Movie review thread...
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Hopefully this link works!
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Watched "Legend" last night.
It was only okay. It's worth watching for Tom Hardy alone, who is fucking excellent. Two characters, same movie, both different, and both played really well.
It's funny in parts, it's very fucking violent in parts, but overall it's not well written or paced. I liked that we jumped straight to the Crays being a thing, and we didn't go through the usual back-story, growing up poor bullshit. But events just seemed to happen throughout the movie.
Here are our bad guys, the rival gang, look how bad they are. How will the Crays beat them? Oh, well, that was easy.
The cops are on to them, this guys is relentless, how will they out wit them? Oh, well, that was pretty easy.
Look how succesful they are, how will they fuck it up? Well, that didn't take much.
Aaaaand, they're fucked now.
Roll credits.There was a fucking good movie in there, wanting to get out. Deciding to tell it from his missus' point of view was a fucking mistake, as it really seemed like the movie didn't know what it wanted to be.
It's lucky Tom Hardy carries the movie on 4 shoulders, because there are a lot of characters who have a lot of screen time who you won't even remember their names.
3 Tom Hardy's out of 5 Tom Hardy's
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched "Legend" last night.
It was only okay. It's worth watching for Tom Hardy alone, who is fucking excellent. Two characters, same movie, both different, and both played really well.
It's funny in parts, it's very fucking violent in parts, but overall it's not well written or paced. I liked that we jumped straight to the Crays being a thing, and we didn't go through the usual back-story, growing up poor bullshit. But events just seemed to happen throughout the movie.
Here are our bad guys, the rival gang, look how bad they are. How will the Crays beat them? Oh, well, that was easy.
The cops are on to them, this guys is relentless, how will they out wit them? Oh, well, that was pretty easy.
Look how succesful they are, how will they fuck it up? Well, that didn't take much.
Aaaaand, they're fucked now.
Roll credits.There was a fucking good movie in there, wanting to get out. Deciding to tell it from his missus' point of view was a fucking mistake, as it really seemed like the movie didn't know what it wanted to be.
It's lucky Tom Hardy carries the movie on 4 shoulders, because there are a lot of characters who have a lot of screen time who you won't even remember their names.
3 Tom Hardy's out of 5 Tom Hardy's
He was awesome. The movie was not.
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Hopefully this link works!
It should look the same and have callbacks, so am happy with that. People are still pissed off about the TFA I see
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Hopefully this link works!
It should look the same and have callbacks, so am happy with that. People are still pissed off about the TFA I see
Ha yep first thing I thought of was TFA.
Never had a problem then and don't have one now. Makes alot of sense to link the original with the remake/sequel -
Alien Covenant.
I wrote a review last night but someone deleted it for some reason.
Decent enough but probably had as much bad as good overall. Part Prometheus/Part Alien seems an apt description.
( in saying that naturally I'll watch it again and again )
2.5 bad synthetics out of 5 good ones
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London Has Fallen
So explosions. Many deathkill.
Fabulous light entertainment for a Thursday night. I could even ignore the scale of the bullshit for once, and just enjoy Butler fucking up bad guys with a knife.
3.5 out of 5 terrorist cockwombles dying in a ball of fire.
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The Replacements
Entertaining popcorn american football movie about a strike. Starred Keanu (I can't act) Reeves, Gene (I've done this movie before) Hackman and Jon Favreau amongst others.
Lightweight, entertaining, predictable but enjoyable. Extra points for Welsh jokes.
Three and a half unexpected endings out of five welsh accents
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
London Has Fallen
So explosions. Many deathkill.
Fabulous light entertainment for a Thursday night. I could even ignore the scale of the bullshit for once, and just enjoy Butler fucking up bad guys with a knife.
3.5 out of 5 terrorist cockwombles dying in a ball of fire.
That character takes so much deadpan joy in murdering the bad guys it's impossible not to enjoy. Very much an 80s throwback.
I loved the look on the Presidents face when he first killed the cop.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
That character takes so much deadpan joy in murdering the bad guys it's impossible not to enjoy. Very much an 80s throwback.
Yeah. Figures he's done this before so he might as well enjoy it.
Love your stab job and stab you'll never bang bang bang work a day in your stab stab stab stab life! Explosions
I loved the look on the Presidents face when he first killed the cop.
"Yeah but the prick's got an AK!"
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
This could be good
That does look decent. As a side note fuck all the paranoid fuckheads who say the world is so much more dangerous now than in years past. Only difference is social media means we see heaps more of it nowadays.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
This could be good
I love the story about the guy who did the autopsy on the terrorists, one of them was at the top of a staircase and shooting him might have also injured or killed a hostage so they shoulder charged him down the stairs. Unfortunately for him he landed at the feet of three SAS guys who emptied their magazines into him. The guy doing the autopsy pulled out 50 bullets and gave upand said " fuck it, if I pull out anymore I'll have to put down lead poisoning as cause of death".
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Alien Covenant.
I wrote a review last night but someone deleted it for some reason.
Decent enough but probably had as much bad as good overall. Part Prometheus/Part Alien seems an apt description.
( in saying that naturally I'll watch it again and again )
2.5 bad synthetics out of 5 good ones
Watched it today since I didn't want to go to a bbq with people I don't like.
Never been that into the Aliens franchise but did enjoy the original trilogy.
Alien Covenant tries to hark back to those movies however you don't really connect with any of the crew in this one and don't really care if/when they die. Also, the twists and plot lines were way too predictable.
Two and a half "Get Away From Her You Bitch" out of five "Get Away From Her You Bitch". -
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Very enjoyable alrhough not quite as good as the first. A little too much going on. Rocket not quite as likeable. Sound track not as good. Didn't like what happened to Yondu. Still good though.
4 mutant raboons out of 5 baby tree creatures
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Kung Fu Panda 3.
Watched this with the boy and newphew over the weekend. I didn't really like the first two so had low expectations, but this was actually pretty cool. Decent storyline and plenty of funny moments that had the boys cracking up. They both spent the rest of the night practising their Kung Fu moves on each other.
4 dumplings out of 5 fat rolling Panda's.
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