Movie review thread...
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@antipodean Ditto, Titan was so disappointing, an utter waste of time. I did watch, which took quite the effort, until the end hoping it might improve but no, just crap.
The last couple of hyped Netflix releases have disappointed:
Titan, Cloverfield Paradox and The OutsiderSome that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one. -
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one.I will check this out. She is one of the best looking Bond girls - ever.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Das Boot is another movie not yet mentioned.
Great film .
As far as WW1 films it’s pretty hard to go past Gallipoli , my boy Jack is decent too. There was an Aussie mini series about the anzacs I remember being good too.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.
A good SciFi/War type of movie 3 outta 5 for this one.I will check this out. She is one of the best looking Bond girls - ever.
She sure is. I hated Silva for shooting her like he did.
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@roninwc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean Ditto, Titan was so disappointing, an utter waste of time. I did watch, which took quite the effort, until the end hoping it might improve but no, just crap.
Yeap, just got worse as it went along.
Some that I have enjoyed:
Unlike some others here and being a bit of a SciFi buff, I actually quite liked Annihilation and I really enjoyed a new SciFi movie called Revolt. The chick in this, Bérénice Marlohe, is very hot, amazing eyes.She does do smokey eyes very well.
I must have missed where people listed Breaker Morant in the war movies not to miss.
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The Thing ( 1982 version right after the 2011 prequel )
Underrated classics about a nasty shape shifting alien that can take the form of whatever it comes into contact with. Nice horror, tension and mistrust ( the latter's SFX naturally shit all over the former ) but Kurt Russell in particular very cool.
As a duo 4 dead Americans out of 5 dead Norwegians
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If you think the opening of saving Private Ryan is gritty you should check out Come and See. Makes SPR look like a church picnic. Soviet kid joins platoon who are systematically and graphically massacred and he then has to suffer alone in the forest.
Others not mentioned - Bridge at Remagen - battle for the last Bridge across the Rhine. Ice Cold in Alex - Poms taking the piss boom tish
Hell in the Pacific One Jap One Yank (Lee Marvin) one island
Son of Saul shot from the perspective (literally as in sweeping the ashes out of the ovens) of one of the Jewish workers in a concentration camp.
Similar ilk - Shoah mini series from 80's - footage and memories of camp survivors -
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Ready Player One
Took the boy to see this and we thought it was bloody good. Shitloads of pop culture references of course, but over and above that it was a well put together film.
4.5 Gundams out of 5 Shining Zombies
It was pretty good, more for people our age I think. An interesting peek into what a future might be like when the virtual world is more interesting than reality.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
It was pretty good, more for people our age I think. An interesting peek into what a future might be like when the virtual world is more interesting than reality.
Had to laugh at the bit where Mendelsohn's character was proposing they could "cover 80% of the screen before causing a seizure!"
It was good having the boy there - he covered the cultural references from the last 4-5 years, and I had the rest
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I finally got around to watching ”I Called Him Morgan”— a biography-documentary from last year about the genius horn player Lee Morgan, largely told by the woman who shot and killed him. Well worth watching if you’re a fan or have never heard of him. 8/10 (Unlikely there will be a better music soundtrack all year. 10/10)
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The Outsider
Netflix movie about an American soldier who ends up in a Japanese prison full of yakuza at the end of the war. He helps one of them get out, so they take him under his wing, freeing him from jail and then giving him a job as a yak enforcer.
It could be more accurately named "Gaunt Jared Leto stares dead-eyed at everyone for two hours and kills some mofos".
A bit slow-paced but it actually has a Japanese gang film pacing to it I reckon. A little disjointed here and there.
I liked it. There were tits.
4 koi tattoos out of 5 slashed throats
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@jc said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Quiet Place. By buggering fuck this was a frightening movie. Jesus, I'm used to slash- fests, contrived frights and all round creepiness but this was just an hour and a half of sustained, oppressive terror that messed with my head. Tremendous.
Good, I love movies like that. Will look for it.
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Outsider
Netflix movie about an American soldier who ends up in a Japanese prison full of yakuza at the end of the war. He helps one of them get out, so they take him under his wing, freeing him from jail and then giving him a job as a yak enforcer.
It could be more accurately named "Gaunt Jared Leto stares dead-eyed at everyone for two hours and kills some mofos".
A bit slow-paced but it actually has a Japanese gang film pacing to it I reckon. A little disjointed here and there.
I watched this and thought to myself it could be a really good movie if someone other than Leto was in it. Someone who could act...
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