notjamesdurn

notjamesdurn

Favorite films

  • The Great Escape
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • 1917
  • Johnny English Reborn

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  • Rocketman

    ★★★½

  • Better Man

    ★★★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    ★★★

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★½

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  • Rocketman

    Rocketman

    ★★★½

    Forgot to log my review after I watched this over Christmas. It’s good and I definitely preferred it this time as opposed to when I first watched it, but the ending is so rushed that just when you get emotionally invested it feels like they’re copping out and trying to clear Elton’s name. Ruins the film IMO

  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★★

    To make the obvious comparison - it’s pretty much the same story as Rocket Man but so much better. Not as self indulgent, much more introspective and I barely thought about the fact that he was a monkey. My only complaint is that the bloke who was supposed to be Liam Gallagher looked nothing like him 😂

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    ★★★

    Entertaining but definitely could have benefitted from a shift in focus from Hera (who was lowkey an NPC early on) to the wider family, Return of the King style.

    Gains points for: sick af Oliphaunts, Helm Hammerhand just in general
    Loses points for: the insane hard limiter on Helm’s voice! Tonnes of audible artifacts there

    Bonus points for making me laugh when the lord antagonist at the start started moving like Morshu from that one Zelda RPG game

  • Venom: The Last Dance

    Venom: The Last Dance

    Absolutely dreadful although the Vue where I watched this had a blown subwoofer, which may or may not have contributed to the rating. Do better Vue Basingstoke

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