Movie review thread...
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The Outsider - someone else mentioned this, I thought it was ok, thought Leto was fine, very much Bale in American Psycho kinda character
3 chopped off fingers out of 5 yakuza
Den of Thieves - bit of fun as a crime unit lead by Gerrard Butler tries to stop some bank robbers.
3.5 heists out of 5 shootouts
Ice Cubes son stars in this as well, Fiddy Cent has a great scene where a dude turns up to take his daughter to the prom...not too disimilar to the Wil Smith and Martin Lawrence one in Bad Boys
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oh, another I watched recently, The Foreigner
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan
JAckie's kid is killed in a rogue IRA bombing, and he goes to Pierce (former IRA, now Irish politician) for answers. Not quite your usual Jackie Chan film, but he still kicks a few butts, despite looking and acting like an old man.
3.5 Jackie Chan fight moves out of 5 Pierce Brosnan films where he comes across much tougher than when he was James Bond.
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Besides some of the usual OTT Bayesque macho bullshit, I found this quite a good film. He didn't even really fuck around with the facts too much.
4 shattered arms out of 5 video connections across the planet that are better than the shit internet I have at home.
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Watched Bladerunner yesterday. I don't remember the original so had few preconceptions. But I really enjoyed it. Not a whizz pop bang action film, I loved the way it looked, I felt the tension and the film did not feel too long. 4 hot holograms out of 5 crazed replicant assassins
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
4 hot hologram
I'm obsessed with Ana de Armas - also because she's in War Dogs. And she reminds me of a Personal Trainer at the local gym.
She was spectacular in war dogs. You must love going for a work out!
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
4 hot hologram
I'm obsessed with Ana de Armas - also because she's in War Dogs. And she reminds me of a Personal Trainer at the local gym.
I have a gym in my apartment building, but I could take a hike way out north west for this personal trainer I feel.
The Quiet Place: Emily Blunt and Jim from the US office. I really liked this movie, about a family living under the fear of aliens who are attracted to sound, so they have to remain silent. A kind of horror/thriller/sci fi mixup. 4 nails in the foot out of five hearing aids.
Rampage: Average film about giant animals starring the Rock and a nice Neagan. 2 flying wolfs out of 5 albino gorillas.
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I saw Three Billboards today. It drew me in, I enjoyed being immersed in the goings on of the crazy rural USA town. It was well acted, the story was interesting, there were a few twists in there, but ultimately it felt unresolved at the end. I figured the writers had set up their murderer with the initial confrontation with McDormand, but it apparently wasn't to be, although perhaps he was being protected by his superiors. The conversation between him Mildred and Dixon at gunpoint would have been an interesting one. 4.5 desperate mums out of 5 crazy racist hillbilly ex-cops
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Avengers: Infinity War
Wow. Fuck. Wow.
6 Infinity Stones out of 6.
6? You can't just change the rules like that.
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@no-quarter you can if you have all the stones!!
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ps I know NTA has a powerwall, but pretty sure that doesn't equal infinity stones... or does it!!!
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I saw Three Billboards today. It drew me in, I enjoyed being immersed in the goings on of the crazy rural USA town. It was well acted, the story was interesting, there were a few twists in there, but ultimately it felt unresolved at the end. I figured the writers had set up their murderer with the initial confrontation with McDormand, but it apparently wasn't to be, although perhaps he was being protected by his superiors. The conversation between him Mildred and Dixon at gunpoint would have been an interesting one. 4.5 desperate mums out of 5 crazy racist hillbilly ex-cops
I liked that it left that component unresolved. Too many movies feel the need to have happy endings or close off all plot lines. Given the nature of the plot, it seemed fitting.
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@rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Has anyone watched Citizen Kane recently? It's been on my 'really should watch' list for a very long time. Not sure if B&W would hold my attention enough.
I watch it about every other year. It is brilliant, especially the b&w photography (by Gregg Toland) some of the best ever. Most modern audiences likely won’t understand how groundbreaking it was, but there are still techniques that blow me away. One scene in particular that was (and still is) sheer genius at the time, is the scene of Kane’s mother inside the cabin signing away his life to a banker, while you see young Charlie through the window playing outside with his (ahem, foreshadowing here) sled. Welles wanted the scene played in tight deep focus from front of frame to the back, which was impossible for even Toland’s new fangled cameras and lenses to pull off. So their solution was a special effect done completely in camera — shoot the interior fully lit and the background though the window dark; then roll the film back and re-focus the lens and re-shoot it with the interior dark and the outside floodlit. Simple genius.
(That scene, btw, was lampooned brilliantly in an early-year Simpsons episode, with toddler Montgomery Burns playing the role of Charles Foster Kane. “Let’s roll!”)
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@paekakboyz said in Re: Movie review thread...:
ps I know NTA has a powerwall, but pretty sure that doesn't equal infinity stones... or does it!!!
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Infinity War.
3 Dead super heroes out of 5.Average.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Avengers: Infinity War
Wow. Fuck. Wow.
6 Infinity Stones out of 6.
I liked it, thought they managed the gigantic cast pretty well and kept up the humour of the two most recent Marvel movies (Thor and Black Panther).
