Movie review thread...
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Well first post for quite a while and finally watched "Hunt for the Wilderpeople".
After seeing all the reviews here... it did not disappoint. What a really good movie to just sit and watch and enjoy.
Mrs WC and I both spent a lot of the time laughing and Mrs WC had to keep asking me to rewind or translate for her as at times the Kiwi accents were just a little strong for her to follow.
Another movie I watched on Netflix recently which I really enjoyed was "The Siege of Jadotville". An excellent war movie and from what I've read, quite true to the battle on which it was based and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good war movie without all the usual American flag waving.
4.5 Irish Soldiers out of 5 French Foreign Legion Mercs
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@RoninWC said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Well first post for quite a while and finally watched "Hunt for the Wilderpeople".
After seeing all the reviews here... it did not disappoint. What a really good movie to just sit and watch and enjoy.
Mrs WC and I both spent a lot of the time laughing and Mrs WC had to keep asking me to rewind or translate for her as at times the Kiwi accents were just a little strong for her to follow.
Another movie I watched on Netflix recently which I really enjoyed was "The Siege of Jadotville". An excellent war movie and from what I've read, quite true to the battle on which it was based and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good war movie without all the usual American flag waving.
4.5 Irish Soldiers out of 5 French Foreign Legion Mercs
I concur with the Jadotville summary!
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Its on the Netflix "My List" to watch. Sounds good.
Add the 13th to your list as well.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
"Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.""
This one will stir the emotions
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@dK I was just looking at that one over the weekend. I added to my list but thought it looks like a rather heavy topic and one that may be best suited for a day when you are in the mood for "heavy".
As a newbie to Netflix, just joining late December, I used to be a bit of a skeptic but now I'm a complete convert. The excellent thing is, I've 9 month free on Telstra at the moment so I'm trying to make the most of it.
The only problem is, having enough time to watch all the various TV series and movies in the "My List".
And this is "only" the Aussie version and I'm now tempted to try to get to the US version as I've heard the content available there would make my Foxtel subscription mostly redundant (except for the Rugby of course).
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The Accountant - Ben Affleck been a busy man last 12 months or so with directing and acting projects!
Anyways, good entertaining action flick, if not a little long, check your expectation of a moving or gripping story at the door.
3.5 autistic Accountants out of 5 hitmen.
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Finding Neverland. This was actually a really awesome, powerful movie. A childs imagination is a powerful thing. Watching my boy he spends half his time in a completely different world with the games he plays out in his head.
That final scene is probably the closest I've come to crying in a movie.
4.5 fatherless boys out of 5 orphan kids.
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Hell or highwater. Great movie about 2 brothers robbing banks and a pair of Texas Rangers led by an elderly unpolitically correct Jeff Bridges and his half american Indian partner. 9 gun toting Texans outta 10
Watched this tonight. Hell or High Water was written by the same guy who wrote Sicario. There are heaps of great lines in the movie.
I'd give it 4 t-bones out of 5
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Hidden Figures - really interesting story, well acted, if a little too heavy on some of the THIS BAD/THIS GOOD moments. Worth a watch if you are space/mathematically inclined.
4 NASA legends out of 5 walking miles to the coloured bathroom wtfuckery.Passengers - apart from the ick factor of waking up the pretty girl and basically handing her a death sentence, this movie was pretty damned dull. And the plot was kind of stupid. (The scene with the pool water losing gravity was quite visually cool though) Pratt and Lawrence did their best, but not much to work with. Liked Michael Sheen as the bartending robot.
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@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
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@antipodean You are probably right.
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okay, so in a state of boredom last night, and feeling the need to watch something stupid, i watched "The Brothers Grimsby".
Holy fuck, that is probably the stupidest movie i have ever watched.
And that said, i laughed out loud more at that movie than many other higher acclaimed "comedies" released recently. That i am a juvenile who finds Mark Strong getting smashed in the face by an elephant cock funny has probably something to do with it.
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@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
I quite liked Passengers and as I said below although I enjoyed Hell or Highwater I thought it was a bit overrated by critics and fans.
I'm in the middle of my best picture watching and have so far seen:
La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or Highwater - and it honestly feels like an average year to me. I can't even pick which one of those I rated above the others.They were all watchable and decent but nothing outstanding. Of the others I haven't watched I've been avoiding Moonlight and Lion but keen to see Fences because I'm a Denzel fan.
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@Bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
You're welcome.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Passengers - apart from the ick factor of waking up the pretty girl and basically handing her a death sentence, this movie was pretty damned dull. And the plot was kind of stupid. (The scene with the pool water losing gravity was quite visually cool though) Pratt and Lawrence did their best, but not much to work with. Liked Michael Sheen as the bartending robot.
2 who the fuck planted this tree out of 5 this message will take 19 years to arrive.I'd be happy to watch a 90 minute movie of Jennifer Lawrence painting her house and still give it 15 out of 10
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@Nepia were you in La La Land to need to watch it? WTF!
Trailers of it alone allow me to know it is not gonna be my cup of tea.
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@taniwharugby Yeah, musicals like that are of no interest to me. I'm sure they play movies like that in hell!
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@taniwharugby I wasn't anti it going in (I work in a film school so I have to be a little bit open to genre's I don't usually like) and thought it was ok, just not deserving of the hype ... but I actually think that of all the best picture contenders this year. Contrast with say 2015 and 2016 where there were at least two films I thought were outstanding.
