JPFerguson
Cinema Addict
Member Since: 25 Apr 2020
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 40
Bio: A score between 91 and 100 indicates a masterpiece. I'm Pinball_Lez on Twitter https://twitter.com/pinball_lez?lang=en
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A Man for All Seasons (1988) - Rated 12 Aug 2025
"'A Man for All Seasons' for dummies. Inferior in every way to the 1966 version. Drama quickly becomes melodrama. I actually quite like the The Common Man/Greek chorus, although I did expect Roy Kinnear at any moment to shout out, "Veruca, sweetheart, angel. Now, there are four tickets left in the whole world, and the whole ruddy world's hunting for them! What can I do?""
A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Rated 11 Aug 2025
"This film repeats the mistake of the play (both written by Robert Bolt) as stated by Anthony Kenny: "the man it portrays is very different from the real More, who would not have agreed that a man's soul is a self of the kind described by Bolt." For the real More, it is only right to act in accordance with one's conscience if that conscience aligns with God. But even so, Zinnemann's film impressively activates the 16th century context and cinematic medium to dramatic (not melodramatic) effect."
Palm Springs (2020) - Rated 10 Aug 2025
"The most appealing aspects of 'Groundhog Day', that is the dark existential humour and Bill Murray, are absent here and so it all feels a bit pointless. However, the worst aspect of 'Groundhog Day,' that is Andie MacDowell, is also absent here, and so it has that going for it."
Predator 2 (1990) - Rated 08 Aug 2025
"And you thought the LA Riots were bad."
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - Rated 08 Aug 2025
"I thought this was such a cool movie twenty years ago. And, my Mum owns it on Blu-Ray, so I can watch it any time I visit her. I should test whether that coolness has stood the test of time."
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) - Rated 08 Aug 2025
""Putting the keys in my left pocket. Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm. Gun in the right-hand side." I still remember that ditty all these years later. Back in the days when they made proper action/comedy films."
Georges Bataille: À perte de vue (1997) - Rated 07 Aug 2025
"I do find something very appealing about Bataille and his work, but I am not quite sure what that is. I think part of it is that he was a philosopher in an authentic way that is the opposite of Wittgenstein, whom I intensely dislike as a fraud. I need to read more of Bataille's work (I've only read 'The Story of the Eye' and that was years ago). This film might just prompt me to do so."
Predators (2010) - Rated 06 Aug 2025
"I just watched this and realised five minutes in that I'd already seen it, and yet I continued. Clearly I'm a sucker for punishment. It's a feature length episode of 'Lost', but worse. Far worse. It seems Antal told Brody; "Adrian, you need to summon your huskiest voice, and manliest gestures." The problem is, he ain't Arnie. I wish Topher Grace really was disembowelled by a Predator. Hate that guy."
Prey (2022) - Rated 04 Aug 2025
"A lame feminist Bildungsroman about the Comanche version of Aubrey Plaza almost gets in the way of a very cool story about a Predator taking on 18th century French frontiersman. But admittedly the highly satisfying homages to the original film are provided by said Comanche Aubrey Plaza."
The Predator (2018) - Rated 02 Aug 2025
"A throwback to the '90s in terms of that satisfying mix of crass comedy and over-the-top action; not surprising with Shane Black at the helm. The crappy CGI is also very '90s. And for the record, it is actually Frankenstein's monster, but the part about entropy is correct. It seems that Darwin does not exist in this alternate reality; "I’m told you pretty much wrote the book on evolutionary biology.""
