Movie review thread...
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Master & Commander was fun. Gladiator was very so-so, which is about the best you can say for late career Ridley Scott (have any of you fluffybunnies seen The Counselor? That was easily the most profoundly and unwittingly awful movie of the past decade).
Big Russ was fucking great in the Insider and Romper Stomper. I suspect they gave him the oscar as a corrective to over looking his performance in the Insider.
It was probably the best performance as a scientist I've seen, and as someone who is mostly a cancer researcher now, it's one of the few genuinely inspirering performances I've seen.this was a pretty succinct review from 3 years ago....
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Master & Commander was fun. Gladiator was very so-so, which is about the best you can say for late career Ridley Scott (have any of you fluffybunnies seen The Counselor? That was easily the most profoundly and unwittingly awful movie of the past decade).
Big Russ was fucking great in the Insider and Romper Stomper. I suspect they gave him the oscar as a corrective to over looking his performance in the Insider.
It was probably the best performance as a scientist I've seen, and as someone who is mostly a cancer researcher now, it's one of the few genuinely inspirering performances I've seen.this was a pretty succinct review from 3 years ago....
Holy shit. Ebert would turn in his grave reading such a brief review. Don't talk yourself up so much next time @Tim
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he may have done another, but that was all I could find....
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
That was just the capsule review summary. I wrote a drunken, rambling rant about it earlier.
the movie might actually make sense if one were to watch it in a drunk and rambling state. I might give that a crack, we've got it for 8 days afterall ( no wi fi at the weekender in the rapa so old school dvd hiring was needed )
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Black Mass
The word i am looking for is "meh". It was, well, it was okay. I love me a good crime movie. This was not a crime movie.
My main gripe with it is, every single thing that is supposed to have happened is glossed over. The big take down of the mafia took what? 2 minutes? and wasn't mentioned again. His rise to crime lord happened off screen. The thing in Miami that needed a murder got zero explanation. There was zero tension in the move, as there wasn't really an antagonist, unless you count Cory Stohl, who had what, 5 minutes of screen time?
It's not even made very clear what the FBI guys were doing.
I get they were tying to tell 20 years of story in 2 hours, but come on, you need to give something for us to be interested in, or to root for, or hope to go down.
2 corrupt cops out of 5 strong bawston accents
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is that the one with Johnny Depp? If it is I canned it after about 30mins...granted it was late when I started watching but it didn't grab me to finish it!
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@taniwharugby yea that's him. You didn't miss much
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@Tim I'm hoping you mean the Burt Reynolds one rather than the Adam Sandler one? I'd hate to have to re-evaluate my opinion of you.
Edit: 20th Century films... D'oh!
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim I'm hoping you mean the Burt Reynolds one rather than the Adam Sandler one? I'd hate to have to re-evaluate my opinion of you.
Edit: 20th Century films... D'oh!
Reynolds is in both versions isn't he?
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@taniwharugby Yeah but they're not both "The Reynolds one"!
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I didn't mind the Sandler one, it made me laugh.
Okay, okay, the funniest bit is trying to pass off Adam Sandler as a pro Quarterback. But the movie was harmless fun.
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Independence Day : Resurgence
Well it did have absolutely spectacular special effects.........
That's the one positive out of the way. You know sometimes how you just kinda know something is gonna be terrible but you watch it anyway ? The first few seconds should have told me, apparently after the events of 1996 ( which are repeatedly mentioned during the movie presumably so deadshits can remember them ) the whole world put aside their "petty differences" ( ISIS and US of A fighting alongside eachother......righto ). The world has advanced thanks to studying the Aliens they somehow beat in 96 so....well the spaceships have arms......and laser guns. Naturally a much bigger alien craft attacks, not before a friendly alien comes to warn them only to get blown away by the combined forces of earth cos they're cautious.
Said big alien attacks, sends smaller crafts.....loads of people die, survivors re gather and utter every wooden cheesy line imaginable and save the day. ( I think Jeff Goldblum comes up with a plan again ).....I also counted FOUR ( weird scientist who gets revived, guy with glasses who hangs with the African guy, nerdy sidekick to main hero and Jeff Goldblums Dad ) who could be counted as "comic relief" characters. It was almost like having four Jar Jar Binks in a single movie.
The first one pushed the bullshit needle to the extreme, this one pushed it to absolute critical, amongst many scenes the one that stood out was when the Alien queen ( who wasn't destroyed initially cos, in a real twist, she had a FORCEFIELD ) emerged ( she was about 200 feet tall and arguably the best actor on display ) and whilst she could swat rapid flying supersonic jets out of the sky and destroy them at will she was completely incapable of hitting and destroying a school bus travelling on the ground at about 60kph. Oh that's right, it was cos Jeff Goldblum was driving it in between making completely incomprehensible plans to save the world.
Fuck me days, no wonder Will Smith turned it down. His character was killed off in between movies apparently.
Worst part was I chose it, fiancée hated it as well and whinged at me like I made the movie which means she gets next choice of flick which will probably be some teenage angst ridden vampire type shit.
0.5 Star Crashes out of 5 Star Wars.
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@MN5 fark, you musta watched it way closer than I did!
The fact Will Smith avoided it was enough to warn me it was gonna be pants, but like you I still watched it hoping it might be ok....alas, it was not.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 fark, you musta watched it way closer than I did!
The fact Will Smith avoided it was enough to warn me it was gonna be pants, but like you I still watched it hoping it might be ok....alas, it was not.
I heard he wanted 50 MILLION for two sequels.......fucks sake, I know he's a huge star but that is ridiculous money isn't it ?
