Movie review thread...
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Watching the latest Transformers movie. Expecting something stupid but fun for my stupid hungover/drunk brain.
But FFS - too stupid even for me right now. How can something with Anthony Hopkins in it be this stupid?
Oh shit - it just got worse. What the fuck. There's another hour-and-a-half of this, and the current trend is downhill. Even as I type... what, the actual, fuck. So bad.
Edit: Now finished, and holy fuck. Just, so bad. You've got a Buscemi, an 'opkins, and you deliver this... shit. Absolute shit. I'm coming off a 10 day bender, effectively, and I'm still looking at this movie wondering how the hell they thought they could get away with the random narrative.
I can only think "if I was on a plane, this is the kind of movie I'd watch to pass the time until I fell asleep"... and then "if I was on a plane and watched that, I'd stay awake trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. What the fuck just happened?"1-slight-subtlety-because-the-blue-fluffybunny-never-actually-turned-into-a-Vespa, from 5 fucking-hell-how-do-you-screw-up-giant-robots-fighting?.
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Ice Guardians - documentary about Ice Hockey's enforcers. Interesting stuff. 8 facial reconstructions out of 10 plates in your face.
The Wizard of Lies - Movie about Madoff with De Niro and Michelle CricketAchievement. Pretty good, although seemed to lack something, left feeling a bit flat, worth a watch though. 6.5 "He did what?" out of 10 "for how long?".
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The Accountant. Starring one of my least favourite actors, Baffleck. A somewhat disjointed story that went back and forth with flashbacks that added little to the plot (such as it was). However the action sequences were well done and Affleck wasn't as self-satisfied as usual and was actually watchable.
WARNING: No tits!
3 autistic mumblings out of five shots in the face.
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Of late:
Wonder Woman - a bit long in places. Sometimes this was bad (pointless dialogue) and sometimes this was good (thighs). Overall I thought it was pretty rad.
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Had trouble believing Ron Weasley's Dad could be Ares, tho.
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4 of of 5 fapfapfapfaps.
Labyrinth
Weirdly, when we were away up the coast this was on TV during an organised dinner. So we sat the kids down with Netflix tonight and watched it. So many
cringey bus but still a classic.3.5 Bowie cod pieces out of 5
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again... if you haven't watched Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, and The Princess Bride - you're not a complete human being. Your soul is incomplete.
Every single person I've met who has admitted to not having watched that trinity, I immediately think "ah, that explains it". -
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@crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse you'll be glad to know then, that Princess Bride is being re-released in theatres for the 30th anniversary (700 theatres for two days only)
Sweet - that sounds like a great gift for the niece/nephews/god-daughter/etc. Should give me a bit of credit to not need to remember birthdays/etc for another year or so.
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse you'll be glad to know then, that Princess Bride is being re-released in theatres for the 30th anniversary (700 theatres for two days only)
Sweet - that sounds like a great gift for the niece/nephews/god-daughter/etc. Should give me a bit of credit to not need to remember birthdays/etc for another year or so.
That was a US thing but could be worth checking out.
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@crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse you'll be glad to know then, that Princess Bride is being re-released in theatres for the 30th anniversary (700 theatres for two days only)
Sweet - that sounds like a great gift for the niece/nephews/god-daughter/etc. Should give me a bit of credit to not need to remember birthdays/etc for another year or so.
That was a US thing but could be worth checking out.
Hopefully it will give the old Box office take figures a boost.Yeah - just checked... only in the US as far as the main website is concerned.
Perhaps time for a well-timed letter or two to some well-placed NZ cinemas. And more selflishly, perhaps my local (Barbican - seems like the sort of thing they'd typically do). -
@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... if you haven't watched Labyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, and The Princess Bride - you're not a complete human being. Your soul is incomplete.
Every single person I've met who has admitted to not having watched that trinity, I immediately think "ah, that explains it".Inconceivable
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In anticipation of the new Blade Runner I just watched the old one. Overall not the most amazing flick. As if LA will look like that in the future ? Perhaps it's a bit high brow for a simple guy like me....
How many film franchises can Harrison Ford redo?!?!?! Here's hoping he doesn't revisit Working Girl.
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I cannot grasp the Hollywood obsession with remakes right now. There are millions of books that could be adapted, and they keep remaking movies that literally no one has called for a remake of because 1 the original was perfection or 2 the original story was so fucking bad that it should have never been made in the first place.
What remake has been better? (I see the next remake is going to be Hocus Pocus, the witchy story with Sarah Jessica, Kathy, and Bette. Why the fuck that needs to be redone, I'm sure I don't know...)
