Films

[MilkyJoe]

On 22/07/2026 at 10:36, -TLR- said:

watched 21 Jump Street again for the first time in a while.

 

i think i had almost forgotten how much i love it, its just about the perfect comedy movie.

 

the scene where they are coming up on the HFS is one of my top three greatest comedy scenes ever.

(along with "aaand then..." in Dude Where's My Car, and "Porto..." in The Greasy Strangler).

 

going to give 22 Jump Street another spin too as i remember that was also pretty funny..

 

🙂 

 

 

The Greasy Strangler did not get the recognition it deserved.

[-TLR-]

ok, few things getting my 2cents this week... lets start with the good...

 

Masters of the Universe (2026)

loved the cartoon back in the day, Dolf Lundgrun was great fun... i watched this with zero expectations (or if i did i probably expected the worst) but what the hell, i thought it was great. dumb as sh*t, sure, but great fun and hugely entertaining, deffo recommend if you have a couple of hours to kill and want some brainless fun.

 

Hereditary

this film is one of two (along with A Quiet Place) that made me decide i would never go to the cinema again until the rules were changed to make films the same as any other product - that is, if its faulty, or falsely advertised, or not fit for purpose then you are entitled to your money back.

i hated this film when i first saw it. recently Mrs -TLR- watched it again and said her view of it had changed and she thought it was pretty good. so i gave it another go. i was right the first time. it is an absolute pile of sh*t. the bit where she is cutting her head off in the shed, in the cinema everyone was, literally, laughing out loud... but even that bit this time i just watched it thinking this is absolute garbage. its not often a film makes me hate it so much it actually makes me angry, but Hereditary sure does.

 

The Housemaid

the only reason i watched this was because it started playing automatically after Hereditary on Prime. Amanda Seyfreid and Sydney Sweeny.. what the hell, how bad can it be?

well, the answer is rather simple.

it is sh*t.

 

🙂   

[charlierc]

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

 

Highlight was a bloke reacting to the post-credit scene by going "Holy f**k it's Tobey Maguire!" despite the scene having no reference to him at all. Which made my close-to-full screening of the film laugh a lot.

 

Film was pretty good. It was interesting as much as an exploration of the ramifications of the end of No Way Home and being about isolationism and male loneliness, which I thought it actually did quite well. Though I do ponder if I liked it as much as the other 3 Tom Holland Spider-Man movies. Sadie Sink was good tbf, while I also liked Jon Bernthal as Punisher, enough that I might go watch his Disney+ shows.

 

Seem to have had a Marvel kick recently having also watched Thunderbolts and Shang-Chi, both of which I thought were pretty good.

Edited Saturday at 10:28 by charlierc

[charlierc]

When I was in the cinema to watch The Odyssey a few weeks ago, I saw a trailer for a film called One Night Only. Premise is a rom-com but with a backdrop that it's the one night of the year where non-marital sex is legal.

 

Some of the background mechanics as to how this works as per the reviews seem creepy and like something a lot of people wouldn't just accept and go with. How you marry that to a rom-com narrative is bizarre. 

[DomDom1984]

I think Thunderbolts probably had one of the more interesting villains for an MCU movie. I was actually a bit creeped out by Void. I'm a massive horror movie fan, and I can't think of another time in the last couple of years where a character legit scared me like he did. 

 

Brand New Day was a good time. A great villain choice as it played into Parker's insecurities. Castle was a strange inclusion but the dynamic between him and Parker was great. Castle must have been delighted to have someone who never seen themselves as superior to him like Murdoch pretty much always did.