Movie review thread...
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Took the boy to Moana today. It got a round of applause when it finished and rightly so, excellent movie and would recommend you get along to it. Movie of the year for me, though I may be a bit biased..
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@No-Quarter said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Took the boy to Moana today. It got a round of applause when it finished and rightly so, excellent movie and would recommend you get along to it. Movie of the year for me, though I may be a bit biased..
@No-Quarter said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Took the boy to Moana today. It got a round of applause when it finished and rightly so, excellent movie and would recommend you get along to it. Movie of the year for me, though I may be a bit biased..
Took my girls to see it today as well
Big kiwi influence with Tem Morrison and a few others doing voices.
A typical Disney flick ( great animation and full of songs)
Will it be the next Frozen? Let's hope the fuck not. -
Moana: wha Heihei out of rima Sopoagas.
Enjoyable movie even though they appeared to screw Taika out of a writing credit. I thought they handled the 'culture' really well and in the end Maui wasn't actually a fatso he was just massive, must be the Tongan Maui even though he was voiced by a Samoan. I like how they just decided to not give a shit about accents and let the characters do it in their own - it was especially noticeable when the poly words were spoken as the Maori actors were enunciating on the first vowel and the non Maori were doing it more on the second.
Good to see a decent Kiwi contingent with Tem, the Grandma, Jermaine and Oscar Knightly who sounded like he was the freshest PI to ever step off a boat.
How embarrassing though for Tem, proud Te Arawa (often known as the people of the mirror amongst other iwi), nephew of Howie - and they get some American dude to sing his characters songs. WTF! They even let The Rock sing. The songs were pretty good, although I thought they could have used a few more PI drum sounds as opposed to vaguely African sounds at times.
Heihei was awesome.
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@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
This may have aloready been mentioned but if you are yet to see The Dark Horse, drop everything and steal it from someone!!!
Best NZ movie I have seen.
Cliff Curtis can act up a storm too!
Curtis is superb in that film as is the guy who plays his older brother, if you haven't seen it yet be warned its hard to watch in places as it is very raw but incredibly well made.
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They Live. Possibly one of the greatest movies I've ever watched.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
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@No-Quarter said in Re: Movie review thread...:
They Live. Possibly one of the greatest movies I've ever watched.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
I love that film, just awesome.
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Nocturnal Animals - Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon.
Reckon Jake Gyllenhaal is a damn good actor nowadays, and in this he is a writer who sends his manuscript to his ex-wife to read. The movie plays out with flashbacks of thier life together and as Amy Adams reading the book as it also plays out with Gyllenhaal and Shannon key characters in the book.
3.5 Donnie Darkos out of 5 Nightcrawlers
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Nocturnal Animals - Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon.
Reckon Jake Gyllenhaal is a damn good actor nowadays, and in this he is a writer who sends his manuscript to his ex-wife to read. The movie plays out with flashbacks of thier life together and as Amy Adams reading the book as it also plays out with Gyllenhaal and Shannon key characters in the book.
3.5 Donnie Darkos out of 5 Nightcrawlers
I have two groups of friends who have seen this - one group absolutely hates it and the other thinks it's the best movies they've seen in the last 12 months.
So, having a $10 movies deal and not going away over Xmas I saw:
Passengers: Decent, better than the reviews it's getting.Thankfully I didn't watch the trailer for this as apparently it lays out the whole storyline.
Assassin's Creed: A good movie based on a game, who would have thought?
Allied: During the first act of this movie I was mildly interested, during the beginning of the second I was flat out bored. Then it completely changed tack and became a much more interesting film. I've discovered with this and Assassin's Creed that I almost find Marion Colltiard unwatchable, I just can't stand her (and she's in everything at the moment, I wish it would go back to Alicia Vikander being in everything).
La La Land: This might be the most overrated film going, it's not bad, it's watchable, but it doesn't live up to the hype it's getting and the likely Oscars it will because it's a movie about Hollywood. Emma Stone has a great voice, but they wait until the end to really give her a decent song to sing with it.
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Moana is as good as the reviews below made it out to be. Despite the singing, i thought it was fucking great, and my kids loved it (they know a lot of the Maui stories already, how he slowed the sun is their favourite). Moana was a good lead character, and it looks great.
Bad Moms. Is a bad movie. Ok, maybe not bad, but just disappointing. For a comedy, it's not that funny (except for a couple of lines from the trashy single mum), and then descends in to cliche. 2 hairy muffs out of 5 not nearly naked enough Mila Kunis's.
Oh, and lads, if you have Netflix, i highly recommend a movie called Room in Rome
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan mate, Batman is probably my favorite superhero (uber organised vigilante - which explains why I still watch Gotham, in hope they show more of the young Batman) never a fan of Superman, grew up with this WW
Batman is not a super hero.. just a rich guy with lots of toys and time on his hands.
DC movies have all sucked.
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@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
This may have aloready been mentioned but if you are yet to see The Dark Horse, drop everything and steal it from someone!!!
Best NZ movie I have seen.
Cliff Curtis can act up a storm too!
You dont need to steal it.. it is free.
TVNZ on demand
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Moana is as good as the reviews below made it out to be. Despite the singing, i thought it was fucking great, and my kids loved it (they know a lot of the Maui stories already, how he slowed the sun is their favourite). Moana was a good lead character, and it looks great.
Bad Moms. Is a bad movie. Ok, maybe not bad, but just disappointing. For a comedy, it's not that funny (except for a couple of lines from the trashy single mum), and then descends in to cliche. 2 hairy muffs out of 5 not nearly naked enough Mila Kunis's.
Oh, and lads, if you have Netflix, i highly recommend a movie called Room in Rome
Bad moms had its moments , like you said most of them were Kathryn Hahns . Still it was almost 80 minutes of Mila so three hoodie fellatio demos out five for me.
