Movie review thread...
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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.
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Blood Father - Mel Gibson back to his roots kicking arse!
Alcoholic, ex-con and estranged from his daughter, who just contacts him out of the blue.
3.5 hot daughters out of 5 drug dealers.
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Finally got round to seeing Interstellar. At over three hours long not was not a film for just watching when there's nothing else to do. So, I get the whole thing about relativity between different dimensions but there were a couple of things that just didn't add up to me.
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I get that he was the ghost and had been leading Murph but who put the wormhole there in the first place. Who then sent the messages to NASA - we didn't see him doing anything of that.
:::Oh well it was only three hours which felt a lot less.
Relatively
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got round to seeing Interstellar. At over three hours long not was not a film for just watching when there's nothing else to do. So, I get the whole thing about relativity between different dimensions but there were a couple of things that just didn't add up to me.
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I get that he was the ghost and had been leading Murph but who put the wormhole there in the first place. Who then sent the messages to NASA - we didn't see him doing anything of that.
:::Oh well it was only three hours which felt a lot less.
Relatively
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Future humans. Time travel paradox though, just make it more confusing.
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Think it is called predestination, that fucks with your head!
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Think it is called predestination, that fucks with your head!
that movie certainly does
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Think it is called predestination, that fucks with your head!
That had an uncomfortable ending.
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The Lost Boys soundtrack walked awkwardly between worlds
When The Lost Boys arrived in 1987, popular music was in a state of change, transitioning from the brooding, poufy-haired synth-pop that dominated the early ’80s into the boisterous, poufy-haired metal that straddled its latter half. Like the movie’s shapeshifting vampires—or like Kiefer Sutherland’s Billy Idol-in-the-front, Vince-Neil-in-the-back bleached mullet—The Lost Boys’ soundtrack reflects that by leading its own double afterlife. Sometimes it’s a pale creature of the night, holed up in the cavernous gloom of new wave. Sometimes it’s a motorcycle-riding monster of rock, trundling bare-chested down the California coastline. If you listen closely, from out of the crepuscular mist, sometimes you can even hear the lonely howl of that dude from Foreigner. And always, from deep inside it thrums an insatiable hunger for saxophone.
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Wasnt sure if there was a thread for it, had a quick look , couldnt see anything
Saw Chasing Great last night in the theater , enjoyed it, was actually better than I expected
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So, The Fog of War.
I don't buy the complete denial of the Kennedy's and the Diem assassination (Pearlman etc). I did find the point about empathy/understanding of the enemy when applied to the Viet Cong very interesting. Some might say it was a triumph for Counsellor Troi, or more seriously, a demonstration of the prophetic power of Graham Greene.
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This looks pretty cool.
Does anyone understand how it's so far in the future that Logan is finally deteriorating, but Xavier is still alive, albeit decrepit? He was one of the oldest characters in the other movies. Is it because ::: he took over that kid's body::: in X3?
