2020 Movies (now including 2021 - 2025)

[Hammers1993]

Another year and another set of movies being released.

As always there are a few surprises throughout the year that come out but the big movies look to be good ones this year:

- The Gentlemen
- Jojo Rabbit
- 1917
- Uncut Gems
- Bombshell
-Bad Boys for Life
- The Lighthouse
- Just Mercy
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
- Parasite
- Birds of Prey
- Dolittle
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Bloodshot
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Dark Waters
- Onward
- A Quiet Place: Part 2
- Mulan
- Bond: No Time to Die
- The New Mutants
- Black Widow
- Scoob!
- Fast and Furious 9
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- Tenet
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Jungle Cruise
- Morbius
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- The King's Man
- Halloween Kills
- Eternals
- Gozilla vs. Kong
- Dune
- Coming 2 America
- West Side Story

[Council Scum]

Also watched Heretic and have the same view, Grant very good, average horror yarn.

CS - He's back in one of his old roles soon in the new Bridget Jones film

Have managed to avoid every watching a Bridget Jones film, hope to keep it that way 

[Manuel]

Also watched Heretic and have the same view, Grant very good, average horror yarn.

CS - He's back in one of his old roles soon in the new Bridget Jones film

[Swiss.]

I watched Heretic the other night. Now I'd heard a lot of hype about this and no I didn't think it lived up to it. However High Grant's performance is very good. 

Agreed, its a watchable film, but nothing more, Grant has really come into his own since he ditched all the Romcom shit.

Watched Dogman (2023 one), if you like dogs, its a good way to spend a couple of hours. 

I think his role in The Gentlemen is very good but my favourite is the sleezy arms dealer in Operation Fortune. It also has the delighful Aubrey Plaza. Unfortunately you do have to put up with Jason Statham ...again 

[Council Scum]

I watched Heretic the other night. Now I'd heard a lot of hype about this and no I didn't think it lived up to it. However High Grant's performance is very good. 

Agreed, its a watchable film, but nothing more, Grant has really come into his own since he ditched all the Romcom shit.

Watched Dogman (2023 one), if you like dogs, its a good way to spend a couple of hours. 

[Swiss.]

Watched a horror film called The Damned with Joe Cole in it recently. Pretty good. 

[zico]

Watched Back in Action last night on Netflix starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz who is on screen for the first time in ten odd years.  Think it was during the filming of this Foxx was taken ill, hence a 2025 release date.  It's ok, an enjoyable enough action flick.  I thought it was similar to the two RED films Bruce Willis did.  Thought Jamie Demetriou was very good and it also stars Glenn Close although was surprised Helen Mirren didn't pop up in that role!  Worth a watch if nothing else is on.

[Lee Trundle]

Looks like Warner Bros are putting a selection of their movies for FREE on Youtube to watch.

Full Movies | Warner Bros. Entertainment - YouTube

 

[Swiss.]

Watched a very good low budget Italian movie A Classic Horror Story with the gorgeous Matilda Lutz,  

[Swiss.]

Watched Nosferatu luciky at home for free. Very disapointed in what is basically the Dracula story with no additional  twists and a terrible ending, I wonder just why they made it in the first place. I thnk the 20s and 70s versions were better.

 

[Chip Shop Charlie]

Red One: Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans star in this Christmas tale, trying to find the kidnapped Santa Claus and save Christmas. Sound familiar?
A pleasant way to pass the afternoon.

Nothing to do with West Ham.

[DukeofDevo]

Lake George - Good little crime thriller 

[Swiss.]

I thought Kraven was very good. 

Now looking forward to Nosferatu. 

[DukeofDevo]

Talking of Liam Neeson films: I thought Absolution was a pretty good watch! A couple of his more recent films, this one included, have been very watchable. The other one being ‘In the land of Saints and Sinners’ 

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

I watched Heretic the other night. Now I'd heard a lot of hype about this and no I didn't think it lived up to it. However High Grant's performance is very good. 

Yeah I watched it last night, thought it was a great film, but have not seen any hype for it to live up to.

Really not of fan of Hugh Grant, but he was brilliant in this role tbf.

[Swiss.]

I watched Heretic the other night. Now I'd heard a lot of hype about this and no I didn't think it lived up to it. However High Grant's performance is very good. 

[Swiss.]

'Carry-On' with Taron Egerton on Netflix is ok.  It's billed as Die Hard for the new generation but it doesn't even come close.  It's a bit like a reasonably entertaining Liam Neeson flick set in an airport. Never going to be a classic but worth a watch if you have some spare time and fancy an action film. 

Totally agree.

Thought it was bang average.

[Alfs]

'Carry-On' with Taron Egerton on Netflix is ok.  It's billed as Die Hard for the new generation but it doesn't even come close.  It's a bit like a reasonably entertaining Liam Neeson flick set in an airport. Never going to be a classic but worth a watch if you have some spare time and fancy an action film. 

Totally agree.

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

'Carry-On' with Taron Egerton on Netflix is ok.  It's billed as Die Hard for the new generation but it doesn't even come close.  It's a bit like a reasonably entertaining Liam Neeson flick set in an airport. Never going to be a classic but worth a watch if you have some spare time and fancy an action film. 

Well..
unlike the Ferret  I'll keep  my powder dry until I've actually seen it ...know what I mean.
Merry Christmas everyone and god bless you all ..including the ferret

[Monsieur merde de cheval]

Nope, not reading all that.

Ferret.
if you're gonna  give it large ...at least make an effort you minge

[zico]

'Carry-On' with Taron Egerton on Netflix is ok.  It's billed as Die Hard for the new generation but it doesn't even come close.  It's a bit like a reasonably entertaining Liam Neeson flick set in an airport. Never going to be a classic but worth a watch if you have some spare time and fancy an action film. 

[Swiss.]

Saw the new Venom movie which was OK. 

Saw a low budget Italian horror The Well. Thought it was pretty good. 

[Mr Anon]

its rallied to 7.5 but I haven't trusted IMDB since it noticed Dead Man's shoes was 6.2 a few years back, had a look at the reviews and it was full of Americans incredulous the gangsters were jokes driving around in a clown car which is completely missing the whole point, that and they couldn't understand the accents 

[Swiss.]

This the same Man on Fire that has a whopping 39% rating on Rotten Tomatoes?

I’ll pass, thanks.

 

Gets 7.7/10 on IMDB which is what I generally go by. Never trust Rotten Tomatoes

[Mad Ferret]

Nope, not reading all that.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

I've used Rotten for years and personally have always found their ratings pretty much in line to what I think. IMDB is a fucking awful site, there's fuck all on there.

 

What goes on at Rotten Tomatoes is hilarious.

Let's start with the critics' scores.

The big studios know how to play the system, so anyone who gets on the 'All critics' list is showered with corporate largesse and gains 'access' to the film-makers and stars (and goodie bags, free tickets etc). Disney is particularly adept at this tactic, so any Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm product will always get insanely high 'All Critics' ratings. Someone at Disney bragged that they can buy a positive review for fifty bucks.

The 'Top Critics' are less easily bought, but are all insanely liberal, which again favours Disney whose product is uniformly and insanely woke.

As far as the audience scores are concerned, beware the 'verified ratings'. The studios, again especially Disney, are adept at influencing this score. I suspect they insist all their employees become verified users and go on the site to give positive reviews. The 'All audience' Popcornometer thing is about the only index I would take seriously.

For example - let's take the insanely woke The Marvels from which audiences stayed away in their droves.

The all critics score is 62%, reflecting the bought and paid for nature of the index. Top critics, less inclined to risk their reputations shilling for Disney, panned it and gave it it only 45%. Given that the literally nobody went to see this mess and it lost the studio upwards of $200m one can only assume they gave it extra marks for being an utter girl-boss fest.

Now, audiences do like super-hero films, especially Marvel movies, so scores are higher. The 'Verified Audience' score is a belief-defying 81%, while the 'All Audience' score, which of course includes the 'Verified' score is 64%. A bit more realistic, but still at odds with the box office.

You also have to bear in mind the fanboy wars that see Marvel fans bigging up their own team while down-voting DC's stuff and vice versa. There are far more Marvel fan-boys than DC, which is one of the reasons Marvel films come out better - the other being that most DC films have been shit. 

The studios are less able to influence the audience scores for TV shows, which is probably why some Disney/Marvels offerings there are rated pretty close to zero. The funniest is Star Wars: The Acolyte - a thumping 78% from 'All critics' who loved the fanatical feminist anti-male stuff, and 18% from the audience who I presume were mostly men (as you'd expect for a fucking Stars Wars show). Amazon's Rings of Power gets some pretty bizarre scores, too. The most expensive TV show ever made - loved by the critics, hated by the audiences (where the fuck is Celeborn, why is Celebrimbor gay and why is Galadriel a mighty warrior who snogs her also gay son-in-law, Elrond AND Sauron?) and so little watched that Season Three (out of a promised five) still hasn't been green-lit.

Plus, at the behest of the studios, RT routinely remove hundreds of negative audience reviews on the pretext of racism/sexism/transphobia and other spurious isms and phobias.

RTs problem is its own success. It's become too important for the studios to ignore and they have been incapable of preventing themselves corrupting it. I would say RT is pretty good for old stuff, say further back than 7 years ago but for current and recent stuff I just go there for the laughs.

IMDB is nearly as bad as RT and Metacritic is the least worst.

RT and IMDB are both owned by studios now, by the way, so there's that to consider.