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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Last two movies I saw I went in knowing nothing about them.
The Life of Chuck: Based on a Stephen King short story, not horror, but philosophical I guess (yeah I know I sound movie piston wristed gibbon when I say that), told in a reverse three act structure. I quite enjoyed, had no idea what was going on the first act and then the second and third acts revealed more. Stars Loki as Chuck.
Relay: A thriller about whistleblowers, was a decent turn your brain off and watch, there's a bit of a twist near the end that I saw coming a mile away. Stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
Life of Chuck was overrated IMHO
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Last two movies I saw I went in knowing nothing about them.
The Life of Chuck: Based on a Stephen King short story, not horror, but philosophical I guess (yeah I know I sound movie piston wristed gibbon when I say that), told in a reverse three act structure. I quite enjoyed, had no idea what was going on the first act and then the second and third acts revealed more. Stars Loki as Chuck.
Relay: A thriller about whistleblowers, was a decent turn your brain off and watch, there's a bit of a twist near the end that I saw coming a mile away. Stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
Life of Chuck was overrated IMHO
I had no idea of it's rating so it wasn't overrated to me. It's what I try (not always successfully) to do with most movies.
I have a fucking friend who wont see anything without consulting IMDB first, so he's letting some idiots on the internet choose what he sees for him.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Last two movies I saw I went in knowing nothing about them.
The Life of Chuck: Based on a Stephen King short story, not horror, but philosophical I guess (yeah I know I sound movie piston wristed gibbon when I say that), told in a reverse three act structure. I quite enjoyed, had no idea what was going on the first act and then the second and third acts revealed more. Stars Loki as Chuck.
Relay: A thriller about whistleblowers, was a decent turn your brain off and watch, there's a bit of a twist near the end that I saw coming a mile away. Stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
Life of Chuck was overrated IMHO
I had no idea of it's rating so it wasn't overrated to me. It's what I try (not always successfully) to do with most movies.
I have a fucking friend who wont see anything without consulting IMDB first, so he's letting some idiots on the internet choose what he sees for him.
Really talked up in the British press
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Last two movies I saw I went in knowing nothing about them.
The Life of Chuck: Based on a Stephen King short story, not horror, but philosophical I guess (yeah I know I sound movie piston wristed gibbon when I say that), told in a reverse three act structure. I quite enjoyed, had no idea what was going on the first act and then the second and third acts revealed more. Stars Loki as Chuck.
Relay: A thriller about whistleblowers, was a decent turn your brain off and watch, there's a bit of a twist near the end that I saw coming a mile away. Stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
Life of Chuck was overrated IMHO
I had no idea of it's rating so it wasn't overrated to me. It's what I try (not always successfully) to do with most movies.
I have a fucking friend who wont see anything without consulting IMDB first, so he's letting some idiots on the internet choose what he sees for him.
Really talked up in the British press
Ah right. If I'd gone in thinking it was going to be awesome I assume I would have been a bit disappointed, but as I had no baseline it was an enjoyable two hours (well confusing first 40 mins).
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Last two movies I saw I went in knowing nothing about them.
The Life of Chuck: Based on a Stephen King short story, not horror, but philosophical I guess (yeah I know I sound movie piston wristed gibbon when I say that), told in a reverse three act structure. I quite enjoyed, had no idea what was going on the first act and then the second and third acts revealed more. Stars Loki as Chuck.
Relay: A thriller about whistleblowers, was a decent turn your brain off and watch, there's a bit of a twist near the end that I saw coming a mile away. Stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington.
Life of Chuck was overrated IMHO
I have a fucking friend
We all need one of those, don’t let the haters get you down
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Rewatched Tropic Thunder.
Such a cool movie.
4.5 fake movies out of 5 dudes playing a dude disguised as another dude
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Rewatched Tropic Thunder.
Such a cool movie.
4.5 fake movies out of 5 dudes playing a dude disguised as another dude
For me Tom Cruise was brilliant in that movie and I'm not normally a fan.
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General Commander
- 2019 Seagal
- I tried to watch this, I really did
- I gave myself a few breaks, and came back to it
- Nope. Forced myself to 50% mark, and admitted... fuck this, not worth it.
0 tits.
0 sense.
0 any-goddamn-thing.
0 Kruse-has-watched-Sharks-In-The-Corn out of 5-Velocipastor-wasnt-this-bad.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Very interesting choices of actors and their finest performances
The 101 Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century
We’re talking capital-A Acting, baby! From Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ to Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Departed,’ we’re celebrating the best of the best of the past 25 years. How do your favorites stack up?
I stopped after 101 and 100. Kevin Garnett as himself in Uncut Gems and Ben Affleck in Gone Girl? What the actual fark????
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Rebel Moon - Part 1 - Director's Cut
- Fuck me... first thought - Zack Snyder is a high-functioning retard
- Nope... to be fair, he's probably just VERY high on the ADHD scale, and the shit he does would definitely resonate with similar folk - that's not necessarily a bad thing, just... not my brain-wave-stylez
- 13 year old me would love this shit. I'm pretty sure I've said this before - every single scene/shot looks like it could/should be a poster on a 13yo boy's wall
- Everything else... doesn't make a lick of sense
- I know it was originally derided as a Star Wars knock-off... but on this watch - it was much more of a Seven Samurai knock-off. Wanting to be Dune. Plus the hints of Star Wars (The Hidden Fortress), and I got hints of something else I couldn't click to... I get the impression the Snyder did some coke and decided to make a sci-fi mash-up of about 3 or 4 japanese classics.
Not looking forward to part 2... I've never watched the cinema-edit, will probably watch the director's edit first, then circle back to a slightly more sane version.
Tit-watch: non-zero. And more 'impressive' than expected after the very early un-flattering shots of the relevant lass in overalls.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
I know it was originally derided as a Star Wars knock-off... but on this watch - it was much more of a Seven Samurai knock-off. Wanting to be Dune. Plus the hints of Star Wars (The Hidden Fortress), and I got hints of something else I couldn't click to... I get the impression the Snyder did some coke and decided to make a sci-fi mash-up of about 3 or 4 japanese classics.
I think it was always derided as a Seven Samurai knock off, but it was also originally a Star Wars script.
I'm never going to watch the Directors cut of this, I only watched the Justice League one so I could complain about it to my mate and I'm not sure the 7 sittings it took me were worth it to take the piss out of him.
TBF, part 1 was watchable compared with part 2.
I watched Caught Stealing today, essentially Darren Aronofsky doing Tarantino. Didn't really work. Wasn't bad like a Snyder movie, was watchable, just not memorable and didn't really nail it's tone.
Tit-watch for you @Kruse - a brief shot of Zoe Kravitz's small boobies,
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Rogue Moon - Part Two - Directors Cut
It sounded like this was fucking bad, so just jumped to the probable worst version so I didn't have to suffer it twice- Yeah - pretty bad
- Typical Snyder stuff. Not going to go over my prime theory as to what/why that is again
- EXCEPT... things that Zack Snyder doesn't understand:
-- human relationships
-- continuity in movie-universe physics and shit
-- traditional sequence of events in movie plots (fair'nuff)
-- effective sequence of events in movie plots (not-so-much)
-- battle scenes
-- several other things I found weird but got too bored to remember - As to tit-watch... it is clear he has one theory on it. "Get it done, out-of-the-way, in the first 5 minutes - make the movie a non-zero titwatch so I don't seem creepy - but get ALL that icki-ness out of the way ASAP, so I don't need to think about it ever again." Fucking creepy dude. You don't want tits, just don't do tits.
1 "really... you think there's going to be a 3rd?" out of 5 "fuck it... throw him some money, the ADHD kids will watch it, and so will I if I'm honest"
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Finally got around to seeing the “The Final Reckoning” latest in MI chapter.
Really wanted to like this as have enjoyed most of the movies. Felt like an hour too long and strangely more drawn out drama than real action and even the action felt largely flat.
Sure a couple of good nifty links to previous movies but I guess they had to because nothing left for them to explore.
Probably the worst since the Sydney based one, but even that was better.
2.5 overly botoxed Cruise’s out of 5 three hour farewells.
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The F1 movie was fun if a bit silly. Pitt was very cool, I was never bored, it looked good, the Simpson/Bruckheimer "high concept" formula still works really well.
Read this book:
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@bayimports i started it the other night, got half hour in and turned to something else...will probably finish it, but at that length I can treat it like a 4 part series....
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K-Pop Demon Hunters
The daughter made me watch.
My conclusion:
Do yourself a favour and watch.
Fun movie.
Just park any need to understand the whole thing.
Ms Boo Jr advises it took 10 years to make, and even then Netflix got them to chop from 3hrs to 1.5. So that there are many unanswered questions. But it doesn't really matter.
Save that shit for the sequel(s).
Sit back and enjoy.
Music is great.
3.5+ catchy K-Pop numbers out of 5 over sexualised AI Boy band members
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Gladiator 2.
Damn this was bad. The original is one of my favourite films. This is like TFA to Star Wars. Similar story but just shit. The main dude had zero acting ability and charisma. Not even a pale imitation of Martin's cousin. Denzel Washington was of course great but even he couldn't do shīt with this turd burger. -
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
- Can't understand how anybody would rank this in top half of Tarantino (please don't take this as an invitation to do yet ANOTHER ranking of Tarantino films. It's been done. Ad nausem. I say knowing perfectly well.... )
- Just... nothing happening, 2.5 hours of style-over-substance
- And occasional random moments of shit happening
- Perhaps that's a me-thing... going into a Tarantino movie and expecting stuff to happen. To be fair - the style was well done. And was probably just drunk-ADHD me wanting/expecting dumb stylised violence... I'll revisit Kill Bill next... that'll scratch the itch I was hoping to deal with.
Footwatch - too much
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