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Binged a whole load of Kimmy Schmidt last night. Some occasional belly lulz, plenty more less pronounced ones, a perfect cast, mad plots and made with such flare and charm its hard to be cynical. Series 2 just snuck out.
 
Watching Trailer Park Boys at the moment, just got onto the second series and it's really hitting it's stride, very, very funny and only 20 minute episodes.
 
dervish said:
Watching Trailer Park Boys at the moment, just got onto the second series and it's really hitting it's stride, very, very funny and only 20 minute episodes.
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its great isn't it. Julian with his rum and coke surgically attatched to his hand lol
 
TPB is deffo an acquired taste. Me and my flatmates years back loved that shit, but we also smoked a hella lot of weed at the time, but everybody else we knew who'd seen it thought it was balls.
 
Recently had the US Netflix accessed via Hola blocked - which is a great shame - on the plus side we did manage to complete Mad Men just in time. The annoying thing is, I'd happily pay more to have access to the US Netflix
 
The Boy said:
TPB is deffo an acquired taste. Me and my flatmates years back loved that shit, but we also smoked a hella lot of weed at the time, but everybody else we knew who'd seen it thought it was balls.
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Ahh, right. I've never really been in to stoner comedy. I like my laughs a bit more quick-witted and wordy.
 
spanglechick said:
Ahh, right. I've never really been in to stoner comedy. I like my laughs a bit more quick-witted and wordy.
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Not exactly a stoner comedy, its actually quite class concious (theres a quite good libcom article about this very subject, which i might dig out), has a cheap and cheerful feel to it, does have some great jokes (and top swearing), and pretty decent comic performances. Also a reeeeaallly young Ellen Page turns up for most of one of the early series. Worth investing time in, give it half a series.
 
Didn't like it though. Watched a couple. I mean, lots of shows find their feet in S2, but there has to be something to get you that far.
 
I've been checking through my viewing activity to see what's worth recommending, and what's worth warning against...

Currently on Zee Flix and worth a spin:

Hidden gems:
  • Blue Ruin - A very ordinary man goes on the hunt for retribution; reality bites him on the arse; muted hilarity ensues.
  • Common - Teenager gets caught up in the aftermath of others’ violence, and suffers at hands of joint enterprise law; written by Jimmy McGovern.
  • Down Terrace - Ben Wheatley’s first feature, about an obnoxious family of crooks in Brighton.
  • Focus - Mild-mannered office drone William H Macy discovers anti-semitism in 40s New York after getting a new set of spectacles.
  • Good Kill - Drone pilot Ethan Hawke disintegrates.
  • Grabbers - “It’s Tremors meets Father Ted”, one can imagine the pitch going; alcoholic garda Richard Coyle must battle extra-terrestrial monsters on a remote Irish island.
  • Half Nelson - Troubled teacher builds rapport with troubled student.
  • Hits - Small-town blue collar worker accidentally becomes an online sensation after posting a video rant about potholes on YouTube; cue invasion of self-facilitating media nodes and angry daughter.
  • Hyena - A sort of British The Shield, with Peter Ferdinando as a bent cop trying (but failing) to justify his corruption as a sluice gate in a dam that holds back depravity. Excellent follow up from the team who made serial killer character study Tony.
  • In The Electric Mist - Tommy Lee Jones as a Louisianan detective dealing with a murder at the same time as a Hollywood film starts work on location shooting nearby.
  • Injustice AKA Puncture - Chris Evans and Mark Kassen are a pair of upstart young Houston attorneys who take on the big boys in a medical conspiracy case.
  • Kajaki - Exemplary, adrenalised war movie about a squad of British soldiers caught up in the conflict in Afghanistan, which avoids pretty much all and every existing trope from the genre.
  • Man From Reno - San Francisco-set drama about a Japanese author (Ayako Fujitani) who escapes to the Bay to get away from personal problems, and becomes embroiled in perplexing events. It really gets going when she crosses paths with a local sheriff (Pepe Sernal) who has his own puzzle to solve. Interesting tweak on the standard detective mystery from Nipponophile American director Dave Boyle.
  • Red Hill - A western set in rural Australia, with city cop Ryan Kwanten relocating to a small town in the sticks with his pregnant wife facing big trouble from his very first day. The ever reliable Steve Bisley makes for a great foil.
  • Rhymes For Young Ghouls - Racism, institutional abuse and wholesale contempt for humanity explored through the eyes of a teenager in a mid-seventies Canadian First Nations reserve.
  • Slow West - Besotted Scots boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travels across the ocean and across America in a bid to track down the girl whom he fell in love with; local saddle tramp Michael Fassbender hooks up with him.
  • The Guest - Man turns up at family’s door claiming to be comrade and best friend of recently killed soldier-son; things quickly escalate.
  • The Hunter - Professional assassin Willem Dafoe is hired to hunt down and kill the last Tasmanian tiger, but everything is not as it first seems.
  • The Killing Room - A ‘when-psychological-experiments-go-wrong’ type flick, in the vein of Das Experiment and Die Welle, this time based on the MK Ultra programs.
  • The Rise - What first seems like a run-of-the-mill Lock, Stock… geezers-style movie is quickly subverted into something else a whole lot more interesting.
  • Tower Block - Apart from some unsatisfying elements to the denouement, an efficient and economical British thriller about a disparate group of residents trapped on a single floor of a block of flats by a lunatic for unstated reasons.
(You can look through all current films and programmes on UK Netflix here.)
 
Subtitled tastiness:
  • Flammen & Citronen AKA Flame And Citron - Doing the dirty work for a Danish resistance group takes its toll on two of its best operators.
  • Gibraltar AKA The Informant - A bar owner with money problems is persuaded to become grass for French Customs.
  • Hodejegerne AKA Headhunters - Norwegian recruitment consultant is an art thief in his spare time; one day he tries to rob the wrong person.
  • Indigènes AKA Days Of Glory - Celebrating the sacrifice of France’s North African soldiers in the Second World War.
  • Kraftidioten AKA In Order Of Disappearance - Wry and dark comedy about a simple but driven man investigating why his son died.
  • La French AKA The Connection - Think French Heat meets French, um, The French Connection, with an investigating magistrate on the heels of Marseilles’ biggest smack smugglers. Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche make for excellent sparring partners.
  • Les Salauds AKA Bastards - Estranged brother (Vincent Lindon) returns home after years at sea to try and make sense of why his niece killed herself.
  • Mea Culpa - More Lellouche, more Lindon, this time together and as former cop partners who do things their way when faced with a brutal new crime gang in town.
Moviedrome-approved:
  • At Close Range - Rural Pennsylvanian crime family ruled by dad Christopher Walken implodes when his brutality estranges son Sean Penn. Early James Foley feature.
  • Escape From Alcatraz - Ol’ Rawhide tries to figure out how the hell to get off this damn Rock.
  • Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) - Philip Kaufman and WD Richter’s excellent remake of a paranoia pic, this time retooled to reflect a cold world of self-absorption and alienation.
  • Rumble In The Bronx - Jackie Chan fights bad guys in New York (because reasons), and when we say New York, obviously we mean the exceptionally cheaper Vancouver.
  • Something Wild - Yuppie-in-jeopardy trope is somewhat turned on its head in Jonathan Demme’s screwball comedy/road movie when white collar worker bee Jeff Daniels crosses paths with kooky Melanie Griffiths; though before you can say ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ we are out of the danger zone and somewhere more interesting.
  • The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton disease pandemic potboiler translates well to the big screen here.
  • The Long Riders - Quirky casting of multiple sets of real life brothers as various members of the James-Younger gang partially masks a very orthodox seventies western.
  • The Parallax View - Investigative journalist Warren Beatty’s fondness for conspiracy theories cuts him off from the media mainstream, but when he gets a tip-off connecting various JFK/RFK/Malcolm X-type assassinations, he can’t help himself but go sniffing.
  • The Warriors - Apparently there are no night buses in New York.
  • Trespass - Trashy but fun updating/relocation of The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre to Rustbelt, USA, with a pair of Arkansas firefighters (William Sadler and Bill Paxton) heading well out of their comfort zone to try and dig up loot stashed in an abandoned building in East St. Louis, Il.
 
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Recent but decent:
  • A Most Wanted Man - Not the best le Carré adaptation, but solid, and run through with his trademark anger/pessimism like a stick of despair rock
  • A Walk Among The Tombstones - One of the more impressive FULL NEESONs of the past few years
  • Breach - Mardy counter-terrorism Federal officer turns out to be kinky FBI mole.
  • Calvary - Priest is threatened, he meets some people, gets a bit pissed off, stuff happens.
  • Gone Baby Gone - Boston private eyes Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan are hired to search for missing local girl; nothing is as it first seems.
  • Haywire - Private security contractor Gina Carano kicks serious arse when she’s stitched up by mercenary weasel Ewan McGregor; lots of strong action scenes, and pleasantly syncopated pacing.
  • Looper - Bruce Willis/Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a time-travelling hitman trying to beat destiny.
  • Margin Call - Impeccable piece of drama that brings alive the start of the 2007 global financial crisis.
  • Pain & Gain - Possibly the finest homicidal personal trainer movie ever, and directed by Michael Bay, no less
  • The Raid 2 - The claustrophobic tower block setting of this Indonesian actioner’s predecessor is opened up as our hero (Iko Uwais) goes undercover in Jakarta’s biggest crime gang; cue many imaginative fight scenes.
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Riz Ahmed keeps the audience guessing as to what he is, sort of a post-9/11 Agatha Christie mystery.
  • World War Z - Can clever Brad Pitt defeat evil zombie menace (which might be Islamic in origin)?

Classics & old standbys:
  • 12 Angry Men - Jury service probably isn’t this interesting.
  • Battle Of Britain - Okay, so it’s at the soapier end of the war movie spectrum, but it does have the best ever aerial combat scenes set to a stirring William Walton theme
  • Beverly Hills Cop - Detroit police officer investigates friend’s death by something something Los Angeles something coffee grounds something that camp guy something something something HEH HEH HEH! (Also they have 2 & 3.)
  • Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid - Who ARE those guys?!
  • Chinatown - Forget it, Jake.
  • Der Untergang AKA Downfall - He’s just not a birthday party kinda guy.
  • Die Hard - Just the fly in the ointment, Hans, the monkey in the wrench
  • Dr. Strangelove - Loving the bomb.
  • Dressed To Kill - Brian De Palma hides his influences.
  • Fargo - That’s terrific!
  • The French Connection - Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
  • Funeral In Berlin - I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating.
  • Harold And Maude - Just good friends.
  • High Plains Drifter - Angry dead cowboy.
  • His Girl Friday - Ultimate in zippy banter.
  • Jackie Brown - Consistently enjoyable Tarantino, with Pam Grier and Robert Forster both giving terrific Autumn-of-their-careers performances.
  • Last Tango In Paris - I can’t believe it’s not better.
  • Miller's Crossing - Dashiell Hammett and Yojimbo as channelled by the Coen Brothers.
  • Network - Satirising telly news.
  • Oh! What A Lovely War - Powerful music hall-style take on World War One.
  • Patton - Making the other poor dumb bastard die for his.
  • Predator - Extra-terrestrial hunters kick the shit out of CIA goons.
  • Rear Window - Hitchcock’s paean to peeping toms.
  • Serpico - Pacino as an honest cop in a bent department.
  • The Magnificent Seven - Brunner, McQueen and co. retread Seven Samurai as a western.
  • The Odd Couple - Matthau and Lemmon sparring.
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Richard Burton as a burnt-out spook.
  • The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three - Gesundheit!
  • The Molly Maguires - Sean Connery and pals do their best to maintain an edge against management via the medium of high explosive.
  • The Thin Red Line - Terrifying hill assault.
  • Ulee’s Gold - 100% the best film about beekeeping ever.
  • Vertigo - Zooms guaranteed to churn your stomach
 
Documentaries:
  • Atari: Game Over - Charting the rise and fall of the first home video console to take off.
  • Central Park Five - Looking at the rabid atmosphere in which five youngsters were convicted for a notorious New York crime.
  • Chasing Madoff - Retreading an amateur investigation into the Ponzi king’s affairs, and how the authorities didn’t take the accusations seriously.
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room - Looking at how the energy corporation collapsed in 2001.
  • From Bedrooms To Billions - Biopic of the British video game industry.
  • Jonestown: Paradise Lost - How a socialistic community in the US became a sacked-out death cult in Guyana.
  • Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck - Thoroughly absorbing look at Nirvana frontman’s domestic and creative life (much of it outside of the band).
  • Rubble Kings - Engaging look at gang life in The Bronx in the 70s, and how they came together for a Warriors-style peace summit.
  • Silenced - How the US government went after national security whistleblowers.
  • Square Groupers - Three tales of weed smugglers in 70s/80s Florida.
  • The Kill Team - On the Maywand District killings in Afghanistan.

Genre pictures & B-Movies-but-worth-a-watch:
  • A Show Of Force - Sort of in the same vein as Under Fire, Salvador or Beyond Rangoon, this time with a TV reporter (Amy Irving) trying to get to the truth in Puerto Rica following the suspicious death of two pro-indepdence activists.
  • Armored - The plan is to stage an armoured car heist. The plan does not go according to plan.
  • Best Laid Plans (1999) - Clever little thriller with Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon and Alessandro Nivola.
  • Bound - Ex-con Gina Gershon starts up a relationship with gangster’s moll Jennifer Tilly; will mob boss Joe Pantoliano find out?
  • Colors - Old LAPD warhorse Robert Duvall tries to school new buck Sean Penn in the ways of the street in the Gang Unit.
  • Damien: Omen II - Devil’s son goes to military academy; seems like a genius idea. Don't go in the elevator :eek:
  • Enemies Closer - It’s very silly, but anything with Van Damme dressed up in RCMP Mountie uniform whilst riding a horse, delivering pre-coup de grace quips, and generally being a slightly arthritic badass earns a pass from the shit pile.
  • Equilibrium - Christian Bale as a ‘gun fu’ expert in a future utopia/dystopia where crime is largely eradicated through a programme of compulsory mass consumption of pacification drugs.
  • I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - A sort of follow up to Get Carter by Mike Hodges, this time with Clive Owen in the role of avenging angel.
  • Men At Work - Best film about dustmen, and it even has Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.
  • Miracle Mile - Anthony Edwards is late for a first date with Mare Winningham on the very night nuclear war breaks out.
  • Murphy's Law - One of the more fun 80s Cannon movies Charles Brosnan did, here with Carrie Snodgrass to act as a particularly potty-mouthed foil.
  • Narc - Effective low budget detective thriller, with Jason Patric teaming up with Ray Liotta.
  • Rounders - Matt Damon and Edward Norton play high stakes poker, get into scrapes.
  • Runaway (1984) - It’s a low-budget rip-off of Blade Runner, with Tom Selleck as a rogue robot hunter, and Gene Simmons from Kiss as the bad guy.
  • Screamers - Christian Duguay directs a sort-of follow-up to Blade Runner.
  • Switchback - A serial killer is on the loose. Dennis Quaid is hunting for clues. Texas sheriff R Lee Ermey has dead bodies on his patch. Danny Cannon picks up hitchhiker Jared Leto.
  • The Falcon And The Snowman - Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn sell secrets to the Soviets.
  • The Friends Of Eddie Coyle - Career criminal Robert Mitchum must decide whether or not to grass up his confederates.
  • The Vanishing - Hollywood remake of Dutch thriller; here Jeff Bridges in the man whose girlfriend simply disappeared during a stop at a gas station.
 
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BRAT PACK & HIGH SCHOOL HYSTERIA
  • Clueless - Amy Heckerling returns to the themes of Fast Times, but focusing on the attempts of well-meaning Beverly Hills princess Alicia Silverstone to matchmake two of her high school teachers together, à la Jane Austen’s Emma.
  • Fast Times At Ridgmont High - A non-Hughesian take on 80s high school, with pregnancy and stoners and crappy part-time McJobs.
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Sure, when you think about it, they’re a bunch of overprivileged dicks, but still, I like me some Rooney-baiting.
  • Pretty In Pink - Poor girl falls for rich boy, meanwhile misses signals from best friend. Calamity!
  • Some Kind Of Wonderful - Hughes mixes it up this time: Poor boy falls for rich girl, meanwhile misses signals from best friend. Calamity!
  • St. Elmo’s Fire - Whiney yuppies, great!

And finally...


AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
  • A Belfast Story - A criminal waste of Colm Meaney, here as a grizzled and weary old detective in Northern Ireland investigating a series of murders.
  • Allies - Crappy post-D Day mission movie done on the cheap.
  • Basic - Disgraced DEA agent John Travolta investigates an Army Ranger exercise that ended with multiple dead soldiers; inexplicably neither the writer nor the director is one of the victims.
  • Dead Man Running - Tamer Hassan and Danny Dyer look embarrassed throughout as they desperately try to string out half-arsed dialogue that barely connects incomprehensible plot points in a bid to raise the cash to pay back big-time shylock 50 Cent (no, really) his £100,000 before the clock runs out.
  • Doors Open - The worst kind of cringy British ‘comedy’, with Stephen Fry playing a very slappable version of Stephen Fry in this lame art heist nonsense.
  • He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege - Execrable on all levels, this coked-up, self-satisfied Paul Tanter/Simon Phillips shit is amongst the worst tax write-off movies I’ve ever seen, with almost no effort to make it in any way artistically or narratively coherent.
  • Isle Of Dogs - More misogynistic, flabby, pointless gangster bollocks.
  • Left Behind - Nicolas Cage as an airline pilot caught up in Christian apocalyptic bollocks.
  • Madso’s War - Incompetently staged Boston mob movie bollocks.
  • Stalingrad - Not Oserov’s 1990 one, nor Vilsmaier’s 1993 one; this is Bondarchuk’s shitty and over-glossy 2013 one.
  • Survivor - Perfectly competent thriller quickly sours thanks to chips-pissing and lack of decent script.
  • Suspect Zero - FBI agents are on the trail of a dangerous serial killer; they leave no stone unturned, no cliche unused. Oh, and MIND CONTROL.
  • The Outsider - Tedious man-investigates-daughter’s-death revenger, with Craig Fairbrass(!) as the angry mercenary on the war path. In the interests of giving his picture more international credibility director Brian A Miller has persuaded (no doubt through the medium of cold, hard cash) two recognisable names - James Caan and Jason Patric - to rattle through a few short scenes which don’t even seem to match up with the primary plot in a manner so desperate it points towards them being Ponzi scheme victims or similar.
  • The Prince - This time out the traps Brian A Miller appears to have smutty Polaroids of John Cusack and Bruce Willis in his possession, as well as Jason Patric’s Vegas marker, because that’s the only possible reason for their presence in this dumb, tedious flick. Bonus must-punch-self-in-face points for having 50 Cent turn up. OH JOY.
  • Top Dog - Here we reach DEFCON 2 - football hooligans versus Lahndahn gangsters, gor-blimey-ah’s-ya-muvver nonsense with a Spandau Ballet directing, Leo Gregory in the lead (bless him, but he’s not got the charisma to carry the picture), the least urgent ‘climax’ yet committed to celluloid, the logic of a key plot point is almost immediately demolished by a cast member, and Jason Flemyng is in it. When the very best thing about your movie is Ricci Harnett’s understated performance, it’s time to apply for retraining as a butcher at Morrison’s or something.
  • Twisted - Like Suspect Zero, another one of those on-the-trail-of-a-serial-killer movies that tried to capitalise on the success of Se7en. Here, the USP is lead detective Ashley Judd is a risk-taking alcoholic who keeps blacking out and, I dunno, maybe she’s the killer, huh? Huh? HUH?! Oh, and ANDY GARCIA KLAXON.
  • UFO - Fuck you, Simon Phillips. On the plus side, they did persuade Jean-Claude Van Damme to be in it :D
  • Vendetta - Among the two worst Dean Cain films ever.
 
Grabbers is hilarious :D

I would like to add Doomsdays to the list of hidden gems. I dont know how i found it but im glad i did.

Im not sure whether it will be on UK Netflix but if you can find the New Zealand film "Boy", that's great.
 
Jon-of-arc said:
Binged a whole load of Kimmy Schmidt last night. Some occasional belly lulz, plenty more less pronounced ones, a perfect cast, mad plots and made with such flare and charm its hard to be cynical. Series 2 just snuck out.
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I discovered Kimmy Schmidt sometime last year. Despite a few slightly clunky episodes (the robot one springs to mind) the humour of this series just hit me like a ton of bricks. it's weird mix of totally insane mixed into a seemingly mostly mundane world really does it for me.

I love it for the same reason i love shows like nichijou.
as a side recommendation for fans of the humour of KS tell me what you think of Nichijou episode 1 (translated as "Daily life")
Watch Nichijou Episode 1 with English Subbed at Gogoanime

I'm sure not all the cultural stuff goes across 100% but the same is kinda true with US stuff
 
DaveCinzano said:
BRAT PACK & HIGH SCHOOL HYSTERIA
  • Clueless - Amy Heckerling returns to the themes of Fast Times, but focusing on the attempts of well-meaning Beverly Hills princess Alicia Silverstone to matchmake two of her high school teachers together, à la Jane Austen’s Emma.
  • Fast Times At Ridgmont High - A non-Hughesian take on 80s high school, with pregnancy and stoners and crappy part-time McJobs.
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Sure, when you think about it, they’re a bunch of overprivileged dicks, but still, I like me some Rooney-baiting.
  • Pretty In Pink - Poor girl falls for rich boy, meanwhile misses signals from best friend. Calamity!
  • Some Kind Of Wonderful - Hughes mixes it up this time: Poor boy falls for rich girl, meanwhile misses signals from best friend. Calamity!
  • St. Elmo’s Fire - Whiney yuppies, great!

And finally...


AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
  • A Belfast Story - A criminal waste of Colm Meaney, here as a grizzled and weary old detective in Northern Ireland investigating a series of murders.
  • Allies - Crappy post-D Day mission movie done on the cheap.
  • Basic - Disgraced DEA agent John Travolta investigates an Army Ranger exercise that ended with multiple dead soldiers; inexplicably neither the writer nor the director is one of the victims.
  • Dead Man Running - Tamer Hassan and Danny Dyer look embarrassed throughout as they desperately try to string out half-arsed dialogue that barely connects incomprehensible plot points in a bid to raise the cash to pay back big-time shylock 50 Cent (no, really) his £100,000 before the clock runs out.
  • Doors Open - The worst kind of cringy British ‘comedy’, with Stephen Fry playing a very slappable version of Stephen Fry in this lame art heist nonsense.
  • He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege - Execrable on all levels, this coked-up, self-satisfied Paul Tanter/Simon Phillips shit is amongst the worst tax write-off movies I’ve ever seen, with almost no effort to make it in any way artistically or narratively coherent.
  • Isle Of Dogs - More misogynistic, flabby, pointless gangster bollocks.
  • Left Behind - Nicolas Cage as an airline pilot caught up in Christian apocalyptic bollocks.
  • Madso’s War - Incompetently staged Boston mob movie bollocks.
  • Stalingrad - Not Oserov’s 1990 one, nor Vilsmaier’s 1993 one; this is Bondarchuk’s shitty and over-glossy 2013 one.
  • Survivor - Perfectly competent thriller quickly sours thanks to chips-pissing and lack of decent script.
  • Suspect Zero - FBI agents are on the trail of a dangerous serial killer; they leave no stone unturned, no cliche unused. Oh, and MIND CONTROL.
  • The Outsider - Tedious man-investigates-daughter’s-death revenger, with Craig Fairbrass(!) as the angry mercenary on the war path. In the interests of giving his picture more international credibility director Brian A Miller has persuaded (no doubt through the medium of cold, hard cash) two recognisable names - James Caan and Jason Patric - to rattle through a few short scenes which don’t even seem to match up with the primary plot in a manner so desperate it points towards them being Ponzi scheme victims or similar.
  • The Prince - This time out the traps Brian A Miller appears to have smutty Polaroids of John Cusack and Bruce Willis in his possession, as well as Jason Patric’s Vegas marker, because that’s the only possible reason for their presence in this dumb, tedious flick. Bonus must-punch-self-in-face points for having 50 Cent turn up. OH JOY.
  • Top Dog - Here we reach DEFCON 2 - football hooligans versus Lahndahn gangsters, gor-blimey-ah’s-ya-muvver nonsense with a Spandau Ballet directing, Leo Gregory in the lead (bless him, but he’s not got the charisma to carry the picture), the least urgent ‘climax’ yet committed to celluloid, the logic of a key plot point is almost immediately demolished by a cast member, and Jason Flemyng is in it. When the very best thing about your movie is Ricci Harnett’s understated performance, it’s time to apply for retraining as a butcher at Morrison’s or something.
  • Twisted - Like Suspect Zero, another one of those on-the-trail-of-a-serial-killer movies that tried to capitalise on the success of Se7en. Here, the USP is lead detective Ashley Judd is a risk-taking alcoholic who keeps blacking out and, I dunno, maybe she’s the killer, huh? Huh? HUH?! Oh, and ANDY GARCIA KLAXON.
  • UFO - Fuck you, Simon Phillips. On the plus side, they did persuade Jean-Claude Van Damme to be in it :D
  • Vendetta - Among the two worst Dean Cain films ever.
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Add Full English Breakfast to the avoid list. Dave courtney and a film that makes no sense whatsoever.
 
DotCommunist said:
Add Full English Breakfast to the avoid list. Dave courtney and a film that makes no sense whatsoever.
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It's got some hilarious reviews on IMDb.

Half of them slate it as utter shite and the other half, obviously written by Courtney's mates because they all signed up to IMDb within a few days of each other and are really badly written, give it 10 stars!
 
The Boy said:
TPB is deffo an acquired taste. Me and my flatmates years back loved that shit, but we also smoked a hella lot of weed at the time, but everybody else we knew who'd seen it thought it was balls.
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I don't get this, I've watched it stoned and loved it and watched it sober and loved it
 
I saw the thing about the protected price stopping, which means I will pay £2 extra a month and thought 'I need to cancel', especially as I haven't watched anything since Christmas. I'm just going through my list and having second thoughts now though. But if I haven't watched anything for 4 months I can't be that bothered canI?
 
OK - I'm on my 7 day free trial - it's a nice interface - accessing ALL of the Netflix library from around the world rather than using Hola which you had to choose the country you were claiming to watch from - granted, it's not free but <£3 a month - AND IT WORKS - it looks like this might be the solution for me and my viewing requirements
 
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