[Sticks]

The Thursday Murder Club

I saw this at Tyneside Cinema yesterday.

Worth a look

[Mystic Mock]

Sonic The Hedgehog 3


I didn't like the Film tbh, I definitely will say that it's my least favourite Sonic Movie so far.

Now don't get me wrong I know that it's a Movie aimed towards kids, that also is based off of a Platforming Video Game series, so I'm not expecting Berserk level writing here, but I do feel like the Film had a few things that really bothered me.

I'll list my pro's and cons, starting with the cons.

- A lot of the dialogue was just bad or strange imo. In particular the Happy B-Earthday scene near the beginning of the Film.

- The Film was finding any excuse to just blast out Music/Montage Music in the Film, at one point I was wondering if Disney were making the Film. It was irritating imo.

- Jim Carrey I felt controversially overdid his performance in the Film, I do normally like his performances, but this one just didn't land for me. Especially the weird dance segment that felt like it was added into the Film just to appeal to the TikTok crowd.

- Bizarre "jokes" that just weren't funny in the Film (except for about two jokes) the one that really bothered me as I just didn't understand what was meant to be so funny about it (to sound like Kanye West in the Fishsticks episode on South Park) was the scene after Sonic gets the information from Knuckles about where the Master Emerald is being kept, and we then see the guy who has the Master Emerald (I'm sorry, I can't remember his name) playing Hockey with the Master Emerald in place of a Hockey Puck. I honestly don't understand what was meant to be funny about it? I honestly don't believe that I would've found it funny as a child, and I'm just really confused by the scene as an adult. What was meant to be the punchline?

- This one had potential to be quite good actually, but imo logic fails kind of nuked it for me. Which was how they were handling Sonic and Shadow's "two sides of the same coin" dynamic in the Film, because Shadow is taking his revenge out on everyone, where as Sonic is getting revenge on Shadow by trying to save everyone. If you have seen the Film you'll get what I mean, it makes the idea look silly because Shadow's actions in the Film were far more evil than Sonic's. I'll give them credit for trying to write something with a bit more depth to it, but it needed better execution imo.


Now onto the positives.

- Shadow's flashbacks with Maria were not too shabby imo. Obviously it's less focused on than what Shadow and Maria's dynamic got in some of the Games, but it was handled well considering the runtime that a Movie gets I thought.

- Knuckles being afraid of Casper joke was actually funny imo.

- And the Easter egg scene where they go to Chao Garden was quite cool I thought.

- I liked that the Film finally tried to develop Dr. Robotnik's henchman.

Overall I would score the Film a 4/10.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Sticks

The Thursday Murder Club

I saw this at Tyneside Cinema yesterday.

Worth a look

…The Thursday Murder Club is being released on Netflix on 28th August/Thursday…I’ve been looking forward to watching it…movies seem to get their streaming site debut just after cinema release now, which is something that seems to have happened over recent times…

[Niamh.]

Superman 2025 - It's got pretty good reviews but honestly I wasn't feeling it at all. Seemed like they were trying to be a Marvel movie but instead came of like a goofy almost cartoon type thing. It just didn't work for me at all. I'll give it a 5.5 because the third quarter of the film was good enough

PS the Superdog was a ridiculous addition

[Nicky91]

Thunderbolts 2025

loved it


especially

Spoiler:

the scenes in the void were very well made

and i just LOVE Florence, David's russian accents and i even say this is a better acting performance from David than his role as Hopper on Stranger Things, glad he wasn't just a one off in Black Widow



the ending

Spoiler:

yes this sets up Fantastic Four so nicely!

my score 8.5, no 10 for me only because i reserved my 10's for the Guardians of the Galaxy, but all in all a very good movie


as for

Spoiler:

Bucky's scenes, his action scenes i prefer over his scenes as congressman, feels weird seeing him involved in politics honestly

[Ammi]

…Meg 2 The Trench…Jason Statham and co kicking ass with the Megalodons…marvellous nonsense…6.5/10… …