Movie review thread...
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looks like Bruce getting back to what he does best, cheesy one liners and hurting people!
Elizabeth Shue! She was in more than one of my teenage fantasies. I'll have to take some tissues to the theatre for old times sake.
You missed the whole Liz Shue debate a while back. I was definitely in the like camp; who didn't want to be Daniel Larusso just so you could get close to her?
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While trapped in the many aeroplanes I've been in during the past 10 days, I saw bits of a movie that will haunt me in a bad way like forever. No idea the name of it, but it's a fairly new release, and had these youngish people trapped in some sort of hospital, and being treated in various disgusting ways by a truly sadistic doctor. Anyway, one scene I happened to see (excuse me while I puke) the young man was in like a decompression chamber type thing, and sadistic doc decides to punish him for something (I didn't have sound so don't know the dialogue) and SD pinches his nose til he opens his mouth, then shoves in giant plastic thing to keep it open, then shoves big tube down his throat, then pours in leeches. ARRRGGGHH. Why did I have to see that in a darkened plane. ARRRGGHHH.
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Saw all 3 of the most recent planet of the apes movies last week.
First one was excellent. 4.5 Alzheimer cures outta 5 angry monkeys.
Second one was also very good. 4 monkey revolutionaries outta 5 big explosions
Third was just so-so. They bought in a jajar binks character, certain scenes were stupidly emotionally unrealistic and overall it was way way overly melodramatic. 3 evil white christian males, outta 5 'oh for fucks sake yes its an emotional scene but jesus christ get on with the action already!' -
@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw all 3 of the most recent planet of the apes movies last week.
First one was excellent. 4.5 Alzheimer cures outta 5 angry monkeys.
Second one was also very good. 4 monkey revolutionaries outta 5 big explosions
Third was just so-so. They bought in a jajar binks character, certain scenes were stupidly emotionally unrealistic and overall it was way way overly melodramatic. 3 evil white christian males, outta 5 'oh for fucks sake yes its an emotional scene but jesus christ get on with the action already!'I did the exact same after watching the trailer for the latest one (which confirms why I don't like watching trailers ... but more on that soon).
I probably give all of them a four. Much different movies than what I thought they were going to be and the mo cap is bloody spectacular.
SPOILER COMING - LOOK AWAY IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN.
Hmmm, you'd think I would have figured out how to spoiler by now.
So, the trailer to the 3rd one basically made it out to be a massive battle between the Apes and the Humans when in reality it was a couple of small fights between Apes and Humans and then a battle between Humans and Humans. I still really enjoyed it but that frikkin trailer convinced me I was going to be watching something else.
Also, where are the Humans from the 2nd one? Thought maybe they could have come back to warn Caesar of the approaching Woody and his men.
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@Nepia Yeah had the same feelings regarding the trailer which set me up for some awesome action expectations.
That reminds me I saw Baby driver last weekend. Absolutely loved it. I was running on like 3hours of sleep and a giant hangover on a sunday and was fully expecting to be getting some shuteye time but was glued to the screen. 5 cassette tapes outta 5 takeaway coffees
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Meanwhile a container ship full of cash (presumably) has persuaded Daniel Craig not to slash his wrists and he will do two more Bond movies.
I find that a bit unimaginative tbh. I never really warmed to his Bond and found the movies lacked the 'fun' level of previous ones.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I hope that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets lives up to the trailer
oh no, Ruthless Reviews don't think much of it. And they tend to sort of align with how i see movies.
Lets hope they are mistaken.
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@Crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Meanwhile a container ship full of cash (presumably) has persuaded Daniel Craig not to slash his wrists and he will do two more Bond movies.
I find that a bit unimaginative tbh. I never really warmed to his Bond and found the movies lacked the 'fun' level of previous ones.The last one was just terrible. The thought of it continuing down that path ...
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King Arthur...not sure I bought Jax Teller as King Arthur or Little Finger as someone who isn't looking to stab someone in the back at every turn, and if it didn't have the whole King Arthur aspect to it, I'd probably have enjoyed it more for what it was...
2.5 gargantuan Elephants out of 5 magical swords
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@taniwharugby that's a better review than it normally gets
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@mariner4life it wasn't great, but it was watchable, probably shoulda just been called something else though.
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@taniwharugby Yeah, I found it watchable. It could have been a whole lot better, but far from the worst movie I've seen. Geezer King Arfur!
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
King Arthur...not sure I bought Jax Teller as King Arthur or Little Finger as someone who isn't looking to stab someone in the back at every turn, and if it didn't have the whole King Arthur aspect to it, I'd probably have enjoyed it more for what it was...
2.5 gargantuan Elephants out of 5 magical swords
I'm not sure I buy Jax Teller in anything other than SOA... I'm constantly waiting for him to gaze at something with soulful and regretful eyes for a while, whining about "we need to change"; and then suddenly go "nah, fuck it - let's do some illegal shit and kill some motherfucker".
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@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
King Arthur...not sure I bought Jax Teller as King Arthur or Little Finger as someone who isn't looking to stab someone in the back at every turn, and if it didn't have the whole King Arthur aspect to it, I'd probably have enjoyed it more for what it was...
2.5 gargantuan Elephants out of 5 magical swords
I'm not sure I buy Jax Teller in anything other than SOA... I'm constantly waiting for him to gaze at something with soulful and regretful eyes for a while, whining about "we need to change"; and then suddenly go "nah, fuck it - let's do some illegal shit and kill some motherfucker".
You're lucky. I can't get past him in Byker Grove.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
King Arthur...not sure I bought Jax Teller as King Arthur or Little Finger as someone who isn't looking to stab someone in the back at every turn, and if it didn't have the whole King Arthur aspect to it, I'd probably have enjoyed it more for what it was...
2.5 gargantuan Elephants out of 5 magical swords
I'm not sure I buy Jax Teller in anything other than SOA... I'm constantly waiting for him to gaze at something with soulful and regretful eyes for a while, whining about "we need to change"; and then suddenly go "nah, fuck it - let's do some illegal shit and kill some motherfucker".
You're lucky. I can't get past him in Byker Grove.
Wasn't he in some gay show as well before SoA?
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@Crucial I really can't say.
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@Crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Crucial I really can't say.
Can't or won't?
I'm taking the 5th.
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Ghost in the Shell. Let's start with the good bits. Scarlett Johannsen in a shoot 'em up with lots of violence and what looked like nudity. OK, on to the bad bits. There is no nudity. The plot is as thin as Featherlite, all the budget was spunked on paying SJ and making the action sequences look as realistic as a synchronised swimming event. Oh and the storyline was all over the place. This really ought to be a straight to DVD turkey. Avoid.
1 unrealised leer at SJ out of 5 why the fucks did I pay to see this shit.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Ghost in the Shell. Let's start with the good bits. Scarlett Johannsen in a shoot 'em up with lots of violence and what looked like nudity. OK, on to the bad bits. There is no nudity. The plot is as thin as Featherlite, all the budget was spunked on paying SJ and making the action sequences look as realistic as a synchronised swimming event. Oh and the storyline was all over the place. This really ought to be a straight to DVD turkey. Avoid.
1 unrealised leer at SJ out of 5 why the fucks did I pay to see this shit.
Yep - watched that myself last night... I thought the most impressive accomplishment in the entire movie was making SJ unattractive. And fuck them for that.
Any movie where the climax setpiece involves "deploy the SpiderTank" - fuck, what am I doing with my life?
Death Wish (2018) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Crime, Drama
