Movie review thread...
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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?
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Finally got around to watching all of Kingsman the Secret Service.
Fuck that is an enjoyable movie with cracking action, tech, thrills, and even better one liners. Just about did a rib laughing after the Swedish princess smiled sweetly and said 'If you save the world we can do it up the asshole'.
5 umbrella weapons out of 5 worldwide violence frenzies to an 80's soundtrack.
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Watched Chasing Great.Enjoyed it but came away thinking someone not as interested in rugby may actually take more from it. Felt it could have delved more into the psyche required to perform at such a level for so long. But then I was across most of that anyway.
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The Good Dinosaur. As always with kids movies it pulls on the heart strings. Three separate parts had the missus in tears, particularly the part where Spot is showing a representation of his family with sticks...
The animation is great and it's a good watch, the boy loved it and spent the next couple of hours pretending to be Spot, running around on all fours howling like a wolf...
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There's a Star Wars pop up channel on Sky at the moment. I've recorded the 6 movies they have, am not a Star Wars geek but remember watching the first couple as a kid and enjoying them so thought I'd watch them all with the boy and get up to speed seeing as they are going to keep releasing new movies and I feel like I'm missing out.
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I watched the last third of Revenge of the Sith and all of A New Hope the other day. Have to say, for a late 70's flick, the special effects and space stuff was pretty amazing.
The dialogue in both was kind of appalling. And Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen were not great. But Harrison Ford rocks it as Han.
