Movie review thread...
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The Way Back
A Peter Weir film based on a book (of questionable veracity) about four people who escape a Siberian gulag and walk thousands of miles to India.
Long - at 2 hours probably more than what it needed. The bits in the Siberian cold were fairly short, but then the Siberian spring was drawn out a little, as was the Mongolian desert. Then the Tibetan bit was pretty much skipped over and BAM! Straight to India.
In any case, beautifully shot, good music, well acted. Bit parts from Mark Strong, Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan. Solid work by Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, and some random dudes.
3 out of 5 burned monasteries
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Guardians Vol 2: Awesome. One of the funniest movies I've seen for a while and had a good enough story. The younging down of Kurt Russell in the opening scene was the best I've seen so far.
The only issue I found with it was the soundtrack wasn't as good as last time - I can't even remember the tune of the main song.
4.5 baby Groots bringing back severed digits out of 5 moody teenage Groots.
I thought the soundtrack was great , mr blue sky in the epic opening scene and chains by Fleetwood mac got two appearances do I guess that makes it the main song.
Nicely tied the story into the first one too.Also Zoe Saldana continues to be hot even when she's green and a badass .
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Guardians Vol 2: Awesome. One of the funniest movies I've seen for a while and had a good enough story. The younging down of Kurt Russell in the opening scene was the best I've seen so far.
The only issue I found with it was the soundtrack wasn't as good as last time - I can't even remember the tune of the main song.
4.5 baby Groots bringing back severed digits out of 5 moody teenage Groots.
Apparently that's because it's mostly not CGI for Kurt, it's practical effects (makeup, etc) and they just smoothed a few wrinkles. Apparantly, the CGI boffin looked at footage of Kurt and said we don't need to do much with him. Good genes I guess!
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saw Guardians yesterday. Loved it. Piss funny, has the same heart as the first, good action scenes, and i liked the story (even if it was a rip-off of a Futurama episode...). I thought the soundtrack was fucking great (my youngest really liked "My Sweet Lord"). That's two crackers from this group, making it the best franchise in the Marvel Universe.
Chris Pratt is fucking great.
4.5 crappy villain nicknames out of 5 golden hotties
Last night watched "X-Men: Apocalypse". Not too bad. It's a bit long, so there is too much filler, but it had a decent villain, and Fassbender's Magneto is probably the best character in Marvel. Quicksilver is good as well. But McAvoy is a whiney bitch.
3 brain wipes out of 5 clean slates
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Guardians Vol 2: Awesome. One of the funniest movies I've seen for a while and had a good enough story. The younging down of Kurt Russell in the opening scene was the best I've seen so far.
The only issue I found with it was the soundtrack wasn't as good as last time - I can't even remember the tune of the main song.
4.5 baby Groots bringing back severed digits out of 5 moody teenage Groots.
Apparently that's because it's mostly not CGI for Kurt, it's practical effects (makeup, etc) and they just smoothed a few wrinkles. Apparantly, the CGI boffin looked at footage of Kurt and said we don't need to do much with him. Good genes I guess!
That's cool.
@jegga I don't remember Fleetwood Mac (not a fan anyway) and I think the main song is Brandy.
@mariner4life I wonder if Futurama ripped off the comic initially? I don't know, as I've never read it.
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I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 yesterday after watching the original movie again the night before. As mentioned, the soundtrack is great. Baby Groot is the star and the jail scene with Rocket and Yondu was brilliant. My one criticism was that the CGI-heavy battle scenes were hard on the eyes on the big screen.
I'm also working my way through the 2017 Best Picture nominees. First up was Hacksaw Ridge which was enjoyable, and an amazing story. Mel Gibson's movies are always brutal and graphic. Sam Worthington needs to work on that American accent though.
4 Conscientious Objectors out of 5 Medal of Honors
Next was Moonlight, which I found OK but not what I was expecting as the overall winner. Naomie Harris was excellent but Mahershala Ali didn't really have a lot of screentime in his role. Michael Shannon was a more worthy winner I thought.
3 crack dealers out of 5 school bullies
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@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 yesterday after watching the original movie again the night before. As mentioned, the soundtrack is great. Baby Groot is the star and the jail scene with Rocket and Yondu was brilliant. My one criticism was that the CGI-heavy battle scenes were hard on the eyes on the big screen.
Looks like I'm not alone in this? I thought I was just too old and that's why watching Rogue One on my TV was far more enjoyable than the huge screen 3D version.
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Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to national security
This is an outrage.
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Ted Kotcheff on First Blood and Wake in Fright
I made Wake in Fright in a small town called Broken Hill, and the editor of The Barrier Truth told me over dinner, “Mr. Kotcheff, you do know that the men outnumber the women in this town by three to one.” I said, “Three to one?” Then I said, “Well, I didn’t see any brothels when I came through here. Are there any brothels here?” He said, “Brothels? Certainly not! No, we don’t have any brothels in our town!” I said, “Well, is there a lot of homosexuality?” He said, “Homosexuality! Hey, mate, we’re Australians! We don’t do dirty things like that!” And I said, “Well, what do they do for human contact?” And he said, “They fight.”
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Hoyts cinema in Melbourne had a double feature last night, Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). I hadn't seen either movie in over a decade (maybe even two in the case of the original). Alien had a few jump moments but the dated-ness took away from a lot, the baby alien in particular looked more comical rather than scary and got a lot of laughs. 2.5 secret missions out of 5 expendable crew members.
Aliens was a different story entirely. Action, suspense, awesome 1 liners, generally scary looking aliens. A couple of the spaceship scenes looked pretty bad as did the slow destruction of the reactor with those 'trendy at the time' fake as all hell lightning bolts added post production (seriously they should just edit those scenes and hit them with some modern effects) Despite that I absolutely loved it. 4.5 'they mostly come out at night' out of 5 'mostly'
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Hoyts cinema in Melbourne had a double feature last night, Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). I hadn't seen either movie in over a decade (maybe even two in the case of the original). Alien had a few jump moments but the dated-ness took away from a lot, the baby alien in particular looked more comical rather than scary and got a lot of laughs. 2.5 secret missions out of 5 expendable crew members.
Aliens was a different story entirely. Action, suspense, awesome 1 liners, generally scary looking aliens. A couple of the spaceship scenes looked pretty bad as did the slow destruction of the reactor with those 'trendy at the time' fake as all hell lightning bolts added post production (seriously they should just edit those scenes and hit them with some modern effects) Despite that I absolutely loved it. 4.5 'they mostly come out at night' out of 5 'mostly'
Terrible first review. Spot on second one. I love the contrasting styles between the flicks. Parker was a cool character, Lambert was a fucken whiny coward and Ash was a fluffybunny. I saw the second at a pub in town and it got laughs mainly because of the cheesy 80sness
I love both flicks and have tickets to the new one in an advanced screening on Wednesday. I'll do a full review with loads of spoilers after I see it.
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@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about it -
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Ha each to their own. I'm sure at the time I thought Alien was awesome but it just hasn't aged too good.
They did an extended preview of Covenant in between films, and by extended I mean I had a feeling someone had messed up and gave us the full film. Looks really good but I can see some terrifically whiny useless characters whose untimely demise will be the cause of celebration. Hope its better than the Alien3/resurrection incarnations. Haven't yet seen Prometheus and may not from what I've heard about itI loved Prometheus. Brilliant flick.
