Empire Records (1995) - Rated 09 Jul 2025
"I hated this when I saw it as a teenager so not surprised I still aint got time for it in my forties – although ironically I probably dislike it less now than I did back then. The cast are half-decent and try to put a shift in at least - it’s tough to get much out of this script though, which tries so desperately to be a teen cult hit but fails in pretty much every department, with nothing in it passing muster. For a film based in an independent record store the soundtrack is pretty shit too."
Unhinged (2020) - Rated 07 Jul 2025
"It’s like someone had seen Duel and Falling Down and decided to make something where all the decisions that made those films great are reversed. Having the besieged family as unlikeable as possible doesn’t help either. Crowe described this as being gritty, unflinching and insightful: It’s none of those things. In fact, bar him and a couple of car crashes it’s indistinguishable from your average made-for-TV schlock. Thankfully I found a word game on my phone that helped me get through it."
Titan: The OceanGate Disaster (2025) - Rated 16 Jun 2025
"More a character assassination of Rush than an investigation into the disaster, deciding to focus on the experiences and fate of his staff rather than the passengers. This is an important angle and offers up a few new (to me anyway) titbits of info, but as is the habit with this doc they’re not expanded upon enough. Similarly, other key facts are never mentioned and the knowledge I’d gained from YouTube videos about the disaster at the time helped to fill in a lot of the technical blanks."
Legend (1985) - Rated 07 Jun 2025
"Curry’s performance is the one thing that made me smile here, so it’s a shame he isn’t in it for long. The only other fun on offer is marvelling at how Cruise got another gig after this, let alone the career he’s had. Some of the set design and makeup is okay but everything else is pure pants: the 90-odd minute runtime must be down to some heavy editing, as the story is nonsensical to the extreme and I had little idea what was going on at any given moment. Makes Willow look like a masterpiece."
Final Destination 3 (2006) - Rated 29 May 2025
"The weakest of the three but still much of a muchness. Some good deaths including a great scene in a tanning salon, but others flash past so fast you barely know what’s happened. Again the characters figure out exactly what’s going on implausibly quickly, but again this constant exposition is meaningless as the order of deaths is never clearly established anyway. Winstead acts like she's going for an Oscar."
