Movie review thread...

Salacious Crumb

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.

Salacious Crumb

@Tim

No. But Liev Schreiber returns and Callum Keith Rennie is in it and critics hate it so that means it's probably good.

antipodean

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?

taniwharugby

@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!

taniwharugby

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

Nepia

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.