Movie review thread...
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Goon was a lot of fun. I have soft spots for Seann William Scott and Michael Dowse (FUBAR is one of my favourite movies), and they delivered.
The movie was almost ruined early on by Jay Baruchel's shitty side-kick character. Also, the credits music was genuinely terrible. On the other hand, great to see a soundtrack credit for Night Seeker.
I think Baruchel was the writer so might have been hard to dispense with.
Stone Cold is the undercover in the bikies one? Hahaha, classic video era movie.
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I thought you were talking about this , there were a lot of low budget Aussie films like this around the time Razorback was another.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Stone Cold is the undercover in the bikies one? Hahaha, classic video era movie.
Yep. It's stupid as hell but fun.
The brunette biker babe is hot!
I watched this for the first time last week... and yeah, pretty good.
AVclub.com is doing a series of "best action movie of each year", and Stone Cold got a very honorable mention - leading me to track it down. -
@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
AVclub.com is doing a series of "best action movie of each year"
Those are great, I've been reading them too.
The last half hour of Stone Cold is amazing. Those fuckers didn't have to kill the hot babe though!
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Saw "Terminator 2" in 3D at the cinema last night
A beautiful story about self responsibility, empowerment and the value of a strong father figure in a child's life.
We learn the importance of respecting peoples beliefs even if we disagree with them and that above all else a persons inherent value comes not from the colour of their skin (or indeed whether they have internal organs) but rather, by the content of their character. Also...Blue lives matter.
Certainly a movie from a by-gone era
5 busted kneecaps outta 5 timeless one liners
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Happening (2008)
One of the stupidest pieces of shit I’ve ever sat through. My RT guess was 18%, I think it was about 23%. Too bad I’ma sucker foir global pandemic shit and will sit thru any of the fucken things. In this one Marky Mark and his New Funky Bunch are on the run from a killer virus that is somehow The Wind. Somehow, The Wind turns people into sentient statues and then, seconds later, into catatonic suicidal maniacs. The Wind. GTFO. “Quick, run, run, it’s the wind.” The wind is everywhere you stupid fluffybunnies, you can’t outrun it. It’s just moving fucken air. “OOOH, OOOH, I can’t let The Wind touch me, it might turn me into a suicidal zombie.”
I barely know shit from shinola when it comes to films and acting but when you l0ll out loud at the comically shit rendering of the Serious Parts, someone(s doing something wrong.
I’m no film noir auteur but the look of this was just flatout wrong. Dunno if its cinematography of lighting or what but when a know-nothing klutz like me thinks, during the movie, someone should be fired for how 2-D vanilla carob on steaming shit corncob this looks then that’s an epic fuckup
Super 8
Watched this straight after, um, I think this is what a film is supposed to look like. So what if it was Stranger Things dryhumping ET in the Stand By Me bukkake queue. It worked.
Super 8 is a great movie, not perfect but enjoyable all the same. Takes you back to the classic Speilberg made/inspired movies of the 80's
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More proof that Hollywood has run out of original ideas. I was just reading that a sequel to Flatliners is about to be released. I remember seeing this in 1990 and I doubt anyone has been waiting for a sequel in the last 27 years.
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I just went to an arthouse cinema and saw a new French film called DJANGO about Django Reinhardt. It's not a bio-pic as I'd thought it's instead a story about his year in Vichy France during the war and being ordered to tour Nazi Germany but he bailed-out and tried to escape to Switzerland. Surprisingly suspenseful. I dunno if it's all true but the bloke playing him was convincing and the soundtrack was amazing.
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Wonder Woman
Finally got around to watching this at home, which was just as well, because when she throws off the overcoat in the trenches and is in her Wonder Woman outfit advancing towards the dastardly Huns, my second thought was “it’s probably still illegal to jerk off in cinemas”.Not a bad reboot; a little light on the final action sequence which you normally expect to go for longer, so that was in retrospect probably refreshing. Some unnecessary scenes to pad out the time, so the script may have been bereft of pages in the first draft and everyone was too excited to care.
Disappointed by some of the CGI. In this day and age, you don’t expect to see scenes which are poorly integrated or composited.
Still, did I mention Gal Gadot in a Wonder Woman outfit?
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@antipodean yeah I enjoyed it mostly, thought the fight scene at the end was a bit overdone..but then tough not to enjoy a movie with Gal in a bikini and thigh high wonder woman boots!
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saw The Hitmans Bodyguard with Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman and Elektra form Defenders.
Was fucking mint...really enjoyed it, shooting 'splosions, car and boat chases, mother f@ckers, just a good fun movie.
4 Mother f@ckers out of 5 mother f@ckers, cos what other way can you rate a movie with big Sammy in it!
Even a line in the movie where Reynolds mentions the impact Samuel has had on the words 'mother f@cker' haha
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I've had $8 movie tickets for the past month now so have seen a bunch of movies. From most recent:
The Hitman's Bodyguard: Fun movie, I don't love on it as much as TR but it entertained and that's all that matters. 3.4 of Jules out of 5 Deadpools.
Girls Trip: I got free tickets to this otherwise I likely wouldn't have bothered to go and see it (one of the stars Jada Pinket Smith came and spoke for about 2 minutes before the movie). This is a definite movie that appeals more to women than men. It wasn't a bad movie, watchable, but all the women in the cinema found it completely hilarious, and I mean completely, laugh out loud knee slapping funny.
American Made: Tom Cruise is a pilot who gets involved with the CIA, Pablo Escobar, the Sandistas, Noriega etc etc. Another really fun movie, directed by Doug Liman (Swinger, Edge of Tomorrow) and Cruise is on top form. 4 kilos of cocaine out of 5 crates of AKs.
The Dark Tower: Not as shit as everyone makes out. Idris, McConaghy and a kid that isn't too annoying. Lagertha also pops up as well. It helps that I know nothing about the series and avoid reviews until after seeing a movie. 3 Kings out of 5 sequels.
Logan Lucky: Soderbergh is back, the liar, another good fun movie. Riley Keough is quite attractive. Is being called a hillbilly Oceans movie which is both an apt comparison and unfair as it stands on its own two feet. 4 tubby Channings out of 5 one armed Kylo Rens.
The Big Sick: Romantic comedy about a lapsed Muslim comedian and his new girlfriend who promptly falls into a coma. Meanwhile his mother is trying to marry him off to bunch of other mostly attractive women - unsurprisingly it's written by the main actor and it is in fact based on his actual life. 3.5 Ubers out 5.
Atomic Blonde: Female John Wick set in the late 80s with more of a story line (not any more coherent but who cares). Lots of fights, lots of Charlize which I assume lots of people would like here and young Professor X hamming it up like crazy to good effect. Fun. 70 bricks from the Berlin wall out of 100 Double, triple and quadruple crosses.
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