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The Shining

Tripadvisor - 1 star.


 
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Rosemary’s Baby

Snipadvisor -1 star


 
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Punter falls in love with prostitute.


 
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Donnie Darko takes it up the Rangers end.


 
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A cockney (with a NY accent), a rabbit and.... 'by god that's a hot cartoon woman'


 
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The rescue mission goes wrong as the ship if full of immigrants, luckily they get sent back from where they came from so everyone can sleep peacefully.


 
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Man finds excuse to buy a bigger boat. Things don’t go according to plan.


 
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6th sense

boy tells dead man he sees dead people, dead man doesn't get it


 
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Spaceship answers distress call,it was a trap.


 
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Abandoned sociopathic child tortures petty criminals.

At Christmas.


 
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Orphan gets Willy out,splash,happy ending.


 
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WarGames.

No need for a World war, a game of chess is better.


 
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The Shining

Tripadvisor – 1 star.

🙂 🙂


 
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Prostitute steals from rich kid, trashes his parents car then leads him into a life of crime to cover all the costs.

Risky Business


 
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Home help shows children how to tidy up bedrooms ,reminds their father about kite flying ,but fails to properly risk assess dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps.


 
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The Italian Job

Benny Hill wanders into the wrong film


 
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Police arrest the right criminal. He makes up a load of old bollocks.  They let him go.


 
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Brief encounter

2 people don't have sex on a station


 
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Delivery driver is late

Castaway


 
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Rocky:

Bumbling simpleton loses a boxing match, but gets a girlfriend…

We really should have a spoiler warning; I've not seen some of these!
😀


 
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lots of lingering looks between mates on holiday .small man gets his ring destroyed

Mrpotatohead - I thought this was brokeback mountain?


 
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American thinks about stealing a plane from the Russians

Firefox


 
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Professional teaches young girl to care for his plant after he dies

Leon


 
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Speed: A good reason not to use public transport in the US.

Speed2: A good reason not to go on a cruise.


 
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Hairy American student doesn't stay on the road then visits capital city, finds love with a nurse.


 
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Hollywood.

Movie producers and/or gangsters.

A cowboy who drives the golfcart.

Bad Espresso.

Nipples.

A monster hiding behind the bins.

Sapphic awakening.

Falling into a box.

Tiny scurrying pensioners.

Other stuff.


 
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American rents flat but dies after running out of butter.

Last Tango in Paris


 
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Man invites children to sweet factory,bad things happen.


 
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Man travels up a river to meet bald fat man, is interrupted by surfers having a barbeque


 
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Weekend at Bernie’s - two men repeatedly abuse a corpse due to missing some crucial information. Hilarity ensues

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Arts & Crafts obsessed family forced to resort to extreme measures to finish various ongoing projects due to lack of local hobbycraft.


 
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Man miles goose with face 19 and a bit years ago.

Apparently set in a time when the majority of gooses didn't have faces.


 
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He's not as big as people thought he was , with some kicks and punches .


 
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Unorthordox detective really doesn't want to join the after-work motorcycle club because he feels it's beyond him.

Policewoman joins the CIA for the transport perks but realises its really not for her so leaves

Latex masks mean assignment is merely quite difficult but flying helicopters in tunnels is really not recommended.

Two high school students cheat at their history test and get away with it


 
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Man loses car. Finds it.


 
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Guy comes up with get rich quick scheme but gives it all up for a waitress


 
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A group of city boys go on a canoe trip in Red-Neck country. Murder follows a rape, followed by a drowning, and another murder. The survivors go home and promise never to speak about it again, and that is that. Or is it?


 
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I've had a few goes at Pulp Fiction.... it's a tough one


 
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Rear Window:
Closeted, self destructive old man accepts the advances of a girl young enough to be his daughter after ruining a perfectly good murder.

Marnie:
Woman abused as a child 'cured' by violent man.

Batman:
Spoilt child grows up to be spoilt man with rubber fetish after seeing parents brutally murdered.

Alien:
A group of astronauts demonstrate why it's always a good idea to join the union.

Wings of Desire:
Angels get the blues.


 
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Marathon Man - dentist tackles health & safety issues running.


 
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I’ve had a few goes at Pulp Fiction…. it’s a tough one

Pinched from elsewhere:

The moving story of forbidden love between one man and two hillbillies.


 
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The Big Lebowski

A surfer's desire to obtain a hamburger is fulfilled.


 
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Man with magic glove clicks fingers. Destroys half the population of the universe.

Man who hasn’t had sex before, has sex.


 
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Spartacus

Man loses identity; doesn't consider the possibility that he's been cloned.


 
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Man is buried alive. Dies.


 
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Convoy.

Lots of trucks.


 
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Life of Brian

In a case of mistaken identity the protagonist doesn't consider the possibility that he may be the messiah.


 
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From the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/what-to-watch-with-your-kids-missing-link-little-and-more/2019/04/12/0bb76702-50f7-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

“Pet Sematary” is a remake of the 1989 horror movie; both films are based on Stephen King’s 1983 novel. While it’s not excessively heavy on gore, it’s plenty violent. Expect creepy, disturbing imagery and brief scenes of struggling, strangling and stabbing. A few scenes (including nightmare sequences) show blood dripping or gushing. Characters die, and a dead cat and a nearly dead bird are seen. A gun is shown, and a gunshot is heard. Language includes several uses of “f---,” “s---” and “damn.” A married couple kisses and embraces playfully and passionately in bed. A character smokes cigarettes, and several people drink whiskey (one glass is drugged with a sleeping powder).

Characters are killed, and there are torn-up body parts, severed heads and limbs, and gouged tongues and eyeballs. There’s also lots of fighting, with punching, throwing and smashing, as well as slicing and stabbing with swords and arrows. Scenes include creepy monsters and other scary stuff, and children’s bodies are briefly shown hanging from a ceiling. Language is also strong, with frequent use of “f---,” “s---” and more. There’s a quick, non-graphic glimpse of a topless woman, seen from the side, and a couple of spoken sexual references. Hellboy (David Harbour) sometimes gets very drunk, with no consequences.


 
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Leaving Las Vegas:

The less well known prequel to The Hangover, with all the same key plot points but not quite as funny...


 
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Man in a car gets chased by a truck.


 
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Man in a truck gets chased by some cars.


 
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Inglorious Basterds.
Some Jews defeat the Nazis by showing a film.

Die Hard.
Man on his day off falls out with wife but then they make up.


 
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Boys decide the camping life isn't for them

Maze Runner

Spoilsport ends world's biggest practical joke

The Truman Show


 
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The Truman Show

I was going to go with ‘Man escapes from giant snow globe.’


 
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Mission:Impossible.
Spy of small stature disproves the film's title.


 
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NASA wastes a fortune training miners to be astronauts in order to blow up an asteroid, rather that train existing astronauts to mine.

People die at a posh zoo’s test opening. Zoo later goes on to open anyway, more people die.


 
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Bill Murray variations.


 
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hols turns up in the wrong thread. Hopes nobody has noticed.

Is mistaken


 
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Cancer patient gets cured. Goes on murderous rampage. Finds it hilarious


 
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Lethal Weapon.
A decent family guy is due to retire. His mentally ill (but fundamentally well-meaning) friend kind of messes things up for him.

Shaun Of The Dead.
Two thirty-something slackers grab some mates and go to the pub to try and avoid civil unrest. May contain some matricide.


 
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Same shit; different day.

Groundhog Day.


 
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Divine workers have dispute with boss and get fired. They feel this is unfair dismissal, and find a way back in. Boss kills them with her voice.


 
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Divine workers have dispute with boss and get fired. They feel this is unfair dismissal, and find a way back in. Boss kills them with her voice.

One of my absolute favourite films.


 
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Me too.


 
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Boy likes to dance ,but he's from up North , where they don't do dancing.
He's good at it though & very keen.


 
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Dog Soldiers.
A bunch of fed up squaddies take shelter in a remote cottage. Have some issues with forest animals.


 
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shamelessly stolen from elsewhere...

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with 3 strangers to kill again.

edit, balls, looks like i was beaten to it, on page one...


 
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