Movie review thread...
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Milk said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Jason Bourne on Saturday and it didn't disappoint.
Just finished re-watching the first 3 again. They really hold up.
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Is there any benefit to re-watching the 4th one, Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner? Or do they just forget that one ever happened?I watched the new Bourne movie, I liked it, simple formula. Car chase with the indestructible SWAT truck was pretty good.
I watched it and hated the sheer laziness of the plot going for the "CIA can hack any fucking camera and do facial recognition in real time" crap. Hell, at one point the 12 year old (Viklander's character) in charge of a CIA division
says 'enhance'. 
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I watched it and hated the sheer laziness of the plot going for the "CIA can hack any fucking camera and do facial recognition in real time" crap. Hell, at one point the 12 year old (Viklander's character) in charge of a CIA division
says 'enhance'. ESPECIALLY the camera of a computer hacker - a guy who probably has a fucking clue about how to avoid all that shit.
Its like the Bond film where they decided to stick the bad guy's hard drive into their network. WTAF???
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While on the subject of a nice pair, I just watched the trailer for the Scarlett Johansson Ghost in the Shell shot in Wellington.
Have no idea what the movie is about and cladding SJ in some kind of fake nude suit with no nipples is just plain weird. Anyway it was fun to see a massively CGI'd Wellington as the set. If you look closely you can actually recognise bits,
The glimpse where see is walking at a city crossroads is the intersection of Wills, Willeston and Lambton Quay (looking up Willis St). There are parts where you can recognise the carpark on Victoria St (across the road from the Green Man) and the bit they didn't have to CGI in order to make it look all futuristic brutalism is the good old Ministry of Works designed Central Police Station. -
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@Tim agreed. I read a good article once on the "death by a thousand cuts" and why modern fight scenes often look so shitty.
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@mariner4life You may even had read it here.
I remember the critic David Denby's article about it ("Chaos Cinema"?). It boiled down to "I'm a professional critic, I watch movies for a living, and I have no fucking idea what is going on. I can't follow this shit, and I can't be bothered any more."
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Don't let talentless directors ruin franchises. After Transporter 3 anyone would know to stay away from something Olivier Megaton is involved with.
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Watched Deadpool again last night. And was happy to see it held up on the 2nd viewing, and wasn't just entertaining due to being different the first time. Still funny, the violence is still awesome. Loved it.
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25 years since The Addams Family movie was released. Watching tonight, and still great story, casting, acting and soundtrack. One of the few movies where the sequel was even better than the original - bigger part for Wednesday.
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Watched "The Martian" last night. Well to be honest I finished watching it last night. I was able to do this because it is easy to pick up the thread of things because bugger all happens. Also as it was so dull I found I could not watch it all in one sitting.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched "The Martian" last night. Well to be honest I finished watching it last night. I was able to do this because it is easy to pick up the thread of things because bugger all happens. Also as it was so dull I found I could not watch it all in one sitting.
I really enjoyed The Martian, however I read the book first which goes into far more detail which I think helped with my enjoyment of the movie. E.G. the trip to go and get Pathfinder was pretty epic in the book, but uneventful in the movie. They also changed the final sequence from the book which took away from the ending a bit IMO (massive dust storm, accidently flipping the rover etc, unsure why they left that out).
Thought Matt Damon was very good though, he's a quality actor.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Deadpool again last night. And was happy to see it held up on the 2nd viewing, and wasn't just entertaining due to being different the first time. Still funny, the violence is still awesome. Loved it.
I saw it for the first time the other night. Outrageous awesomeness is probably the best way I can describe it. Dealpool's girlfriend is outrageously hot as well.
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@No-Quarter said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched "The Martian" last night. Well to be honest I finished watching it last night. I was able to do this because it is easy to pick up the thread of things because bugger all happens. Also as it was so dull I found I could not watch it all in one sitting.
I really enjoyed The Martian, however I read the book first which goes into far more detail which I think helped with my enjoyment of the movie. E.G. the trip to go and get Pathfinder was pretty epic in the book, but uneventful in the movie. They also changed the final sequence from the book which took away from the ending a bit IMO (massive dust storm, accidently flipping the rover etc, unsure why the left that out).
Thought Matt Damon was very good though, he's a quality actor.
That could have happened to me to, filling in the blanks. I was disappointed that they skipped over the journey to the other rocket too. Lots happened on that.
Worth checking out the book, it's very funny and each chapter is like a cliff hanger (what did he fuck up this time).
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@No-Quarter said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Deadpool again last night. And was happy to see it held up on the 2nd viewing, and wasn't just entertaining due to being different the first time. Still funny, the violence is still awesome. Loved it.
I saw it for the first time the other night. Outrageous awesomeness is probably the best way I can describe it. Dealpool's girlfriend is outrageously hot as well.
Morena Baccarin, she was Brody's wife in Homeland too
