Movie review thread...
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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 ?
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@MN5 I guess after looking at the script he thought they were skimping on story so could afford to pay him more?
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I'm sure you'd agree this effort made the first one look like fucken Shakespeare in comparison. Awful. Just awful.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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 ?
That's a win-win situation for Smith right there. They say no and he doesn't have to make such shit films. They say yes and he banks $50Mil. He is not stupid.
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3:10 to Yuma
I was drinking when i watched this, forgive me if i go astray
What the fuck? I thought this looked like a great movie, it sucked! There are so many fucking parts of this movie that make no fucking sense, at all.
I guess i better spoiler
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Christian Bale takes the job because he needs the money. When offered 5 times that amount of money to let Crowe go, he decides to "do the right thing" even though everyone else fucking bails, and no one would ever know. Then he dies, leaving his family pretty fucked.
How did his whiney son turn in to fucking Jason Bourne? Sneaking up on Crowe, getting those cows to cause a distraction? Pretty fucking capable for a drippy 15 year old
How can a guy with a wooden leg jump around the roof of a town? and run and shit?
What the fuck with the ending? Why they fuck did he kill all his gang? And then turn himself in (only to escape down the track obviously)? Because he "respected" Bale's character? bullshit.:::
The whole movie was weak as piss
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Watched a couple of kiwi movies over the weekend
Hunt For the Wilderpeople - really enjoyed it, Dennison was thoroughly enjoyable and Neill absolutely nailed Hec from the book. The only real downside I thought was the Rhys Derby character - was just no need for it, think the movie would have been much better if he's just been a more normal, isolated, keeps to himself bloke. The end scene was a bit OTT too with all the military, but from memory the book just sort of meandered to an end, so they did need to do something.
4 wild porks out of 5 watercress.
The Kick - Quality quality made for TV movie, the main downside being the bloke they got to play Richie. Talk about completely not nailing it. At the end of it, I actually felt a bit rubbish about myself - yes, I'm not a talk back caller, but I panned Donald to anybody who would listen. I always viewed him as a "lucky to get in the AB's" sort of guy, never actually thought of it from his point of view. Anyway, really glad he got his redemption.
3.5 world cups out of 5.
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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.
Will Smith Calls ‘After Earth’ the ‘Most Painful Failure’ of His Career
Will Smith said that "After Earth," the 2013 sci-fi film in which his son Jaden Smith also starred, was his most painful career failure.
Uh... yeah...
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@MajorRage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched a couple of kiwi movies over the weekend
Hunt For the Wilderpeople - really enjoyed it, Dennison was thoroughly enjoyable and Neill absolutely nailed Hec from the book. The only real downside I thought was the Rhys Derby character - was just no need for it, think the movie would have been much better if he's just been a more normal, isolated, keeps to himself bloke. The end scene was a bit OTT too with all the military, but from memory the book just sort of meandered to an end, so they did need to do something.
4 wild porks out of 5 watercress.
The Kick - Quality quality made for TV movie, the main downside being the bloke they got to play Richie. Talk about completely not nailing it. At the end of it, I actually felt a bit rubbish about myself - yes, I'm not a talk back caller, but I panned Donald to anybody who would listen. I always viewed him as a "lucky to get in the AB's" sort of guy, never actually thought of it from his point of view. Anyway, really glad he got his redemption.
3.5 world cups out of 5.
I thought "The kick" was fucken terrible. Only person remotely well cast was Graham Henry, the rest were a bunch of wooden ex shortland street, that guy from xxx ad etc.
I was as thrilled for Donald as much as anyone and will definitely shout him a Waikato draught if I ever run into him but no way should a movie have been made about what happened.
