I saw this in cinema and didn’t blink once. Was absolutely hooked. Proper popcorn cinema
Emily Blunt kicks ass in this.
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Fuck yes she does. Fallen in love myself by the end of the movie haha
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I didn’t mean to but I’ve ended up watching The Exorcist for the first time.
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Better!
I missed the first 20 minutes which I imagine were quite important. I got the gist though.
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Just watched Skyfall again. Can’t believe M dies at the end.
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Watched The Quick and the Dead last night. Good laugh popcorn neo western by Sam Raimi back in 1994, which has loads of tilted, wide-angled crash zooms and contra zooms, straight out of Evil Dead and other assorted 80s horror movies. Interesting to see signature shots end up in a bigger budget film - there’s a few handheld wide-angle tracking shots in the first LOTR, very similar to Brain Dead, which Peter Jackson had done about 8 years prior.
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I always thought it was cool how Raimi could direct mainstream blockbuster films yet still keep his directorial flourishes. I always enjoyed this scene, it’s straight up Evil Dead in style, especially with the chainsaw and the quick zoom into face yet he got it into a PG rated superhero film.
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Holy shit yeah. Had totally forgotten about that scene, classic.
Watched The Meg 2 last night and couldn’t detect any of Ben Wheatley’s directorial flourishes in that fucking turkey.
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Loved it 
I reckon his other films are shit.
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I showed my daughter jaws yesterday as she wanted to watch a scary film. She started off well but got a bit bored of the talking and wanted to fast forward to the shark bits.
She wasn’t to traumatized by it, although she was confused by the blood coming out of Quint’s mouth as he was bing chomped up at the end.
No nightmares last nigh, so that means it’s a success.
Predator next weekend.
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The people I convinced to (try) watching a Field In England still haven’t forgiven me.
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Fair enough.
Diabolical.
He had an early run of great films (kill list, sightseers) and then has mostly just done average to rubbish things since (though I quite enjoyed Free Fire).
High Rise was absolute garbage
The style and narrative of his films are like a wanky film student and I saw an interview with him and he came across as one too.
Nick Love is probably a better film maker 
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Meg 2 was ludicrous but pretty fun.
Jaws is only a PG rated film… madness by todays standards. I hated going to the swimming pool for years after watching it as a child, haha.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark too. I know it’s only Nazis getting their faces melted off but still pretty gnarly for kids.
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I might be confusing it with a different film, but I want to say that Temple of Doom was the reason for the introduction of the PG13 rating - someone gets their heart removed while they’re still alive and freaked out a load of ten year olds, and someone was like hmm, maybe this isn’t suitable haha
