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Movies seen in 2025
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CaptainWacky
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Blink Twice (2025) - A sex scandal hit billionaire (Channing Tatum) takes five young women to his private island to party. And do bad things (spoiler!) It takes a while to get going, with a lot of scenes of partying in the first half that maybe could have been sped up a bit. Once you get to the disturbing reveal it does hit hard, and the female revenge part is very satisfying. Probably pretty shallow but fun enough in the end and Tatum makes a good villain.
CaptainWacky
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Loves Lies Bleeding (2025) - Kristen Stewart falls for a big muscle woman who comes into her gym. They do steroids together, people die, and things keep getting weirder! It's never boring as there's always another twist coming. I feel you like you don't quite know the characters until the end as there's so many reveals but I think K-Stew did a great job bringing dark humour to her part and Katy O'Brien is definitely a big muscular lady. Ed Harris and Dave Facno have insane haircuts. There's a bit at the end which is absolutely hilarious. I enjoyed it but obviously would have liked it a hundred times more if I was a lesbian as this is very much lesploitation.
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CaptainWacky
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The Super Mario Bros. Move (2023) - I had no interest in watching this when it came out. I love Mario games, but...they're games. I love them because they're fun to play! I don't care about the LORE of the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario is just a little guy running around jumping on stuff, he doesn't speak in complete sentences. But I wasn't feeling good yesterday and this was recently added to Netflix so I watched it because it required little brain power. I know everyone hated the idea of Chris Pratt playing Mario and voicing him like a normal guy and not a "it'sa me!" Italian. And I'm not saying Pratt is good in the movie or anything; Charlie Day as Luigi is notably better when they have scenes together. But obviously to tell a story you have to have Mario talk like a person and not just a stereotype. Not that there's a lot of deep character work going on. It's very much a movie for kids and not like a Pixar movie that can be enjoyed by all. The only kind of bits adults might appreciate are some of Jack Black (who is great) as Bowser's scenes. He made me laugh a few times. There's also a nihilistic Luma that feels...really out of place. I don't know why they put that in! I like Anya Taylor-Joy but they seem to have forced her to play Peach as American rather than her natural nice voice. Look, there's barely a story here, there's not much going on but there is some good looking Mario action. There's tons of references and I did like noticing when they used music from the games or saying "oh, they put Diddy Kong in it" and stuff. Kids must have loved it because it made a shit ton of money, so fair enough!
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Fuddlemiff
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The concept is intriguing though. Is it at least worth a watch?
Lately I’ve been trying to catch up on older films I’ve not seen, so the other day it was In Bruge. Until The Batman I really hadn’t rated Colin Farrell as an actor, but I’ve seen the light. Really enjoyed how he and Gleeson bounced off of one another, and the whimsical tone. And although there were a few too many homophobic lines for my liking, it was refreshing to hear characters being awful and closed minded, in an authentic and unsanitised way. Makes you realise how much media has changed.
Off the back of that I saw The Banshees of Inesherin. It has a similar quirkyness to an extent, and is certainly nicely shot. But I didn’t take to it nearly as much. It felt very repetitive, but it did explore an interesting “what if?”
Lately I’ve been trying to catch up on older films I’ve not seen, so the other day it was In Bruge. Until The Batman I really hadn’t rated Colin Farrell as an actor, but I’ve seen the light. Really enjoyed how he and Gleeson bounced off of one another, and the whimsical tone. And although there were a few too many homophobic lines for my liking, it was refreshing to hear characters being awful and closed minded, in an authentic and unsanitised way. Makes you realise how much media has changed.
Off the back of that I saw The Banshees of Inesherin. It has a similar quirkyness to an extent, and is certainly nicely shot. But I didn’t take to it nearly as much. It felt very repetitive, but it did explore an interesting “what if?”
CaptainWacky
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I loved Banshees because it was so bleak. It reflected the inner battle fought and lost inside all men.
The poor donkey.
The poor donkey.
Fuddlemiff
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I reckon I was spoiled by having seen In Bruges a few days earlier. I went in expecting a similar pace, so I sort of kept wondering when it was going to “get to the point”. I didn’t see the forest for the trees.
I did like it, just not in He way I expected.
I did like it, just not in He way I expected.
CaptainWacky
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The Penguin is really good if you liked Farrell in The Batman.
CaptainWacky
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The Gorge (2025) - Apple TV movie, watched because Anya Taylor-Joy is in it. Two special ops types (Anya and Miles Teller) are assigned to opposite sides of a gorge to guard it because it's full of monsters. They fall in love despite not physically meeting for a long time and the stuff with them flirting over the gorge is actually the best part of the movie. Once they got down to the bottom and fight the monsters it's all a bit video gamey and not really scary at all. Anya is always great to watch and it's all perfectly adequate, but it did get me thinking how I should write something about movies as "content" now which aren't made for the art of it all anymore. But I'm not very bright. It will not be anyone's favourite movie but like I said it's designed to be watchable and does that job.
CaptainWacky
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Civil War (2024) - It's the movie about a civil war in the USA and a group of journalists traveling to Washington D.C. to interview the president before he dies. The movie got criticised on release for not really going into the reason behind the conflict and possibly not making much sense. All we really know is that the President is in his third term and won't stand down and a colation of Texas and California are trying to overthrow him. But really the movie is about photojournalism and uses America as a violent backdrop. Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny are well cast as the grizzled veteran photographer and the fresh-faced newbie who looks up to her. Can you photograph horrible acts of war without interfering? That's the question! I do get the crticism though, because it's a bit annoying how the movie doesn't go into what the war is all about. The best scene is the one with the excellent Jesse Plemons as a racist militia guy asking people what type of American they are. And that doesn't involved photography much. But there are some nice violent visuals and good acting and some very memorable moments especially in the later parts. Just don't except it to actually be a movie about a civil war.
Fuddlemiff
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I loved that! I didn’t really mind that they didn’t go into the details. The fact that California and Texas were picked as the “bad guys” makes it plain that the writers didn’t want to get bogged down with anything that could be likened to real world politics, or be interpreted as partisan. I guess they could have told the same story in any conflict in the world or in history, but a US civil war was a more interesting backdrop.
I agree, the Jesse Plemons scene was the most memorable. But overall I thought it asked some interesting questions and I appreciated that it covered a career that doesn’t come up in movies too often.
I agree, the Jesse Plemons scene was the most memorable. But overall I thought it asked some interesting questions and I appreciated that it covered a career that doesn’t come up in movies too often.