Movie review thread...
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As they say, opinions are like arseholes... A "critics" opinion is no more valid than yours or mine.
An example, I watched the restored version of Spartacus last year - all 3 hrs+ of it. This is a movie that won 4 oscars and is rated amongst the best movies ever made. Even accounting for the fact that is was made in 1960 I thought the movie was slow-paced and boring.
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@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
As they say, opinions are like arseholes... A "critics" opinion is no more valid than yours or mine.
An example, I watched the restored version of Spartacus last year - all 3 hrs+ of it. This is a movie that won 4 oscars and is rated amongst the best movies ever made. Even accounting for the fact that is was made in 1960 I thought the movie was slow-paced and boring.
I think that movie holds up terribly. Spartacus is just so unbelievable because he is such a perfect and idealised character. I think Ben-Hur holds up mostly well (until the Jesus stuff at the end). Mostly because the action scenes in that film are both incredible.
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Serenity
Had never seen it start to finish, and as it was on Netflix, thought of give it a crack.
Whedon's fans want to blow him. I don't quite see it that way, and never watched the Firefly series, but he's done a decent job here, even if it is a bit disjointed.
Was that the chick from Deadpool?
Anyway, 2.5 out of 5 Summer Glau arse kickings
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@NTA Yep. Refer to our previous discussion about Morena Baccarin. Serenity is thought of as the sequel to Firefly as Season 2 was never made despite the fan demand. Firefly is worth watching if you like sci-fi and the Joss Whedon humour.
BTW, Chiwetel Ejiofor is the Operative. He's gone on to bigger and better things.
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@NTA 2.5 for Serenity? You fucking cretin. That movie is great
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@mariner4life just didn't like the disjointed feel to the movie. Obviously budget wasn'tt huge, and some of the acting was mumbling.
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I dont think I have seen Serenity, but then I only watched Firefly a year or 2 back...sweet, another movie to watch
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA 2.5 for Serenity? You fucking cretin. That movie is great
This.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life just didn't like the disjointed feel to the movie. Obviously budget wasn'tt huge, and some of the acting was mumbling.
You would have enjoyed the movie more if you had watched the series first.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
You would have enjoyed the movie more if you had watched the series first.
Ah right. Bit of assumed knowledge the movie didn't get to cover?
Will see if I can track it down
It's worth it. I have passed on the geek curse though, just as you really get into it, it ends and you know there is no more.
Then you'll enjoy the movie.
Series sets up the characters really well, and has time to do it properly.
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Watched The Revenant. It was OK. An epic tale of survival. Leo hardly had any lines at all, he's put in way better performances than that before. Pretty amazing cinematography but not a movie I will watch again.
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@No-Quarter agreed. Nature was the star of that movie. And what ever the background noise of a movie is called. Beautifully portrayed the remoteness and power of the area, and i watched it on a tiny airplane screen, would have loved to have seen it on the big screen
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To Live in Die in LA may be the best film extant.
Michael Mann sued the producers for ripping off the Miami Vice aesthetic (gained an out of court settlement). Perhaps that is why Friedkin has ruined the new blu-ray by radically changing the colour to look like a 70s movie. This has resulted in everyone's face being red, like a very badly over saturated television.
The original blu-ray release is still aces.
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There was a mention of the TV Series Shooter in the other thread so I thought I'd give the movie starring Marky Mark a viewing on Netflix. Watched the first five minutes, gave it a one out of five rating and promptly stopped watching.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
There was a mention of the TV Series Shooter in the other thread so I thought I'd give the movie starring Marky Mark a viewing on Netflix. Watched the first five minutes, gave it a one out of five rating and promptly stopped watching.
Ha, I have just realized that I though the Shooter movie/series was about the American Sniper movie/story!
Watched a Korean Zombie movie, Train to Busan on the weekend, wasn't bad...but then I like me a zombie movie, so better than even chance I was going to like it and their zombies were similar to the World War Z ones, although with a bit of a difference difference
3.5 undead out of 5 morons who get eaten
