The Recommended Movies Thread

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Brothers (Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, M. Emmet Walsh, Glenn Close) has hit the usual sites. Sets a low bar for script, intelligence and sophistication but it's fun. You can watch it while you're doing something else. Lots of 'F' words.

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Terrifier 3 is on the shelves. It'll be gross, twisted, disturbin... just generally grotesque in every way.

https://yts.mx/movies/terrifier-3-2024

On a budget of $2 million it just passed $50 million at the box office becoming the highest grossing unrated film. Anyone watched it yet? Is it as sick as reports suggested?

It's probably the most graphically explicit horror film I've seen in terms of number of scenes of extreme mutilation. The 'clown' switches well between funny and insane/creepy. The bits I thought best were the scenes (like the one about 20 minutes in, in a dark decrepit house, no killings actually) which reminded me in atmosphere of early Italian gore/horror films, dark, weird and disturbing. The rest is standard slasher fare, except hardly standard. I don't think genre fans will be disappointed.

[404cameljockey]

As I saw there's a 2024 remake of the 2017 Thai film Bad Genius I decided to watch the original. It's epic, about a group of students who try to pull off the exam cheat of a lifetime. I have no idea if the remake can match it.

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[Big Boy]

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Thank you, it was sounding tempting

[404cameljockey]

BB: IT'S SUBTITLED

Thank you, it was sounding tempting

Do you watch dubbed foreign films? Personally I hate them. If you do I will always check to see if there's a dubbed version released as well.

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Gladiator II is in cinemas from 15th November and I'm excited. Does anyone know when a 'proper' will be released on sites? I guess some time early December.

I miss the days when digital copies were sneaked out from the studios pre-release, or review copies were made available, I guess security leaks have been very effectively plugged in recent years!

[pharvey]

Gladiator II is in cinemas from 15th November and I'm excited. Does anyone know when a 'proper' will be released on sites? I guess some time early December.

I miss the days when digital copies were sneaked out from the studios pre-release, or review copies were made available, I guess security leaks have been very effectively plugged in recent years!

Yep, looking forward to this one myself

[sateeb]

A couple just dropped on YTS

Conclave based on the excellent book by Robert Harris. 7.6 on imdb

Here with Tom Hanks Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Mixed reviews

[Lost]

They were here yesterday but not mentioned so I'll give a heads up.

Hugh Grant's thriller Heretic is on the shelf. Been looking forward to this, missed a cinema booking to watch it. Also Venom: The Last Dance is there, though I hated (didn't even finish) the last venom so not as excited about this one. Might be good.

https://yts.mx/movies/heretic-2024
https://yts.mx/movies/venom-the-last-dance-2024



Edit: obviously supposed to be the movies thread this one mods, sorry

[dtaai-maai]

Hugh Grant's thriller Heretic is on the shelf. Been looking forward to this, missed a cinema booking to watch it.

I watched Heretic earlier this evening. It wasn't the usual gore fest recommended by lost, in fact it wasn't very scary at all. I was more scared by those black and white creaky door horror films oif my childhood. Unlike many, I have no major problem with Hugh Grant, and it was quite interesting to see him out of his usual comfort zone. He was quite good, though I doubt he'll be appearing on any award shortlists.

Quite a disappointing film IMO, and often verging on the silly.

[Lost]

Hugh Grant's thriller Heretic is on the shelf. Been looking forward to this, missed a cinema booking to watch it.

I watched Heretic earlier this evening. It wasn't the usual gore fest recommended by lost, in fact it wasn't very scary at all. I was more scared by those black and white creaky door horror films oif my childhood. Unlike many, I have no major problem with Hugh Grant, and it was quite interesting to see him out of his usual comfort zone. He was quite good, though I doubt he'll be appearing on any award shortlists.

Quite a disappointing film IMO, and often verging on the silly.

Watched it last night, too. Thought it was an OK watch myself. Different. Agree Hugh Grant's performance was pretty decent.

[404cameljockey]

Heretic is an 8/10 recommend for me. It's creepy and it's well crafted by the director who shot the beautiful The Handmaiden so it's great visually. Some horror films hit the wall when you finally see the 'monster' but this one keeps rolling, maybe because of the slow build up early on.

Hugh Grant is very good as he was in the TV show A Very English Scandal. I'll never enjoy him more than I did in Mickey Blue Eyes, but it seems he's turned into a fine lead actor in dramatic roles.

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I'm looking forward to Nosferatu. Cinema release on 1st Jan, so on our usual sites some time in February I suppose.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/

[404cameljockey]

Same here.

Also I see that Gladiator 2 finally hit over the weekend, at last!

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I stood an hour of Gladiator 2 before I stopped it and read the reviews. I wish I hadn't wasted that 60 minutes of my life. Plotless, humorless and plodding. And not one single performance showing any charisma, possibly because the film and nursery school script aren't capable of providing roles that allow it. What was Derek Jacobi thinking, getting roped into this? Down to his last eight million? (he is)

And woke? Every single moment there is a glass of wine on the screen, this:

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I'm willing to bet there's not a single female nipple or rolling bloodied head in the entire two-plus hours of this absolute turkey.